Anyone else doesn't have a TV license?
Do you have a license to make this thread?
>>216898794I don't. But I don't have a royal family, either.
Give me the QRD on tv licenses. Say you get a license, do they care if you just never turn on the stupid thing?
>>216898794You wouldn't use an unlicenced tv would you?
>>216898794Having a tv is like having a jew in your living room.
>>216898794Who the fuck watches live tv anymore?
>>216898794It’s is highly illegal in xir majesty’s court
>>216898824Pay your fine. Or you will go to jail. Meanwhile muslins can legally rape children there without any repercussions at all. Such is life in Bongistan
>>216899025well nobody ever set of a nail bomb at a concert about tv licenses did they
>>216899061Oddly specific scenario there anon, is there something you need to tell us?
>>216899061why would they have a concert about tv licenses
>>216898794Fucking shakedown.
>>216898794Mate, fokkin really mate, like mate really, uve got no license mate like were'all 'ere roight? puttin in our moneys roight? to make the tele go wizbang rought? and ur just avin a fuckin laugh intya with no foukkkin license ya daft cunt FACK
>>216899025This video is a skit.I get the letters from the TV licence company too, I ignore them every single time. They’re retarded and have never shown up in person
>>216898794what is the purpose of a TV license?
>>216899903>BRO ITS A SKIT BRO IT'S UHH ACTUALLY AI BRO The actual state of bongs>>216899931Bongs are whipped and cucked repeatedly by their government, they must constantly be humiliated and forced to pay fines for things. It keeps them in their place and ensures they will except whatever new cuck laws are about to be passed
The BBC actually admitted earlier this year that like 80% of people who are fined are women who let the inspectors into their homes All you have to do is refuse entry, unless they have a police officer there, but even if that happens only like 10% of the time it results in a prosecution Its a fucking joke
>>216898794Orwellian. WTF move outta there now. You lot allowed it to get this bad. More of you than there are of them, and enforcers are traitors. The fact NO bong actors/celebs comment on this; JACKBOOTS.
Why don't they just incorporate tv licenses into their property tax or income tax or whatever elsewhy have some seperate thing
And I'd just see foreign content. Abs pathetic country.
>>216899931ultimate humiliation ritual.having slaves pay for their own propaganda.
>>216899931Netflix before Netflix. you pay an opt-in subscription fee in exchange for ad-free television designed to inform, educate, and entertain. not to mention news, educational materials, software, games...but Americans see this as evil Soviet commie absurdity, for some reason.
>>216900967>dude just ignore them>people only end up paying the fine in 80% of the cases and getting prosecuted in another 10%
pay it one go m8
>>21690116090% of the people who tell them to fuck off dont pay anything
>this used to be the worst thing about the UKwhat the fuck went so wrong so quickly?
>>216898794nutty stuff, i've never heard of anything like this!
Guys I'm so scared I don't even watch tv
>>216898794fuckin wankers
>>216901156the difference is that netflix doesn't harass random people demanding they prove they haven't watch netflix for free somehow
>>216901545Meh, I told them online that I don’t watch their shit and that they should piss off and they still sent mean letters to me, they never showed up though, fuck ‘em
>Me own fucking son, a loicense dodger
>>216901545wow what in the fuck is this bullshit. I filled out their survey. OI. YOU GOT A LOICENSE FOR THAT PHONE?
Just tell them you already paid
>>216898794>you need a tv license to watch an online streaming service
>>216898794The UK needs freedom. Our military should invade
>>216901800The UK would need about 200 yrs of American Constitutionalist rule, hardline Constitutionalists who worship the Founding Fathers, for that shithole to unfuck itself. Otherwise they'd just remain the servile sheep they are today and go right back to voting for the same politicians that reign over them like deities and import hordes of Muslim rapists to ravage their kdis.
>>216901156News is all bullshit though? What about that? Ever heard of the Manchester Bombing hoax? Get fukt Bong
>>216898794What if you don't want a tv? Do the bobbies show up and ask why you don't have a telescreen?
>>216902316They would know you're lying of course, EVERYONE has a tv
>>216898794They're going to climb in your window and jack your shit. whatever they can sell at auction.
>>216898794>loicenseftfy
>>216898823You think the royal family enforces TV licenses? Or does anything at all?
>>216902953I actually heard a member of the royal family breaks into your home and throws your wife and kids into a paki rape gang if you do not provide proof of having a tv loicense
>>216898794Japan does this bullshit too through NHK. Television is an American invention, other countries should respect the American way and offer over the air network broadcasting free of charge.
