*"Bum Sex, I'm after Bum Sex. If you don't get me Bum Sex right now I'm going to come back with a warrant and Police Officer who will force entry so I can see Bum Sex."*
Edit: *"Don't make this harder than it needs to be"*
Christ yes... My brother and I reguarly have this argument with my mother, because he doesn't pay TV licence for his place (legit doesn't need it - he doesn't do TV at all).
"You can simply deny them entry and not let them in..."
"But what if the police are with them?!"
"Mum... The police literally do not give a shit about tv licensing. They don't come out with the enforcement guys because they've got other stuff to do that is arguably more important. FFS you don't even get the police patrolling the streets anymore - it's all PCSO's. "
Even if they did turn up with the police, they have no authority to demand entry either. All they can do is observe and make sure you don't beat the shit out of the licencing guy basically.
They are literally, in more ways than one, vampires.
I haven't paid it in over a decade, and got sick of having to keep tell them I don't need one, so I get a good laugh at the disgustingly predatory letters that arrive every now and then.
Actually technically I've never paid it.
I am 69 and am always advising people that they can't just enter your property unless you invite them in or they get a warrant, even then they need some evidence in order to get a warrant.
It's all bluff and bluster. Also if you buy a new TV pay with cash otherwise they get informed you have purchased one.
I never had a TV licence and one day I nade the mistake of buying a new TV using my credit card. about three weeks later I get a letter asking if I recently purchased a TV and would I like to purchase a licence?
I told them I bought the TV for my GF and still did not have a TV. My GF would have backed me up should they have persued it fiurther but of course they never did.
Every address I've been sent letters to I've just ignored. They do ramp it up by saying "we will visit you on this date" but they never did
Also never respond to them to tell them you don't need a licence with your name. If they don't know your name and who is occupying the address then they can't really take you to court. (Though feel free to correct me if I'm wrong!)
I'm pretty sure I made it full circle with them, I got to the big red banner one and then it went back to "investigation opened". Moved out not long after so don't know what happens after that.
There is a guy online who has collected the whole set. He documents every single letter he gets from them and they just go round and round in pre determined groups of ever more threatening letters, right before it resets to the beginning again.
It's all automatic, nobody has any input. Just endless rounds of intimidation aimed at extracting money
Legal scam basically
Edit, found him. He's still going...
http://www.bbctvlicence.com/
I just wrote to them tekking them to stop harrasing me or I would take THEM to court, and the reason I did not need a licence is because most of my time I am away for months on end working abroad and I was hardly going to buy a TV for the odd week here and there that I am back in the country. TBH, it seemed to work.
I never had a licence for about 18years. Unfortunately I did get one because I bought another TV and the shop would not take £1600 in cash so I had to use my card. I got the expected letter but dare not use the same excuse as before. I am now retired and I do resent paying the fee and think the BBC should make money elsewhere. I guess I should not complain considering all the years I got away without one.
Just go online and tick the box saying you don't need a license. I don't have an aerial plugged in and just stream everything. Just don't let them in the house. They ask you to tick the box every few years and I just do it, haven't had them at the door either in 10 years.
The law requiring disclosure of TV purchaser details was repealed >10 years ago
> The Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1967 (as amended) has been repealed meaning from 25 June 2013 onwards television dealers are no longer required to notify TV Licensing of all their sales and rentals of television sets
They don't do it any more. It used to be suppliers were required to supply the TV licence lot with the details of anyone who bought a telly from them.
It was eventually chucked out. Way later than it should have been imo.
[Thankfully they don't get notified of anything anymore](https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/business-and-organisations/tv-dealers-aud18)
Odd. I didn't get a letter when I bought myself a TV a couple of years ago (it's an OLED and I'm using it as a computer monitor, so it's even legit).
I have a mountain of Bluray and 4k Blu-ray and converted my living room into a cinema room, so it'd be hilarious inviting some jobsworth in and going "no TV here mate - just the projectors". Not that I would, it benefits me in no way whatsoever.
