Television

[jollyroger]

When you buy a TV you have to give your name & address to the shop to comply with licensing regulations, what do you do if you are a livaboard without a residential mooring?

[Amicus]

When you buy a TV you have to give your name & address to the shop to comply with licensing regulations, what do you do if you are a livaboard without a residential mooring?

Sod em, dream up an address

[bottle]

Amicus

 

That is so naughty

 

 

You could always give the address of relative that has a TV licence, that's not quite so naughty.

[Amicus]

Amicus

 

That is so naughty

 

I've had a TV here (and a License) for about four years, before that there was no TV here for 15 or 18 years, (I did and still think it a total waste of time)

During those years with no TV the amount and intensity of the hate mail I got from the license people was hilarious. Oiks outside waving antennae about, trying catch me out, bloody muppets.

It would have been more economical for those prats to have bought a license for this address themselves.

Since those days I’ve considered those numpties to be fair game

[fender.]

I've had a TV here (and a License) for about four years, before that there was no TV here for 15 or 18 years, (I did and still think it a total waste of time)

During those years with no TV the amount and intensity of the hate mail I got from the license people was hilarious. Oiks outside waving antennae about, trying catch me out, bloody muppets.

It would have been more economical for those prats to have bought a license for this address themselves.

Since those days I’ve considered those numpties to be fair game

 

quite. I had no TV for years either and the TV licensing people treated me like a criminal. Their attitude is such that they deserve shit in return.

[DHutch]

Sod em, dream up an address

Yep, thats what i'd do.

 

 

 

 

During those years with no TV the amount and intensity of the hate mail I got from the license people was hilarious.

Yeah, we get mail-bombed at uni too. - Twice so far since ive been here!

 

Its really funny, becuase they dont have names/address of the current students, So instead they send them to the names/address of everyone who's has had a TV liecence at the uni address in the past!

- So there sending them all the law abilding people who done live here anymore.

 

They all arrive on the same day, so you walk into post room the next day, and scattered on the floor under the racks of pigeon boxes are hundreds of the stupid things!!

- We get the same with flyers, people go in, and dump 5/10 in every pigion box, and the next day the floor is a sea of flyers becuase everyone just gets pissed-off flicking though a sea of spam to look for there mail!

 

 

 

Daniel

[bottle]

Daniel

 

get the uni to supply a recycle box for all the junk mail, become green save the planet.

[peasant]

Is this a closed circle? The government lends students money to go to Uni. then takes some back off them for a Tv license.I can remember when the license bought for home covered other Tv's elsewhere.

[Guest]

I've had a TV here (and a License) for about four years, before that there was no TV here for 15 or 18 years, (I did and still think it a total waste of time) Edited Quote.

 

 

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. --Groucho Marx.

Edited February 19, 2006 by Guest

[wrigglefingers]

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. --Groucho Marx.

 

Catweasel, couldn't agree more, thanks for the reminder!

 

Jill

[DHutch]

Yeah, i dont have a TV at uni, although my PC has a TV card i used at home, i done have a aerial/booster, so i dont use it.

 

Mind you i didnt much at home eather, no more than 2hours a week on average.

- Topgear in the back ground, or some of scrapheap chalenge's

- And i might have made and effort to catch some of the canal prog's on atm. But other than that.

 

 

Daniel

[Guest]

Yeah, i dont have a TV at uni, although my PC has a TV card i used at home, i done have a aerial/booster, so i dont use it.

 

Mind you i didnt much at home eather, no more than 2hours a week on average.

- Topgear in the back ground, or some of scrapheap chalenge's

- And i might have made and effort to catch some of the canal prog's on atm. But other than that.

Daniel

I must confess to watching Scrapheap, I like the ingenuity used. There are still some good things on that are genuinely educational and cultural, but Big Brother and such like, it is "shoot me now" time I'm afraid. There are four or five tellies in our house blasting forth this rot, then people wonder why I go to the bloody boat so much!