>>216901545Just ignore them, or tell them to go away, they don't have a warrant or probable cause to search your house.
>>216901771>shekels pay for public services>NOOO YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR PRIVATE COMPANIES TOOVery strange
>>216898794Why is the UK so authoritarian in everything they do?When Sweden had a TV license fee the letters were never so strongly worded or threatening. And now it's just tax funded instead because license enforcement is a total waste of time and money.
>>216899931The license is used to fund the public service tv/radio channels
>>216902316It's not just TV anymore, it's ANY device that can stream. Doesn't matter if you don't use it for streaming.
>>216898794So Brits need a loisance for streaming or is it just TVWho watches TV in 2025
>>216903903It's weird because it's specifically for "watching or recording live TV."
>>216904475So you can't get around it by recording a live tv show and watching it later-that still counts. But I assume streaming things on demand is ok without a license.
>>216903801license enforcement create jobs that become a reserve to police/enforce other stuff down the line. It's a gateway to Shop on Main Street (1965)
>>216898794The writing of this is so amateurish, did some intern write this and no one proofread it?
Did you get permission from the person who sent that letter to share it online?
>>216898794This doesn't look enforceable by law, and they should probably be taken to court.
we had that shit too but there were some loopholes and because of internet poeple knew them and refused to pay. then the government forced us via law to pay them even if we dont have a radio/computer/tv/whatever. the bbc has at least some decent stuff. "our bcc" is a pile of shit
tv license is just automatically applied tax here. in the yestern years could just not pay license and then not let tv license inspectors inside your house, but now not much you can do
>>216898794>Yours faithfullyThis a British thing? Is he going to kiss you when he arrives to check your license or what?
>>216903801The UK's entire identity is not being a continental European and rejecting basically all Enlightenment politics and philosophy that didn't originate on their shitty island. They don't conceptualize society in terms of social contracts and rights. They're just a neo-feudal state full of Dickensian villains that despise the people below them.
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>>216905163Nothing really wrong with thisWhy are they all fat though
>>216905186>we destroy the seized candy
>>216905163A way to grow govt budget, make jobbers rely on govt pay, eventually you toe the line or can't live at all. Starmer + Carney are so transparently WEF puppets; other govts still do some acting.
>>216905163not the fizzy lifting drinks
>>216898824They cant actually enter ur house or do literally anything if you dont answer. its just two wagies who get sent to see who's gullible and opens the door. Normally middle class types will pay it but the poors have gotten advanced at ignoring the tele tax people. keep in mind, you can just have a firestick with no bbc iplayer and there's literally nothing they can do. tv tax gets memed for obvious reasons, but it really is avoidable these days. old people couldn't just rip out their antenna and pretend they didnt watch tv. zooms literally dont
>>216898794Britain gets memed a lot for this, but here in Germany you can't even avoid paying. It's an unavoidable tax. My TV is only connected to my computer, so I don't even receive the state TV stations.
>>216905163This one is actually a useful service though. Americans put poison in their food stuff.
>>216899025wassup, glavset?
>>216901545>If no one answers, they can come backAnd ? What if you don't answers again ? At one point they will loose more money on gas then they would get by this racket
>>216905163EDTA removes heavy metals like lead from your bodyIt's actually a fucking good thing lmao
>>216899468Yes, there was this nail bomb attack committed by some hecking chungus New European Ibn Al Bomballah at Arianna Grande UK concert back in 2017.70 dead, thousand injured, damage control squad was waving 'Don't Look Back In Anger' signs before the bodies of children were even cleaned up.Did you forget?
>>216901160You can't read? They cannot enter your house without a cop present and your consent. Only people stupid enough to allow them in are fined.
>>216905434Germany likely never colonised the countries being posted from, so you’re safe.
>>216898794No, because I’m not a faggot who lives in one of the biggest police states in the world know as Great Britain. Fuck that shit.
>>216905960Safe from what?
Why do they come in person?If you owe loicense fees I am sure there's some sort of court procedure you could follow to get said money.
>>216905994Mockery, but not Hassan Al Bomballah
>>216906003It's probably cheaper to send glorified salespeople than trying to get 1000 pound through the overburned court system (they're too busy going after hate speech online and ignoring migrant crime)
>>216898794I don't watch British TV because it is rubbish. Much more interesting stuff on Youtube.
>>216898794My country had licenses until like 20 years ago
>>216903036I learned this from a Japanese ASMR girl doing a roleplay as an annoying NHK man. If I lived in the UK I think I would brutally rape the tv license guy for months in my "flat"
>>216906102I doubt you go to a criminal court when settling debts.Then again, Anglos are weird.
