Hilariously Chaotic “Great British Memes” To Prove The U.K. Is Unlike Anywhere Else In The World (New Pics)
Great Britain was connected to mainland Europe until 9,000 years ago by a land bridge known as Doggerland (haha). However, modern humans have inhabited it for around 30,000 years! And a lot were quite memorable. Like the Queen who raised Corgis, the Prime Minister who delivered epic speeches, or the half-blood wizard who found the philosopher’s stone. To get a better understanding of this colorful bunch and their current problems, check out the memes we found on the subreddit r/GreatBritishMemes.
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What A Classic😂
IVE GOT FOUR F***ING ADS BLOCKING 70% OF THE SCREEN: F*** YOU BORED PANDA.
"Take my hand in the meantime when you've had enough. You'll find me on the end of the runway, babe" - Bag it up.
Load More Replies...I love that the woman hating stand up of the 90s is still going strong. "Take my wife. Please." Ahuhuh.
olaff 422: you're off by about about 60 years. That's a joke from the 1930s, not the 1990s. http://www.jewishhumorcentral.com/2012/06/comedy-classics-henny-youngman-take-my.html
Load More Replies...The Real Queen
Live Aid was a total catastrophe. The idea was simple "people are starving to death, give them food". The trouble was that they had no plan to distribute this food or what impact it would have in the population. Sadly, as could be predicted, the corrupt Ethiopian government used the food to force huge numbers of civilians from particular ethnic groups onto barren land in return for (some of) the food. Those who moved were then wholly dependent on food aid and were completely at the mercy of a hostile government who had total control over whether they ate or starved. The descendants of these people are still there today living under the most deprived conditions imaginable. While their intentions were good, Ethiopia and millions of people are far worse off now due to Live Aid.
Someone downvoted you, but you are right And telling the true history. That kind of aid does not help long term. Stability is needed, education (especially of women), not allowing corporations to steal natural resources from under people
Load More Replies...Freddie was a repressed gay until he was brave enough to admit it to himself and the rest of the world - which opened the doors for a lot of others. I know he wasn't the first, and he won't be the last but his influence in almost everything he did was amazing. (Almost - he had some flaws like us mere mortals)
Load More Replies...The entire event was political. And the gay immigrant is the reason people tuned in, and he still is the first person people think of when you mention Live Aid.
Load More Replies...Amazing
My doormat reads "If you weren't invited or making a delivery, you're facing the wrong way".
I need this. Preferably the German language version please!
Load More Replies...I also have one , it’s called a big black ( panther black ) rottie x cane corso 😂😂( the staffie never barks ) but she does 😂n she’s loud , very friendly but it makes people think twice hehe , having always had big dogs ,they are a great deterrent 😋
Load More Replies...This is an update to a very old comment about keeping a hat by the door - just that people don't wear hats as much these days.
P**s Poor Behaviour That
Bet He’s Feeling Deflated
LOL
Yeah, well, Lenny Henry wouldn't do 'cos he's from Dudley, not yer actual Brummagen. (if you don't catch my meaning, Google can help. I hold Lenny Henry in deep, deep respect.).
Load More Replies...Lord Sugar-Tax
Entrepeneuralism? It sounds like a weird mental issue! 😵💫
Load More Replies...My middle nephew used to buy reduced to clear sandwiches and sell them to his schoolmates
Genius, Happy Birthday To Him ❤️
The UK Right Now
You ALL have the ability to set parental settings on devices and purchase blocking software for household computers, but instead, you try to regulate everyone else, and destroy the lifelines of many artists. Because you're f*****g lazy. If I'm doing the speed limit and your dumbfuq kid darts out in front of my car, it's not my fault when they get flattened. Teach your kids, or f**k off. Stop trying to control everyone else.
Nimitz: actually, my child actively wants to avoid p**n, having heard so much about it. The recent UK on-line safety regulation is widely misrepresented by big tech firms who can't bear the idea of actually having to abide by the law and take responsibility for their behaviour...
Load More Replies...The real answer is that you can't. When I was a kid adult movies were illegal but every child in school had owned or borrowed VHS copies of copies. P**n exists and those that want to watch it will always find a way.
Exactly! There needs to be education and such. Bans just move where its at?
Load More Replies...I am 43 and when I was 10 s*x was something very interesting. Now, well, I only remember I have a p***s when I am in the bathroom and in the shower. D***s are weird.
