Quote from Dylan MacVillain

A license?! It must be a European thing. I encountered that in Germany. A TV tax!! What's next a toilet license/tax?

Believe it or not, a sanitation tax (toilet tax) was tried out in Washington D.C. but failed due to the enormous amount of shit generated by the government.......

Quote from Dylan MacVillain

A license?! It must be a European thing. I encountered that in Germany. A TV tax!! What's next a toilet license/tax?

That used to be the case in the Netherlands as well. It was a tax called 'kijk en luistergeld' (verbal translation kinda). From what I recall from my father's nostalgic stories, pitifull people (the kind of people that were rightfully bullied during their youth) actually walked house by house to check whether there was a TV and if there was, then you had to pay kijk en luistergeld.

It still exists to this day, but instead of explicitely being taxed for watching and listening to TV and radio, it is included in other taxes! So everybody pays that tax, whether you actually watch TV or not and the bastards no longer need to spend their efforts on administration and checking people out.

It's sickening, truly. I personally would have found a TV tax (despite already being ridiculous enough) less worse than hiding it in our other taxes.

Quote from Marx

I rarely watch TV and certainly, I refuse to purchase a license. My refusal of the license is based on the simple fact that while my children may use the TV while their fortnightly visits, that too is rare (unlike their Mother, I don't rely on TV as a baby-sitter). Despite them only being here for three days every second week (plus some in holidays), their use of the TV is still rare even with that in mind. So when I see the license gimp doing his rounds, he only has something like a 1 in 7 chance of coming on the right day and a 1 in 12 chance of finding the TV switched on at the plug... let alone whether it is actually switched on at the button and showing a channel.

Anyway... Keeping that in mind, I caught an episode of Mrs Browns Boys once. Oh dear, I had tears in my eyes from laughing so much. And... it was from the BBC believe it or not.

Yes, Mrs Brown's Boys is a rare gem in a sea of mediocrity, absolutely pant-wettingly hilarious!

Re. TV licensing. They rely on bluff and entrapment to catch people. Those intimidating letters they send out to people who have the temerity to not have a TV licence are laced with legal-sounding jargon but are really just bullying reminder letters. If a TV Licence inspector calls around demanding to inspect your home, you should ask if she/he has a WARRANT. If not, the conversation should end there. They have NO RIGHT to enter your home without a warrant, and to obtain a warrant issued they need evidence. Catch 22! There are many online resources with advice on this, as well as YouTube clips, often advising people not to interact with TV Licensing in any way.

Quote from Bigger Brother

If a TV Licence inspector calls around demanding to inspect your home, you should ask if she/he has a WARRANT. If not, the conversation should end there. They have NO RIGHT to enter your home without a warrant, and to obtain a warrant issued they need evidence. Catch 22!

Excellent advice worth repeating.. worth repeating twice over, so I shall.

Quote from Bigger Brother

If a TV Licence inspector calls around demanding to inspect your home, you should ask if she/he has a WARRANT. If not, the conversation should end there. They have NO RIGHT to enter your home without a warrant, and to obtain a warrant issued they need evidence. Catch 22!

In the UK, it is only the BBC channels, to whom the licence fees are paid; all other channels earn their revenue from advertising. Technically, this means we pay indirectly, anyway, as it effectively will serve to raise the prices of goods advertised on T.V. However, I always found it annoying, having to pay directly for the channels I watched the least i.e. the feministic BBC channels. I always wished there was some way of 'opting out' of having to receive them. I remember the T.V. Detectors calling, while I was at university, living in halls, and smuggling my aerial to the kitchen, to hide it. It is only for RECEIVING, not RECORDING programmes, for which a licence is required. Unless it is actually detected, that you've been receiving channels, I don't know how they can enforce a fine, though; so mainly scaremongering, yes....

Quote from Percy

I am sadddened too Joanne. Like Felixblu I not only was a supporter of marriage but still am. But it is not the same 'marriage' as either now or what came before.

Men are not 'committment phobic' in any irrational sense. Historically such a commitment was far greater than the one women had to make. Today it is far worse as well as far greater.

I strongly support the idea and practice of total committment to one another. But for men it is just too costly.

Marriage today is akin to the same 'commitment' soldiers made at the battle of the Somme. They stand no chance of survival.

Again I am saddened to read what Percy says, but again I totally agree!!! I really believe in marriage, and in the commitment of two people who love eachother, but the risk for men is far too high, and I don't blame them for shying away from it at all. I hope more women will find this site and learn from it, perhaps the family unit will become important again?!!! I do sound far too optimistic don't I!!!!!!

As Boston T. Party writes in his Gun Bible, there are three kinds of people: 1) predators, 2) prey, 3) and those who refuse to be either. Some people are predators, regardless of circumstances. Others chomp at the bit looking for any opportunity to be provided to them to prey upon others. Feminism has given women the legal and social opportunity to prey upon men and the mindest to desire to do so instead of engaging in healthy relationships. Feminism has turned females into generations of predators instead of healthy women. There are some exceptions but not many.

It's better to moan and lose then never lose at all.

In the defence of the good old BBC licence fee.. The BBC is world reknown for its quality programming.. The envy of the world, of course.. And without the licence fee and the folk jailed for not paying it (mostly women, single mothers oddly!!).. We would be a lesser people on these islands..


To which I shall state BOLLOCKS at the top of my voice!!

Paying to be brainwashed?

Stuff that!! The most annoying thing about the licence is, you cant OPT OUT of the fucking bbc shite..

I never watch TV anyway..

Other than "Monkey dust" repeats on U[pube..

Would you hate me, if I were to tell you that I took you seriously for a moment there, felixblue?

Here's why you shouldn't pay the licence fee.

Bribery, Corruption and Fraud at the BBC - Stop paying your TV Licence fee NOW! | www.tpuc.org

An this is exactly why I don't watch TV anymore.
The TV shows went from mediocre to apple piss in under a decade!

How old are these "women" on the DTTB show? 5? And he is a really nice guy too.

To me, all the latest movies, shows and series have so much drama it's like going to a gym but, instead of working out, you dump someone else's sweat all over yourself.