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[IronmanG]

Ken Bruce is worth every penny.

[PoolGuy]

Yes, I’m happy with what I get for my 44p a day.

[Mito]

I don't care for football, so they can stop paying for it all together as far as I'm concerned but I'm definitely in the minority on that!

It's still worth every penny as far as I'm concerned.

[Aly-g]

is Gary Lineker really worth £1.75 million a year ? just a waste of money and he is not the only one that is overpaid...! and while i'm having a moan about the beeb is it really necessary to charge someone a licence fee who is blind , can anyone give a good reason for that ? i'll stop now before i say something i regret.

 

 

Allan

[PoolGuy]

 while i'm having a moan about the beeb is it really necessary to charge someone a licence fee who is blind , can anyone give a good reason for that ?

 

Allan

They pay 50%, seems fair.  No one is forced to pay a license fee, anymore than they’re forced to pay BT, Sky, Netflix. Freedom if choice is great.

[mab01uk]

 

 while i'm having a moan about the beeb is it really necessary to charge someone a licence fee who is blind , can anyone give a good reason for that ?

 

Allan

They pay 50%, seems fair.  No one is forced to pay a license fee, anymore than they’re forced to pay BT, Sky, Netflix. Freedom if choice is great.

 

 

You can't watch or record ANY live broadcast TV channels on Sky or Virgin without also paying a licence fee to the BBC so you are forced to pay for something you don't want.

The only way you can avoid paying is to only watch Netflix or everything on catch up excluding BBC iPlayer. Even then you will have the BBC Capita enforcement 'Goons' knocking on your door trying to make you pay. (Watch or Google the BBC TV 'Goons' from Capita harassing people on you tube for example).

 

Interesting and well researched free PDF download booklet here 'TV Licensing Laid Bare' giving all the details of whether you really need a TV licence or not.....

Your unofficial guide to television licence rules, regulations, loopholes and enforcement in the UK:-

https://tv-licensing.../free-book.html

Edited by mab01uk, 06 November 2021 - 09:55 AM.

[Maccmike8]

I hate paying for the license fee. Easily the worst of the channels with very little worth watching, woke and biased and a huge chunk goes on that awful Gary and also Eastenders.

But like Poolguy says - its 44p per day. When broken down like that its worth not having somebody knock at the threatening fines.

Edited by Maccmike8, 06 November 2021 - 10:04 AM.

[Aly-g]

while i'm having a moan about the beeb is it really necessary to charge someone a licence fee who is blind , can anyone give a good reason for that ?
 
Allan

They pay 50%, seems fair.  No one is forced to pay a license fee, anymore than they’re forced to pay BT, Sky, Netflix. Freedom if choice is great.

Really.......! Doesn't seem very fair to me to charge someone who can't watch the TV anything, how an earth does ITV survive without charging a fee ?,i know they advertise but actually so does the bbc maybe indirectly but they do

[PoolGuy]

I think you should check out if blind people ‘watch’ tv, you’re making yourself look a bit silly at the moment to be honest.

[Aly-g]

I think you should check out if blind people ‘watch’ tv, you’re making yourself look a bit silly at the moment to be honest.

i suppose you would think it fair if the government charged people who don't drive road tax as well, at a discount of course,  that would fair in your world to i expect, if you can't read my post properly then don't post a reply , i wrote.........Doesn't seem very fair to me to charge someone who can't watch the TV anything, just in case you do not understand the meaning of can't ,it means CANNOT, so who looks silly now....! your turn.

 

Allan

[Mito]

The TV licence also includes BBC radio.

If a blind person doesn't use a Tv - they can still listen to it - and doesn't use a radio, then they shouldn't really be paying for a Tv licence.

Edited by Mito, 07 November 2021 - 07:18 AM.

[bpirie1000]

https://youtu.be/fBBclgwc9T4

Back to topic.

Anyone else enjoying the hamsters antics..

[Aly-g]

https://youtu.be/fBBclgwc9T4

Back to topic.

Anyone else enjoying the hamsters antics..

as you say , back to the topic lol, not seen the program yet and unlikely to ,cant get discovery+......won't be long before its repeated on some other channel i expect, is it worth watching though ? 

[Midas Mk1]

Couldn’t gel with it when it was on youtube.

Couldn’t help feel it’s a copy of the clarksons farm vibe, yet without hammond doing much except backing an existing business rather than putting in the graft.

[mini-mad-mark]

Apologies in advance to our Non-UK members as most of what I will say will be based on UK TV and UK content

 

I watched the first three episodes of RHW on YouTube and to be honest I thought there was less actual workshop content than some of the other "car" shows which is ironic as it include the word "Workshop" in the title. Depends what you want from a car show.... less interesting to me personally as I don't really care that Richard Hammond's wife mucks out her own horses and that he couldn't find gherkins in his fridge......of course I would probably still rather watch this than Eastenders or about 75% of the rest of what's on TV. 

 

Yes I recognise car shows now are entertainment shows first (Horse dung and missing gherkins?) and tech/information comes (a poor) second and I am realistic that a car show that spent an hour showing you how to shim the ball joints on a mini (or the equivalent task on A.N Other car) would only be interesting to the fans of that particular marque and a limited number of other car guys but unfortunately that number of people wouldn't pay for the airtime (of course I realise that its actually the advertisers that pay for the airtime mainly)

 

"Campervan Crisis" or "An MGB is born" anyone?...... Not a hater - actually watched all of both but I doubt that format would get anywhere near the TV now (not in the UK anyway - maybe other countries have better public broadcasting services?)

 

Not trying to justify it just stating the obvious I guess - probably why I like to watch amateurs and semi-pro's doing their stuff on YouTube as its more realistic and focused - I can just look for mini stuff although there are a couple of others I like (retropowercars if you've seen it)

 

Without trying to hijack the thread I would love to see a list of all the TV car shows people watch/have watched - how about a new thread stating favourite and worst show and generating a list of car shows (in case there are any I've missed) - what WAS the first car TV show in the UK? Maybe First Generation Top Gear? (again apologies to our Non-UK members) 

(I have watched some episodes of some shows and decided they just aren't for me - "Diesel Brothers", "Iron Resurrection"  and "Speed is the New Black")

 

My favourite is hard to decide - I actually really like the high quality and technicality of the workmanship on Bitchin' Rides/Kindig Customs but it's wrapped up in quite a lot of carp which I don't care for.

My personal worst is Fantomworks - I have never seen such fake over acting/reacting to normal issues (think this is finished now anyway, just the re-runs) 

 

As mentioned - depends what you personally want from a Car show on TV - I tend to prefer the actual car fixing stuff but some people must like the carp that people do around it otherwise the shows wouldn't keep going - or maybe like me you watch them and put up with the carp to watch the 15-20 minutes of actual interest (my fast forward button is quite well used....)

 

Also why are the car shows predominantly US and UK (in the UK) - aren't there any other countries providing car shows to Discovery or whoever (and I'm happy to read subtitles so it doesn't have to be English speaking)

I saw one that was based in Cuba I think, which was interesting how they did repairs when they couldn't get parts