Britain TV License

it's only the cucks that pay for it

I hope it goes away. BBC is pure libshit propaganda. I don't want it funded. I want someone to burn the offices down.

>Submit online that I don't need a licence 3 months ago
>Already sending me letters to re-confirm

I wish they'd fuck off

>>81476718
GIB SHEKELS
NEED TO FUND MORE MUSLIM COMEDY

>2017
>watching TV
Have you seen the shit on there nowadays? All I do is torrent series I like and stream sports events.
I'm not getting taxed to watch some sand nigger bake cakes or women try to be funny on panel shows.

>>81476718
Same thing happens to us. We don't watch TV. Only netflix on our telly (which you don't need a licence for). The fucks still keep sending us letters saying how they will take us to court lmao.

>>81476556

If we didn't have a state funded service to maintain standards, we'd end up with TV as bad as the americlaps, if not worse

The BBC isn't worth it

>brown face
>dyke
>tranny
>disabled
>fat fuck
no thanks

>>81476556
Because we are forced to pay it, but it's not a tax. I have no idea at all how this works.

>>81477062
You're not forced. If you use a tv to watch the BCC, then you pay. If you don't then you don't pay.

>>81477113
You do know it's changing this year so that if you own a device that is even capable of playing prerecorded programs like say iplayer you will have to pay.

Fuck this thing so hard. I don't even watch BBC any more. Well I watched Taboo. So I should have to pay £150 to watch one show?

>>81476556
In truth the detection thing is a meme way to scare idiots into paying. We never paid in our house in uni and got multiple warnings and just ignored them.

The reality is you pay the license to be "allowed" to watch TV but what you actually get is several quality TV channels with no adverts ever on them and some of the best TV that's exported across the globe, a news network that's valued around the world for its impartiality (inb4 some daily mail reader moans about it being "biased") and a shit ton of radio stations for free without adverts (as in enough for whatever your musical taste is). That and events too like the Proms and R1's Big Weekend that are free festivals pretty much.

Anyone who doesn't like the BBC is a fucking idiot.

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>>81477062

No you aren't, as long as you're not watching live broadcasts they cant do anything (yet). I just reset my telly then don't let it tune in, then contact them and let them know.

>phone tv licence people
>explain that I don't get live telly or have the internet to stream things live
>ask why they don't just drive past my house with their magic van to find this out as it would be easier and quicker
>mfw she couldn't answer

>>81476556
because the BBC refuse to run ads

>>81477231
Why contact them at all?

>>81476884

Same.

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>>81477220
>Anyone who doesn't like the BBC is a fucking idiot.

Euros everybody.

>>81476965

what standards, you all lap up the same dogshit like big brother year after year. it's hilarious how those threads max out constantly.

>>81477199
well that's fucking dumb

>>81477220
Pretty much nails it. Much as there are issues with most funding methods including this one you get a fuckload of amazing things from the BBC for a low overall cost.

>>81477302
Honestly, if you're a young person, particularly one who uses websites like this, and have the genuine hatred of the BBC that middle England Daily Mail readers have then you are a fucking idiot. You can just not pay the fee, torrent everything you want to watch (or even just watch live TV, they can't catch you) and ignore its existence.

>>81476556
What?

Are you saying there is a problem with a government run agency that charges the populace for their daily "diversity" and pro-islam propaganda?

>>81477220

Why doesn't it just come out of your tax?

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Meh

BBC4 alone makes the license fee worth paying

>>81477405

You sound like someone who has been convinced by propaganda that something else is propaganda and you should never listen to propaganda

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>>81477271

I tried the just ignore them tactic before, they just sent me a letter telling you that I was in arrears. Now I just phone them once a year to update my status (you have to do this even if it hasn't changed)

>mfw they spend god know how much a year sending an inspector out that I never answer the door to

>>81477430
It's "supposed" to stop the government fucking with it. Obviously it doesn't work but that's why.

