What’s made you happy for a change

[DD67]

I had a similar experience with a Harris Tweed jacket last December.
£27 from the British Heart Foundation & it would easily pass as being brand new.

The rrp on the Harris website is £295 for the basic jacket. Then something like an additional £100 on top for the upgraded fancy lining.

It's definitely a top quality garment. But I'm not sure that it's worth the rrp
However, for just £27 I'm delighted with my purchase

 

[Big Sandy]

I saw three full sets of race leathers in the BHF shop, would have set me back £90. I had a tenner in my pocket. Went back the next day...gone.

Okay, they wouldn't have fit me, but I would have made money on them, for sure.

 

[chas]

Harris Tweed jacket

Has Sarky invited you up for lunch and he insisted on a dress code?

I saw three full sets of race leathers in the BHF shop, would have set me back £90. I had a tenner in my pocket. Went back the next day...gone.

Okay, they wouldn't have fit me, but I would have made money on them, for sure.

That must have hurt! I've more leather jackets than you can shake a stick at but when I saw the Aero I just saw a good 200 quid sitting on the floor waiting to be picked up. It would have killed me to let someone else grab the steal.

As it is, it's more useful to me than my other Aero so the Barnstormer may well get sold to boost my 'outdoor money' pot

 

[MartytheMartian]

In a brief period when I was skinny I had a Duffer St George linen suit that I bought out of a shop new, reduced to fifteen quid. Purple suit with sky blue satin lining and RRP of something like fifteen hundred quid.

My 'go-to' sport jacket for special occasions is a hand tailored Saville Row cashmere jacket that I picked up off ebay for about a tenner and cost over a thousand when it was new. Beautiful piece of tailoring it is too.

 

[DD67]

Has Sarky invited you up for lunch and he insisted on a dress code?

Nope, but it was purchased for a similar reason. The place I spent last Christmas/New Year had a dress code for the restaurants.
It required a gentleman (& the likes of myself ) to wear a jacket.
I reckon they actually meant a suit? But I bent the rules by wearing the Harris with blue jeans. I reckon it looked smart without looking too much like job interview apparel

 

[chas]

I reckon it looked smart without looking too much like court appearance apparel

FIFY mate

Harris with blue jeans

AKA 'The Clarkson'

 

[Big Sandy]

You know me.... Heard of man at C&A? I'm more man at Army and Navy.

 

[Tallpaul]

The Lineker bullshit has pushed me towards doing something which I have considered for some time. I don't watch puffball or any other sports, or any live events. Quite happy with Netflix, You Tube and a couple of catch up channels, excluding iPlayer. I cancelled the direct debit to TV Licencing. Not prepared to pay that self serving hypocrite any more of my hard earned for his worthless prattle. Also disgusted that BBC have climbed down and apologised to that c**t. Looks like my piss is boiling, but actually feeling very happy!

 

[DD67]

The Lineker bullshit has pushed me towards doing something which I have considered for some time. I don't watch puffball or any other sports, or any live events. Quite happy with Netflix, You Tube and a couple of catch up channels, excluding iPlayer. I cancelled the direct debit to TV Licencing. Not prepared to pay that self serving hypocrite any more of my hard earned for his worthless prattle. Also disgusted that BBC have climbed down and apologised to that c**t. Looks like my piss is boiling, but actually feeling very happy!

I very much doubt that you'll be alone in making that decision Paul.
Apparently the BBC lose 1000's of customers most months. The Lineker debacle is bound to cost them even more customers.

 

[Sarky B’stard]

It's certainly switched me off.

 

[half ton]

Sadly I still pay the licence fee, I probably don't watch more than 4 or 5hrs of BBC or ITV in a year, If I do watch then it's BT Sport or Netflix etc. which my sons and myself pay for seperately , But the feckin Wife watches bloody soaps and other shit like her life depended on it

 

[half ton]

My wife watches loads of shite, the TV still works without a licence

The problem I have is that I couldn't trust her to tell the door knocker to feck off, She would say ... oh come in and have a cuppa while I just watch the end of Corrie Enders

 

[Scrappy]

The Lineker bullshit has pushed me towards doing something which I have considered for some time. I don't watch puffball or any other sports, or any live events. Quite happy with Netflix, You Tube and a couple of catch up channels, excluding iPlayer. I cancelled the direct debit to TV Licencing. Not prepared to pay that self serving hypocrite any more of my hard earned for his worthless prattle. Also disgusted that BBC have climbed down and apologised to that c**t. Looks like my piss is boiling, but actually feeling very happy!

I've just cancelled mine this morning, apparently the BBC want to increase the licence fee by the biggest amount in 20 years, that on top of paying twats like Lineker massive salaries, they really don't know how to read public opinion or they just don't care. I have not watched any BBC channel or listened to any BBC Radio for years, but I did watch other live TV channels, so I begrudgingly carried on paying even though it made me feel sick giving money to that depraved cesspit of a propaganda organisation. Not any more, I'll disconnect my TV aerial and make do with Amazon, Paramount, Pluto, YouTube, and my DVD collection.

 

[Tallpaul]

Welcome to the club, you will get letters regularly but ignore them, you may get a visit, dont answer the door and if you do by accident just say no thank you and close the door. Dont have any conversation with them. Ive been licence free for three years.

I'm ready, bring it on!

 

[DD67]

they really don't know how to read public opinion or they just don't care.

It's a mixture of arrogance & knowing that a lot of folk will buckle to the pressure that @gazzatriumph mentioned.
There's a guy on YouTube who calls himself something like Chilli Jon Carne. He's published various videos demonstrating how to deal with visits from TV licencing goons. The quick version is..."I've already made my declaration. I don't need a TV licence. Goodbye!"...

As Gazza said, don't get dragged into a conversation like this guy...

 

[gazzatriumph]

I love the letters I get telling what day they are coming round, they never show, I'm under investigation lol, the best one is that their goons will question me under caution, they are salesmen and get commission if they get you to buy a licence, they have no powers. Don't let them in, don't answer the door, and as I said before if you accidentally open it just say no thank you and close the door. Have nothing to do with them.
They usually have a clip board and a chunky looking mobile device. They won't park outside your house but park away and walk. I don't need a licence and don't want strangers in my home.

 

[Scrappy]

The quick version is..."I've already made my declaration. I don't need a TV licence. Goodbye!"...

I've made my declaration online, and cancelled my direct debit. If they turn up at my door the response will be as above, backed up by my insane dog making his usual banshee like noises when anyone comes to the door

 

[Scrappy]

When you make the declaration online they force you to answer when you will need a licence in the future, if you select the option that you will not need one, then they default the date to two years from now, so I chose to enter a date of 30/04/2999 instead. Also be careful if you use autofill in chrome because if the mobile phone number is automatically entered it appears that you then can't delete it , so I abandoned my first attempt closing it and then redid it manually entering all the details excluding my telephone number.

 

[gazzatriumph]

I haven't done the declaration thing, I prefer no contact whatsoever.

 

[gazzatriumph]

Very strange just had an email giving me info about bbc iplayer saying I had logged in to it which obviously I haven't.