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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 143 points 6 days ago (4 children)
[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 56 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)
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[–] pi3r8@lemmy.world 126 points 6 days ago (8 children)

The irony of this image being censored .

[–] crimeschneck@sopuli.xyz 73 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 32 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days 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 6 days ago

No swearing license

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

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

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[–] moakley@lemmy.world 66 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (13 children)
[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Oi! You got a permit for that uncensored meme?

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[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 57 points 6 days 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 6 days 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 19 points 6 days ago (3 children)

A TV Licence costs £174.50

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

[–] JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev 19 points 6 days 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 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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 6 days ago (2 children)

The long knife prohibition is real.

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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 32 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days 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 31 points 6 days 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 11 points 6 days 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 6 days ago (2 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.

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[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 41 points 5 days 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 33 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Pretty accurate, all my butter knives are unregistered

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes, constable. This bloke right here.

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[–] maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days 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 5 days 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 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This is not the UK Alan Turing died for

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Alan didnt die for any UK. He dies because of fascist homophic UK government drove him to suicide.

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[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (19 children)

One of 3 jokes.

Its either either :

"loicence"

Haha no spices

Or "bad teeth"

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My favorite to poke at is treating anything with a blade on it like it’s a deadly weapon with no other purpose.

Can’t have a locking pocket knife.

There was a group that wanted to ban pointed kitchen knives.

Had a dude tell me he doesn’t carry an axe or saw when camping because it “might scare passersby”

Photos of police “hauls” that show screw drivers and hammers as “deadly weapons that don’t belong on the streets”

So it’s at least 4 jokes.

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[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

You forgot “bo’oh ‘o wa’er”

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

British colloquial term for constable

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[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 15 points 6 days ago (3 children)
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[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fake: British cops don't carry guns

Gay: Op is sleeping with dudes

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

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

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