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  • scooterscot
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    Forget Netflix, wait until Vodafone charge you special leave roaming charges, remember a £1.15 per minute? Or £1 per MB download.

    Don't worry I'm sure the upstanding mobile companies of the UK will not capitalise on their customers.

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  • darmstadt
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    I suspect it will mean more stories in the Daily Bigot of how little Sharon ran up a few hundred pounds bill while on holiday in Benidorm on her mobile while watching 'Reality Z-List'

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  • meridian
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    Blue passports

    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    I believe that was a bit of a non-story from the scare mongering Project Fear right wing eurosceptic press. As many Brits go abroad and logon to their Netflix and BBC iPlayer accounts with a foreign IP address then they are automatically blocked (unless using a VPN with a UK IP address but Miss Magaluf and Mr Benidorm won't know about that.) It exists already....
    At the moment you are correct, they are currently blocked. But that changes this Sunday due to a new EU regulation requiring cross-member content to be accessed:

    https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-...ntent-services

    So, just like roaming charges, etc, the EU (of which the U.K. is currently a member state) is providing regulation to make life for it’s citizens easier and fairer. Providers that charge for a service (eg Netflix) are subject to the regulation, while free-to-air providers (eg iPlayer) can decide for themselves.

    But it makes for good Brexit propaganda to blame leaving it on the EU, rather than promoting the success of the regulation itself.
    Last edited by meridian; 30 March 2018, 09:07.

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  • darmstadt
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    Originally posted by meridian View Post
    Even pettier than blue passports...

    I believe that was a bit of a non-story from the scare mongering Project Fear right wing eurosceptic press. As many Brits go abroad and logon to their Netflix and BBC iPlayer accounts with a foreign IP address then they are automatically blocked (unless using a VPN with a UK IP address but Miss Magaluf and Mr Benidorm won't know about that.) It exists already....

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  • northernladyuk
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    Originally posted by meridian View Post
    Even pettier than blue passports...

    Is there no Internet access in Skegness?

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  • meridian
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    Even pettier than blue passports...

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  • Whorty
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    Originally posted by original PM View Post
    So flesh only comes in 1 colour does it?
    Technically, on colour charts, it's known as "Brexit Flesh" It's a good colour for feature walls.

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  • darmstadt
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    Originally posted by original PM View Post
    Oh m g wow....

    So flesh only comes in 1 colour does it?

    So racist.
    I think you'll find flesh does pretty much come in one colour, now skin, that's a different subject...

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  • northernladyuk
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    Originally posted by original PM View Post
    Oh m g wow....

    So flesh only comes in 1 colour does it?

    So racist.
    It does for blue passport fanatics.

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  • original PM
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    Originally posted by northernladyuk View Post
    Perhaps some people are simply put off by flesh coloured passports.

    Oh m g wow....

    So flesh only comes in 1 colour does it?

    So racist.
    Last edited by original PM; 28 March 2018, 18:19.

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  • northernladyuk
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    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    How about:
    Perhaps some people are simply put off by flesh coloured passports.

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  • darmstadt
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    How about:

    On passports, I still think the best idea is to let people choose their own colour:

    Maroon passport = you can continue to travel freely, work and live across the EU.
    Blue passport = you can’t do any of that but you have a blue passport.

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  • meridian
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  • northernladyuk
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    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
    FFS is this stupidity still going on?
    I have a solution.
    Why don't the Daily Fail readers and Wrexiters in general pay a special surcharge to make up the extra 120 million it will cost to have the passports printed in the UK?
    Everyone's happy then
    Or invest in some blue highlighters.

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  • sasguru
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    FFS is this stupidity still going on?
    I have a solution.
    Why don't the Daily Fail readers and Wrexiters in general pay a special surcharge to make up the extra 120 million it will cost to have the passports printed in the UK?
    Everyone's happy then

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