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Great to see some actual progress over there

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • silasmariner@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’ve got to be kidding me! 😡😡

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    • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Reminds me of a gag in one of the Asterix comics (i think it was Asterix in Helvetia, but I might be wrong), where an innkeeper would yell “cuckoo” whenever an hour had passed, alerting everyone to turn their hourglasses in order to keep track of time

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  • mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Novamdomum@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Laughs in Elizabeth Tower.

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      • ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well idoes say the real name is NOT big Ben

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    • whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      THE BRIAN BLESSED?!

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  • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Actually, it’s the name of the bellends.

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    • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Big Bellend is a great name

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  • atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why would anyone believe that to be true?

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • dangercake@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 youtu.be/Y38pbfJ4i_U

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      • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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.

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      • ThePyroPython@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You underestimate how stupid some people are.

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      • Starski@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Most*

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    • kamen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because it was said so on the Internet, duh.

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Eh, I believe there is a certain audience who also believe Birmingham is now part of the Birmingharam Caliphate, and that’s who will believe this nonsense.

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Have you ever met a Gammon?

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Why not? It gives me something to get mad at.

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    • gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There was a woman, that after the October 7th attack, saw a paraglider and though Hamas was coming to attack the great town of Doncaster.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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. 🤭

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      More a rhetorical coincidence.

      Ben sounds like 笨 which means “fool” in Mandarin.

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    • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Okay, that IS a fun fact.

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    • gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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)

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    • WALLACE@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I bet they’re so happy to be back under China’s thumb now

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      • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I mean, there is a timeline where China became Democratic.

        But unfortunate, this timeline, we get shitty CCP tyranny, and they are working hard to eradicate the Cantonese language.

        What’s that saying: “Out of the frying pan into the fire”? Yea HK is basically that lol.

        Regardless, “Big Stupid Clock” is still a funny name, regardless of one’s opinions on the UK.

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  • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • postnataldrip@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As long as they leave the internet alone

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    • blackris@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We call that transweb now.

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    • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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      • Noite_Etion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        How much does it weigh?

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      • levzzz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Deep packet inspection, my beloved

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  • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The Big C(l)ock

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Bouncing on my boys' clock

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      • ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Brits love BBC

    Tap for spoiler

    Big Ben Clock

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  • spykee@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I fully support them actually doing this.

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I feel like they should rename them both massive Mohammed. Good trolling is good!

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  • Mrkawfee@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Giant Jihad

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    • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Giant, gingling Jihad

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  • Frostbeard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think it should be named The Elizabeth Tower…

    Oh wait…

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  • betanumerus@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Li’l Liz Truss Tower

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    • HexesofVexes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Tiny Truss Tower?

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  • Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How about giant chode?

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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s totally on brand for a state of Islam (like Qatar or Dubai) to commission Massive Muhammed or Great Allah or whatever, a bigger standing mechanical clock named either after God or his prophet, just to show the superiority of their culture over western culture.

    I’m surprised it hasn’t happened already.

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