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  • 30-09-2008 9:13am
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    cjmcork
    Registered Users Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭


    to all of you who don't have one, the inspector is in the Dun Laoghaire area this week................


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    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,503 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    remember kids, always have a tv licence!


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    thetyreman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 451 ✭✭thetyreman


    cjmcork wrote: »
    to all of you who don't have one, the inspector is in the Dun Laoghaire area this week................
    I dont think that is very responsible of you tipping people of about the posibility of them geting caught in breaking the law.(so nobody in Dun Laoghaire open your front door this week)

    I meant to add,the above paragraph is what the PC bregade would have posted,only i did it first..


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    Guy:Incognito
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    thetyreman wrote: »
    I dont think that is very responsible of you tipping people of about the posibility of them geting caught in breaking the law.


    What are they going to do? Move their house?

    It's not like a checkpoint you can drive around.


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    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    cjmcork wrote: »
    to all of you who don't have one, the inspector is in the Dun Laoghaire area this week................

    Have they got the triangulation, sponger-tracking van? We're all fcuked.


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    cjmcork
    Registered Users Posts: 2,354 ✭✭✭cjmcork


    thetyreman wrote: »
    I dont think that is very responsible of you tipping people of about the posibility of them geting caught in breaking the law.(so nobody in Dun Laoghaire open your front door this week)

    I meant to add,the above paragraph is what the PC bregade would have posted,only i did it first..


    it was to tell people to get out and buy one cos you'll always get caught


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    Aspiration
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    Many thanks cjmcork, we got ours yesteday :D


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    spadder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 985 ✭✭✭spadder


    Cmon lads, pay up. Look at the autumn line-up on RTE, superb value, and who would want to see poor gerry Ryan go hungry?


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    John Mason
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    err......they dont knock on doors anymore because the system is computerised - they send letters


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    copacetic
    Subscribers Posts: 16,587 ✭✭✭✭copacetic


    spadder wrote: »
    Cmon lads, pay up. Look at the autumn line-up on RTE, superb value, and who would want to see poor gerry Ryan go hungary?

    pretty sure everyone would like to see him 'go Hungary'. Maybe he can go somewhere even further away than eastern europe though?


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    spadder
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    Freudian spelling mistake.


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    AFC_1903
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    Just wantiing to point out that we have the only national broadcaster in Europe that not only gets licence fees, but also sells adverts and gets programmes sponsored.

    While i'm at it, the licence fee is supposed to be for the production of content and most of the stuff thats on RTE is bought in. Some quality stuff like Prison Break, but mainly trash (check just now - whatever time you read this ther'll be trash on! :() such as X-Factor, The making of X factor, Big Brother, soapstars on ice, b-rate tv 'stars' singing et al.

    We all have to have one, whether we watch TV or not. Personally I rarely watch TV - on the basis of RTE mainly screening sh!te. I use it for DVD's and the odd console game. The only time they put on a decent movie is a sat night - when the people who would watch it are in the pub, then on the sunday night when those people are staying in..... Nothing.

    Gits.

    (Raant over)


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    copacetic
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    AFC_1903 wrote: »
    Just wantiing to point out that we have the only national broadcaster in Europe that not only gets licence fees, but also sells adverts and gets programmes sponsored.

    While i'm at it, the licence fee is supposed to be for the production of content and most of the stuff thats on RTE is bought in. Some quality stuff like Prison Break, but mainly trash (check just now - whatever time you read this ther'll be trash on! :() such as X-Factor, The making of X factor, Big Brother, soapstars on ice, b-rate tv 'stars' singing et al.

    We all have to have one, whether we watch TV or not. Personally I rarely watch TV - on the basis of RTE mainly screening sh!te. I use it for DVD's and the odd console game. The only time they put on a decent movie is a sat night - when the people who would watch it are in the pub, then on the sunday night when those people are staying in..... Nothing.

    Gits.

    (Raant over)

    :confused: rants are usually better if the poster has the first idea what they are talking abut.


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    Ron DMC
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    copacetic wrote: »
    :confused: rants are usually better if the poster has the first idea what they are talking abut.
    Oi, no personal abuse!

    Attack the post, not the poster.


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    Alun
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    AFC_1903 wrote: »
    Just wantiing to point out that we have the only national broadcaster in Europe that not only gets licence fees, but also sells adverts and gets programmes sponsored.
    To my knowledge, both Germany and Holland have an equivalent of a television licence, and both have adverts too. There may well be more.


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    stovelid
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    copacetic wrote: »
    Maybe he can go somewhere even further away than eastern europe though?

    Agreed. Jupiter would suffice.


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    spadder
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    stovelid wrote: »
    Agreed. Jupiter would suffice.

    or Uranus would suit him well, the gimp


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    copacetic
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    Alun wrote: »
    To my knowledge, both Germany and Holland have an equivalent of a television licence, and both have adverts too. There may well be more.

    Italy also. Apologies Ronny, I thought it was obvious to everyone how little AFC knew. Totally wrong about western europe PSBs, and listing a pile of shows RTE have never shown. So basically the whole post was factually wrong.


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    AFC_1903
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    Fair enough. I wasn't aware those countries had the dual funding system as I remembered reading previously that it was only Ireland. I conceed being wrong, but there was no absolutely no need to insult me copacetic, all you needed to do was inform me that I was wrong (which I was).

    As for the programmes, I was just using example programme names of big name shows (that are bought in for Irish terrestrial transmission) and the crap that is shown on our terrestrial TV, as well as some made up to spoof the crap that's there. I'm sure there neither is nor ever will be a programme actually called "b-rate tv 'stars' singing", although at some point a programme with that content will no doubt be made!
    Regarding channel - I said I rarely watch TV anymore due to the abundance of crap on it, so how the hell then would I remember whether something is on TV3 or an RTE channel? Maybe it is TV3 that puts out all the rubbish, I'll assume then that it is. Anyway, i'll stop posting rants when half-cut and half-hungover and let the thread get back on topic.


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    copacetic
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    AFC_1903 wrote: »
    I conceed being wrong, but there was no absolutely no need to insult me copacetic, all you needed to do was inform me that I was wrong (which I was).

    I didn't insult you, I pointed out you didn't have a clue what you were talking about in that post, which you have just admitted.
    AFC_1903 wrote: »
    I said I rarely watch TV anymore due to the abundance of crap on it, so how the hell then would I remember whether something is on TV3 or an RTE channel?

    I dunno how you would remember, why the hell would you claim that RTE is using your license fee to buy these shows if you can't remember?

    As apparently you want to be set straight, I think x-factor may have been bought by tv3, big brother was never shown on any Irish channel.


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