A TV License "enforcement officer" is coming to see me..
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I pay my TV licence and feel it does pay for some of the best programmes in the world, mainly nature stuff although I have been rather annoyed a few times when I want to buy said programme on Blu ray/DVD only to find it is available in the USA 6-8 weeks before I could buy it in the UK! Even after I helped pay for the fe**ing thing in the first place!
An associate of mine really hates the establishment in most forms and when questioned by a licencing officer refused to give him his name, he was told this was illegal so turned on his video camera and asked him to repeat what he had just said but the licencing man just ran off to call the police!
Then this happened!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPwNgIsH9BA
What a waist of time and money!!
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An associate of mine really hates the establishment in most forms and when questioned by a licencing officer refused to give him his name, he was told this was illegal so turned on his video camera and asked him to repeat what he had just said but the licencing man just ran off to call the police!
Then this happened!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPwNgIsH9BA
What a waist of time and money!!
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I still don't get why you wouldn't want to support the BBC with making the programs and buying a licence, in this world of paid for services having a TV licence is no worse than paying for BB, the telephone or any other service you may use, their is very little these days that is free.
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The time to get defensive is when the police are being ***** with you. Other than that, I don't see the point.
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I can see the value in the BBC but I don't agree that we should have to pay a license fee.
When it goes digital, give people the option to buy the bbc live broadcast.
It does seem strange to me sometimes how brain washed some people seem. "It's the law" "oh, ok, I'll stop my car insurance" etc
It's an absolutely stupid law, crazy really. Just give people the choice when it goes digital, if they don't want to pay it they don't get it. I don't want to pay for sky, therefore I don't receive sky, simple.
And LOL at the people spouting the detector van stuff bet the tooth fairy still visits you.
When it goes digital, give people the option to buy the bbc live broadcast.
It does seem strange to me sometimes how brain washed some people seem. "It's the law" "oh, ok, I'll stop my car insurance" etc
It's an absolutely stupid law, crazy really. Just give people the choice when it goes digital, if they don't want to pay it they don't get it. I don't want to pay for sky, therefore I don't receive sky, simple.
And LOL at the people spouting the detector van stuff bet the tooth fairy still visits you.
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Do you truly believe that if only some of the country paid for the BBC they could still deliver the same quality of service? A service envied by the rest of the world?
You have a choice when it comes to TV, either don't have it, pay a license fee or pay a license fee and pay for Sky/Cable. Those are your choices, take your pick.
You have a choice when it comes to TV, either don't have it, pay a license fee or pay a license fee and pay for Sky/Cable. Those are your choices, take your pick.
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not one tv in my house is capable of recieving the std broadcast as i no longer have a ariel , i have a licence but don't see why i should need one as i only watch sky i should have the option not to be able to watch bbc programs through sky , then i wouldn't have to waste my money on a overpaid bunch of twonks
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Do you truly believe that if only some of the country paid for the BBC they could still deliver the same quality of service? A service envied by the rest of the world?
You have a choice when it comes to TV, either don't have it, pay a license fee or pay a license fee and pay for Sky/Cable. Those are your choices, take your pick.
You have a choice when it comes to TV, either don't have it, pay a license fee or pay a license fee and pay for Sky/Cable. Those are your choices, take your pick.
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not one tv in my house is capable of recieving the std broadcast as i no longer have a ariel , i have a licence but don't see why i should need one as i only watch sky i should have the option not to be able to watch bbc programs through sky , then i wouldn't have to waste my money on a overpaid bunch of twonks
Eastenders?
F1?
Motogp?
Top gear?
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An associate of mine really hates the establishment in most forms and when questioned by a licencing officer refused to give him his name, he was told this was illegal so turned on his video camera and asked him to repeat what he had just said but the licencing man just ran off to call the police!
Then this happened!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPwNgIsH9BA
What a waist of time and money!!
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Then this happened!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPwNgIsH9BA
What a waist of time and money!!
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If I was there he would have ended up eating his video camera or removing from where he obviously stores his brain; does this moron believe he is 'sticking it to the man'? by not paying his TV licence fee.
If only Gandhi had tried such inspired tactics...
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my point was with sky you can select what you want , ie different packages. with terestrial tv there is no choice , so therefore if i had the recievers removed from both tv's and had sky block all bbc channels WHY WOULD I NEED A LICENCE as i would be incapable of watching the dross that the bbc produce , i mean eastenders christ its about as real as santa , no swearing , peoples houses unlocked , if fact its so false its laughable. as for top gear , well overpaid trio of donkeys testing cars no one apart from the select few can afford (pointless) last but not least mr johnathon woss Łmillion a year wtf is that all about . imho tv's should be sold with and without a reciever giving people the choice
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I have to be honest - your associate is a complete and utter ****, it's just a pity she didn't use pepper spray or a tazer on him off camera.
If I was there he would have ended up eating his video camera or removing from where he obviously stores his brain; does this moron believe he is 'sticking it to the man'? by not paying his TV licence fee.
If only Gandhi had tried such inspired tactics...
If I was there he would have ended up eating his video camera or removing from where he obviously stores his brain; does this moron believe he is 'sticking it to the man'? by not paying his TV licence fee.
If only Gandhi had tried such inspired tactics...
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my point was with sky you can select what you want , ie different packages. with terestrial tv there is no choice , so therefore if i had the recievers removed from both tv's and had sky block all bbc channels WHY WOULD I NEED A LICENCE as i would be incapable of watching the dross that the bbc produce , i mean eastenders christ its about as real as santa , no swearing , peoples houses unlocked , if fact its so false its laughable. as for top gear , well overpaid trio of donkeys testing cars no one apart from the select few can afford (pointless) last but not least mr johnathon woss Łmillion a year wtf is that all about . imho tv's should be sold with and without a reciever giving people the choice
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I know! It wasn't aimed at you, quite the opposite. They can flame me all they want, but I am right and right to point it out. The poor use of English on this forum is a reflection on the state of this country to be quite honest!
