Should I be worried?
Should I be worried?
lol your fucking royalty are white trash and you have to pay the equivalent of two days of food per week to own a television.
Shut up bitch
Can you tell those people to fuck off?
>oi were here to make sure you bought your TV loicens
>get the fuck off of my property. I don't have cable television
Don’t worry. They won’t visit you. 99% sure of that. They can know which house has a licence and which doesn’t but they can’t access your wifi and see what you’re watching, that would be illegal.
2nd, they are NOT police, government of council. They work on commission and anyone they sting gets them a bonus. If they DO come (again, VERY unlikely) you can a) ignore them, or b) open the door, say “I’m not interested thanks” and close it. Don’t let them in, don’t be abusive to them, just let them give up. If you let them in youre at risk.
Not really, just keep your windows blinded shut, don't have an outside aerial, and don't let people into your house, also make sure you lock your door if anyone comes with a police officer, they're paid to be there by the BBC observe any warrant and if there is no signature of a judge they can't enter your home. As long as they can't prove you're watching prerecorded live broadcasts or BBC content you're pretty much good, just keep you mouth shut, and don't say anything.
Just shoot them if they get in your property
>righto bruv come out with your hands up fam you need a loicense to be watching the telly
Brits and their fucking tv fees. Lol.
Why would you pay to watch lies
Never understood that about the uk. License to watch TV? I know USA has it's dumb shit too but it's so weird to see that that's a thing.
>posts his address
>posts his identification code
>should i be worried
Yes
Don't you sad fuckers pay enough in taxes for fucking television?? I know a shitload of your money goes to support the royals, they can't cut you slack on fucking shit tier common entertainment???
Do u've still to pay if you don't own it anymore?
If you need to write 21 lines for a 1 sentence text and use diverse bold fonts then you low key tell everyone that you are powerless and stupid.
And this stupid: Do not write below the line at the bottom as if its a legal document or otherwise important.
It's a scam.
Italy has the same thing, but worse because you don't have the option to just not pay. The fee is included in your electricity bill and you can't get out of paying that or it counts as not paying your full bill, with all the consequences of that.
If you want to avoid paying the tax, you have to make a formal request, wait forever for an official to come to your house at some random day and time, have him verify that you don't have a TV anywhere in your house and then wait forever for the thing to be officially notified to the authorities.
Actual Brit here. You avoid letters like this by filling in a 2m form once, they make it sound official and scary but they hold no legal power. If they show up at your house legally you can call the police and get them escorted off your property.
This is to cover BBC programming (per household) and the majority of young brits don't pay at all as it only covers live tv not recorded/catchup/stream services. The letters scare boomers but everyone else is wise to them.
price of socialism. everyone pays for shit tv
Yrs
just pay up you stingy nigger, stealing isn't cool. I'm 30 n pay for it. its totally worth it, have you ever watched american tv? 15 minutes of ads on a 30 minutes program lmao.
Did you just post your address on Yea Forums
I think I can as my friend who knows alot said they can not do anything.
I bought the TV therefore its mine.
Actual question here, not trying to "be cheeky", so... commercial advertisement that actually pays a fee to the bbc or itv isn't a thing? Its seriously absurd us here in the west that a tax is necessary to produce something as stupid as television.
>15 minutes of ads
no one give a mad fuck. its one less bill.
Just make sure your TV is not visible from outside your flat. And deny access to any stranger. They can't force you to let them in. If they put their foot in the door break it with the door, act like you didn't notice. they don't have the authority.
Can't they arrest me?
TV Licensing is a private company. They have zero legal power
Won't they barge there way through the door if I open it? I'm not strong and I don't want physically strong bailiffs coming in and taking my TV that I paid for.
Also I pay monthly for the streaming services I use and I bought my gaming consoles so they should leave me alone.
I won't get arrested just to make sure? They won't get the police.
>Can't they arrest me?
Um, this has been going on since the 50's in Britain and BBC tele licensing, You're only NOW trying to figure this this out? Come on mate.
