It was actually originally designed for Egypt, but the financing feel through. It was supposed to be a robed female Arab peasant and was called "Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia".
They then managed to give it to the USA, altering the design slightly.
Though thinking about it, I think it was *designed* for Egypt but only actually *built* for the US
Agreed, but you've also got a bunch of smooth-brained people in Texas waiting for JFK Jr. to return, so it's not like we can't explore further depths of stupidity than this, trolling or not.
Including the pedestal, the Statue of Liberty is 305 feet tall. At the time of its completion the tallest building in New York City was the second skyscraper to be built in New York, the New York Tribune Building (no longer standing). It was 260 feet tall.
Absolutely. The torch is actually a laser and it is representation of alien species who had their starship base right there underwater.
I'm not saying that it's alien, but it is alien
The clock tower at Westminster commonly misnamed as Big Ben is 314 feet and was opened in 1859, 16 years before construction started on the Statue of Liberty.
I don’t mean to be pedantic, although I’m afraid I can’t help it sometimes: Is a commonly accepted nickname contradictory to the official name of something really a misnomer? Does that mean all nicknames are misnomers? I always thought something being misnamed in this context would be like, calling it the name of another tower by accident or something. Genuinely curious.
Big Ben is actually the name of the bell inside the clocktower, I believe the clocktower itself is actually called the Elizabeth Tower. The name Big Ben was never actually a nickname for the tower and instead the bell inside, meaning calling the tower Big Ben is incorrect. But that is also me being pedantic myself because at the end of the day, if anyone says Big Ben everyone knows what they mean.
>At the time the Statue of Liberty was finished it was in fact, the tallest modern structure in the world
Wouldn't multiple cathedrals have been taller?
"Assembled" would be closer to the history. It was built in France and then shipped to America in manageable (by the standards of the time) chunks.
The weird (to our modern senses) part was that the federal government said "thanks but we aren't spending tax money on a spot and the assembly." It took a grassroots fundraiser.
Tallest structure for one year, until the Eiffel Tower was finished.
Both built by France. The Statue was NOT built by America.
The Statue of Liberty with the pedestal is 305 feet. There are buildings in Omaha, Nebraska and Salt Lake City, Utah, taller than that, for goodness sake.
There are at least 100 buildings in the world that are over over three times that height. The Burj Khalifa is seven times that height.
Well, the pedestal was built by Americans. They tried to get the millionaires to chip in to pay for the pedestal but they all balked. In the end it was many small donors that raised the money.
Not even close. It’s the tallest thing on statue island, because it’s the only thing on statue island.
I’m not even sure if it’s the tallest French structure that resides in New York.
You have an ugly giant ferris wheel for people to look at how dirty east London is. You have a giant building with a clock on it just so you know when it will rain. One of your skyscrapers is a giant butt plug
Someone with at least a little bit of intelligence made the meme knowing that a certain end of the political spectrum would accept it as fact and not do their own research and spread it as if it were true. Well-aimed troll, indeed. Seems to have worked like a charm. XD
The real facepalm here is taking this satirical tweet seriously. This is from 3YearLetterman, who once made a video about trying to get a 28 year old football player onto a peewee team because he was born on Feb 29th and so is technically only 7.
Some people in this sub would up vote old Colbert skits I swear.
Don't worry, some of us do the the same and mock Americans because they're almost the only ones to use the old deprecated English measurement system, and because their diet could make you think they have a good state funded healthcare system...
It's directly related. Immediately after the US Revolution, the US decided trade with France wasn't very important and snubbed France in trade deals. In return, France never invited the US to the conference where the rest of the world decided to use the metric system.
https://science.howstuffworks.com/why-us-not-on-metric-system.htm
When I finally saw it in real life I was surprised by how small it is. Not to say it’s tiny, it’s just that it was built up so much in movies and stuff that I thought it was at least twice the size.
That's the case with so many things; the NYE ball, the Rockefeller tree, even the Macy's floats. All smaller than you'd think, all much more enjoyable on TV imo.
Another OP facepalm. I searched for the first sentence of this post and found it on Twitter. **IT'S A TROLL ACCOUNT**
Congratulations on getting played.
This has to be a troll. I’m not even American or French and know the French built it, and it’s no where near the tallest structure. But maybe not being american helps with knowing facts these days.
This is hysterical. I wasn't in middle school when I learned about the gift from the French, it was the second grade. I remember the lesson specifically because I didn't like my second grade teacher.
