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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%"
Maybe the Aussies and Brits are not subject to a draconian legal system designed to control the common man for the benefit of the wealthy? I think our American legal system was evolved especially for controlling property, and people have been property in America for a long time, since its beginning, when we had indentured servants, and then African slaves. And now consumers are the New Property. And the same old brutal plantation-oriented laws are being focused on American consumers.
eat shiat and bark at the moon
The editor obviously has never been to the uk, land of grey food, grey women with grey teeth, and grey food.
In all honesty, there's no way the UK can rate a menton in those strata with europe sitting next to it.
I'll pass on food. Climate is not that bad compared to most of Canada,
Well, there's not as much rain as there is in really bad climates, like in rainforests and such, and it's not as cold as Canada or Russia, and it's not extremely windy, but it's just rainy enough, just cold enough, and just windy enough to be constantly grey and horrible all year round. Not enough to set any records, but just enough to make living here a complete misery.
The food's generally pretty bland, but that's not much of a criticism coming from Americans, where cooking consists of taking some food, soaking it in sugar, covering it in cheese and deep frying it.
Yeah, the women are ugly. Fat, pale, rotting teeth, loud-mouthed and vulgar, pregnant at 13, drug addicted at 15, going out at night half-naked with their giant stretch-marked guts wobbling in the breeze But I'm not listening to criticisms from Americans. The American women on TV might look good, but in real life, think about the 99% obesity rate, and think of Oprah Winfrey extrapolated over 300 million people.
of the UK TV licence fee.
It goes towards direct funding of the BBC which means that BBC TV programming is high quality and commercial-free. Therefore the UK has some of the best TV programming in the world.
TV in countries like the USA have crap programming and so many repeats, all interrupted by so many commercial breaks because crappy programming is cheap and commercials bring in the money.
Consequently, most US TV is such a mediocre experience (except for PBS) that it not even worth the disk space, and if you wait few days you'll get the same episode of Seinfeld again anyway.
No, no, no. No one has claimed the beer is lousy. In fact, the beer is excellent. I figure it's the only way you guys can deal with the weather, food, and women...
And then you "counter" criticism of the food by mentioning.... British cheeses, sausages, yorkshire pudding, and meat pies???? 'scuse me, but which side of this argument are you trying to take?