Comment on Anon is Bri’ish

• turkalino@lemmy.yachts ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A TV Licence costs £174.50

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

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  • JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Knuschberkeks@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        afaik in Germany you even have to pay if you have no device that to receive anything. Every household has ro pay wirth a few exeptions.

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      • shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        In theory, but the BBC has been known to harass people into paying, even pressuring you into letting them into your house even though they don’t have the right to do so.

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    • turkalino@lemmy.yachts ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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      • DJDarren@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yes, and it’s ad-riddled nonsense.

        The BBC runs no adverts, save for trailers of its own stuff.

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Do people elsewhere in the world pay for “cable” tv? I know we had a version here in Australia but it was so rare, no one really used it.

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    • turkalino@lemmy.yachts ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It was pretty big over here in the US, and still is with Gen X and older. Nowadays, pretty much the only reasons to get it are if you’re a sports fan or enjoy brainrot 24/7 news networks

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  • lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Brexit really was a mistake

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• MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The long knife prohibition is real.

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  • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    True, but there’s no such thing as a knife licence.

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    • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I mean, yes, but I was more referencing that there was exactly one other thing of any substance besides the TV thing in this greentext.

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• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  (i believe)

  Best joke in this thread

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  • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thanks for noticing me, Senpai.

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