BIG BENT?
Is it me or is Big Ben starting to topple over? Judging by the cunts in the building it's attached to, maybe it's suffering from being the leaning-tower-of-piss-take.
I took this picture taking a friend from the USA around London this week.
Which was very nice.
Only one complaint.
Many of Britain's art galleries and museums manage to offer free entry, or entry with a non-compulsory suggested donation.
However, as soon as God got involved we were asked to dig deep. A visit to St Pauls cost us £9 each (that's about $17 each) and we decided against parting with even more (£10 each) to look inside Westminster Abbey.
No wonder church attendances are so low...
posted by ENGLISH RANTER at Friday, June 23, 2006
13 Comments:
what is this place... ?
... am I... ... dead?
... looks crooked to me...
B-o
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thats the tower of westminster ER!
big ben is the fuck off huge bell inside it. i would have thought you of all people would know that!
unless it was a cunning ploy!
do i win a prize?
shit and bugger it! i apologise to everyone who knows me, i am not usually that anal! sorry!
Hello, ER. What with you away and me away, it's been a while... Anyhoo, I noticed the exact same thing when some friends visited recently. It's so heartwarming to see such a Christian attitude from the Church.
And it's not like that abroad. In Italy you can go into some of the most amazing churches without paying, even though you occasionally have to pay for certain parts of them. I think it cost €5 to go on to the roof of the Duomo in central Milan, for example, but that was money well spent. Amazing roof; amazing views.
Hello.
I'm your newest fan! I'm home from uni, and bored, and have proceeded to read all of your achive for the last few months. Just like to congratulate you on your humourous and insightful comments.
My favourite posts have been Blair/monarchy/Bush/religion bashing pieces. And the Hello! style sweets pictures. Obviously.
My favourite link was the tango advert one. With the residents up in arms...
"In fact, Margaret Jones reported seeing a fight between a rat and a pigeon over a Granny Smith at the bottom of Cambridge Street."
"Sarah was still sobbing when we spoke to her, saying that if she’d wanted several pounds of fruit in her home she “would have gone to the market.”"
Awesome, awesome. Have been drinking most of a bottle of cheap red wine, and have (literally) almost pissed myself.
Keep up the damn fine work.
TomH
Thanks Tom! Welcome to English Ranter and thanks for taking the time to have a good look through the site. Be sure to tell your Uni mates and come back soon. I just hope it's funny when you're sober! E.R.
I would tell my uni mates, but unfortunately those at university no longer have the political interest as they once did. I'm pretty miffed I missed the 60s to be honest - music, drugs, sex, and politics. My parents went to uni then; and they just studied! What a waste.
Anyway, don't get me wrong. I read your stuff over the last few days, and if it wasn't funny sober, then I wouldn't have bothered a bit stewed.
Have a gooden.
TomH
Interesting observation! I've been living here for the past 5 years and have played tourist tons. When whinging about how expensive The Big Smoke is, I hadn't realised how much of a gouging is really God gouging! LOL.
Jesus threw the moneychangers out of the Temple.
Wow, it does look to be toppling over! Hope it's still there by the time I get to visit!
Yeah, it sucks about the churches, but I guess you have to take into account that the museums and all get a cut of tax money whereas churches have to fund themselves to pay their priests, pastors, whatever, as well as all their schools, community homes & kitchens, and all...still, there is most likely a miss-use of money, as in any institution.
There is a difference between Churches and Museums. You and I pay to fund the nation's museums, but not the Churches. You can attend a service at any of the Churches and Cathedrals free, which strangely, is their major raison d'etre. If you just want to gawp, crap, leave chewing gum on the floor (an annual cost to the Church Commissioners of hundreds of thousands of pounds) wear out the stone work, laugh ironically as your slavering kid destroys a medieval tapestry or be watched so that you don't nick anything it is going to cost.
i wasn't kidding...wheres me prize??
Mmmmmyeah! Devotees need to pay solid bucks to get a dekko at Lord Venkateshwara in Thirupati. And it seems if you pay them something serious, they'll do something nice like burn incense in your name before the Lord.
'Think I'll start a temple!
WS.
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