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?
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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
I'm assuming from context "The Fair Lady" is the name of the ghost in this comic, likely just created for the comic and to fit the song's lyrics, not some kind of long-standing legend necessarily.
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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
...to a rich guy who allegedly thought he'd be getting Tower Bridge
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.
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.
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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.
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).