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we need a "Dibnah Day" or something very much like it



It's a BBC thing, original programming, and more of it please

Happy Birthday H2G2 !

Bon Anniversaire

Cheers

Salut

Slante

And many more...

I'm new on h2g2 but I'm having a great time already!
HERE'S TO THE NEXT 6 MILLION YEARS!!

I thought this was going to turn into a thread composed of and such, but I've learned a lot! I love this place!

Thanks h2g2 for giving me pleasure, making me work hard as a volunteer , and giving me the incentive to write about the things I know!

So Paully, if I did pay the license fee could I enter the competitions?

The question is, of course, where I'm going to come up with 126.50.

I guess you always could try to pay... but that doesn´t change geography

It´s something very British, this "overseas" thingy - you find it everywhere - regardless of fees..

You can pay mine for me if you want and i'll enter the comps on your behalf

OK - only joking - no need to phone the lawyers

Traveller in Time planning to walk to London
"I trust they will use enough red tape "

Going back to this "Overseas" thing. "Overseas" does not equal "Over the Sea" - right? Because if I lived on the Isle of Wight I'd be able to pay a licence fee - right?

And now, back to BFN - if I was in the British Army and posted in Hannover (or Addis Abeba, come to that), I'd be able to enter - right?

Yay!!! Happy belated bday, Hootoo!!!

Very insightful for a six year old!

'Overseas' isn't necessarily a British thing, I don't think. My mother always talks about sending the 'overseas' Christmas cards a couple weeks early, and that sort of thing. But it's very dispiriting to have to always be checking 'outside the UK' on the little boxes and thus missing out on stuff. I think simple access to more BBC stuff would be a very good reason to move to the UK someday.

You move here and you'll quickly regret it.


Yes we have auntie beeb and are greatfull fot it.

But the rest of it you can have

Any takers

We could do an online auction

We might even get a fiver for Hackney

Oh, I'm such an Anglophile that I love everything about England (and the rest of the UK, of course). You try living in America for 15 years - it is very trying on one.

I suppose the grass is always greener and all that.

It's just that when anyone looks at another country all you see are the headlines and either the best that it has to offer or the worst.


It's only when you have experienced it for any length of time can you judge wether it is better than home or not.
And by then it's probably too late to do anything about it

Absolutely!

I don't actually mind paying the licence fee but the BBC is British and I suppose it's only fair that competitions are only open to the licence payers. If h2g2 was run by NBC for example, I'd be disappointed I couldn't enter competitions as I don't live in the US but I wouldn't mind.

'Overseas' may have something to do with the medieval concept of 'Outremer'. Which isn't just the same term in Old French: 'Outremer' was everywhere that wasn't Christendom and was used quite a lot during the crusades (where they went to Outremer and tried to turn it into Christendom).

Isle of Wight is oversolent anyway

Hi EMR

I don't believe that it's possible for people living overseas (ie, outside the UK) to purchase a TV licence - I think they can only be issued to UK households. So, sorry, I'm afraid the competition is still a no-no...

Really sorry not to be able to be the bearer of better tidings.

Paully