TV Licence Super Thread

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Glaucus said:
lol. we aren't talking about since the dawn of time. we dont live then. we live in the uk now. and your definition of legislation and law was well bizarre and freeman like.

again go live in your fairy land of wrong. if you ever get hauled to court, it'll be major ROFL for everyone who watches your defense.
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if i ever get hauled to court then it will be for breaking the law 'no harm, injury or loss' and if im guilty of that then i deserve punishment..funny how i dont get that for legislation..how bizarre! still yet to disprove what i have stated?
 
Psycho Sonny said:
The thing is though you need a license even if you don't watch BBC. Yet all the licensing does is fund the BBC.

What are all these mind blowing documentaries? Are there no equivalents on Discovery, Animal Planet, Channel 4, Syfy, Netflix, etc.

I watch a handful of shows: Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, True Detective, Vikings. The only ones on BBC are Luther and Peaky Blinders, but I could easily wait for them to come on Netflix/Prime.

I don't watch Eastenders, TOWIE, Big Brother, Jungle Celebrity, Britains got Talent, etc. Not everyone who has Sky watches those kinds of shows.

Also nude blind date actually sounds like a laugh not something I would watch regularly but having never seen it I should not judge it, just like yourself, judging a book by it's cover. Your slating a show you have never seen. Put it this way lets say your on a train. 2 Males in their 30's sit down in front of you. They start talking about video games. You think to yourself wow these guys need to grow up. However they are just chatting about some common ground they have. What you don't know is one of them is a heart surgeon who saves peoples lives on a daily basis the other helps victims of abuse. Yet you judged them because you had one tiny insight into their lives which happened to be something you don't like (video games).

Now think about that before you start bleating on about everyone that has sky is a brain dead window licker.
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Research, the bbc is bound by ots rpyal charter to put ao kuch into research.

They do a lot to make new standards etc
 
Tefal said:
but by not paying the license you are causing loss to the bbc.
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Couldn't care less. The Beeb have nothing of interest to me since TG went down the khazi so why should I fund them?


Back when they did awesome documentaries and stuff I would've gladly paid but 90% of the stuff they show nowadays is just drivel. As for the radio, Nick Grimshaw. That is all.
 
Diddums said:
Couldn't care less. The Beeb have nothing of interest to me since TG went down the khazi so why should I fund them?


Back when they did awesome documentaries and stuff I would've gladly paid but 90% of the stuff they show nowadays is just drivel. As for the radio, Nick Grimshaw. That is all.
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not saying you should care just that it puts it under law by his own bizarre definition.

also the BBC does a lot of stuff behind the scenes that all your equipment generally works on now for AV stuff.
 
pooley said:
if i ever get hauled to court then it will be for breaking the law 'no harm, injury or loss' and if im guilty of that then i deserve punishment..funny how i dont get that for legislation..how bizarre! still yet to disprove what i have stated?
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cluless.
so how come tv licensing is included in the communcatiosn act, while murder is contained in the homicide act.

so whats your point, its totally busted, and anyone with common sense can see that.

your definitions are based on nothing, and are utterly wrong.
 
Tefal said:
not saying you should care just that it puts it under law by his own bizarre definition.

also the BBC does a lot of stuff behind the scenes that all your equipment generally works on now for AV stuff.
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They need to make that more well known then. As a consumer who reads the papers, watches the news and reads various fora around the web, my perception of the TV licence is that it's an idiot tax which they try to force on people using silly loopholes and people who knock at your door but can't actually come inside unless you let them. They send me letters with big red text saying that "AN OFFICER WILL BE ATTENDING" to try and scare me in to paying but these all just go in the bin as I'm slightly (just) more intelligent than that. They use all sorts of manipulative tactics and crappy bullying to get people to pay, when in reality if they spent that cash on educating people like me as to where the money goes and what it's actually used for I might be willing to pay.
 
Glaucus said:
cluless.
so how come tv licensing is included in the communcatiosn act, while murder is contained in the homicide act.

so whats your point, its totally busted, and anyone with common sense can see that.

your definitions are based on nothing, and are utterly wrong.
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you tell me you are the educated one apparently, and again a rule on a legal society nothing more nothing less.
ive told you the point, there is a difference that you can't seem to grasp!
 
pooley said:
if i ever get hauled to court then it will be for breaking the law 'no harm, injury or loss' and if im guilty of that then i deserve punishment..funny how i dont get that for legislation..how bizarre! still yet to disprove what i have stated?
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so asking the right person this time, you have used freeman principles to not pay the tv licence?
 
its absolutely bullying but it's not an idiot tax.
its just a tax and as its a tax, if found guilty you can spend time inside. But that only happens with idiots who refuse to pay.

Either we need a state broadcaster in which case fund it out of general taxation and save millions or decide we don't need it and scrap it.
paying a separate tax is just a colossal waste of money in both issuing and enforcing.
 
Tefal said:
Research, the bbc is bound by ots rpyal charter to put ao kuch into research.

They do a lot to make new standards etc
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Aye, one of the big things the BBC does that people don't realise is that they organise/do much of the work for the standards of UK broadcasting.
They also do a lot of the work to make sure that our broadcasting system is compatible with international standards (and historically have played a large part in setting the practical standards).

they can't usually deploy the new stuff in a visible manner because they have to wait until it becomes of value to the viewer and a reasonable expense, but they were doing things like test HD transmissions before Sky were, let alone before terrestrial HD started broadcasting, they've been doing testing of various standards for ultra hi definition and 4k from major events for a while (they tend to start filming things in higher definition than broadcast for testing then for future use), doing work on improving the broadcast quality whilst retaining compatibility with existing equipment, and are still working on improving various things to do with radio and audio.

A lot of the projects we never hear about unless you look into it as it ends up simply being incorporated into the production/broadcast.
 
pooley said:
you tell me you are the educated one apparently, and again a rule on a legal society nothing more nothing less.
ive told you the point, there is a difference that you can't seem to grasp!
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there's nothing to grasp, you live in a fantasy world and each post of yours gets more ridiculous.
if you are right, prove it. go steal something and get caught. report back your experience.
 
There was an interesting question raised earlier nobody addressed.

If you have a tv licence and go into your mates house who doesn't have one and you watch live tv on your smartphone. Is that allowed?

Does the licence cover a home or individuals living within that household anywhere?
 
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