TV Licence

[Bahco]

Reading our local paper it seems there has been a purge on people viewing TV without a licence.

The average fine is £250-£300 plus a £15 victim surcharge They are being punished more heavily than criminals!

You have all been warned!

 

[joe-90]

They are criminals.

 

[Infidel]

Or are the BBC criminal in the pay they give their higher executives ,and their appalling output.
PAYG tv would suit me fine.

 

[conny]

PAYG tv would suit me fine.

And me, wouldn't cost me anything.

 

[Infidel]

And as a bonus just think of how many talent free imbecilic wastes of space would lose their jobs as celebrities. Thus preventing them from polluting our world with glossy magazines.
Don't really see the tree huggers adopting that one, well thats my case bring on global warming.

 

[Steve]

Reminds me, I'll have to purchase a TV license soon when I move.

 

[joinerjohn]

The amount of repeat shows that are aired on BBC, we should be paying the same for a tv licence as we were paying in the 1980's

 

[kevindgas]

we get ours free
mind we have to put up with dad for the pleasure

 

[crockett]

What annoys me is, we currently have, and have had since the 1990's, PAYG tv, namely Sky. But to watch Sky, you need a tv licence. Let me pay for the BBC programmes I wan't to watch, not the rest of the drivel

 

[ladylola]

Just a thought --
BBC funded through the license

ITV funded through advertising

Sky funded through---subscriptions AND advertising which given that sky costs more than the license fee charged by the BBC makes me annoyed. Oh and count the repeats on Sky.
And what about the money the government will be getting selling off all the analogue space when all analogue tv is finally shut down (Wales has just had theirs turned off). I read one estimate that these revenues will be equal to something like three years worth of petrol tax returns.

OH, and I agree with posters about overpaid celebs.

 

[Lincsbodger]

The reason the BBC is so pro-government is ofc the fact its ****ting its pants that they might abolish the licence, or make them start giving portions of it out to other TV companies.

Its an anomaly that is outdated. But having said that, the government will replace it if the abolish it with a home computer tax instead, the green paper has already been written. And we already have a broadband levy.

 

[conny]

the green paper has already been written. And we already have a broadband levy.

And we also have a perfectly good language called english not text speak.
Kindly save the abbreviations for your mobile phone. Our beautiful language already suffers from downgrading by the youth of today.

 

[crockett]

Conny, wt r u tlkg abt?

 

[Lincsbodger]

And we also have a perfectly good language called english not text speak.

Umm where in that sentence have i use 1337 or txtspeak ?

You need your eyes testing, are you sure you were reading the correct post?

Furthermore, we have two perfectly good languages. One is called english, the other is a contraction slang used for a specific application. You know even less than you think. Maybe you should google 1337 and 84x ? The beauty of languages is they are always evolving and changing.

 

[dextrous]

Seriously lincs, what does "ofc" stand for?