Consumer rip offs

I have neither contracts (incl. TV licence).

This is also why I struggle to get a mortgage with my non-existent credits rating!

 

May I ask (if I'm not intruding) how you watch TV without needing a licence? Or is it simply that you don't watch TV?

The credit reference thingy does my head in - if you manage your money correctly, always pay off credit cards, don't borrow money etc etc etc, you can't build up a credit rating, so you can't prove that you would pay off a mortgage if you got one. It's a bizarre system.

 

Same way you watch a TV with a licence you sit down turn it on and decide what ***** you fancy killing your grey matter....

Odds of you getting caught if your not a single unemployed woman on benefits is between slim and **** all if you don't let the ****ers in.

You only need a TV licence if you watch TV 'live'...

 

That one. Never been bothered about it. It was basically never on when I was a child and I didn't have a tv when I went to uni and never wanted one even a single time so I've never got one since. I (very) occasionally watch something on 4od which I don't need a licence for anyway. If they do bring in the thing they were saying about charging for that, I wouldn't miss it one bit.

 

Respect!

I hardly ever watch it during the day or in the evening either (as Deetee says it's mostly crap), but I do watch the news most mornings and occasionally at night, so I have to pay the licence according to current law. I suspect in a few years the licence will disappear altogether, or it will be replaced by an automatic subscription to Barnsley Player with intermittent commentary provided by Radio Sheffield, provided nothing is happening in the Fowls or Blunts matches.

 

Stupid question but for a lot of couples watching TV is quite a social thing where they talk to each other about what they're watching. How does that transfer to a none TV life with you and Mr JD?

 

Apologies for answering a question not addressed to me, but that's a very good point.

As several on here know, I also live in Germany as my wife is German. When I'm over there, I watch more TV than over here, as we often sit and watch it together, exactly as you say. When I'm over here, often on my own, there's nobody to share it with, so I hardly watch it. When she's here, we watch German TV here anyway.

Unless I sneak off upstairs and mess about on the BBS/Farcebook while she's watching an exciting programme about choosing wedding dresses or summat.

 

We talk about what we did at work that day/anything that interested us that day or anything new we have learnt. We cook and eat together. We do other things expected of newly (ish) married couples We talk about anything interesting I saw someone say on here (so never ) or what one of us has seen on Reddit. We very often discuss philosophical things, 'shower thoughts' or word types haha. (He likes to make up new words by attaching the incorrect suffix when making a word into an adverb for example - I know that sounds bizarre but it is quite funny).

The only time not watching TV is annoying, is in the staff room at work as I can join in pretty much none of their conversations which does leave me eating my dinner in silence quite often.

 

I also have the problem of not being to join in conversations about TV programmes!

I like the suffix game. I've always wondered, for example, why a plumber ends in "er" but an electrician ends in "ian"? Not to mention "ist" as in cyclist, "ant" as in consultant, "or" as in administrator, "man" as in fireman (sorry if that sounds sexist), "ess" as in waitress (ditto), "ive" as in operative.

Intrigued about your adverb suffix game, any examples?

 

Arghh, no, not off the top of my head. He is much better at it than me! Whenever I refer to it to someone, I can never think of any - which makes it sound even lamer. I really should keep some examples at the front of my mind. They work in context though which is what makes us laugh at the time. It sounds daft and obviously would really not be most people's cup of tea but it entertains us.

Edit: erm, rubbish examples as I felt bad for not giving one. He might say for example: 'what would you imaginate?' so then I might say 'don't you mean imaginize?' and he would say 'no, it's obviously imagnify!'

Thinking about it, it's mainly verbs he does it to. Crap example as it's forced and so doesn't fit a context to have made him change it in the first place but never mind.

 

I presume you mean something like "I'm driving forwise, I expect you to do likewards"

 

Ha, yeah like that!

Btw, I edited above (just incase you missed it).

I know, I know, it sounds like a barrel of laughs in my house!

 

Seen your edit, I must admit I was struggling to find examples with adverbs, but it all maketh much more sense with verbs.

I identivate totally with your comments. Believe it or not I do that when talkifying to my wife in German. It's a habit I cultivised early on, so that I would be able to cover up mistakes by claimifying that I was intentionally making them.

It still functionates to this day.

 

That actually sounds a lot more interesting than just sitting around watching TV. The suffix thing sounds fun even if it does prove what I always suspected, that you are completely batshit crazy

You're probably better off not joining in the other teachers' conversations, they're probably dull anyway. Stick to us interesting folk on the BBS

 

wine gums, I can never get pissed on them

 

you may like this then, Fi

http://www.amazon.co.uk/BubbleBum-P...536&sr=8-1&keywords=inflatable+child+car+seat

 

Birthday Cards strike me as something of a rip off, price wise.