!!! Warning to TV Licence Inspectors !!!

Bongalongherb · 14-05-2014 08:55PM

I can't understand why any-one uses a TV in the first place. How the heck do folk put up with the adverts ? that's why I dumped the sh!tbox years ago. It would melt a persons brain.

Pocoyo · 14-05-2014 08:58PM

Bongalongherb wrote: »

I can't understand why any-one uses a TV in the first place. How the heck do folk put up with the adverts ? that's why I dumped the sh!tbox years ago. It would melt a persons brain.

Do you never have family/people around for long periods of time?

Bongalongherb · 14-05-2014 08:59PM

Pocoyo wrote: »

Do you never have family/people around for long periods of time?

I do indeed, but they don't plonk on about adverts all day. if they start any crap, I lock them in the basement for 2 hours till they shut up.

Pocoyo · 28-05-2014 11:15AM

And this is just one of the reasons i will never pay the licence fee.

FullblownRose · 28-05-2014 12:38PM

Just eat the telly, like Vyv did in The Young Ones.

onlyme! · 30-05-2014 12:23PM

ITS THE LAW!

Zed Bank · 30-05-2014 04:57PM

My mam hadn't paid the TV license and she got a letter informing her the inspector would be around for a visit.

She had every intention of paying, but didn't have the cash handy so was only opening the door if someone called ahead.

Anyway que the inevitable call from the inspector, she didn't answer the door. But the inspector came round the back, peered in the Window, started jumping up and down in pure glee, shouting

"HAHA! You do have a television!"

Titzon Toast · 30-05-2014 05:00PM

Zed Bank wrote: »

My mam hadn't paid the TV license and she got a letter informing her the inspector would be around for a visit.

She had every intention of paying, but didn't have the cash handy so was only opening the door if someone called ahead.

Anyway que the inevitable call from the inspector, she didn't answer the door. But the inspector came round the back, peered in the Window, started jumping up and down in pure glee, shouting

"HAHA! You do have a television!"

Did she release the hounds?

Zed Bank · 30-05-2014 05:01PM

Titzon Toast wrote: »

Did she release the hounds?

Unfortunately no.

SouthTippBass · 30-05-2014 05:19PM

FullblownRose wrote: »

Just eat the telly, like Vyv did in The Young Ones.

"Its a toaster"

FullblownRose · 30-05-2014 05:21PM

Hold on. Aren't they supposed to 'know' if you have a tv?

dickwod1 · 30-05-2014 05:33PM

FullblownRose wrote: »

Hold on. Aren't they supposed to 'know' if you have a tv?

Yes they have "TV detection vans" lol

30-05-2014 05:55PM

Zed Bank wrote: »

My mam hadn't paid the TV license and she got a letter informing her the inspector would be around for a visit.

She had every intention of paying, but didn't have the cash handy so was only opening the door if someone called ahead.

Anyway que the inevitable call from the inspector, she didn't answer the door. But the inspector came round the back, peered in the Window, started jumping up and down in pure glee, shouting

"HAHA! You do have a television!"

I'd have called the cops, there's a tresspasser looking in my back window and acting strange.

30-05-2014 06:09PM

I took the plunge and got rid of my telly. I'm still getting letters with darker shades of red, bigger fonts, and more exclamation points. Got fed up and called them up. They wanted me to write to them declaring that I don't have a telly on the premises.

I don't think the guy on the other end of the phone appreciated my spontaneous laughter.

That said, I'm waiting for the legislation to be changed so that computers need a license. If that happens I will be livid. I use my laptop to work on - the notion that I might need a TV license for a general purpose computing device is ridiculous. It's easy to make the streaming service opt-in - I don't need it, or want it.

neamhspleachi · 30-05-2014 06:19PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm waiting for the legislation to be changed so that computers need a license. If that happens I will be livid. I use my laptop to work on - the notion that I might need a TV license for a general purpose computing device is ridiculous. It's easy to make the streaming service opt-in - I don't need it, or want it.

Proposed broadcasting licence fee?

Fred Swanson · 30-05-2014 06:21PM

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c_man · 30-05-2014 06:25PM

Bongalongherb wrote: »

I can't understand why any-one uses a TV in the first place. How the heck do folk put up with the adverts ? that's why I dumped the sh!tbox years ago. It would melt a persons brain.

I agree. Thank god for AH.

Red Alert · 30-05-2014 07:10PM

What'll happen to the TV license inspectors when the broadcasting charge comes in I wonder? Redeployed elsewhere I presume?

Fred Swanson · 30-05-2014 07:22PM

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dickwod1 · 30-05-2014 08:43PM

I doubt if the Government are going to do a broadcasting licence this term, It wouldn't be good time now to impose another tax on every single household regardless of having a TV or not - their re-elections and support would suffer even worse.

Rory Gallagher · 30-05-2014 09:15PM

I feed TV Licence inspectors to me dog.

delta36 · 30-05-2014 09:18PM

Rory Gallagher wrote: »

I feed TV Licence inspectors to me dog.

Do you have a dog licence?

Rory Gallagher · 30-05-2014 09:22PM

delta36 wrote: »

Do you have a dog licence?

I had one but my dog ate it.:pac:

No Pants · 30-05-2014 09:22PM

Zed Bank wrote: »

My mam hadn't paid the TV license and she got a letter informing her the inspector would be around for a visit.

She had every intention of paying, but didn't have the cash handy so was only opening the door if someone called ahead.

Anyway que the inevitable call from the inspector, she didn't answer the door. But the inspector came round the back, peered in the Window, started jumping up and down in pure glee, shouting

"HAHA! You do have a television!"

Pics or I call horse****.

Chancer3001 · 30-05-2014 09:25PM

Lol @ people not answering the door.

Just answer the door.

If he says hi I'm a tv inspector. Close the door.

riclad · 30-05-2014 09:33PM

They have acess to a list of irish cable tv, sky tv subscribers so ,saying i have no tv is not a good idea,
if you pay for tv channels.
HOW do they get into apartment blocks ,where there,s security doors etc
I hear some women actually go out to work now,
instead of having babys.

Fred Swanson · 30-05-2014 09:41PM

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Chancer3001 · 30-05-2014 11:32PM

I've had the license guy call twice.

Told him to go away both times.

Both times he did.

Phoebas · 31-05-2014 12:38AM

dickwod1 wrote: »

I doubt if the Government are going to do a broadcasting licence this term, It wouldn't be good time now to impose another tax on every single household regardless of having a TV or not - their re-elections and support would suffer even worse.

It isn't a new tax; its a replacement for the existing TV licence, which almost every household is liable for already.

31-05-2014 12:53AM

Duggy747 wrote: »

I'll just put him in the cellar with all the other license inspectors.

I think I have enough of them to power the house somehow, maybe build a few hamster-like wheels or something..........

"It puts the lotion in the basket......"

:pac:

!!! Warning to TV Licence Inspectors !!!

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