On 02/09/16 20:23, Larry Yaeger wrote:
I so sincerely wish I could pay the license fee. I'm an unwilling moocher from the US that would joyfully be a subscriber if they would only let me. I've been watching British telly since it was radio. I dearly love the Goons. Actually met Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe, at a do in Brighton. And I could go on for pages and pages of the British programming I've enjoyed over the years. I buy DVDs over here. I've bought tons of PAL VHS tapes and Region 2 DVDs in London over the 40+ years I've been visiting as often as possible, which required buying multi-standard players. I would and do happily "vote with my dollars" for Auntie Beeb, and agree she is the best single source of television programming on the planet. I've spent a lot of time in London, including a year on sabbatical, but I've never managed to actually move there. Anybody need a strong computer programmer on that side of the pond? :)
Gadzooks, a fellow Goons fan. Sir, you have excellent taste!
That said, I find the pejorative, condescending tone of some posters about non-subscribers offensive. It's corporate and political bureaucracy that prevents me from paying for my BBC programming, not anything I have control over. And if it bothers you that I watch this brilliant programming, well good. Suffer. You're just being a prig, and you deserve the angst. That's my 2p.
I think the "pejorative comments" were aimed at UK viewers who don't pay, rather than those overseas, such as yourself, who have no option to pay!
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