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[hathycol]

Well.

I slept for slightly too long, and the TV Licence saved me. We got a TV Licence and now have a TV. It's all good.

Cue a ranty letter to all of us this morning, telling us that we're watching TV without a licence and that WE'RE ALL GOING TO BURN type of thing.

I have never got so nasty over the phone. Apparently we had it in the wrong room. WTF? We live in a HOUSE. I told them this and went batshit fucking crazy at them.

I cannot DEAL with that, given that I'm sitting here with my hair out, in my pajamas. I haven't taken a shower, I haven't had a cup of tea or any breakfast or revised for Spanish yet. I am, however, Not Best Pleased so BAH.

You know, I was happy for the three seconds I woke up in before TV Licencing stuff kicked in.

In other news, I have Planned My Weekend. Tonight is Essay Night. Saturday I go shopping for Halloween costumes, pay my car tax (*facepalm*) work more, audition for the Vagina Monologues in the evening (be afraid) and then sleep. Sunday is more work but then mad crazy Halloween party in the evening which is always fun.

A productive weekend all told. And something to look forward to. Especially now we can legally watch fucking TV. Despite the fact we're already paying for the priviledge.

~Hathy_Col~

Comments

[emmysuze.livejournal.com]

You see, I look on the TV license as a different thing. I hotlink pics directly from the BBC website, I download lots of stuff, I keep Rupert Penry-Jones in employment and help provide Doctor Who to the masses... By paying your TV license you help provide a massive service to the whole world. Who else would have paid for the Mr Darcy wet-shirt fest that is Pride and Prejudice?

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

I have no issue to paying my TV licence, I resented getting six letters to the entire house telling us that we weren't paying it.

It was insulting, frankly.

And as I said, I get Doctor Who from my TV licence. That's worth the fee alone!

[living-yen.livejournal.com]

they tried to do that to us in first year as well. the best was the letter sent to 'the occupier' of the 'common room'. (We called her Doris and told her off for not paying for the TV she didn't have because she didn't *exist*!) since most of us didn't even have a TV we just ignored them. If I'd had a small pet rodent I'd have used the letters to line its cage.

and I also have no problems with paying a TV license, I hate that they're basically criminalising the entire population by saying we have to inform them if we don't have a TV otherwise they'll assume we're just not paying up. (I'm just about managing to avoid a political-type rant, I'm going to go and drink tea. that will help)

[living-yen.livejournal.com]

just realised I didn't clarify and could potentially end up sounding hypocritical. The two people who had TVs had licenses for them.

[kelemvor.livejournal.com]

I really hate the attitude that the TV Licensing people have. "Oh, here's an address on the Post Office files that isn't on our list. They MUST be watching TV without a license!" There's no chance that an address may not be registered because the people DON'T HAVE A TV. (I appear to have caught CAPITALS. This will probably pass in a few months.)
*Wanders off to finish lunch*