>turn on x-files rerun on BBC
>Hope its dubbed in the queens English
>Nope, just regular old American version

You fucked up BBC, why can't we just have every episode of the x-files re-dubbed in the queens English. I just want to hear Scully unironically call Mulders theory bullocks.

>that time they sent us a letter with a list saying 'here is what you'll need in court...'

Almost had us for a second

>>81476556
In Finland everyone has pay their tv licence tax even if they dont have television

>>81477366
Well it's fucking true. And the justification is laughable.

>http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/cs/media-centre/news/view.app?id=1369782979800


>A change in the law means as of 1 September 2016, a licence will be needed to download or watch BBC programmes on demand, including catch up TV, on BBC iPlayer.

>Research by TV Licensing has revealed iPlayer is the most popular catch up platform used by students, ahead of sites such as YouTube and services including Netflix

That study was them asking a whopping 500 students if they watch iplayer more than netflix.

>>81477430
In pretty much every continental european country it does, but their, for lack of a better word "state" broadcasters are truly fucking shit, most often due in fact to that state control. I dislike a lot of what the BBC does but it's so much further ahead than the rest of Europe I cannot believe those Europeans actually tax them for it.

>>81476556
Da Youf has got its bread and circuses, they're happily embracing a future of minimum wage and immigrants. Nobody will riot over anything here, we're all too weak and comfortable enough not to risk anything (including me).

I get about ten threatening letters a year, and the odd visit (don't answer the door to shitskins). BBC is shit; it's got a couple of good things on it but a whole load of nigger-lovin' propaganda.

>>81477642
>Nobody will riot over anything here

Weren't there countrywide riots like 5 years ago?

>>81477642
>Nobody will riot over anything here

Apart from a regular chimpout every time an armed negro is shot by police

>>81477614
>iPlayer is the most popular catch up platform used by students, ahead of sites such as YouTube and services including Netflix

Laughable. Iplayer only edges out 4OD because OD is a piece of shit.

>>81477614
>I dislike a lot of what the BBC does but it's so much further ahead than the rest of Europe

>Comparing it to Europe instead of Canada or Australia

>>81477795
What do Canada and Australia have? Also, general question but how does it work in the US because my understanding was you pretty much have to have cable to get anything worthwhile which costs a damn sight more than the license fee in the UK

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>>81476556
>mfw I get threatening letters telling me they're sending an 'enforcement officer' 100+ miles to come see me
>mfw he arrives and keeps ringing my buzzer for about 10 minutes
>mfw he can't peer into my windows to see whether or not I'm watching tv like they usually do
>mfw get another letter telling me they're coming at some point in the week
>mfw they don't even know my name or anything
>mfw I'm watching tv
Get cucked, Capita faggots.

>>81477911
>you pretty much have to have cable to get anything worthwhile
just get internet and torrent/stream. cable is completely obsolete, idk why people still pay for it

>>81478053
People are. the BBC as we know it will be dead in a decade once the sports broadcasters finally make the switch.

>>81477220
>Anyone who doesn't like the BBC is a fucking idiot.
kek the brainwashing is complete with this one. next!

You burgers might like to know that in Britain, some immigrant in a van can come and search your house from top to bottom if you don't have a TV license.

They get a bonus if they catch more than a certain number per week, meaning that they're like flies round shit targeting old people and people with mental health issues.

>>81477462
that post sounds like propaganda to me

>>81478142
>some immigrant in a van can come and search your house from top to bottom if you don't have a TV license.

No, they cannot.
No one, not even the Queen, can enter your house without a legal search warrant.
TV Licensing 'Officers' are not 'Officers' at all and cannot obtain a search warrant.
Private company Bailiffs are exactly the same.

They use all sorts of jargon and language to make it sound like they're the law and they have every right to enter your home and take you to court etc.

>>81476929
ask them for confirmation of literally every word they send you
if they want more than constant confirmation of you not watching live tv then expect the same of them

>>81477359

Particularly for political coverage we'd descend very quickly to Fox News. Also yeah shit like BB gets lapped up, but we also get things like Frozen Planet.