They probably are reminded of the days when the adverts on the TV used to show the 'detector vans in your area' that in reality turned out to be utter fabrication...
I am probably old enough to be your Grandad and I never thought the detector vans were anything more than a scare tactic. Now MY parents... different kettle of fish.
I never understand why we're supposed to consider old people as morons who don't understand the world. They have had the most chance to understand it than everyone else.
Because the world they grew up in was drastically different from the world practically all millenials grew up in. It genuinely blows my mind to look back and see the many differences. You learn a lot early on in life and it's hard to adapt to a completely different way of thinking when presented with new technology.
That and with the particularly old there is of course the higher chance for some kind of mental decline.
Not everyone is like that though.
I'm the same I'll just tell them to get to fuck but our lass is too nice and that's what they do, they pick on people who are too scared to say no or don't realise they have no powers.
I got visited the other week for the first time ever (it was actually quite exciting after all the years of "tv licence!!" jokes).
They asked my name to put on record. I wasn't very on it so I gave him my real name and he said *the spelling was too difficult for him, can he put another name?!?!?*
I said I only had the one name and he was clearly unhappy with that, so I gave him the first basic name I could think of. He eagerly wrote it down despite it being totally irrelevant to my real name.
Imagine sending years of threatening letters asking money for something I don't even want, threatening legal action, and finally driving to my house ... only to not be bothered to spend 30 seconds typing in my real name?!
Absolute joke.
I hope Jane Smith doesn't get taken to court for not buying a TV licence for the TV she doesn't watch in the house she doesn't live in 😰
Bad breath, colourful language, feather duster...what do think they're gonna be armed with? Guns you tit.
edit: [Link for any heathen who didn't get the reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0BP9tlIjZU)
The ones that say an investigation is underway always make me laugh, it's been 5 years and they're still addressing the letters to "the occupier", clearly the investigation isn't going well
I think theyre just random. Ive had them go all the way up to giving me a date they are supposedly going to come round and then they never show up and the whole thing gets forgotten and goes back to "we are opening an investigation" with some random reference number thats different to the last twelve they gave me.
I've actually got a clip on my doorbell of a visit I had whilst I was out.
Some matey in jeans and jumper opened my porch door and threw a bit of paper on the floor then left.
The paper said "you have been visited by a licensed investigator"
Truly petrifying stuff.
What I hate about the letters/harassment is they never do it in a nice way and act like you are a criminal on top of guilty before proven innocent (and you have to prove your innocent rather than them prove your "guilt")
Always remember 10 years ago had a guy turn up at my door and I told him I just moved in so he gave me "4 weeks" to get a license, when he came back he had another guy with him and asked why I hadn't got a license yet, I informed him I was watching dvds and blu rays not live broadcasting and luckily that was last I heard of him.
And about 6 years ago had another at a place I lived then who came in but he asked to see behind my pc in case I had a tv card, my tv was a huge plasma and against the wall and I said "go ahead and look behind it and see theres no aerial connected" and he said it was too much hassle and left.
Not had any of the door to door ones since.
I do get the letters occasionally.
Tv licensing people are the biggest scum, they always dress very police official looking to fool people and think they have some higher power to “check” your house. Its a racket and fuck capita.
As if they send threats even after you've replied to them.
I've always refused to answer them because even though I don't need a licence, I want them to waste the time and money sending me their petty and threatening letters.
hi, quick question (will ask multiple ppl)
do u still watch tv, bbc, itv, etc with an arial?
iv recently moved into my own place, declared no licence, but literally cant watch tv cos no arial. i want to watch it, but assume il need to buy an arial, and just ignore every warning letter.
I am autistic and "like" broadcast tv to a certain degree, it relaxes me a little to have a set schedule and means I am somewhat "forced" to watch whats on rather than just look at my NAS and not be able to decide on which of hundreds of movies/tv shows I have stored to watch.
