{"id":22,"date":"2006-06-10T18:00:26","date_gmt":"2006-06-10T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/2006\/06\/10\/rip-off-britain-bbc-style\/"},"modified":"2007-07-23T07:16:38","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T07:16:38","slug":"rip-off-britain-bbc-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/2006\/06\/10\/rip-off-britain-bbc-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Rip-off Britain, BBC-style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gave my girlfriend my TV. She doesn&#8217;t watch it either! You see, here in the UK we have to pay over a hundred quid a year for a &#8220;TV Licence&#8221; just to watch this junk &#8211; even if you only watch foreign channels via satellite!<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have a TV Licence then the TV Licensing Authority send you letters asking why you don&#8217;t have a Licence? Most of mine go in the goose-shredder, unopened. But I confess I sent the last one back with just two words written on it with my large webbed feet, in thick, felt-tip pen. The second word was &#8220;OFF&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And we still have vans with &#8216;<em>revolving roof racks<\/em>&#8216; roaming the streets trying to catch those who watch but don&#8217;t pay!<\/p>\n<p>Now, to cap it all, the silly sods at the BBC have just given a revolting, gobby moron called Jonathan Ross a \u00c2\u00a318-million, 3-year contract, 100% paid for by the Licence Payers!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/09062006\/325\/jonathan-ross-signs-new-deal-bbc.html\"> http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/09062006\/325\/<br \/>\njonathan-ross-signs-new-deal-bbc.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most of the Licence Payers I have discussed the matter with would happily club together and pay that just to have the guy assassinated!<\/p>\n<p>Honk! Honk!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave my girlfriend my TV. She doesn&#8217;t watch it either! You see, here in the UK we have to pay over a hundred quid a year for a &#8220;TV Licence&#8221; just to watch this junk &#8211; even if you only watch foreign channels via satellite! If you don&#8217;t have a TV Licence then the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/2006\/06\/10\/rip-off-britain-bbc-style\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rip-off Britain, BBC-style&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}