Things you hate IV

Yesterday a very pleasant elderly Liberal Democrat called at my door seeking my vote and handing me rainforests worth of leaflets with pictures of Liz Truss on them.They run our local council here and like everywhere else it’s a shambles. Pot holes everywhere. Public toilets shut (it’s as if their new strategy is to encourage us all to pee in the holes in the road to save money). When I politely mentioned this to her, all she did was blame everybody else. Central Government. The previous council. Etc. I told her she’d had 15 months in power and if they really can’t change anything because their hands are tied, then why do they exist? Why are you asking us to vote for you if you then tell us your hands are so tied, you can’t make a difference?

After a very good 30 minutes of debate, she then mentioned we don’t have local elections here on Thursday anyway (only for the police Commissioner). Wtf!

I will never get those 30 minutes back grrrr

 

The BBC’s Eurovision team is a joke. Ghastly. Norton. Mills. The travel guy off Zoe’s breakfast show. And that awful bloke with 600 teeth. Wtf

I know Eurovision has a big gay following, and that all adds to the fun, but does the BBC have to turn it into a totally campfest? Can’t we have more balanced coverage?

Mind you, the favourite to win is some hideous bloke from Switzerland wearing a dress, so maybe that’s all it deserves this year.

 

Yes I know but I go out of my way to avoid any news/current affairs progs, sports drivel. I get everything I need from WFCForums. I might be tempted to listen to "and the rest is politics" podcast which my wife loves ...

 

Ghastly team for a ghastly pointless competition !

 

I had a daily radio programme for over 20 overs but it was crap, hardly anybody listened and in the end I got taken off.

Maybe I’m just bitter when I sit now and listen to Gabby Roslin shrieking so loud it upsets the dog four doors up the street, or Ken Bruce getting paid thousands for reading out listeners emails and saying ‘ohhhhh’ or ‘gosh’.

 

How about trying an 80s music station? Or even a station playing a specific genre of music?

 

I like GN on Eurovision, he’s amusingly catty.

And, whatever you say, Ken Bruce was great on the radio commentary too.

I think “big gay following” is understating matters a bit…

 

Simon Mayo at 4pm on Greatest Hits Radio is always a good listen, apart from the sports guy who brings nothing to the party.

 

Don’t watch it then. Others enjoy it.

 

Chris Evans - is that you ?

 

The BBC’s terrible Eurovision coverage, and I include Wogan in this, goes a long way to explaining why we are poorly regarded among the other competing countries.

 

I don't watch it of course but I prasume I'm still aloud to call it rubbish ?

 

Well, you think it is rubbish.

 

And yet Wogan was, SFAIK, regarded as a hero by the Eurovision community.

Really can’t see why you have a problem with it. It’s highly entertaining (imo).

 

Because I hate 90% of what is plaid. Unlike spotify or Youtube I can't just fwd to the next song until I find somthing I like, .....and I still need to listen to jolly exciteable DJ......

 

OK. It’s more of an effort to do that though. The radio can just play along in the background without any action on one’s part.

I thought you didn’t see the point of Spotify anyway?

 

Yes, did I not make that cleer ?

 

Wogan was regarded as a hero by the British Eurovision community.

Across Europe many found him patronising and belittling of the competition. As if we were too superior to be taking part etc.

No surprise therefore we spent many years polling badly. That and the usually awful choice of entry of course.

British people want the best of both worlds with Eurovision. They want to mock it and laugh at the stupidity of it all, but then develop siege mentality and cry foul when we do badly every year.

Can’t have it both ways.

 

I’m not sure about the first point, do you have evidence? I recall a competition shortly before he retired when the presenters and the whole audience cheered him as he raised a glass in the commentary booth.

I’m also not convinced that all of the rest of Europe takes it as seriously as you suggest. Do you remember the Danish (I think) “Museum of Eurovision History” segment featuring Johnny Logan as a cobweb-encrusted exhibit?

 

They probably cheered because they were pleased he was finally leaving.

 

Yes I want to listen to something rather than just have it on in the background.
I tend to play youtube playlists rather than spotify as discussed before and have found loads of bands that I wouldn't by wading through hours of radio. I'm listening to it now. A mix of stuff I know and like and other stuff that youtube throws in which is similar, some of which i like and remember and some i skip. In fact this is the current list I'm working through as i sit here. Most I know and like, some new songs which I may or may not like, all based on what I've listened to before....works for me !

 

I’ve had enough of today already.

More shambles from the Home Office. People north of the border squabbling among themselves. And some bloke with cancer being hailed a hero for venturing out surrounded by a tribe of flunkies pandering to his ever need.

And the weather continues to be awful. We’ve had a whole month of Spring stolen from us lately.

What a country.

Woe betide any election candidates that ring my door bell today.

 

I think he just got brow beaten with the political voting of it all

 

Yup. Those Greeks and Cypriots. Disgraceful. Should have been kicked out

 

Horses for courses, I guess. I distinguish background listening (radio) from “active” listening (Spotify). I’d also given up on radio about 20-25 years ago (5Live occasionally being the exception), but the variety of stations available on the internet and the ease of using a smart speaker has lured me back. At Schloss Keighley we probably listen to the same amount of radio per week as we watch TV, and certainly far more of it is live.

 

* your
ps I've always wanted to ask - how is it that you don't drive ???

 

We should invade and conquer all similarly sized Mediterranean island states!

 

I generally hate any DJ who talks more than they play records, except Johnny Vaughan, who, for some reason, I find brilliant.

 

Simon Bates?

 

Too late with mine. The Indians have beaten you to it. You can’t move for them in Malta! Some dodgy deal the previous Prime Minster Joseph Muscat did with the Indian Government

 

Good. F*ck them.

 

Had lessons in the summer holidays when I was 18, wasn't especially good, stopped them when I went back to school in the autumn to focus on getting into uni and never took it up again. Most of the time since then I have lived in a city with decent enough public transport so there hasn't been much incentive.

I'm sort of tempted to learn now that I am nearing retirement but I suspect I won't.

 

It's OK, you don't need a license for these:

 

I wouldn't want to be your driving instructor !!
Does Mrs K drive ?
I'm sure it's fine in the city but what about visiting family ?
Might be worth learning to drive an automatic, easlier and quicker ?

 

No, indeed.