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So a hundred thousand odd people are morons? I've no difficult in believing that really. There well over a million households without one so I still make that roughly ten per cent go to court, though not all convicted.

Anyway this had gone a bit off topic and I'm not really arsed in having a drawn out debate over it. My original point is that people clearly do have a choice whether to pay it or not. Chief clearly doesn't think it's another Netflix and wasn't talking about a legal argument.


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No mate, I honestly thought it was like paying for Amazon prime or something.

I really did.
 
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It's quite difficult to hide a 55' TV <laugh>

We used to lock our tele’s in our wardrobes when TV license folk come on camp during my forces years. We got two weeks notice from our SWO every time.

The TV license people will have left camp without seeing a single tele <laugh>
 
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We used to lock our tele’s in our wardrobes when TV license folk come on camp during my forces years. We got two weeks notice from our SWO every time.

The TV license people will have left camp without seeing a single tele <laugh>

Didn't realise you was in the forces, Tel - how come you're more normal than Comm, he's still fighting his own war? <whistle>
 
Didn't realise you was in the forces, Tel - how come you're more normal than Comm, he's still fighting his own war? <whistle>

I’d argue that Comm’s probably got his head screwed on more now than I did when I left. Strange times back then, I got told that it was likely I’d go missing if I went to Basrah... I find I rubbed people up the wrong way back then, I’m much friendlier these days <laugh>
 
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We used to lock our tele’s in our wardrobes when TV license folk come on camp during my forces years. We got two weeks notice from our SWO every time.

The TV license people will have left camp without seeing a single tele <laugh>


Remember that advert on TV, back in the 80s?

"They know where you live and that you're watching TV. They even know what channel you're watching."

Sneaky ****ers.
 
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If you’d have bothered to acquaint yourself with how the law with regards to TV licensing actually works and how to try and legally deny liability for its payment.........here’s a clue, just cancelling the DD isn’t it. You can have that one for nowt. <ok>

****, I thought he was on to something there and I just cancelled my council tax and my water rates. I was going to get work to take me off PAYE too and simply stop paying NI. Can't believe these things aren't a question of choice.
 
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It kind of is mate. I've not bought one in over a decade.

It isn't - it just means you're like many of the self-employed who don't pay taxes. Then whine incessantly about taxpayers' money funding things you don't like, while the rest of us pay extra to make up for it.
 
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It isn't - it just means you're like many of the self-employed who don't pay taxes. Then whine incessantly about taxpayers' money funding things you don't like, while the rest of us pay extra to make up for it.

When have you ever seen me whine about that? Or have you just made it up?

Anyway Donga we left this hours ago and are laughing at Leicester now if you don't mind.
 
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I'm happy, dare I say even grateful, we have BBC News. As someone said earlier, I'd rather at least some degree of independent reporting than the agenda driven so-called news set by the privately owned moneybag outfits on telly and online.

The only gripe I have is the countless reporters they have turn up wherever some news story is breaking, when one will do. Other than that, their reporting is at a level above the rest.
 
I'm happy, dare I say even grateful, we have BBC News. As someone said earlier, I'd rather at least some degree of independent reporting than the agenda driven so-called news set by the privately owned moneybag outfits on telly and online.

The only gripe I have is the countless reporters they have turn up wherever some news story is breaking, when one will do. Other than that, their reporting is at a level above the rest.

The only people who want to do away with the BBC are those who suck Murdoch's cock. That's literally it.
 
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The only people who want to do away with the BBC are those who suck Murdoch's cock. That's literally it.

It is strange that with all the fake news agenda outfits out there who openly come out with lies and propoganda way above anything you can accuse BBC news of, they are the ones who keep being targeted.
 
Or people like me who literally never watch BBC and resent paying £150 per year for the privilege ?

That's a fair point Diego and doesn't sit comfortably, but there's plenty of others who over recent years have piggybacked onto that argument as a means to shut it down.
 
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That's a fair point Diego and doesn't sit comfortably, but there's plenty of others who over recent years have piggybacked onto that argument as a means to shut it down.
Tbf on second thoughts i am being a bit disingenuous, i listen to 5live all the time when driving and find it entertaining and very informative.
Sometimes i forget the TV license also covers radio.
 
Or people like me who literally never watch BBC and resent paying £150 per year for the privilege ?
That’s a fair point and I think many share that view tbh. However, the current push around defunding the BBC is without doubt being politically driven, by those with agendas.

The larger debate around what place a publicly funded broadcaster has in the new age of TV and media is one that needs to take place, but quite how that happens in a truly balanced and honest manner I’ve no idea.
 
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