I'm the same age but I've got the opposite number (member? lol) than you and I feel the same way about it. I only really remember that I've got mine when I'm on the rag, and then it's just frustrating, because it's like really? 43 years old and I'm STILL having periods? Can we STOP with this nonsense, please? XD But I do remember being a pre-teen and trying to peer between the rolling-static bars on the adult channels to see what was going on XD
Load More Replies...I can teach my children the dangers of smoking and make sure there are no tobacco products in my house, but stores are still required by law to check for ID and not sell to minors. Wanting to legally prevent children from accessing something doesn't necessarily mean a parent isn't taking any responsibility.
When I wuz yer age all we had fer secks educamation wuz pornographic cave paintings — and we wuz greatful to have them! You kids don't know how lucky you are....
Unfortunately, True
Amazing how the UK rejected conservative Tory rule, only for the massive Labour majority to turn entirely conservative. As a Canadian I don't understand how you people aren't rioting and having general strikes.
Well Played
In Australia white is most popular as helps reduce the oven heat one's car becomes in summer
Yeh, Nah. Too many of us are just boring, lack imagination or don’t want to be different 🙄 🚙
Load More Replies...So you didn't have one built to order? Just bought one off the pipe rack?
😆😂
Old English: "Þa on morgen gehyrdon þæt þæs cyninges þægnas þe him beæftan wæron þæt se cyning ofslægen wæs. Ða ridon hie þyder ond his ealdorman osric ond wiferð his þegn ond þa men þe he him bæftan ær læfde ond þone æþeling on þære byrig metton þær se cyning ofslægen læg." Middle English: "Whilom, as olde stories tellen us, Ther was a duc that highte Theseus; Of Atthenes he was lord and governour, And in his tyme swich a conquerour That gretter was ther noon under the sonne."
Returned The Favour
Evri - the worst delivery company in my experience. Tried to fool us by changing the name from Hermes but no still shite.
Yup. I asked a friend in the UK to send me some cake mix. Evri were *slightly* cheaper than ParcelForce and they were like "no probs, we'll send that". It was held up at LHR for nearly four weeks having failed customs because no, they won't send that. They only returned it after a lot of hassling from both myself and the sender. And when it came back, it was sent to a completely different house the other side of town. The guy who got it was capable of reading the label and passed it back. Refund? You must be joking. Those b@stards are liars and thieves. It was then sent by ParcelForce who quite happily shipped it over in three days. I then had to pay a €8 in import duties on a clearly marked *GIFT* because they're thieves over here too. So f*ck Brexit a little for complicating this situation, and f*ck Evri in every way imaginable for, well, existing. 🤬
Load More Replies...I had an Evri delivery last week, which I waited for with some trepidation. It took several days before I got a notification they had actually collected it and it was at their depot. It then took the weekend off. I then got a notification it was out for delivery on Monday. Never saw the sneaky begger, but as it was a small package they managed to put it through my letterbox instead of running away with it. Incidently they used to be known as Hermes/MyHermes, and you can imagine what that got nicknamed - just add a 'p'! ;-)
That's what rose bushes do for a living, no?
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In this pub I can promise you nothing but blood, sweat, and beers.
Good grief, is that what I fiver looks like these days? [I was last in the UK in 2002; if I remember they were sort of green, blue, and pinkish and had an ancient steam locomotive or something]
That's the expression Donald tries to emulate. Y'know, intelligent, concerned, but Don can only manage "straining on the kazi".
Looks Good To Me 🤷♀️
I just want to note the comment "an Indian dish" as if that phrase could come close to encompassing the range of cuisines in a subcontinent containing something over 1 billion people - three times that of the US - with a far, far greater diversity of culture that exists in the US. Oh! No! I used the trigger words "diversity" and "culture"! Now I'm going to be shot by a MAGA cult member! 😁
Load More Replies...That's proper food that is. Just needs an English breakfast added. And a beans on toast.
Does anyone do fried bread anymore? I remember that as a kid when I lived in the UK.
Load More Replies...I love brown meat. I love potatoes. They go great together. Sign me up.
My wife had a stroke when we were in Belfast. When I went to the hospital cafeteria to get something to eat, I not only could not recognize what food they were serving, I actually could not recognize it as food. (And I, though an American, was raised on British food.)
