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TV content in pubs?

  • 18-11-2016 7:13pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 678 ✭✭✭Edups


    Just seen this:
    Age Tester Site Checker
    Serve Legal LTD - Westtown, County Waterford
    Part-time
    Serve Legal are recruiting NOW and have work available every weekend all over Ireland N.I. and R.O.I.. We are looking for persons aged 18 years old to join the team. The work involves visiting a number of pubs and recording what is being shown on their TV. This work will be available almost every weekend though there may be testing on other days of the week.
    If you think youve got what it takes to join the Serve Legal team and are over 18 years old, apply now. Applications must be made online at www.servelegal.co.ukapply.

    What in the name of jaysus do pubs be putting on the TV that this has become a job? Are they throwing on babestation or some thing? And in fairness even if they were after 9pm children aren't allowed in pubs so what would it matter as long as the other people there didn't mind. I have to wonder how inconspicuous you could be recording the TV anyway. Someone sitting at the bar with their phone out (presumably how they record) won't blend in.

    Is this truly things gone mad?


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    They'll be checking they've paid the correct licence for what they're showing.

    It's what the pint glass in the corner is for on pub tellies.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Do you get an allowance for business expenses though


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Hate TV and loud music in pubs.


  • Registered Users Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    They'll be checking they've paid the correct licence for what they're showing.

    It's what the pint glass in the corner is for on pub tellies.

    I wonder if many pubs have tried tippex a pint glass in the corner to avoid the 'pub TV fee'


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,058 ✭✭✭whoopsadoodles


    kfallon wrote: »
    I wonder if many pubs have tried tippex a pint glass in the corner to avoid the 'pub TV fee'

    That's why they change the glass every so often :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 522 ✭✭✭Walter2016


    Here's a different version of the advert.

    Hi, I'm Mr Murdoch. I've given zillions of my money to overrated footie clubs to pay second rate players and their agents huge amounts of money.

    I have to get that money from mugs paying to watch it. I charge pubs up to €15k a year. But some dodge this by just paying domestic rates.

    I want snitches to spy on these small country pubs so that I cam screw them.

    Apply now @ skysnitches.com


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 678 ✭✭✭Edups


    Walter2016 wrote: »
    Here's a different version of the advert.

    Hi, I'm Mr Murdoch. I've given zillions of my money to overrated footie clubs to pay second rate players and their agents huge amounts of money.

    I have to get that money from mugs paying to watch it. I charge pubs up to €15k a year. But some dodge this by just paying domestic rates.

    I want snitches to spy on these small country pubs so that I cam screw them.

    Apply now @ skysnitches.com

    Ahhhhh

    Bastard that murdoch he used to be a lovely boy


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭dreamers75


    Walter2016 wrote: »
    Here's a different version of the advert.

    Hi, I'm Mr Murdoch. I've given zillions of my money to overrated footie clubs to pay second rate players and their agents huge amounts of money.

    I have to get that money from mugs paying to watch it. I charge pubs up to €15k a year. But some dodge this by just paying domestic rates.

    I want snitches to spy on these small country pubs so that I cam screw them.

    Apply now @ skysnitches.com

    What pub shows is what gets people in the door, damn right they should pay for it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,341 ✭✭✭cml387


    OP I think you may have the wrong idea here.

    This is SKY ensuring that publicans are legitimately showing football on SKY to their customers by having paid the correct (and considerably larger) subscription.

    This has been going on for years.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 678 ✭✭✭Edups


    dreamers75 wrote: »
    What pub shows is what gets people in the door, damn right they should pay for it.

    They do pay. But why should smaller pubs pay 15k a year to show some football match? I don't own a pub but I'll be ****ed if I would.


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  • Hate TV and loud music in pubs.

    This, a trillion times. This.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,681 ✭✭✭Fleawuss


    New pub game! Spot the Snitch! Who's the Rent-a-Rat?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,037 ✭✭✭Vic_08


    kfallon wrote: »
    I wonder if many pubs have tried tippex a pint glass in the corner to avoid the 'pub TV fee'

    A serial number generated by the box is displayed on sky sports channels so the account used can also be traced.


  • Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭Eggonyerface


    Vic_08 wrote: »
    A serial number generated by the box is displayed on sky sports channels so the account used can also be traced.

    That's to track who's supplying online streams a far as I know


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 678 ✭✭✭Edups


    Fleawuss wrote: »
    New pub game! Spot the Snitch! Who's the Rent-a-Rat?

    Whoever is eating cheese.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    Hate TV and loud music in pubs.

