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[sjm9876]

TV license is what funds the BBC - and given the amount of stuff it makes, that's a fair bit.

A TV License is legally required to watch live TV, even on computers, though watching after it's aired is still allowed.

Of course, there are very few ways to check that, so unless they launch a full investigation they can't prove anything - and full investigations are worth more than the license, so they don't do them unless someone's being particularly dodgy.

[Caz]

So a bunch of people knocked on my door today and demanded that I pay for my TV license. I told them I don't need a TV license, because I don't watch TV. They told me that I have no way of proving that. I told them they had no way of disproving that, either. Then I told them that I also do not, in fact, have a TV in my room. They left.

So, my WTF is: why the hell do you need a TV license in Britain? How can it possibly be enforced? Who came up with it, anyway?

They're full of crap and can't legally do anything. Tell them to gtfo. It's basically required if you have a TV and is used to fund the BBC.

[Knit tie]

But I don't have a TV. I don't watch the TV out of principle, anyway, even on my computer.

[Orange Wizard]

So, enforcing the law is a crapshoot; requiring going door-to-door, Jehovah's Witness style?

[RedWarrior0]

That seems at least mildly inefficient.

[Caz]

So, enforcing the law is a crapshoot; requiring going door-to-door, Jehovah's Witness style?

Yeah, they also send threatening letters with capital letters in bright red ink. The Licensing Authorities are basically a shower of cunts, but unless you invite them into your house and show them a plugged in TV they can't do anything.

[GiglameshDespair]

Though if you don't watch TV, as mentioned, you don't have to pay.

[Arx]

There's something similar here, except they send threatening text messages too.

I, as a non-TV-watcher, know this thanks to some blerrie M. Ketelo, who keeps giving vaguely spammy organisations my number.

[TD1]

We have a house we use for holidays, and so far we've been told to expect legal action and court action, etc. It's fun watching them say all this, and then do absolutely nothing.

[Knit tie]

So, enforcing the law is a crapshoot; requiring going door-to-door, Jehovah's Witness style?

Yeah, they also send threatening letters with capital letters in bright red ink. The Licensing Authorities are basically a shower of cunts, but unless you invite them into your house and show them a plugged in TV they can't do anything.

See, the realisation that your government is not really any better than our government is one of the reasons I've been swinging to the right ever since I came to Britain.

[hector13]

Why would that make you swing right?

[Eric Blank]

Because swinging forwards and backwards makes too much sense, and you can only move so far to the left before you fatally collide with somebody who was swinging right, anyway. It's a sphere, you see.

[TD1]

Also the right is right.

[Graknorke]

That actually sounds more like a real IQ test, not least because the results actually fell closely clustered around the average.

If the highest was 104 then it sounds like the majority fell below 100.

[hector13]

Also the right is right.

But if you go too far right, you'll be left]