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
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 :/
Luckily for you, all those Muslim migrants then moved on to Germany, where they took our jobs while lazily living off our welfare, forced our cops to become racist, and turned our gay frogs straight again.
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.
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.
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. 🤭
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.
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.
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.
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.
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mech@feddit.org · 172 pts · 309d
silasmariner@programming.dev · 24 pts · 309d
You've got to be kidding me! 😡😡
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 308d
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!
ICastFist@programming.dev · 2 pts · 308d
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
knowone@slrpnk.net · 0 pts · 309d
mech@feddit.org · 74 pts · 309d
How is Big Ben a landmark?
You can't even see it from outside.
Novamdomum@fedia.io · 43 pts · 309d
Laughs in Elizabeth Tower.
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world · 14 pts · 309d
Jesus Christ be praised! Henry's come to comment!
BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 309d
He feels quite hungry
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 309d
Oh my lord I heard he had an accident in the sequel
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 309d
Elizabeth tower?. you mean Big Mohammed? we call it Big Mo for short mate
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 56 pts · 309d
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 309d
but big ben isn't the name of the clock, it's the name of the bell.
theneverfox@pawb.social · 10 pts · 309d
According to that picture, the bell cracked in 1974 and the current bell is named Brian Blessed
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 309d
Well idoes say the real name is NOT big Ben
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 309d
everything else is wrong though
Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 309d
Gonna need some citations there, laddie…
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 308d
Big if true
theolodis@feddit.org · 0 pts · 309d
Wrong, or alternative facts?
whoisearth@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 309d
THE BRIAN BLESSED?!
sundray@lemmus.org · 53 pts · 309d
Actually, it's the name of the bellends.
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 309d
Big Bellend is a great name
atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works · 47 pts · 309d
Why would anyone believe that to be true?
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 70 pts · 309d
Many Brits lose any capacity for coherent thought whenever the threat of Muslims are involved.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 309d
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 :/
mech@feddit.org · 2 pts · 305d
Luckily for you, all those Muslim migrants then moved on to Germany, where they took our jobs while lazily living off our welfare, forced our cops to become racist, and turned our gay frogs straight again.
jali67@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 309d
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 pts · 308d
Don't forget about:
Stewart Lee does an excellent explainer of how it works https://youtu.be/Y38pbfJ4i_U
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 308d
Ratko Mladic has let himself go.
dangercake@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 308d
It's KD Lang actually
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 308d
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.
1984@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 309d
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.
roguetrick@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 309d
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.
1984@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 309d
Maybe globalism is the wrong term, yeah.
julysfire@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 309d
You underestimate how stupid some people are.
Starski@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 309d
Most*
kamen@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 309d
Because it was said so on the Internet, duh.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 309d
If they were smart they wouldn’t be racist in the first place.
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 308d
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.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 309d
Why not? It gives me something to get mad at.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 309d
Have you ever met a Gammon?
gmtom@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 308d
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.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 40 pts · 309d
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 pts · 309d
More a rhetorical coincidence.
Ben sounds like 笨 which means "fool" in Mandarin.
gmtom@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 308d
Every Hong Konger I've ever met likes the UK.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 308d
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 pts · 309d
Okay, that IS a fun fact.
WALLACE@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 308d
I bet they're so happy to be back under China's thumb now
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 308d
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.
postnataldrip@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 309d
As long as they leave the internet alone
blackris@discuss.tchncs.de · 25 pts · 309d
We call that transweb now.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 309d
Noite_Etion@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 308d
How much does it weigh?
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 308d
The internet doesn’t weigh anything.
levzzz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 309d
Deep packet inspection, my beloved
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 309d
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
davidagain@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 309d
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 pts · 309d
The Big C(l)ock
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world · 15 pts · 309d
Bouncing on my boys' clock
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 309d
I love it when my best friend gives me a clock for christmas
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 308d
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 pts · 309d
Brits love BBC
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Big Ben Clock :::
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 308d
spykee@lemmings.world · 14 pts · 308d
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 pts · 308d
Maybe this one Mohammed's diet is composed entirely of 'murican food
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 308d
Fun fact: in the French translation of the film Beauty and the Beast, Cogsworth's name is Big Ben
buttnugget@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 309d
I fully support them actually doing this.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 309d
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.
buttnugget@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 309d
I feel like they should rename them both massive Mohammed. Good trolling is good!
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 309d
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.
WALLACE@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 308d
That's not what a bellend is lmao
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 308d
I know, but close enough,
never waste the chance of calling something a bellend.
Frostbeard@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 309d
I think it should be named The Elizabeth Tower...
Oh wait..
Mrkawfee@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 308d
Giant Jihad
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 308d
Giant, gingling Jihad
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 308d
This is the kind of ridiculousness we see from headlines about djt .
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 308d
Li'l Liz Truss Tower
HexesofVexes@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 308d
Tiny Truss Tower?
Randelung@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 309d
How about giant chode?
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -2 pts · 308d
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.