#142
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I pay my TV licence and feel it does pay for some of the best programmes in the world, mainly nature stuff although I have been rather annoyed a few times when I want to buy said programme on Blu ray/DVD only to find it is available in the USA 6-8 weeks before I could buy it in the UK! Even after I helped pay for the fe**ing thing in the first place!
An associate of mine really hates the establishment in most forms and when questioned by a licencing officer refused to give him his name, he was told this was illegal so turned on his video camera and asked him to repeat what he had just said but the licencing man just ran off to call the police!
Then this happened!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPwNgIsH9BA
What a waist of time and money!!
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An associate of mine really hates the establishment in most forms and when questioned by a licencing officer refused to give him his name, he was told this was illegal so turned on his video camera and asked him to repeat what he had just said but the licencing man just ran off to call the police!
Then this happened!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPwNgIsH9BA
What a waist of time and money!!
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#143
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I have to be honest - your associate is a complete and utter ****, it's just a pity she didn't use pepper spray or a tazer on him off camera.
If I was there he would have ended up eating his video camera or removing from where he obviously stores his brain; does this moron believe he is 'sticking it to the man'? by not paying his TV licence fee.
If only Gandhi had tried such inspired tactics...
If I was there he would have ended up eating his video camera or removing from where he obviously stores his brain; does this moron believe he is 'sticking it to the man'? by not paying his TV licence fee.
If only Gandhi had tried such inspired tactics...
#144
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Do pikies and canal boat owners pay for a licence? I have a licence but think its bollox to have ot buy one when Radio 1 and majority of BBC is like a spunk stain on my bed - usless. I like the idea of paying for it like sky..
And I thought the only way they could tell you didn't have a tv licence was by a huge data base with every house on.. the 1 house in every estate (say) flags up...
And I thought the only way they could tell you didn't have a tv licence was by a huge data base with every house on.. the 1 house in every estate (say) flags up...
#145
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Sounds fairly straight forward to me - if you don't watch or record broadcast television there is no need to have a licence - just a matter of writing to the TV licence people and letting them know you don't watch broadcast tv.
The fee itself is about 40p a day - not exactly a lot of money.
The fee itself is about 40p a day - not exactly a lot of money.
#146
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Sounds fairly straight forward to me - if you don't watch or record broadcast television there is no need to have a licence - just a matter of writing to the TV licence people and letting them know you don't watch broadcast tv.
The fee itself is about 40p a day - not exactly a lot of money.
The fee itself is about 40p a day - not exactly a lot of money.
#147
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quite right
I posted on another thread how this country seems to be populated by people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing
what makes me laugh is the people who object to paying a TV licence are by and large the same fat cvnts who sit it front of it all day
then they object to paying "road tax", council tax etc etc -- in fact the very definition of pikeys -- people who "expect" and "take" but give fvck all back
the world can be divided by people who "do" and people are to fvcking lazy and would rather sit and watch other people "do" on a sh1tty TV
cvnts the lot of them
I posted on another thread how this country seems to be populated by people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing
what makes me laugh is the people who object to paying a TV licence are by and large the same fat cvnts who sit it front of it all day
then they object to paying "road tax", council tax etc etc -- in fact the very definition of pikeys -- people who "expect" and "take" but give fvck all back
the world can be divided by people who "do" and people are to fvcking lazy and would rather sit and watch other people "do" on a sh1tty TV
cvnts the lot of them
#148
Excerpt from an article by Alex Deane who is a barrister, a former chief of staff to David Cameron, and, Director of Big Brother Watch.
"The BBC in no way satisfies the test of political neutrality that is necessary if the licence fee is to be justified. I don’t suggest (for the most part) that BBC journalists wake up in the morning saying to themselves ‘hurrah! Another day in which to exercise blinkered prejudice!’ Rather, their bias is subconscious. They may seek to tell the truth, but the truth is inevitably told as they see it – a view taken through the distorting lens of the Corporation’s world view which is, or inevitably becomes, biased.
Consider the perennial example of man-made climate change, advanced as if unquestionably true. Or, as Robin Aitken had it in his recent book Can We Trust the BBC?, the BBC favours women’s and gay rights, high taxation, ethnic minorities, multiculturalism, the UN, the EU and foreign governments (especially left-wing ones), and is against racism, big business, private education and health care, the monarchy and America."
Full article here:
http://www.critical-reaction.co.uk/2...aying-for-this
"The BBC in no way satisfies the test of political neutrality that is necessary if the licence fee is to be justified. I don’t suggest (for the most part) that BBC journalists wake up in the morning saying to themselves ‘hurrah! Another day in which to exercise blinkered prejudice!’ Rather, their bias is subconscious. They may seek to tell the truth, but the truth is inevitably told as they see it – a view taken through the distorting lens of the Corporation’s world view which is, or inevitably becomes, biased.
Consider the perennial example of man-made climate change, advanced as if unquestionably true. Or, as Robin Aitken had it in his recent book Can We Trust the BBC?, the BBC favours women’s and gay rights, high taxation, ethnic minorities, multiculturalism, the UN, the EU and foreign governments (especially left-wing ones), and is against racism, big business, private education and health care, the monarchy and America."
Full article here:
http://www.critical-reaction.co.uk/2...aying-for-this