Christopher England wrote:
: Quoting a previous Steve Leyland contribution:-

:: A few beers and a spliff or two never spoiled a radio show, but I'd
:: imagine pills and powders would.
:
: Not sure that listeners to Rowland Rivron recently on BBC London's
: breakfast show agreed.

Oh crap, what did Uncle Rowland do this time?

:: Chris mate, you don't have to justify your sexuality to us with this
:: feeble camp pretence of poetry, we're all friends here and
:: non-judgemental. Your coming out is hopefully a liberating experience
:: for you.
:
: Did you say you hoped it was a Liberace experience for me, dear?

Christopher Dahlink, I would never wish such a thing upon you as being a talentless fat pooftah who plays a piano. I know you are sooo much better at stringed instruments...
:
: ~
:: You mean one of those soon to be doorstop DAB radios?
:
: As will all one-way only 'radios' soon. We'll look back on the concept
: of 'one way' broadcasting in a few years and laugh and point at it in
: the way we do at gramophone records these days.

I still have some of those black gramophone vinyl thingies and I'll have you know young man that with a decent turntable (Tandberg Thorens TD160 with ADC VLM Cartridge) that they sound pretty damn good. I get much better bass response from vinyl than CDs.
when will everyone wake up to the fact that just because it says "digital" it is not always better?
:
: I had one of them AM radio things once. Not had a working one for
: years. The remains of the last one I had makes a nice end-stop for a
: bookshelf.
:
: No, tell a lie, I've a box full of tiny Virgin target tuners somewhere
: that I stole, erm, liberated (or even Liberaced) from the prize
: cupboard, although they also do FM, so probably don't count.

Better get some more shelves put up for your DAB radios then, eh?