Only live tv I watch is football games good luck catching anyone doing that lol.
BBC is completely free from advertising. The quality of broadcasting is completely different here from the states. In the US tv is almost unwatchable: there's an ad break every 10 minutes in a 30 minute show, everything seems secondary to showing advertising, there are medical ads EVERYWHERE (illegal here), often channels will intentionally set the actual content to a low volume so when the ad break shows up the ads are louder than everything else...
Only matters if you're watching live TV with it. Just owning a TV isn't a reason to get a license.
No they hold no legal power. They will be trespassing.
I live in the UK.
Not America.
What if they do get a warrant?
Also my TV is used for video games and streaming services which I pay for monthly
I don't watch the TV as there is nothing to watch.
>In the US tv is almost unwatchable
Still un-taxed. Advertiser pay for their shit, not the innocent public. Kind of worth it. Plus we have a shitton of tax-free options. I'm really ok with it. Keep paying your taxes for cheese manufacturing shows.
And I don't have a kitchen window.
>I don't watch the TV as there is nothing to watch.
NOTHING TO WATCH.
Indeed.
I would ignore this as just something to do lmao. Come step up and try something BBC cucks
Stab them then
Or get the IRA to bomb them.
What a dump
>equivalent of two days of food per week
You eat two days for 6£? What are you living on, exclusively ramen noodles? My groceries for 2 weeks for 2 people are roughly 150€ and that doesn't even include lunch on most days, since I eat lunch at work.
Yes, council flats are the epitome of modern English living.
>Kind of worth it.
I don't watch live TV so it really isn't a mandatory payment/tax at all. You think it's "kinda worth it" because you've never experienced anything else. Over here there are spaces in American programming that would be used for a 5m ad break, here it cuts to black for a few seconds and resumes without a break. Even on advertising-funded channels it's nowhere near as bad as you guys have it.
Send them an email or letter saying you don’t need one. If on the rare possibility they do come to your house, Record them with your phone. A lot of them will run away as the bailiffs they hire are corrupt goons. However if they do anything illegal you will have it on camera and you could claim against them for thousands. Do not answer any of their questions at the door as they will try trick you or catch you out. Don’t even say who you are. Just say to them “I’m removing your implied right of access and I do not need a TV License” Simple as ;)
>because you've never experienced anything else.
I don't need to "experience" something I don't pay for. You're talking out your ass. Fuck off.
a can of spam is $3.38. that's six servings, 180 calories each with 7g protein. frozen vegetables are $0.77 340g. that's enough for two days. ramen for two days? $1 at the most.
that's easily four meals for under your 5 fucking quid, doctor who. of course you could do better, but i found that at walmart.com in 2 minutes.
what 3rd world shit hole do u live in
also they cant do shit if u dont pay
I don't care about Yea Forums users knowing my address.
Yes we do.
Those incels can't do shit
How would you write it?
I live in a flat though.
oh, and we don't have any tax on food in arizona, so i guess that helps. they tax your tv, they don't tax my spam.
Cognitive dissonance. American programming is made to spam ads, it will never reach the level of educational quality with jewish advertisers peddling what they want.
History on American TV: ALIENS BUILT THE BUD® LIGHT™ PYRAMIDS
History on UK TV: Planet Earth
Then it's even less likely to happen. Who's gonna let them into the building lol.
Send a letter back saying "eat shit and die you horrible cunts"
Then if they send another one reply back saying you identify as a carrot and carrots do not have money
I'm not strong, I don't have the strength to do so.
How did you know I lived in a flat?
Kill Gordan Smith
I'm young.
Yeah nu/b/ won't do anything even with private information.
whoever drives on that single patch of green amongst the shitty concrete deserves a bullet.
>they dont tax my spam
just how retarded are you?
>posts on b/
>doesn't hide personal information
NYPA faggot, but nice try.
Burn that piece of paper. You've never received it
So nothing to worry about?