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Originally posted by EternalOptimist View PostAnother option is to disguise it by using an Active camouflage kit that bends light around the tv. A bit like Preditor with A.Schwarzenager.
Just remember to unplug it at night or it will suck your brains out through a straw
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Originally posted by Beefy198 View PostI'm more than happy to pay my licence feeComment
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Originally posted by Beefy198 View PostI'm more than happy to pay my licence feeOriginally posted by expat View PostSo am I. It's the law.Originally posted by Doggy Styles View PostI've got no problem. I like channels with fewer advert breaks. The fee is chicken feed anyway.Originally posted by Spacecadet View PostSame here, the BBC helps this country maintain what is possibly the highest standard of broadcasting in the world.
To address contractor79's original point (such as it was) about "not liking the BBC" and therefore wanting to cheat the system: there are lots of things I don't like paying taxes for. However I do so as it's one of the responsibilities one incurs in return for the privilege of living in a civilised society.
If you don't like it, why not move to Somalia? I believe they are much more relaxed about enforcing civic duties over there.Comment
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Originally posted by TheBigD View PostDo TV detector vans actually exist? I've never seen one (although they're probaby disguised), and I've never known anyone to get caught by them.
These days they have a big black monolithic computer, I saw it on the telly...
...or perhaps that's for car tax - I forget.Older and ...well, just older!!Comment
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Originally posted by Spacecadet View PostSame here, the BBC helps this country maintain what is possibly the highest standard of broadcasting in the world.
Yeah, I love the way Jonathan Ross helps to maintain their standards on 6 million a year !!
... and all those 78 year-old pensioners love him !!Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostWhat they said. Well worth ~38p a day.
To address contractor79's original point (such as it was) about "not liking the BBC" and therefore wanting to cheat the system: there are lots of things I don't like paying taxes for. However I do so as it's one of the responsibilities one incurs in return for the privilege of living in a civilised society.
If you don't like it, why not move to Somalia? I believe they are much more relaxed about enforcing civic duties over there.
Nobody likes paying taxes, but jail is worse (another can of worms ....)Beer
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostWhat they said. Well worth ~38p a day.
To address contractor79's original point (such as it was) about "not liking the BBC" and therefore wanting to cheat the system: there are lots of things I don't like paying taxes for. However I do so as it's one of the responsibilities one incurs in return for the privilege of living in a civilised society.
If you don't like it, why not move to Somalia? I believe they are much more relaxed about enforcing civic duties over there.
PS A TV Licence Fee is the norm in civilised countries; i.e. it is quite a "normal" tax, not a bizarre impostition that one might feel bound to oppose.Comment
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostHow many civilised countries (so exclude the US) impose a TV licence / TV tax?
Also note such cases as The Netherlands, where the licence was abolished, but "...In order to pay for public television from government funds, income tax was increased."Comment
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