You need a license to watch TV in UK?!

I was scared at age 8 by a scene in the 'A for Andromeda' serial, written by Fred Hoyle. It featured a woman who had been grown in a vat according to alien radio instructions. The British scientists who grew her had also built a computer as instructed by the aliens. It had two mysterious electrodes poking from the front. I knew they were dangerous because one of the scientists had said "There's a thousand volts on them, they'll roast you if you touch them". They put glass covers over them. Anyhow, Andromeda (the woman, named after where the instructions came from) went all zombie like and seemed to be obeying the computer. She took the glass covers off and went to put one hand on each electrode. I went behind the sofa. My father thought this was funny and remarked "He's got the wind up" to my mother. Anyhow, the computer didn't roast her, just gave her a few shocks to remind her who was boss. Later on the computer tries to take over the world, and the bloke in the picture takes an axe to it.

Andromeda (Andree) was played by Julie Christie. You can see the electrodes behind her.

What about movies in the UK, anything comparable to some of our horror movies? When I was kid, we wasn't allowed to watch horror movies but a few exceptions must have been made because I remember watching Exorcist and Helter Skelter which had the effect of haunting me for years.

All the Hammer films...

I looked it up, apparently is was about Dracula and Frankenstein and the like?

What I found so particularly horrifying about the ones I mentioned was, one was based on a true story so I was afraid, and the other one, I imagined could happen, you know a girl being possessed by the devil. Later after I grew up I didn't even attempt to watch the ones which were coming out, you know the guy the with the chain saw and mask sneaking around the woods...

That was before I was born although Julie Christie always reminds me of Trigger's confusion with Agatha.

Hammer horror films are more high camp than scary.

the best cooking shows (IMHO) are the Caribbean cooking, Swedish kitchens or the New Norwegian Cooking. All other, even my fav American cooking shows are too rushed for time. They always try to cook q whole meal rather than just share techniques (All except Alton Brown)

A T.V. show about debt in UK... interesting.

It's about bailiffs enforcing court orders. And it's no different to anywhere else, rack up a debt and you'll be made to pay. Or have they stopped foreclosing on mortgages in America?

This is what making America great again means isn't it? Pretending people only owe money in other countries. One thing Americans still have to worry about are medical bills. Glad we don't have that **** to deal with over here.

If only we had more shows like this.



Or adverts like this.

Why do you feel the need to keep trying to change the topic away from what is being discussed? Are you that ashamed of your country?

After I finished that video, I realized that this is what happens in a country that doesn't have guns. By banning the ability to defend oneself, government agents are allowed to walk in and confiscate your things. This would never fly in America.

Freedom and all that.

My original thoughts were and are that McG is unaware about what bailiffs do resp. what they are.

I'm not remotely ashamed of my country but I suspect many Americans are ashamed of people like you.

You're talking out of your arse, debt collection agencies seize stuff all the time in America. The only difference is any idiot can set himself up as a debt collector.

You're right, opinionated but completely ignorant of the facts.

One of the bailiffs on that show has been in the news after he pleaded guilty to possessing a porn video depicting an animal (a dog) performing a "sex act" on him. He was fined £500 with £85 costs and a £50 victim surcharge.

I can't help wondering how the victim surcharge is going to be paid to the dog.

Tell me Drax, what is it that I don't understand?

I think McG believes there's no such thing as the repo man in America. Nobody ever has to pay back a loan or rent because repossession just doesn't exist.

Bonios?

I am talking about what's happening in the UK, not the US. You do understand that, right?

I don't know who Drax is and why you ask him.

But perhaps you can summarise the various regulations regarding Court bailiffs, High Court bailiffs and High Court enforcement officers and what differs those from certified bailiffs and private non-certified bailiffs?

In England/Wales - the Scottish laws about bailiffs are even more different as far as I remember