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Radio Djs

As is the rule, there are exceptions. But I think most radio DJs are plainly annoying, especially those on in the morning hours. Who really wants to wake up to some stupid git straining so hard to be funny, happy and rousing, it would take an entire country singing Kumbayah together to match? Fortunately nobody really knows or cares what radio DJs look like, or they would be smacked in the head constantly while doing their grocery shopping. Now these people are ‘celebrities’ who really deserve to have stalkers, a constant threat and nuisance like they are to the rest of the world.

Maybe I just hate them so much, because I grew up with a very different approach to morning radio. The radio would spring on, and there would be this tired guy, who seemed like he had just drank through most of the night and still had a massive hangover, smoking one fag after the other and blowing the smoke on the microphone. Even though maybe you didn’t want to get up just yet, you always knew you were better off than this poor sod, who had to get up at 4 o’clock in the morning to try and make the best out of what really is a shit job.

Length? Einstein once said, wire telegraphing is like a really long cat. You pull its tail on one side, and it meows on the other. Radio transmission is just like that, only that there is no cat.
( BringYourOwnParachute Meet me here on, Fri 28 May 2010, 10:42, 9 replies)

Looks like you are two posts late on this...

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 28 May 2010, 11:13, closed)

Yeah, I know
But I just wanted to post it anyway. Plus I think they are annoying enough for two posts in close succession.
( BringYourOwnParachute Meet me here on, Fri 28 May 2010, 11:49, closed)

They are annoying enough for a brick in the mouth.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 28 May 2010, 12:13, closed)

Christian O'Connell is really good.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 28 May 2010, 11:22, closed)

No, he's a worthless cunt.
I was so fucking glad when he left XFM. He clearly didn't have a fucking clue about any of the music and seemed to be purely employed to think up stupid features, all of which would have been better replaced by MORE MUSIC.

I don't mind competitions with decent prizes, interviews with musicians, news/traffic etc, but other than that Radio DJs can fuck off and Christian O'Connell is a perfect example of why.
( wangmaster2000, Fri 28 May 2010, 12:11, closed)

He's really funny and witty.
He used to be a comedian, you know. I can't imagine why he gave it up.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 28 May 2010, 12:29, closed)

The problem is that they have to pay royalties to play songs,
so the accountants "encourage" DJ's to spend more time talking and less time playing music.

Doesn;t mean they're not twunt, jsut explains why they get so stupid and annoying, they run out of ideas.
( Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Fri 28 May 2010, 11:25, closed)

Yay!
For Longcat!
( DukeEuphoria Comes highly reccomended, Fri 28 May 2010, 16:12, closed)

the problem is most DJs shout at you
most of them don't seem to realise that radios have this thing called a "volume control" which will enable you to make the sound louder if you are having difficulty hearing the DJs voice (should you wish to do so)
it doesn't quite work the other way around, if a gibbering idiot is shouting at you and you turn the volume down, it's still a gibbering idiot shouting.

John peel was a notable exception, he was very softly spoken yet through the miracle of microphones, amplifiers and speakers we could still hear him perfectly
( VampireMonkeyOnSpeed a super sexy sexual sex terrorist sex, Sun 30 May 2010, 11:37, closed)