Supposed to be unbiased and impartial

>paying £160
You can easily get away with not paying it. Just don't let the TV Licensing people come into your home (they are a private company and have no right). Also just make sure not to have a television that's viewable from the window so they can't take photographic evidence. Do those two (2) things and there's fuck all those wankers can do.

How?
Its funded by the government

>unbiased
>gets money from Mr. Government

I remember the day Mr Khan aired and that was the final nail for me.

It's like I'm actually reading the Youtube comments.

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So this tv license thing, is it just for receiving broadcast shit? What if you only use it to watch movies on your blu-ray?

It's virtually impossible to prove, and even if it is proved it's only a civil offence.
>Go to court
>Pay a small fine

That's the maximum extent of what happens.

You "have" to pay it if you are watching live TV broadcasts. Technically you can own a TV, but only use it for blu-rays and vidya, and not be required to pay the license.

You can use it (Or claim to use it) for ANYTHING except BBC1, 2, or 4 + iPlayer.

yeah be prepared to explain that repeatedly to old geezers showing up at your door or leering through your window every other day if you don't pay

protip : they don't give a shit about your explanation since it's a fucking racket and they get paid to harass you since if they let it slide everyone will stop paying

Only council scum experience this. People who own their home and surrounding property can have them prosecuted for trespassing.

again, the point is that they can afford to be annoying while you'll get bored of "prosecuting them" because they won't yield and will keep coming no matter what

A nice german shep at the gate keeps all unwanted people away

Unironically worse than mass shootings. Clapistan >>>> bongistan

I guess £160 a year is a lot when all you got is neetbux

I desperately want UK to do a no deal hard brexit just so everyone can see how dumb isolationists are

>bbc
>pro-remain
nigga all it does is show the torys all day. its 1000% brexit but cant deny the reality that brexit is a fucking stupid idea.

yorkpress.co.uk/news/8805022.22-bullet-found-in-fossgate-york/

I know grads working at the BBC & Sky.

They all have disturbingly similar university campus left-wing views. These are Oxbridge grads as well. Intelligence does not dictate their opinions, merely how adeptly they are able to manifest their arguments.

I'm very concerned about our society underestimating the role of emotions & the way sociological principles, such as the desire for acceptance, are the primary factors in our decision making & the formation of our opinions, especially in the age where we have far too much information to process independently.

For anyone interested, read "Influence" by Robert B. Cialdini.

Also read "Nation in Transit" by Phil Anderson for the finest piece of writing on Brexit I have seen, one that treats all citizens of this country with the basic respect they deserve.

>fucking leftists and their desire to have everyone in society feel safe and accepted
I really still don't get this fucking argument.

organizations run by smart people tend to voice informed and objectively correct opinions

I meant more along the lines of people coming to uni, finding acceptance in conforming to left wing thought.

Everyone should feel safe and respected, most importantly rn the white working class who voted leave that are being discounted and dehumanised as racist idiots.

ah so thats where the BBC goes wrong, whats stopping them from hiring smart people?

All news outlets have some bias. Only an idiot would believe one exists that is 100% impartial.

So why keep up this facade of impartiality? Media has the right to say whatever they want, just stop pretending to be impartial.

The BBC is right wing

I do agree with you but its really fucking hard for me to accept that they're not all like that when they keep outing themselves as idiotic and or racist. I do have to keep reminding myself that what i'm seeing is an over-inflated minority but its getting real hard to brush that off when they're ALL like that.
>bojos in charge with this picaninnies and watermelon smiles
>all those twitter retards screeching about 'fascist' or 'dictator EU'

Make a referendum or something to stop paying it.

