BBC fecking iplayer
Because of the stupid logic surrounding it.

I have a TV and cable so rarely watch the BBC as it's full of wank like Eastenders and Animal Hospital. Yet I have to pay £124 a year because my TV can RECEIVE BBC and I may get drunk and decide to watch Gardeners World at 3am.

I have a computer connected to the internet that can play BBCs iPlayer. I do not need a TV licence for this. And the iPlayer has the actual decent stuff from the BBC on it, like the yummy Doctor.

So why the hell do I have to pay £124 for the privilege of having a TV when what I am paying to watch I can watch for free on the internet - and watch it legally to boot!!

They should make TVs that don't receive BBC channels if you don't watch them and then I wouldn't have to fork out stupid money for stupid shit and those annoying BBC3 playdoh poos.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 6 May 2008, 15:15, 6 replies)

You need a TV licence
...to watch television, not just television from the BBC. Blocking all BBC channels wouldn't make a jot of difference.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Tue 6 May 2008, 15:19, closed)

I think you will find...
The money all goes to the BBC and they spend it like this
www.bbc.co.uk/info/licencefee/

All the other channels use advertising for revenue and are funded privately or grants from the government to produce "educational" programmes mainly. They do not see a penny of the TV licence. So you are paying just to watch the BBC. SO by banning them you, in theory, wouldn't have to pay the fee.

Edit: Bravo to the BBC though for managing to obviously hide the fact that you are just paying for them!
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 6 May 2008, 15:27, closed)

I think you will find...
...that while your theory is logical enough, it bears little relation to the law. Plenty of people have tried the "but I never watch BBC" gambit to their cost.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Tue 6 May 2008, 15:40, closed)

Which...
Is why I was ranting about the iPlayer and lack of licence needed, when you do need one for a TV even if you don't watch the BBC.

The reason for "banning" the BBC channels would be then you specifically couldn't watch them unless you had a licence. I am aware it's not going to make a blind bit of difference but that's the whole point of pet peeves, bitching about things you cannot change.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 6 May 2008, 15:45, closed)

Well...
Give me licence fee-funded programming over tosh with advert breaks any day.

I did a little jig when I found out that ITV had lost the rights to the Grand Prix to the BBC. Being able to actually watch the whole thing without them putting a cheeky thirty-second advert break in at every possible opportunity? Bliss!
(webvictim is invariably at work, Tue 6 May 2008, 17:33, closed)

licence
The licence is for you to own equipment for the purpose of receiving broadcasted tv channels. It might not have a plug on it for all they care.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 7 May 2008, 18:49, closed)