Who listens to the radio?
Stephen Cummings should have given up the music business after that album, he's sucked dingos balls ever since. anyway:
As you may possibly be aware through the occasional hint and oblique reference, I live in what could reasonably be described as a 'remote area'. Quite a lot of visitors from cities feel isolated and uncomfortable out here. Fair enough, I feel out of place in cities; although I do enjoy them.
Until very recently we've been quite restricted in what we could listen to on the old steam-powered wireless. There was the local ABC of course. This may make me an unreconstructed Marxist in the eyes of those practising RWDB orthodoxy, but I like the ABC. I'm not without my reservations - I get sick of the PC line sometimes and a lot of the presenters don't appeal, but I like being able listen to the cricket and football, the Country Hour is handy and I even like the old lady who gives gardening advice on Saturday mornings.
We also had 2 WEB, AKA radio B&S* Think not for profit co-operative radio based in Bourke. Need I say more?
Sorry about that. I can't make that link thing disappear from this post without making it disappear form all posts, so I'm going to be summarising things for a while. On with the show:
Nowadays we have another station to listen to - Rebel FM. As the name implies Rebel FM is your standard Barnesy/Farnsy/whacky Brekky crew/icy cold cans of Coke style of radio stationnn, yeahhh! No Black Thunders, though. Considering their reception area extends from the Cooktown/Weipa area down to here, they'd need Operation Rolling Thunder to get sufficient coverage. Non Queenslanders may support this.
One thing that it has shown me is that there has been a massive increase in the amount of North American middle class boy bands who think that by being whingy whiny white boys they are being 'punk'. I'm looking at you in particular A Simple Plan. Fuck off and die. You deserve to be glassed.
*Note for foreign visitors: A rural institution, B&S balls are held annually in many country towns. Originating in the nineteenth century, B&S - or Batchelor and Spinster - balls were conceived as a way for young people to overcome the isolation of living in the bush and find a mate. These days they are two day booze fests were young people go to drink rum, listen to bad music, do 'circle work' in utes, throw food dye at one another and attempt to pick up. Also colloquially known as Beer and Spirits (politely), Booze and Sluts (by hopeful yet hopeless male participants) and Bogans and Skanks (By everybody else).
As you may possibly be aware through the occasional hint and oblique reference, I live in what could reasonably be described as a 'remote area'. Quite a lot of visitors from cities feel isolated and uncomfortable out here. Fair enough, I feel out of place in cities; although I do enjoy them.
Until very recently we've been quite restricted in what we could listen to on the old steam-powered wireless. There was the local ABC of course. This may make me an unreconstructed Marxist in the eyes of those practising RWDB orthodoxy, but I like the ABC. I'm not without my reservations - I get sick of the PC line sometimes and a lot of the presenters don't appeal, but I like being able listen to the cricket and football, the Country Hour is handy and I even like the old lady who gives gardening advice on Saturday mornings.
We also had 2 WEB, AKA radio B&S* Think not for profit co-operative radio based in Bourke. Need I say more?
Sorry about that. I can't make that link thing disappear from this post without making it disappear form all posts, so I'm going to be summarising things for a while. On with the show:
Nowadays we have another station to listen to - Rebel FM. As the name implies Rebel FM is your standard Barnesy/Farnsy/whacky Brekky crew/icy cold cans of Coke style of radio stationnn, yeahhh! No Black Thunders, though. Considering their reception area extends from the Cooktown/Weipa area down to here, they'd need Operation Rolling Thunder to get sufficient coverage. Non Queenslanders may support this.
One thing that it has shown me is that there has been a massive increase in the amount of North American middle class boy bands who think that by being whingy whiny white boys they are being 'punk'. I'm looking at you in particular A Simple Plan. Fuck off and die. You deserve to be glassed.
*Note for foreign visitors: A rural institution, B&S balls are held annually in many country towns. Originating in the nineteenth century, B&S - or Batchelor and Spinster - balls were conceived as a way for young people to overcome the isolation of living in the bush and find a mate. These days they are two day booze fests were young people go to drink rum, listen to bad music, do 'circle work' in utes, throw food dye at one another and attempt to pick up. Also colloquially known as Beer and Spirits (politely), Booze and Sluts (by hopeful yet hopeless male participants) and Bogans and Skanks (By everybody else).
4 Comments:
that operation rolling thunder thingy was very succinct, and quite scarey. wouldn't it have been more effective, cheaper, and safer for the non-combatants, to inject troops to kill the other troops?
and, if not, just not do it at all. sickening.
errr, your other link, the simple plan, i got bored way to quickly and couldn't find a quick and easy way over the internet to get the operation rolling thunder to take them out.
never went to a b&s ball. friends did. they had a blast. but that was a few years ago now. bogans and skanks sounds pretty accuarate :-)
You said I could leave a comment even if it wasn't intelligent... So, hi Dirk, hope you're having a great day!
Rat,
I think that between Operation Rolling Thunder and Operation Ranch Hand and the something like 1,000,000 civilian deaths they caused (not counting the many more civilian deaths indirectly caused by starvation) in a war which they were fighting on purely idealogical grounds - North Vietnam was no real threat to anybody - coupled with the fact that they are still the only nation to use weapons of mass destruction - on a civilian population, twice - the U.S. shouldn't really wonder why people don't trust them.
Cant,
Thanks; I always have great days, some of them are greater than others.
Despite the overt politics ABC radio and TV beats the rest hands down.
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