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BigMouth

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  1. Get a shed on it, a chair, a gas burner and brew kit and you have a place of tranquility.
  2. I use Accuweather and WeatherProHD on iOS. The former seems more accurate*, the latter enables you to see the wind speeds etc over a whole week, which is useful for planning. You can also add other locations so that you can look at what is happening where you are about to go on holiday, or perhaps where relatives are etc. You can also connect to your own NetAtmo device. * I assume that the data comes from the same place, so why there should be any difference I am not sure.
  3. A new streaming service just launched to take on Netflix, and it lets you watch live TV for free. Just tried it but the site is busy. It's good to see competition though!!
  4. The offer certainly has made eating out at the weekend a quieter more pleasurable experience. Well worth the extra tenner, although it’s not an extra tenner is it!?
  5. They are nothing more than devices of cruel torture. The fact they they don’t go flat means the you can’t lay on your side. I am considerably shorter than 6’2” and I couldn’t stretch out straight. Added to this the ignorant halfwits with verbal diarrhoea waffling into the small hours, you couldn’t pay me enough to sleep on one, or rather, not sleep on one. The room is hotter than Hades just to add to the misery. The last time I couldn’t get a cabin back from Aberdeen when I wanted one I booked the next available one three days later, and just added 3 nights to my hotel booking in Aberdeen. Costly, but no point paying for pain, unless you get off that way.
  6. I once read that beef wouldn’t be so tasty if we weren’t meant to eat it.
  7. I have seen many consultations that would have been better described as foregone consultations.
  8. Print media as a whole has been in a death spiral for the last 10-15 years. It used to be.a well paid career in the past. People have wised up though and discovered online advertising to be more attractive with often almost instant results at considerably less or no cost. I have bought the Shetland Times once in the last ten years or more. At 32 pages then it was poor value. There are just better ways to consume news.
  9. It's not called the BBC TV Licence though. It's not for watching the BBC, it's required for watching any live TV.
  10. Was the Shetland series filmed by the BBC or one of the independent production companies they outsource to? They do considerably less material creation that they used to. At the moment you can listen to as much BBC radio as you like free of charge, which may work out OK for some of us without TV licences.
  11. Would you say the BBC lacks bias? That they are not swayed by political pressure?
  12. TV Licensing staff are assuming that I am a criminal. I do not use their service. I don’t want any interaction with them ever, but they continue to write and threaten to visit. A bailiff will only call if I am in debt, to collect a debt on behalf of a company to which I am allegedly indebted. They won’t come to my house touting for business.
  13. Goons spend most of their working hours preying on single mums on council estates and vulnerable members of our society. They lie and trick their way into people’s home, where they have no right to be without an invitation or a warrant. They won’t advise people that when they caution them they are entitled to legal representation. TV Licensing Officers, are actually commission based salesmen, would you want this guy in your house: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2033075/Rapist-TV-Licence-inspector-fantasy-frustrated-housewife-throw-him.html Remember, you don’t need a TV licence to watch Netflix, Amazon’s TV service, YouTube or any catch-up TV service. You only need one to watch live TV or BBC iPlayer. The BBC keeps telling us how good they are, and how much we love them. So why don’t they join the real world and provide a subscription service? If you want it you pay, and if you don’t want it you use your earnings for other things. The reason is because they know that without threat of legal enforcement very many would decide not to pay their TV tax every year, and manage with better quality services from other providers. In this day and age why on earth do we have to have a permit to watch TV? No other service, that I also don’t use, sends me threatening letters every 6 weeks. No-one comes to check whether I have fishing rod, shotgun, car, or anything else I need a permit for. TV Licensing assume guilt from the outset. Everyone else has a TV so you must have one too, is their mentality. Some of us have lived many years without one. We have found many other means of entertainment. I don’t want to sit down and consume the crap that they broadcast, especially now with all the woke nonsense. I would agree that we need a public service broadcaster. Channel Four is a PSB and manages to run a service without taxpayer handouts. It relies on advertising for its funding, another alternative option that the BBC should be forced into.
  14. The Goons get up to £20 commission for each visit. They have to get 28 new sign-ups a week to meet target. It’s the sign-ups that they get the £20 each for. I think that they are on a basic of £18k, but they have to supply their own car. I assume that they get a mileage allowance for that. I last had a visit about 5 years ago. He got told to leave my doorstep. He didn’t try the usual con, which is to get you to sign the Form 178, ‘to say I have visited’, which they have been then known to fill in with ‘evidence’ after the fact. Film them, it’s the quickest way to get them to leave. Other than that say nothing, sign nothing, shut the door. Ignore all their threatening letters too. I file mine in case I need to use them against them in future. It costs them millions to send out these letters every year, and as far as I am concerned they can carry on sending them, well, it’s nice to get post these days.
  15. Crapita get mentioned often in Private Eye. Never is it congratulatory, but they continue winning government business because civil servants are not allowed to consider Crapita’s past (failing) performance.
  16. An update to what I said earlier... From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC#Commercial_activities The BBC pursues its licence fee collection and enforcement under the trading name "TV Licensing". The revenue is collected privately by Capita, an outside agency, and is paid into the central government Consolidated Fund, a process defined in the Communications Act 2003. Funds are then allocated by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Treasury and approved by Parliament via legislation. Additional revenues are paid by the Department for Work and Pensions to compensate for subsidised licences for eligible over-75-year-olds. It later goes on to say that from August 2020 the rules around over 75s will change.
  17. TV Licensing is owned by the BBC, although they don't make this obvious , possibly because it doesn't fit in with the cuddly image that they are trying to portray. Capita are contracted to collect the licence fee on behalf of the BBC through its TV Licensing arm. There is a wealth of information here, which I hope the old folks will become aware of: https://tvlicenceresistance.info/. Join the forum if you wish.
  18. Lubrication? I am guessing oil.
  19. I was thinking more along the lines of this
  20. Anyone who thinks the police don't exceed their powers should research what happened to the miners when they were striking. For a more up to date view of policing, especially complaints against the Police, watch any of the videos of Crimebodge on YouTube. As far as Parliaments are concerned, notice the regularity of new laws being introduced and the lack of laws being deleted from the statute book.
  21. I would be happy to pay more if it helps look after the old folks as well as keeping the many and various services going.
  22. Good point. An online purchase it will be then. Thank you
  23. I have no idea about this sort of thing so was looking for some guidance on where to buy a new games console in Shetland. Thank you.
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