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…
Big if true
Wrong, or alternative facts?
THE BRIAN BLESSED?!
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. 🤭
More a rhetorical coincidence.
Ben sounds like 笨 which means “fool” in Mandarin.
Every Hong Konger I’ve ever met likes the UK.
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.
Okay, that IS a fun fact.
I bet they’re so happy to be back under China’s thumb now
I mean, there is a timeline where China became Democratic, and HK could’ve be thriving under this alt-universe’s democratized ROC rule.
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.
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
At least the king of England isn’t demolishing Big Ben to build a ballroom funded by demanding money from the department of Justice
Brits love BBC
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Extremely deceiving.
I’ve been with a lot of Mohammeds. None of them were massive.
Totally average.
Not that I’m complaining. Simply conveying.Maybe this one Mohammed’s diet is composed entirely of 'murican food
Fun fact: in the French translation of the film Beauty and the Beast, Cogsworth’s name is Big Ben
Giant Jihad
Giant, gingling Jihad
I think it should be named The Elizabeth Tower…
Oh wait…
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.
That’s not what a bellend is lmao
I know, but close enough,
never waste the chance of calling something a bellend.
This is the kind of ridiculousness we see from headlines about djt .
Li’l Liz Truss Tower
Tiny Truss Tower?
How about giant chode?
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.
You’ve got to be kidding me! 😡😡
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!
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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