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[–] 55 points 1 year ago (7 children)
  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Well idoes say the real name is NOT big Ben

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    Why would anyone believe that to be true?

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year 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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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    As long as they leave the internet alone

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    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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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    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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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Actually, it's the name of the bellends.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Brits love BBC

    Tap for spoilerBig Ben Clock

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

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

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  • 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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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

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

    Oh wait..

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

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I fully support them actually doing this.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    How about giant chode?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year 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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