Submitted 1 day ago by pastelpulse@lemmy.blahaj.zone to [deleted]
I have mixed feelings about rage bait. Sure it is funny for folks, who are not as mind twisted. But is this worth it, considering the harm done by affirming hateful opinions? Most of the “victims” will probably never find out they have been hoaxed (by the rage baiters).
Actually Frankenstein is the Bell; the clock tower is called Mary Shelley.
Or something.
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
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”
It was more than a few or a handful. The internet just gives them a bigger megaphone
You sweet summer child… You really think it’s only half?
Beyond how dreadfully overused it’s become, I think people should acknowledge how explicitly patronizing the phrase “you sweet summer child” is. If you’re not actively trying to demean someone, it’s strange to essentially tell someone “it’s cute how naive you are.” If you were trying to demean the other person, then that’s a different issue but I’m assuming you aren’t that type of person.
I decided to leave a comment instead of passively downvoting.
Tell me you’ve been to a german hockey game without telling me you’ve been to a german hockey game
They always show a picture of the clock tower when talking about the bell.
I thought “big Ben” referred to the clock? Lol
Nope, Big Ben is one of the bells (the big one funnily enough) in the Elizabeth Tower
Afraid not. The bell is named Big Ben, not the clock.
These are the people who complain when you don’t use /s on the internet.
Its full name is actually Massive Mohammed Huge Hussien
Hugh Mongous.
Inshallah.
Rebranding is a great thing! Just ask Elon Musk.
It’s not even named “Big Ben” anymore I thought
It never was. It’s the name of the bell that’s inside. The building is the Elisabeth tower.
big Ben is the bell. we can call the tower Big Mo without renaming big ben.
Big Ben is inside of Massive Mohammed?
“And soon Santa won’t exist anymore”
Hate to break it to you but he never did
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.
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.
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?
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.
I just could not imagine, as an adult, caring about that shit. I think North America’s war on Christmas shit is dumber though.
for fucks sake if I hear this from an older relative or sth I am gonna lose kt
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.
You’ve never had the displeasure of a Trumplet encounter huh
A British person opposed to change? Wow, you don’t say! 🙄
Giant Gomorrah
it’s overrated anyway, it’s just a big clock on top of a building.
Mmmm, racism
gigachad@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I feel obligated because this was posted the last time I saw this:
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RotSteinFinke@feddit.org 23 hours 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…
vateso5074@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Makes sense then why “clock” still has the additional meaning of “to hit.” Like “I clocked him on the head.”
antsu@discuss.tchncs.de 13 hours ago
Hello there, fellow Rob Words enjoyer.
madjo@feddit.nl 20 hours ago
And the o’ in o’clock means “of the clock”
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Yes, 7 tolls of the clock
silver@das-eck.haus 7 hours ago
This greentext was foundational to my middle school friend group’s sense of humor