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Marmitetoasty says,”Everyone that owns a telly here in Britain, irrespective of if you have cable or sky, HAS to have a ‘telly license’ its about £140 ($280) a year and even if where you live just has a tiny portable telly or you have 4 or 5 big widescreens the price is the same…..its not on how many tellys you have…. you can have 1 or 10, you just have to have one license….. ” Full comment here.
In an earth-shattering HBO moment Larry Spencer and Spookelooneh are in complete agreement and advocate no TV at all. You know, I could watch “Lost” on my computer, so I’m kinda leaning to the no-TV camp.
How about you? If you had to pay for a TV license would you, or would you just say “no” to television?
How closely were you paying attention to world events in the news this year?
Test yourself with the BBC World News website end of year 2009 quiz to find out. There is one question per month.
I scored 8 out of 12 (on my second try). Bleh!
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