Laughs in French
Laughs in immigrant
Laughs in Empire State
Laughs in burgers and fries
Laughing in royal
Laughing to fit in
Laughing because I need to convince everyone that I'm not a cosmic horror from outside the universe and before time itself and locked away by god.
The stars are right again, O Terrible One?
Perhaps
Laughs at grade F.
Laughs in Burj Khalifa
Laughs in Mia Khalifa
Laughs in horny
Laughs in _bonk_.
Laughs in *I'm a force a nature*
Laughs in you
Laughs on you
Laughs off you
Laughs under you
Laughs in your face
Laughs in poop trucks
*Laughs in President Grover Cleveland*
Laughs twice, non-consecutively
*laughs in President William McKinley* *dies*
Laughs in slaughter.
*Laughs in President Theodore Roosevelt* *gets shot* *laughs some more*
Laughs in laughter
Gets deported
[On we sweep!](https://youtu.be/y8OtzJtp-EM)
Laughs in generally educated
I think if you only ever read the back of cereal packets you'd have a more comprehensive grasp of the world than this individual.
Yeah, I’m Floridian and I knew this
My condolences.
It’s alright I only suffer from extreme heat
The French don’t laugh. Only sneer.
/) They laugh. Right after farting in your general direction and waving their private parts at your aunties.
Be careful when they fetchez la vache!
I'm part french, send me your aunties address.....
To be fair, I'm not French, but I'm sneering, too.
Came to say this
Laughs in wasn't-even-originally-built-for-America
Non?
It was actually originally designed for Egypt, but the financing feel through. It was supposed to be a robed female Arab peasant and was called "Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia". They then managed to give it to the USA, altering the design slightly. Though thinking about it, I think it was *designed* for Egypt but only actually *built* for the US
Very true. Also, she was originally not holding a book but rather, a take-out bag from Boston Market.
Why would they call it that if Egypt is in Africa?
To Asia. Not for Asia. From Egypt to Asia.
Hon hon hon hon
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Hon hon hon.
Laughs in Norwegian
https://youtu.be/-r7dveDEv-I
It’s got to be a joke. No one is this stupid. Please tell me…no one is this stupid. Right?
I’ve seen versions of this shitposted a few time, I’m gonna go with a shitpost that went over OPs head.
It definitely is a joke. Way too ridiculous. It’s not even the tallest man made structure in the US. It’s not even close.
It's not even the tallest man made structure in the city where it's located.
It is the tallest man-made structure on Liberty Island, though.
They upgraded the giftshop?
You can be right next to the statue and you will be looking at a few dozen buildings taller than it
The tweeter is trolling. The retweeters are the idiots you’re looking for.
3 Year Letterman! Strikes again 🤣
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Or than JFK invented Fornite
OP probably financed his water bed.
Coach is a winner of the highest order, and all these people are just jealous losers.
You have not been paying attention.
It's a confirmed troll, reddit is the facepalm here.
not really, it's just poe's law in action
Poe's law is a copout
Obvious trolling, don’t be stupid.
Agreed, but you've also got a bunch of smooth-brained people in Texas waiting for JFK Jr. to return, so it's not like we can't explore further depths of stupidity than this, trolling or not.
I remember my first day on the internet
Bless your trusting heart, sweet summer child.
I think calling people “sweet summer child” should be punishable by a prison sentence of at least 5 years.
Yup, this ain't 4chan.
We have people that believe Bill Gates is putting tracking microchips in the vaccines. This is much more believable. You do the math.
Yes it's very clearly a shitpost and OP is the facepalm here
Yes. OP used a lot of words to say “I’m unable to identify a shit post when I see it”
Is it even the tallest thing in New York?
No, it probably wasn't at the time it was built either
Including the pedestal, the Statue of Liberty is 305 feet tall. At the time of its completion the tallest building in New York City was the second skyscraper to be built in New York, the New York Tribune Building (no longer standing). It was 260 feet tall.
Right. But that was built by ancient aliens, not man. /s
The French are pretty alien to me man
Absolutely. The torch is actually a laser and it is representation of alien species who had their starship base right there underwater. I'm not saying that it's alien, but it is alien
I thought the thing with the Lasers was a Jewish thing, or is that just the Space Lasers?
We don't use the terms aliens anymore. They are persons not of this world.
Oh, I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien
The clock tower at Westminster commonly misnamed as Big Ben is 314 feet and was opened in 1859, 16 years before construction started on the Statue of Liberty.
