Anorak Nation: Discussion: Livingstone Broadcasting Company

I just had to flicked over the LBC today to have a listen to those nasal tones of Ken Livingstoned. What a pillock, its quite obvious the producers at LBC are biggin' up the tw*t letting in the friendly callers to Red Ken first off. Are LBC listeners really being subjected to this twaddle all week?

Why doesn't Ken just get over it, he was a crap mayor, he is trying to follow on in George Galloways footsteps and become a crap broadcaster. Politicians don't become great or even fair broadcasters. We have the Mad Scotsman celebrating all things radical and extreme on TalkSh*t and now Red Ken trying to convince londoners we got it all wrong on LBC. Crap! utter Crap! is this the next move on from recruiting celebs to host radio shows?, are we now going to be subjected to failed politicians next?

Da Guff - The only Lesbian, Gay, Ethnic, Incapacitated, Unemployed, Extemist, Green, Scottish, Irish, Welshman with ADD, OCD, ABH, GBH in Petts Wood.

RC Guff said:

flicked over the LBC today to have a listen to those nasal
tones of Ken Livingstoned.

I heard that Boris found 39 bottles of fine wine and 49 bottles of nasal decongestant in Ken's old mayoral office.

The decision to put Ken on LBC is of course that of Jonathan Richards, and is among many of the bad ideas he has had since taking up the position.

Ken is sounding terrible even though he has done programmes (jointly with others) on LBC before. He does not have a radio voice, and is a has-been now with no political power which makes him much less interesting to talk to. Yeah, we could call up and have a shout-up with him but that would make his show seem more interesting and I think folks can't be bothered.

In article <64041cd3b56d38d0f315d4f81251696b@jiglu-wc>, ... (Oscar) wrote:

Ken is sounding terrible even though he has done programmes
(jointly with others) on LBC before. He does not have a radio
voice, and is a has-been now with no political power which makes
him much less interesting to talk to. Yeah, we could call up and
have a shout-up with him but that would make his show seem more
interesting and I think folks can't be bothered.

I listened for about 15 mins and agree with everything you said.
Radio is not the day job for Ken, but I'm sure those in power will be enjoying every column inch of free PR for the station.

Eric

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Eric

Frankly I listen to LBC a lot from my bunker here at Melbourne and had to turn it off as it got just a bit too much even for my ears.

LBC is great but sometimes the repetitive nature of things gets a bit tedious and those ads for Women to check their boobs, that ad for cucumber man, that ad that says to sell what I think it's some kind of life insurance endowment. It seems like they have only 4 or 5 advertisers that play the ads over and over and over .. There ain't no variety in the ads .. But having said all that, LBC is great.

Well, let me state my hand at the outset. I'm not employed as a techie and I don't have Vista installed on my systems at home. I have, however, done some work on it on my customers' PCs, but I recognise it's not the same as using it yourself full-time, so I don't really have that first hand experience.

XP is a pretty stable product having been in the market for around 7 years now and is now on its third Service Pack. My employer is a local authority with some 5000 dekstop PCs and just over 10,000 employees/computer users. We only moved over to XP in the last couple of years, previously having had a mix of mainly Windows 2000 Professional and some Windows 98 installations. I'm not aware of any ME installations - that was widely regarded as a turkey. Over the last 12 months to reduce the servicing overhead of having umpteen different versions out in the field, they went through a process of "Enterprising" most of the PCs with the result that most of the applications reside on the servers at the Civic Centre. It's all about reducing the potential support headaches. There's an expression in the IT field - "pioneers end up with arrows in their backs" - meaning untried, untested kit results in tears and support heartache. If you've got the level of kit my employer has to support then you play safe and understandably so. I'm not aware of my employer's plans and timescales to go over to Vista, but I guess they will have to make that move at some point - I get the impression they're in no rush at this stage.

