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Post by Feral on May 15, 2008 15:42:12 GMT
Your details are in The Database. We know everything about you. Now we are going to delete you. Goodbye. *AAAAAaaakkk...*
Creepiest advert ever.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on May 15, 2008 22:34:44 GMT
Well obviously The Database is incomplete because I've not had a TV license for four years and I've not had the NKVD come round yet.
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Post by Joel on May 15, 2008 22:44:59 GMT
I prefer The Database as a concept to the lies about detector vans. A TV is a receiver, not a transmitter. You can't tell if there's a telly in a house with some little radar. I can believe in The Database.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2008 23:08:32 GMT
It's such a lie. There's a list of addresses who have television licences, and a list that don't. They phone the lists that don't and if they get through they win a bottle of wine, or at least all the students that work at the call centre in Preston do. We had so many letters in first years telling us that we had to have a licence and if we didn't we'd have a £1000 fine and that they'd come and search our rooms, in reality two people with clipboards turned up and said "Do you have a TV?" No. "Can we check?" No. "Oh, ok then, !". I like to think that they're people who thought that working in an airport and asking security questions on the check in desk would be taxing.
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Post by emma on May 16, 2008 0:36:24 GMT
I seem to remember them getting owned a few years ago when they were doing a campaign in Liverpool-don't know if it went anywhere else-where they had posters saying "X number of people on XYZ Street don't have a TV Licencse". And they did a street on which only one person didn't have one, and it turned out that the woman who didn't was blind and had been getting harrassed in the street for lowering the tone (how fucking thick are her neighbours) and a good time was had by all.
Sixteen people in our street didn't have them. My mother, disappointingly, has documentary evidence that we were not among these freedom fighters.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on May 16, 2008 6:38:36 GMT
I heard that detector vans can tell where there are TVs, but they aren't that accurate, so for houses they sort of work, but they don't for flats because. When I lived in halls they weren't legally allowed to enter the building I believe, so all they did was send letters to the rooms of students whose previous occupants had previously bought a license.
Would the BBC going commercial affect the quality of the its programmes? And regarding ad breaks, I think people generally don't mind them, even like them. They are useful for loo breaks and getting a cup of tea as well. And the BBC have enough adverts advertising their own shows nowadays anyway.
I still think
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Post by lowculture.co.uk on May 16, 2008 9:40:39 GMT
I seem to remember them getting owned a few years ago when they were doing a campaign in Liverpool-don't know if it went anywhere else-where they had posters saying "X number of people on XYZ Street don't have a TV Licencse". And they did a street on which only one person didn't have one, and it turned out that the woman who didn't was blind and had been getting harrassed in the street for lowering the tone (how fucking thick are her neighbours) and a good time was had by all. Sixteen people in our street didn't have them. My mother, disappointingly, has documentary evidence that we were not among these freedom fighters. I work for the BBC, and not owning one is a sackable offence. |
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Post by boxedjoy on May 16, 2008 9:49:14 GMT
I moved house in September. It was only two days before we had people chapping at the door to ask us to show our TV license. I don't know how or why that happened, I just hid in a cupboard and left my mother to sort it out, I didn't want to contribute to any potential fine.
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Post by coxy1979 on May 16, 2008 10:10:20 GMT
Can't you just watch everything online and not have a TV licence?
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Post by Rad on May 16, 2008 11:15:55 GMT
Can't you just watch everything online and not have a TV licence? I don't see that loophole lasting very long. |
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Post by somethingbiblical on May 16, 2008 14:12:55 GMT
No you have to have a tv license to watch on demand shows apparently.
It's hilarious how they're not allowed to come in and check if you don't let them, it renders the whole job useless
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Post by [james] on May 16, 2008 14:55:12 GMT
Why do I get the feeling Paul is going to print out this thread, hand it in to the BBC and, while he has a free bottle of Blossom Hill, we'll get knocks on the door?
My friend was going to bring in his TV License threat letter to a job interview as proof of address. I pointed out this doesn't scream EMPLOYABILITY! to them.
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Post by Feral on May 16, 2008 15:24:32 GMT
No you have to have a tv license to watch on demand shows apparently. Not to watch things like iPlayer, I think - though if your computer can receive broadcast signals then it'll just count as a telly. But they'll change that soon enough, no doubt, just like they did when TV took over from radio. But really, the TV licence ain't so bad. It saves us from at least some of the shiteness of commercial TV and radio. It's like the Monarchy – it kind of makes no sense; but it ain't so bad. And all the alternatives are much much worse. I just wish they'd use Brum the Car to advertise it rather than some Nazi Ice Bitch. |
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Post by Rad on May 16, 2008 16:05:42 GMT
I like the TV licence. I pay the TV licence. I am thankful the annual first-year debate on whether to keep it or not occurs in someone else's module.