>>81478033
you're a hero

we do the same thing. They keep threatening us with court but 3 years of letters and still nothing.

unironically wiped my ass with those letters a few times when we were out of TP

>>81477302
You would be correct if the BBC still made Luther, Life On Mars & Hustle, but they cancelled them didn't they

>>81478249
>>TV Licensing 'Officers' are not 'Officers' at all and cannot obtain a search warrant.

It's so crazy that some believe that when police cannot search your house without a warrant a tv license van can.

Also makes me wonder why the police make no use of the clearly superior surveillance technology that the TV License people have.

>>81478249
>No one, not even the Queen, can enter your house without a legal search warrant
wrong. maybe thats what they tell you. but ive seen pics on the official twitter account of the polics showing them enter houses that werent locked and look around. 1984 is already upon you, but you havent realized yet. look at this guy and his 2 minutes of hate against anyone who dares question state-run propaganda >>81477220

>>81478354
>Hustle

Hustle should have been cancelled after Jaime Murray left.

>>81477666
The only riots in Britain now are lefties having a bit of fun before they go home and ask their parents for the latest iPhone, or shitskins fighting white oppression.

>>81478249
>not even the Queen

she probably can.

>>81478284
>Particularly for political coverage
you get your political coverage from a state-run broadcasting station? do you not see anything wrong with that?

>>81477302
haha penis haha

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got my theory test coming up. Failed it once already, any tips for finally getting my tv license?

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>>81477452
>BBC 4

>>81478476
Beeb isn't allowed to openly take sides. You can tell they manage to remain pretty neutral because all the lefties are convinced the BBC is a right-wing propaganda machine run by evil white men and all the right wingers are convinced it's a left-wing propaganda machine run by nu males and cucks.

>>81478566
>tfw I failed the practical exam twice
I know how you feel.

>>81478566
Read the provided material carefully and try to maximise your points on the bigger sections. I had to study quite hard for the Sitcoms and Dramas section because I don't watch them at home.

>>81478566
ha

every couple weeks an ice cream van pulls up outside my house and plays the sun has got his hat on very loudly. they are after me but i've already told them i dont use my tele

>>81478619
BBC News is pretty biased though, they just hide it better than American news

>>81478566
just remember that up on the remote changes the channel count +1 and down changes it -1.

the one that always caught me out

>>81478619
ive read enough BBC articles to tell you that its 100% left wing propaganda. pointing out racism where it doesnt exist, always pushing for more state power. it is truly frightening how blatant they are about it, yet you find them neutral.

>>81478677
Bias towards who? According to the mail, they like Labour too much, according to the guardian, they are too Tory bias.

They are definitely sjw up the arse. Every single time I see a news broadcast mention "so-called" Islamic State I just laugh.

I have to sayLaura Kuenssberg is clearly Tory bias though,

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>>81477452
For the Queen of THIIIIIC alone.

>>81478765
>its 100% left wing propaganda

Thanks for proving my point.

>>81478854
I don't know about a left/right bias but the BBC is painfully pro-diversity, every show has to have a token minority

>>81478122
it's the people who hate the BBC who have been brainwashed. Either you like it and its worth the money or you don't and you just don't pay. It isn't a tax and we live in a world where you can find anything for free illegally and avoid paying the fee.

>>81478854
I never understood why they didn't just switch to Daesh like the French did.

It's even worse when they forget to stick 'so-called' in front of it, then catch themselves and have to backpedal to add it in.

>>81479026
>and you just don't pay.
Except you don't get a choice to not pay for the BBC if you just want Sky / Virgin.

>>81478394
>state run propaganda

lmao the BBC constantly take the piss out of whoever's in charge. One of the big reasons that right wing middle England have started the "ban the BBC" nonsense is because the BBC are too "left wing" when we're under a right wing government.

>>81478765
>it's 100% left wing propaganda

That's weird, cause my dad, a lifelong Tory hater says the BBC is "quite clearly right leaning". People seem to think "unbiased" means "only saying what I believe because I'm always right".