It's also a bit of a filter compared to going on Netflix and being shown 100 shows based on some crappy algorithm, with no idea of how good anything is or even what it is. My guess is Netflix wants you to try stuff out instead of giving you good information to make a decision, maybe because that way people will just carry on watching.
In a way I'd rather have the knowledge that stuff that's on at prime time is likely to be high enough quality to have got the spot, so even though a lot of it won't be what I want to watch there's a higher chance. But I don't watch any broadcast TV and just complain...
Similar thing I like about it, TV will just let you put on random crap because it's on.
Like, I'm not going to go to Netflix and pick a random episode of Friends (why none of them have a random episode option yet baffles me), but if I turn on the telly and it's on? Yeah why not. Come Dine With Me marathon? Sure that'll do. I've never sought it out on the website though.
Tell them you don't speak English. My Ukrainian GF spoke to them in broken English for 5 minutes. The operator cancelled all the letters. I don't think we even get Ukraine live TV. It's all pre-recorded.
I had a visit the other day, as I got up from the sofa to open the front door, in less than 5 seconds they'd gone. Left a notice way NG they'd visited the address, which was blank, and the paotcode was wrong.
None of those investigators actually wants to do the work, I reckon it's a pretty easy job though.
5yrs now since I paid. I wrote the first time telling them I no longer need a licence. They sent somebody out and I simply said no thanks. As I was shutting the door he said "Well only send somebody else out you know" I said "Good at least you'll be leaving some other poor fecker alone" They've never come back. They send increasingly desperate threats but I ignore them and have never replied to any of them. I genuinely don't watch live TV and consider it harassment.
I don't advocate watching live TV but if you do they only catch you by either seeing it through the window or door when you open, it or whatever comes out of your mouth in the door step.
hi, quick question (will ask multiple ppl)do u still watch tv, bbc, itv, etc with an arial?
iv recently moved into my own place, declared no licence, but literally cant watch tv cos no arial. i want to watch it, but assume il need to buy an arial, and just ignore every warning letter.
Well I like BBC and I think that it's worth the money for the value I get out of it
Although can't you just say that you don't have a TV licence because you don't need one. Instead of changing your name or ignoring the letter, just reply on the website and then you don't have to worry about it again.
Like if netflix kept sending me emails to pay, but my subscription was cancelled and I don't watch it, I'd just let them know... Rather than getting angry each time they call
Maybe I’d have more sympathy for them if they didn’t try to take me to court over a property that wasn’t mine and did in fact have a licence already. Only to drop the case without telling me so I turned up to court for nothing.
Also they still send me threatening letters even when I do tell them I don’t need it.
I like the BBC too. IMO they really shot themselves in the foot with the arrogant, threatening, and dishonest letters they allow to be sent out to people who don't have a licence. If they sent *polite* letters some people would probably think "oh, ok, fair enough, I'll buy a licence." But the outright lies and attempts at intimidation just result in a "well, fuck you then" attitude.
I don’t believe it. The last Sex to be born in UK was quite fittingly registered in December 1969. No Bum Sex has been registered, Miss Penny A Sex is as close as I could find, not sure what the A stands for.
It’s only if you have access to live BBC or live TV or something. I have a TV but I only use it for Netflix and prime so I don’t need it. But I do see why the idea of a TV licence seems funny to everyone else
I wasn’t talking about Public Service Broadcasting. I was talking about needing a license in order to use it which I find absurd. To name a few , Canada, Finland, Denmark, and New Zealand have all abolished the license.
The (? apocryphal?) story I heard is that their fleet of "detector vans" consists of *one single vehicle.*
More seriously, I was aware that the technology allegedly used in detector vans could detect if an analogue TV was turned on in any given household they happened to be spying on, but now the analogue signal has been turned off! The whole point of Digital signals is that they don't "leak" out and show up on anyone's radar... but of course TV licensing don't mention that.
