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hello sweethearts......grace needs a rant, read on if you want to.....
i have a wonderful large TV, and it looks beautiful in my lounge. its a lovely black and grey colour, and fits in with the decor wonderfully.
The real problems start when i turn the damn thing on!!!!
we have a system in the UK where you pay a licence fee to the BBC just for having a television. it does not matter if you actually watch BBC channels or not, you still pay. Then if you want to watch satellite tv like sky or virgin or Bt ( who have a monopoly on any sport worth watching ) you pay a monthly fee on top...then more to watch certain channels.....and then there's netflix etc
well I'm sorry, but I'm a single parent family, and i have priorities and other needs and my triplets to look after..... ( heels, make-up and clothes )....paying £60 + a month for satellite TV doesn't appeal one bit!!!!
I dont do sky or virgin or any of the pay per view channels....i just rely purely on " freeview"...
FREEVIEW.....omg.
so i get 70+ TV channels to chose from...wonderful you might think.
more repeats than the campfire scene in blazing assholes saddles!!
freeview....right!!!!....i actually regularly watch 7 channels!!!...the rest is so bad, they couldn't charge for it. strewn with utter bilge, nearly all the programmes have stars who are long dead... Sundays we get a whole channel of.....columbo!!!....or murder she wrote!!!....or matlock!!!....soul destroying.
Dont get me wrong, i love old movies, and a few of the old shows are still funny.....but not 24/7 they aint.
YIPPEE!!!! even better....some of the channels have a " plus" channel....so you can watch the drivel you just slept through, one hour later!!!
the film channels show the same films on consecutive nights....and every hour of viewing anywhere contains 15 minutes of adverts.....sometimes you forget what you were watching!!!!!.
once you rushed to make a cup of tea during an advert break....now i can have a bloody shower!!!!!
I can honestly say that when my TV and my music system explode....it will be no contest as to what will be replaced!!!
❤️❤️crossdressing to music has never been so appealing...❤️❤️
must rush, i need to see what Perry Mason is up to.....not!!.rant over....
Grace Channel....the only one to watch xxxxx
....can i add.
the brilliant comedy actor John Challis died today...
he played Boycie in "only fools and horses" and "the green green grass"....thanks for so many laughs John xx
Grace - I presume you are describing the equivalent of cable TV in the US. I agree it's an utter waste of money. There's almost nothing worth watching that can't be seen using other mediums. I "cut the cord" 8 years ago and will never go back. I get all my programming from Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix via a very fast Internet connection. I pay half what I used to spend on cable, and I can watch what I want when I want. The only gap is sports. For that I watch replays or condensed games the next day for free.
Emily
ahh Emily....cable!!!... I'm so glad you can suffer this drivel over the pond as well....it would be selfish to keep it all to myself 😂😂😂....
shoot the cable guy....was that a film???
Well I have Sky sweetie, gosh I am posh.
Totally agree a lot of channels are repetitive, but there is a a good mix, and a very good selection of films available on cinema etc Disney too now (Although that's for the grandchildren, well that's what I'm saying anyway)
Again it's really down to how much you can afford.
Sadly pay to view is the future, TV license is just a expensive tax and certainly in today's world not justified. Netflix well is there anything they make that's accurate or even remotely true to events.
Your right sweetie music is a tonic, thank God we can relax and enjoy it.
Enjoy your rant I hope you are now relaxing in the Grace zone.
Lol Amanda xx
Hi Grace! I have a few shows I watch. Some sports. And some old stuff. But it's not worth what I pay!! I can still remember when Cable first came out. I remember my Dad saying, Pay to watch tv?? Are you Nuts?? lol Music is almost always better!! Hugs
haha... I'm good...
its just that licence fee that makes me see red...xx
I know how you feel Grace and it's such a political bias TV station too.
What really winds me up is the huge pay structures for staff.
What about Britbox you actually have to pay to watch repeats of BBC material that you have already paid to be made and paid to watch before.
Now ranting too,
Need vodka Amanda xx
Hi Grace,
I understand your frustration. I *do* have sky, and never mind the BBC, I can still nevertheless feel frustrated by what they have to offer at times.
But the separate monthly licence fee to support the Beeb, if you pay monthly, is about £14, say 50p a day.
What could I spend it on instead?
Here in the UK £14 would get you two nothing-special-but-reasonable bottles of supermarket wine. Assuming a miserly 5 glasses per bottle, and doing the maths, over the month I could have a single small glass of plonk every 3rd day.
Lol, I don't want to go there!
I'm a total Beeb junkie. Never mind the TV, I would pay that fee just for the radio aspect (which technically is free anyway, if you don't listen to it on a TV capable device)
Anyway, time for the news and then MOTD2 ...
Square Eyes Marti xxx
Edit : PS, bye bye Boycie !
Hi Grace,
Rant any time you want.
Alice
what a wonderful device...
Grace with USA tv can have like 70 channels of just music plus normal channels of at least 200 lol Oh as for paying for it no way worth it but many do. We need more choices besides cable tv or Sat tv.
Now using streaming service of youtube tv. still looking at about 100 bucks a month. with net serivce.
There was a film called "The Cable Guy" starring Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick. Carrey played the creepy cable guy and Broderick was the victim. I don't think anyone got shot in the movie.
Hi Grace,
I pay far more than it's worth for satellite TV, but rarely watch it any more; CDH is far more entertaining. BUT I did spend much of the afternoon watching episodes of "The Untouchables", which aired before I got married and bought a TV, some 57 years ago - and liked it better than what is currently in production.
Hugs,
Bettylou
Down here in Oz my beloved has cable (Foxtel) mainly cos she loves her sport. I have my own "mouldy oldie" "normal" TV here in my den/office/study.
We too have stacks of "plus channels" but in my mind they mostly are a big fat minus. Going through the program guide its obvious they have mostly bought old worn out cable shows for a pittance, but only a couple of series of same.
EG I dont mind "Wheeler Dealers" for a car restoration show, but I do very much mind the same series being repeated several times over.
So mostly my viewing is either "junk shows" with the volume off, (Eg those shows on Alaska are boring, but the scenery is magnificent ) So I listen to music through my I Pod and headphones or I'll fire up the DVD and play my collection of Australian satire series such as "Frontline", The Hollowmen" or "Utopia"
With the occasional Australian Rules football "oldie" and some Hank Marvin 'geetar" thrown in.
Tho this topic is bringing back one lot of good memories.
"Way back when" in the US they ran a series called "He's a Lady"where ten blokes had to transform to women and compete for US$250K. I bought the DVD set
Anyone interested will find segments up on You Tube. The bridal transformations were amazing.
Caty.
Elliot Ness played by Robert Stack.....i also watch The Detectives with Robert Taylor!!!!..
.…in fact, as 50% of my viewing seems to be in black and white....should i get a licence refund???