The TV licence will be scraped within 10 years

You sound like a complete faggot

I'd really recommend the Nation in Transit book I mentioned earlier. Explores why so many people voted leave, and how to address the issues

they're government funded. It's like NPR. They try to be impartial but they can only go so far pretending that the retard's side is worth examining, like for example climate change issues.
i do agree that sometimes BBC takes their bias way too far, like with the history cartoons in which most of the characters were black lol. It felt so forced I was disgusted, and I'm a Puerto Rican mutt. But I guess no media organization is perfect, they do good work sometimes. These days everyone in the UK pretty much accepts BBC is very biased, it's usually the US that still calms them very impartial in my experience

seething bojo fan. Hows it feel knowing the mans going to fuck the country, split it and still grovel for re-entry into the EU?
oh no, I fully understand why people voted leave, but I don't think you can ever address the issue while leaving or not recognising that a majority have racist or idiotic views. Bendy bananas and the like.

Again, I really recommend the book. It's much easier to discount people as racist than to respect them as human beings & realize the structural issues that led to leave

Hate to say it but it is actually this simple to not pay it.

When are they leaving bros? How many years was the vote?

>£160

is this true? i assumed it was like $10/year

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You can accept a person is racist and still has legitimate reasons to vote leave - though it is more questionable that the leave phenomenon stopped at the scottish border, its almost like theres a reason for that, culturally or something.

>bring the dude in for a trial and justice system
>or just shoot the nigger lol
if you wan't a fair and balanced justice system, you can't just arrest the easy ones.

You really do sound like a faggot and I don’t like Johnson. The EU will crumble in on itself soon enough as the Germans and French have to contend with rising populist sentiments. At least a majority of the British had the sense to see that. Your entire opinion is based on RIGHT HATE EU I LEFT MUST LOVE EU nonsense. As for Johnson I can’t stand him he has no real values and the only good thing is he has now made a non deal 100% certain. You lost.

That’s a sculpture why are yanks such retards?

I heard they're also anti-rape. Wtf that's not unbiased at all.

I don't even like the EU but thats a load of shite
>germany and france see the fucking shitshow our leave was and decided to cut that shit out
its almost like you've drank the koolaid or something.
>a majority of the british
not really true desu. a majority of those who voted, but it was a shitty turnout so we could both make the argument that 'the majority of the british had the sense to see x'.
no-deal was always a certainty as long as the tories are allowed to frustrate parliament.

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Everyone loses with no deal except the millionaires who short the pounf

>bats aren't a weapon
we don't play baseball, boris. or yank, I guess.

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SELF DEFENSE AGAINST FRESH FRUIT

post the one with the bike tube. brits are such cucks

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Pure (((coincidence))) I'm sure...

occasionally read theguardian and all those fucks keep complaining that BBC is pro-brexit.
Not really sure how this works out.

the bbc are pro-brexit but they have a duty to tell everyone whats going to happen and the reality is, shits fucked. even the government projections are shits fucked so leavers get upset they aren't getting promised their dream-leave where everyone flocks to the brit-cock with piles of money

always good to see all that money going towards a good cause

bbc.com/pidgin

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people voted to leave knowing full well that they were voting against their own financial interests. they knew that brexit would hurt the UK, but voted to leave because *their own prosperity was not their priority*.

the question for brexit was never about following the EU or control over immigration or whatever else. brexit boiled down to "would you rather live in a first world diverse country or a third world white country?", and the leave voters made their choice. a choice that does not deserve respect or consideration. sabotaging their own livelihoods and future of the country to protect something as irrelevant as skin color is pathetic and weak.

its like bbc french or whatever the fuck. Imagine getting mad that blacks have a distinct shitty english sub-language lmao.

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Read the book mate will really change your mind

>comparing french to that

sneaky git

>lefties who call everything racist see nothing wrong with this

the lack of self-awareness is truly staggering

the word you're looking for is ebonics

I got banned for posting this, apparently it wasn't tv related.

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>t.

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>why … pipo
CONFIRMED

no, cause ebonics is america niggerisms. Pidgin is carribean-english.
>being this smoothbrained.

no you idiot, live tv = tv license, it has nothing to do with BBC.

you people chose to destroy your own country to protect your inferior genetics. keep posting screenshots until you decide to finish what you started and kill yourself.

