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Originally posted by wigit
Let's just say I pay for a package of TV, internet and phone. It's on a contract that I can't get out of for another 10 months. But this week I cancel my TV licence because I don't watch TV as it's being broadcast. I only watch iplayer 4oD, DVDs, or play games. When I fill the form in and tell them this how do they know I'm telling the truth? How much hassle will I get because they automatically don't believe me? Will they send umpteen threatening letters or men with badges to my door often? Do I have to put up with that?
Or, what if I get rid of my TV package and get a new deal of internet and telephone only? Do I have to let them in to check there's no aerial going into my TV? What about the lead going from PC to TV? They can then accuse me of watching live TV via my computer. Just how does one prove to them that you're not watching telly programmes as they are being broadcast? The whole scenario sounds so stupid.
Originally posted by mark1167
Wow. I must have been living in a cave or something because I have never heard of this before. I have family in the old country and they have never told me about this.WTF? So let me get this right.
Originally posted by mark1167
You have to pay for the privilege of being brainwashed?
Originally posted by mark1167
So you don't have cable companies you pay for service?
Originally posted by mark1167
You pay the government for a license?
Originally posted by mark1167
Then if you don't have a license you get fined for watching TV without it?
Originally posted by mark1167
How insane is that?
Originally posted by mark1167
Then they have spy van's drive around and see who's watching TV illegally?
Originally posted by mark1167
So it's ok for them to control who watches and what you watch
Originally posted by mark1167
but it's not ok for them to come on your property to see if you are?
Originally posted by mark1167
So they send the police after you?
Originally posted by mark1167
Seem's to me to be a huge waste of resources and tax dollars to spy on the people who pay for those resources with their tax dollars.
Originally posted by mark1167
Just when I thought I'd seen it all something else like this just blows me away.
Originally posted by mark1167
If I lived there I'd pretty much be like , you know what? You can * uck your TV and your license and I wouldn't give them the satisfaction of putting me on their hamster wheel.
Originally posted by mark1167
I'd say it's time to spend more time outside and enjoy the world and life and stop sitting in front of the mind control box and pissing all your money away.
Mind boggling indeed.