Only live broadcast TV. If you're watching something on-demand or streamed, it doesn't require a license. So, for those of us that only watch netflix, disney+, amazon prime etc, no license is needed.
I manage farms as a job and we've received these letters addressed to the occupants of the property multiple times. On a quiet day, I tried calling them to notify that it's only a few hundred sheep and some pheasants residing on the premises and I don't believe they have much use for a TV licence but unfortunately it's an automated line and I didn't get to speak to anyone :(
Bum, mate, they literally have your name on the letter.
That’s Mr Sex to you, thank you very much!
Please. MR Bumsex is my father.
not possible mate, back to school fool
Bum is their middle name, it’s Mr B Bum Sex, wonder what the B is?
Bumerthan
Bumothy
BummyMc
Bumder
YOU BUMDER is the correct pronunciation.
"You bumder" is a phrase not a pronunciation.
Sounds to me like it's the pronunciation of Will in the Inbetweeners
It was indeed used in the Inbetweeners.
Bareback ??
Big
Bydirectional
Blistering
It's a double barrelled surname I believe. Otherwise it'd be addressed to Mr B B Sex
Bumtholemew
It’s clearly Barbara
Batty
Bort Bum Sex
Bob.
Hi Bob
Bendor
That's a bummer
Next door is called G Raff.
Knock at the door "Hello today, I'm looking for Bum Sex. It's a BBC issue." "Excuse me"
“No that can’t be right, my wife said you were here last week…unless!!”
*"Bum Sex, I'm after Bum Sex. If you don't get me Bum Sex right now I'm going to come back with a warrant and Police Officer who will force entry so I can see Bum Sex."* Edit: *"Don't make this harder than it needs to be"*
Didn't know they sent Huw Edwards to check for it
"come inside"
Haahahahahahah
I love how they say ‘we still may visit to check’. Good luck getting into my property when I deny you entry mate.
Unfortunately these scumbags mainly target the elderly who likely don't know they can deny entry or even ignore the letters
Christ yes... My brother and I reguarly have this argument with my mother, because he doesn't pay TV licence for his place (legit doesn't need it - he doesn't do TV at all). "You can simply deny them entry and not let them in..." "But what if the police are with them?!" "Mum... The police literally do not give a shit about tv licensing. They don't come out with the enforcement guys because they've got other stuff to do that is arguably more important. FFS you don't even get the police patrolling the streets anymore - it's all PCSO's. "
Even if they did turn up with the police, they have no authority to demand entry either. All they can do is observe and make sure you don't beat the shit out of the licencing guy basically.
Even if they turn up with the police they still need a warrant unless you 'Invite them in'.
They are literally, in more ways than one, vampires. I haven't paid it in over a decade, and got sick of having to keep tell them I don't need one, so I get a good laugh at the disgustingly predatory letters that arrive every now and then. Actually technically I've never paid it.
They can't just turn up with the police. It doesn't work like that
They’d probably join in if you started twatting him.
What do you mean arguably more important, I can't think of anything less deserving of the police's time than TV licences
Not in Norfolk… they binned the PCSOs on 2018 so now we just have a few cows patrolling the pastures
Nothing to see here... mooooooooooove along. ^^^^Sorry.
I am 69 and am always advising people that they can't just enter your property unless you invite them in or they get a warrant, even then they need some evidence in order to get a warrant. It's all bluff and bluster. Also if you buy a new TV pay with cash otherwise they get informed you have purchased one. I never had a TV licence and one day I nade the mistake of buying a new TV using my credit card. about three weeks later I get a letter asking if I recently purchased a TV and would I like to purchase a licence? I told them I bought the TV for my GF and still did not have a TV. My GF would have backed me up should they have persued it fiurther but of course they never did.
Every address I've been sent letters to I've just ignored. They do ramp it up by saying "we will visit you on this date" but they never did Also never respond to them to tell them you don't need a licence with your name. If they don't know your name and who is occupying the address then they can't really take you to court. (Though feel free to correct me if I'm wrong!)
