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bantarleton: scurvyoaks: bantarleton: ukrainianliteratureforlife: theyoungpatriot1776: the-rains-of-castamere: theyoungpatriot1776: the-rains-of-castamere: theyoungpatriot1776: @the-rains-of-castamere @such-justice-wow since you guys are the only two British peeps I know on this site, can you verify this? Also what in the heckity heck is a tv license? I don’t live in London, so I’m not 100% sure, but from my understanding, London is a shithole run by a corrupt government that arrests people for offensive FB and Twitter posts while ignoring the fact the city is plagued by even more violent crime and corruption than New York (according to statistics) so I think they might be legit. And a TV liscence is pretty self-explanatory. It’s a liscence required by law to own a tv. And if you have one, you gotta pay the government to let you keep it and not have you thrown in jail. I was really REAAAALLY hoping that the tv license wasnt as simple as that. An honest to God license to own a tv. I’m dumbfounded to be perfectly honest. Also I now have more questions. What part of Great Britain are you from? ARE you even British? Did I completely misread your bio? That’s right, you can’t even own a fucking tv in this country without the government’s permission. Especially if you live in Londonistan. It doesn’t help that the Mayor of London happens to be none other than Sadiq Khan, the corrupt, idiotic arsehole who said “terrorism is part and parcel of living in a big city” From what I’ve heard about him, he was elected primarily by Muslim voters, not because they gave a shit about his fucking awful policies, but because he was the same race and religion as them. I’m British born and raised (with some Irish blood in me, as well). I have lived my whole life in England, but I have never been to London. I come from a small town in the northwest, and I never understood why I should be told how to live my life by rich southern idiots who live in a shithole of a city hundreds of miles away from me, but beggars can’t be choosers, I guess. Suddenly all of the “Irish hate the English, Scots hate the English, North English hate the South English and the South English don’t care” posts I’ve seen on here make more sense. We tend to feel the same way about the politicians from states like New York and California who think it’s okay to make laws that make life suck for those of us in the more rural or less populous states. Okay, I’m not going to debunk this or anything(I agree with 99% of this), but London doesn’t have higher crime rate than New York. Still quiet terrible, but not on the same level) This is the usual sensationalist bullshit. Those posters are well-known scaremongering, the government/TV licensing companies don’t have a way to track if you have a TV license or not, people just laugh at their pretend “we’re watching you” slogans. You don’t have to pay your TV licence. While it’s technically illegal to not pay it and watch TV, they have no way of checking. Every three years or so you *might* get an inspector turn up at your house asking if you have one, but they have no legal power whatsoever. You can refuse them entry every single time, refuse to answer any questions they ask, heck, you can refuse to identify yourself and there’s nothing they can do. Literally just say “go away” and they have to leave. I’ll happily stipulate to all you say here. Don’t you still feel a slight twinge of embarrassment that this law exists? Not really? It isn’t a new thing, it’s existed since the end of WW2 - I’m not sure how else people thought the BBC existed? How else would a country pay for a state broadcasting company? -- source link