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Post by raspberry on May 16, 2008 16:21:39 GMT
I pay it and I am proud to pay it. I hate adverts and tape most things I want to watch on non-BBC channels so I can fast forward through the breaks. Commercial radio is maddening and can't understand how anyone could listen to it for long periods of time.
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Post by David Hunter on May 16, 2008 17:36:07 GMT
It doesn't bother me at all paying the license fee if we get 'Lark Rise' and 'Cranford' and other lovely things. I'm more than happy to pay for numerous cable channels I never watch, so to moan about the BBC license fee seems a bit mad.
I have a friend who's lived in his flat for a good 15 years now, has never had a TV license and never had a gas bill!
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Post by [james] on May 16, 2008 17:43:25 GMT
I have a friend who's lived in his flat for a good 15 years now, has never had a TV license and never had a gas bill! Is he looking for a flatmate? Ha. |
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Post by Robbing the Dead on May 16, 2008 19:19:28 GMT
It doesn't bother me at all paying the license fee if we get 'Lark Rise' and 'Cranford' and other lovely things. I'm more than happy to pay for numerous cable channels I never watch, so to moan about the BBC license fee seems a bit mad. Yes, that's true, but shouldn't we be entitled to a free TV service though? In most countries for basic TV you don't have to pay, but we get a £130 and rising annual bill. The key with the TV license is not to get one in the first place if possible. If you get one they will send a reminder to that address every year following. |
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Post by pauliepoos on May 16, 2008 19:30:23 GMT
The key with the TV license is not to get one in the first place if possible. If you get one they will send a reminder to that address every year following. If everyone thought like you there would be no Apprentice, no Doctor Who, no Strictly Come Dancing, no I'd Do Anything, no Gavin & Stacey, no Screen Wipe, no Rav Wilding in tight shirts and no Terri McIntyre. |
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Post by Rad on May 16, 2008 19:30:32 GMT
It doesn't bother me at all paying the license fee if we get 'Lark Rise' and 'Cranford' and other lovely things. I'm more than happy to pay for numerous cable channels I never watch, so to moan about the BBC license fee seems a bit mad. Yes, that's true, but shouldn't we be entitled to a free TV service though? In most countries for basic TV you don't have to pay, but we get a £130 and rising annual bill. No - we'd then just have more ITV or Sky One wannabes. Because of the licence fee and their public service commitments (yes some other channels have public service commitments too, but fewer), the BBC can be a bit different to other channels, who have to please commercial suppliers. And it's nice not to have adverts on radio and telly and the interweb. It also has more integrity and trustworthiness about it because of its accountability to the public and the governors etc (it doesn't always achieve that, I grant you, but it's better than ITV is at these things). We lose the licence fee, our nation falls apart. Probably. |
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Post by emma on May 16, 2008 19:44:36 GMT
I'm OK with the TV Licence right up to the sending-people-to-prison-for-not-paying-it bit. Slightly harsh, Noddy. Can't we just take their TV away?
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Post by David Hunter on May 16, 2008 22:21:30 GMT
The key with the TV license is not to get one in the first place if possible. If you get one they will send a reminder to that address every year following. If everyone thought like you there would be no Apprentice, no Doctor Who, no Strictly Come Dancing, no I'd Do Anything, no Gavin & Stacey, no Screen Wipe, no Rav Wilding in tight shirts and no Terri McIntyre. But I pay and there's still no Terri McIntyre! |
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Post by Muinimula on May 17, 2008 0:28:12 GMT
The key with the TV license is not to get one in the first place if possible. If you get one they will send a reminder to that address every year following. If everyone thought like you there would be no Apprentice, no Doctor Who, no Strictly Come Dancing, no I'd Do Anything, no Gavin & Stacey, no Screen Wipe, no Rav Wilding in tight shirts and no Terri McIntyre. Loving the Lowculture-centric programme choices here, natch. I haven't really thought twice about paying for a TV license. It's just one of those things, like the water bill. |
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Post by Robbing the Dead on May 17, 2008 3:04:15 GMT
The key with the TV license is not to get one in the first place if possible. If you get one they will send a reminder to that address every year following. If everyone thought like you there would be no Apprentice, no Doctor Who, no Strictly Come Dancing, no I'd Do Anything, no Gavin & Stacey, no Screen Wipe, no Rav Wilding in tight shirts and no Terri McIntyre. What, without the TV license, the BBC wouldn't exist? A commercial BBC would still probably have most of the same programmes. The Apprentice was originally an American show (from a channel with adverts!) afterall. |
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Post by Rad on May 17, 2008 11:48:27 GMT
If everyone thought like you there would be no Apprentice, no Doctor Who, no Strictly Come Dancing, no I'd Do Anything, no Gavin & Stacey, no Screen Wipe, no Rav Wilding in tight shirts and no Terri McIntyre. What, without the TV license, the BBC wouldn't exist? A commercial BBC would still probably have most of the same programmes. It genuinely wouldn't. Something like The Apprentice might survive, but so many other things would fall by the wayside. |
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