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Sisilee @lemmy.world

7mo ago

London Bridge

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I feel like I am missing a lot here… I get that the chap has blown the bridge to smithereens in the last picture, but why? What’s the story?
- That’s fair, mine is a kind request, not a demand.
  
  Aah now I wanna watch that movie.
- I assume bc The Fair Lady told him to. She bewitched him which is why his eyes are all crazed.
  
  When I duckle the fair lady ghost I just get Marni Nixon
- Internet angst

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That's not London Bridge.
This is:
- Yeah they actually ripped down the previous London Bridge for some reason and replaced it with this monstrosity which is more associated with the terrorist attack. Tower Bridge just looks better.
  
  London bridge is in Arizona now.
  It was sold and transported.
  https://www.history.com/news/how-london-bridge-ended-up-in-arizona
- That’s not London Bridge.
  Fergie (from The Black Eye Peas) sang a song called "London Bridge".
  The lyrics are:
  How come every time you come around
  My London, London Bridge wanna go down? Like
  London, London, London, wanna go down like
  London, London, London, be goin' down like
  She's actually talking about her panties and not the actual London Bridge.
  Do you all understand what the fuck a metaphor is?
  
  To be fair, I haven't heard of that song.
  My sole intention was to show how shitty London Bridge looks, the comic's bridge reminds me more of Tower Bridge (due to the towers on the bridge).
  
  Yeah, but she didn't sing it in front of a bridge that wasn't London bridge but that she clearly thought it was.
  Admit it, this was just a simple error made out of presumption and ignorance. Weird that you are defending it so hard by making such a stretch.

That's Tower fucking bridge. This is London bridge: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/London_Bridge_from_St_Olaf_Stairs.jpg/1280px-London_Bridge_from_St_Olaf_Stairs.jpg
- That’s Tower fucking bridge.
  There's no Tower fucking Bridge nursery rhyme!! Duh!
  Let me introduce you to the difference between literal and figurative.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literal_and_figurative_language
  You can't use any part of your imagination to see how a demented fuck who is going
  to blow up a bridge will sing a well known nursery rhyme?
  No part of the comic suggests that the words were literal and the bridge depicted
  is a the actual London Bridge.
  
  Nah, that's not the point. A shitload of people call the tower bridge the "London" bridge despite it not being the case. It's a really common problem and 99% the person drawing this didn't know it wasn't called that.
  
  Yeah mate, we called it the Empire State building figuratively. Fuck sake, use your imagination. It could be any building.

It's where this movie title originates (the Michael Douglas character has a music box that plays the tune).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_Down

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