[Kirby]

So are you saying that this could actually work? I'm not hearing a no.

Who's with me, we could make millions!

[Madam Corvax]

In Poland there is also tax on TV AND radio if you owe them. Problem is, hardly anyone listend to state-woned stations, so where does all this money go? But not many people are paying it, but it is more like out of habit, because there are not means to penalise you, and even if they were, nobody would bother, becuase it is not much.

In UK they are really nasty about it, and my friednd's been telling me about their little vans with scanning devices going round the city and picking up illegal unpaid for TV.

I do not have a TV or a broadband connection to internet, but I have a TV card for my PC, so if I want I could watch TV. I really have no idea if having a PC card in your computer is the same if you have a TV? And if the card is broken (which it is at the moment) do I still pay?

CHyld, I don't think they will pass this legislation. And you can always emigrate without learning Dutch. In my college there are a lot of native speakers who work as teachers not knowing a word in Polish.

[Chyld]

Two points:

1.) Never underestimate the triviality of the British Government.

2.) If I'm going to actually live in a country, I would feel out of place if I didn't know the language, and my dad, holding a degree in Modern Languages, would probably tear me a new asshole in sheer frustration. Or lock me in a room until I was fluent in Dutch. Whatever.

[Jane Sherwood]

So your dad's a linguist? Impressive.

At least it is to me, who has never taken any foreign language courses and can hardly tell one from the other. Right now, I'd be happy to just master English English over American English.

[Chyld]

Start by adding the letter "u" into a couple of words, abandon the words "sidewalk" and "trashcan", then we'll talk advanced lessons...

[Jane Sherwood]

Adding "u"s and saying "bin" I can do, but if you don't say "sidewalk" what do you call it, then?

[Chyld]

Pavement, of course. It is paved, ergo a pavement.

But lets not lose sight of the stupid tax, because that steams my pwinkles, and no mistake.

[Jane Sherwood]

Do I even want to know what "pwinkles" are?

Aren't PCs expensive enough without putting a tax on them?

[Chyld]

Plus, I'm sure there's something to be said for "But no other countries are introducing this tax..."

[Laughlyn]

The plan was to put a tax on certain computer componants (modems etc) or tax you via the ISP directly (so your bill goes up by about a pound a month). Other hairbrained schemes dreamt up by HMG are: Taxing your bandwidth, Taxing your Paypal, Taxing your E-mail, and Taxing your cat.

The big question is, if you pay the tax, should you get a return? I somehow doubt my tax pennys would be going towards building a nation gird of cheap broadband. If they want me to fork out £118 a year then I'd better get free cable!

I'd lay into the BBC a bit, but I confess that I've never paid the TV licence in my life.

[SimeSublime]

Meyh, I don't pay anything for TV. I just have free to air, not that I watch it much.

[Dr Lecter]

TV tax is crap, its just the government trying to make us pay for every single thing we enjoy, I how they don't introduced a sex tax, you can't have sex unless you had a licence. The day that happens I'm gonna declare a revolution in Britain to overthrow this government and free the people from paying tax on every single thing they like.

Although, by 2017 I hope to be living in a foreign country. I got it down to: Spain, France, Germany, Canada, USA, or Australia. Most likely Canada or France.

This post has been edited by Dr Lecter: 05 March 2005 - 05:08 AM

[Chyld]

To be fair, with some of the morons you see breeding these days (read: half of Hull), it'd be quite a fine idea to make people carry a license to become parents.

But yeah, its quite ridiculous, expecting to get us to pay tax when it only provides five bloody channels. I'd join that aforementioned revolution, but I'm just too damned lazy.

[Laughlyn]

That's 2 channels old boy, the other 3 are commercial. Plus you also get radio, websites, the world service, and ad free movies. Thing is, If the BBC was charging people to own a PC, what happens if they're not in the UK, like say Bermuda, and stream TV from the UK? do they have to pay the bill?

It'll never work.

Breeding should be licenced (a second vote to Chyld's observation, it's not just localised to hull), sex shouldn't be. I'd like to propose a computer license though, that requires at least a basic understanding of PC systems, or the ability to listen to tech support and not screaming at them. Just to control the riffraff.

[Dr Lecter]

How about the ability to check its plugged in?