    Don't think the The George will be your cup of tea then..


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    Pubs should't have TV's, thats where we go to talk to each other, thats why we call every one a cúnt

    21/25



  • Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    dd972 wrote: »
    Don't think the The George will be your cup of tea then..

    Didn't know the George had TV's

    21/25



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 ✭✭✭Ursus Horribilis


    uch wrote: »
    Pubs shouldn't have TVs, that's where we go to talk to each other, that's why we call every one a cúnt

    It's the loud music that gets my goat. It's so that people can't actually have conversations with each other without shouting and getting dry mouths. Dry mouths = more beer


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭finglashoop


    Didnt a landlady in sunderland i think as i remember niall quinn was oart of story win in court to show a satellite channel and avoid huge charges. From.what i remember pub was very close to the ground


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,089 ✭✭✭finglashoop




  • Registered Users Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭Surreptitious


    Didnt a landlady in sunderland i think as i remember niall quinn was oart of story win in court to show a satellite channel and avoid huge charges. From.what i remember pub was very close to the ground

    Say what now?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭Hammer89


    I like a football match in a pub. I also love seeing the disapproving rugby heads look on from the lounge, probably tutting away at the sound of an occasional curse word from the apparent working-class rapscallions who flock to watch English football teams kick a bit of leather around. Their faces say, 'Knackers!' but their eyes say, 'Why not Leinster?'.


  • Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,088 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    Say what now?
    I'd suspect they're on about this case: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17150054

    I'm open to correction, as memory fails me now, but that's why there's a Premier League logo graphic stuck on their games now, as it's a copyright image. Similar for other leagues. I think Sky Sports might be the only exception, where I assume their logo is what is the copyright.


  • Registered Users Posts: 24,214 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Edups wrote: »
    Just seen this:
    Age Tester Site Checker
    Serve Legal LTD - Westtown, County Waterford
    Part-time
    Serve Legal are recruiting NOW and have work available every weekend all over Ireland N.I. and R.O.I.. We are looking for persons aged 18 years old to join the team. The work involves visiting a number of pubs and recording what is being shown on their TV. This work will be available almost every weekend though there may be testing on other days of the week.
    If you think youve got what it takes to join the Serve Legal team and are over 18 years old, apply now. Applications must be made online at www.servelegal.co.ukapply.

    What in the name of jaysus do pubs be putting on the TV that this has become a job? Are they throwing on babestation or some thing? And in fairness even if they were after 9pm children aren't allowed in pubs so what would it matter as long as the other people there didn't mind. I have to wonder how inconspicuous you could be recording the TV anyway. Someone sitting at the bar with their phone out (presumably how they record) won't blend in.

    Is this truly things gone mad?

    Sky/Virgin or whatever without a public subscription


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,143 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    I remember when the starview boxes were popular in 2007-2009 so many pubs had them. No one gave a toss. Wouldn't be surprised to hear pubs are paying non-commerical rates or even using streaming boxes :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    uch wrote: »
    Didn't know the George had TV's

    Sure they easily have more than any other pub in Dublin.




  • They'll be checking they've paid the correct licence for what they're showing.

    It's what the pint glass in the corner is for on pub tellies.

    I've just had an even better idea that those lads (the checkers) can use to make even more money.

    Sure, take the crown shilling from Sky to go into pubs with your camera to be a grass. Then, when you see something you shouldn't, pull the owner/landlord/supervisor aside for a (*cough*) "private word". Double your money at the pub's expense by returning to your student bedsit and holding your camera up to old VHS tapes made by your parents of The Late Late Show.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 678 ✭✭✭Edups


    I've just had an even better idea that those lads (the checkers) can use to make even more money.

    Sure, take the crown shilling from Sky to go into pubs with your camera to be a grass. Then, when you see something you shouldn't, pull the owner/landlord/supervisor aside for a (*cough*) "private word". Double your money at the pub's expense by returning to your student bedsit and holding your camera up to old VHS tapes made by your parents of The Late Late Show.

    I think the only thing that will double is the pain your feel as pub customers kick your **** in for being a snake


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  • Didnt a landlady in sunderland i think as i remember niall quinn was oart of story win in court to show a satellite channel and avoid huge charges. From.what i remember pub was very close to the ground


    Irish pub landlord I know in London (that's a pub landlord from Ireland, not the landlord of an Irish Pub) hung a photo of Steve Staunton in the bar with a warning that staff were not to accept checks from this man, or probably even serve him a pint if he called in.



    (just for giggles of course, he didn't know Stash, just didn't like his style).


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