[TheManInThePub]

> Dunno how english Big Ben is. It was built in a made-up architectural style

Ummmm

Big Ben is the bell in the Elizabeth Tower. It was made in the Whitechapel bell foundry and could not be more English!

> a woman struggles through sexism to provide a life-saving invention then it ends up getting made into a vagina joke.

The joke is that the joke is wholly [1] in the dirty mind of the listener. I find it very odd having to explain this to somebody from the UK.

[1] Fnarr Fnarr!

[mnw21cam]

Not only could it not be more English, but it couldn't be more distinctively English. It's the only bell in the world that sounds quite like that, due to the fact that they hit it with too big a hammer in September 1859, and had to cut a hole around the resulting crack to stop it spreading.

[pasabagi]

While people in england do make a lot more jokes than people elsewhere, the average sense of humour is no better.