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?

who will remember "A" and "B" buttons

Praise the lord for I am clearly not ancient! I don't remember those 😂

(I have a vague memory of the concept of them insofar as it doesn't come as a surprise that they existed but I have no idea what they did)

Surely you just did the three rings thing to alert home that you were ready to be picked up or whatever and kept your 2p?

I don’t remember the A and B buttons but apparently there were still some of these in remote Scottish areas as recently as 1992.

In other news ...

... Fromage can’t have his fireworks on 31st Jan.

So no bongs or bangs.

I am ancient, I remember the A and B buttons.

... Fromage can’t have his fireworks on 31st Jan.

Well that's me grinning for the rest of the day.

I bet some brexiteers wish this thread had been hidden too

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage-moans-brexit-fireworks-21291395

It’s not happening:

uk.news.yahoo.com/brexit-day-big-ben-elizabeth-tower-chimes-fundraiser-120708446.html

Yes I've contributed

You'll have folk along who will remember "A" and "B" buttons

Oh God I can remember these!

You put your money in and dialled the number then when your call was answered and you could here that it was the person you wanted you pressed button A and then you could speak. If the call wasn't answered or you could hear you had called the wrong person you pressed B and the call was terminated and you got your money back.

I remember being with my older sister once in a phone box and she pressed button B and hit the jackpot! Not just her own 2p but several shillings worth. We went to the shop and got cream cakes.

That would be late 60s I think.

I love that Boris has a sense of humour unlike May fretting and fussing, Cameron, posing and trying to be statesmanlike, Gordon Brown, humourless utterly.

Just re-read my post and realised of course it couldn't have been a 2p as that was pre-decimal days. Whatever a call cost at that time

How about if we all just go out into the street at the allotted time and scream or laugh hysterically. That would be cheaper.

You’ve just made me remember calling my mum from a phone box and she obviously couldn’t hear me-she kept shouting ‘press button a, press button a!’ That must have been 25+ years ago!

WRT the bongs. What a load of bollocks

No. Anyone who donates to this needs a consultation.

The funniest thing about this idea is that the chimes of Big Ben are hardly a good rousing celebratory sound. More like the clanging chimes of doom (to steal a Band Aid lyric). Quite appropriate really.

Why are we celebrating Brexit anyway?
It is something we may well live to regret.
I can understand the result of the referendum but there are some questions you shouldn't ask.
As for spending half a million on Big Ben are people desperate to waste money?

The funniest thing about this idea is that the chimes of Big Ben are hardly a good rousing celebratory sound.

I did laugh (in a WTF way) about the headlines that if Big Ben doesn't bong it's going to be all the Remainers fault.

This is what's going to happen from now on. If it rains on 31st for Fartage's street party, that'll be a Remainers stitch up.

In the old days of the Empire and before EU it was sunny all the time.

Everything from now on will be the fault of Remainers because they can't blame the EU anymore!

And look out for when it all goes tits up and the masses who deny they ever voted Out in the first place...

This is what's going to happen from now on. If it rains on 31st for Fartage's street party, that'll be a Remainers stitch up.

Believe me, if I had witchy powers, rather than looks, that would be on the top of my to-woo list.

That's very kind and retiring of you to stop at a seasonally-appropriate rainstorm.

I would be going for full on, extremely localised plagues of Egypt on his parade. Also, boils. Ten apiece ought to do it.

Big Ben is in London. As London-centric culture is a problem with voters, I'm surprised that there isn't plan for other areas of the UK to have their own symbolic celebration. (I know that Scotland and NI voted remain but if Boris wants to be popular, he needs to think about voters north of the Watford Gap too.

One more for the Disco

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.

Someone's already done it :) It's benefiting the Trussell Trust. I've donated.

If the bells bong on 31st it sends a strong message about what people in the UK think is worth paying for. But not a good one.