I have, however, some techie friends who installed Vista on their systems and most reverted back to XP for two main reasons. Firstly, the driver support (or lack of) on Vista. I note the effort that Microsoft have put in regarding this issue but this hasn't tempted them back. Secondly, Vista is a memory hog, to do the fancy things that make it look good, it takes additonal RAM - there ain't no free lunch in this world. The additional RAM required has variously been quantified as 1 to 2 gig extra. Ok, not the issue it might have been a few years back as we've seen RAM prices falling in the last 5 years, but still an issue for older systems that may have a RAM limitation on the motherboard. It's worth also looking at the comment in the techie press regarding Service Pack 1 (which was regarded as a fairly substantial rewrite of Vista) - it was accused of introducing as many new problems as the ones it resolved! It will be interesting to see how things have settled down by the time SP2 is released. That may be the time to move, for me, maybe...

I've not liked what I've seen of Vista, it seems like change for its own sake. I know Microsoft's business model relies on them to keep selling the latest versions of all of their products but you have to look at whether the change is worth the upgrade. At some stage I will probably have to bite the bullet but I haven't seen any convincing arguments yet. Interestingly enough, after a few years of threatening to do it, I've finally looked at Linux - it's a bit of a learning curve but not as bad as I thought and I've been pleasantly surprised with the Ubuntu distro. It's highly likely that at least a couple of my PCs will be moved over to Linux. Based on the techie advice given to me, those of my students looking to buy a new PC have been encouraged to go for XP, rather than Vista, if there is a choice open to them from their dealer.

As for Firefox 3, I love it. I haven't tried the latest IE upgrade, but at this stage the only advantages of IE over FF are that Youtube works for me, whereas I've not yet sorted out why the "flash" bit won't work using FF (it didn't on FF2 either) plus FlashGet (a download manager) picks up the relevant keystrokes from IE but doesn't from FF. Apart from that, works a treat for me.

Just my 2 cents worth....

Alan
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Oscar <...> said:
RC Guff said:
flicked over the LBC today to have a listen to those nasal
tones of Ken Livingstoned.
I heard that Boris found 39 bottles of fine wine and 49 bottles of nasal decongestant in Ken's old mayoral office.
LOL - I believe the bit about the wine most definately
The decision to put Ken on LBC is of course that of Jonathan Richards, and is among many of the bad ideas he has had since taking up the position.
How does this guy keep his job? Who the hell is he?
Ken is sounding terrible even though he has done programmes (jointly with others) on LBC before. He does not have a radio voice, and is a has-been now with no political power which makes him much less interesting to talk to. Yeah, we could call up and have a shout-up with him but that would make his show seem more interesting and I think folks can't be bothered.

Ten minutes of listening to this tw*t was enough for me. It just seems a platform for him to defend his loss and explain his love for Mr.Jasper and to ease the allegations that both are complete fraudsters. I could give you some nice stories about Ken's drink / drug / sex fuelled parties whilst reigning high at the former GLC and parties that we're actually held there. He is a disgusting, filthy, perverted pr*ck. Without his ethnic flag wavers and liberal minded 'doo gooders' he is nothing.

Da Guff - All Plitical innit!

Eric Tesug <...> said:
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Comments anyone
Eric

Vista = A mincing version of XP. Its the VW Beatle with included flower holder on the dash of the OS world. Its the Essex Girl of all OS Systems, looks nice but can't do much.

Da Guff - A Former Testicle Support guy

Eric Tesug said:

Radio is not the day job for Ken, but I'm sure those in power will be
enjoying every column inch of free PR for the station.

You are right about the PR of course, hopefully they will just milk that and then drop the idea of giving Ken any kind of regular slot.

Dominik Diamond and Marisa De Andrade are on Talk 107 from 2 to 6 pm UK time, I wonder if you (and others) have given them a try? They have an excellent on-air chemistry and do an entertaining show. www.talk107.co.uk

By the way, what time is Chris Reardon's (sp?) talk show on? Is it not currently available on the RTI stream? Or any other stream? I believe he has a podcast page on libsyn but I prefer a live stream rather than having to download. Does he take calls or have guests or do monologues or what? Does he actually do it live or is it always pre-recorded anyway?