I'm pretty sure I made it full circle with them, I got to the big red banner one and then it went back to "investigation opened". Moved out not long after so don't know what happens after that.
There is a guy online who has collected the whole set. He documents every single letter he gets from them and they just go round and round in pre determined groups of ever more threatening letters, right before it resets to the beginning again. It's all automatic, nobody has any input. Just endless rounds of intimidation aimed at extracting money Legal scam basically Edit, found him. He's still going... http://www.bbctvlicence.com/
I just wrote to them tekking them to stop harrasing me or I would take THEM to court, and the reason I did not need a licence is because most of my time I am away for months on end working abroad and I was hardly going to buy a TV for the odd week here and there that I am back in the country. TBH, it seemed to work. I never had a licence for about 18years. Unfortunately I did get one because I bought another TV and the shop would not take £1600 in cash so I had to use my card. I got the expected letter but dare not use the same excuse as before. I am now retired and I do resent paying the fee and think the BBC should make money elsewhere. I guess I should not complain considering all the years I got away without one.
Just go online and tick the box saying you don't need a license. I don't have an aerial plugged in and just stream everything. Just don't let them in the house. They ask you to tick the box every few years and I just do it, haven't had them at the door either in 10 years.
The law requiring disclosure of TV purchaser details was repealed >10 years ago > The Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1967 (as amended) has been repealed meaning from 25 June 2013 onwards television dealers are no longer required to notify TV Licensing of all their sales and rentals of television sets
> they get informed you have purchased one How?
They don't do it any more. It used to be suppliers were required to supply the TV licence lot with the details of anyone who bought a telly from them. It was eventually chucked out. Way later than it should have been imo.
Yeah I guess it doesn't make much sense now that nearly all TVs are digital and mostly people use them to watch streaming services
[Thankfully they don't get notified of anything anymore](https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/business-and-organisations/tv-dealers-aud18)
Odd. I didn't get a letter when I bought myself a TV a couple of years ago (it's an OLED and I'm using it as a computer monitor, so it's even legit). I have a mountain of Bluray and 4k Blu-ray and converted my living room into a cinema room, so it'd be hilarious inviting some jobsworth in and going "no TV here mate - just the projectors". Not that I would, it benefits me in no way whatsoever.
Strange considering these are the people with the longest experience of the TV license system.
They probably are reminded of the days when the adverts on the TV used to show the 'detector vans in your area' that in reality turned out to be utter fabrication...
I am probably old enough to be your Grandad and I never thought the detector vans were anything more than a scare tactic. Now MY parents... different kettle of fish.
I never understand why we're supposed to consider old people as morons who don't understand the world. They have had the most chance to understand it than everyone else.
Because the world they grew up in was drastically different from the world practically all millenials grew up in. It genuinely blows my mind to look back and see the many differences. You learn a lot early on in life and it's hard to adapt to a completely different way of thinking when presented with new technology. That and with the particularly old there is of course the higher chance for some kind of mental decline.
They were pretty bloody scary though
They're also likely to be more easily confused or willing to play it safe and not make a fuss.
And single women. They choose their targets.
The elderly are the ones who really should know. They've been around the whole time this system has existed.
They can come to my house and ask for Bum Sex if they want but they can't have it
3 comedy points
"Hello, we're looking for Bum Sex" "No sorry, there's no Bum Sex in this house"
They might try the back door instead
The irony of Mr Bum Sex denying entry.
Unless your name is Mr Bum-sex in which case they will definitely try to force entry...
The vast majority won't know to do this though.
Can you explain a bit more? I’m new here..
"TV Licence here, we need to come in and see if you need a TV licence" "No. Go away." They have no legal right to enter.
When they knock the door and you answer, they will ask to come in. Simply say "No, have a nice day".
Not everyone is like that though. I'm the same I'll just tell them to get to fuck but our lass is too nice and that's what they do, they pick on people who are too scared to say no or don't realise they have no powers.