>>81479073
yeah you do. We had Virgin for two years during uni. Constantly got letters. Never paid for the TV license.

>>81479140
Yet we also have the left wing middle class criticizing the BBC for giving Farage and UKIP too much of a platform, making Corbyn look like a bumbling retard (not hard) and for not giving anyone like the lib dems or the Greens even a look in.

>>81479239
You don't *legally* get the choice.

>>81479262
Don't forget they showed that photo of Miliband in a life-and-death struggle with a bacon butty.

Basically a right-wing hit by the Tory BBC that killed his election chances. Apparantly.

>>81479268
but what's the deal in other countries? technically what you're paying for with the TV license is the 50 odd channels you get now on freeview and anything on their streaming service. What do other countries get for free before they get cable/satellite/streaming etc?

>>81477302
lolno

That's one British faggot. You will find that most UK posters who aren't shitposting dislike the BBC and the fact you are bullied into funding state run propaganda at all.

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ah yes the entirety of europe pays for a TV licence in some form but let's single out the UK

>>81479140
>right-wing middle england

It's literally only London and the Oxbridge towns that are left wing in England.

>>81479205
Your dad is a faggot who probably embodies all the parodies of the Labourites who cried incessantly about Thatcher and still do

>>81479599
you're right my dad probably is a faggot cause he date-raped your dad

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>>81477062
>Because we are forced to pay it

No you're not faggot. I haven't ever paid for it since I've been living on my own, it's not mandatory at all.

As long as your TV isn't connected to an aerial, and you don't watch live TV on other devices etc (which they can't even prove anyway) you don't have to pay for it.

Who the fuck actually enjoys watching ad-ridden live TV nowadays anyway?

>>81479568
>what is Bristol?
>what is anyone under the age of 35?

>>81479559
The rest pay a media tax. Only we pay a tv license.

>>81478566
Just make sure you study your holy Quran thoroughly and you'll get your quintessential British TV license in no time.

>>81479700
>You don't have to pay it
>as long as you don't do this, that, own a tv, own a smartphone, tell the omnipotent TV license gods about my living situation you don't have to pay!!1

BBC lost all value once they lost formula 1.

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>tfw had to pay a £1000 fine for not paying my license

Man it was fucking brutal
the worst part is that I am to blame. Basically they came and asked to look around because they suspected me of watching TV without a license. Instead of telling them to fuck off I let them in (because the TV was off so they couldn't prove anything).

The problem I have is that I have a hobby where I read through TV guidebooks and mark in pink pen the programmes I want to watch and left open like 4 of these books. The guy saw and started questioning so i fucking broke down and admitted everything.

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GET ONE

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>>81479792
Are you retarded? You can own as many TV's, smartphones, games consoles etc as you want and not pay for it.

All you have to do is phone them up, tell then what you do own and say "I don't use my aerial or watch TV live" and they'll fuck off.

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NOWHERE TO HIDE

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>>81476718
Try cancelling it. I'm currently trying to cancel my account and prove its me despite having paid the bill for four years and told them over the phone twice now I'm cancelling and will need a refund for the money they've taken from my account.

Every other fucking bill just refunds me directly. The fucking license want proof i actually dont want to pay £12 a month for something i watch about two hours of a week.

>>81479862
>"I don't use my aerial or watch TV live" and they'll fuck off.

lol, nope. You pay even if it's not live tv since September 2016.

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YOUR LICENSE HAS EXPIRED CITIZEN

>>81479924
Bullshit, I phoned them up in February to re-confirm my status and I didn't have to pay shit.

Unless mainland UK is different you're a lying cunt.

>>81479827
> tfw some goon knocks on my door
> stats saying something about tv, computer and lisence
> S-Sozzy no English
> starts talking louder and slower
> N-no English
> Can hear him mutter under his breath "ahhh toss it"
> leaves
Never had anyone come to my house again

>>81479984
This fucking country.

