TV licenses

stevoman · 15-02-2008 03:46PM #1

what a crap country we live when when we have to pay a tax for the right to have a television in our house.

isnt it convenient that the goverment decides how much we pay to keep the national broadcasting network going. talk about having the media in their pocket!!!

christ RTE could at least hire a few different people than the usual D4 "cosmopolitanites" that molest my television screen nightly!!!

END RANT:eek:

chopperbyrne · 15-02-2008 03:48PM

Oh shut up, it's hardly a fortune and we get most of the top American shows before the UK channels.

monkeyfudge · 15-02-2008 03:50PM

You do get to vote for the government and the channel is there to act as a public service to the population. It's not there to make as much money as possible for it's shareholders like a corporate station would be.

The concept is sound... it's just in practice that overall RTÉ isn't all that great.

Mweelrea · 15-02-2008 03:54PM

Its not that bad
If only RTE put the money into proper programming instead of yet another episode of "Murder She Wrote" during the day
*sigh*

admiralofthefleet · 15-02-2008 03:54PM

watch tv3 if rte upsets you that much

stevoman · 15-02-2008 03:55PM

LMFO

thats what i love about boards!!!! giving a useless opinion and letting the worthless bickerbacks begin.

Pighead · 15-02-2008 03:57PM

stevoman wrote: »

what a crap country we live when when we have to pay a tax for the right to have a television in our house.

isnt it convenient that the goverment decides how much we pay to keep the national broadcasting network going. talk about having the media in their pocket!!!

christ RTE could at least hire a few different people than the usual D4 "cosmopolitanites" that molest my television screen nightly!!!

END RANT:eek:

stevo stevo stevo. You must realise that the grass isn't always greener on the other side. Newsflash: Most of the rest of the world pay license fees too. This ill informed rant reminds Pighead of the time his younger sister came home bawling her eyes out proclaiming "Its not fair Pighead, al the girls at school are allowed to wear mini skirts and I'm not" It was only after Pighead explained to her that those girls groinal regions probably stank of dead rabbits that she calmed down and realised maybe things weren't so bad after all.

Its all about context stevo.

swingking · 15-02-2008 04:08PM

Pighead wrote: »

stevo stevo stevo. You must realise that the grass isn't always greener on the other side. Newsflash: Most of the rest of the world pay license fees too. This ill informed rant reminds Pighead of the time his younger sister came home bawling her eyes out proclaiming "Its not fair Pighead, al the girls at school are allowed to wear mini skirts and I'm not" It was only after Pighead explained to her that those girls groinal regions probably stank of dead rabbits that she calmed down and realised maybe things weren't so bad after all.

Its all about context stevo.

*applauses post*

ejmaztec · 15-02-2008 04:10PM

As we pay the licence fee, it should be a cross-section of the general public who decide what amount the various RTE "celebrities" get paid.

"Here's yer ten cent Kenny, ya plank, now feck off!"

Would that not be a better system?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 15-02-2008 04:15PM

Pighead wrote: »

stevo stevo stevo. You must realise that the grass isn't always greener on the other side. Newsflash: Most of the rest of the world pay license fees too. This ill informed rant reminds Pighead of the time his younger sister came home bawling her eyes out proclaiming "Its not fair Pighead, al the girls at school are allowed to wear mini skirts and I'm not" It was only after Pighead explained to her that those girls groinal regions probably stank of dead rabbits that she calmed down and realised maybe things weren't so bad after all.

Its all about context stevo.

Dearest Pighead, this is not the same at all. RTE also has lots of jumped up (jumped on?) little girls and the place laso sticks of dead rabbits.

FunkZ · 15-02-2008 04:18PM

At least we get the Champions League televised. Bring on Inter.

5starpool · 15-02-2008 04:57PM

stevoman wrote: »

what a crap country we live when when we have to pay a tax for the right to have a television in our house.

isnt it convenient that the goverment decides how much we pay to keep the national broadcasting network going. talk about having the media in their pocket!!!

christ RTE could at least hire a few different people than the usual D4 "cosmopolitanites" that molest my television screen nightly!!!

END RANT:eek:

No one is asking you to stay so close the door on the way out please.

stevoman · 15-02-2008 05:00PM

5starpool wrote: »

No one is asking you to stay so close the door on the way out please.

