h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Before Xmas I bought new TV. The old one was still working but not up to the digital challenge really. So we got a 20" Tv with DVD player and video player ensemble. The picture was very clear compared to the old set...and no it wasn't because the other set had a layer of dust on it..it was remarkably clearer
Anyway I got a letter from Tv licensing saying you have bought a TV and don't have a licence at that address. I pointed out in my reply that I had been a license payer since 1977 ,in the same name ,at various addresses and yes I did have a licence evidence enclosed.
Then we had to get a new digi box as the other one, now 8 years old, expired(probably the shock of being attached to the new TV).So I get another letter from TV licensing.I reply again...more prepaid envelopes and paper wasted.
We have had to get a new aerial...you guessed it..another letter came today.I sent a reply back in capital letters and told them to check their records and stop wasting time and money.We are paying for this..we get a crappy signal in the north because the Bilsdale transmitter breaks down everytime it is hot or it rains...and then we wonder why the licence fee keeps going up. Well now you know it's the cost of sending out letters to people who already have a licence!
And to top it all today I get an advert in the same post offering me a mobility scooter..I am only 52 not 102...
I know I've not been well but really...grumble ,fume ,grumble.
So that just capped my day.
to all. Hope you are enjoying fine weather

mobility scooter.can I have it please, I can have races with my mate then

Hmm, nice to know it's not just me then with TV Licence folk. I had my new licence as usual beginning of Feb, last week I got a reminder telling me my licence is due on 1st feb 2009 with dire consequences for me if I didn't re-new!!!

Nice to hear from you anyway Tabs.


Imagines Prof going in guinnes book of records having been nicked for speeding on a mobility scooter.

....relax babe

the more your head gets in twist
the more your health gets in twist too.
you can never beat red tape!
red tape is not worth it!

for while in the Netherlands the health and housing subsidies is done by taxoffice, because of it I get tax refund form, which result I get even get more money from the taxoffice. before I never filled tax refund form in. also Dutch tv licence is now included is now part of the Dutch tax system.

TV licencing are idiots. We used to get this sort of nonsense at university all the time.

they sent people round to our house while we where living in the old place wanting to give me a fine, i dug out my tv licence the apologised and went to the next masette where they wshould have been in the first place

I'm not enjoying good weather (it's bloody raining again ) and I would happily live without the damn TV. But then Ryan and Terli might kill me...

i wouldent kill you i would just wach tv through tinternet

not public money, but don't it make you want to puke
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article4138088.ece

£10,000 to live off and I'd be happy for at least 6 years