Londoners: Do you get porked when tourists call The Tower Bridge the Tower of London?

Question

I would. This girl came back from London to Tennessee. She showed me a picture of the Tower Bridge and said here is the Tower of London. I was a little porked. Had I had the privilidge of going there I would have tried to learn something.

Answer 1

most poeple get it wrong by calling it london bridge, it dont get "porked" i just think how stupid that person is

Answer 2

Funny thing is that when the Americans brought London Bridge they thought they were getting Tower Bridge. So shows some of them never learn.

Answer 3

I find it interesting that even people who live in the UK get it wrong. Although most American's think it is london bridge.
How about the song london bridge by Fergie, they show a picture of tower bridge.

Answer 4

Doesn't worry me in the least.

More common is for a tourist to mistake Tower Bridge (interesting) for London Bridge (rather dull).

Answer 5

London Bridge is now somewhere in Arizona. A USA citizen bought it, thinking he was buying Tower Bridge. I suppose Brits don't know too much about monuments in the USA, so there's no point in getting upset.

Answer 6

Not really. I usually tell them that London Bridge is in Arizona and that Americans paid the British a lot of money to take it away. It was falling down, as the song said. It really was dangerous.

Answer 7

When someone does not learn something perhaps the problem isn't with the student but to the professor.

She is not an exception, many others do the same confusion.... in this case, perhaps you are not looking to the problem but over it, just to the results of something.

Answer 8

I really do not mind, as long as she enjoyed the experience.

I should add that the term "porked" in the UK has sexual connotations.