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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 143 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 56 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 53 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You got a loicence for that?

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[–] pi3r8@lemmy.world 128 points 1 month ago (8 children)

The irony of this image being censored .

[–] crimeschneck@sopuli.xyz 75 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You have to verify your age to see the uncensored image.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

It's an older meme, sir. But it checks out. We were going to let it pass.

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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 month ago

No swearing license

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Especially since cunt isn't even a swearword in English.

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[–] moakley@lemmy.world 67 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (13 children)
[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oi! You got a permit for that uncensored meme?

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[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 58 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I can't believe the TV license is real. I just can't. I guess it helps makes good tv tho

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 47 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The TV license is definitely real. All the others are fake though (I believe).

https://www.gov.uk/find-licences/tv-licence

[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 20 points 1 month ago (5 children)

A TV Licence costs £174.50

Wtf is this in addition to paying for cable/satellite?

[–] JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev 19 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Nope. You can just plug your TV into the aerial to get BBC + free channels. Netflix and whatever costs extra tho

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I’m surprised that according to the website, they actually let you get away without a license if you only use commercial streaming services and don’t watch any BBC content. In Germany, that excuse doesn’t fly. As long as your device has the capacity to receive aerial broadcast, you have to pay, whether you watch it or not is irrelevant.

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[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The long knife prohibition is real.

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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Americans fund public TV and radio infrastructure through taxes, Brits just make it opt-out if you meet certain criteria by labeling it as a license.

You tell me which has more "freedom."

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The one where I don't have to upload my I.D. to watch porn, BABY! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The early idea was to support the state-owned and state-operated channels through taxes. Then the channels got privatized and now the taxes are going straight into the pockets of The Brexit Bunch. I mean why would they voluntarily cut off a money source that people were already paying.

[–] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In San Diego they had a toll bridge.. once it was paid for they kept the toll. When asked why they were still charging a toll... They said the toll booths still cost money to run. They had to be sued for the toll to stop

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Having to charge toll because they need money to run the toll booths is the most Kafkaesque thing I have heard in a while.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is/was a thing in many other European countries too.

In Austria it used to be (not long ago, a few years at most) that only people who owned a TV needed to pay it, not anymore, now every household has to pay it, so it is basically a household tax.

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not a tax tho? At least not in Germany. It's going directly to the state-broadcasting service but unconditionally; the idea being it's harder to influence the content or threaten them with cutting off their funding.

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[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago

I'm really glad I didn't have to see the word cunt here that would have really ruined my day

[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pretty accurate, all my butter knives are unregistered

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, constable. This bloke right here.

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[–] maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Oi, you got yer internet licence, mate? Can’t be crackin’ these jokes if you ain’t a proper grown-up, innit?

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Armed units show up and arrest the stabbed bobby for not having a dying license

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[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is not the UK Alan Turing died for

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[–] Chev@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (6 children)
[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

British colloquial term for constable

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[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

~~Br*t~~ angloid self-censorship LOL

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[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fake: British cops don't carry guns

Gay: Op is sleeping with dudes

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fellas, is it gay if you’re male and you sleep by yourself?

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[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I say this as an American. The UK is not ran by adults

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