Sunday, 20 April 2008
Blimey...
...is certainly listening to a lot of radio stations.
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Dave Martin <...> said:
How is the music anyway? OK, or what?
Dave.
Yup!! fine here Dave as usual, As the shows are on a loop i dont listen continuously but dip in and out at various times over the Weekend including Monday mornings, That's if the battery is not to flat by then, Yours not mine!!
Richard
Redhill and Reigate's local radio station, Susy Radio, has returned to the airwaves for another RSL broadcast. It returned last night just after midnight on 87.7FM after an absence of around 2 years. The
signal comes from Reigate Hill in Surrey and the studio is located
near Redhill.
Susy are one of a small group of stations attempting to gain a
community radio licence for the area. They have been broadcasting
since 1996 on various AM and FM frequencies and have been popular with local people and radio enthusiasts alike.
The broadcasts, which are due to end on May 5th, are also relayed on
the internet via their web site at http://www.susyradio.com
—Regards,
Geoff
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Regards,
Geoff
Christopher England <...> said:
but I did watch Britain's Got Talent tonight by mistake.
I don't particularly care for it, either. However, I think you'll find it popular with the Borg drones ;)
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Charlie
Christopher England <...> said:
Quoting a previous Sterling Times contribution:-
Boots were worn for the purpose of kicking.
So really the level of unwarranted violence within da yoof hasn't
changed. Today's hoodies, were they alive all those years ago, would
have been skinheads I'd guess.
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True. Except where the boots have been replaced with guns.
Dave Martin <...> said:
Christopher England <...> said:
Quoting a previous Sterling Times contribution:-Boots were worn for the purpose of kicking.
So really the level of unwarranted violence within da yoof hasn't
changed. Today's hoodies, were they alive all those years ago, would
have been skinheads I'd guess.--
* Christopher England just said that *Anyway I wouldn't mind but the original ethos of the skinheads was racial harmony!
Later the movement was hijacked by the "white power" and neo nazi's, BNP etc and that's what gave them a bad name but there is nothing new in people hijacking one idea for their own end, is there?
How is the music anyway? OK, or what?Dave.
Well certainly the skinheads I knew in the early seventies were thugs and were primarily into kicking Pakies and each other. Whether there were skinheads in the sixties who were peace-loving angels I don't know.
Quoting a previous Richard Sharpe contribution:-
I remember at the time Esso were doing the Tiger In The Tank promo were
they gave away all these goodies like Tiger Tails etc, So i had a Tiger
Tail on each lapel and little Esso men key rings on the zips of my
boots,
Those tiger tails, weren't all the car drivers putting them on their petrol caps or something, so they'd drive along scaring children who thought there was a real tiger in tanks. Heh heh. "Daddy, please let the tiger out".
Wasn't this around the time you'd also get sort of bullet-hole transfers to put on windscreens? Was that from a rival to Esso?
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Quoting a previous Sterling Times contribution:-
Well certainly the skinheads I knew in the early seventies were thugs
and were primarily into kicking Pakies and each other. Whether there
were skinheads in the sixties who were peace-loving angels I don't know.
Some decades ago, I was strolling through Upper Street in Islington, North London. ( Famous more recently as the place where a lad was chased and knifed to death following an argument on a bus).
I was almost level with the town hall when I was suddenly surrounded by about 5 tall heavy set skinheads, one of which said something like, "S'cuse me mate, we need to stop yer right. A word, ok?". Covered in tattoos they were. Obviously I thought I was in for a mugging or at the very least maybe a kicking for not being a skinhead. I assessed the situation and realised I'd never escape if I tried to run, so I partially resigned myself to the hope that I wouldn't be completely dead when they'd finished with me.
However, sounding like a bunch of Kray-style East End gangsters they actually politely engaged me in a conversation...about being born again Christians, and how I should come along to one of the services in a church their group had just taken over. They gave me a leaflet and I was on my way after promising (a lie) that I'd try to come along. Phew.