>>216898794Why can't bongs speak English?
>>216905480I was feeling sad about bongs country being destroyed but then I heard one speaking for a few minutes and I decided they all have to go if they insist on talking like that.
>>216903036A lot of governments see it as their responsibility to propagandize the populace.
>>216905457>thinks his country doesn't do the same thing
>>216906003I get a letter every other week not once had someone knock on my door in over 7 years.
>>216899903They don't have to show up at your door in person as long as they get even one piece of evidence that you are watching live tv or radio without one.One way they used to do this was to go around in TV licence vans,people used to joke that these vans weren't real because there was no way they could track a signal to your house from them, so it was all just intimidation or a shakedown, right?WRONG!The vans used a lower tech way of getting evidence that actually worked. They were equipped with verypowerful parabolic microphones. They simply directed the microphone to the unlicensed property and listened. If they could hear the sounds of a TV or radio from your home, then they could log it and that was the evidence needed for them to issue a fine. Non-payment of the fine meant jail.These days it is usually an unmarked car or van and inconspicuous as the microphone technology has progressed so much its small, hand held and doesn't need to look like a radar or satellite dish on the roof. They a recording of the sound of the show you're watching with a timestamp and if it matches the sound of anyshow officially broadcast at that time within the duration of that show then there's the evidence you were watching live TV. To make that easier, in the UK timecodes are broadcast in ultrasound every minute like pips, that the human ear can't hear, so they don't even have to scour databases unless that fails.However, because they don't have the budget to go around every flag festooned council estate every hour of the day a lot of people get lucky and don't get caught for years, which lulls them into a false sense of security, like yourself.Now they'll be using AI to identify clusters and hotspots of people who don't have licences so it will be like shooting fish in a barrel, same goes for recognising serial non-payers of licences like OP. They can and will be changing methodologies of when and where checks happen, so more likely you'll be caught now.
>>216898794I can't wait to tell my grandkids about a mystical place called England that required a license for everything, voted in their own extinction, and venerated a family of inbred Welshman.
>>216906330kek the UK is so dystopian I can't tell if this is shizo talk or actually realhow do they not rebel against this shit? too much bbc propaganda?
i dont really get it, why would you need a license to watch stuff that is already totally sanctioned by their broadcasting bodies before it even gets on the air. i mean, it's kosher, right?
>one of the few countries you can choose not to pay and public broadcasting isn't funded straight out of everyone's taxes>THIS IS A NIGHTMAREI don't get it.
>>216906411It's state run TV like in Russia. Like everything the state does it's paid for by the tax payer. They just pretend its a license fee instead of a tax because that protects the whole racket from tax cuts.
>>216906330good morning sirFriendly reminder that no agency in the world has the resources to go after literally every little fish out there, but they most certainly want you to believe you do. That's because the cost/benefit ratio on scare tactics and propaganda is a fraction of actual enforcement and almost as effective. The concept is called security theater and relies on you being more likely to abstain from doing something if you're convinced you'll get caught.If that van is actually a real thing and works as propagandized, you can still just say your neighbor is an asshole that blasts his tv on max volume.
>>216898794Love it when I get these letters as they always provide a good laugh.Their latest tactic is claiming "an email linked to this address" is being used to watch iplayer. Of course they don't list the email, or even a hint of it, it's all part of the scare tactics.
>>216906601>believe you dobelieve they do*derp
>>216906330This is pretty much how they detect you now, but the vans aren't the only way of doing it anymore. If they look at your internet history it can make it pretty easy to identify if someone has been or has claimed to watch live tv.Things like the Olympics or the world cup are absolute honeypots. Texting a mate or posting online on facebook, reddit, 4 chan or anything about that great goal you saw the England just scoring, if your phone is triangulated to your home address, or its your home IP address, if they were watching you they have you bang to rights.They can even use it as evidence you were wating live tv if they catch you pretending to watch Doctor Who by trolling in a thread while its live.You'll see plenty of idiots online claiming detector vans, etc don't work or that they're just a lie to intimidate people, but that's 100% not the case, its just that they don't have a huge team of people going around to collect the evidence. They have to get evidence before they can fine, which is usually the hold up as YOU have to be caught using your TV live without a licence. They get enough people caught each year to make it worth doing, but its much better if people just buy licenses in the first place.AI will mean they can catch more people more often though, which should mean more people will have to pay their licences.
>>216906330So what you're saying is I can record a scream, and claim it's my neighbour murdering someone?
>>216906601We have had people try that line on us before, but its quite funny when they do as they have no idea that the microphones are so good now they actually can work out the exact location of the sound source. When we first started using it the whole kit was classified and in a black box from GCHQ.
