Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Perris]

Why don’t they pay a bill to start with?

I wouldn’t know I had to pay the BBC either until I read this.
In NL we don’t need to pay for our national broadcast or any of the commercial ones. We only pay the provider to get connected and many pay for extras or special services. Like Netflix, Disney, on demand TV.

It's a long story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_United_Kingdom_(historical)
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_United_Kingdom
the brief answer is there are no ads on BBC. But actually they advertise their own output a lot between programmes.

 

[MaryJanet]

Is that a Tracy Emin installation?

Tax for art talk!

 

[MaryJanet]

No, sorry I don't remember the name of the artist (I have seen too much yesterday). I am sure though she was not from north Cyprus but related to another moslim country in the middle east.

Now I'm looking at it again, I can see it's not in her style.

 

[BDutch]

It's a long story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_United_Kingdom_(historical)
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_United_Kingdom
the brief answer is there are no ads on BBC. But actually they advertise their own output a lot between programmes.

Its obvious they know who doesn’t pay. So why not send a question/ bill first? A fine suits only for those who deliberately do not pay.

Life is complicated enough for many people. It suits an organisation to ask first, warn if.. And have a decent consumer service that listens and acts upon it for all exceptional circumstances.

TV tax.
My window to the world yesterday (from bus line 63).
Unfortunately I havent seen any real life chickens here.

 

[Perris]

Its obvious they know who doesn’t pay. So why not send a question/ bill first? A fine suits only for those who deliberately do not pay.

Life is complicated enough for many people. It suits an organisation to ask first, warn if.. And have a decent consumer service that listens and acts upon it for all exceptional circumstances.

TV tax.
My window to the world yesterday (from bus line 63).
Unfortunately I havent seen any real life chickens here.
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what are you going to see today? London zoo may have some chickens tucked into one corner or other; it certainly has other sorts of birds

 

[BDutch]

what are you going to see today? London zoo may have some chickens tucked into one corner or other; it certainly has other sorts of birds

We probably start with the Sir Johns Soanes architecture.

 

[BDutch]

Fyi (source NRC yesterday)
A few new laws on animal welfare are coming up in the Netherlands. These are a few plans by our minister of Agriculture.

Cows must have clean drinking water inside and outside from 2026, and calves of a week old are no longer allowed to be on their own. Stables for piglets must be adjusted as of 2028 so that they can eat with the mother. Broilers will have more space from 2026 and laying chickens will no longer be allowed to be kept in cages from 2030.

 

[RoyalChick]

I've just twigged why you don't want to sign in to the BBC:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...candal-1000-people-week-casually-criminalised
I'll try to link to other sites henceforth.

Yes I read about that issue.
But you do not need a TV license (or a TV for that matter) to sign in to the BBC. I have a BBC account and I live 3000 miles from the long arm of the TV license people.

 

[Shadrach]

I've just twigged why you don't want to sign in to the BBC:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...candal-1000-people-week-casually-criminalised
I'll try to link to other sites henceforth.

"conveyor belt justice" is such an apt term.

Why don’t they pay a bill to start with?

It's a long story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_United_Kingdom_(historical)
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_United_Kingdom
the brief answer is there are no ads on BBC. But actually they advertise their own output a lot between programmes.

Yes I read about that issue.
But you do not need a TV license (or a TV for that matter) to sign in to the BBC. I have a BBC account and I live 3000 miles from the long arm of the TV license people.

Whenever one moves to a new property one the first letters one receives is a threatening letter from the BBC licensing demanding you let them know if you use their service/have a TV. I think I've had 30 such letters. The assumption is everyone watches and owns a TV or uses the BBC broadcasting services. It's not like they have any evidence that one has a TV when these letters are sent.
Next there are other services if one wants to read news rather than the governments view of what is news worthy and what the establishment want you to believe.

There are two what should be public sevices currently in the news for appalling practices; the BBC and the Post Office. I try to avoid using either.

 

[Perris]

But you do not need a TV license (or a TV for that matter) to sign in to the BBC. I have a BBC account and I live 3000 miles from the long arm of the TV license people.

if you lived here they'd be after you for £150+ per annum; using the website counts like watching TV, so they'd (subcontracted out to Capita?) come down on Shad like a ton of bricks. Listening to the radio bizarrely doesn't count - for now.