Nobody Cares about Britain

[Free]

Did the cooking show on PBS have pets cooking to meals?

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Yiannopoulos, proper English name right there.

Well - Rishi Sunak is also no proper English name, but despite this he is the PM.

 

[Free]

Well - Rishi Sunak is also no proper English name, but despite this he is the PM.

At issue is, is Milo Yiannopoulos a proper anything.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

You guys need a license to own a TV?

Well, we don't. In Germany people who are working and have their own income have to pay the fee per household, meaning several people in the same household are only paying it once. The fee is at the moment at 18.56 EUR/month. Exempt of the fee are children, teenagers, students, jobless people and people living on welfare.

BTW here's the list with TV stations, public and private ones in Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_stations_in_Germany

And here's our list with radio stations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_stations_in_Germany

 

[detrius]

What? 21 separate channels with different programming on each? That is a lot. The US has PBS for tv with many stations throughout the country, 350 of them. For the most part they show the same content. Then there is NPR with over a 1000 stations for radio.

There's some overlap, mostly between the regional stations who also share reruns - but for the most part, they have different programming. The two main TV channels also have foreign correspondents and produce documentaries, films and various shows for entertainment. For example, "Das Boot" was a co-production financed by private and public production companies.

Our public broadcasting companies also have strong online presence with websites where you can watch their program live or stream broadcasts from a few days ago.

For example, this is where I watched "Capricorn One" a few days ago:

Unternehmen Capricorn - Film in voller Länge | ARTE

"Unternehmen Capricorn" soll die erste bemannte Mars-Mission werden. Doch kurz vor dem Start werden die drei Astronauten aus dem Raumschiff geholt. Es stellt sich heraus, dass die Mission nur vorgetäuscht werden soll, um das Ansehen der NASA zu schützen und die Staatsfinanzen zu schonen. - Dicht...

www.arte.tv

(That link probably won't work outside of France and Germany.)

 

[Innula Zenovka]

It's £169.50 a year here, so slightly lower than Germany, but all households have to pay unless the householder is over 75 and on a limited income.

There's a consensus that the licence fee is no longer a viable model for paying for public sector broadcasting, and there's talk of introducing a broadband connection tax as an alternative, so households with broadband would have to pay the tax but then wouldn't need a licence to watch terrestrial TV.

 

[Khamon]

It seems like half of Alabama's public broadcasting TV are British content from the BBC or ITC. And it's bloody expensive. So tell them we're paying y'all's licensing fees for you.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Well - Rishi Sunak is also no proper English name, but despite this he is the PM.

Sure, but something tells me Rishi Sunak wouldn't be all like "mwahahaha if you don't like wearing English clothes then stop losing wars to us".

 

[Innula Zenovka]

There's a lot of issues about national and cultural identity here, and English v British is one of them. Logically both Milo and Rishi Sunak are English, since they're certainly neither Welsh nor Scots, but it's a bit more complex than that.

This gives some interesting insights https://www.britishfuture.org/english-identity-open-football-unites/

I'd normally identify myself as British rather than English -- I'm not sure why, but that's the term with which I feel more comfortable, though obviously I'm culturally extremely English, at least in most ways (though I'm not at all interested in sport, so that maybe skews things a bit).

 

[Isabeau]

My aunt is English (London) and will often correct people:
« Oh, no, no, I’m British. »

 

[detrius]

"British" or "Bri'ish"?

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

All people should learn Cockney and take the game up to another level... of Britishness, or so.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

My aunt is English (London) and will often correct people:
« Oh, no, no, I’m British. »

Part of it, I think, is that, at least in England, people's sense of themselves tends to be far more local and regional than it is national. Yes, your aunt is English but she's also a Londoner, at least by adoption, and English person is ever going to mistake me for someone whose roots are somewhere other than in the north Midlands or South Yorkshire, even though when I lived in London I also felt very much a Londoner too (and, of course, a Londoner from north of the river). "English" is too vague a concept. A geordie from the north east, someone from the Surrey commuter belt, and someone from the West Country are all English, but they're going to see themselves as members of three very distinct groups.

The other part of it is that, particularly over the last 10 or 15 years, under pressure from Nigel Farage, the Conservatives have become increasingly a part of strident English nationalism, which makes a lot of people feel more comfortable describing ourselves as British rather than English.

 

[Cristiano]

The other part of it is that, particularly over the last 10 or 15 years, under pressure from Nigel Farage, the Conservatives have become increasingly a part of strident English nationalism, which makes a lot of people feel more comfortable describing ourselves as British rather than English.

British sounds way hotter, just saying.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

 

[Beebo Brink]

 

[Tigger]

Living in north wales now I go out of my way to avoid claiming englishness, not that it isn't plain to anyone speaking to me. I'll use my home town or county or phrases like "Originally I come from England"

For me "English" is welded forever to flag waving NF supporters and football hooligans. Im British first, but only because some etonian w*****s took my identity of "European" away from me. As a european I could claim citizenship, as a Brit I am merely a 'subject'. Another term that gives me the rages.

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Soen Eber]

For clarification only, U.S. public radio and TV stations are almost entirely independent, and choose which content to provide, whether produced in-house, or from some of the larger public stations such as WGBH, international sources such as BritComs or Canadian Public Radio, or from national sources such as National Public Radio. On the radio side almost everyone carries things like "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered" from NPR.

 

[Lexxi]

Did the cooking show on PBS have pets cooking to meals?

Yes, oddly enough. I was going by the show titles when I called them pet shows. Then, when I actually turned to the channel, I found animated animals cooking things. So . . . yes.