Pet Peeves

[Kurt Cocaine]

TV licence due. Robbery for all we get out of it.

5 mins. of ads every 15 mins. of whatever shite program they have on repeat for the last 5 years is what we get out of it, more money for RTE to pay Tubridy, Darcy, et al. fortunes to propagate propaganda and spout support for the official government line.
Fucking state broadcaster, Geobbels could only dream.

And for the last 14 months the Covid Cog Machine..

[Mower Liberation Front]

TV licence due. Robbery for all we get out of it.

5 mins. of ads every 15 mins. of whatever shite program they have on repeat for the last 5 years is what we get out of it, more money for RTE to pay Tubridy, Darcy, et al. fortunes to propagate propaganda and spout support for the official government line.
Fucking state broadcaster, Geobbels could only dream.

Goebbels would have sent Marty Morrissey to the Eastern front though.Why scare the hell out of the children of the Reich, when the Red Army could take one look at him and run to Vladivostok as quick as they could.

[Blackout]

TV licence due. Robbery for all we get out of it.

5 mins. of ads every 15 mins. of whatever shite program they have on repeat for the last 5 years is what we get out of it, more money for RTE to pay Tubridy, Darcy, et al. fortunes to propagate propaganda and spout support for the official government line.
Fucking state broadcaster, Geobbels could only dream.

Goebbels would have sent Marty Morrissey to the Eastern front though.Why scare the hell out of the children of the Reich, when the Red Army could take one look at him and run to Vladivostok as quick as they could.

He would have been shot out of a cannon at the fuckers.

[astfgyl]

It's one thing being propagandized, but paying for the pleasure is an awful insult.

[Trev]

Replaced my TV with a 42 inch computer monitor a ages ago, sent off the form to say I've no licence because I no longer have a television. Didn't hear anything off them for years until I got a call a while ago

"Our records indicate you don't have a licence at this address"
-That's right, I don't have a TV as per the form you should have
"oh...well yes we do...but...but is that still the case?
-Yes
"oh....oh OK....eh, thanks for taking the call"

[astfgyl]

I didn't know there was a form. I had to go to court twice over the fucking licence and still ended up buying one. I do have a telly but I would have lied on the form if I knew there was one

[Trev]

Yeah, can't remember what it was called but just downloaded it from their website, something to check for when renewal time comes around!

[astfgyl]

Sound!

[Carnage]

I'll bear that in mind. We kinda have to have one since they sent my brother to Castlerea for a week (he was out after a night) and fined him a grand when we were nabbed. I made the mistake of putting it in my name after that, and the clearly visible TV in the front room is a bit of a giveaway.

[astfgyl]

I got fined and I went back to court twice saying I couldn't afford the fine on top of buying a licence, then the inspector phoned me the day before the third time and offered to settle up for 80 quid so I paid it. Your brother got a bit of a raw deal with the week in Castlerea

[Carnage]

Aye. To the governor's/warden's (whatever the main man is called here) credit, he rolled his eyes when he got there and told him he'd be going home the following morning, the last thing they want is to deal with that kind of trivial shite.

Fucking prison for no TV licence. Nonsense. And the letters kept on coming after, which is why I got one in my name. I think they were bringing him back to court because there wasn't one in his name.

[astfgyl]

It's a pure joke to be fair. The easiest way to pay for a state broadcaster would be to throw a few cent on to the tax and be done with it. It isn't as if it's not well subsidised by the ads or anything.

can you imagine what the screws think of that, given what they deal with in terms of actual cunts

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Local policeman was sent round to our place in the 80s with an order to get the money for the tv licence off my aul wan or else bring her to prison for a week. Apparently he was mortified at it. "You'll have to take me to prison so!" my mum said to him, "And is it your Mary who'll take the three kids while I'm there?"

Didn't think it was the kind of thing that was still pulled these days though. Scarlet for the state

[Carnage]

What really rankles is knowing that you're contributing to the livelihoods of the like of Tubridy, O'Callaghan, Byrne etc., and because on paper they're employees of companies they've set up overseas, they're not even paying tax on their earnings here. Plus, as said previously, the propaganda angle. You're paying them to lie to you, and not even in an 'oh yes, it's the best I've ever had baby' kinda way. Cunts.

Fuck it, I'm getting pissed.

[astfgyl]

Ah god I feel sick when I really think about it. To think that my hard earned coin actually contributes to those salaries. It's disgusting.

Local policeman was sent round to our place in the 80s with an order to get the money for the tv licence off my aul wan or else bring her to prison for a week. Apparently he was mortified at it. "You'll have to take me to prison so!" my mum said to him, "And is it your Mary who'll take the three kids while I'm there?"

Didn't think it was the kind of thing that was still pulled these days though. Scarlet for the state

A girl I know lives directly across from the very Garda who is supposed to take her to Limerick prison and he doesn't have the heart to do it to her. He keeps saying she's on her last chance but then says she wasn't home for the official record. I know they could push it from a higher rank but at this stage I reckon they just don't have the heart for it, given that she lives with an autistic son and is a single parent. It's far from the case that they are all cunts anyway. I hope, because the alternative view is that they are too shiting to deal with the young fella, and all the organising that would entail.