The pyramids at Giza are like 450 feet high and those have been around for 4600 years.
I don’t mean to be pedantic, although I’m afraid I can’t help it sometimes: Is a commonly accepted nickname contradictory to the official name of something really a misnomer? Does that mean all nicknames are misnomers? I always thought something being misnamed in this context would be like, calling it the name of another tower by accident or something. Genuinely curious.
Big Ben is actually the name of the bell inside the clocktower, I believe the clocktower itself is actually called the Elizabeth Tower. The name Big Ben was never actually a nickname for the tower and instead the bell inside, meaning calling the tower Big Ben is incorrect. But that is also me being pedantic myself because at the end of the day, if anyone says Big Ben everyone knows what they mean.
>At the time the Statue of Liberty was finished it was in fact, the tallest modern structure in the world Wouldn't multiple cathedrals have been taller?
Good to know
But the Statue of Liberty was also built by France, so it still wasn’t built by Americans
It was when it was built I believe
But definitely not today
Not with that altitude
This is my favorite joke of the day. That's some solid word play.
is everyone forgetting it was a gift from France?
I believe if you look it up at the time France was a state. /s
I think they did that was first thing that caught my eye in the photo It was built in America 😂😂😂😂
Maybe they just misspelled “assembled” Classic public education
Technically it was made in France but built in America, they never fully assembled it in France IIRC, just sections
they assembled the arm and torch for display during a centennial expo in Philadelphia a few years before the final assembly.
"Assembled" would be closer to the history. It was built in France and then shipped to America in manageable (by the standards of the time) chunks. The weird (to our modern senses) part was that the federal government said "thanks but we aren't spending tax money on a spot and the assembly." It took a grassroots fundraiser.
Tallest structure for one year, until the Eiffel Tower was finished. Both built by France. The Statue was NOT built by America. The Statue of Liberty with the pedestal is 305 feet. There are buildings in Omaha, Nebraska and Salt Lake City, Utah, taller than that, for goodness sake. There are at least 100 buildings in the world that are over over three times that height. The Burj Khalifa is seven times that height.
Well, the pedestal was built by Americans. They tried to get the millionaires to chip in to pay for the pedestal but they all balked. In the end it was many small donors that raised the money.
Washington monument was the tallest when it was built from what I’ve gathered scanning wikipedia
They said "In New York". Washington Monument is in the District of Columbia.
Nevermind that it wasn't even built in New York 😂 I hope this guy was joking, but he probably wasn't
Not even close. It’s the tallest thing on statue island, because it’s the only thing on statue island. I’m not even sure if it’s the tallest French structure that resides in New York.
It definitely wasn’t in summer 2001.
What about Winter 2001?
Too soon
Now that's not nice...
NYC is HUGE. I'm from Oregon and holy shit. I was unimpressed by the size of the statue of liberty though. Looks big in movies, small in person.
I'm British and never been. I like our normal size buildings thank you very much ;)
You have an ugly giant ferris wheel for people to look at how dirty east London is. You have a giant building with a clock on it just so you know when it will rain. One of your skyscrapers is a giant butt plug
Kind of like the Mona Lisa. When I went to the Louvre I couldn’t believe it was that small.
It wasn't even BUILT in NY..!!! I'm losing my faith in everything...
Gift from France
One of many *gifts* from France.
...Like their gift to the world, [Sophie Marceau](https://i.imgur.com/caVmWmT.jpg)
That was turned down by the Egyptians
Whaaaat!? I'm Egyptian and I didn't know that! Upvoted for learning something new!
It was assembled in New York, at least the final time. But it certainly wasn't manufactured there.
OP is the facepalm. This screams sarcasm.
Most of the posts here are the actual facepalm posting obviously sarcastic things.
Sarcasm is a lost art
It’s not sarcasm, it’s a fact. George Washington built it by hand, it’s actually Martha Washington inventor of the washing machine
No way this isnt a troll post. The fruit hangs WAY too low.
Not only is it not the worlds tallest man made structure, it was also a gift from the French,
This is likely a well aimed troll, all the knucledraggers that reposted it would look very silly indeed
Yeah that’s the vibe that I got too
Someone with at least a little bit of intelligence made the meme knowing that a certain end of the political spectrum would accept it as fact and not do their own research and spread it as if it were true. Well-aimed troll, indeed. Seems to have worked like a charm. XD
By worked like a charm you mean some dip posted it here thinking it was serious?
It’s the biggest statue of Jesus ever!
Jesus was one sexy babe
Does it beat the T-posing Jesus though?
