Good people of Istanbul

Jan 20, 2022 5:49 PM

AjKaramba

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No, you take that cat and carry it up the escalator. It could easily become meatgrinders. But I dont know. Maybe he didnt think of it

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Dude was just getting his steps in for the day. Then some jabroni had to come abd ruin it

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That look back to say "Thanks fellow traveler"

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Awww the tail shake and look of thanks at the end! Also sheepishness lol

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Did anyone else think there was water at the bottom for some reason?

4 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 0

its video artefacts from compression, looks really weird even on a big screen

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

The look back... "Thank you kind sir"

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Not gonna lie, I would have just kept walking once I knew the cat would let me pick it up. Boom. You're now forcibly adopted.

4 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

You’re gonna end up with a lot of cats then. Istanbul is teeming with friendly strays. People leave food and beds out for them.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Do not unmute.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Nice person helping that kitty.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That little "Meow" at the end was definitely a meow of gratitude

4 years ago | Likes 86 Dislikes 0

Or "Fuck you dude, this is my leg day!"

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Is everyone going to ignore this mesh material in the excavator stairs. Like magic. Stopping things from going in like the cats hair. Hmmm?

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

How does the bottom of that escalator just phase through the floor?

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"Sir, sir, I'm trying to exercise here..." - Cat, maybe.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

The cat definitely nodded at the end.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I expected the cat to start trying to walk down...

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ah, yes. Thank you peasant

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Shout out to the lady who came back down to grab the cat, though the guy beat her to it!

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Or is it….CATstantinople?

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You sure that's not Constantinople?

4 years ago | Likes 314 Dislikes 5

yU sUre iTns noT tHe HelLisPoNt?

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I was gonna say that if I could spell Constanatople.

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I think that's Byzantium.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

*Byzantium

4 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 4

You're Zeus damned right.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

That's nobody's business but the Turks.....

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 4

Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Miklagård

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

been a long time gone since Constantinople

4 years ago | Likes 90 Dislikes 2

Why do Constantinople get the works?

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam

4 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 0

Why they changed it, I can't say

4 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

People just liked it better that waaaaaayyyy

4 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

People just like it better this way.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"Oh" - cat

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I was totally expecting the cat to start walking down once moved.

4 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 0

100% what my cats would do

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I was hoping once it got to the top it would ride the down. Escalator

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

He was waiting until he got closer to the top.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Why'd they change it?

4 years ago | Likes 35 Dislikes 3

I can't say

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

New owner, new name.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Like a Peking to Beijing type of thing.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

For the non-funny, non-TMBG answer: https://www.livescience.com/istanbul-not-constantinople in case anyone actually cares. :)

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That cat is back on the escalator!

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

isnt it called Constantine?

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

...what does this have to do with Istanbul?

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

Loads of stray cats that everyone likes. It's like this all over Turkey though idk why people always say Istanbul

4 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

They just like it better that way.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

isn't it called Istanbul?

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Istanbul is one Turkish city, yes. They're saying it happens all over Turkey, so why is Istanbul the only one that gets singled out

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Because stray cats indicate advanced society ?

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Love the little look back at the end

4 years ago | Likes 538 Dislikes 1

"Thank you!"

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

"Ah yes, of course. Silly me. Thank you servant!"

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

He's very polite

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

"I'll always remember you, rude giant who saved my life."

4 years ago | Likes 60 Dislikes 1

"Wow! This is so much easier!"

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I half expected it to start climbing down.

4 years ago | Likes 38 Dislikes 0

You mean be a cat? Yeah, me to.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Is this common in Istanbul? ….why do I already feel the barrage of Imgurians swarming in to downvote my question without answering it?

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 3

because yo'ure paranoid?

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Or I’m just not new to Imgur’s sensitive feelings lol

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

People in Istanbul, like most Islamic places, love and respect cats, and has many of them strays, reasonably well cared for and fed. 1/2

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

It's tradition, & partly a religious thing. Cat=pure (unlike e.g. dogs or pigs) + some legend about 1cat saving the Prophet from a snake 2/2

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

I'll add that cats are always welcome in a Mosque gardens (sometimes, inside the Mosque itself); Istanbul is particularly famed for cats 3/2

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Thank you for just answering the question without calling me stupid or ignorant lol

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

so afraid for that tail : (

4 years ago | Likes 1645 Dislikes 8

Why? That tail doesn't look scary at all.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

One wrong move away from cat gulasch

4 years ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 1

Somehow the stairs look like they are under some kind of chainmail.

4 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Dude! You're totally right! Wtf is that!

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I think it's the video running low on pixels.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

It's called a moiré pattern. It happens when viewing one grid through another (in this case, the escalator's lines and the video's pixels).

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

or their little feet! That made me tense up watching it more than any vid of humans doing dumb shit.

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

little claws stuck might be real bloody mess

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yeeeeeeeep, so glad nothing happened

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Seriously, escalators are terrifying if you think about them. Straight up meat grinders

4 years ago | Likes 178 Dislikes 0

Yep, I have childhood scars as a reminder.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My mother saw a teenagers foot get chewed up by one like 40 years ago. I've heard that they have automatic stopping mechanisms now

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I believe there's a scene in one of the Final Destination movies where exactly that happens to a person.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Or almost happens? Not entirely sure. It's been a while.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You are correct! It breaks apart and a girl slips into it.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

can't forget about the woman who got pulled into one and handed her child off to somebody at the top in china

4 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

thats also why there was a video of chinese people always stepping onto the sides of the escalator when getting off it, if it "broke open"

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Jesus christ

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

i also remember seeing one on Tv where a kid got pulled half way into one. shredding his legs and one of his arms almost clean off

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Remember that it doesn't slow down even when fully loaded.

4 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Never thought of that

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ever seen video of when they fail? They don't become stairs. They become roller coasters.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I heard it chew through large gravel. I got no illusions of what it would do to little ol me

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

NOMM NOMM NOMM

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0