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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.
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.
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.
He's blowing up the wrong bridge. That's tje point. It's a different bridge.
I highly doubt he's blowing up the wrong bridge, he just doesn't know what it's called.
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.