These People Are Disgusting...

[Spicerack]

and you have to pay for their garbage.

https://twitter.com/bbccomedy/status/959736439981428736?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

[andy-hughes]

Spicerack - // ///If you wish to view BBC programmes, you pay the fee,///

Another, deliberate?, not quite true statement. //

You can't have a 'not quite true statement' - truth is an absolute, something is true, or it is not true.

I stand corrected on my error, but for the record, I don't make false statements deliberately - ever.

[anneasquith]

Well done op, you have just exposed more people to the funny tweet, thanks.

[-Talbot-]

It is impossible for a licence fee system to work any other way than the way it does now -


What a bizarre statement.

[youngmafbog]

The television tax is disgusting and the fact you have to pay for such an organisation as the BBC in order to watch any other channel.

Should be a subscription channel, if it is so good then people will pay.

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - // It is impossible for a licence fee system to work any other way than the way it does now -


What a bizarre statement. //

I'm intrigued - what's 'bizarre' about it?

[Mamyalynne]

No Islay, not that one.

[-Talbot-]

I'm intrigued how it is 'impossible'

[Spicerack]

Funny, isn't it. The same people who are disgusted by pretty girls in nice dresses gracing F1 grids or anywhere else are quite comfortable with the left wing, biased perverts on the aBBC.
I'm a fairly easy going bloke, if you like it, fine, you pay for it. Don't expect normal people to subsidise you.

[Mamyalynne]

I haven't met anyone who is disgusted by pretty girls - F1 or otherwise.

Glad of that too.

[andy-hughes]

Spicerack - // Funny, isn't it. The same people who are disgusted by pretty girls in nice dresses gracing F1 grids or anywhere else are quite comfortable with the left wing, biased perverts on the aBBC. //

I have been an active part of the 'Grid Girls' debate, and I can't recall anyone expressing 'disgust' about them.

So I am not sure who you mean, is comfortable with the 'left wing biased perverts on the BBC' - or what, if any, the connection between the two might be - ?

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - // I'm intrigued how it is 'impossible' //

I can help you with intrigue, but not with what is, or more likely not, 'bizarre' about what I have said -

A licensing system, as the name implies, means that an individual elects to buy into something offered, by purchasing a licence, which funds the activity, be that television, fishing, whatever.

The system works because everyone undertakes to pay an equal fee, and partake of the parts on offer that they wish to enjoy, and to ignore the parts that they don't wish to enjoy.

The system cannot work if individuals wish to opt out of some parts of the activity because it doesn't suit them. that removes the fairness and equality that underpins the system in the first place.

Now - if you know of a licensing system that fulfils the criteria that the Television Licence Fee does, that works in a different way from the way the TLF works, I am happy to read about it.

I don't believe there is one, so I said as much - nothing 'bizarre' there.

[youngmafbog]

//I have been an active part of the 'Grid Girls' debate, and I can't recall anyone expressing 'disgust' about them.//

Must have been a different thread to the one I was on then.

[Mamyalynne]

I saw views on that thread that found them outdated,and not in keeping with the Sport especially in some Countries and various other comments - but I too missed disgust.

It was a bust thread though.

[Mamyalynne]

^Brilliant typo, sorry - busy thread.

[Zacs-Master]

Satire is always a Marmite thing.

[woofgang]

I think football is disgusting. lets ban it all from the beeb

[Gromit]

The Politicians of all colours favour the license fee brcause it gives them control over the biggest broadcaster.
If the BBC went truely commercial by selling subscriptions and advertising, the could tell the politicians to f-off, because neither side would need each other.
That is why the license fee isn’t going to be scrapped.

[andy-hughes]

Mamya - // I saw views on that thread that found them outdated,and not in keeping with the Sport especially in some Countries and various other comments - but I too missed disgust. //

Absolutely.

I referred to it as outdated in my opinion, and was told I was variously 'offended' and 'upset' on behalf of 'others' -in fact I am neither of those.

[Islay]

How come when you want to slate immigrants or women or gays or coloureds its free speech.
But this is disgusting!!