This reminds me of how Brits were always totally obsessed with all the regulations that the unelected EU bureaucrats were supposedly inflicting on us all the time, and then you’d go to France and see kids diving off a high-board into a shallow pool contaminated with battery acid with absolutely no lifeguards to be seen, and generally no-one seems to give a shit.
Yeah but you can’t wear boxer style trunks otherwise they will shout at you. They have weird priorities over there
Not all of France is like Paris, and the Seine is not a pool. (Plus, battery acid would probably count as a good attempt to clean it up, not as contamination.)
French people let their dogs shit absolutely everywhere and nobody cares. That was the really surprising thing for me.
Paris is beautiful but you better keep an eye on where you’re stepping.
Conservatives making things up and getting angry about it
TV licence is a real thing though
It’s just a way of funding the BBC that was devised before a TV was something that essentially everyone had. Since it’s delivered OTA it seemed easier to tax the device itself then it was to tax everyone unfairly. So calling it a “license” is fairly outmoded, it’s really a tax. You also don’t have to pay it if you don’t actually receive TV channels.
It should just be rolled into regular taxes now, but who is going to propose and approve a new tax in this day and age? So it’s easier not to touch it.
I wish we had a TV tax in Canada. The funding of the CBC is a political football, so I sometimes feel like CBC News has to walk a tightrope to avoid having the government slash the budget.
It’s probably better that there’s just a tax on the device. Sure the UK government could meddle with that tax to cut the budget of the BBC, but it feels like it would be less likely since people would rightly ask why they’re meddling with it. People are less likely to ask questions if the government is cutting a budget because “gotta pay off the national debt!”
American flag checks out.
I know Anons are dumb, but are they voting for Nigel Farage dumb?
Well of course! Facism is the solution to an overbearing government, right?
Anon has an American flag next to their post. They aren’t really Bri’ish
Surely you know better than to ask that, Satan
Which is worse, Thatcher or Farage?
Thatcher’s thangs were thangin’ though.
Ew.
What do you expect from the gaseous and liquid excrement of Satan?
Every time Thatcher sexily spoke about fiscal responsibility I got an inch and a half of blue steel in my sweatpants.
Thatcher, may she burn in hell, was far better than Farage. She at least had significant political skill, and an actual plan for the UK.
Farage is a grifter of Trump’s mindset, but a few more braincells.
Literally 1984
you neither know what 1984 is about, or the word ‘literally’.
What about the Cat Detector Van?
Tell me about it, it’s like, every time I want to get some grilled prawns there’s always someone who goes “Oi mate, where’s yer Barbie license?”
Oi! Where’s your greentext permit?
And here’s some reality of over a decade of right-wing rule https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5aJ-57_YsQ
Queen’s dodger can mean
- someone who lives with the queen
- someone who performs crimes on behalf of the queen
- someone who finds those called for the draft but have not registered on behalf of the queen
Which is it?
Surely a fruit filled biscuit is another possibility.
someone who lives with the queen
Surely that would be the Queen’s lodger?
rhyming slang, me ol China
But in rhyming slang, you use the non-rhyming word (e.g. “china” = “china plate” = “mate”)
well if you google it you’ll find it.
Just so everyone’s aware the police do not care if you have a TV license.
Yeah, that’s handled by the Royal Guard.
Fact check: they only casually call you a cunt in Scotland
Cunt is a greeting, not an offence.
I dont undrstand it but its funny
To watch tv in UK you need a tv licence
This was done as sort of a tax to fund public television without taxing people who don’t use it
The person then concludes that they should have voted for the nazis because liberals bad
I mean you do in the US as well, but it’s called “A Netflix/Hulu/Disney Plus membership”
And it only funds one channel instead of dozens of TV, radio, web, apps, weather and news channels.
Also publicly funded TV tends to be way better. They have somewhat more accountability so especially news, politics etc tends to be much better. For leisure programs that varies a bit more by country, but obviously the BBC has produced a lot of great stuff.
Accountability to the government, you mean?
BBC news on anything Armenian just stink.
This reads like a satire of those greentexts that satirize the knife laws in Britain.
It definitely reads like it was written by an American.