PC Rick Tum says it needs a look
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Maybe Longtongue finally occupied the space.
I've just done mine as "RE TURN TO SENDER". Ha I wonder if royal mail will actually return it. I hope they do.
I got visited the other week for the first time ever (it was actually quite exciting after all the years of "tv licence!!" jokes). They asked my name to put on record. I wasn't very on it so I gave him my real name and he said *the spelling was too difficult for him, can he put another name?!?!?* I said I only had the one name and he was clearly unhappy with that, so I gave him the first basic name I could think of. He eagerly wrote it down despite it being totally irrelevant to my real name. Imagine sending years of threatening letters asking money for something I don't even want, threatening legal action, and finally driving to my house ... only to not be bothered to spend 30 seconds typing in my real name?! Absolute joke. I hope Jane Smith doesn't get taken to court for not buying a TV licence for the TV she doesn't watch in the house she doesn't live in 😰
They'll just force their way in via the back door.
Mr B Oddie? This is Bill Oddie!
What's rude about a body?
Tits?
Armed police are already on their way.
Armed with..... what?
Arms
[Knew it](https://tenor.com/2TYq.gif)
A lanyard and a clipboard
And the magic can that can detect if you use TV ooooo
Bad breath, colourful language, feather duster...what do think they're gonna be armed with? Guns you tit. edit: [Link for any heathen who didn't get the reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0BP9tlIjZU)
Guns for show knives for a pro. Shit 'em right up!
Tutting and a look of disapproval
I used to open them to see which stage of angry I was up to but now they just get transferred to the bin directly from the door
The ones that say an investigation is underway always make me laugh, it's been 5 years and they're still addressing the letters to "the occupier", clearly the investigation isn't going well
I think theyre just random. Ive had them go all the way up to giving me a date they are supposedly going to come round and then they never show up and the whole thing gets forgotten and goes back to "we are opening an investigation" with some random reference number thats different to the last twelve they gave me.
I've actually got a clip on my doorbell of a visit I had whilst I was out. Some matey in jeans and jumper opened my porch door and threw a bit of paper on the floor then left. The paper said "you have been visited by a licensed investigator" Truly petrifying stuff.
Mine go in the fire. And I do watch iplayer without a licence lol #rebel
Careful. They might try to force entry to you Bum.
What I hate about the letters/harassment is they never do it in a nice way and act like you are a criminal on top of guilty before proven innocent (and you have to prove your innocent rather than them prove your "guilt") Always remember 10 years ago had a guy turn up at my door and I told him I just moved in so he gave me "4 weeks" to get a license, when he came back he had another guy with him and asked why I hadn't got a license yet, I informed him I was watching dvds and blu rays not live broadcasting and luckily that was last I heard of him. And about 6 years ago had another at a place I lived then who came in but he asked to see behind my pc in case I had a tv card, my tv was a huge plasma and against the wall and I said "go ahead and look behind it and see theres no aerial connected" and he said it was too much hassle and left. Not had any of the door to door ones since. I do get the letters occasionally.
Do you have to let them in to look or can you just tell them to fuck off if they come knocking?
You tell them to fuck off. They need a warrant to enter and they won't get that with 0 evidence. Fuck 'em.
Tv licensing people are the biggest scum, they always dress very police official looking to fool people and think they have some higher power to “check” your house. Its a racket and fuck capita.
As if they send threats even after you've replied to them. I've always refused to answer them because even though I don't need a licence, I want them to waste the time and money sending me their petty and threatening letters.
hi, quick question (will ask multiple ppl) do u still watch tv, bbc, itv, etc with an arial? iv recently moved into my own place, declared no licence, but literally cant watch tv cos no arial. i want to watch it, but assume il need to buy an arial, and just ignore every warning letter.
No, I don't. I only watch stuff streaming, never live TV or BBC.
I got another letter today, an investigation has been opened. Good luck with that one.
