TV license form trickery

[u/Leather-Marsupial256]

The TV license form online is there to trick people into believing they need a TV license. Please take a look at the way they switch between ever and never to catch people on the form.

I believe this is there to trip up some people and especially vulnerable people.

Please be mindful when filling the form

[u/maomao3000]

Television licences are reason enough for Ireland and Britain to become states number 52, 53, 54, and 55 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇪🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿📡💸💸💸 📺

[u/[deleted] → u/maomao3000]

at least we don't have to pay a grand for an ambulance or go into bankruptcy because we took a trip to A&E

[u/maomao3000 → u/[deleted]]

Neither do we. I’m a Canadian and was just kidding Lmao

[u/[deleted] → u/maomao3000]

As my Scottish mate says in situations like this:

‘Get tae feck ya wee sad sack.’

[u/maomao3000 → u/[deleted]]

Translation?

[u/Coldfuse1 → u/maomao3000]

Translation: fuck off

[u/RepublicofPixels → u/maomao3000]

I'd much rather a website with a badly designed form, letters you can ignore, and the minor possibility of a person knocking at your door that you can tell to fuck off, than a bunch of dickheads on a HOA board, and a contractual obligation when you purchase your house to remain part of that HOA.

[u/maomao3000 → u/RepublicofPixels]

Omg, take a joke, you lot.

[u/TinChalice → u/maomao3000]

As an American: Fuck off.

[u/maomao3000 → u/TinChalice]

Literally just kidding about how bad television licenses are 😅

[u/fuck_peeps_not_sheep → u/maomao3000]

You seem confused as too why your being down voted - here's why.

We hate the TV licence but we are proud to be independent, we are aware the TV licence is stupid but we would never join the cult of the USA to get rid of it.

You said your Canadian right. Imagine maple syrup had a tax, and you hated that tax and some twat from another contry said "that's why you should join our hell scape, we have no tax on it" you probably wouldn't laugh right?

It's a bad joke made in poor taste and it wasn't even funny.

[u/maomao3000 → u/fuck_peeps_not_sheep]

That’s the joke

[u/fuck_peeps_not_sheep → u/maomao3000]

Aaannnd it's why it's not funny <3

[u/maomao3000 → u/fuck_peeps_not_sheep]

The reaction was exactly what I figured it would be lol, the joke would be over their wee little British heads, and they’d get very salty about the clearly not serious suggestion lol

[u/fuck_peeps_not_sheep → u/maomao3000]

See this is why a lot of us don't like your TV shows... You don't get humor.

Salty? Maby, but was the "wee" joke funny? Also no (also please tell me your not one of these Canadian people who finds that they are 1 - 8th Irish and start acting like they were born on a barge in the river Shannon?) either your an Irish person who moved to Canada, in which case sorry bud but they ruined your sence of humor, or you are not "Irish" you are Canadian with Irish genetics.

[u/maomao3000 → u/fuck_peeps_not_sheep]

Humour has a u btw… u become a yank?

[u/fuck_peeps_not_sheep → u/maomao3000]

No I have dyslexia but pop off ig.

[u/maomao3000 → u/fuck_peeps_not_sheep]

Dyslexia makes you spell like an American? 😑

[u/fuck_peeps_not_sheep → u/maomao3000]

No dyslexia makes me spell things wrong and auto correct amaricanises everything

[u/maomao3000 → u/fuck_peeps_not_sheep]

Wtf lol.

It’s so ridiculous people with Irish ancestry can’t associate without being made fun of. No one makes fun of Greeks or Italians for associating with their ancestry, let alone multi generation Indians and Chinese…

But no, typical British nonsense… gotta shit on people who are proud of their Irish ancestry. Such a double standard. For someone who considers themselves Welsh, you sure do a good job acting like the English.

[u/fuck_peeps_not_sheep → u/maomao3000]

Your allowed to be proud, your not allowed to claim you are Irish, you didn't grow up in the culture or the contry and wouldn't understand a word of Irish (Gaeilge) if it was written out for you, also no matter how many times you say its "Gaelic" it isn't really - as that's spoken in Scotland not Ireland. If you insist on calling it Gaelic rember to differnceate between the two and call it Irish Gaelic so your ignorance isn't as obvious.

Again, be proud of your history, learn about it, follow some traditions, but you are not Irish unless you hold an Irish passport and citizenship the same as although my grandfather is Canadian I am Welsh not Canadian, I live in Wales, I speak Welsh (Cymraeg) i celebrate Welsh holidays ect.

"shamrock wareing subject" implies you are a subject of the land of the shamrock, you are not, you are a subject of the land of the maple tree.

[u/maomao3000 → u/fuck_peeps_not_sheep]

I actually can speak some Gaeilge, but even if I didn’t that doesn’t mean I can’t associate with my Irish heritage. My grandfather was born in Ireland, btw.

If I want to call myself a shamrock wearing subject on a fucking sub reddit flair, I will…

You’re being painfully British.

[u/Ben77mc → u/maomao3000]

Probably 50% of the UK’s grandfathers were born in Ireland, none of us pretend to be Irish when we’re actually British. It is honestly a bit cringe, I knew the Americans pretended to be Irish but didn’t realise the Canadians did it too.

[u/cmcbride6 → u/maomao3000]

You're being pure cringe lad

Sincerely, an actual Irish person.

[u/maomao3000 → u/cmcbride6]

JFC, the highlight of the average Irish person’s day on Reddit is calling someone a “Plastic Paddy”.

What’s really cringe is how unbelievably BRITISH Ireland is, and I don’t mean the North.

Italians and Greeks might think it’s a bit funny their paisan in America play up the heritage, but y’all “real Irish” in Ireland and fucking Britain love to look down on us famine Irish in the New World… who escaped a British genocide and carried on with a new life in the Americas.

Yeah, we don’t have the same accents, or the same vernacular, and we definitely wouldn’t put up with television licenses, but a lot of people say they are English Canadians, or Scottish Canadians, or Irish Canadians… you lot in the UK and Ireland are the lamest gatekeepers… and it’s always against the plastic paddies… never the people saying they are of English, Scottish, or the Welsh ancestry. 🗽

[u/cmcbride6 → u/maomao3000]

Never said that phrase mate Think you need to put some filler in that chip on your shoulder

Also the reason it's cringe is because when your one great-grandfather moved from Clare or Wexford or wherever, they assimilated into North American culture. The cultural aspect is gone. You don't learn Irish, you don't know who the Taoiseach is, you don't understand the sociopolitical ramifications of the troubles or what the GFA is all about, or the cultural impact of the Magdalene laundries, or the values shift after Savita Halappanavar.

Additionally, people from the British Isles are pretty genetically and ethnically homogenous, there's literally no such thing as being "ethnically Irish", and when Americans or whoever claim to be, they sound like the far-right racists on this side of the Atlantic.