>>81479886
>moved out of my parent's when I was 19
>nearly 30 now
>have never paid them a penny
>regularly get letters
>ignore them all

I'm not even aware of them sending anyone to my various addressees over the years, I rarely answer my door unless I'm expecting someone so who knows. The idea that it's difficult to evade payment is hilarious. I never think about it. Having said that I live in a real shithole full of chavs and niggers so maybe they are less brave around these parts.

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>>81479886

That's bullshit, the shop you buy it from ask you to fill out a form which is then filed and put on the database. Simply put down a fake name, they never ID to check.

>>81476581
This.
I'm 36 and never had a license. I earn £600 a week, so it's not like I can't afford it. I just refuse to pay it The old "Law" tried to make you pay for watching a DVD! A DVD ffs.

I ripped the fucking aerial out the wall as soon as I moved in and told the TV license guy to fuck off, I don't use BBC or a terrestrial aerial. He tried to mummble some bullshit about internet TV and I threw him out.

Few months ago another TV license guy came around and tried to force ME to let him into MY house to check whether I was using TV. Cunt had his foot in the door and everything, as if he had a "right" to enter my property. LeL I nearly hit the old fool.

BBC has been cucking the British people for 50 years. If you pay it you're a moron.

>>81479984

there is no need for such a large sign

>>81476556
>wanting adverts
Found the Yank

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>>81480275
CITIZENS MUST COMPLY

Jesus Christ the British are pathetic

>>81480275
there is to get across that you should FEAR them! because if you dont youll be FUCKED so just give in already

>>81476620
>BBC is liberal
Nice murdoch shilling
and how is giving UKIP hours of airtime a week in any way liberal

>>81476929
you do need a licence for netflix

ukip is a liberal party.

>>81479262
ITS ALMOST LIKE ITS UNBIASED
SHOCK FUCKING HORROR

>>81478999
I heard from a friend that did an internship at the BEEB that they have an unwritten mandate that every team must have at least a disabled person or a minority
not just a general quota, every group of people working in an office together, just in case someone takes a tour and points out that there are only white people in this particular office

I obviously have no way of proving this however

>>81480304
PICK UP THAT CAN

>>81480788
Unless it's a live broadcast, or anything on Iplayer, you don't need the license

>>81478999
thats government policy not theirs
same with ITV C4 ect.

>>81480216
>>81480216
>>>>>>Implying I buy my TV from a shop and not from Derek Trotter down the market

>>81476556
Imagine if the income tax was 0.1% higher.

>>81476620
Cool post anon, can you post one more time just to verify you location?

>>81480870
liberals complaining that a network not 100% biased is not the same as the network being unbiased

Democrats blamed CNN for Trump winning

>>81476556
Why haven't you cucks rioted over forced circumsision by your Jew masters?

>>81480950
so if both sides complain how is the network biased? to whom is it biased?

here is a fun fact, i work for the royal mail and we use to be paid to drive a "detection" van around my town to scare people, it literally did nothing, the driver was paid to go around and waste time and money

classic

>>81480690
they dont exist anymore
the latest theyve had this was like 2005

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>>81476556
>Why haven't you cucks rioted over this?
I don't pay it and they gave up pestering me years ago. Who gives a fuck

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>>81481001
>conservatives
>jewish

eh?

>>81478854

The political coverage has had unapologetically right wing people running it for years (Kussenberg, Nick Robinson), as well as that they take their talking points from the very right-wing print media. Even if they aren't out and out promoting a right-wing ideology, they allow the debate to be framed by the print media.

I appreciate the argument that if both sides think they're hard done by, then neither is, but actually the only argument I've seen for the BBC having a "left-wing" bias is the presence of brown people on light entertainment. There's no substance to the idea that there's bias in the political coverage, which is ultimately what matters.

Why are Americans so obsessed with us?

>>81478566
Stealing this joke

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>>81476718
>Tell them I don't need a license.
>they send me letters asking me to buy a license.
>Tell them again.
>They come to my house.
>Don't let them in without a warrant
>They come back with a warrant
>I don't even have a tv.
>They ask why I didn't just say that
>"You waste my time; I waste yours"

This didn't actually happen.