>>216906330>>216906650>identical writing style, still acts like 2 different anons>>216906777>WeAt least try to make the larp less obvious. Trolling used to be a artform, you know.
>>216906394The British state developed a policy of abhorrent cruelty during the various movements for Irish independence.That policy is now a permanent fixture in how they handle all domestic uprisings. It was Thatcher's guiding light when she decided to brutalize her own working class with the police.The British people are very lovely and it saddens me that they have to deal with an Elite government that fucking despises them.
>>216906760Like the Royal Mail, there are a few quazi government organisations that can enforce the law privately without going through crown courts or the CPS. Thats one of the reasons why the convictions of subpostmasters for embezzlement, when in some cases it was genuinely the badly programmed IT system at fault, got somewhat out of hand. The burden of proof is much lower in these cases. Any evidence of watching live tv without a licence at home and you're usually bang to rights.
>>216898794If anyone comes to your door and you answer it. Don't say anything or confirm who you are or if you even live there. Just tell them to fuck off
>>216898794>>216907092https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKRJ0m8Qv10
>>216906848Cope.You think that the 28,000 to 81,000 people a year are walking into police stations and saying "I have not been paying my TV licence, I feel so guilty, please convict me." >https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-03-20/HL6009/#:~:text=Table_title:%20Answered%20on%20Table_content:%20header:%20%7C%20%7C,75%25%20%7C%20Year%20ending%202024:%2073%25%20%7C
Why don't the tv license ministry just accuse their suspects of racism and hate speech? They don't want to share credit with actual law enforcement?
nuke great britainwhy are there never pairs of stars?
dunno what the license situation is in my country. heard we have one of the highest evasion rates in europe (but that goes with most forms of direct taxes so wtv)never paid it myself and got like one warning letter one time but nothing ever came of it. living in my house for ~7ys now and never got any kind of letter or anything telling me to paynone of my TVs are connected to anything other than my PC so that might be a factor; or they might have just scrapped it altogether asp
>>216907152>this piece of information that cannot be factchecked and is presented by an agency with a vested interest in lying to you is actually true
>>216901545>5,000 visits a dayDamn, they ride their employees harder than Amazon does it's delivery drivers. Poor bastards.
>>216906496ok, makes sense. i wonder if fee payments exceed enforcement cost. of course the whole scam creates extra gov jobs it sustains with the enforcers
>>216901028Same reason they don't incorporate your phone bill or netflix subscription into tax.It's an optional subscription service.
>>216903036Lol they now distinguish between licensed for broadcast and not. So if you pick up tv signals, the channel goes dark for hours at a time on some programs. Paying customers only.
>>216903036they're going to start widevine encrypting ota broadcasts here with atsc 3.0
>>216907689Except you never subscribed
>>216906449It's a tax scheme under a different name kek.
The English countryside is so beautiful, it's such a shame the rest of the country is all busted and fucked and gay.
>someone throws a bucket of water into my garden every day>get bill for using "watering subscription service">henchmen keep banging on my door every few days so I "pay up!!!" >they keep throwing water into my garden, even though I'm not paying
>>216907995Except it’s voluntary and piss easy to avoid. If I avoid tax even once I’m going straight to jail.
>>216907995It's a service charge that I don't pay because I don't use the service. You don't get the option to not pay your other taxes.
>>216908086>If I avoid tax even once I’m going straight to jail The IRS is never going to catch you not filing taxes on your $25k/year mcjob lmao
>>216907934you dont actually need a tv license unless they can prove you watch bbc or the main 5 channels. they actually have basically zero legal power and if you dont respond or let them in they can never do anything to you. using BBC iPLayer requires a license but you literally just have to pinky promise
>>216908060>neighbours hang bucket of water from front gate every day>they constantly ask me to pay for the service>I can also tell them “I’m not using the bucket” and they will leave me alone>if I lie and use the bucket without paying, I get in troubleftfy
>>21690813187k a year salaried + sole trader side business so I do have to file my own taxes. We’re not all fuckups like you lil bro
>>216898794So you even have to pay a license fee to watch an AMERICAN network like Amazon Prime or Netflix? I could see maybe watching the BBC channels, but an american streaming service?
>>216908201The only thing you can legally watch without a license is non-BBC on-demand stuff. So even watching Sky News live on YouTube requires a TV license. I think the reasoning behind the non-BBC stuff is that you’re using their broadcast infrastructure to watch live stuff so you have to pay towards it.
