BBC rant!

missesther

Azari wrote: »

Really?

So you need to prove you have paid a licence fee before you are allowed to vote?

I think not.

Fair enough Azari, I simply meant that I have to pay for the BBC even if I don't watch it (and I don't), it's like paying for the Mail when I read the Independent. (like paying a tax just to vote ).

With the rise of digital TV and the internet speeds, the way we watch TV is completely changing and it's getting harder to justify a TV license. So many people I know are not renewing their licenses and I may join them, as I've realised, I'm rarely watching live TV.

As for the adverts, with PVR boxes, adverts aren't an issue as they just get skipped through.

battleborn

How about some BBW's?

wary

fluffnutter wrote: »

I think you mean 'lack of interest' or, inelegantly, uninterest. Disinterest means impartiality.

If you have a look at the online dictionaries, these say that disinterest can mean either unbiased or a lack of interest.

According to one, if you look at the origin of the word, Disinterested was first used to mean “not interested, indifferent” (Uninterested in its earliest use meant “impartial.”). " ... it is only more recently that the usage of "Disinterested" has been extended to mean impartial too.

There you go, you've learnt something new, as indeed have the two people who thanked you for your misinformation

If anyone is in any doubt, do your own search.

Southychxc

Why do the people who quibble over the licence fee just not pay it? Take the aerial out of your television, hook up a computer with internet and just use that - less ad's than television (before/after shows and during!) and watch exactly what you want, not what your fed.
I hope someone can clarify that I'm right in saying that your licence fee is only paid to watch live broadcast television (Not Live TV but telly that is being broadcast right now even pre recorded) - so watching BBC iPlayer is fine without your TV Licence.
It does indeed help to keep the disgusting variation of adverts that are force fed upon you and your children off the television.
In my perfect world we'd all watch what we wanted (entirely possible), when we wanted it without paying the blatantly biased corporation money to feed their fat cats!

Azari

wary wrote: »

If you have a look at the online dictionaries, these say that disinterest can mean either unbiased or a lack of interest.

According to one, if you look at the origin of the word, Disinterested was first used to mean “not interested, indifferent” (Uninterested in its earliest use meant “impartial.”). " ... it is only more recently that the usage of "Disinterested" has been extended to mean impartial too.

There you go, you've learnt something new, as indeed have the two people who thanked you for your misinformation

If anyone is in any doubt, do your own search.

I wasn't really misinformation.

The current meaning, at least amongst the literate, is lacking bias.

Unfortunately, there are many who are not particularly literate and like to use a 'different' word or phrase, even if they do not know what it (currently) means. Hence you will hear people talk about 'a whole different ballpark'.

It is pure chance that there happens to be historical evidence that the word once meant what the illiterate are now using it to mean.

This would not be important except that each time this happens it robs English of some of its power and we lose useful distinctions between words such as:

insure - ensure - assure
affect - effect
infer - imply

and quite a few others.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

The TV tax is regressive. I no longer pay this tax, legally. Nor does anyone else have to pay this tax.

As long as you have no means to receive or record live TV, you pay no tax.

missesther

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

As long as you have no means to receive or record live TV, you pay no tax.

Actually I don't believe this is true. My parents still have their freesat dish and aerial. They have the wires into the lounge but tied them up as they are not used and they no longer pay for the license (they don't watch live TV). They also bought a SMART TV so they can watch netflix and youtube, etc. The TV license people came round and my dad showed them the setup and they were fine with the arrangement.

Point being, they have the equipment to watch TV but they do not. Therefore, the onus is on Capita to prove they are watching TV, not the other way round. I think they were much happier when they disconnected the TV, I would heartily recommend it.

somethingcorporate

I have a TV that is not plugged into the wall, this seemed to satisfy the TV people and have not paid the fee in a good few years now.

Some stuff on BBC iPlayer is available live so anyone with an internet connection could theoretically have to pay for the license.

ILW

The Midlands accent is truly horrible. I am glad they do not broadcast from there.

ILW

Southychxc wrote: »

Why do the people who quibble over the licence fee just not pay it? Take the aerial out of your television, hook up a computer with internet and just use that - less ad's than television (before/after shows and during!) and watch exactly what you want, not what your fed.
I hope someone can clarify that I'm right in saying that your licence fee is only paid to watch live broadcast television (Not Live TV but telly that is being broadcast right now even pre recorded) - so watching BBC iPlayer is fine without your TV Licence.
It does indeed help to keep the disgusting variation of adverts that are force fed upon you and your children off the television.
In my perfect world we'd all watch what we wanted (entirely possible), when we wanted it without paying the blatantly biased corporation money to feed their fat cats!

Who would pay to make and broadcast the programes in your perfect world?