41 minutes ago, 6297J said:

Acceptable to most rational thinking people who realise there are more important things in life to worry about. 

I suppose that you are a colonialist if you say Ayers Rocks and you do cultural appropriation if you say Uluru. Can't win. So as Stoopy said in another thread, let's say 'the big rock in the middle of nowhere' 😈.

Edited February 2, 20224 yr by Dominique_K

1 hour ago, 6297J said:

Acceptable to most rational thinking people who realise there are more important things in life to worry about. 

Thanks for that, it made my day.........You do realise that you said that on a flightsim forum that gets very heated on questions such as "is it a sim or game?" or "What is a serious simmer?" 🤣
 

My wife is from Bombay and will insist on calling it Bombay until her dying day. She resents that it was changed to appeal to a large voting Hindu nationalist demographic but doesn't want to cancel anyone who wants to call it by the other name if they want to. There is an interesting trend among young people to want to change it back however!

1 minute ago, GaryK said:

Thanks for that, it made my day.........You do realise that you said that on a flightsim forum that gets very heated on questions such as "is it a sim or game?" or "What is a serious simmer?" 🤣
 

Or those wheels are not round, they are square 😉

1 hour ago, 177B said:

I live in the Agiocochook valley.

But most everyone knows it as the Mount Washington Valley. The Abenaki name is also used, but mostly for Motels and Tourist attraction places and goods.

In a way sad, but what can you do.

Agiocochook is a sacred mountain to the Abenakis, but we have built several buildings on top of this tallest mountain in NE USA, some have burned down. There is a road you can drive all the way up and a Cog Rail Road that pollutes like crazy burning coal also carrying tourists to the top by the score.

Every year there are quite a few "hikers, climbers, skiers" killed on the mountain, maybe the natives are correct that one should leave this mountain alone.

I was not trying to be disrespectful. I was just showing my ignorance. And I am sorry about that.

An interesting thing about Agiocochook is that a big part of it is not allowed to be flown over at low altitude. A small bit of respect I suppose.

 

 

 

 I'm not too bothered and I make errors like this all the time..........but it is a conversation worth having so thanks for the conversation starter. 🙂

Thanks for the excellent video.

I enjoyed listening to the "Rock Frogs" at about 4 min. in. Great stuff! I hadn't heard them before. (May never get a chance to hear 'em again.)

33 minutes ago, GaryK said:

 I'm not too bothered and I make errors like this all the time..........but it is a conversation worth having so thanks for the conversation starter. 🙂

Thanks for the excellent video.

......and to be fair MS/Asobo have called it Ayres Rock also. Still a conversation worth having though.