Stephen Rowles wrote: >> They seem unable to believe that some people actually don't have a TV. My >> friend deliberately never replies to the letters and makes them come >> round. >> >> I think the last time they did and he refused to let them in. He told them >> he didn't have a TV. The investigator challenged him "but you've got a TV >> aerial." I love his response "I've got a pint of milk in the fridge. >> Doesn't mean I've got a cow in the back garden." >> > > That is really weird... before I was married my fiancee lived in a flat > and had a TV/Video combo, but no TV license, she just used to get video's > out of the Library and watch them. The first time the letter came she > simply replied with "I have a TV, but it is not tuned and I don't watch > TV" and never got pestered again :) > > Will be interesting to find out how well that works, I intend to do the > same thing in the new year (after recording lots of Christmas telly)
That is odd because I thought you were licensing the set(s) at your address and and not the right to receive and watch broadcasts as such. Me, I quite like the Beeb or various components thereof and don't mind shelling out for the service. It'd be a sad loss if we went fully commercial IMHO. Sean -- The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. Frank Zappa -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
