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Yep, another of those chuffin' unicorns, off to be a Christmas present for a small girl, hope she likes it. So long as the money turns up I'll be happy.
FFS. He's done another one
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Will certainly make someone's Christmas mate. Very nice.
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They're a PITA to make, but it's all worthwhile when they come out of the clamps and sit there finished. The hours of sanding............
I bet there is mate. Do you make the Mane and tail too?
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All my own work, there's nearly 100 metres of wool involved in nine different colours, mostly pink, that's what the lady asked for, that's what she's getting. Just cutting the lengths of wool takes over an hour. Like I said, a PITA.
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Wow, my daughter would love one of those.
I'd have to sell my collection of alloy wheels to afford one!
I'd have to sell my collection of alloy wheels to afford one!
Andy, I'm glad my grand daughter is grown out of them.
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This latest one is going out for £150. The shop takes 30%, and the (undeclared) rest goes to me.
Bl**dy pensioners with time on their hands, eh?
I really couldn't comment . . . .
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Can't be ar5ed with TV, eh? I know that feeling.
Death by daytime TV ? Cant be anything worse Mick.
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Not owned a TV for 30something years, still get pi55ed off hearing about "must-see" stuff. Watch a lot of youtube, but that's different, just type in a subject and they'll have it.
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Yep, plenty of them, could be an unrivalled collection if I'd kept them all. They keep threatening to come round, I stay in as much as possible, and nobody appears. I did once get a letter from them with a list of reasons I don't have a licence, not one of the possible reasons was "I don't own a TV". Dim-witted tw@s.
Many years ago. In Germany. TV licencing guy knocks on me door asking why I didn't have a tv licence.
"Don't have a TV. I don't understand it." I said in german.
He wasn't impressed.
Do you have a car? He said.
Yes I do.
Does the car gave a radio?
Yea. I said.
"Ching ching". He said.
He didn't really say ching ching. But he did shove a bill into my hand telling me to immediately go out and get a radio licence.
Apparantly tv licence covers your telly and your radio. If you don't have a tv then you do need a radio licence even uf your radio isn't in your house. At least thats how it was. Not sure if uk is the same
"Don't have a TV. I don't understand it." I said in german.
He wasn't impressed.
Do you have a car? He said.
Yes I do.
Does the car gave a radio?
Yea. I said.
"Ching ching". He said.
He didn't really say ching ching. But he did shove a bill into my hand telling me to immediately go out and get a radio licence.
Apparantly tv licence covers your telly and your radio. If you don't have a tv then you do need a radio licence even uf your radio isn't in your house. At least thats how it was. Not sure if uk is the same
Cant make you have a radio licence. Can only fine you if they catch you using it. Same with a TV set, hence detector vans.
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Tony.
In the old days you had to have a licence if you had the equipment capable of receiving tv/radio. Even if you didn't actually use it. The argument being that back in the day the equipment was pretty expensive and you'd be unlikely to afford a tv and just use it as a coffee table. Back then there was no internet streaming or anything like that.
A few people did try it on when the first ZX81 computers came out saying that they only used the tv for their computer. As far as I know the law said you still needed a licence coz the tv was capable of receiving tv.
Law has changed nowadays and you can stream movies off netflix and even watch recorded tv as long as you didn't record it live.
Also quite a few people. Me included. Believe the old tv detector vans were just a bright colored van with some stupid spaceage dish on the roof parked on a street corner to scare people.
So they just came and knocked on your door on the off chance you were watching TV? Makes you wonder why no one challenged it in court really . . . .
Tony.
Tony.
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It's easy for them to get a list of all addresses that don't have licence. Yes. They just knock on the door. Doesn't matter if you're actually watching tv at the time. Just the way they talk makes you think they know you've been watching. Most of us are not habitual criminals so we're pretty bad at lying and calling their bluff.
It's easy for them to get a list of all addresses that don't have licence. Yes. They just knock on the door. Doesn't matter if you're actually watching tv at the time. Just the way they talk makes you think they know you've been watching. Most of us are not habitual criminals so we're pretty bad at lying and calling their bluff.
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What an excellent skill