if no one answers, they can come back
So if you just do the Millienial thing and never answer your door, you win
Seems like Scott Robson can just fuck off then
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I'm sorry but these "TV detector vans" will never not be funny
Goofy ass sitcom FBI van
are these like pirate radio station detectors or are they actually pretending to be able to detect the presence of a TV in peoples houses? please say it's the later it would be so funny 
BBC swears up and down they work
but according to 
(this is how I see the british, sorry not sorry) evidence collected from a TV van has never been used in court, some say these were more of a "all bark no bite" kind of thing so who knows.
Wow it's Maxwell Smart's van.
Oi! You got a loicense to watch at 'ere show MILF Manor, guv?!
MILF Manor
"He was disappointed to find out that MILF Manor was indeed NOT a porno."
To any disappointed sickos reading this, despair not! The MILFs date the other MILFs' sons & have to share a 2 queen bedroom with their own.
so wouldn't the strategy to "win" MILF Manor be to always stay overnight with the MILF you're busting in rather than go home and listen to your mom get busted in?
I mean, I assume the layout of the mother and son accomodations is for max awkwardness.
lol... any other olds remember when TLC was short for The Learning Channel? that was when it started as a public supported satellite distributed channel to provide educational programming to underserved, hard to reach communities in rural Appalachia. then the government sold it to its private, for-profit competitor, The Discover Channel.
rapidly, it became Here Comes Honey BooBoo and Watch This Guy Listen to His Mom Fuck A Guy His Age.
I love this fucking country.
Never knew TLC was publically supported or distributed! As a youngish old who enjoyed Junkyard Wars, I remember seeing the slopification in real time.
Also yeah I think the one milf who tried that ended up making it to the finale
Isn't that what everyone thinks until they see it's on TLC?
Sorry, this is a Slag Wars House. 😤
I did an image search expecting it to be mostly promo shots of a TV show but 100% of the results are porno and the #1 result prominently feature A DOG. This is the ickiest image search ever. This show has terrible SEO.
heres someone's archive of letters like these he received since 2006 http://www.bbctvlicence.com/
I recommend digging through the website because there is a lot of shady shit going on, from employees hiding their names, to the bbc hiding behind trademarks, to fake employees... its... really bizarre.
more importantly, you are under NO LEGAL obligation to reply to these stupid letters in any way: http://www.bbctvlicence.com/Questions%20and%20answers.htm
okay I'm way too freedom-pilled to understand any of this shit, can someone explain TV licenses in hamburger units? is this a license to own a TV? is this like some kind of state run cable thing? what if I only use my TV to stream and play local files? wrong answers are allowed and encouraged but I'd also love to actually know too
The idea is that if you can receive live television, you have to pay it. The license funds the official state propaganda apparatus.
They like to make a lot of threatening noises about how they can detect that you're viewing live TV or whatever, but it's all nonsense. They send "officers" out to check (these are people most likely employed by firms like Crapita that magically receive all government contracts regardless of the nature of the work). People don't have to let them in, although the officers like to pretend otherwise. In rare cases they can get a warrant to enter, in which case they are accompanied by pigs.
I believe we're allowed to avoid paying even if we have a TV as long as the TV isn't hooked up to a device that can receive live television. The existence of the internet makes this confusing.
On their own website they include the phrase "streaming services" and "Netflix". I'd love to ask one of them pigs to show me how to watch live TV on Netflix 
if at any point there is something on live tv that is also on netflix and you're using netflix you're in violation of the law :^)
What if you watch it on a laptop?
Further, what if you hook up that laptop to the TV?
straight to jail
I believe they are going to stream a "live" boxing fight (Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson). If you watch that on Netflix you will be breaking the law. I'd expect an FOI request to netflix and a query to the paid up licence holder will result in a list of people to pursue. Maybe best use FMHY.net to find a pirate stream for that event if you don't have a license.
More proof that 1984 was a documentary about the UK
TV stations owned by the state paid for by tax money
but TV stations see that TV stations in other countries charge money so they want to charge
but its transmitted over the air so can't enforce it = the honour system
BUT since your taxes paid for it = ?honour? but you already paid of it
If they catch you watching TV without paying for the license something happens
Curtains are pretty effective
They try to get people to confess like by doing theatrics with fake technology pretending to be able to see through walls and curtains
if no one answers, they can come back
however they cannot break in or demand entrance in any real way. no, they don't have a warrant. yes, you can absolutely lie to their faces. even if you have a tv you can just say you use it for video games or something unless they actively see you watching doctor who lmao. but obviously no one would ever do anything so devious and evil 
"that's a pirated copy I'm playing locally, not live tv".
So if I understand this correctly:
The BBC is responsible for collecting licensing fees, so they contract the work out to companies that pretend they're the television cops, who collects the money for the BBC, who gives then gives it to the government, then the government votes to give the money back to the BBC every year as part of the budget, and it covers half their budget.
Is that about right? Did John Madden design this process?
No, the BBC is funded through the licence fee, not the budget. It's a weird system but the idea is that the government can't just turn on/off the funding spigot to put pressure on the BBC.
Of course, they still manage to put pressure on in other ways, by appointing board members etc
No, the BBC is funded through the licence fee, not the budget.
That's not how BBC funding works. The money the BBC's contractors collect goes to His Majesty's Bank Balance (or, the Consolidated Fund if you want to use official euphemisms). There is an annual vote for an Appropriation Act that returns a portion of His Majesty's Bank Balance to fund the BBC for the year.
Never give these fuckers a cent lol, tell em you don't have TV or better yet don't answer the door.
So wait, they're fining you for... Not paying exorbitant prices for a cable box? Capitalistic incel shit istg
Is this scam or is the UK really this dystopian?
dystopian
😂
See the bit that says "If no-one answers, they can come back"
That's it. That's the extent of their "powers" lol
Yes
BBC is CIA propaganda which makes it so much worse. If it was just for nature documentaries then it wouldn't be too bad.
What is this the Murdoch Mafia?
Are TV Licenses mandatory? What if you don't even have a tv?
You only have to have one if you watch live television or streaming services, or if you use a radio at a workplace. I've never had one.
How much do they charge per month?
what are "instalments"?