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i just get letters saying OUR ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WILL BE ROUND ON TUESDAY!!! WATCH YOUR ASSS then they don't come. they send these letters like every month
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GABA ghoul posted:All photographic images in the UK are owned by the queen so if you want to take a look you need a license lmfao thats loving dumb
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Meanwhile in Germany: First person ever jailed over public broadcaster fee Sieglinde Baumert began a six-month prison sentence in February after refusing to co-operate with the authorities trying to force her to pay the public broadcaster fee. https://www.thelocal.de/20160404/first-person-ever-jailed-for-public-broadcaster-fee
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just tax people, goddamn
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Doc Hawkins posted:just tax people, goddamn She would have gotten imprisoned if she did that same thing with taxes as well, though.
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oliwan posted:Meanwhile in Germany: This hero is sill doing his thing however: ""Unsere Stellungnahme im Verfahren um Barzahlung des Rundfunkbeitrags beim Europäischen Gerichtshof - norberthaering.de" posted:Am 27. März hat das Bundesverwaltungsgericht in meinem Verfahren gegen den Hessischen Rundfunk entschieden, zunächst dem Europäischen Gerichtshof (EuGH) Fragen zur Entscheidung vorzulegen. Der EuGH soll entscheiden, ob die deutschen Paragraphen zum gesetzlichen Zahlungsmittel inhaltlich identisch mit den europäischen sind, und wenn nicht, was gelten soll. Mein Anwalt Carlos A. Gebauer hat nun die folgende Stellungnahme in Luxemburg vorgelegt.
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Doc Hawkins posted:just tax people, goddamn It is a tax in all but name already. It's just raised separately and by the broadcasters themselves to protect their independence from the state. If some fart sniffers in the government were to decide on their funding they could use that as pressure and influence the programming. The downside is that we get to listen a lot to libertarian howling about how taxation is theft.(I mean, they are probably also howling about schools, homeless shelters and traffic lights that they don't use but the media doesn't report on that poo poo unlike with the public broadcasting fee.)
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GABA ghoul posted:It is a tax in all but name already. It's just raised separately and by the broadcasters themselves to protect their independence from the state. If some fart sniffers in the government were to decide on their funding they could use that as pressure and influence the programming. The government does decide on their funding, by setting the license fee rate and allowing them to collect it at all. Cameron gave the culture brief to John Whittingdale, who wants to scrap the license fee and probably the BBC altogether, in order to spook the corporation into line, and they duly stacked their offices with former lobbyists, Murdoch hacks and other assorted scum to placate him.
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the BBC World Service is like all the UK has going for it it's certainly the thing I care about most since NPR is a joke
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oliwan posted:Meanwhile in Germany: Look I know you want your country to seem all tough, but: BBC posted:More than one in 10 criminal prosecutions in 2012 were for non-payment of the BBC licence fee. It's still very much junior league compared to Britain. e: Oh and the BBC World Service is paid for separately from taxes and ads, and also has a separate charter about promoting "British values" and such. Ironically this sometimes makes for better reporting. Private Speech has issued a correction as of 04:40 on Oct 14, 2019 |
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:that's basically all they're allowed to do A colleague had someone take hi-res photos of the TV in his flat from somewhere outside, then they came back around with the photos and went "you have a TV, pay or we sue you". Austria, not Germany, but it's absolutely ridiculous -- much like the government apparently gives the loving church information about your income so they can tithe you accordingly.
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happy queens speech week https://twitter.com/HouseofCommons/status/1183321479712247808 https://twitter.com/aliceolilly/status/1183627143382732800
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Private Speech posted:Look I know you want your country to seem all tough, but: Lmao, this is a very stockholm syndrome "No WE'VE got the most repressive government" post Edit: To clarify I don't disagree, it's just depressing that this is the state of the world now. Dravs has issued a correction as of 09:15 on Oct 14, 2019 |
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the Tv license should be a progressive tax just so we can hear celebrities whine about having to pay £20000 just to watch their own poo poo.