Load More Replies...What colour would Foxtrot prefer his meat to have? Green meat? Purple meat with spots? Or an iridescent azure blue?
Well, yes, but we are also missing cheese on toast, beans on toast, toad in the hole, fish and chips and beef wellington to name a few that aren't "brown meat and potatoes"
'An Indian Dish'! I will have you know that it is widely accepted that Tikka Masala was invented in Britain.
Public Finances Sorted
Labour can't find the money to properly fund the NHS but reckons we can scrape together £101 million a year for the next hundred years renting land we just gave away for free.
The Tories destroyed NHS in an attempt to USAize the UK’s healthcare system. Largely at the behest of US venture capital
Load More Replies...Wait, the £350 millions you were paying to EU budget is gone? Where to?
I Think They Will Find It Is Our Fish
UKDeek: I chuckled too. Then I though: hang on a bit: centuries of vicious warfare, a few decades of "suppose you lot aren't all that bad, mostly" and now we've both got independent nuclear deterrents. Yeah, let's keep having silly arguments over the fish.
Load More Replies...You think Spain's out of it? Nah. They're still in recovery mode. Civil war, Franco, all that. They're doing very well all things considered.Granted, they have a huge problem with immigrant foreigners who refuse to integrate with the local community but most of us proper Brits would be happy for Spain to send them back to the UK where they came from. Well, they're all ancient bigots none of whom will live long, thus freeing up housing for the rest of us. It'd work out, I promise 🤣
Load More Replies...UK Online Safety Act Be Like
I was born in 1984. I remember regularly finding p**n just tossed out behind random houses. I had a pretty intricate collection by the time I was 14. It was not that hard to find as a kid. When we got the internet my parents bought blocker software and it took me about 30 minutes to find ways around it on our shared household computer, after they went to bed. If you try to block sexually curious teens from something, they WILL find a way to access it. You can't stop them. You can only educate them.
Thats true. My son is 12 years old and i hope he is not yet interrested in that but eventually he will be. I admit that i am not going into any effort to stop that because like you said, he will find a way. On the other hand i see nothing wrong with it as long as young people are aware that this is not the reality. To me, i think it is wrong that young people have the feeling that they need to hide their curiousity and be ashamed of it. It is difficult, on one side you want your children to have a healthy respect for it but you also do not want to embarass them by talking about everything. I just do believe that a young men better watches some p**n than trying it out with the neighbors daughter at a to young age
Load More Replies...Maybe the residents have a thing against people in wheelchairs? (/snark)
Law Needs To Think About The Kids Imo
GenX here. Dad smoked cigars and Mum cigarettes, sometimes you couldn't see across the living room, also getting in friends parents car with their parents who smoked cigarettes and a pipe, windows not open either, it's surprising that any of us made it out of our teens...
Unfortunatley the effects of passive smoking take a long time to materialise, if it was immediate I think people would take it more seriously, you might be unaffected but theres plenty who have not been so lucky.
Load More Replies...That being said, as someone who was a severe asthmatic with an even more critically asthmatic sister, parents who smoke in the car or house with kids should jailed. My sister was hospitalized 3 times, and me once because our dumbfuq boomer parents thought it okay to hotbox us at home and in the car. I remember my sister literally turning blue and then I also had an asthma attack because my dad had guys over for poker night. He smacked us around the next day, after we got out of the hospital, and his friends nodded along. Because that's how selfish boomer parents were.
My parents were boomers and they weren't selfish.
Load More Replies...Learn To Parent
Politicians want to control what you can and cannot see under the guise of "protecting the children". Don't fall for it.
It's like those anti LGBTQ-dickks that thrash trans people because "we need to protect women's safe spaces". All while giving a fuckk about women's rights 🤮
Load More Replies...Need to call this one out, as the title of the article is "...Great British Memes..." and this is clearly from the US, as we don't have "Representatives" in the UK, and I am suspecting they wouldn't have the Stars and Stripes flag in the background of their profile picture...
We cannot have parents being responsible for their children! Madness! Whatever next? Looking BOTH ways when crossing a road?
WTF does this have to do with Britain? Also: children use computers in public settings. Where I recently lived, libraries refuse to prevent children using ... and they used the library during school hours so there wasn't any way parents knew or could do anything about it. I know, because I complained about it to the librarians. The librarians uniformly answered that parental controls interfered with the civil liberties of adults. Age requirements could work in libraries.
