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My last view yesterday of the US; one-way ticket. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 minutes ago

Congrats on having a backbone. Hope you enjoy the vast experiences in your new life!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 minutes ago

Take me with you

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 hours ago

NZ? You a billionaire?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago

just remember to keep voting, don't let what happened to Venezuela happen to you guys

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

Trumpeter is currently researching what independent nation to rename yo NUSA...NewUSA.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago

Now playing Flight of the Conchords - Inner City Pressure

[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 hours ago

Sorry for everything you had to leave behind. Good luck in your new life

[–] [email protected] 105 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

Congratulations! Made it to the UK from the US yesterday myself. Let's hope our new lives will be great!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 hours ago

Welcome! Weather's a bit shite at the moment and monsoon season (February to May) is just around the corner, but it'll brighten up for 2 weeks in June and for the last 2 weeks of August.

Drop me a DM if you're heading up Manchester way and I'd happily give you a tour and you're more than welcome to come over to my family's place for a Sunday Roast.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

You'd better have a tv license or your going to jail

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago

Hopefully OP can live with trading "needing a TV license for a TV no one uses anymore" and "actual healthcare" for a "failing democracy turned Christian nationalist oligarchy"!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Only if you have a TV. Theoretically, you need one to stream the BBC/ITV and such on a computer/phone, but the onus is not on you to prove that you didn’t. You’ll get letters asking to confirm that you don’t need a licence, and then threats of an inspection to make sure you don’t have a TV that’s on and being used to watch TV, though I’m not sure if they follow through with the latter. (In the analogue days, they had detector vans that either could detect TV tuners tuned to channels or were a bluff to get people to pay up, though they seem to have given up on that.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

The detector vans were real, and they weren't a bluff, but the tech they used wasn't some high tech signal detector. The secret is that they just pointed a parabolic microphone (possibly a laser microphone at a later time) at your window and listened for the audio. The operator would flip through TV channels in his van and try to match the audio from your house to the audio from a currently broadcasting TV station. That was sufficient to determine if someone was watching broadcast tv or not.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

They don't follow up on the threats - or at least not regularly. (9 years and counting here - even if I somehow get caught and fined the max amount I've still saved money)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Oi sunny boy u got a loisense for that loisense?!

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Welcome to the uk did you pick up your complementary kettle on the way in? Sorry the rail network is such a mess but what can you do. Glad to have you bud o7

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Honestly, other than the fact that we were really confused about where to go due to poor signage (and missed our train twice and got lost when we were supposed to change trains), we enjoyed the train ride. We did pay for first class on for the Avanti West portion, but it was worth every penny. (Or am I supposed to say worth every p now?) And since we came from the land of very few trains that all suck, the actual train rides were great. And people were super helpful with our heavy luggage.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

It's still known as pennies here. It makes more sense for a pence to be called a penny than it does for a cent to be called a penny.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (4 children)

Glad to hear you arrived safe and well. Also, for your information :
Galleons: The primary unit of currency, typically made of gold. One Galleon is worth 17 Sickles.
Sickles: The second unit of currency, made of silver. One Sickle is worth 29 Knuts.
Knuts: The smallest unit of currency, made of bronze.
P.S. : Next time for the train you should get to Platform 9 and 3/4

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Welcome! North or South island?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

The mighty Waikato

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Doing the same in a couple of months! Whangherei

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago

beers on me mate!

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