loisense

>tv license

HAHAHAHAHAHA

OH GOD BRITFAGS FAIL SO HARD

actually im all for TV license. So nice to watch tv without the commercial propaganda.

they're with the bbc, which is with the government. it'll be like suing the government, can't do shit son.

got any e-literature on the subject I can peruse?

>>9533639

Enjoy your commercials every 10 minutes through your piss poor quality, slack-jawed and drooling sitcoms, Americunt.

so what do you get for paying for your license?

>>9533636
Ehh man, t'is all cool not needing the adverts on our main station and all that.

>>9533656

I'm not talking about the license itself, I'm talking about how the BBC are lying in their letters and adverts.

>>9533667

http://www.bbctvlicence.com/

These are just the kind of letters you get sent. I only have the leaflets/ads on papers, I got them sent to me when I was university with no TV. They were basically saying if you have a laptop you need a license, when that's not true, you only need it when you're watching LIVE tv on it.

>>9533684
not to be harassed. you have to fill out a license form in the store when you try to buy a tv, its something like a hundred quid a year.

really though it only pays for the bbc channels, which were the first ones, because they dont have adverts, the rest supports themselves through adverts.

They can be really fucking vicious

>>9533639
>NHS

You can go sit down now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_United_Kingdom#When_a_TV_licence_is_require
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People have been complaining for years about TVLA asking to search their homes without a warrant.

>>9533714
NHS is a terrible piece of shit, teetering on the verge of complete collapse.

>>9533707
i agree with you there. It shouldnt require any nazi methods.

>>9533730
That's good argument.
My aunt is in hospital, I go In all the time.

Shit is fine round there, man.

Don't ever come into /r9k/ again spouting brit/eu superiority shit when you guys have government scams involved with watching fucking TV's

>>9533743
I feel sorry for your aunt. Having survived going through the NHS and the various socialized insurance hospitals in Canada(alberta, ontario, quebec and BC)? You guys are fucked.

>>9533787
>Shit is fine round there, man.

I'm not saying the UK government is any good, I'm saying don't act like yours is any better.

>>9533833
Funny. I don't hear about patients languishing in their own shit for days, and weeks on end. Oh wait.

you people are so whipped by your nanny state you actually have to pay them to own a tv

do you not see the revolution you need to start or what

>Troll posts message degrading Britain

>Britfags take it hook, line, and sinker like the lemmings they are

>ohwow.exe

Rogers do the same thing in Canada.

If they think you are getting free cable they will turn up at your door, and try to talk you into admitting it so they can take you court over it.

They send threatening letters telling you the cable is about to be cut off unless you start paying for it.

Its all bullshit.

And if you tell them to go fuck themselves you can have your free cable forever.

Course you have to find the bent cable guy first to hook you up.

Did you start this thread david?

>>9533971
who the fuck is this

eric?

i dont even watch TV, i dont have any channels of any kind, from any network.

whenever i tell people this they cant comprehend it, they ask me if i just dont watch TV much, but i have to explain that i simply do not get any TV, by choice of course, i could have a Sky box if i wanted one, but TV repulses me, especially British TV.

IM AN OVER-ACTING CELEB, GET ME OUT OF HERE

ICE-SKATING CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER'S GOT TALENT

CORONATION STREET

NEIGHBOURS

ALL THE OTHER GOD-AWFULL SOAPS

Fuck i hate Britain, hence me emigrating i suppose.
Enjoy your worst-TV-in-the-world and Muslims

Pic related, i'd rather go live in MURKA than set foot in the UK again.

I don't get it. So britshits have to pay a cable company to provide them with live television, and they also have to pay for a tv license too if they plan on watching it?

Wat?

>>9533942
>doesn't know what a troll is

>15 years old or first day on 4chan
>>9534074
We need to pay for a TV license to stream any TV channel, the money goes to the government-owned channels.

ITT: Eurofags and Amerifails being constantly raped in the eyes and ears by Jew-media and loving the experience.

BBC = god-tier broadcasting, there's no escaping this fact, folks.

