American flag checks out.
Anon has a typical everyday average British morning
Submitted 10 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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hellfire103@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Renacles@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Oi! Where’s your greentext permit?
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Oi! where’s your carpet permit?
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 months ago
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.
echodot@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Yeah but you can’t wear boxer style trunks otherwise they will shout at you. They have weird priorities over there
NoFun4You@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lol
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Not all of France is like Paris, and the Seine is not a pool. (Plus, battery acid would probably count as a good attempt to clean it up, not as contamination.)
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
French people let their dogs shit absolutely everywhere and nobody cares. That was the really surprising thing for me.
Paris is beautiful but you better keep an eye on where you’re stepping.
lessthanluigi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This reads like a satire of those greentexts that satirize the knife laws in Britain.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
It definitely reads like it was written by an American.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Conservatives making things up and getting angry about it
cone_zombie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
TV licence is a real thing though
shinratdr@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
It’s just a way of funding the BBC that was devised before a TV was something that essentially everyone had. Since it’s delivered OTA it seemed easier to tax the device itself then it was to tax everyone unfairly.
It should just be rolled into regular taxes now, but who is going to propose and approve a new tax in this day and age? So it’s easier not to touch it.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 10 months ago
Fact check: they only casually call you a cunt in Scotland
Aux@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Cunt is a greeting, not an offence.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I wish I were greeted by cunt wherever I went
lengau@midwest.social 10 months ago
True - in the south they call you a berk.
SoGrumpy@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
In Cockney rhyming slang, the second half of the rhyme is mostly left off. In this case, the second half is left off and the first half is shortened.
Berkley Hunt = Cunt
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Not true, it just sounds more like Kant south of the border, which I think makes us sounds more philosophical.
MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 10 months ago
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?”
psud@aussie.zone 10 months ago
And in Australia doing the same it’s “Oy wait up mate, where’s your Ocker licence?” Luckily we don’t need barbeque licenses, tong licenses, etc. we got away from the UK to escape all that bureaucratic red tape
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 10 months ago
explain NSW then, and their fun police?
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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?
Hildegarde@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Surely a fruit filled biscuit is another possibility.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
“fruit”
barsoap@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Also someone who fringes the ring quite unlike any other.
doc_dish@lemm.ee 10 months ago
someone who lives with the queen
Surely that would be the Queen’s lodger?
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
rhyming slang, me ol China
echodot@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Just so everyone’s aware the police do not care if you have a TV license.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 months ago
Yeah, that’s handled by the Royal Guard.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Only their TV department though
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
And here’s some reality of over a decade of right-wing rule www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5aJ-57_YsQ
corus_kt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I vaguely knew Britain was hurting after Brexit but I had no idea it was this bad, yikes
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I dont undrstand it but its funny
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
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
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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.
RoseTintedGlasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
They’re making fun of how Brexit was pushed on a platform of getting rid of overstrict EU regulations and bureaucracy (as well as a lot of overt racism) but it turned out a load of it was just homegrown British bureaucracy that had nothing to do with the EU but UKIP voters kept complaining that anything they didn’t like about Britain was the fault of the EU anyway
lessthanluigi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I can’t believe that is a real thing.
orl0pl@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Literally 1984
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 10 months ago
you neither know what 1984 is about, or the word ‘literally’.
SrTobi@feddit.de 10 months ago
In 1984 it’s the TV that turns you in
lessthanluigi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What’s next, requiring a license to make toast in your own DAMN TOASTER!?
psud@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Give it time. It won’t be a licence though, it’ll be a compatible bread subscription for a discounted toaster, with government enforced felonies for using incompatible bread
*Based on how the software and entertainment industries work
lessthanluigi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sorry if I was not clear. I was not serious when I said that. I was referencing this debate.
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
What about the Cat Detector Van?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I know Anons are dumb, but are they voting for Nigel Farage dumb?
OsaErisXero@kbin.run 10 months ago
Surely you know better than to ask that, Satan
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Anon has an American flag next to their post. They aren’t really Bri’ish
sparkle@lemm.ee 10 months ago
no way 😱
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They’re so dumb that they’re doing it ironically
AlexisFR@jlai.lu 10 months ago
Well of course! Facism is the solution to an overbearing government, right?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well the fact that they’re bigots helps them stomach it
Kaboom@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Which is worse, Thatcher or Farage?
cynar@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Thatcher, may she burn in hell, was far better than Farage. She at least had significant political skill, and an actual plan for the UK.
Farage is a grifter of Trump’s mindset, but a few more braincells.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Thatcher’s thangs were thangin’ though.