Who/What is Mr Jasper?

Alan
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Alan Milewczyk <...> said:

Re: Livingstone Broadcasting CompanyWho/What is Mr Jasper?

Alan

Alan Milewczyk aka The Pole with Soul
Soul pix on the net at www.soulman1949.com

This should give you a general idea of who the man is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Jasper

Da Guff

Thanks for that, I get the picture.

You know, what amazes me reading the article in the link is how Livingstone (who, let's face it, is a pretty shrewd political operator) just doesn't realise that his actions (or lack of, in the case of the funding controversy) lead to accusations of croneyism. Or maybe he just doesn't care. In which case, he ain't that smart.

In today's meedja driven world, "how things look" matters more than "how they actiually are" and internal investigations, no matter how thorough. leave themselves wide open.

Alan
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Alan Milewczyk <...> said:
Re: Livingstone Broadcasting CompanyThanks for that, I get the picture.
You know, what amazes me reading the article in the link is how Livingstone (who, let's face it, is a pretty shrewd political operator) just doesn't realise that his actions (or lack of, in the case of the funding controversy) lead to accusations of croneyism. Or maybe he just doesn't care. In which case, he ain't that smart.
In today's meedja driven world, "how things look" matters more than "how they actiually are" and internal investigations, no matter how thorough. leave themselves wide open.
Alan

Yes, he is a colourful character to say the least. The way he has used NuLabour to influence his position then distance himself when he lost the last Mayoral elections proves his worth. He is a dispicable specimen that florishes amongst his liberal minded cronies. He is just another Anti-English campaigner who has come unstuck, as is the current Government. Although not a supporter, I can clearly see how the BNP is becoming the fastest growing party in the UK, before we know it this country will become a tinder box and moving to the exteme right. Those that poo poo that will soon learn that forgetting and scrubbing out our own culture will squeeze us all too far. The English take ages to blow their corks, but its inevitable and bound to happen in the not to distant future. People like Ken have been instrumental in squeezing us all all and making ethnic policy top priority. On top of that, playing on the 'Green' policies this Government magically find the cash for, he is just another jumping on the green bandwagon that has been put in place to squeeze us even more. The pathetic 'Low Emissions Zone' signs around here make me laugh, they have even been placed in cul-de-sacs. What do people do, stop using their cars once driving into a 'Low Emissions Zone'? This is another Livingstone legacy we've all been left with. Add to that the friggin Olympics, Ken has left his mark all right. I've just bought a car with a much bigger engine I used to have, I burn carbon emitting rubbish on my bonfire, I rufuse to recyclye as past methods such as milk bottles was much more effective than todays cartons / plastic cartons, I don't switch my tv off from stand by at night, I don't buy Organic shi*t - only fools spend the exra cash for something no different to what you'd normally buy, I buy cheap clothes manufactured for a of bowl of rice in India and I use supermarket carrier bags where I can without paying for them. If they want me to pay I just leave all the shopping at the counter and walk out.

I can't stand liberal minded fools, I no longer tolerate them. I'm not left / right or centre wing, I am the Guff!

I am the non-conformist who rebels against this pathetic nanny state!

By God I'm so hard!!!!

Da Guff - The anti establishment fart

By the way, what time is Chris Reardon's (sp?) talk show on? Is it
not currently available on the RTI stream? Or any other stream? I
believe he has a podcast page on libsyn but I prefer a live stream
rather than having to download. Does he take calls or have guests
or do monologues or what? Does he actually do it live or is it
always pre-recorded anyway?

Tuesday 23.00CET (Tuesday 22.00UK)
Thursday 00.00CET (Wednesday 23.00UK)
Thursday 22.00CET (Thursday 21.00UK)

Most is pre-rec, out and about with people and places.
Sometimes guests, sometimes e-mails, sometimes calls – it varies and yes there will be a chunk of monologue as well, that normally has me in fits of laughter.

It is on the stream(s) and Sky.

Eric

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