The UK is implementing new online age verification laws under the Online Safety Act requiring platforms to verify age of users,particulary for accessing age-restricted content. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/24/what-are-the-new-uk-online-safety-rules-and-how-will-they-be-enforced
Load More Replies...1. "This is something everyone should agree on", stop trying to control what other people think, I certainly don't agree with it, & 2. it is impossible to prevent kids from getting p**n if they want it
This is not from the UK. I agree, but this thread is about the UK and this is USA. Okay, I'm done nitpicking now.
It's so funny that Mary Miller, the far-right Republican representative of Illinois is saying that, when she happily stands by as her president tries to convince everyone (including himself) that he is there to protect children!
It's this simple: watching people have s*x makes people h0rny. Watching violence in movies doesn't make people rage-filled.
Load More Replies...Thanks, Never Would've Thought Of That 👍
Nah, trying to persuade people not to park like entitled knobwombles
Load More Replies...Hate This Thing
Rick Murray: it's change. Life is all about change. Its not worth getting annoyed about changes which are easy to adapt to, as that one is. Although admittedly, due to a user error on my part, a bottle of tonic water leaked all over my fridge tonight. You need to use the right technique to tear apart the plastic tether construction to make it simple to screw the lid back in place securely. Lesson learned, here at least.
Load More Replies...It's Now An Educational Music Trip
Drove multiple hours with our 10-year-old granddaughter this weekend. Grieved that she couldn't be bothered to look up from her iPad the whole way. Sweet girl, but I fear the need to be attached to "content," be it social media, videos or music during down time will be the ruin of future generations.
Should've chucked it out the window. Followed by the iPad.
Load More Replies...What's really sad is the concerts....so busy filming they're missing alot of pleasure. I'm 64 and recently went to a Adam Lambert concert and soooo many people were busy filming that I can tell you they are definitely missing out. What I really Loved was Adam is very interested in his audience and at one point he flashed me a smile and I'll remember this forever. ;-)
Oh just to add....I'm happy there are so many people filming that I can watch alot of these videos afterwards. Heeheeheehee
Load More Replies...Why, oh the f*ck why, is life considered impossible for an 11yo without artificial mental stimulants?
I guess I’m a hard a*s. My grandkids, 11 and 9, are not allowed to use devices while I’m driving them around, or while we’re eating out, or at home. That said, I’d probably allow it during a very long drive.
Does "...which can connect to the internet..." include mobile phones? 99% ("I read it on internet statistic") of portable connectible devices are phones.
Load More Replies...Considering what your nick says about you, I assume that's a you-problem, not one of the super complicated handling of ipods. Oh wait, I had one myself, so I actually don't assume but know it.
Load More Replies...Welcome To Scotland
British Pub Experience
We Should Do This In The UK
Dang it, not true. https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-brussels-mystery-bus-368682476199
so there's no fun mystery bus? really? well that sucks!
Load More Replies...London has a black bus that takes visitors round the haunted (allegedly) spots of London. It's called "Ghost Bus Tours".
I could go for that. Unfortunately my regular express bus has the same unpredictable characters on it, sometimes smoking f3nt@nyl, sometimes politely sitting with their dog. I roll the dice each and everytime I take that route, early morning or late night, so I guess I'm not ready for the mystery bus
The bus company in my city does this. But not intentionally, however.
Every Brit Today And Yesterday
I always thought, "I can sorta understand not having HVAC air conditioning when it's really only hot a few days a year. But do yourselves a favor and at least get a window unit." But then I found out y'all don't even have ceiling fans?!?!?! Those are great for a whopping portion of the year!
This is the UK. We don't have real heat like US. Just a couple of weeks in the summer can get warm. Cooling machinery is not a thing here. Now ways to keep warm & dry the rest of the year is big business.
If you can fit them ceiling fans are a game changer! Way cheaper and environmentally friendly than A/C and useful in the winter on reverse too.
I have blackout curtains so in the current series of heatwaves I keep them closed from around 09:30 to 14:00. Keep my windows open too.
Twas 28C in the apartment last night. May end up turning on the AC if this keeps up. If we had a ceiling fan instead of freestanding units... Haven't used the AC yet this year. (Or the heat...)
