Do you know that in Sweden you need to pay a certain tv tax, called tv-license. And the thing is that if you tell the authorities that you don't have a tv, they don't believe you. They actually have people coming to your door and ask you why you don't pay. You have to have a tv, watch their public service-lies and pay tax for it! They have called me while I've been living in Tallinn too ;) But like in so many of these cases their power is an illusion. Call the bluff, I say.
LG ~ Indeed..."What cologne you gonna go with? London Gentleman, or wait. No, no, no. Hold on. Blackbeard's Delight."
LSS ~ There is tv licensing in Britain, too. Taxpayers actually end up paying for the dangerous nonsense that poisons their mind, home, family, and society. Diabolical.
Years ago when I saw the Monty Python sketch depicting a multitude of inspectors besieging a middle class English home, I thought it was merely absurdist humor along the lines of the dead parrot sketch. Now I know it is merely a depiction of our absurd reality.
As for television itself - I dream of a day when there are television burnings. It's done boatloads more harm than the print media has.
Not if "Anchorman" is on.
ReplyDeleteDo you know that in Sweden you need to pay a certain tv tax, called tv-license. And the thing is that if you tell the authorities that you don't have a tv, they don't believe you. They actually have people coming to your door and ask you why you don't pay. You have to have a tv, watch their public service-lies and pay tax for it! They have called me while I've been living in Tallinn too ;) But like in so many of these cases their power is an illusion. Call the bluff, I say.
ReplyDeleteLG ~ Indeed..."What cologne you gonna go with? London Gentleman, or wait. No, no, no. Hold on. Blackbeard's Delight."
ReplyDeleteLSS ~ There is tv licensing in Britain, too. Taxpayers actually end up paying for the dangerous nonsense that poisons their mind, home, family, and society. Diabolical.
Years ago when I saw the Monty Python sketch depicting a multitude of inspectors besieging a middle class English home, I thought it was merely absurdist humor along the lines of the dead parrot sketch. Now I know it is merely a depiction of our absurd reality.
ReplyDeleteAs for television itself - I dream of a day when there are television burnings. It's done boatloads more harm than the print media has.
I work in TV and although it pays the bills it is rubbish.
ReplyDeleteMy TV wasn't killed... it was sent to live with a nice family upstate in 2000 where it is much happier.
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