[Spridgets] License to Watch TV in Britain?

[Jim Johnson]

The licenses used to be for the individual TV set not the viewer... At least
it was in the 60s and the 90s....

As to "normal" driving in France - apparently you didn't venture into Paris
and fight off all the 2CVs...    ;-)

Cheers!!
Jim

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Kirk Hargreaves <khargreaves2 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Just got back from two weeks in Britain and a couple of days in Paris. .
> watched some TV in our various Brit hotel rooms. .  had no idea I needed to
> get a license to do so?  I guess the hotels are covered under a blanket
> license of some sort?  Strange stuff to say the least.
>
> And did driving on the left side of the road really stem from the days of
> jousting as I was told by a few Brits while there?
>
> You can all tear this one apart as you see fit.  . but supposedly the
> jousting thing transferred to horse back and buggy days to automobiles as
> the jousters would hold their poles under their right arms facing off with
> each other.
>
> Just what I was told. . .
>
> Kirk
>
> When in France the driving returned to "normal."
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