This Is Your Captain Speaking...once I Verify My Age
My best friend lost 83kg (183 lbs). At the airport they asked her to step out when she gave her passport because she didn't look anything like in that picture. Took a little convincing but she passed the check...
Aldi Madness
It started (in Germany) +/- 40 years ago with 5 Wednesday Specials = 5 non-food items, mostly toys or electronics. The Aldi-PC was famous
I remember Aldi in Munich in the late '70s. Cheap part of town, narrow frontage but the shop went back a long way, so the lights needed to be on all day (yes, they are these days, but that's generally just a waste of electricity as there are skylights in the ceiling). No fruit or veg, no chiller cabinets, so only cans and packets with a long shelf life. The goods were left in their transport cartons and with price labels only on the shelf. No scanner tills in those days, but the checkout staff knew all the prices by heart and could touch-type, so they didn't need to keep their eyes on the keyboard and one hand was free to move things past on the belt; they were very quick and I never caught them making a mistake. Poor people shopped there because it was cheap; rich people found it chic and shopped there too. So the Albrecht brothers made a fortune and opened larger shops on the edge of town with plenty of parking space. Lidl copied the ideas that Aldi pioneered.
Load More Replies...I was at Aldi's this afternoon and managed not to buy any mad sh!t.
I managed to avoid the lure of the middle aisle, but I did come out with more watermelon than I'd planned
Load More Replies...Who can go into Aldi and not buy (or at least want to buy) something from the Middle Aisles?
Think Of The Children!
Newspapers were almost impossible to control. Internet and sm are easy to control. Look at X
All dictatorships controlled the press, it's literally one of the first things dictators did when they got to power: they took away freedom of the press, and the people only got the news the regime wanted them to hear.
Load More Replies...I have to wonder how long we have until social media is under complete control. Does anyone know, today, how the population organized during the French Revolution?
I don't know about other countries, but in the US newspapers have been tragically easy to neuter or eliminate.
Well, they were owned by the rich in the first place.
Load More Replies...Accurate
It took me a while to realize that the numbers were times and not years. I was trying to figure out what happened in the 17th and early 18th century to explain the pictures. Not to mention the house seemed a bit out of place for those times...
Well, there was a certain amount of argy-bargy over who should be running things, what with Charles I getting his head chopped off in 1649 and subsequent events.
Load More Replies...Note to Americans: The numbers are time of day in 24-hr format (4:40 PM and 5:11 PM), not 'Years'. Shows the quick difference between overcast and sunshine.
Looks like the mountain region in North Carolina this summer. Rains most of every day but the sun comes out for a half an hour to mock you.
That's Long Beach, California as well. (Not the snow but the oppressing grey-->brilliant blue...)
-2 Strangers United By An Egg-
I'd be more concerned that everything in that bowl looks like it tastes 'clear'
Load More Replies...Lots of people outing themselves as "never eaten foreign food" - bet you lot are the ones piling your plates with chips at the all inclusive buffet.
Egg is overcooked as well. Like how can you trust a restaurant that has literally demonstrated they can't boil an egg?
Please Upload A Form Of ID
Meanwhile, In Yorkshire
I couldn't gag more from the marshmallow vape cloud in the back of my throat than a spray shot of lilac air freshener. Worst thing is doing your shopping, or picking out a book in the library, and get hit by a cloud of vape from somebody thinking to sneak one
We really aren't. I'm an ex smoker and am disturbed by how I allowed myself, my office and house to smell that bad - never mind the yellow net curtains...
Load More Replies..."Disposable vapes" aren't actually disposable. It's mountains of toxic e-waste.
My pods can be recycled and there is a program to send them back for that....
Load More Replies...Designer should go to prison. For life. No possibility of parole. This is evil personified.
Just Need Another 20
£8 dual fan heater/cooler from Amazon... sadly I lent it to my housemate who does not have a radiator in her room in winter and am reluctant to ask for it back.
GA, i do not understand why you got downvoted that hard for your comment, is aircon something evil now that has to be damned?
Not as such. But it produces heat by itself, consumes insane amount of electricity and has to be shipped in from far away - by this contributing to the heat. There are smarter, cheaper solutions for the European types of houses, ranging from placing shutters and smart airing to solar powered A/C (but that doesn't solve problem 1 and 3).
