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tenbearsI'm a postman at the moment.
That may have to change soon.
Don't get me wrong here, I still love mail, it's just the customers I'd cleanse by fire if I thought I could get away with it.
That's a joke by the way. That bit about just cleansing the customers with fire. I'd cleanse my co-workers too.
We have a radio at work, or to be exact we have several, all tuned to different stations. Depending upon where you are on the sorting room floor you can hear up to four different sorts of utter crap at once. Where I work only one is audible, but it will probably be the death of me (or quite possibly the death of a great many others).
First some general detail. The station I have to listen to used to be called Bland FM. Their motto used to be "We never play anything your not already heartily sick of".
Ratings dropped off. I guess too many of their regular listeners forgot to breathe and just died or something. So they revamped the station and called themselves All New Bland FM. Their catchry became "It's new because we tell you it's new". They still play the same music every day, but not in quite the same order. Jugding by their taste in music and news items I guess they probably hate their (voluntary) listeners almost as much as I do. They play the lamest stuff they can find from the last three or four years. Once a day they reach into the oldies bin and play either "Dock of the Bay" or that one about getting lost in the rock and roll and drifting away.
Once there was some kind of accident at the station and they played "Kiss" by The Artist Formally Known As Prince, except then we just called him Prince, (they were simpler times). One of my co-workers changed the station immediately because we shouldn't have to listen to this racy crap. The song was released almost twenty fucking years ago, it's been ripped off more times than most of the beatles stuff and it's still
too alarming compared to the lame-arse-cunty-shite-bullcrap-bum-humming twaddle they play now.
Needless to say, heads rolled at the station and they revampled again. They are now Lowest Common Denominator FM and their motto is "We have no respect at all for our listeners".
That may have to change soon.
Don't get me wrong here, I still love mail, it's just the customers I'd cleanse by fire if I thought I could get away with it.
That's a joke by the way. That bit about just cleansing the customers with fire. I'd cleanse my co-workers too.
We have a radio at work, or to be exact we have several, all tuned to different stations. Depending upon where you are on the sorting room floor you can hear up to four different sorts of utter crap at once. Where I work only one is audible, but it will probably be the death of me (or quite possibly the death of a great many others).
First some general detail. The station I have to listen to used to be called Bland FM. Their motto used to be "We never play anything your not already heartily sick of".
Ratings dropped off. I guess too many of their regular listeners forgot to breathe and just died or something. So they revamped the station and called themselves All New Bland FM. Their catchry became "It's new because we tell you it's new". They still play the same music every day, but not in quite the same order. Jugding by their taste in music and news items I guess they probably hate their (voluntary) listeners almost as much as I do. They play the lamest stuff they can find from the last three or four years. Once a day they reach into the oldies bin and play either "Dock of the Bay" or that one about getting lost in the rock and roll and drifting away.
Once there was some kind of accident at the station and they played "Kiss" by The Artist Formally Known As Prince, except then we just called him Prince, (they were simpler times). One of my co-workers changed the station immediately because we shouldn't have to listen to this racy crap. The song was released almost twenty fucking years ago, it's been ripped off more times than most of the beatles stuff and it's still
too alarming compared to the lame-arse-cunty-shite-bullcrap-bum-humming twaddle they play now.
Needless to say, heads rolled at the station and they revampled again. They are now Lowest Common Denominator FM and their motto is "We have no respect at all for our listeners".
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Date: 2004-04-26 02:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-26 05:32 am (UTC)Have you met the asterisks yet? They're very useful.
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Date: 2004-04-26 06:59 pm (UTC)Many years ago, I used to collect rat pee and analyse it for a scientific project. Every day, I had to collect the rat pee (via funnels under the cages) in little bottles, measure it, transfer it centrifuge tubes, spin it in a centrifuge, then transfer it to two little storage tubes for each rat. Then I washed up all of the aforementioned equipment in really hot water. And every day as I did this, EXACTLY the same songs came onto the radio in the lab. And even now, whenever I hear 'Cat's Cradle' I go back to that sink, washing up rat pee containers.
I know the pain.
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Date: 2004-04-26 07:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-13 12:22 pm (UTC)Some genres...
Darkwave, Coldwave, EBM (Electronic Body Music - gothy synthpop with PVC and crucifixes), Death Metal, Black Metal, Norwegian Black Metal (for the certifiably insane), Neofolk, Apocalypic Folk, Industrial, Power Electronics, Industrial Noise, Neo mediaeval...
These, I remember off the top of my head.
Outside of excremental boy bands, girl bands, boy/girl bands, boy/girl/thing bands, embarrassingly crap" drivin' my car, wearin' my chains, starin at the fly honeys'" pseudethnoshit, Celine Dion and clones, and Wuss Rock, there is *nothing* on the mainstream media.
They even play non-threatening *classical* music.
I hate them. I really hate them.