>>216908201British internet tubes
>>216908152How about this fella >>216899025I can't even own a TV or any device capable of receiving the BBC, even if I don't watch it. I'd have to turn my garden into a concrete patch before they stop harassing me. And even then they won't stop pouring water on it. Because the BBC spills its broadcast everywhere. Nobody forces them to hand their content out to everyone, you shouldn't be harassed even if you do consume it.They could put it behind an encryption, but they don't. And it's on purpose.
>Another Russian bot thread trying to convince me that Britain is bad. Two more weeks, vaniggers.
wait let me get this straight, does shit like netflix or hbo count? or is it just live tv?
>>216908237The guy in the video is not being visited by a TV licensing person, they’re being visited by high court enforcement. Which means they already got caught by the TV licensing person, the guy in the video is there just to collect the fine. The exact same thing would happen for an unpaid parking fine, speeding ticket, etc. You have to be functionally retarded to ever get to this point over a TV license. No sympathy from me.In your analogy, you are indeed using the water subscription that you didn’t ask for. You’re free not to. Saying “well I never requested it in the first place” is not a defence.
>>216908342>get bullshit fine>don't pay bullshit fine>court says you have to pay bullshit fine plus another bullshit fine>don't pay>get punished legally including possible jail timehow is it different to a tax again?>hurr durr it's okay because I personally would get away with it, because enforcement is laxbased british morals
>>216908298Britain is the second most dystopian place in Europe beside Putinstan
>>216905163>NOOOOOOO MY GOYSLOP!!!!
>>216908333answer me you fucking whore
I thought you people were getting banned from 4chan by your fascist government cutting off all social media and porno. Whenever happened there.
Is there anything in the UK that isn't a humiliation ritual for the natives?
>>216898794Stopped paying it 10 years ago with no repercussions
>>216908524ANYTHING live requires a TV license. On-demand/streaming BBC stuff via BBC iPlayer requires a license.Netflix/Amazon/other UK channels streaming service (as long as they’re not live) do not require a license.Watching the Joshua/Paul fight live on Netflix would have required a license.
>>216908342The guy in the video is an actor
>>216908651thanks so if you say>no I only watch streaming servicesthey can't do shit correct?
I hear the trick is to pretend to be a neighbour or passerby and call the police saying there are some fake official looking people trying to break in to houses. It wastes half an hour for them and they move on because they're out of time and have to do a high number of house visits each day.
>>216908747and you've just prank called the police, you retard
>>216908651>use none of the Big Black Cock's infrastructure>still expected to pay
>>216905163"We're from the government, and we're here to help."
>>216905163>The popularity of Kit-Kats has risen in recent years due to social media.Are bongs really this fucking retarded that they think candy bars didn't exist until Facebook?
>>216909489ESL not understanding the word "risen"
>>216903027This is actually true in a roundabout way if you think about it
>be Br*t>enjoying my brekkie (blood curd sausage and low-sodium beans)>hear a knocking at my front door>go to check who it is, knocking becomes a pounding>open door>man in a safety vest and two bobbies standing outside>safety vest man glares at me>"Oi ya git, I is from the TV loisence department and I sees you ain't gots a loisense!">what the fuck, /tv/ told me these guys never show up>still caught off guard, try and say I dont watch TV>before I can explain one of the bobbies slams his nightstick into my stomach>fall to the ground, the police and inspector walk over me into my house>coughing, manage to get back up>they're searching every room for my (nonexistent) TV>the inspector turns to me and yells, red in the face>"Ya fookin git, where's the telly?">finally manage to stammer out I don't have a TV>"Oh, well what about your loisence?">ask what the fuck he's talking about>"U havin a fookin giggle m8? Where. Is. Your. Loi-sence?">MOTHERFUCKER I DON'T HAVE A TV>"Exactly! So where's your No-Telly loisence?">w-what>"Ever since you young folks stopped watching telly, the good honest Bri'ish broadcasting has been underfunded. So now we's gots the No-Telly liosence so everyone pays their fair share.">sob as I'm hauled off the debtors prison
>>216910311ya got yer no-loicense loicense?
>>216898794Im a bit unsure the way the word it. do I need to pay to OWN a tv? or tv watch national television??
>>216910311Why don't people know about the super power that is not opening the door and pretending you're not home? I got the cops called on me once for something I actually may or may not have done did and they knocked on my door twice and waited for like 3 minutes then left and I never heard anything about it ever again kek
>>216910850I am 99% sure this is just some indian going around scamming bong boomers and they're just that fucking stupid or it's illegal to not fall for their scams maybe?
>>216911052What was it that you may or may not have done?
>>216911194I wee wee'd on the toilet seat
