TV Licence Super Thread

[the shadow]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-licence-fee-BBC-stopped-making-free-75s.html

 

[stockhausen]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-licence-fee-BBC-stopped-making-free-75s.html

Has the Daily Wail stopped insisting that you switch off AdBlock Plus before accessing their drivel yet?

 

[JohnG7]

I threw my mothers licence letter the bin before she seen it.

She is 80, just out of hospital after a fall and new hip fitted and terminal with the Big C, what gets me is they gave it free then took it away.

 

[Sho]

You will use up a lot less of your life just filling it online from the Occupier.

I didn't know you can fill in the form online as the Occupier. When i filled in form 2 years ago, gave my name.

 

[Trifid]

I didn't know you can fill in the form online as the Occupier. When i filled in form 2 years ago, gave my name.

May well have been first name 'The' last name "Occupier'. But either way, that is how the letter they sent me was addressed...

 

[Malevolence]

Has the Daily Wail stopped insisting that you switch off AdBlock Plus before accessing their drivel yet?

Who the **** uses AdBlock Plus? They take money from advertising firms to allow certain adverts and scripts through their filters.

 

[Longbow]

I didn't know you can fill in the form online as the Occupier. When i filled in form 2 years ago, gave my name.

You can put any name in it, it has the same legal standing as entering your username for this forum.

 

[pp111]

I stopped buying a license twelve years ago, they have never been round. Not that I would even answer the door if they did! ( I have a door camera ). I do not watch live TV and have no intention of doing so.

 

[pp111]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-licence-fee-BBC-stopped-making-free-75s.html

I love the way the Government somehow managed to blame the BBC for this. It was the government who decided to stop subsidising the BBC for these free licenses, and left the BBC with the decision as to whether they would start to fund them by themselves or scrap them altogether. Not surprisingly the BBC decided to scrap them .... and somehow ended up with the blame.

 

[Nasher]

They probably expected the BBC to stop paying out as many ridiculous wages using and take it out of that.

If the government is funding the BBC and they are taking a licence fee, then we are paying them twice.

 

[JohnG7]

NVM (missed the last page).

 

[arknor]

You will use up a lot less of your life just filling it online from the Occupier.

it's basically junk mail though, should people contact every company that puts a flier through their door?

all it does it tell the BBC it;s not a waste of resources, if everyone stopped responding to them they surely would see it as a waste of money like it is

 

[LuckyBenski]

it's basically junk mail though, should people contact every company that puts a flier through their door?

all it does it tell the BBC it;s not a waste of resources, if everyone stopped responding to them they surely would see it as a waste of money like it is

Well, it's not normal junk mail, because people will attest to the inspectors hassling residents who don't have a TV license. I don't get window washers and estate agents and pizza places knocking my door going "We flyered you last month, why haven't you ordered yet? Are you HIDING your pizza, landlording and dirty windows?".

And sure. But do you expect everyone WILL stop responding?

 

[arknor]

I've lived here for 7 years and in that time I've never responded to the BBC
0 knocks on my door about it.
the letters are automated and go in a loop.

it's junk mail unless it has your name on it

 

[Rannoch]

What’s this tv licence thing? News to me

 

[stockhausen]

Who the **** uses AdBlock Plus? They take money from advertising firms to allow certain adverts and scripts through their filters.

As it happen, I use it and am fairly happy with it
Do you use something different to keep all the dross off your screen?

 

[Gray2233]

As it happen, I use it and am fairly happy with it
Do you use something different to keep all the dross off your screen?

UBlock Origin is the best I've found.

 

[darkgen]

Who the **** uses AdBlock Plus? They take money from advertising firms to allow certain adverts and scripts through their filters.

Really? I have that enabled but along with Ublock Origin and get zero fornication fnarr!

 

[Malevolence]

As it happen, I use it and am fairly happy with it
Do you use something different to keep all the dross off your screen?

Yes, uBlock Origin.

 

[stockhausen]

UBlock Origin is the best I've found.

Thanks, I will have a look at that