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Christopher England <...> said:
Quoting a previous Sterling Times contribution:-
Well certainly the skinheads I knew in the early seventies were thugs
and were primarily into kicking Pakies and each other. Whether there
were skinheads in the sixties who were peace-loving angels I don't know.Some decades ago, I was strolling through Upper Street in Islington,
North London. ( Famous more recently as the place where a lad was chased
and knifed to death following an argument on a bus).I was almost level with the town hall when I was suddenly surrounded by
about 5 tall heavy set skinheads, one of which said something like,
"S'cuse me mate, we need to stop yer right. A word, ok?". Covered in
tattoos they were. Obviously I thought I was in for a mugging or at the
very least maybe a kicking for not being a skinhead. I assessed the
situation and realised I'd never escape if I tried to run, so I
partially resigned myself to the hope that I wouldn't be completely dead
when they'd finished with me.However, sounding like a bunch of Kray-style East End gangsters they
actually politely engaged me in a conversation…about being born again
Christians, and how I should come along to one of the services in a
church their group had just taken over. They gave me a leaflet and I
was on my way after promising (a lie) that I'd try to come along. Phew.
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I had a similar experience last year whilst visiting my aunt in the Royal London Hospital in White Chapel. A group of young Asian Men we're preaching anti west /anti british hate slogans quite openly whilst selling merchandise and books on a small stand, right by the tube station at the junction of traffic lights on the main road. They approached me and warned me of the danger of not turning to Islam (I Must look like an infedel). In a nut shell, all us scum infedels are doomed!!! Apparently, these guys have been there a number of years preaching their bile whilst stuffing themselves with halal bacon butties .
Seeing that the area was full of them (Radical Extremists), I told them I was a Jedi and just walked on trying to avoid confrontation as they looked rather itimidating whilst a gaggle of Daleks stood behind them in their black intimidating Hajibs (Probably all men).
I thought hate preaching was a crime but they still frequent the area on a regular basis flouting laws preaching anti british hate.
Still, I suppose that's the price of freedom of speech. Am I bovvered?!?!
Stood here wiv me Crombie coat, Ben Sherman shirt , me drainpipe Levi's held up wiv me braces and rolled up at the bottom of course, and me Millet's boots enjoying the tunes. Taking me bird Cheryl to the pictures tonight, to Sir wiv Love me thinks, in me Ford Corsair.
I'm Just an old cockney racist – but I do luv me reggae music.
Quoting a previous RC Guff contribution:-
In a nut shell, all us scum infedels are
doomed!!!
Actually, that's kind of identical in thrust to the preachings of the Born Again Christian brigade, or indeed, the Christian fundamentalists that make their absolute fortunes out of throwing god-FEARING, or more properly, death-fearing in the face of the susceptible.
All those years of the offshore stations broadcasting their messages of hate, hell and damnation have probably desensitized a lot of us from realising it's the same hate that the Muslim fundamentalists preach, just re-packaged to our lifestyles and language.
I used to believe we should live and let live, allowing those with the mental disorder of these Middle Eastern originating religions to just get on with their millions of years-old feuding, but I keep feeling they are endangering normal people nowadays, i.e. me!
So, now I'm of the opinion that religions should either be banned or at the very least carry a publicly declared health warning a bit like packets of cigarettes now do. That would be a great placard to see outside each church, mosque, temple, synagogue or whatever the indoctrination centre is called, "Warning: Religion kills."
I thought hate preaching was a crime but they still frequent the area on
a regular basis flouting laws preaching anti british hate.
To be fair, all religions preach hate. That's what they are for, and how they work by having elements of 'inside' and an 'outside' that you struggle to belong to. There is always a victim to, at the very least, be mocked or pitied, or at the other extreme to be tortured to death.
I'm not sure which has the greater 'head count' of death and torture. I think Islamic fundamentalists are catching up, but they still have some way to go to level peg the Catholics.
