Author: Sean Gibbins Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] I am a person not a PC...
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
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