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[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Alright mate cheers, how was yours?

I'm finally thinking about knocking the TV Licence on the head.

It wasn't the "loony left BBc" or "Tory Mouthpiece BBC". The way I see it, if both camps are as incensed as the other then the BBC must be doing something right.

It wasn't the ludicrous salaries some of the top celebs were on. I suppose they're just market rate and someone will pay for them.

It's not even the upcoming Trump defamation that we'll end up bankrolling - it was a poor editorial decision, but the BBC have been fairly good at owning up to fuckups.

It's the constant fucking trailers now for the Smeds and the Smoos on iPlayer. I only really use it to catch up on Reporting Scotland to check out the weather, and I'm fed up of having to skip the trailer. Every. Fucking. Time.

I only really paid it for this long because the BBC News and BBC Sport sites are fucking brilliant in fairness, and I rationalised it as paying my licence fee to keep those two sites going... but it's taken a constant hammering of eight seconds trailers to really lose my rag.

~~First job of the new year.~~ edit: fuck it, done from the end of the month.