Cwmorthin Makes the BBC afterall ....

[mike leahy]

[quote="martymarty" post=3066 the bit with Miles and me was left on the cutting room floor.[/quote]

  BEST PLACE FOR THE PAIR OF YOU . not that either of you look like a pear :whistle:  :evil:  :whistle:  :evil:

[Philip Scott]

Since TV licensing has entered the thread....

....people may find this helpful, copied from my Facebook Notes - it resulted in a grovelling apology :cheer: all those non-licence holding bunnies feel free to use it!


Paul Stanfield
Customer Services
TV Licensing
BRISTOL
BS98 1TL


Dear Paul,


Thank you for your recent letter informing me that is an offence to use television receiving equipment without a licence. I shall bear this in mind.


It appears (by your reference to me as “The Present Occupier”) that your records management system may have let you down; clearly you have mislaid my long, detailed and patiently toned letter of November 2002 in which I informed you of my situation and pledged to advise you if my circumstances changed....


But it’s really nice to know you’re still thinking of me. Receiving good old fashioned letters in our modern electronic age is such a pleasure. My life would be so much more enriched if other government agencies took a similar stance to yours; for example, if I needed to explain to the Environment Agency why I do not have a rod licence for the fishing rod that I do not own (hey â€" I do after all live on a tributary watercourse â€" I must be sneakily tickling the odd trout!) Possibly the Vehicle Operator Services Agency might want to know why I have not got a Goods Vehicle Operators Licence for the heavy goods vehicle that I do not own. Continuing with the transport theme, why isn’t the Office of the Rail Regulator concerned about my lack of licence for a Guided Transport System? Aren’t they doing their job properly? I feel a complaint coming on.... And why hasn’t the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority contacted me with a letter full of thinly veiled threats, questioning why I have no licence for the nuclear installation that I do not operate?


So I am likely to receive a call at home from one of your officers... As a former Civil Servant myself with an unconventional lifestyle that would have the tabloid press reaching for the ‘misfit’ stamp, I always welcome visitors; especially those who are calling in an official capacity. My kettle is usually simmering - what a perfect start to a lengthy conversation on world issues and the role of technology in stifling our children’s imagination and creativity.



The very best regards,

[John Nicholson]

Brilliant letter!
Let us know what happens next.
I also refuse to have a TV set but love the radio. I also refuse ever to pay anything to the BBC whilst they employ prats like Clarkson.

[Ian A]

[quote="JohnNicholson" post=3811] I also refuse ever to pay anything to the BBC whilst they employ prats like Clarkson.[/quote]

Are you still selling him fuel John ?



Ian

[John Nicholson]

We did a feature on Top Gear many years ago, it is still on You tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOFbsaNeZps

I am told he then went on to make his own fuel for his old Merc using our technique - or rather his interpretation of it, but old Mercs run on anything.

The Volvo car I had actually ran on Straight Veg Oil, but HMRC who were invited to come on the show to explain how everyone can pay Excise Duty refused to attend and instead they wrote a formal letter to all the board of directors of the BBC saying that this featuure must be stopped as it was in conflict with BBC legal requirement "not to mislead the British public into breaking the law"  they then said "In order to make any vehcile run on a vegetable oil fuel you must do something to it first".  This is why we 'did something' to the SVO, by adding an insignificant amount of white spirit in this case, but now we add other non-mineral plant oils that serve the same purpose of reducing viscosity and increasing Cetane value.  But Clarkson is not interested in the environmental issues, he is just interested in cheap motoring. Another feature on the program we were in showed that if you drive thropugh speed traps fast enough they can't catch you.  I'm not sure what all this has to do with Cwm Orthin though!

[Philip Scott]

Clarkson glamourises stupidity

[Ian A]

John,

Clarkson is relevant to this thread because you raised it

.... and, you still didn't answer the question ... are you still selling him fuel ?

:dry:

Ian

[John Nicholson]

Jason Taylor (the co-founder of bio-power) may have sold him some fuel after the show, but as far as I know Clarkson then went on to make his own.  He is not a member of bio-power.  But it was thanks to this feture that we did engage in negotiations with HMRC which led to the provision that allows people to amke up to 2,500 litres of bio-fuel for their own use tax free.

Regarding the BBC, and paying for it, I just hate what little I ever see on TV, and the whole 'celebrity' culture that TV promotes.  I also don't like the bias I witness on BBC radio.  The British public are being treated as Muppets.

[Ian A]

A very interesting and clever recovery ....

Nice one !