ComplainingI like writing letters of complaint to companies containing the words "premier league muppetry", if only to give the poor office workers a good laugh on an otherwise dull day. Have you ever complained? Did it work?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 13:16)
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yeah, totally.nothing like a bit of passive aggressive whining.
Just, you know, out of interest, do you think the TV licensing people are psychic, or something? What, they should know that you are so supremely edgy and cool that you don't even own a TV, man?
Most people have TVs. Therefore you get standard letters. Also, they've no idea if you've moved and someone else is there, or that you've changed your mind, or your partner has moved in and demanded to be able to watch scrubs, or any one of a million fucking equally probable scenarios. Or do you think that maybe they should just trust you to be honest and own up if that happens?
Basically, you are asking for a system to be modified at vast expense to suit almost certainly less than 5% of the population, to stop them being inconvenienced by SOME LETTERS.
Fucking hell. No wonder this country is going to shit in shopping trolley.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 9:49,
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Yeah—— nothing like a bit of passive aggressive whining.
Some prefer it over your style of in-your-face aggresive whining.
—— Just, you know, out of interest, do you think the TV licensing people
—— are psychic, or something?
No. That would be silly. But I can't think of any other debt collection service that goes on fishing expeditions like this. Of course most people have TVs, but so what? Most people have jobs and pay tax too, but do HMRC send a tax return to every address in the country just in case someone wants to make a declaration, along with a threat of a jail sentence if you don't respond appropriately? No, it's up to you and me to indicate to them that you've got something to declare, if you have. Most people drive too, but do the DVLA don't send round circulars saying, "Are you driving without a licence? If so, you could go to prison."
It's just kind of assumed that people know they're supposed to pay.
And in any case, as I said above, if it really were just a query every year or two, I wouldn't mind; it's the threatening tone that annoys me.
—— Or do you think that maybe they should just trust you to be honest and
—— own up if that happens?
Well, yeah, that'd be good. It works well enough for every other kind of licence I can think of.
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