The Silent Clapper

My Way News

The story concerns why the clock tower at the Houses of Parliament went silent. The short answer is global warming, but I'm not going to delve into the veracity of such a claim. My problem is when a news organization can't do a little research, or possess the common knowledge to know that Big Ben is not the clock, but the thirteenth bell which strikes the hour. I learned this as a curious kid who read every piece of reference material I could find. I'm a fucking encyclopedia of worthless information. But these days it's reprehensible that a dopey reporter can't get facts straight thereby snowballing the ignorance of the country into a huge rolling orb of mighty dumb taking out all in its path. Yep, there is easier access to info than when I was growing up, but people are lazier these days so the equilibrium hasn't changed. Instead of walking around with all this info in your head, it's now at the push of a button so fact hoarders as myself are moot. But I do get the satisfation out of knowing a sliver of mundane knowledge that an educated professional doesn't know and is too much of a sloth to get it right.

Oh, and a clapper is that thing inside the bell...Nevermind...