The clue is in the name "TV Licence".
Don't be so flippin' stupid.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 13:08, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

But the TV licence also pays for the radio.
That seems more important than what it's called.

EDIT: Moreover, the TV licence pays not just for the programmes but for the opportunity to watch the programmes, and that's what I have. Actually seeing them is a mere detail (which is why I don't think that "But I only watch ITV" is a good reason not to pay the licence).
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 13:09, Reply)

Aye but if they wanted your money for that reason
they'd call it "BBC licence" or the suchlike.
I worry how you'd cope if you ever faced an actual, valid and large moral decision in your life.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 13:13, Reply)

Eh?

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 13:15, Reply)

You faff so much about the utterly trivial.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 13:18, Reply)

I think it's one of his most charming qualities.
But then again I rarely have to experience it.
( girlinthehole, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 13:21, Reply)

I'm not wholly sold on the idea that it's trivial.
But I'm much more confident on where I stand on the life-and-death stuff, just because I've spent so much time on it in abstracto.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 13:22, Reply)

Without all those pesky human emotions getting in the way?
Christ, I wish there was an "unlike" button - I've managed to hit "I like this" twice when trying to reply as the buttons are too near each other on my phone.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 13:34, Reply)

You need a bigger phone
Then your clumsy fingers won't just mash the first button they come to!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 13:36, Reply)

Damn capacative touch screens and their amazingly good responsiveness.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 13:42, Reply)

Pretty much, yep...
:)
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 13:55, Reply)

It used to be called a broadcast receiving licence
and you could get one that excluded TV but they stopped the radio only ones in 1971
( Peej, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 13:19, Reply)

"But I only watch ITV"
Do these people really exist? I fear for society if they do!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 13:29, Reply)