I do say, old chap, this is indubitably journalism of the highest calibre.

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>your inferior genetics

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>>your inferior genetics

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every single thing that you and your fellow racists identify as a white trait is recessive. your genetics literally submit to superior black genetics. that is why drug overdoses and suicides are skyrocketing among whites.

>anti brexit fag is obsessed with blumph
shocking

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Hope Jamal sees this, bro

not the same user, btw. I was waiting for you to say some shit back but I guess you didn't want to since you got thoroughly BTFO'd I guess. maggat.

>t.

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Someone should make a serious Michael Mann style procedural thriller about a TV licence enforcer.

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Spoken like someone who flunked their entry-level biology class. Recessive =/= unsuccessful genes.

you're on the same team so you are the same

>not everyones who follows trump is a racist
>you're all the same
day of the rope can't come fast enough for you alt-right fucks. can't fucking wait to see that orange fuck get prison.

>everyone i don't like is alt right
hi hillary

t.

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youtube.com/watch?v=jiUFPjulTW8
The British told them to fuck off!
17 MILLION FUCK OFFS

>dead white people is funny xD
way to expose yourself antiwhite scumbag

living rent free maggat

oy you tell dem wankas

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I'm just posting statistics, you're the one having an emotional reaction. :3

trump and america live rent free in yours, britnigger

normal people have emotional reactions to suicide. psychopaths (you) don't

>n-n-no u!
absolutely pathetic. Guess thats what happens when you're countrys illiterate retards. stay mad, maggat.

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>rightists taking the moral high ground
kek

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lmfaoooo if you say so comrade

Mashallah
Islam is based

>national SOCIALISM
>right wing
dilate

rent free

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>muh nazis!
rent free

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Nonetheless, triggered whiteboi, the rope awaits thee.

but do you have a license to keep that dangerous weapon? it's britbongistan afterall.

>communists taking the moral high ground
lel

this

do your parents know you pretend to be a black person on the internet? what would they think?

>the alt-right is a group so small that it's only famous as the thing that alt-righters point to when being accused of being alt-right
makes sense to me!

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Oh that Mohammad what crazy things will he do next lol

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You mean like a jump rope? Cool

obsessed

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Jannies can't ban, only delete. If you got banned it was a mod.

>over his sister’s relationship
you will never be this alpha

>"Racists problem is that they generalize"
>Proceeds to generalize and brand everyone within a scope of thought as racists

The funny thing is that you’re probably oblivious to your hypocrisy. I mean, it’s so fucking blatant that if anyone had denied the obvious hypocrisy 20 years ago they’d rightfully be branded as nutcases.

seething

not as hard as the remainers lmao

>theres a trend of all these people being racist
>WTF DON'T LUMP US ALL TOGETHER
don't all be racist then, user. its not hard if you're not a racist.

>first world diverse country
Name one.

take your lithium you deranged loon

As I thought. You’re using the exact same fucking thought process as the racists you claim to despise. You are just as fucking retarded as they are.

Name one that isn’t

"racist" doesn't mean anything. you are in a religious cult

cope harder, whitey. stop tacitly supporting racism and I won't call you a racist.

>diverse and not first world
India
>first world and not diverse
Japan

"racism" doesn't mean anything. you are in a religious cult

Ah, you’re a /pol/tard baiting by trying to make leftists look retarded. You’re going to have to step up your game.

Shouldn't you be on twitter?

>why aren't they supporting a clearly retarded boomer suicide pact

>killed everybody except his sister or her boyfriend
that'll teach her

>you're in a cult
fuck dude, you got me. i'm out here denying reality that trump really didn't stoke white stochastic terrorism lmao.