LMFO!!!!:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

aidan_walsh · 15-02-2008 05:01PM

stevoman wrote: »

LMFO

thats what i love about boards!!!! giving a useless opinion and letting the worthless bickerbacks begin.

So, t'was trolling you were. What a clever boy you must be.

stevoman · 15-02-2008 05:06PM

aidan_walsh wrote: »

So, t'was trolling you were. What a clever boy you must be.

no wasnt trolling, making a statement. and then finding the funny side when nobody agrees with me. im off home now have a nice weekend:cool:

thelordofcheese · 15-02-2008 05:52PM

stevoman wrote: »

no wasnt trolling, making a statement. and then finding the funny side when nobody agrees with me. im off home now have a nice weekend:cool:

I agree that the TV License is a load of old cobblers, then again i don't pay it anymore so i can't really bring myself to care.

Mossy Monk · 15-02-2008 05:55PM

stevoman wrote: »

what a crap country we live when when we have to pay a tax for the right to have a television in our house.

isnt it convenient that the goverment decides how much we pay to keep the national broadcasting network going. talk about having the media in their pocket!!!

christ RTE could at least hire a few different people than the usual D4 "cosmopolitanites" that molest my television screen nightly!!!

END RANT:eek:

Yeah, **** this ****. Why are we the only country who pays a television licence? Stupid thread.

Oh wait we are not. Your rant is pointless.

Snake Plisken · 15-02-2008 05:57PM

Mweelrea wrote: »

Its not that bad
If only RTE put the money into proper programming instead of yet another episode of "Murder She Wrote" during the day
*sigh*

Thats for all the fluckers who don't understand Lost so they can have the mystery cleared up in 50 minutes

JohnnyChimpo · 15-02-2008 06:17PM

swingking wrote: »

*applauses post*

:rolleyes:

JuliusCaesar · 15-02-2008 06:57PM

stevoman wrote: »

what a crap country we live when when we have to pay a tax for the right to have a television in our house.

How much crappier is it that you have to pay the government a years' salary or more in order to buy a house of your own??????

eh...that's stamp duty, for those renters out there

Fighting Irish · 15-02-2008 07:12PM

The license would be worth the money if all weeks TV was available for download at rte.ie

lolipops · 15-02-2008 08:56PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

"Here's yer ten cent Kenny, ya plank, now feck off!"

your my hero :rolleyes:

nesf · 15-02-2008 09:17PM

Fighting Irish wrote: »

The license would be worth the money if all weeks TV was available for download at rte.ie

+1

Even the present level of service comes close to good enough.

Stercus Accidit · 15-02-2008 09:19PM

Wheres terry to end another bloody moan arse thread about the tv licence.

nesf · 15-02-2008 09:22PM

Watching TV?

ejmaztec · 15-02-2008 10:05PM

nesf wrote: »

Watching TV?

Hope he's got a licence:eek:

15-02-2008 10:12PM

Mr.S wrote: »

and fair play to RTE for getting Lost and Prisonbreak fairly quickly!

Fairly quickly? Lost airs in the US on Friday and we have it on Monday.....thats legend.

ejmaztec · 15-02-2008 10:15PM

Doesn't RTE get the US imports for next to nothing by pretending to be a penniless TV network with the arse hanging out of its collective trousers?

Axwell · 15-02-2008 10:21PM

Moonbaby wrote: »

Fairly quickly? Lost airs in the US on Friday and we have it on Monday.....thats legend.

Lost airs on a Thursday in the US actually..not so legendary now

AntiRip · 15-02-2008 10:36PM

Fighting Irish wrote: »

The license would be worth the money if all weeks TV was available for download at rte.ie

+2

This would be an excellent idea alright. BTW, most countries have a tv licence. Ours is what e158 compared to e346 in Iceland (Must be good tv there!). In any country where the license was abolished such as Belgium and Netherlands or even in many states in the USA where there never was a licence it's added on to income tax or other indirect taxes.

chuci · 15-02-2008 11:39PM

dont the bbc ru n off the money they get from tv license? but i suppose they dont have the high quality viewing that we have here ahem but why is there so many adds why so many adds

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