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Quoting a previous plus8 plus8 contribution:-
but I do luv me reggae music.
And your top 5 would be....?
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Christopher England <...> said:
And your top 5 would be....?
In these non offensive times :-
At number 5 –
Lip up body mass challenged – Bad Manners
number 4 – Pass the inhabitant of a low lying, liberal West European country to the left hand side. Musical Yoof
number 3 – Here Comes Prophylactic Reggae – The Piglets
number 2 – The residents of the Occupied Territories – Desmond Dekker
And at number One – Stairway to Heaven . Dread Zeppelin. Every anorak top tune is this one, in some shape or form!
I'll get me zimmer.
Alan Milewczyk <...> said:
Britain's Naff TalentOne thing that gets me about these "talent" shows is the high level of delusion on the part of some of the participants – some of them actually think they're good and that's compounded by their friends and family supporting them, merely increasing the ultimate humiliation. Then, of course, when they get that reality check from the likes of Simon Cowell, they can't accept that and go harranguing the bloke. Sad, doesn't even begin to cover it.
Alan Milewczyk aka The Pole with Soul
Soul pix on the net at http://www.soulman1949.com
What gets me more than that Alan is how many people actually wast a Saturday evening watching this twaddle. My Daughter popped round today and turned my TV over from LBC on freeview (which was just noise in the background whilst stuffing my face with crumpets) to the repeat of this 'Britain's Talent'. My Daughter is still receiving the 100,000 volts shock treatment as I speak as she found it totally entertaining, what's more she watched it last night too.
I've have arranged the guys in white coats to take her away after sun down once she has completed at least 8 hours of shock treatment to the brain.
This kind of television is just p*ss poor and I am seriously thinking of going back to the planet where I originally come from where Jedi's are entertained via a much more intelligent means, such as 24 hour a day Country File with John Craven and Cheggars Play Pop on the alternative channel. A Planet where Simon Cowel and Peter Jones would be used a foxes in a country side man hunt. BBC Local news readers would be pole axed after receiving 12 years worth of speech therapy lessons. Reality TV Producers would be boiled in KY jelly and stuffed up elephants arses as past time sport and finally, Quiz Show hosts and Breakfast TV presenters get put into the next version of the film SAW whereby they have bodily traps attached to them and desperately have to save themselves from the kind of mental torture they give their viewers.
........Still, that bloody Britains Got Talent tops it all so far!
The Guff - Who really is from another planet - Kent
Quoting a previous Alan Milewczyk contribution:-
One thing that gets me about these "talent" shows is the high level of
delusion on the part of some of the participants – some of them actually
think they're good and that's compounded by their friends and family
supporting them, merely increasing the ultimate humiliation. Then, of
course, when they get that reality check from the likes of Simon Cowell,
they can't accept that and go harranguing the bloke. Sad, doesn't even
begin to cover it.
But is it really real? I mean if your son / daughter (or whatever you might have!) couldn't sing or dance despite wanting to or trying to, would you really tell them they were completely wonderful and a star? I don't think I would. I think I'd also do anything to save my son / daughter from the humiliation.
So, either the family and friends of these 'idiots' are equally delusional or it's all a plot to at least get some 'fame' despite having no talent, 'cos otherwise it just doesn't make sense!!
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Sadly, in my real world I have worked on some of this appalling Sh**te. Some wannabe actors, who won a part in some brainless soap, fulfilled their contract and mercifully were never heard of again.
My fear is we go the same way as the US, with ghastly parents pushing very young girls into beauty 'pagents' and other 'talent' shows, fulfilling their own inadequacies through their children. True talent will rise to the top through graft and determination, not just fame for 15 minutes.
I used to work on telly that made me proud . Now it's just pish. (Sigh)
I'm glad I did this Skinhead show, the response was good, mind you what will you all make of the Punk special I have planned for next week??
Dave
