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[–] moakley@lemmy.world 14 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Oi! You got a permit for that uncensored meme?

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today -4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)
[–] BipolarSilence@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 minute ago

Who in the actual fuck censors a 4 Chan post

A 4CHAN POST

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Not like 'murca where you have to register your photo ID in order to fap.

[–] jonman364@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 hours ago

Huh? It's that way in some states but wasn't it recently made that way in the entire UK?

[–] pi3r8@lemmy.world 77 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

The irony of this image being censored .

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 21 points 9 hours ago

No swearing license

[–] crimeschneck@sopuli.xyz 49 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 21 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

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

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

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

My wife just told me otherwise.

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 101 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 32 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

You got a loicence for that?

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 45 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)
[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 47 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 24 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours 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 8 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] lewis6991@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 hours ago

Sometimes I forget how much freedoms we have in Washington State. The only thing is strict gun laws, but it's mostly background checks and limited magazine sizes

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago

well I live in Georgia (US state) who brought it in before the UK did.

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 37 points 13 hours ago (2 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 12 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

A TV Licence costs £174.50

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

[–] JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev 11 points 11 hours ago (2 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 15 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 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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[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 7 points 11 hours ago

I mean we have free over the air TV here in the states too, just don’t need a loicense for it

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[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 12 hours ago

The long knife prohibition is real.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 23 points 12 hours 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 28 points 12 hours 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 7 points 8 hours 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 16 points 12 hours 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 6 points 10 hours 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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[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 25 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty accurate, all my butter knives are unregistered

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 27 points 12 hours ago

Yes, constable. This bloke right here.

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Br*t self-censorship LOL

[–] Chev@lemmy.world 14 points 13 hours ago (5 children)
[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 25 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

British colloquial term for constable

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 33 minutes ago

is that the same as gendarme?

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Your uncle.

[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 13 points 12 hours ago (2 children)
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