Crazyface
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For us as adults the same
We don't much live
Until the weekend then it's football and golf
Neither of which is live on the bbc !
For us as adults the same
We don't much live
Until the weekend then it's football and golf
Until the weekend then it's football and golf
Neither of which is live on the bbc !
Totally agree with you. Just wish I was as brave. The only thing that I'd really miss out on watching live is the football. Apparently you even need a licence to watch the BT Sports app which I run through my PS4. Ridiculous really. Obviously we're meant to have the Euros this year though, some of which I imagine is on the BBC.The BBC swept sexual abuse under the carpet for decades and faced no punishment. It now bullies OAP's into paying the ridiculous fees, pays way over the odds for average presenters and produces a load of absolute crap. It's a dinosaur that needs putting to bed. Great in it's day but like everything else the world has moved on. I've not paid it for years and haven't had a visit. No legal rights to enter your house and if you stream it's easy to hide it.
Imagine being forced to pay £150 a year for road tax if you didn't have a car. No one will miss it when it goes over the next decade.
Not the point tho and I think you will find during covid the BBC has broadcast select premier League matches
Also has the fa cup
So your incorrect
Ahhh, ok. I don't watch fallover ball anymore. But once this is all over the bbc won't have this anymore. Only Naga in the morning to watch.
Very much the Kodi generation coming to the fore... If I can get it for nowt I bloody well will... Never a thought or a care about mucking over others rice bowl ...
Was almost with you until that last bit
If you don't have a telly you don't need a licence
If you don't have a car you don't pay tax
Think of it as car insurance
Nobody wants to pay it but if you have a car you have to have it
I have to pay National Insurance even if I were to never choose, or have, to use the NHS. But I pay my NI insurance because I know that the NHS is there for the wider good - and whilst today I might never choose to use it, and I am happy to pay for Private Health cover - I do not know what is round the corner of life - and one day I might find that I might have to use it - despite everything I might think today.I think TV licenses are a joke to be honest.
To watch a live football game that SKY pay billions of pounds in rights to broadcast and I pay them a good wedge monthly for the privilage to view... I must also pay £12 a month to the BBC... why? They're not involved at all.
I dont pay ASDA to shop at TESCO.....
Yes we watch live sport, and pay our money to BT and Sky in order to do so. I resent having to send money to the BBC to stream BT Sports on my PS4 for example, it doesn't make any sense. They're not involved. It is essentially a tax.My point was that I accept that plenty of folk may well generally not watch live TV - I simply dont believe folk who say that they never, ever, ever, watch any live TV. Whether deliberately or inadvertently. Never watch or see any live sport? Or any live news? Nobody ever watches the Masters, or The Open, the FA cup, the Euros, the Olympics? A Remembrance Day ceremony? Or anytthing?. If its live (ie as it happens) you need a licence. If you dont have one, you're cheating.
However, I also don't believe the licence fee is the correct way of doing it. I think the BBC should be publicly funded but there's probably a better way of doing it
You’re still misinterpreting it. The government set the laws that everyone must pay a TV licence. They have the legal power to make the BBC collect it. You aren’t just paying for the BBC, that’s just something that is part subsidised by the TV licence.Yes we watch live sport, and pay our money to BT and Sky in order to do so. I resent having to send money to the BBC to stream BT Sports on my PS4 for example, it doesn't make any sense. They're not involved. It is essentially a tax.
That's not correct, because there are circumstances where you don't need one. If it was just a tax that we all paid that would arguably make more sense. I think teasing us with the hope of being able to avoid paying it makes it worse and just fuels the resentment!You’re still misinterpreting it. The government set the laws that everyone must pay a TV licence. They have the legal power to make the BBC collect it. You aren’t just paying for the BBC, that’s just something that is part subsidised by the TV licence.
Sorry, my bad, I meant for those who do have to pay, that the requirement is set by the government. And yes I guess it is a tax of sorts but not all taxes are paid by everyone and not all at the same rate.That's not correct, because there are circumstances where you don't need one. If it was just a tax that we all paid that would arguably make more sense. I think teasing us with the hope of being able to avoid paying it makes it worse and just fuels the resentment!
. The TV licence is a legacy of the days when only fairly well-heeled people owned TVs, and in those days getting the better off to fund the service made sense. .