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Low-hanging rage bait

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨pastelpulse@lemmy.blahaj.zone⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • thorhop@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Giant Gomorrah

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  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨25⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    It’s not even named “Big Ben” anymore I thought

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      It never was. It’s the name of the bell that’s inside. The building is the Elisabeth tower.

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  • Mike_Hunt@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    it’s overrated anyway, it’s just a big clock on top of a building.

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  • gigachad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I feel obligated because this was posted the last time I saw this:

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    • RotSteinFinke@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I recently learned that the word clock originally ment bell or bell chime. It’s related to the German word Glocke. So 7 o’clock = 7 bongs…

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      • vateso5074@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Makes sense then why “clock” still has the additional meaning of “to hit.” Like “I clocked him on the head.”

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They always show a picture of the clock tower when talking about the bell.

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    • Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I thought “big Ben” referred to the clock? Lol

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      • gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Nope, Big Ben is one of the bells (the big one funnily enough) in the Elizabeth Tower

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      • dellish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Afraid not. The bell is named Big Ben, not the clock.

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  • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wish this only cracked me up like it used to

    And wasn’t followed by the dread these days that the country is half made up of morons like this

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    • OmegaMan@lemmings.world ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      You sweet summer child… You really think it’s only half?

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    • wischi@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think the internet was a mistake. Before the internet every town had a few hand full of complete idiots and everybody just laughed at them. Now idiots that share the same delusions meet online and discuss stuff like “flat earth physics”

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  • Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Its full name is actually Massive Mohammed Huge Hussien

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    • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨25⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Hugh Mongous.

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  • ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    British gammons are a unique kind of gullible and completely insane. Wouldn’t surprise me at all if most of them believed something like this.

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    • db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      You’ve never had the displeasure of a Trumplet encounter huh

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  • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “And soon Santa won’t exist anymore”

    Hate to break it to you but he never did

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    • zout@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Come to the Netherlands, we have layers on this since Santa Claus is Coca Cola's take on our Sinterklaas, who is usually acompanied by "six to eight black men" (more commonly known as "zwarte Piet", black Pete). he was was taken to the US by Dutch immigrants, after which it evolved in the current Santa Claus. And it gets worse, because while it has alway been a bit of a battle between team Sinterklaas and team Santa Claus, the last twenty years or so there is a different battle going on between team "Dutch tradition" and team "kick out zwarte Piet". Both of these last two teams are obnoxious, and would choose confrontation over dialogue every day of the week. This has resulted in a conflict with no end, where it would have been easy to phase out the blackface character with no fuss in a short time.

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      • LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        My first December living in the Netherlands was kind of shocking, coming into the office one day and seeing a handful of my colleagues dressed up in full blackface… turns out the office was doing their normal Sinterklaas celebration and that was my introduction to Zwarte Piet.

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      • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        the last twenty years or so there is a different battle going on between team “Dutch tradition” and team “kick out zwarte Piet”. Both of these last two teams are obnoxious, and would choose confrontation over dialogue every day of the week. This has resulted in a conflict with no end,

        Social conflicts like this are never about solutions but about performance, for the sake of getting attention. Ending the conflict would end the attention.

        where it would have been easy to phase out the blackface character with no fuss in a short time.

        Hmm, by removing Piet and thus hiding the traditional representation of black people, or by whitewashing him?

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      • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        I live in Germany and we have Weihnachtsmann which is at this point just the German word for Santa Claus with all the Coke optics. We used to have Knecht Ruprecht as a companion who never had racial coding but he is but a faint memory. In the past there was Christkind in the Catholic south who funnily enough was invented by Luther but is ousted by now I think.

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      • Cruxifux@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        I just could not imagine, as an adult, caring about that shit. I think North America’s war on Christmas shit is dumber though.

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  • blave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Mmmm, racism

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