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Hope you paid for it bro, otherwise you’re in deep ****.

 

It's quite difficult to hide a 55' TV

 

No mate, I honestly thought it was like paying for Amazon prime or something.

I really did.

 

We used to lock our tele’s in our wardrobes when TV license folk come on camp during my forces years. We got two weeks notice from our SWO every time.

The TV license people will have left camp without seeing a single tele

 

Didn't realise you was in the forces, Tel - how come you're more normal than Comm, he's still fighting his own war?

 

Lots of TV stands though.

 

I’d argue that Comm’s probably got his head screwed on more now than I did when I left. Strange times back then, I got told that it was likely I’d go missing if I went to Basrah... I find I rubbed people up the wrong way back then, I’m much friendlier these days

 

Remember that advert on TV, back in the 80s?

"They know where you live and that you're watching TV. They even know what channel you're watching."

Sneaky ****ers.

 

Always bothers me that, driving along quite happy and some **** say's "your'e listening to rock FM", how the **** do they know

 

****, I thought he was on to something there and I just cancelled my council tax and my water rates. I was going to get work to take me off PAYE too and simply stop paying NI. Can't believe these things aren't a question of choice.

 

It isn't - it just means you're like many of the self-employed who don't pay taxes. Then whine incessantly about taxpayers' money funding things you don't like, while the rest of us pay extra to make up for it.

 

When have you ever seen me whine about that? Or have you just made it up?

Anyway Donga we left this hours ago and are laughing at Leicester now if you don't mind.

 

I'm happy, dare I say even grateful, we have BBC News. As someone said earlier, I'd rather at least some degree of independent reporting than the agenda driven so-called news set by the privately owned moneybag outfits on telly and online.

The only gripe I have is the countless reporters they have turn up wherever some news story is breaking, when one will do. Other than that, their reporting is at a level above the rest.

 

The only people who want to do away with the BBC are those who suck Murdoch's cock. That's literally it.

 

Or people like me who literally never watch BBC and resent paying £150 per year for the privilege ?

 

It is strange that with all the fake news agenda outfits out there who openly come out with lies and propoganda way above anything you can accuse BBC news of, they are the ones who keep being targeted.

 

That's a fair point Diego and doesn't sit comfortably, but there's plenty of others who over recent years have piggybacked onto that argument as a means to shut it down.

 

Tbf on second thoughts i am being a bit disingenuous, i listen to 5live all the time when driving and find it entertaining and very informative.
Sometimes i forget the TV license also covers radio.

 

That’s a fair point and I think many share that view tbh. However, the current push around defunding the BBC is without doubt being politically driven, by those with agendas.

The larger debate around what place a publicly funded broadcaster has in the new age of TV and media is one that needs to take place, but quite how that happens in a truly balanced and honest manner I’ve no idea.