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Originally posted by DrStrabismus
There are more here
Some of them need to be taken with a pinch of salt.
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That site fails to say whether it's still illegal in Britain to fail to attend at least one Church service on Christmas Day. If it is (and I think it is), then nearly the entire population are criminals!
Mind you, I've spotted one error (apart from the usual error of confusing "England" with "Britain"); the site states that "those wishing to purchase a television must also buy a license." In fact, as established by a test case in 1984, it is
not illegal to buy, own or even use a TV without a license; what
is illegal without a TV license is to
receive TV broadcasts, so anyone who owns a TV only for use as a monitor (for a home computer, games console, videocassette player or DVD player — provided, in the last two cases, that they watch only prerecorded tapes/DVDs and not ones recorded for them by a friend) is doing so legally.
I used to have a colour TV which for some 12 years was the monitor for my Spectrum; I still have a black-and-white TV — it's a bedside table.