>>81476620
>BBC is pure libshit propaganda
nice shilling

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Riot with what? The police already confiscated all their sticks and bicycle wheels

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>>81478899

>>81481074
>Royal Mail

What the fuck has it got to do with them?

>>81482408
no idea

we were given the van and told you drive it around on certain dates and crap

this was YEARS ago though

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>licence up for renewal
>told I have to retake the practical test
>examiner arrives at my house
>he asks me to insert batteries into remote
>so nervous I put them in the wrong way around
>instant fail
>television is confiscated
>wife can't watch Jeremy Kyle anymore and leaves me for a man named Tyrone

Don't let this happen to you Ameribros

>>81482465
Not a bad job 2bh getting paid just to drive a van about

>>81481503
i know because they wouldnt get a warrant. you can quite literally tell them forever that can't come in.

>>81476929
The license isn't for watching the BBC, its for having an equipment capable of watching the BBC.

>But what about laptops? LMAO.

They've been lobbying for a license fee on computing equipment and internet connections for years.

Although when our entire internet is censored by the British Board of Film Censorship (the legislation is now law) and all government agencies can read your internet history without warrant or cause, I assume they'll just charge for accessing BBC IP ranges.

>>81480922
>Not getting one from the back of the lorry yourself

>>81477911
In Australia we have the ABC, so a few channels of Australian shows, kids shows, leftover shit from the BBC and some good documentaries. The ABC news is pretty left. ABC is funded by the taxpayer.

The other stations are commercial.

>>81481074
>drive a van up and down all scaring people

Like fucking something out of the thick of it or Peep Show. I could actually imagine that being Hans' job.

>>81480273
>If you pay it you're a moron.
solid /asv/ here
no one pays for it other than straights.
I don't watch tv at all but get a letter every week or two telling me they know I am watching tv, they will be round soon to catch me.
It's halarious that they are wastig the cucks money on sending me those letters.
If I had what happened to this anon a tv licence guy stick his foot in my door I will be getting in an altercation.
I have not watched tv for over a decade, and if I did it would be a specific show that I want to watch, which I would watch, online, after it had been aired.

>>81476620
>libshit
who in the UK even talks like this, this is an obviouslyamerican /pol/ fag.
BBC are conservative, always have and always will be.

>>81477359
>lap up the same dogshit like big brother year after year
I always thought those threads were meme threads, I never went in one.
to my knowledge it is only faggots and women who would watch that shit.
BBC actually do quality services, radio, world news and a lot of their programs are informative or serious documentaries.
Their entertainment aspect is a small percentage of what BBC do

>>81477452
It's only good on Friday nights

Brit bong here. I'm literally surprised there isn't a masturbatory licence needed for having a wanK whilst watching news night.

>>81480273
Never had a license either,had them at the door trying to get in to check and once they came back whilst I was at work, flat mate stupidly let them in but they were satisfied I was only using it for games/dvd's etc.

Quick question though, are these fuckers notified any time a TV is sold? They always seem to appear after recently buying a TV, psychic tossers.

>>81480296
I remember visiting family in America when I was younger, they had the Star Wars trilogy on tv so i figured i'd watch it,it took ALL day to watch the 3 films due to the amount of adverts...

>>81483848
Leaf here, the only way I can watch anything on TV is to record it and watch it later so I can fast forward through the ads

I unironically wish America had something like the beeb.
Conservatives don't understand that you have to foster culture to let it grow, else it devaluates into the shit we have today (probably their master plan desu)

>>81484064
We tried it with the CBC, you don't want this garbage

>>81483779
No, shops don't ask for addresses anymore. They stopped 3 years ago iirc. I bought a tv a few months ago from Argos and they never asked.

Dude, don't let them fuckers in your house. They have NO right to enter your property. They bully people with words like "Fine" and "Law" into letting them into their house but they have no fucking right. They're piss-taking cunts. It's like a shopkeeper knocking on your door and demanding entry to check if you need milk.

