lol Mr Kent!
I particularly enjoyed the comment about Mrs Kent and her spitting feathers!
But I must point out that I am not Mr or Mrs Peanut in any way shape or form... I used to rarely post under the old name Askari Couple a few years back (Mainly in the Lets Meet up Section, I never ventured into the Cafe part until we rejoined. Chatroom Junkies we were), but we've been away from the site since Feb 2007 and only rejoined properly a week or so ago... being a free member for a little while before then.
Have a great weekend and tell Mrs Kent to stay away from the feathers!
The television licence is to install, and operate, a broadcast television receiver.
You need one to receive ITV and SKY.
Most EU countries have a television licence.
Most of the monies are used to fund public broadcasting.
In all likelihood even if the BBC was to go the commercial route (and the commercial companies do not want that) you would still have to pay the licence fee.
Our local postie works a 9 hour day, sometimes a saturday morning, for the glorious hourly rate of
Oh yes, and with a 10% deduction for pension.
You want a target to shoot at ?
Try Mr/Mrs public-servant-paper-filler.
£168,000,000,000 a year for their pension/s
Not to forget the public service pension black hole of £1,000,000,000,000.
i think around a £10 a month for licence isnt to bad, but then i guess for 2 channels its quite a lot when you consider what you get on sky.
but then sky does air a lot of crap
but then i have a choice to pay or not.
the thing that really bugs me is if i buy a TV i HAVE to pay a licence, what if i never watch any bbc channels???
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lol not if you only got a normal tv and no radio lol
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Thats true. I know of somebody who has a flat and a house and a business.
He has a tv in each property and still has to have a license for each of them. How can that be right?
If you have paid for one and can prove you have your own business as well, why have you got to pay more than once?
I agree the Sun article contravenes the AUP. If I posted "Why should the Asian community get its own radio station? " as a thread I would expect to get the thread locked and a bollocking.
The BBC is one of the few things that give me any sense of pride in my nationality
I would go on but that about says it all
The statement I quoted is overtly racist IMHO. -----------------------------------------------------------------Wanders off to await the publication of the British jobs for British workers thread.
Adverts spoil TV shows and films and radio.
I agree that the BBC makes SOME mistakes and wastes SOME money, and I very much agree Mr 'Woss' is overpaid but NOWHERE else in the world has TV and radio of the standard of BBC.
Look at the weekly output on the BBC iplayer - an amazing array of drama comedy music documentaries sport etc, something for everyone unless you're someone who wants to pay for Sky.
What a great thread - my 3 opinions:
1)Jon Gaunt - ignorant shock jock found his vocation in life and found his disciples too. He has lots of opinions but won't put himself to be accountable and accept votes for his point of view. And Talk Sport is a better radio station without him.
2)BBC - nice idea, love the concept - HATE the powers they have been given to collect a licence fee.
3) Keep politics out of swinging ( he he )
Can you get a dom-postmistress? ;-)
Seriously Mrs G, you make a lot of great points in this post, especially your final one. I have a love hate relationship with the Royal Mail. I know posties work bloody hard at times, but I know the system they work in is flawed. So If I have an issue with something (which to be fair, has not happened for a while now), I send snotty letters and emails to the highest paid and ranking official I can find the details of. The poor buggers working their socks off in the street don't need to hear my gripes at a system they try and work within and have input in the development of. My issue is with the fatcats who DO make the decisions, primarily for the benefit of one group of people, the shareholders.
The local Post Office was once as important as the local pub, the local school, the local police station as a focal point for village life. When people talk about the eradication of "good old British values" then you can quite easily point the finger at the inexorable slide towards total capitalism that this country has taken. We've put the wrong P at the heart of this nation, Profit, instead of People.
I do realise I am getting all Karl Marx, and I am not advocating storming the houses of parliament, but really, when a country has for so long been leaning towards the notion that greed is good, selfishness is fine and an "I am alright Jack, stuff the rest attitude" is it any wonder that is the kind of society we are left with? It is after all, what we have been taught since at least Mrs T and probably before then (by ALL governments, not just conservatives or labour)
For the money the BBC do produce the occasional moments of pure quality in amongst the dross. To see that you only have to go on I-player, or on some of the more popular Sky channels which are packed to the hilt with BBC funded programming.
kenty ........... do you actually believe what you post or is it done to spark a response?
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