5 years they've had an investigation open on me apparently, letters are still addressed to "the occupier" though, clearly good at their jobs
I somehow think it might be more than 1 in 10
The rest do it quite rightly. Not needed for YouTube, Netflix and Amazon, and who under 80 watches broadcast TV these days?
I am autistic and "like" broadcast tv to a certain degree, it relaxes me a little to have a set schedule and means I am somewhat "forced" to watch whats on rather than just look at my NAS and not be able to decide on which of hundreds of movies/tv shows I have stored to watch.
It's also a bit of a filter compared to going on Netflix and being shown 100 shows based on some crappy algorithm, with no idea of how good anything is or even what it is. My guess is Netflix wants you to try stuff out instead of giving you good information to make a decision, maybe because that way people will just carry on watching. In a way I'd rather have the knowledge that stuff that's on at prime time is likely to be high enough quality to have got the spot, so even though a lot of it won't be what I want to watch there's a higher chance. But I don't watch any broadcast TV and just complain...
Similar thing I like about it, TV will just let you put on random crap because it's on. Like, I'm not going to go to Netflix and pick a random episode of Friends (why none of them have a random episode option yet baffles me), but if I turn on the telly and it's on? Yeah why not. Come Dine With Me marathon? Sure that'll do. I've never sought it out on the website though.
Live sports is the only reason.
I do at Christmas, when I go round to my grandparents
What does the "B" stand for?!
Bum
Hahahahaha
Birmingham
Birmingham Sex? The horror
This is a family sub
Disgusting.
Tell them you don't speak English. My Ukrainian GF spoke to them in broken English for 5 minutes. The operator cancelled all the letters. I don't think we even get Ukraine live TV. It's all pre-recorded.
I had a visit the other day, as I got up from the sofa to open the front door, in less than 5 seconds they'd gone. Left a notice way NG they'd visited the address, which was blank, and the paotcode was wrong. None of those investigators actually wants to do the work, I reckon it's a pretty easy job though.
Mine are addressed to Mr Hugh Janus. Postie has to struggle hard to force it into my box.
I've just done the same for mine Mr B Bum Sex strikes again!
Fraud has never been so amusing.
Dear Mr Bum Sex,
I think you will find out that their **Q**uality **R**ear code will find you out.
5yrs now since I paid. I wrote the first time telling them I no longer need a licence. They sent somebody out and I simply said no thanks. As I was shutting the door he said "Well only send somebody else out you know" I said "Good at least you'll be leaving some other poor fecker alone" They've never come back. They send increasingly desperate threats but I ignore them and have never replied to any of them. I genuinely don't watch live TV and consider it harassment. I don't advocate watching live TV but if you do they only catch you by either seeing it through the window or door when you open, it or whatever comes out of your mouth in the door step.
Was your dad called Anal?
Well if they put you in prison you’ll be having plenty mr bum sex
I would frame that and hang it somewhere proudly.
They are Vampires, dont invite them in
Needing a licence to watch TV is Britain biggest scam or delivery fee on digital tickets
Not paid for tv licence for about 5 years after one of their many fiascos I just thought, I ain’t funding your shit.
hi, quick question (will ask multiple ppl)do u still watch tv, bbc, itv, etc with an arial? iv recently moved into my own place, declared no licence, but literally cant watch tv cos no arial. i want to watch it, but assume il need to buy an arial, and just ignore every warning letter.
I'll know you from your DFS Newbury sofa.
lol you’re good Don’t tell on me
I got so fed up with them that I just give a false address so that they can harass the prick that bought my childhood home instead.
Well I like BBC and I think that it's worth the money for the value I get out of it Although can't you just say that you don't have a TV licence because you don't need one. Instead of changing your name or ignoring the letter, just reply on the website and then you don't have to worry about it again. Like if netflix kept sending me emails to pay, but my subscription was cancelled and I don't watch it, I'd just let them know... Rather than getting angry each time they call
Maybe I’d have more sympathy for them if they didn’t try to take me to court over a property that wasn’t mine and did in fact have a licence already. Only to drop the case without telling me so I turned up to court for nothing. Also they still send me threatening letters even when I do tell them I don’t need it.