Load More Replies...Very Accurate
What annoys me are those ones with fire hydrants and crosswalks. Who do you think we are? One of them kettle dodging, handegg playing, bald eagle bothering barbarians from across the pond?
And half the time they are so small & blurry that even with my glasses on, I can't make out if that's half a fire hydrant behind a bush or not!
Sister With An Appetite For An Argument
You can save a lot of money on a bigger TV by moving your chair closer to the one you already have.
Now listen, it's been telly for the last 70 years (for me) and now you're gettin' all technically correct with no warning. Tele. What's goin' on?
We used to have a super small tv, back maybe 6 years ago, an old thing it was, black, boxy-ish and came with a stand and everything. One day we suddenly got one of the largest tvs on the market... it was so strange seeing half the wall be a screen! it also didn't fit in the corner anymore lol (the space behind was so large, we could have the whole family stand there )
Greggo Sauce
Accurate Depiction Of Reform Voters
Alan!
The groundhog yelling Alan..... https://youtu.be/xaPepCVepCg?feature=shared
Load More Replies...Is this referencing the prairie dog video? https://youtu.be/XgvR3y5JCXg?si=tuh34RsU4VhtOlm4
I wonder if letting a toddler catch you would work too. Like running away from your dog to make them chase you
Just Doing My Part To Not Look Like I’d Rob Their Garden Shed. 🤭
I was an IT guy. That's the smile I give boomers to celebrate my joy in not having to help them ever again.
Whole lotta boomer bashing in here today. I'm 70, born in 1954. I did your job in the 1990s, the only IT guy supporting an office of 25 clueless people when PCs were new. It ain't boomers, it's people. Some are slow and nasty, some aren't.
Load More Replies...Love A Heatwave
As a Canadian, the "insulate Britain" movement was staggering to me. You people complain about how hot the summer is or cold the winter is, but have mostly UNINSULATED HOUSES? I mean... How much more culturally "f**k around and find out" can you be without being from the US?
Houses are made of brick, after 1930 often two brick walls with an air buffer in between. That worked quite well when people were used to wear sweaters in winter inside, knew how to operate shutters and airing houses during summer and cozy central heating did not exist. Nowadays people expect a T-shirt climate inside during roaring winter storms and cannot cope with a week or two of hot nights.
Load More Replies...Many A Brit Recently
Oh No
Britain's gift to the world is making people laugh. At us or with us, it doesn't matter.
Load More Replies...This is a much better use of government than colonisation and genocide.
Notice
Isn't It Possible For Us To Dream
Liverpool to Manchester was the world's first intercity passenger railway and while it's not fast due to Westminster imposed under-investment, it's still going. Meanwhile: the local Merseyrail network goes down as far as Chester and up as far as Southport - although you'd have to change trains in Liverpool to make that journey. Check it out - it ain't so bad.
It all worked fairly well prior to the Beeching cuts. Yes, it was all unprofitable and required subsidies, but it was mass transit and you could get d**n near anywhere in the country by rail pretty well within a reasonable time structure. No passenger railroad can exist without subsidy; ticket prices can NOT cover operating costs, but the environmental benefits are worth the subsidy.
Beeching's cuts made sense to Beeching. His idea was that the closed down railways would be replaced by modern bus services - which would provide an acceptable replacement form of public transport at lower cost. When the railways were built, road transport wasn't anything like as well developed as it was in the 1960s. Come the 1960s, the countryside had pretty good roads and buses were also pretty good. The fact that the closed down railways weren't properly replaced by adequate bus services, and most of the new bus services implemented in the countryside have now gone, can't be blamed on Beeching. I can't believe I've just defended bl**dy Dr Beeching, but there you go...
Load More Replies...It's Getting There
The caption is just a joke. The police presence is due to a large, unauthorised demonstration outside the offices of an arms manufacturer in Govan, Glasgow, last June.
So glad the coppers were there to protect the big innocent ARMS MANUFACTURER. Which specific genocide were those pesky protesters complaining about this time?
Load More Replies...It took how many rozzers? Do they think his díck was armed and dangerous?
Best Flag At Glastonbury So Far
The Future Is Bleak
The only way you’re getting my chocolate bar is by taking it from my cold,dead hands!
That would be a licenCe in the UK. S is the verb, C is the noun (same with practice, advice etc).