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"Racist" is nothing more than a pejorative against white people.

so you're angry that some people have integrity and are not greedy parasites like you
all you care about is money, if a few hundred thousand kids have to get raped for your pay check, it's alright with you

oh, right
damn, that changes matters

Works in Denmark. One time I accidentally said yes to the TV question when they called me, so they stated sending bills. I never paid them when they came.

In Denmark we have a bad payers registry, for people who don't pay bills. If you are on it you can't get a mortgage and other shit. Anyway, I decided to check it because I bought an apartment and I wasn't on the list. The bills are still in my bank account, 5 years overdue.

Anyone who pays this shit is a cucked retard.

IMPLEMENT WHAT PEOPLE VOTED FOR
I couldn't give a toss about your gay feelings you fucking mong

>t. cultist

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what did people vote for, user?
>no deal
>norway model
>soft-leave
as far as I know there was only yes / no which doesn't really tell you what people wanted.
>it was non-binding
they didn't even vote for brexit, they voted to show they wanted brexit.

>stochastic terrorism

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You voted for leaving the EU, which may or may not happen in the near future. You’re not going to riot anyway cuck so calm down.

Lmao imagine being brainwashed like this dude
In less than 10 years germans will imigrate to the UK to clean britain toilets

The jannies and mods here are absolute morons. On topic threads get deleted and I get banned all the time for replying to them all the time.

>if I lie hard enough maybe internet people will believe hes wrong and I don't have to accept blame for alt-right terrorists.
orange man good
>except he touches kids
>except he sexually assaults women
>except he didn't condemn literal nazis
imagine having an actual nazi propaganda wing AND STILL not able to hide all the shit he did. Pathetic, really. Fucking Maggats.

Did I stutter bitch?
IMPLEMENT WHAT PEOPLE VOTED FOR

Or else... what?

>MUMP!

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holy fuck you are unironically brainwashed, step back from the internet/TV for a couple weeks

i'm asking what they voted for, user.
go the fuck to bed, nick. Or don't. just stop being fucking depressing in the chat.

>b-brainwashed!
he touched kids, user. I get that it won't stop you hating the blacks but really, stop supporting pedos.

>blimpf is a nazi!
yeah that's why he's constantly sucking the jew cock

Spaniard here.

Some weeks ago our public tv broadcast a documentary about spanish history made by the BBC and presented by some pasty faced ugly fucker wearing a panama hat and blue shirt

The episode I saw was about muslim Spain during the middle ages, and it was so fucking badly researched that some historical dates were off by several CENTURIES. But a history lesson was not the goal here. Let me transcript a passage:

>Al-Andalus (muslim spain) regrettably held some notions that christians and jews were inferior to muslims and therefore had to pay a tax to live in muslim territories. A group of FANATIC christians didn't accept this situation and publicly dennounced it. Their leader was arrested and got beheadedandhisbodythrwontoariverbanktobeeatenbydogs. This FANATIC left behind a CHILLING letter saying he was following the example of sacrifice set by Christ.

The documentary was pulled from the tv's website not long after, with no explanation.

They fucking hate Trump as well.

Is their political editor still going to shill for the conservatives with BJ in charge?

Yeah, it's hilarious the lengths some Western "historians" will go to to defend muh Al-Andalus
>"Well, they weren't really martyrs because they provoked the peaceful Muslims into butchering them-"

>mfw people pay the faggy fucking TV license
I watch TV and I just ignored their letters since the day I moved in, and on them they don't even know who to address.
The most they can do is send a bunch of nonces with clipboards to you door trying to get your details, to which I just tell them it's not my place and the owner is out shopping.
There's fuck all they can do.

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What's fair about putting yourself in mortal danger doing your job?

You realize you're a caricature, right?

You guys going to do anything about freeing Julian Assange any time soon or am I going to have to wait until he's actually physically in America before we see any action on this?

Shut the fuck up pablo.

Dilate christcuck. Nobody takes your fake religion seriously anymore.

