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jackspirko | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +5 
 This is exactly why my response to anyone from they UK who says, 

"As a Brit I don't understand why in America __________" 

Is simply go fuck yourself.   Especially if it is about guns, which is the number one way that phrase gets used.

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TBH | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 WTF is a TV license? I would cross an ocean on a wooden sailboat to get away from this nonsense.
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jackspirko | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/
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TBH | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Crazy
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jackspirko | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Been around as long as TVs themselves in the UK.
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ryanreynolds | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Tyranny sounds less evil when the baddies talk funny.

And was that Phil Donahue?
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jackspirko | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I think Donahue is dead? 🤣  🤷‍♂️
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fiddlehodl@nostrplebs.com | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 "government property" as if she's not actually funding the BBC in the first place
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Brunswick | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Stockholm syndrome is real. Now what is it we in the US are stupid like this about?
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jackspirko | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Lots of things.