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bbc's radio is genuinely good. 6 music is good, Late Junction on radio 3 is absolutely boss if you're into weird experimental music. the world service has good reporting but does unfortunately still have certain imperialist hangups. Radio 4 has some top quality content (the Archers, anyone? omnibus 4ever) also the shipping forecast. gently caress anyone who doesn't love the shipping forecast
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I never thought the day would come where I'd say Iggy Pop was my favourite DJ but, honestly, his show is just wall-to-wall awsome music.
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Hentai Jihadist posted:my porn pass joke go to has always been that itll have your career statistics like top searches and average time but thats a better'n Pornhub already have all those stats
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looks like we are headed for a brexit extension, or a brextension as I have taken to calling it.
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brexit shortly to become the longest running entertainment property in british media
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Squizzle posted:brexit shortly to become the longest running entertainment property in british media it's kinda weird that I can't seem to think of some piece of media that dealt with brexit anxieties in any way, like even b movie action flicks now feature drone warfare but brexit doesn't get even a dumb remark? all I can think of is that brexit netflix movie with cucumberbatch guy
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Honest Thief posted:it's kinda weird that I can't seem to think of some piece of media that dealt with brexit anxieties in any way, like even b movie action flicks now feature drone warfare but brexit doesn't get even a dumb remark? Telling your audience they are a bunch of rubes getting fleeced by the rich does not play well with focus groups.
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Honest Thief posted:it's kinda weird that I can't seem to think of some piece of media that dealt with brexit anxieties in any way, like even b movie action flicks now feature drone warfare but brexit doesn't get even a dumb remark? i think youll find that the tv series “1990” depicts the inevitable consequences of allowing corbyn to act as caretaker pm for even a moment
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Still crossing my fingers for Erdogan greenlighting Valley of Wolves: Brexit.
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make it a doctor who plot or heck black mirror one, are we seriously going to have a new james bond and not even an acknowledgement or have james stranded on standstead because his visa expired lol
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Brexit won't bring back your goddamn honey.
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Honey, I shrunk the Brexit!
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No Deal, or no No Deal That is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, Brexit?
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Neil Marshall's Brexit
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:looks like we are headed for a brexit extension, or a brextension as I have taken to calling it. Brexistential Crisis
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The moment Corbyn ascends to the role of PM in any capacity I expect A Very British Coup to become prophetic.
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The day before Corbyn becomes interims PM all air quality gains in London of the last 30 years will be lost to paper smoke.
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Brexit bent my bananas 😥
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HiHo ChiRho posted:Brexit bent my bananas 😥 No son, the EU bent your bananas. But brexit will straighten them out.
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black rod in the back with so much soul attacks, wrangles MPs with a big black pole
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Honest Thief posted:it's kinda weird that I can't seem to think of some piece of media that dealt with brexit anxieties in any way, like even b movie action flicks now feature drone warfare but brexit doesn't get even a dumb remark? I feel like the 3 or so WW1 movies that have been produced are trying to return to a "simpler time" where Britain was ofc the strong good guy who saved Europe  I thought that crappy Britannia show really missed a trick by not making the whole show about uncivilised brits rebelling against fancy centralised Europeans, the ads played that angle. Instead they did the whole British accents on the Romans thing which made it very confused and stupid just two lots of bri'ish peo'le having an argue bargie. I wouldn't be surprised if a sizeable chunk of brits thought the roman empire was British given how they always get British accents in media.
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Dravs posted:Lmao, this is a very stockholm syndrome "No WE'VE got the most repressive government" post I came around on public broadcasting when I came in contact with Fox News. Nothing is free in life. If you want your boomers to get their news from professional independent journalists instead of some Koch brothers carny freakshow of snakeoil salesmen, you gotta pay for that. So, I pay my public broadcasting taxes and in return I go to bed at night in the knowledge that I will never have to talk to my parents about the Merkel body count or how climate change is a hoax. Fair deal.
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