>I signed up to do a job to arrest criminals
>BUT SOMETIMES ITS TOO SCARY :(((( SO I SHOOT BLACKS
Fucking burgers man. Though to be fair, I totally get why they do. Like some of those body-cams are crazy, where a dude makes a quick move for a hip and you have a split-second to choose if that dudes a retard or a threat but like, dudes in a car and you just fucking unload on them. fucking burgers really need a centralized police training program.

They try to get you to pay for just owning a smartphone these days, no joke.
They're just trying to get money through any means possible, no legitimacy to it whatsoever.

I've always wondered, are they doing a "weapons sweep" in an active crime scene and are collecting possible evidence, or are the police legally allowed to steal your belongings if they consider it a weapon?

I swear that was the message. I couldn't fucking believe what I was watching, looked like a Sacha Baron Cohen parody.

Pic is the presenter of the shit show.

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A police copper was attacked with a machete last night in London and still managed to taser the suspect who was arrested by his colleague.

Dilate trannyboi

Are you one of those retards who thinks the UK will go all Mad Max if we leave the EU? Top kek faggot.

That's not derangement, especially in the UK. You can flat out go to prison at this point for saying "I don't like muslims".

the latter. they go around neighbourhoods looking for "weapons." called "weapons sweeps"

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Well if you are are young man and have a potential weapon (cricket bat, bb bat, fork) in the front passenger area of a car then they can probably take it off you.

And the shills arrive right on time

Based UK

t.jannie

you think someone would do that? just go on the internet and tell lies?

That has to be some sort of "we found these things lying in a ditch" kind of thing right? I refuse to believe the UK is THAT cartoonishly dystopian.

if they see something that "could be used as a weapon" they will take it. even children's toys like that toy gun. this is the reality of gun/weapon control

independent.co.uk/news/uk/arrests-for-offensive-facebook-and-twitter-posts-soar-in-london-a7064246.html

Took 5 seconds and that was in 2016. I can't imagine what's it's like now. I'd rather be shot in burgerstan than live in the shithole that is UK. As least in Burgerstan, I'd just get banned for typing "I hate niggers".

WHAT PART OF LEAVE DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND RETARD

IMPLEMENT WHAT PEOPLE VOTED FOR

Do americans actually post this image?

Wow, I'm sure that machete wielding refugee will get deported and not sentenced to a minor prison sentence, get out and kill someone with a machete.

Or else... what?

funny

What is this nigger-speak?
I actually thought I was retarded and had to re-read it.

Nice weapon

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>Is very obviously pro-remain and anti brexit
Might be because they aren't idiots.

Looks like Nigerian pidgin

While I'm not gonna say that the UK isn't an authoritarian hellhole, from what I've seen when it comes to a lot of these "X person was arrested for saying racist things", when you actually look closer as to what they wrote and why they were arrested, it's almost always down to straight up death threats and defamation and not just "I don't like Muslims/niggers" type stuff. Though it being the UK I definitely wouldn't be surprised if they just started arresting people for voicing heir opinions.

Well for one thing stop calling yourself a democracy.

maybe, but they definitely harass people for "hate speech" not just violent threats

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>some pasty faced ugly fucker

you're not really narrowing it down. Brits must be among the ugliest people on earth: women in their twenties look like cirrhotic trannies, while men come in two categories: fetal-alcohol-baby, or me-mum-shagged-a-rodent. Both lack chins and their complexion can only be described as "pidgeon shit all over a tomato soup".

Replace the government, duh!

They've arrested people who simply wrote "I hope muslims die". So yes, they're just arresting people for opinions at this point.

Nobody’s doing that

Basically, they go around shit areas and council estates ( see Section 8 housing) and look for stolen property, hidden / stashed "weapons" that are used for gang violence. It's mostly just for PR to pretend they're doing something, hence the Twitter posts.

Why do you hate whites?

