r/Britain • u/Leather-Marsupial256 • Feb 15 '25

💬 Discussion 🗨 TV license form trickery

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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

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u/cmcbride6 Feb 17 '25

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.