Bung a Bob for a Big Ben Bong

[Wiltinglillies]

I mean what the actual Fuck?

Apparently it'll cost half a million pounds to get Big Ben to ring to mark Brexit.

Is ANYONE planning to donate their hard earned cash in support of this ridiculous venture?

Bongs aside, when I read off bungs, especially in the context of anything to do with Boris Johnson or other assorted Tories I can’t help but think of this definition..

bung noun [C] (MONEY)
a payment made to someone to persuade them to do something, usually something dishonest: Of course both the politicians denied taking bungs.

Although maybe all this brexshit shambles has something to do with bongs

And my offspring are paragons of virtue - one and all.

Hoof a halfpenny at the hapless.

Twat a tramp with a tuppenny bit.

Shaft the sick for a sixpence.

Fuck over the feeble for a fiver.

I wish Boris would bloody well bog off .

Possibly the other sort of bong?

The "Well, l certainly never inhaled ..." sort?

I hope the bong sounds flat when they ring it, like a comedy bong.

Oh, that everton mint reference is ringing a bell on the tip of my tongue. What is it?

Just play this on loud speaker

All the brexiteers could stand together and shout BONG at the same time. Like that huge march Farage organised. That'll show us remainers a thing or two.

The bong is wrong, you'll see before long, be singing a different song, we should still belong.

I do dislike the not-so-subtle appeal to nostalgia via the reference to a bob. Though it might be fun to take then at their word and dig out an old shilling by way of a donation, just to see how they react.

I've seen some idiots suggesting that ringers should be directed to ring things like the National Anthem. Guess what, it just isn't possible on standard church bells.

Bob? I prefer to be reminded of former Tory MP Neil Hamilton being bunged brown envelopes of cash for questions.

Seriously, in the rare event that this crowdfunding campaign does gain momentum I'm starting a rival one to raise 500K for causes that actually matter, to make the people happy to spunk half a million on 30 seconds worth of bells look like the sad little shits they are.

How predictable.

As a bob = 5p, I am reminded of an old colleague who used to say "Here's 10p. Go and ring someone who gives a shit".
This harks back to the olden days when no one had a mobile phone and it cost 10p to use a phone box.

This harks back to the olden days when no one had a mobile phone and it cost 10p to use a phone box.

I remember when it was 2p 😂😂

You cant say that about Mark Francois! He was in the TA.

This harks back to the olden days when no one had a mobile phone and it cost 10p to use a phone box.[] I remember when it was 2p

You'll have folk along who will remember "A" and "B" buttons (and scavenging for forgotten coins ) next

How can remainers "stitch" anything up in a government that is supposedly made up of BeLeaver die-hards ?

I'm beginning to suspect that some of the MPs that claimed they supported Leave to get elected may have over egged the pudding slightly, if not lied outright. Just a hunch. We know God does irony.

@SoupDragon me too, actually. The whole A and B thing was what the older generation did. Turns out, I am one of them, though

Bored of hearing people moaning.

Brace yourself love, we had 40 years of would-be leavers whinging. We've barely got warmed up.

Oh, that everton mint reference is ringing a bell on the tip of my tongue. What is it?

When TV was good, Spitting Image did a sketch about the Labour Party finances (it seems some things never change). It opened with Roy Hattersley shaking the cash box out and saying something like:

Three pounds, two drachma and an Everton Mint ...

to Neil Kinnock.

I have a very odd memory.

Bored of hearing people moaning

Oh, dear Well if I were you I'd strap in for this one. Trust me, no one on earth can moan as much or as long as the English. I have to hear people moaning about planning decisions the local council took fifty fucking years ago.

Also you have to question quite what the prize was if the people that won are whinging ?

We were always told to keep a 2p in our socks for emergency telephone calls!

I used to spend mine on sweets (you could get quite a few for 2p in th’olden days), and wing it if something happened (that usually involved knocking on someone’s door and putting a sad face on).

I used to spend mine on sweets (you could get quite a few for 2p in th’olden days), and wing it if something happened (that usually involved knocking on someone’s door and putting a sad face on).

Or a reverse charge call ...