>>9534074
>So britshits have to pay a cable company to provide them with live television

No, there are free terrestrial and satellite broadcasts available to all. You only pay if you want premium channels. Personally, I don't see the need.

Also, the licence fee contributes to Channel 4 and Five. Only ITV is wholly independent and commercially funded.

ITT: Americans scratch their heads and do not understand superior state-run television.

Though, why you guys jerk everyone around like that in the UK is beyond me.

Down here the funding for the ABC and SBS just comes out of our tax dollars. If everyone, give or take the few, is supposed to be paying for this license - why not just make it a tax? You're saving all that money that you won't spend hassling people.

>>9534072

Also they don't seem to understand that you can download any TV show (actually good ones) from the internet, without ads, and watch them whenever you want.

They don't even understand that you can get buy DVDs and watch those as well, it's like TV is only device that streams video.

>>9534074

you pay about 300 dollars a year to watch any tv, but you only get 5 shitty channels. if you want anymore you gotta pay at least another 30 dollars a month.

>>9534150
exactly, im currently watching RED DWARF, i just finished BattleStar Galactica season 2 this afternoon, and i have season 3 downloading.
I also have House MD and Lost, Futurama (all seasons), and 24.

>no licence
>getting fuckton of letters
>guy comes over
>has no warrant
>couldn't get a warrant because simply not having a licence is not reasonable grounds for suspicion
>landlady lets him into my room
>he see's my tv
>can't take me to court cause shit aint admissible because NO WARRANT FAGGOT

>he mad

>>9534176

Or just pay like 37 dollars one off for GLORIOUS FREEVIEW

>>9534176
Dude, I've got freesat

Subscription free and 200+ channels

>>9534188
>>9534188
lol funny i downloaded red dwarf also, British comedy are the only gems they have, everything else is aweful

>>9534199

srs? What actually happened? Also having a TV doesn't mean you were straeming it live.

>>9534306
>British comedy are the only gems they have, everything else is aweful
Fuck off

Documentaries, news, quizcoms to name but a few

>>9534199
>>9534199
why the fuck did the land lady let him in? did you ask her that? the license guy is doing his job, your landlady obviously wasn't

>>9534332
>>9534332
ok those to

>>9534332
i enjoy documentaries, but those i can watch online, i feel no desire to actually store them.

i love british comedies however, Black Adder, Red Dwarf, Monty Python, Only Fools and Horses, Kevin and Perry.

heres the documentary site btw, its really good:
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/watch-online/

>bought a license without needing one

then they are idiots, the letters specifically outline what criteria require you to buy a tv license

To find the page full of 9/11 and conspiracy was a touch disappointing. But thanks, I'll look into this site.

>>9533730
A clueless faggot on 4chan spewing uninformed bullshit. This is new.

>>9534413
yeah...dont watch those, nor the conspiracy ones, theyre good for a laugh tho.

check out the science/nature ones, the history ones can be good too.
i tend to watch anything by the BBC or Horizon

>>9534381
>i enjoy documentaries, but those i can watch online, i feel no desire to actually store them
My point was that we, the British, make the best

For example; the US has Michael Moore, we have Adam Curtis. No competition whatsoever

>>9534413
Check out "The Trap: What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom" by Adam Curtis. Very interesting Doc.

tv license is worth it for storyville alone

>>9533639

The American corporate/commercial system is far worse.

Literally the only decent programming is on the BBC, and it has no adverts.
I'm all for the TV licence.

>>9534381
>doesn't mention Monkey Dust
>myface.jpg

for ages in britain socialist zines promoted infiltrating the bbc. they succeeded.

>>9534533
>Or QI

I, for one, would rather pay a tv license via my electricity bill automatically irregardless of owning a television because everyone rather watches tv via the internet. If PBS implements the same thing I suggested, the American commerical broadcasters would have to actually compete and I'll be able to watch real drama instead of the old stale brit mysteries PBS shows every week.

But that will never happen as American commercial TV hates real competition.

