Comments on: Thought Vampire

By: frank

frank — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:39:00 +0000

"No, you pay the fee if you are recieving any broadcast TV signals"

Seeing as any receiver will pick up the BBC, this effectively means its a BBC-based subscription.

"Anyway the TV licence already applies to computers only here they make the sensible destinction that it only applys to computers with TV cards and ariels."

Very true, but I doubt it's going to stay like that for long. Do you believe the people who brought us the 'We know where you live' campaign aren't going to want to make a quick quid out of every PC?

By: Simon J

Simon J — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 06:10:00 +0000

No, you pay the fee if you are recieving any broadcast TV signals, it’s a licence to recieve TV, not a BBC subscription. Anyway the TV licence already applies to computers only here they make the sensible destinction that it only applys to computers with TV cards and ariels.

By: frank

frank — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:51:00 +0000

"Haven’t missed it either, although my DVD and DivX watching has increased dramatically (no bad thing)"

You’ll want to be careful there: one of the best reasons for getting rid of your TV in the UK is that you don’t have to pay the £110 license fee (No BBC = no fee). In Germany they’ve just decided that you’re going to have to pay a license fee even if you just own a computer from 2007. The logic isn’t very clear (what constitutes ‘a computer’? a pda? a mobile phone? and what about web servers or even people who don’t have a TV card), but I’m fairly sure the BBC will follow this initiative fairly soon. See here: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1113604.html

By: Rightwatch

Rightwatch — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:54:00 +0000

john b,

A Canadian LGFWWer, one of very our own, just told me I wasn't being very nice to you. Hmph. People on my own blog are now criticising me because of you, johnny! Me!

I need a beer.

By: Rightwatch

Rightwatch — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:16:00 +0000

"..things to see, people to do.."

LOL!!

Ayahuasca is Palestinian, I'm European (I won't tell you exactly from where), Leftwatch is Irish-American, we have an Iranian team member and several contributors of various religions, colours, ethnicities and so on. We are truly as multi-culti as it gets.

Tell that to the one-tone-monotone LGF Watch Kids.

By: john b

john b — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:50:00 +0000

Sorry, thought you were American-American and that Ayahuasca was Arab-American. And sure, the post about the telly was a bit self-indulgent, but the point of it was "my TV exploded the night that the first programmes I’ve actually wanted to watch for weeks were on" – not the most exciting irony ever, but not *just* a post about my TV…

And I’ve been busy, y’know; things to see, people to do, you know how it is.

By: Rightwatch

Rightwatch — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:20:00 +0000

Oh, please! "Transatlantic cultural differences" with the "Americans at LGF Watch Watch," what a joke. And don't assume you know our thoughts and ideas, we've been kicking your ass and proving you wrong for a week now.

First: you're making an assumption as big as your mama's ass, johnny bee. Not all of us are American, I thought we already explained this to you. Are you all a bunch of white boys in here? Ha-hah! Whities! I bet you can't even dance!

Second: What we found bizarre is that you would write a post about your 13-year-old tv. It was so bizarre actually, that we mistook your tv for your toilet. I don't have a big tv but I would never write a post about my tv anyway! How self-important is that?! Not to mention, booooooring!!! zzzzzzzz.... Really.

Hanging out with my homies we talk a lot of shit but we've never talked about the size of our television sets. Must be a British thing, the tv fixation.

Hey, btw, how come you don't come see us anymore? Did my posse scare you?

By: Simon J

Simon J — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:39:00 +0000

Throughout the final months of our relationship, my (now-ex) fiancée had posetion of my TV in her room, and I had a radio and the computer in mine. I became addicted to Radio 4 and BBC7.

I must hasten to add that the TV was not a cotributing factor to the split, I think.