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United Kingdom Leads the World in TV Downloads
SumDog writes "The UK is known for many things, great food, a wonderful climate and beautiful women. However, according to a story on the Guardian, a new study puts the UK ahead in one more category: it leads the world in TV piracy, accounting for 38.4% of the world's TV downloads, with Australia coming in second at 15.6% and the US in third at a pitiful 7.3%"
My sarcasm detector must be malfunctioning, I actually had to read that twice before it blipped ...
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.. not like any of you whippersnappers know what USENET is...
The UK is known for many things, great food, a wonderful climate and beautiful women.
...and for complaining about absolutely everything in a sarcastic manner.
-Colin
... because there is a serious lack of content. Unless you like cop shows.
Damn it was hard going back there after US cable.
Quiet you! They'll never find out about it if you don't mention it!
Nothing to see here folks.
Usenet? Why that's what they called the internet before it went global. Yup. U.S. Experimental Network. That's what it was called. Al Gore ya know, he invented it.
Just to put parent and sibling down:
As a brit male who has sown his seed in many a fine field, both here and abroad - the concentration of fine women does not differ greatly, however in tourist places or high profile places (in city centers) where shopping is good you will find some fine filly.
It is true, there are many corners of foreign fields that will be forever england. I just cannot remember some of thier names.
Tod the stud (I was drunk)
#hostfile 0.0.0.0 primidi.com 0.0.0.0 www.primidi.com 0.0.0.0 radio.weblogs.com
The UK is known for many things, great food, a wonderful climate and beautiful women.
This is what is known as a "e u p h e m i s m"! It can be read as "The UK is known for many things, fish 'n chips, overcast skies and slappers."
Piracy is a pretty strong word for this particular act. I like to think of it as Distributed Tivo.
Okay, so a philosopher, a philologist, and a philatelist walk into a bar...
My supervisor at work probably accounts for about half of all the Australian TV downloads. Absolute champion.
:P
I personally don't see the point: Just go watch the TV for real you fucking nerds!
He got the UK mixed up with the Caribbean. Common mistake.
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If you had read the article, you'd know it's 24, Enterprise, and Six Feet Under ...
I would just like to take this opportunity on behalf of my great nation to apologise for the Enterprise thing - not sure what we were thinking, the series must be playing on it's predecessors good PR!
We will petition the PM and get back to downloading Pr0n forwith!
'By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes'
The letters are funny too.
"Dear Sir.
We are really quite angry that you haven't bought a tv license.
While we have no proof that you actually have a tv we assume you've got one because, well, most people have got one.
Failure to buy a license will result in us sending you another letter telling you how angry we are."
What? They are downloading their TV?
Jesus, we are quite behind in France, we still have to go and buy these damn TV from Darty!!
Anyone download the Queen's Christmas Speech?
It hits 100F pretty much every year nowadays.
Global warming may be turning Africa, Asia and the Mediterranean into arrid deserts, but... actually, now I come to think of it, some silver linings don't have a cloud! (Disclaimer: I'm British and drive a 4x4... albeit only a 1.3 litre, and I live next to a farm)
Andrew Oakley - www.aoakley.com
Rich.
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Are you callin' me insignificant 'cos I is black?
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English backpackers have a pretty lousy reputation in England, too. Fortunately, we've a long and illustrious tradition of taking our most obnoxious inhabitants and shipping them down under.
Once we called them convicts, but now they prefer the term "Travellers." (For some reason, when you -- accurately -- call the "tourists" they get all snooty. Fecking middle class tossers).
And before anybody chimes in and says things have changed since 11th Sept: sorry to break it to you, but immigration has always been this way. I first visited the US 15 years ago, and welcome at the border was horrendous. It really makes you question why you're visiting and puts a bad impression on a trip before it's even begun. I haven't been to the US for 5 years since some jumped-up-abover-her-station power-tripping working-class trash with a gun decided to falsely accuse me of working illegally in the US and refused me entry to the country. I'll spend my money elsewhere thank as they've obviously got enough and the recession they've just had can't have been that bad.
I mean come on, we practically wrote the book on piracy. Black Bart, Blackbeard, Chris Condent, Calico Jack, Henry Morgan for chrissakes. Hell you could add Francis Drake to the list, the Spanish wouldn't argue.
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Those clever Brit.s have figured out how to download televisions? I still have to lug them home physically.
Ask the Welsh if they're British.
Better yet, ask them that in Welsh. They'll probably ask you to repeat it in English.
I am Sartre of the Borg. Existence is futile.
Whadaya expect from a country that has FOUR channels?!
We Americans lead the world in quantities of cheap, mindless TV. We are the envy of the world! And half of it is copied from British TV in the first place.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
Hell is where the police are German, the lovers Swiss, the machanics French, the chefs British, and it's all organsed by the Italians.
And occupied by the Americans!