Don't Think This Ones Blowing Over
State Of The UK
Cheaper to buy and slice onions rather than buying ready sliced. Saves on plastic waste too.
I'm confused how you think $45 would somehow buy more junk food than healthy food. Try it and see.
Unless that's gold plated chicken, there ain't no way that cost £45 unless you shop at Fortnum and Masons!
If Anybody Ever Says "Well In Britain They", Immediately Show Them This
Ok, I thought having to watch ads on Prime TV while having a Prime membership was exploitative, but having to pay to simply watch TV to fund ... (having trouble understanding the Wiki explanation involving the BBC and ... oh, just read it for yourself https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_United_Kingdom ) Meanwhile in the US, federal funds for public broadcasting were just plain eliminated.
Mel in Georgia: the TV licence pays for the BBC. All of it. TV, radio, the lot. The Beeb's brilliant: not beholden to any commercial or political interest. Meanwhile, *I* have to pay for commercial TV despite never watching it. All that ad-funded TV? I should get a rebate! Those adverts cost money and that makes the products I buy more expensive. Anyone can opt out of the BBC licence fee, but can I opt out of paying for commercial TV? No - and that's incredibly unfair. The same apples in the US - even if you never watch commercial TV, you have to pay for it.
Load More Replies...Wait a second. I live in Australia so I'm not up on my British laws. You need a LICENSE to watch TV?? In your own home!?! Why?! That is insane!
Laura Lawson: on the other hand even if you don't have a TV in Australia, you have to pay to keep the TV operators working. I mean, they're funded by advertising, and you pay for that advertising because they recoup the costs by adding them to the price of products on the shelves. You cannot escape.Now *that* is insane - at least here in the UK you can avoid paying a TV licencing fee if you don't watch the BBC, but we can't escape the commercial TV levy.
Load More Replies...In the relatively old days almost everybody had a TV. Therefore any address that didn't have a TV license was seen as suspicious. There was no need to "detect" anything. If there was previously a license registered at an address and then there wasn't the chances were more in favour of the homeowners just not renewing their license rather than giving up their TV.
There used to be TV licences in Australia. Got rid of that in 1974.
Yeah a huge % of people don't pay this. It used to just be for watching live tv but now they want you to pay for streaming and even watching youtube. It's ridiculous, we pay enough for streaming services and WiFi as it is.
KnightOwl86: paying for your internet connection has nothing to do with paying for access to streaming services. It seems that what you're saying is basically you're happy to pay for any TV streaming services *except* the service provided by the BBC - which is relatively cheap and very high quality.
Load More Replies...I don't remember the details, but one of the first cases we studied in my legal studies class in high school was the one that changed the precedent in Australia so we didn't have to have tv licences. I think it was the early 80s.
I stopped paying for my licence because I didn't watch BBC or terrestrial TV, it now goes towards streaming TV where I can pick and choose what I want. The rules changed somewhen, so that you dont need a licence just because you have a TV but they dont advertise that.
Actually, they do explain what you need a TV licence for very clearly: https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/what-can-i-watch-without-a-tv-licence
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You mean the woman that paid millions to protect her son from legal action over him being a nonce?
Load More Replies...Brits Right Now
The Great British Bargain vs. The Great British Heist
Tldr - Every Petition Ever
The petition says the item will be discussed in parliament. It doesn't mention that it'll be discussed with the cleaner then rejected as irrelevant, like they do with pretty much every petition.
By The Order Of The United Fookin Kingdom
It isn't...one of a few British words that aren't. What was all the colonialism for??
Load More Replies...The Name's Starmer. Kier Starmer
And you all gave him a massive majority instead of looking to the progressive socialist candidates. This c**t is fully in line with the conservative ideology of the 2000s, and anyone who wants better healthcare, housing, wages, or rights, can go f**k themselves. The UK was sold and you didn't even get 3 magic f*****g beans
It's either him or the Tory. Progressive is not really a preferred word in UK. They don't want progressive, they want you to "not get ahead of yourself."
Load More Replies...But Why
The Fun Police Are Doing Their Usual Thing In Facebook Local Community Groups
Fireworks are not a problem. Stupids throwing bombs (sold as fireworks) in the pasture are. We got that tackled after stupids were confronted with the costs for a vet and disposal of a dead horse. And told that little sis cannot come visit horsey anymore. Stupids got cured. Partially due to running out of money to buy more bang, partially due to upset little sis and a tiny fraction of feeling guilty.
