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		rootusrootus on Aug 8, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TV detector van Citizens from a country that has freedom as such a fundamental value that we permit everyone to own a gun find it nonsensical that citizens from the UK put up with the gov't pointing detectors at their house to see if they haven't paid their TV tax? That seems entirely consistent.

petercooper on Aug 8, 2019 [–]

And this is why we are famously "two nations divided by a common language" :-) Although it goes deeper than language and right down to social norms.

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