• @pukono
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    -119 hours ago

    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.

    • @adam_y
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      -317 hours ago

      Yeah mate, we called it the Empire State building figuratively. Fuck sake, use your imagination. It could be any building.

    • @Maalus
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      -119 hours ago

      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.

      • @yrlyzz
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        718 hours ago

        The meaning behind the rhyme is not really clear and numerous theories have developed.

        The Human Sacrifice theory

        …in certain variations of the “London Bridges” rhymes there is a watchman or a prisoner mentioned
        in the later stanzas of the songs. Human sacrifice was believed to be necessary to protect the structures,
        to serve the purposes as guardians or “watchman” and protect the building from supernatural forces.

        So, if the guy in the comic is going to blow up the bridge and people will surely die
        then singing a nursery rhyme that is about humans being sacrificed fits and is in no
        way a contradiction.

        • @adam_y
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          18 hours ago

          Admit the artist was wrong and made a very common mistake and misnamed a bridge, or stretch out a tenuous theory in a beautiful show of desperate defense?

          It’s a bold move.

          Good effort pal. Good effort.

        • @LorIps
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          -718 hours ago

          He’s blowing up the wrong bridge. That’s tje point. It’s a different bridge.

          • @PapaStevesy
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            115 hours ago

            I highly doubt he’s blowing up the wrong bridge, he just doesn’t know what it’s called.

      • @Kelly
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        518 hours ago

        Geoguesser starts new accounts with a few curated locations designed to start them off gently with recognizable landmarks.

        Last weekend we had a few people playing a game on the TV and we were dropped here:

        https://maps.app.goo.gl/nBR4ToYfmBtHPcE46?g_st=ac

        We were all surprised by how unremarkable the bridge itself was, if it wasn’t for the building signage it could have been any number of bridges in London.