Hoo, Boy! Who Could've Seen That Coming?
Well when he inevitably ruins everything he can't risk criticism
Load More Replies...Want To Change Your Dlss Version, You Must Be A Paedo
I'm Ready
Yet another meme about verifying your identity before watching p0rn
Load More Replies...Worth It With The Discount?
"Foreign secretary reports ‘oversight’ to Environment Agency after failing to acquire necessary rod licence" More info here: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/13/david-lammy-watchdog-illegal-fishing-without-license-jd-vance
Load More Replies...So Many Places Like This In The UK
We Need More Companies To Do This. God Speed Apple
Last thing the world needs is for Google and Apple to become more powerful
The UK government tried to force Apple to give them access to every user’s phone. Apple’s encryption is quite strong. UK government used a secret spy act to try and force them. Apple refused, it became public knowledge and the US government shut that down. Apple protects their users.
Load More Replies...If They K**l Wikipedia I Will Start Doing Bad Things
Thank god Wikipedia has refused to do the dumbass verification censorship shit (at least for now)
Won't Someone Please Think Of The Children
Ah, yes, the Online Safety Act. The time when the government decided to challenge the rest of the world to simply unplug the UK. And, given that there's no centralised and trusted age verification service (because it's utterly half-ársed like everything else the government does) I wonder how long until there's a massive data leak of PII that wouldn't be necessary if it wasn't for that stupid poorly written "I dunno and neither does Ofcom" piece of sh!t legislation that the idiot Sunak signed into law.
This makes me realize how little I know about what's going on with the UK now that the far-off Brexit stuff is over. There's so much news about the current administration and Ukraine and Palestine sh ite shows that world news gets drowned out in the US. This was interesting!
Mel in Georgia: all short summaries of the Online Safety Act misrepresent things terribly. Give it a year and then we might know what sort of a mess we've *actually* got.
Load More Replies...So... Britain passed a law in response to children accessing pornography, and it ended up banning political discourse about immigration, religion, homosexuality, guns, etc.? And this was the *conservative* party? And you can't figure out how to ban p**n for children without banning political or educational content?
BrunoVI: it's madder than that. On the other hand, give it a year, it'll get sorted out somehow. In the meantime, my 15 year old child knows all about VPNs...
Load More Replies...The U.K., where people get arrested for posting memes, flying the English flag, or shouting" we love bacon".
Probably best your love of bacon isn't demonstrated outside a mosque.
Load More Replies...After I read this, I realize what my English friend is going through, and why they phrase things the way they do on Facebook. We may have to go back to writing actual letters, with a pen, on paper, and sending them through the mail. Yes, we have been friends that long.
Ah, yes, the Online Safety Act. The time when the government decided to challenge the rest of the world to simply unplug the UK. And, given that there's no centralised and trusted age verification service (because it's utterly half-ársed like everything else the government does) I wonder how long until there's a massive data leak of PII that wouldn't be necessary if it wasn't for that stupid poorly written "I dunno and neither does Ofcom" piece of sh!t legislation that the idiot Sunak signed into law.
This makes me realize how little I know about what's going on with the UK now that the far-off Brexit stuff is over. There's so much news about the current administration and Ukraine and Palestine sh ite shows that world news gets drowned out in the US. This was interesting!
Mel in Georgia: all short summaries of the Online Safety Act misrepresent things terribly. Give it a year and then we might know what sort of a mess we've *actually* got.
Load More Replies...So... Britain passed a law in response to children accessing pornography, and it ended up banning political discourse about immigration, religion, homosexuality, guns, etc.? And this was the *conservative* party? And you can't figure out how to ban p**n for children without banning political or educational content?
BrunoVI: it's madder than that. On the other hand, give it a year, it'll get sorted out somehow. In the meantime, my 15 year old child knows all about VPNs...
Load More Replies...The U.K., where people get arrested for posting memes, flying the English flag, or shouting" we love bacon".
Probably best your love of bacon isn't demonstrated outside a mosque.
Load More Replies...After I read this, I realize what my English friend is going through, and why they phrase things the way they do on Facebook. We may have to go back to writing actual letters, with a pen, on paper, and sending them through the mail. Yes, we have been friends that long.
