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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0 Newbie
    Eighth Anniversary 10,000 Posts Debt-free and Proud!
    marleyboy wrote: »
    On saying this, I am covered should they want to scan my house so it matters not to me whether they can or cannot detect digital channels.

    Me too.

    Indeed, I would be delighted if they would "scan" my home then, having established I'm not evading the LF, they could leave me alone.
  • The_Safordian
    The_Safordian Posts: 409 Forumite
    Bedsit_Bob wrote: »
    Me too.

    Indeed, I would be delighted if they would "scan" my home then, having established I'm not evading the LF, they could leave me alone.

    Even then it would only be for a few years before they start again
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0 Newbie
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    The_Safordian wrote: »
    Even then it would only be for a few years before they start again

    Very true. :(
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    The_Safordian wrote: »
    They do it everyday to millions of people. Last year they sent out 85 million threatograms

    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4172233/BBC-blows-13m-on-TV-licence-threat-letters.html

    This guy had to take them to a High Court just so they'd leave him alone

    http://www.tvlicenceresistance.info/forum/index.php/topic,5093.0.html

    But you keep doing the BBC's PR

    I read about that twit some time ago. He tried to pretend that he had had a digital television set for thirty years.

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    marleyboy wrote: »
    Would you care to answer it again with a simple Yes or No?

    I only ask because I must have missed the post where you answered the question.

    I reluctantly buy a TV licence and I never watch the BBC, but choose to cover myself in case I do. The BBC licence may well be scrapped eventually and I pray for the day it does, even if this means enduring commercials on the BBC.

    Nobody on here wants to pay for a TV licence, but in accordance with the option of BBC, we pay it.

    As has been mentioned above, we have constant repeats and cheap and tacky programmes on the BBC, many of us gripe over it but still pay for the licence anyway, giving us a reason to justify complaining about it.

    Just because members disagree with you over it, does not make them BBC staff members or Trolls. A Troll is someone who constantly attacks other members for not sharing their opinion on a matter, rather than the simple approach of just disagreeing with them.

    Sounds familiar? ;)

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    I do!
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    The_Safordian wrote: »
    Comrade, the source is the FOI so your friends at the BBC must be lying then?



    Well I get 12 or more a year myself and there are around 7 million without a BBC TV Licence so you do the math, comrade

    Well, buy a licence and the letters will stop....job done.
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • The_Safordian
    The_Safordian Posts: 409 Forumite
    edited 22 June 2012 at 11:33PM
    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    Calling other posters trolls is against the rules of this site and you know huch of a stickler you are for the rules. ;)

    Attacking people for merely objecting to the BBC and its TV Licence is trolling. Constantly posting off-topic is also trolling but hey lets pretend to ignore those facts hey.
    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    I read about that twit some time ago. He tried to pretend that he had had a digital television set for thirty years.

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


    Well he hammered the BBC in a High Court but hey you must be right & the court wrong
    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    I do!

    That comes as a shock to everyone
    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    Well, buy a licence and the letters will stop....job done.

    I take this is you suggesting that the threats, intimidation and harassment being carried out by the BBC is ok, pay or else etc
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    The_Safordian wrote: »
    Attacking people for merely objecting to the BBC and its TV Licence is trolling. Constantly posting off-topic is also trolling but hey lets pretend to ignore those facts hey.




    Well he hammered the BBC in a High Court but hey you must be right & the court wrong



    That comes as a shock to everyone



    I take this is you suggesting that the threats, intimidation and harassment being carried out by the BBC is ok, pay or else etc

    You seem happy to use the services that everyone else pays for, I wonder if you would be so sanguine when the BBC run out of money and have to cancel your freeloading.
    The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark
  • The_Safordian
    The_Safordian Posts: 409 Forumite
    Flyboy152 wrote: »
    You seem happy to use the services that everyone else pays for, I wonder if you would be so sanguine when the BBC run out of money and have to cancel your freeloading.

    What are the "services" you refer to?. If you mean the mighty BBC I do not watch it, I don't agree with left-wing propaganda.

    Funny how certain people can keep abusing fellow members like you are now
  • George_Michael
    George_Michael Posts: 4,251 Forumite
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    The_Safordian wrote: »
    They do it everyday to millions of people. Last year they sent out 85 million threatograms

    Did you even bother to read the story to which you linked?
    If you had, you would have seen that it was 85 million "threatograms" over a four year period.
    This is about 58,000 per day so nowhere near the "everyday to millions of people" that you stated.

    If you can't even get your basic facts right, why bother posting in the first place.
    THE BBC was blasted last night for spending £13.5MILLION on chasing unpaid licence fees over the past four years.
    It has sent out a staggering 85million warning letters — dubbed
    “threatograms”.
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