>>9534547
Or HIGNFY, or Peep Show...

>>9534381

>Only Fools and Horses

remember when delboy fell through the bar

and trigger did a face

>>9534533
you mention Monkey Dust
Me happy :)

>>9534570

have i got news for you has boiled down to hislop being a venomous cunt and merton being a lolrandom moron. The only entertainment value comes from the guests and thats obviously hit and miss.

>>9534572
I remember it well

>>9534550

There are 60 million people in the uk, not many of them are basement dwellers who live alone and watch TV on their computer. Most people, especially families, wouldn't even know how to get TV on thier computers.

>>9534651
well then they deserve to get screwed over, its 2010 for fucks sake, im sure they can use their fucking mobile phones just fine. i fucking hate phones.
(no TV and no phone, am i even human?)

>>9534717

even the fucking masai mara use phones now

>>9534717
is it too expensive or don't you need/want one?

>>9534306
U be dissing on big brother?
u sick man big bruver is wel dizzy innit.

I'm not a broke-ass basement-dweller so I couldn't care less.

>>9534742
i just hate mobile phones, they are the bane of society, i cant turn a fucking corner without some tween bumping into me cos shes texting, or some executive fuck practically shouting because he needs everyone around him to know how much money he makes.
then theres the fucking ringing every 5 minutes.
HERP DERP I GOT A TEXT IMMA TEXT HIM BACK, STOP EVERYTHING
but we're on the last level!
I NEED TO TEXT RIGHT NOW OR THE WORLD WILL IMPLODE

Phones are right up there with british TV, pop music and facebook

Prime example of why I'm willing to pay for a TV license.

Formula One on ITV a couple of years back: Adverts every 15 minutes, missed crashes, overtakes, etc.

BBC: No ads, no break in coverage.

Also, I'd just like to point out to the person that posted that shitty link that you're not paying for the TV. You're paying for the receiver that's in the TV. You can watch as many DVDs etc as you like without paying for a license.

>>9534857
Canadafag. So do ITV and BBC compete with each other? (do they show the same programming (ex FIFA), one with ads, other without?)

>>9534887

Oops, no. Forgot to ad that my example happened as a result of the license to broadcast changing hands.

tl;dr, ITV coverage was shit

>>9534887
No

But they do show similar programs, in particular on saturday evening. All are shit though and nobody with half a brain watches them

>>9534887

So far the matches are either on one channel or the other. The final will probably be on both, and no ITV don't have ads during the match, only at half time but nobody cares because nobody wants to listens to commentators at half time.

>>9534603
HIGNFY is pseudo-intellectual trash imo. Students at metropolitan universities love it.

Americans - by paying 127 pounds a year we fund:

8 TV channels
10 Radio stations

All with no adverts, and a varied, high-quality output. There is stuff for the mainstream (BBC 1 and Radio 1) and stuff for a much narrower audience (BBC 4 and Radio 3).
You don't even have to pay your TV license. They never do anything if you don't. It's just a bit of a cunt thing to do in my opinion.

>>9534985
FUCK YEAR

Who can solve a problem like dancing with the talented Idol?

>>9534857
Yeah, this.

>>9534985
Dancing on Ice gets up to 10 million viewers. I don't care if you're too cool/deep for it, that means 1/6th of the population is watching it which is a good thing in my opinion.

>>9535003

>HIGNFY is pseudo-intellectual trash imo. Students at metropolitan universities love it.

Fucking lol this is so true.

>>9535036
you cant possibly defend that absolute garbage, if 1/6th of the population tunes in, then i dont even have a witty comeback because im horrified by their stupidity

>>9535157
It's light, simple entertainment. It's meant to be laughed at. You take things far too seriously.
I don't like it but I can see the appeal.
It's because than X-Factor i.e 'oooh he's really good yes he's ever so good' & 'ohhh hahaha he thinks he's good but he's not! hohohoh'

FIne, let em go showing commericals and let your TV go to shit. You've no idea what a fuckfest American TV is nowadays. Most of it is horrifically embarassing.