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Morons, ###### And Idiots

uncle goober

uncle goober

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Apparently the World is not flat.

How can I go to the four corners of the Earth if the world is not flat.

The idiots ,morons and ###### that implemented this rule from their nerdy bedrooms and who have not so much as had to travel to even one corner of the earth should be sacked and this stupid idea should be reversed.

World, round, pfuh. Morons
 
This is only the start of it, you've got these "scientists" talking about *us* being the ones that move around the *sun*. Man, give these guys research budgets and they'll tell you anything you want to hear.
 
Talking of idiots and morons, I had a letter from the TV Licensing people today informing me that I brought a telly in May 2007 from Dixons and stating they have no record of me having a TV licence. :what:

They are right, and thanks for Dixons for informing them, I did buy a new telly from Dixons in May this year but it wasn't for me! :angy:

You have been warned. Big brother is definitely watching all of us! :ph34r:
 
Having just read the letter again they want me to call them and tell them where the telly is or theTV licence number I have if the TV at my home address.... :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant:
 
Originally posted by Kathy@Jun 13 2007, 04:01 PM
Having just read the letter again they want me to call them and tell them where the telly is or theTV licence number I have if the TV at my home address.... :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant:
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Should have paid in cash. :P
 
So long as you do have a licence, I don't see what the problem is. Let them send someone round to ask to see it.

If you have neither telly nor licence, let them in to inspect the house.

I remember when we got our first telly, my father didn't have - and had no intention of buying - a licence. When the detector people turned up at the door and asked to come in he refused and closed it. While they kept knocking at the door, he hoisted the telly in his arms, sneaked it out the back door and into the next door neighbour's house, came back and threw a decorative lace cover, taken from the back of the couch, over the table the telly had been on and stuck a vase on it, then feigned annoyance and resignation when allowing the licence people in. They voiced their suspicions when they didn't see a telly and left but we had a licence by the following week.

I'm making good his misdeed. We are entitled to exemption from paying for a TV licence because my octogenarian mother-in-law lives with us, but I still pay.
 
DO, the problem is I do have a TV licence but I do not like the fact that Dixon's have given information about what I purchased and when to the Licensing authority who now request that I phone them to tell them where the telly is. I'm sorry but that's a step to far with big brother as far as I am concerned. Why should I waste a phone call telling them I already have a TV licence at my home address. Surely, they have computers that can confirm this fact?
 
It also applies if you have a P-C tower or and lap top, you STILL need a licence........... :P


A young German couple ( 2 children both born here) living two doors away having bought the house from an elderly lady had many letters asking them to buy a licence, they explained they DO NOT HAVE either a P-C or a T-V he was taking his PHD in electrical engineering, @ UNI here(since gone to live in Switzerland) they came out and checked the house on two occasions !Honest............. :P :angy:
 
Under the trade discription act ALL Electrical dealers MUST inform the T-V licencing authority of the address to where the purchaser would use the new appliance................ :P
 
I'm darn sure that the YMCA here, which sells donated tvs as well as computer equipment, doesn't take anyone's details to pass on to the TV Licensing Authority, Merlin! They're registered as a charity, yes, but they have to have all of their electrical donations checked and passed first by a qualified electrician, so they're trading in tvs and other electrical appliances.

I don't have a licence for my pc - I've never heard of such a thing. I certainly didn't have a licence for my laptop. Who has?
 
Merlin is correct, there is now a law which obliges all vendors of TV sets [possibly only new ones] to inform the Licencing authority. It's one of the new busy-bodying-tendency laws with which our pathetic bossy parliamentarians see fit to annoy us. Dixons is not to blame
 
It must be only new sets, because there are masses of secondhand ones on offer through card adverts in our local shops. I can't see a couple of homeward-bound students bunging off the registration details of their old set's new owner, somehow!
 
Originally posted by krizon@Jun 13 2007, 11:02 PM
I don't have a licence for my pc - I've never heard of such a thing. I certainly didn't have a licence for my laptop. Who has?
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You need a TV licence even if you don't have a TV, but have a PC.
 
ONLY if you use it for viewing TV programmes using those funny linkup thingys.
I don't use mine for that - wouldn't know how to for a start!
 
Yes, utterly daft, isn't it? Any loony can get a puppy and misfeed, mishandle or mistreat it - a sentient being - but heaven forfend the BBC should be denied its tax on its productions.

There's no way I'd use my pc for trying to watch telly! I did manage to employ The Red Button tonight, though, and watch the continuation of the excellent tennis match on Beeb 2 Interactive at Queens, the outcome going to a brilliant young man I've never heard of before - Tsonga. However, when ATR assures me I can watch the horses going to post by pressing TRB, all I get is an offer to place a bet. Shurely shome mistake?
 
Kri, if you are desperate enough to watch a race "behind the red button" on ATR extra?? you have to "punch" (have you noticed in fiction that people always punch buttons) the right arrow.

Personally, I don't think it's worth the effort. :(
 
I was under the impression that the requirement that retailers notify the relevant licensing authority when someone buys a TV has been around for decades.
 
Colin, the finest racing can be found on ATR - if you don't agree, you will never cross the threshold of another Northern Racing or Arena track again! :D I'd rather watch the horseys than Barry feckin Scott and his Cillitt Bang!, thanks! Ah, if only one got ALL the instructions. I will gently press the right arrow and see what bounty lies within. Ta!
 
Originally posted by Gareth Flynn@Jun 14 2007, 09:38 AM
I was under the impression that the requirement that retailers notify the relevant licensing authority when someone buys a TV has been around for decades.
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Yes you are both correct Ali-Gareth its nothing new, and yes you need it to cover your p-c if you don't have a Television but if you do have a television then this covers the both.............

T-V LICENSING AUTHORITY

Do I need a licence?

You need a TV Licence to use any television receiving equipment such as a TV set, set-top boxes, video or DVD recorders, computers or mobile phones to watch or record TV programmes as they are being shown on TV.

If you use a set-top box with a hi-fi system or another device that can only be used to produce sounds and can't display TV programmes, and you don't install or use any other TV receiving equipment, you don't need a TV Licence.
 

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