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[-] mech@feddit.org 172 points 10 months ago
[-] silasmariner@programming.dev 24 points 10 months ago

You've got to be kidding me! 😡😡

[-] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

Well if we don't count the bongs, how would we know how much bongs it is?! How would I know to salute his maj if I don't know it's free bongs? You gert yankee pillock!

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[-] mech@feddit.org 74 points 10 months ago

How is Big Ben a landmark?
You can't even see it from outside.

[-] Novamdomum@fedia.io 43 points 10 months ago

Laughs in Elizabeth Tower.

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 14 points 10 months ago

Jesus Christ be praised! Henry's come to comment!

[-] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

He feels quite hungry

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[-] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Elizabeth tower?. you mean Big Mohammed? we call it Big Mo for short mate

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 56 points 10 months ago
[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

but big ben isn't the name of the clock, it's the name of the bell.

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 10 points 10 months ago

According to that picture, the bell cracked in 1974 and the current bell is named Brian Blessed

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Well idoes say the real name is NOT big Ben

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[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

THE BRIAN BLESSED?!

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 53 points 10 months ago

Actually, it's the name of the bellends.

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[-] atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works 47 points 10 months ago

Why would anyone believe that to be true?

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 70 points 10 months ago

Many Brits lose any capacity for coherent thought whenever the threat of Muslims are involved.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 11 points 10 months ago

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 :/

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[-] jali67@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 months ago

This is happening everywhere. General public is unable to fact check things on social media and political interests take full advantage of it.

[-] dangercake@feddit.uk 4 points 10 months ago

Don't forget about:

  • Bulgarians
  • Poles
  • Indians
  • Pakistanis
  • Hugenots
  • Bloody Anglo Saxons
  • Beaker folk
  • Neolithic people
  • Fish, crawling up onto our land

Stewart Lee does an excellent explainer of how it works https://youtu.be/Y38pbfJ4i_U

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[-] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

It's also the Rochdale Herald.

Rochdale makes Northern Post Industrial Shitholes look like Star Trek San Francisco.

Source: grew up around there, the trains(and then Trams) run twice as fast through there.

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[-] julysfire@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

You underestimate how stupid some people are.

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[-] kamen@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Because it was said so on the Internet, duh.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

If they were smart they wouldn’t be racist in the first place.

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[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 40 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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. 🤭

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

More a rhetorical coincidence.

Ben sounds like 笨 which means "fool" in Mandarin.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Every Hong Konger I've ever met likes the UK.

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm from Guangzhou, not HK, so I guess my views are different. I view both the UK's colonialism and CCP's tyranny negatively. (Maybe UK was slightly less bad, but still... it was colonialism)

Also I didn't seriously suggested they hate UK, its a joke given the name they gave to it.

[-] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 points 10 months ago

Okay, that IS a fun fact.

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[-] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

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

[-] postnataldrip@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

As long as they leave the internet alone

[-] blackris@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 10 months ago

We call that transweb now.

[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 23 points 10 months ago
[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 15 points 10 months ago

Bouncing on my boys' clock

[-] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 7 points 10 months ago

I love it when my best friend gives me a clock for christmas

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 22 points 10 months ago

At least the king of England isn't demolishing Big Ben to build a ballroom funded by demanding money from the department of Justice

[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Brits love BBC

Tap for spoilerBig Ben Clock

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[-] spykee@lemmings.world 14 points 10 months ago

Extremely deceiving.
I've been with a lot of Mohammeds. None of them were massive.
Totally average.
Not that I'm complaining. Simply conveying.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

Maybe this one Mohammed's diet is composed entirely of 'murican food

[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago

Fun fact: in the French translation of the film Beauty and the Beast, Cogsworth's name is Big Ben

[-] buttnugget@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I fully support them actually doing this.

[-] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

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.

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[-] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 7 points 10 months ago
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[-] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I think it should be named The Elizabeth Tower...

Oh wait..

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago
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[-] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

This is the kind of ridiculousness we see from headlines about djt .

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