It's called the TV license

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by warmachine

7/16/07 3:10:39 PM

It's called the TV license

If you have a TV or a radio, you must pay a yearly license, with radio-only being cheaper. This pays for the BBC, which doesn't show commercial advertisements. Other channels do. You can't claim you never watch the BBC channels. The only way to wriggle out is to not have a TV or radio.

The comments at the bottom of the article are not a general indication of BBC popularity. The future of the TV license is no longer certain but there isn't much call to scrap it yet. The Daily Mail is read by right-wing, xenophobic, little-Englanders.

Matthew Greet

Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?
- Mark Renton, Trainspotting.

From the "What the? Department" - (folkert) - (15) - July 16, 2007, 02:42:55 PM EDT

(I think it's the BBC tax...) -NT - (Another Scott) - July 16, 2007, 02:43:20 PM EDT

It's called the TV license - (warmachine) - July 16, 2007, 03:10:39 PM EDT

What Matthew said. - (static) - (2) - July 16, 2007, 09:03:55 PM EDT

we have 2, one is called PBS, public broadcasting system - (boxley) - (1) - July 16, 2007, 09:43:39 PM EDT

That's not really the same. - (static) - July 16, 2007, 09:51:27 PM EDT

Most "What the...?" here, IMO, is that you didn't know this. - (CRConrad) - (9) - July 17, 2007, 02:21:48 AM EDT

Fa! I've known about that for near unto 40 years . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (8) - July 17, 2007, 03:42:55 AM EDT

You think counting in furlongs per fortnight is a good idea. -NT - (CRConrad) - (7) - July 17, 2007, 06:20:12 AM EDT

maybe so but at least it aint french -NT - (boxley) - July 17, 2007, 08:35:17 AM EDT

So... where is the Metric equivalent of... - (folkert) - (5) - July 17, 2007, 10:22:48 AM EDT

Well, the decades and centuries are based on 10 . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - July 17, 2007, 10:35:43 AM EDT

There's more inertia than most people realize. - (static) - (3) - July 17, 2007, 08:42:12 PM EDT

The metrification nuts were once powerful here . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - July 17, 2007, 09:06:08 PM EDT

That, I don't know. - (static) - July 17, 2007, 09:18:16 PM EDT

Because Australian spoons are, of course, made to fit... - (CRConrad) - July 18, 2007, 01:44:13 AM EDT

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