It's against the law to watch BBC without paying a license, it's piracy basically, but that doesn't give them rights to enter your home.

Arseholes.

And btw... TV License Detector vans are bullshit. It's an empty van. 1, I know a guy that worked for both BT and the BBC, and 2, they admit it themselves it's a scare tactic used in 80's advertisements.

FUCKING BBC ARSEHOLES

>>81476556
TV licences are present in pretty much all European countries...

Yet only the UK gets bullied for it.

What did /pol/ mean by this?

>>81485128
Uk is the only thing close to first world nation in urop

literally nobody with half a brain pays the tv license, you can tell the guy who knocks at the door to fuck off

You do realise basically every European country has a TV license? Except it's not ACTUALLY optional. It comes in the form of a tax to pay for propaganda. The BBC? Not only is it optional, but it pays for TV shows. I enjoyed Mr Strange and Dr Norell and Taboo and lots of other programs.

But the best thing is there is no adverts/commercials. It's just TV. There is no ad break every 5 mins that lasts 3 mins.

As for paying? You don't need to pay shit. Streaming sites put delays on BBC so it loses it's 'live tv' status. Meaning you don't need a license.

Why out of all of Europe is the UK picked on? Is it cause it's optional? Is it somehow better to have it taken out your wages?

>>81479827
That's bullshit but I believe it.

>>81485840
Mostly because they have people that literally drive around in vans to try and catch you watching tv. You are right though anon, BBC makes pretty good stuff. Not like german public broadcasting that pumps out enrichment content and forces everyone to pay for the privilege

>>81485929
>Brit can't handle the lies and deceit of not paying his tv license
>confesses to the tele-Bobby
>"you did right lad. Here's your fine. 'Ave a good day"
>anon wipes the snot off his nosrle with his sleeve, "Feels good to tell the truth"
I believe it

>>81482515
keke

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>>81479940

Lets have every use pictures of themselves at 16 for the rest of their lives LEL!

>>81485988

This is a meme, it literally is just to scare faggots into buying a licence. I've lived on my own for nearly 13 years and never paid once.

>>81482551

You can also tell them that you revoke their implied right of access and if they return to your property you'll consider it trespassing. The whole thing's a sham that rests on a bubble of misinformation and baseless legal threats.

>>81480273
total badass.

>>81485988
I dunno man. I've heard claims it's just scare tactics. But yeah at least the Beeb produces some nice stuff. Rest of Europe is odd in that regard.

Funniest shit? Americans have to pay for TV as well via their taxes. Trump cut funding to some of the channels, actually. Everybody pays in Western countries, it just depends on how and when.

>>81484193

My old flatmate ordered a firestick before she moved out in December. Since then the threat letters have had her name on them rather than "legal occupier". Cunts.

>>81477220
Cuck!

You realize the word "license" in this instance is not used in the sense of a driving license or a gun license, but like a software or intellectual property license? I know it's funny to pretend you don't know the multiple meanings of words but sometimes I get the feeling people aren't just memeing and are really that stupid.

>>81487564
Are you telling me I've got to look out for Ubisoft vans too now?

TV licensing sounds like the least efficient tax ever, an total enforcement nightmare

After losing your colonies because your tax policy is so bad I thought bongs would have learned

>>81477220
Get fucked. The BBC puts out shit for free and then gets upset if people watch it for free. Why not add security features for subscribers and stop sending threatening letters to innocent people who don't give a fuck about depressing soaps and sit-coms, cheap ass panel shows where overpaid cunts try hard to be funny, and social programming horse shit. Fuck you faggot. You love BBCock go subscribe and let others make their own choice in peace.

BBC don't even have Bake Off anymore.

Their days are numbered. 4, 2, 1.

Can I get a quick rundown of TV Licencing?

>>81488237
Instead of paying for cable they have the honor system where you pay for a license to watch what they broadcast over the air.