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
Oi! Where’s your greentext permit?
American flag checks out.
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?”
I know Anons are dumb, but are they voting for Nigel Farage dumb?
Surely you know better than to ask that, Satan
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.
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?
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.
