Huffin the Puffin wrote:

My mother tongue is Danish and I learned English for 7 years in school.
Until I had been married (with a brit) for several years Auf Wiedersehen Pet
was mostly incomprehensible to me.

I have been British since birth. Auf Wiedersehen Pet is totally
incomprehensible to me.

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"Walt Davidson" wrote in message
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On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 07:38:45 +0200, "Huffin the Puffin"
wrote:

Until I had been married (with a brit) for several years Auf Wiedersehen Pet
was mostly incomprehensible to me.

Don't worry ... it is mostly incomprehensible to 90% of Brits too!
;-)

Also, the BBC now seems to have a policy of recruiting their
television presenters only from Tyneside (Newcastle) or Merseyside
(Liverpool). Standard English (Oxford) accents are a definite "no
no"!
Walt Davidson

Why aye hinnie, yoes noose ;-)

Steve Terry

"Walt Davidson" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 07:38:45 +0200, "Huffin the Puffin"
wrote:

Until I had been married (with a brit) for several years Auf Wiedersehen Pet
was mostly incomprehensible to me.

Don't worry ... it is mostly incomprehensible to 90% of Brits too!
;-)

Also, the BBC now seems to have a policy of recruiting their
television presenters only from Tyneside (Newcastle) or Merseyside
(Liverpool). Standard English (Oxford) accents are a definite "no
no"!
Walt Davidson

Why aye hinnie, yoes noose ;-)

Steve Terry

Stephen O'Connell wrote:

Simon Gardner wrote:
You missed the point.

Of course you can receive it quite well in Germany and of course it's
easy to get all over France - and indeed a large part of Western Europe.

The point is that we have been lectured for a number of years by Jomtien
who maintains that (a) nobody in France (in particular) will ever want
to watch it and (b) the only people who want to watch it in continental
Europe are those with relatives or friends in the UK. This is, of
course, ******** and always was.

And everybody knew that! But maybe Jomty didn't want to upset the people
who don't like the idea of Johnny Foreigner watching the BBC when they're
not paying for it. You know how these UK TV Licence payers get on their high
horse about paying for stuff that others in Europe can watch for free.
Begrudgers the lot of 'em! - I have all the BBC channels added to my Other
Channels section of my digibox and don't pay a UK TV Licence, so there!

But I do have to suffer RTÉ, and pay an Irish TV Licence for that er...
'pleasure'. I can recommend RTÉ wholeheartedly to the French, some of 'em
deserve it! :-)
They'll need a Sky Digibox, Astra 2D reception and MINIMUM of a Sky IRISH*
Familypackage or higher.

*i.e. You need an Irish Address for the viewing card and contract. Perhaps even
an Irish Phone line.

It isn't like sausages... It doesn't cost anyone less or more in the UK if
people from Iceland to Spain receive it also.

I'm sure my watching of RAI, German, Polish, Spanish, French (Admittedly SECAM
analog for 1, 2, 3 M6), Romainian, Greek and many others costs the broadcaster
nothing extra.

--
Watty EI9FEB

callsign at eircom net
Limerick, IRELAND

Stephen O'Connell wrote:

Simon Gardner wrote:
You missed the point.

Of course you can receive it quite well in Germany and of course it's
easy to get all over France - and indeed a large part of Western Europe.

The point is that we have been lectured for a number of years by Jomtien
who maintains that (a) nobody in France (in particular) will ever want
to watch it and (b) the only people who want to watch it in continental
Europe are those with relatives or friends in the UK. This is, of
course, ******** and always was.

And everybody knew that! But maybe Jomty didn't want to upset the people
who don't like the idea of Johnny Foreigner watching the BBC when they're
not paying for it. You know how these UK TV Licence payers get on their high
horse about paying for stuff that others in Europe can watch for free.
Begrudgers the lot of 'em! - I have all the BBC channels added to my Other
Channels section of my digibox and don't pay a UK TV Licence, so there!

But I do have to suffer RTÉ, and pay an Irish TV Licence for that er...
'pleasure'. I can recommend RTÉ wholeheartedly to the French, some of 'em
deserve it! :-)
They'll need a Sky Digibox, Astra 2D reception and MINIMUM of a Sky IRISH*
Familypackage or higher.

*i.e. You need an Irish Address for the viewing card and contract. Perhaps even
an Irish Phone line.

It isn't like sausages... It doesn't cost anyone less or more in the UK if
people from Iceland to Spain receive it also.

I'm sure my watching of RAI, German, Polish, Spanish, French (Admittedly SECAM
analog for 1, 2, 3 M6), Romainian, Greek and many others costs the broadcaster
nothing extra.

--
Watty EI9FEB

callsign at eircom net
Limerick, IRELAND

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:01:54 +0100, "Stephen O'Connell"
wrote:

And everybody knew that! But maybe Jomty didn't want to upset the people
who don't like the idea of Johnny Foreigner watching the BBC when they're
not paying for it. You know how these UK TV Licence payers get on their high
horse about paying for stuff that others in Europe can watch for free.

Radio 4 coverage of Europe on LW is pretty decent. Why don't the British
taxpayers complain about that?

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:01:54 +0100, "Stephen O'Connell"
wrote:

And everybody knew that! But maybe Jomty didn't want to upset the people
who don't like the idea of Johnny Foreigner watching the BBC when they're
not paying for it. You know how these UK TV Licence payers get on their high
horse about paying for stuff that others in Europe can watch for free.

Radio 4 coverage of Europe on LW is pretty decent. Why don't the British
taxpayers complain about that?

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur

Watty wrote:


I'm sure my watching of RAI, German, Polish, Spanish, French (Admittedly SECAM
analog for 1, 2, 3 M6), Romainian, Greek and many others costs the broadcaster
nothing extra.



It is even possible that you make the license fees even a bit cheaper,
because foreigner watching national TV stations may be still in the
target group for advertisements and therefore may result in extra
revenue for the TV stations, depending on if the stations and
advertising customers are aware of these unofficial watchers.

CU

Torsten

Watty wrote:


I'm sure my watching of RAI, German, Polish, Spanish, French (Admittedly SECAM
analog for 1, 2, 3 M6), Romainian, Greek and many others costs the broadcaster
nothing extra.



It is even possible that you make the license fees even a bit cheaper,
because foreigner watching national TV stations may be still in the
target group for advertisements and therefore may result in extra
revenue for the TV stations, depending on if the stations and
advertising customers are aware of these unofficial watchers.

CU

Torsten

In article ,
"T. Fink" wrote:

It is even possible that you make the license fees even a bit cheaper,
because foreigner watching national TV stations may be still in the
target group for advertisements and therefore may result in extra
revenue for the TV stations, depending on if the stations and
advertising customers are aware of these unofficial watchers.

There is no advertising on any BBC channels except World (and possibly
Prime) - apart, that is, from the BBC's own adverts.