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Post by Ratae on Jun 11, 2019 18:20:23 GMT
I'm the same as Steve, ain't got a tv and have no intention of getting one. As I mentioned previously I had a visit from them about 4yrs ago, I showed the fella around and told him then that I wouldn't be getting a tv, I also told him that I wasn't in the habit of repeating myself. But, I have had several of those letters in the meantime, they have red print on the envelope probably hoping to embarrass me (fat chance). The last one was only last week, they want to know if I will be home on the 20th of this month. Well.....I won't, just like I wasn't at home on any other occasion that they have called since the first visit. Strangely enough, I won't be available on any other date that they call. But unlike many, it doesn't annoy me, in fact I get a perverse pleasure out of the possibility that I may be a source of irritation to the self regarding politically correct lefty liberal metropolitan elitist bunch of tossers that run the organisation. Yep......lurrrving it really!
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Post by banjo on Jun 11, 2019 19:41:57 GMT
My last letter also asked whether I'd be in on the 20th of the month, but then went on to say it could be another day.
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Post by pierre on Jun 12, 2019 14:41:12 GMT
Oviously I am on my own here.I like the {mainly}the BBC television .When I am not watching the programmes,I do like the teletext.So I am a "non recalcitrant"(spelling ?) compared to those who have posted heretofore. Each to their own...
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Post by Ratae on Jun 12, 2019 14:42:51 GMT
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Post by nob on Jun 12, 2019 14:55:29 GMT
One minute they are D Day hero's the next they are stopping free licences. That's the hypocrisy of the BBC let alone the Brexit Bias. Not a mention about Brand and throw acid instead of milkshake on the BBC. Jo Brand's remark about battery acid being thrown at "certain unpleasant" politicians has created a lot of chatter on social media, but strangely not a single media outlet appears to have carried the story (at time of writing). It doesn't take a genius to know exactly who Labour supporter Jo is referring to. The only people being milkshaked are Brexiteers. Imagine if the 'joke' was on the reverse side and a right-wing comic had suggested replacing milkshake with acid and throwing it over Corbyn and co? Boris gives back to the Biased BBC. politicaluk.co.uk/2019/06/boris-johnsons-response-to-bbc-journalist-causes-crowd-to-cheer/?fbclid=IwAR0TEQVhY1-VPHtzg0yQQ-srjSZcDhreE95zpKGrkT2KQ15BIGL82tZ4lwsIf you don't have a Telly do you not need the licence to listen to the radio?
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Post by banjo on Jun 12, 2019 21:20:33 GMT
No, no radio licence- they were abandoned years ago with the same logic that put paid to the dog licences.
As the holder of a Department of Trade and Industry "Ham" licence, I suppose I could (in theory) have a TV on because I am bound over in criminal law to ensure that I don't cause any interference. What better way to ensure that than to watch it to make sure? I'm also exempt from prosecution if I use a microphone whilst driving- it's not an automatic offence like it would be using a mobile 'phone. This would entail proving Due Care and Attention, Careless or similar. Not such an easy peasy nick. I carry a copy of the relevant legislation, but I don't go mobile these days so it's moot.
You're not alone Peter, If I do see someone's telly, I cannot abide the adverts so it's Aunty for me irrespective of the often heralded bias. As it happens, if I'm round someone's house and the goggle box is on, I'll watch absolutely anything, even when they flip channels. I think this is because it's a bit of a novelty for me.
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Post by nob on Jun 13, 2019 6:55:28 GMT
No, no radio licence- they were abandoned years ago with the same logic that put paid to the dog licences. e&oe...Thanks for that its cleared that up.
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Post by sleepyjohn on Jun 13, 2019 10:09:31 GMT
I'm amazed that the beeb didn't forsee the fury that their decision would cause. Or maybe not,seeing as those who make the desicions don't live in the real world.
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Post by banjo on Jun 13, 2019 13:05:46 GMT
I know it's ignoring the way the Beeb is run, but it's still a large hole in the finances that was outwith the budget plan. As I said, blame the faceless morons at Westminster. They think they're so effin clever.
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Post by jal on Jun 13, 2019 14:52:38 GMT
BBC can’t be that hard up or they wouldn’t pay Gary Lineker £1.7 million & some of the rest.
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Post by banjo on Jun 15, 2019 20:49:40 GMT
>>>"Not got to that age yet BUT, I wonder WHY WE HAVE TO PAY FOR A BIASED TV CHANNEL masquerading as a national broadcaster in the licence fee. I am talking about the BRUSSELS broadcasting corp, aka the BBC."
Dinks the fact is that it's the equipment that is licensed, not Aunty Beeb. I've used the analogy before, but it's the same reason why an angler has to pay for a rod licence. That doesn't necessarily make the fishing free- the rod is just the equipment- not the service. The crossed threads come in because the tax take is supposed to be apothecated for funding the Public Service Broadcasting regime. It's not unusual around the world for individual governments to maintain an organ to blow their own biased trumpets. Thankfully over here, the relevant broadcasting organisation is theoretically rhetoric free and government messages are restricted to cross-channel party political broadcasts, and even then oppositions benefit in the same way. It's just a shame that without any such abhorrent state control, so-called "Lefties" emerge from the swamp to assimilate (allegedly) a controlling interest. It's not just the Reds either, the LGBTQHRXBJKIGREDC lot, coming as they often do from a southpaw creative pot are also getting a grip, just as they appear to be doing in the hallowed corridors of power. I have no issue with any of that, I just observe it as a continuously developing trend.
I for one welcome any such supposed bias if the alternative is a state lying machine. I care to think that I can see straight through any bias and so it's wasted on me, and I also care to think that on here I'm amongst similarly observant company. Sadly, it seems a great many folk are either happy with the system as it stands, or can't or don't want to see through it. Maybe it's really only just that old endemic blame culture?
None of this takes into account the sodding advertising. I'm sorry but I'll willingly exchange let's say 18-20 minutes of mind numbing repetitive advertisements every hour for an alleged Lefty bias that I can see straight through, and if I was contributing it would be worth it for that alone. YMMV.
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Post by Ratae on Jun 16, 2019 21:15:38 GMT
Hmmmmm....I'm sure that was once the case but I'm not so sure now. F'rinstance.... I don't own a tv, but I do own a smartfone. If I watch don't watch live BBC on this smartfone I will not need a licence, but if I do watch live BBC on it...I will need one. Ergo....it's not the equipment, it's the Beeb.
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Post by banjo on Jun 17, 2019 7:30:48 GMT
Yes of course, because a "smart" 'phone can be used as a receiver just as a video player can and so on. A licence is required to watch TV, any "live as it is broadcast" TV- Channel 4, ITV and of course BBC, on any thing defined as a receiver. It's a licence to use the equipment. The government enforces a Road Fund Licence" but it doesn't mean that you can drive for free on toll roads, bridges and so on, it's the equipment (vehicles) that are licensed. The government (supposedly) funds the BBC from the TV licence income. The commercial channels are licensed by advertising revenue stream. A licence is not required for the equipment if a declaration is made every so often that the equipment is not being used as a receiver, ie to play GTA, PONG or watch a porn DVD etc. A bit like a SORN for a car in many respects.
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Post by sleepyjohn on Jun 17, 2019 8:56:56 GMT
The problem is that the DVLA generally accept a SORN declaration,but the BBC won't believe you if you say that you don't watch their programmes.
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Post by nob on Jun 17, 2019 9:46:18 GMT
I thought the car tax is now a pollution tax?
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