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Absolute Radio, or indeed pretty much any commercial station.
My new workplace has it on to my horror.
Why TF do people actually choose to listen to this absolute shower of complete shit?
Completely safe mauve MOR all day, with a playlist that's just playing stuff from around the turn of the century that was mauve then, interspersed with kin awful mind numbing dreadful adverts every ten minutes.
Not a sniff of anything remotely new to the world.
If I have to hear another McDonalds whistle! 😡😡😡
I defy anyone to explain the appeal of Absolute Radio.
Chris Moyles is on the ducker ffs!
I mean wtaf? 😡
Why?
It's absolutely brilliant music for people who have no interest in music.
I will never understand.
Football seems to be the only sport where people start talking about it without saying actually saying “football” or anything similar, and just assume everyone else knows they’re talking about football.
Yep. See also, people talking about upcoming events in London.
I defy anyone to explain the appeal of Absolute Radio.
Nope cannot. Absolute turgid dross. Heart, Capital, Kiss, etc, all the same. It's like they've cut a slit in a piece of paper and held it up at arms length in front of them and said: look through this slit, this is the only music we're going to play.
Fortunately I can wear ear-buds at my work place so I can listen to music I actually enjoy listening to (or skip music I'm not in the mood for), and therefore avoid getting disproportionately cross about the shite on the radio trying to infect me with rabid earworms.
I'm more of a radio2 kinda guy these days, bit of virgin too 😀
Opening a box of tablets and finding the information leaflet……arghhhhh every single time.
The way the media slavishly refers to the USA’s private banking cartel as a bona-fide govt body, despite the ‘federal reserve’ having no such legitimacy. Whatsoever.
People that introduce new colours to describe stuff and then have me questioning my understanding.
What is 'completely safe mauve MOR', why couldn't you have used beige which would have been my go to? Why mauve? Is there a new significance I don't know about? I always thought mauve was a little bit different, a bit daring, a hint of the .... y'know?
[Seriously - I always thought mauve was a 60's? slang term meaning gay - I can imagine Kenneth Williams saying it 'Oh, he's SO mauve!']
What is ‘completely safe mauve MOR’, why couldn’t you have used beige
I could of have of of have, but in my disproportionate rage, I completely forgot that beige was the word I was looking for and mauve was in my head from a conversation the other day. 😬
Apologies.
I quite like Absolute Radio. On digital they have different playlists so you have the same DJing but different music so you can pick the station to suit. I usually listen to the 80s playlist. The DJs aren't too bad, a bit cheesy and old school, but better than radio 2. Adverts and the phone in competition are annoying but it makes good background.
Any EV ad on social media is immediately pounced upon by people slagging off EVs in the comments.
I don't get it. Why invest your time doing that? If you don't like them, just go and enjoy your ICE car.
Or is it Russian bots trying to save the oil industry?
I quite like Absolute Radio. On digital they have different playlists so you have the same DJing but different music so you can pick the station to suit. I usually listen to the 80s playlist. The DJs aren’t too bad, a bit cheesy and old school, but better than radio 2. Adverts and the phone in competition are annoying but it makes good background.
That's the thing you see, if music actually interests you, then I don't think you want just background.
I want to hear interesting music and people talking about it, not another effin Keane song. 😔
Sums up the appeal well though I suppose. It's for people who just want it in the background and have no interest in it.
Car adverts, all of them.
There is nothing in your plastic, aspirational lifestyle that I desire.
Chris Moyles is on the ducker ffs!
No, no he's not. That's radio X. I know that because I actively avoid anything he's on.
It’s for people who just want it in the background
Isn't that most radio? It's there to fill the void of silence and boredom whilst working, driving or doing something else. Does anyone actually put the radio on, sit in a chair and just listen to the radio (exception made for Archers for the old folks)?
Airport short stay car parking. Absolute thieves.
Dropped my daughter off at Edinburgh on Sunday. She was going away for 3 months so wanted to take her into the terminal, through check in etc and wave her off at security. Parked for around 35 mins in designated short stay. Queued at payment machine only to find it doesn't take contactless and I only had phone so I queued at parking desk only for him to tell me I could pay contactless at exit barrier. No signage anywhere telling me that was possible. Then, the final insult, £15 for 35 mins of parking.
Opening a box of tablets and finding the information leaflet……arghhhhh every single time.
Oh yes! Schrödinger's paper, I call it.
I sometimes find myself going to open a box and then stopping, hmm, no let's try the other side... no wait, maybe it's double bluffing me... hmm... ok, this side... arrgh
It’s for people who just want it in the backgroundIsn’t that most radio? It’s there to fill the void of silence and boredom whilst working, driving or doing something else. Does anyone actually put the radio on, sit in a chair and just listen to the radio
Don't sit in a chair but I can work and listen. I'm engaged. I pay more attention if it's interesting, I laugh if it's funny, I throw shapes if it's funky. I hear interviews, I evaluate new songs that are introduced. Engaged, not passive.
You can't do that with Absolute Radio because it holds nothing interesting or engaging. It's designed for people who do not want to think about or hear anything different, that only like what they like and don't want that challenged, but for me, it's just so terrible that it's impossible to ignore.... all bloody day.
