[Archived] RANT

[adopted scouser]

First to welcome, last to complain. Dogs are ace and in agreement with some posters on this thread, they are infinitely preferable to a lot of people.

[Guest Norbert]

I do like dogs myself. Some cats are good bad many of them are w_nkers.

[LDRover]

People who leave the trollies at asda all over the bloody car park or just shunt them in the allotted area in any state rather than stacking them correctly.

Oh, and on the subject of asda, I went to the toilet there between xmas and new year and narrowly missed standing in something that some disgraceful pond life had just curled out.

[Guest Norbert]

That is disgusting.

[thenodrog]

Afraid that I wont go to Blackburn's Asda. It's like a joint annual day out for the cast of shameless and Benidorm.

Rem it is owned by Walmart.

[Mike E]

People who leave the trollies at asda all over the bloody car park or just shunt them in the allotted area in any state rather than stacking them correctly.

Oh, and on the subject of asda, I went to the toilet there between xmas and new year and narrowly missed standing in something that some disgraceful pond life had just curled out.

You really CAN get anything at Walmart....

[donnermeat]

People who claim to be OCD when they probably aren't.

[Mike E]

*CDO

[Tom]

Afraid that I wont go to Blackburn's Asda. It's like a joint annual day out for the cast of shameless and Benidorm.

Rem it is owned by Walmart.

I'm not keen either, plus the own way system annoys me

It's further away but we always go to the Clayton Green one, much better I think

[Paul]

Not too intellectual!:-)  Just don't ever find anything on it that interests me.  I don't listen to 5 live either or to any of the magazine type stations.  Radio Lancs is aimed at the over 50s who stay at home and have certain interests.  I don't stay at home and the only time I listen to the radio is when I'm driving when i need something to keep me awake, not send me to sleep. The only time i listen to Lancs nowadays is to see if the weather is too bad for me to go to work, and even then I always hope it isn't.

I'm really surprised to read you pigeon-holing and commenting dismissively about people who you seem to perceive as in some way boring. It seems completely out of character.

I listen to Radio Lancs for about 30 minutes between 7.00am and 8.00am on my way to work and then switch to R4. Lancs is OK and dies a reasonable job though I couldn't listen all day. I really can't stand Five Live - it should be renamed Radio Daily Mail. Given the chance and come the revolution if out Nicky Campbell against the wall first!!! To my mind R5 is very poor but I can see its successful and clearly caters for a huge audience.

[Guest Norbert]

Local commercial radio is far worse I should imagine. I have to listen to the same 6 songs for 8 hours because work plays Brum based Capital FM, Just thinking about it has put Katy Perry songs into my head.

[Mike E]

Tbf, anyone putting Katy Perry in your head deserves a pat on the back

Find it hard to listen to most stations now tbh. Only Radio 2, 4 and Smooth are bearable. Even Rock FM has gone all pop.

[gumboots]

I'm really surprised to read you pigeon-holing and commenting dismissively about people who you seem to perceive as in some way boring. It seems completely out of character.

I listen to Radio Lancs for about 30 minutes between 7.00am and 8.00am on my way to work and then switch to R4. Lancs is OK and dies a reasonable job though I couldn't listen all day. I really can't stand Five Live - it should be renamed Radio Daily Mail. Given the chance and come the revolution if out Nicky Campbell against the wall first!!! To my mind R5 is very poor but I can see its successful and clearly caters for a huge audience.

Not suggesting that anyone is boring. Just that Radio Lancs itself says that is its main target audience, and whilst i fit the profile in many ways,(age particularly) I don't see myself as a typical target listener. It fills a gap for those who want it, as do most stations, but it just doesn't entertain me at all. I find it boring myself, but some people must like it or they wouldn't continue to broadcast the things they do. I'm not really a radio fan of any station. 5 live sport if it's a match commentary or something like that, but most of the rest gets turned off very quickly unless I'm travelling a long distance by myself, when I tend to keep some form of talk radio on for company.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

We have a radio in most rooms and they're all tuned to Radio 4. My wife goes round turning them all on and I go around turning most of them off. I just prefer talk radio to somebody else's choice of music.

[Steve Kean's Hypnotoad]

On the odd time I've encountered it, Radio Lancs seems very naff and patronising. You've got the presenter talking in a patronising, mushy voice at about 20 words a minute, and pieces on the most ridiculous tosh imaginable. I listened with increasingly incredulity the other week as a boring piece of quasi-news involving chorleys christmas tree being too small was dragged out into a 20-minute piece, that mainly consisted of constantly repeating the same 4 interviews with barely interested members of the public.

[thenodrog]

Radio Lancs target audience is old folks homes imo. It's dreadful.

[Biddy]

I only ever listen to Absolute Radio 80's and 90's in the car. Which leads to another rant in that they are DAB only stations that due to the license costs only broadcast in Mono! So much for the future of radio being digital.

[gumboots]

Radio Lancs target audience is old folks homes imo. It's dreadful.

As I said earlier they say themselves that their target audience is 50+ and generally retired people. Whilst I'm 50+ quite a bit I don't yet have the mindset of the typical radio lances target audience, largely, I think because I work with large numbers of young people and you can't let yourself be old.

[koi]

Solicitors on strike over pay = beyond rant. Not even going to start.

Local radio = Alan Partridge.

[thenodrog]

Solicitors on strike over pay = beyond rant. Not even going to start.

Are they really koi? Good job you've told us else we'd never have known.

[Al]

People who think they are too cool to listen to Radio Lancashire.

[gumboots]

And who would that be? Not me. I just don' like it - nothing to do with cool or whatever. I don't like it in the same way I don't like eating cheese or lamb or any one of a hundred other things. I don't like watching tv programmes such as I'm a Celebrity, strictly come dancing, or any one of a thousand other things. It's not about cool - it's about personal taste and I've yet to find anything to my taste on Lancs, that's all.

[Rover95]

I can't stand commercial radio . Mainly because of all the adverts .. It drives me mad . I like Chris Evans in the morning but some of the music is dire . E.g. The new Cher single ? No thanks .

[thenodrog]

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People who think they are too cool to listen to Radio Lancashire.

Thats anybody under 75 Al.

[Gav]

I've just seen a family of animals from South Yorkskire that have kept a 34yr old lad with learning difficulties as a 'slave'.

They've been caught on camera beating the poor lad and thankfully have all been jailed.

What's the world coming to, absolute scumbags.

http://m.thestar.co.uk/news/crime/video-sheffield-slave-s-brutal-beatings-cctv-1-6356841