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micko
drive it like you stole it.
Apparently your supposed to have a TV licence if you only have a mobile phone, no TV, no radio. 
Anyone Want To Rant? About Anything? I Do.
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RadaR
The things we do for our fish..
Not quite sure how true this is but someone once told me that if you don't have a tv license and you're laptop is charging up on the mains (during inspection) then the "tv license inspecters" could fine you.....sounds bogus to me. 
interesting, but you don't need a license to watch the iplayer, but you do need a TV license to watch a live stream. How they would find out i don't know.
http
/iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/playing_tv_progs/tvlicence
I remember when the TV license van used to go along the streets to monitor houses. I also remember when the BBC thought it'd be a great idea to put peoples address's on the backs of buses, who hadn't paid their license!
http
/iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/playing_tv_progs/tvlicenceI remember when the TV license van used to go along the streets to monitor houses. I also remember when the BBC thought it'd be a great idea to put peoples address's on the backs of buses, who hadn't paid their license!
Ed's busy sorting the garden so I'll answer, he usually says I speak for him anyway!!
no, we don't watch BBC on any channel on sky, not even their 'wonderful' extra channels which are as bad as the rest IMHO
and as for the BBC radio....no thanks, we listen to Heart and Smooth, both of which have ad's so pay their way, so not needing support like the BBC apparently does...!!
That's applied for all my licence paying life, I'm from the North East and when up there I listened to TFM!!
sky pay the BBC a certain amount to show their channels (as they do with others that aren't sky, like HBO and Fox channel programmes), so why should we pay the BBC to watch them on sky, when sky is already paying the BBC, they're getting their cash out of us already through sky but are now getting it twice, both off us and sky/other providers like cable too...is your head spinning yet!
My rant for the day....tourists driving around our lovely countryside at 10mph.....you may want to view the scenery from your car but I want to get to the farm to get on with doing the animals, some of us live round here, a 20 minute journey from town today took nigh on 45 minutes, here's a suggestion for you lazy things, get out of your car and enjoy the countryside by WALKING through it or stop the car, get out and take a few minutes to admire the view, stop doing it from your car, not only is it annoying to be following you but it's dangerous when you swerve from left to right because you're not watching the road - aghhhhh!!!
Ed's busy sorting the garden so I'll answer, he usually says I speak for him anyway!!
no, we don't watch BBC on any channel on sky, not even their 'wonderful' extra channels which are as bad as the rest IMHO
and as for the BBC radio....no thanks, we listen to Heart and Smooth, both of which have ad's so pay their way, so not needing support like the BBC apparently does...!!
That's applied for all my licence paying life, I'm from the North East and when up there I listened to TFM!!
sky pay the BBC a certain amount to show their channels (as they do with others that aren't sky, like HBO and Fox channel programmes), so why should we pay the BBC to watch them on sky, when sky is already paying the BBC, they're getting their cash out of us already through sky but are now getting it twice, both off us and sky/other providers like cable too...is your head spinning yet!
My rant for the day....tourists driving around our lovely countryside at 10mph.....you may want to view the scenery from your car but I want to get to the farm to get on with doing the animals, some of us live round here, a 20 minute journey from town today took nigh on 45 minutes, here's a suggestion for you lazy things, get out of your car and enjoy the countryside by WALKING through it or stop the car, get out and take a few minutes to admire the view, stop doing it from your car, not only is it annoying to be following you but it's dangerous when you swerve from left to right because you're not watching the road - aghhhhh!!!
SLY pay the BBC nothing. except for content shown on FTA, and subscription only channels. sure they have to broadcast the 5 terrestrial channels/freeview/freesat. but the only pay for its distribution (satellite) not the content.
if you listen to radio, even just commercial channels, its all broadcast on BBC infrastructure. should the equipment owner not get paid?. after all, the radio stations do.
the licence fee also pays, in part, for channel four. (as it is listed as a public service broadcaster).
SLY are just middle men. peddling regurgitated, none original, TV programming. and charging a fortune for it.
as for paying twice for things. just trawl through the SLY channels. the same shows on different 'paid for' channels. you can pay up to 4 times for the same rubbish. even then you cant watch it, unless you shell out even more money (multi room).
this said, things do need to change. how about stopping broadcasters being able to charge, for channels that carry averts, during the program. (adverts on some SLY channels take up 20 minutes pre hour)?
why should SLY/Vermin get paid twice for showing a program? also making it so you pay once for your channels and, as with the TV licence, all you need to do is buy a receiver and you can have as many tv showing it as you like. you have, after all, paid for all these channels. then SLY stop you from being able to watch them.
finally, there,s the production values of the two. think of a program made by the BEEB. say Spooks, DR Who, all the documentary even East Enders. now think of a program made by SLY. BOOB envy!!! (and all its cohorts). actually can anybody think of a quality program made by SLY?
I didn't think so.
just a different view on the subject!