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Any radio station that plays music and every DJ who work on them. They are all terrible. This is why we have Spotify, Tidal, Deezer etc. Radio is for old people or those who have no real interest in music. Radio 4 is good for talking and laughing when the presenters make politicians squirm.
Pausing/ rewinding/ fforwarding a YouTube video always causes the image to dim. Why?
Mr funkmaster, have you tried https://somafm.com/ ?
Lots of (alternative) genres to choose from, which may/maynot be your bag of teacups.
I usually forget about it tbh, and just opt for my collection (16 days worth) on shuffle. Which can be awesome sometimes, real suprises, tracks I've forgotten I've bought, or just randomly chooses a selection of tracks that flow well together. Other times, STOP PLAYING TUNES FROM THAT ALBUM I DONT WANT TO LISTEN TO RIGHT NOW!
People who say they're into the "detailing scene" when what they actually mean is they waste too much time obsessively cleaning a car
Username checks out.
99% of people don't know this about
something really dull and uninteresting, because, 99% of people have got better things to do with their lives and couldn't give a shit.
That's right my home lacks a loft conversion with roof windows.
England's batsmen still being completely devoid of ability against spin bowling.
Car drivers who swing out to the right, across the centre line, to turn left cos, you know, slowing down for the manoeuvre properly, will make them late.
See also left turners going too fast and swinging onto the wrong side of the road into oncoming traffic using the turn right lane at a t-junction.
People who insist on pronouncing the word 'news' as 'nooz'. It has a doubleyou in it, so pronounce it, you ankers.
Also, in a similar vein, the irritating woman on the telly yesterday who started almost every response to a question with "So, I mean, ..." (Guest on Jeremy Vine Ch5 programme, my wife was watching on catch up, I couldn't be elsewhere as I was cooking. That's my excuse)
People who can't say Thank you, without it becoming one word .- fankqueue. With extra emphasis on the K in the middle.
Also people whose wardrobe is designed to display their god awful tattoos.
Separating your recycling ✅
Rinsing the hard plastics ✅
Taking them to Sainsbury's and sticking them in a bin marked 'This is for plastic bag recycling only' ❌
And they're allowed to vote 😢
People who can’t say Thank you, without it becoming one word .- fankqueue. With extra emphasis on the K in the middle.
The corruption of TH to F grates with me generally. It's not just regional speech - that would be irritating but understandable, gods know I probably have more verbal idiosyncrasies then many - but otherwise normally-speaking people who come out with words like "nuffing."
My dad had a T - K shift, he'd say words like "bokkle." I wanted to bokkle him every time he said it.
The corruption of TH to F grates with me generally
Amen, brother (I probably shouldn't say bruvver, should I?)
words like “bokkle.”
I heard someone say Horsepickle once - they were talking about the hospital. Tossers.
People who record work meetings on their phone without telling you that they are doing it !!
gods know I probably have more verbal idiosyncrasies then many
Quite 😉
Aloof clocks without numbers of any kind.
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This is in our kitchen. I can forgive it though because it makes a delightful tweeting as the birdie comes out upon each hour.
Recycling containers which dump water all over your feet when you pick them up.
Put the drain holes at the lowest point FFS.
Don't you own a Sharpie?
I have never heard "bokkle". The correct pronunciation involves a glokkal stop, quite different.
Folk that overtake on a dual carriageway then slow down for some fxxxxng reason making you either slow down or have to overtake them
I have never heard “bokkle”. The correct pronunciation involves a glokkal stop, quite different.
A small one would be a likkle bokkle. Argh.
My accent barely bothers with the glottal stop, it's almost "bol."
Folk that overtake on a dual carriageway then slow down for some fxxxxng reason making you either slow down or have to overtake them
Ah yes. People who want to drive in front of you, slower than you. Truly bizarre behaviour amidst a sea of odd driving habits.
I had one once on a fairly quiet M6. I was sat in the first lane with the cruise control set, minding my own business. An ancient silver BMW overtook me, pulled in, then let off the gas. Whatever, I pulled out, overtook him (still on cruse), pulled back in. Shortly afterwards, he overtakes again. Rinse and repeat. In the end I took out a temporary membership to the Lane Two Owners' Club and drove from like Lancaster to Keswick with this silly bastard in anticlockwise orbit around me.
1) Printers……. Enough said I think……
2) And car parks that use parking apps other than Ringo or PayByPhone.
Which then inevitably leads to downloading yet another app , setting up a new account , new payment details just as the mobile signal fails…..
Arghhhhh!!
On social media, news etc when they show a photo of multiple famous people but the names in the description are not in the same order as the people in the photo. So when you only recognize 1 or 2, you have no idea who the others are.
"The driver has been told to wait at this stop for a few minutes to even out the service " 3 ******* stops before the end of the route.
TV chefs/cooks talking with their mouths full.
You tubers who only know the word "guys" when talking to their viewers.
Gravel bikes. Roadies being able to follow us off road is just wrong, like Daleks being able to climb stairs.