“What the fuck is a clock?”
“Is that like an Apple Watch?”
My parents used to travel with like a paper printout of google maps.
Old school offline mode.
Not Big Ben, that’s for sure.
“Nobody could read one if we did. They’re all digital nowadays.”
According to Lemmy memes, most people in America aren’t smart enough to read an analog clock
Neither 24 hour digital
Removed by mod
period
Found the american
Isn’t big Ben the bell?
No, Big Ben is the little man inside that winds the clock.
You’re thinking of Little Ben.
Big Ben is the man with no time for crime.
Yes. The building is called Elizabeth Tower (since 2012) and the clock is called big The Great Clock of Westminster.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Well, not quite! Big Ben might be a famous clock, but the real “bell end” is that pointy bit on top!
Fun fact: the place where I lived a few years ago had a church. The bells in the tower rang to give the time every quarter hour, as you’d expect. But the tower was just plain stone - no clock visible on the outside.
I never noticed that for years until someone told me they’d intentionally omitted it, as everyone wears a clock on the wrist…
Toll status: bonged