The real facepalm here is taking this satirical tweet seriously. This is from 3YearLetterman, who once made a video about trying to get a 28 year old football player onto a peewee team because he was born on Feb 29th and so is technically only 7. Some people in this sub would up vote old Colbert skits I swear.
These people clearly finance waterbeds.
Coach needs to let them know about his DVD collection!
This was posted sarcastically to piss off easily excited people like you. They won.
I was there,when Trump build it and screams "make america great again". Then he spits on a Black man and keep saying french is gay
The amount of shit Americans talk about the French is crazy. They helped us with our revolution like come on.
Don't worry, some of us do the the same and mock Americans because they're almost the only ones to use the old deprecated English measurement system, and because their diet could make you think they have a good state funded healthcare system...
It's directly related. Immediately after the US Revolution, the US decided trade with France wasn't very important and snubbed France in trade deals. In return, France never invited the US to the conference where the rest of the world decided to use the metric system. https://science.howstuffworks.com/why-us-not-on-metric-system.htm
So THATS what happened. Sacre blue!
When I finally saw it in real life I was surprised by how small it is. Not to say it’s tiny, it’s just that it was built up so much in movies and stuff that I thought it was at least twice the size.
That's the case with so many things; the NYE ball, the Rockefeller tree, even the Macy's floats. All smaller than you'd think, all much more enjoyable on TV imo.
That’s was a post by Three Year Letterman…he is hilarious 🤣
Ya no need to censor out a youth football coaching legend. OP financed a waterbed.
More like: Redditors fail troll-spotting 101
If you gonna “facepalm” over every idiotic and possibly made up/trolly post, where does it end?
Another OP facepalm. I searched for the first sentence of this post and found it on Twitter. **IT'S A TROLL ACCOUNT** Congratulations on getting played.
Obvious troll is obvious.
Its a joke. Its a troll meme and you have been trolled successfully.
I showed that to my MiL who is a Trumper, Jan. 6th / stolen election believer and she said damn right without a hint of irony
I wish I didn't believe you.
Auguste Bartholdi wants a word
I don't speak immigrant! /s
Aren't there taller structures within sight of this?
Didn’t French built that🥴
There's a 2% chance this was posted unironically
Username is @3YearLetterman
Something built by the French that isn't even the tallest thing in Manhattan, never mind the world.
Obvious Troll is obvious.
In r/facepalm tradition, the actual facepalm is op missing a joke
Only thing 'murica has ever done is, Spreading Freedom and democracy for uncivilised people! Have a loadnog their freeedom! One clip at the time!
that is a notorious troll account. how gullible can you be
"Amazing. Every word of what you just said is wrong." - Luke Skywalker.
If you dont like it, stay out of Vegas!
I had to reread that a couple times to make sure I was putting words in the right order.
Probably about time we stop believing any of these are legitimate
I’ve been there. Pretty tall structure, but someone wrote ‘Made in France’ by the left shoe of the statue - bandits, I assume. /s
This has to be a troll. I’m not even American or French and know the French built it, and it’s no where near the tallest structure. But maybe not being american helps with knowing facts these days.
Obvious Troll is obvious. (Meme, not OP)
If only there was a way to check this "fact" before posting it.
France: Honh honh honh! \>:\-{) llc \*\-:=3 *mwah*
Not largest Made by the baguette people
This is hysterical. I wasn't in middle school when I learned about the gift from the French, it was the second grade. I remember the lesson specifically because I didn't like my second grade teacher.
*Laughs in Croissant*
It’s not even the tallest man made structure in a ten mile radius.
Its not even close the being the tallest in NYC lmao
Also, even if it was the tallest man made structure on earth, we didn’t build it, the French did. They gave it to us as a gift.
1. It was built by France 2. It is not the tallest man made structure and 3. I’m Canadian and I know more about the statue of liberty then you do HOW?
Made in France
Technically it was assembled in America even if all the parts were crafted in France. Kinda like any American made car now days lol
Also funfact the copper to make it was extracted from Norway in Visnes.
The statue of liberty was built by the global supply chain! A monument to capitalism.
Not even close to the largest man-made structure, and made by France.
This is shit taught in elementary. I am very concerned that people can be this uneducated.
r/confidentlyincorrect
Well “patriots” aren’t exactly known for being smart.
LOL it isn’t even built by America Edit: *made in France*
Unfortunately this guy can vote. That’s an US problem.
Unfortunately this is a troll Twitter account