>brits
>white

BBC content is the only thing you're supposed to be paying for. Everything else is covered by advertising.

I would say BBC does an excellent job of trying to be so impartial it becomes a joke. There is loads of conservatives on BBC that is pro-brexit. They hardly did any report for example the anti-brexit rally where hundred of thousands gathered

>BttF
>Police Academy 2
>Breakfast Club
>Commando
>Rocky 4
>Witness

good year overall. HOWEVER

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Not the point.

Our constitution isn't even written down so it is up to certain people what it means.

the "bbc"

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brexit is a complete clusterfuck, do you want them to pretend it isn't?

Right wing propaganda hell bent on a character assassination of are jezza and the dismantlement of our public services don’t know how anyone could possibly consider this tory bollocks “left wing” it’s a conservative as it comes

>The left think the BBC is too right wing
>The right think the BBC is too left wing
>Yea Forums just wants a BBC no matter the political alignment

I think the only option is for me to kill myself

Is there such a thing as an unbiased news outlet?

Spiked

Money isn't everything, dickhead.

Typical leftist. You people are the greediest, most materialistic and shallow people on the face of the Earth. You camouflage your own worship of money as a desire for 'muh equality', but in reality you are just fucking cut-outs with no personality or culture, so all you care about is getting enough gibs so you can afford the next playstation.

Also, Brexit was never about skin colour. It's about refusing to accept waves of third-world migrants WHATEVER THEIR SKIN COLOUR into a country which is already massively overcrowded and suffering from enough of its own problems that it cannot afford to concern itself with global altruism.

Also, fuck globalists. Not everyone wants to live in Marxist McWorld like you do, you disgusting fucking tapeworm.

I would, without a second's hesitation, gladly smash your skull into paste. I hope you get cancer and die a horrible, agonising, degrading death.

>it's legal for a private company to take pictures through your window
Nice

>If you watch live TV on your television, laptop, mobile phone, computer, tablet, games console, digital box, DVD/VHS recorder, or any other device, you will need to be covered by a TV Licence.

>Live TV means any programme you watch or record as it’s being shown on TV or live on an online TV service. It’s not just live events like sport, news and music. It also covers soaps, series, documentaries and even movies.

>An online TV service is any streaming or smart TV service, website or app that lets you watch live TV over the internet. This includes services like All 4, Sky Go, Virgin Media, Now TV, BT TV, Apple TV, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video and ITV Hub.
Just google it, if you watch live shows on TV they expect you to have one.

You can't do anything related to trespassing since in Tort it requires an "Unjustifiable interference", they'd have to be coming into your back garden or climbing over fences and shit for it to stand in court. Better bet is to just roll with harassment.

Anti Brexit but pro Tory is the new balance where you ignore the opposition because their precious Thatcherism is going bye bye.

Think about the phrase "suicidal altruism"

To be very fair with this one...we once had a similar issue around me. An old man was hit by some pikey kids riding their shitty off-road bikes on the pavement. Broke his hip and arm. Police came and seized all their bikes and got in a scrap with one of their scumbag Mums.

>why yes I am pro remain how could you tell?

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never once payed for a tv licence, never been pestered

>It's like NPR. They try to be impartial
NOPE

>oi oi m8 ur lucky thought-crime aint illegal or you'd be nicked roight now sunshoine.

gotta love atlanta

streamable.com/ltlj3

Whoa Abbey Road, it has been so long

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Lots of those things are already subscription based services. I'd love to watch them try to argue in court that they expect you to pay them a subscription in order to be allowed to view content that you already pay a separate subscription to view.

Imagine having to purchase a tv license. Fucking bongs

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>Have to drive through Abbey Road on the way to work

Living in London really does make you fucking hate tourists. They should all be gassed and the whole world turned into an authoritarian police state i.e. the Greater London Authority

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Reuters
BBC isn't biased so long as you avoid reading the sidebar of shame