I would like to say (and this is my rant) THAT I HATE BEING SICK!!! BRONCHITIS SUCKS!!!
so, you agree with this....
next BBC rip off link
sincere apologies, I assumed because they paid £300M for the right to show the sports which I remember reading about along with other channels they pay for, I assumed they'd pay for the rest, however god bless google there is plans to have them paying for BBC/ITV/C4 in the very near future....!
I only listen to the radio in the car....oops scratch that, I mean I used to! LOL!! I won't be doing that if the digital changeover means my car radio is obsolete, it may well be, it's the actual car make one and the car is 10 years old so I don't think they'd have been digital ready then - it's still a cassette tape player, that's how old is, but it fits into the car dashboard and can't afford £400 to change it!! so that means won't be listening to that at all now, if I have music on in the house, saddo that I am, I have the 80's one on.....through sky!
as for repeats, it's not like BBC/ITV don't do that, it's not like they show us fresh programmes when we pay for them, as for soaps, same ole storylines doing the rounds again and again, I don't watch them neither we all know what the christmas timetable viewing is before it even comes out don't we if we're talking repeats...! 
mind, the below is if you can believe what you read in the media...like most things it's best taken with a pinch of salt, or rather a bucket load....
guardian link
my rant for the day.....shire horses that like standing on toes, sometimes I wonder if France has the right idea....ouch!!!
next BBC rip off link
sincere apologies, I assumed because they paid £300M for the right to show the sports which I remember reading about along with other channels they pay for, I assumed they'd pay for the rest, however god bless google there is plans to have them paying for BBC/ITV/C4 in the very near future....!
I only listen to the radio in the car....oops scratch that, I mean I used to! LOL!! I won't be doing that if the digital changeover means my car radio is obsolete, it may well be, it's the actual car make one and the car is 10 years old so I don't think they'd have been digital ready then - it's still a cassette tape player, that's how old is, but it fits into the car dashboard and can't afford £400 to change it!!
so that means won't be listening to that at all now, if I have music on in the house, saddo that I am, I have the 80's one on.....through sky! as for repeats, it's not like BBC/ITV don't do that, it's not like they show us fresh programmes when we pay for them, as for soaps, same ole storylines doing the rounds again and again, I don't watch them neither
we all know what the christmas timetable viewing is before it even comes out don't we if we're talking repeats...! mind, the below is if you can believe what you read in the media...like most things it's best taken with a pinch of salt, or rather a bucket load....
guardian link
my rant for the day.....shire horses that like standing on toes, sometimes I wonder if France has the right idea....ouch!!!
Oh nooo! I bet it was putting it on...I've known plenty of horses (well, mostly ponies, the cunning beggars) who learnt to go lame at convenient (for them!) moments.
Staying wth the horse theme, I'd like to rant about the woman who rides past my place on a nice chestnut gelding that's had a loose shoe for the last two #41#### weeks
she also wont walk through the tiniest puddle depsite years of jumping into water on cross country courses...
and ouch, call the rspca its cruelty to animals and im not even joking..
another rant.
one of the horses on the yard escaped from the field when we were bringing everyone in.
he started walking up the A59, a very busy main road that is also a trucking route, and not one person thought to stop, or even slow down, or stop to let us cross to go and get him.
fudgers.
and ouch, call the rspca its cruelty to animals and im not even joking..
another rant.
one of the horses on the yard escaped from the field when we were bringing everyone in.
he started walking up the A59, a very busy main road that is also a trucking route, and not one person thought to stop, or even slow down, or stop to let us cross to go and get him.
fudgers.
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micko
drive it like you stole it.
On the theme of horses, I was absolutely appaled at the state of horses, ponies, donekeys and shetland ponies at the lamma's fair yesterday (well known fair that happens once a year, goes on for two days here in Northern Ireland) they had clearly visible sores, A LOT of them without shoes and could see their ribs. There was one lad who I believed to be from the travelling community, riding a horse and whipping it constantly up and down the street. There was no saddle and he was wearing jeans. The poor horse looked like it needed a good feed.
One wee foal really caught my eye, he was tiny, smaller than our rotweiller, starved and obviously hoaching in some some of fleas. He came right up to me and let me stroke him, I couldn't ask how much it was as I'd have wanted him regardless of price and we really could not keep one as we don't have the land.
One wee foal really caught my eye, he was tiny, smaller than our rotweiller, starved and obviously hoaching in some some of fleas. He came right up to me and let me stroke him, I couldn't ask how much it was as I'd have wanted him regardless of price and we really could not keep one as we don't have the land.
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You could argue that the same happens to Cows, Pigs, Lambs and Sheep etc when we kill them for their meat...It's just that Horse isn't as popular in the UK as it is in say...Eastern Europe.
I hate it when people cancel things last minute, I live a fair distance from any of my friends and I arranged to go with a friend to her college enrolment as she was having problems, so I caught the bus and about 20 minutes into the journey she couldn't make it, so annoying
give people notice!
I hate it when people cancel things last minute, I live a fair distance from any of my friends and I arranged to go with a friend to her college enrolment as she was having problems, so I caught the bus and about 20 minutes into the journey she couldn't make it, so annoying
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