Fun Fact, in Cantonese, “Big Ben” is translated as “大笨鐘”, or literally “Big Stupid Clock”. I guess that’s the Hong Konger’s way of getting back at UK for the colonialism. 🤭
fuck it.
The BELL is called big ben, not the tower
I vote to rename the tower as Big Mohammed while keeping the Bell’s name. Big Mo for short. Big Mo & Big Ben have a nice ring to it.
and it will give half the gammons an aneurysm.
see no downsides
but big ben isn’t the name of the clock, it’s the name of the bell.
According to that picture, the bell cracked in 1974 and the current bell is named Brian Blessed
Well idoes say the real name is NOT big Ben
everything else is wrong though
Gonna need some citations there, laddie…
Wrong, or alternative facts?
THE BRIAN BLESSED?!
Why would anyone believe that to be true?
Many Brits lose any capacity for coherent thought whenever the threat of Muslims are involved.
This is happening everywhere. General public is unable to fact check things on social media and political interests take full advantage of it.
Not even a uniquely Anglo thing tbh. During the great refugee crisis of whatever the fuck year, Estonians got all riled up too. It spawned our very own ultranationalist conservative party (which of course spouts all the same nonsense as Trump for some reason), which was very popular for a while - until they got enough seats in the parliament and some government positions, and everyone figured out they’re not improving this - now they’re no longer the most popular party at least, but still more popular than I’d like. People were truly hateful, because tens of thousands of Muslims were going to overflow our tiny country!
So the only real data I can find on how many refugees we’ve received is from a non-profit called the Estonian Refugee Council, which says that between 1997 and 2021, 603 people were given refugee status, with the biggest countries of origin being Syria (199), Ukraine (93), Russia (66) and Iraq (42). This is over the course of 24 years, so not even just the refugee crisis itself, which was something like 2015-2016 I think? Even if all 603 actually came in one year, that’s not a lot of people even for our tiny country of 1.3 million. We actually have a much bigger problem with Russians than Muslims (by which I don’t mean that Russians in general are a problem, but that there is a sizable subsection of Russians who think we still live in the Soviet Union, only consume Russian state media, refuse to learn the Estonian language, etc. Of course this group is shrinking because younger people tend to be more integrated.)
But people are always gonna hate. Conservatives just gotta throw bait and their voters eat it up :/
I wonder why that is.
Maybe globalism is not so amazing for people living in a rich country. Its probably great for the government though. More tax income, more population.
In Sweden where I live, the government loves immigration for those reasons. We wont have enough old people to work and pay for pensions otherwise.
Crime has skyrocketed though. So I dont think its great for people already living here. But its about money.
Yeah using immigrant labor to maintain economic growth isn’t globalism. The US did that with you swedes after all well before globalism was a thing. Globalism is about keeping people where they are and exploiting them through neocolonial financial instruments while suppressing local industries and wage earners in higher income countries by turning their entire economic structure to be asset based and rent seeking.
Maybe globalism is the wrong term, yeah.
You underestimate how stupid some people are.
Most*
Have you ever met a Gammon?
Because it was said so on the Internet, duh.
I fully support them actually doing this.
big ben is the bell, not the tower,. so renaming the tower to Big Mo (catchy name) wouldn’t change the Big Ben.
and it’ll give gammons an aneurysm.
I feel like they should rename them both massive Mohammed. Good trolling is good!
We don’t need any official renaming, start calling the tower Big Mo, go around saying that Big ben is the bellend, and the tower is Big Mo. if it becomes a meme it might actually hold long enough to become a common term.
Even if they didn’t know that the Rochdale Herald is a satirical newspaper, the fact that Rochdale is a random satellite town of Manchester, about 200 miles away from London, ought to have given them pause as to the credibility of the article.
No, scrub that, the headline was enough of a clue. Idiots.
You’ve got to be kidding me! 😡😡
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How is Big Ben a landmark?
You can’t even see it from outside.Laughs in Elizabeth Tower.
Elizabeth tower?. you mean Big Mohammed? we call it Big Mo for short mate
Jesus Christ be praised! Henry’s come to comment!
He feels quite hungry
Oh my lord I heard he had an accident in the sequel
How about giant chode?
As long as they leave the internet alone
Deep packet inspection, my beloved
We call that transweb now.
Actually, it’s the name of the bellends.
Big Bellend is a great name
The Big C(l)ock
Bouncing on my boys’ clock
I love it when my best friend gives me a clock for christmas