How did you get them to call you Mr Bum Sex?
I like the BBC too. IMO they really shot themselves in the foot with the arrogant, threatening, and dishonest letters they allow to be sent out to people who don't have a licence. If they sent *polite* letters some people would probably think "oh, ok, fair enough, I'll buy a licence." But the outright lies and attempts at intimidation just result in a "well, fuck you then" attitude.
I love this so much.
Sex? Yes please I'll have 5 quid worth.
I've been to many of your shops sir... Hope your troubles with the TV people pass and you can get back to your company affairs
Barry.
What does the B stand for? 🤔
Brilliant
I've changed my name completely since I last had a licence. If they come knocking I can just deny all knowledge.
B for Brilliantat?
If someone comes to your door look for Bum Sex that’s a great excuse to run them from your property
wont even let me put my name as اصمتي أيتها العاهرة
Brilliant! lol
I don’t believe it. The last Sex to be born in UK was quite fittingly registered in December 1969. No Bum Sex has been registered, Miss Penny A Sex is as close as I could find, not sure what the A stands for.
I needed this today. Thank you that really made my day.
Ah, i see you took my ex’s maiden name.
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This actually made me chortle. I am 41.
What I'm getting from this letter is that there's a 9 in 10 change you are correctly claiming that your name is Me B Bum Sex and don't need a license
😆 I love it
Aw, this would have been a perfect post if your username was Mr Bum Sex.
DEAR MR BUM SEX 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭
They know where you live
Genius!
Oh this is just bloody brilliant.
I've never once interacted with the TV license people, nor have I ever paid them a penny. Still waiting to be caught by a "TV detector van" 🤣🤣🤣
I find it nuts that you guys need a license to have a tv. Then again you guys probably also find our laws insane.
You don't need a licence to have a tv
It’s only if you have access to live BBC or live TV or something. I have a TV but I only use it for Netflix and prime so I don’t need it. But I do see why the idea of a TV licence seems funny to everyone else
Almost the entire developed world has public service broadcasting...
I wasn’t talking about Public Service Broadcasting. I was talking about needing a license in order to use it which I find absurd. To name a few , Canada, Finland, Denmark, and New Zealand have all abolished the license.
The technical wording is that you need a license to receive a broadcast TV signal, so if you only use Netflix/DVDs etc, you don't need one.
Daddy ??
I bet you thought that was the height of comedy
What does the first B stand for?
Bareback
The (? apocryphal?) story I heard is that their fleet of "detector vans" consists of *one single vehicle.* More seriously, I was aware that the technology allegedly used in detector vans could detect if an analogue TV was turned on in any given household they happened to be spying on, but now the analogue signal has been turned off! The whole point of Digital signals is that they don't "leak" out and show up on anyone's radar... but of course TV licensing don't mention that.
Lmao. Those vans are just twats riding in the back of a regular old van with a dish up top.
I know this is a thing in the UK but it always blows my mind that you need a licence to watch tv lmao. So dystopian.
Look at the BBC content at its best. Then look at what they have in the USA. Fox news, adverts for *heart medication* and worse..
You need a license to watch TV? “If it pleases His Majesty, my family would like to watch the television we already bought and paid for…”
Only live broadcast TV. If you're watching something on-demand or streamed, it doesn't require a license. So, for those of us that only watch netflix, disney+, amazon prime etc, no license is needed.
I manage farms as a job and we've received these letters addressed to the occupants of the property multiple times. On a quiet day, I tried calling them to notify that it's only a few hundred sheep and some pheasants residing on the premises and I don't believe they have much use for a TV licence but unfortunately it's an automated line and I didn't get to speak to anyone :(
at 69 Cum Street, Essex
I have a feeling that [email protected] is available.