The radio on my Honda 50 Goldwing got stuck on Spin 103.8 this morning. How odd it is.
“Smile when you read it” is good advice when you need the voice-over artist to sound cheery and happy. It really does make a difference. I’m not sure the same applies when trying to read the news and the use of ‘hip’ language is off-putting too.
A typical Spin news bulletin:
“And a dude has been taken downtown for a vicious sexual assualt and battery of a woman on Gardiner St. Let’s hope that battery is not rechargeable!!”
“There was more bad news for the Catholic Church when the Ryaner and Murpho reports were published. A spokesperson said incidents involving abuse of children were totally not cool and would investigated. For the victims though, it remains a real bummer!!”
“A thief who got away with 4 grand after robbing a corner shop run by a man from Karachi has pledged to mend his ways after being caught by the Gardai. In court today he told the wig-wearer he would mend his ways and no longer resort to acts of crime. Looks like he’s going to Paki it in then!!”
“And now your 5 word Spin weather – It’s, like, totally, raining, Lorcan”.
They all sound too fucking cheerful when they read the news. It’s the same tone if they’re talking about a horrific tragedy or the fact that Lady Gaga’s balls fell out of her dress on some TV show. I understand aiming it at the young folk who generally listen to the station but someone needs to have a word.
As soon as the Head of News hits puberty I might write him a letter.
That shit would just grate on me.
Spin and bear it – a lesson for us all.
Now for the latest on Enniskillen’s tragic toddler…
hit him up on twitter twenty, txt spk luks ridcls @ papr lolz x o x !!1
Loike OMG U know whatever. That is so not on T.M
Take the 5o to some bike guy nd get it like sorted.
No wonder half the under 30s haven’t a fucking clue about anything. It’s as if teenage years now extend all the way to 28.
A text from The Onion which drives home your point, Twenty.
http://www.petting-zoo.net/~deadbeef/archive/1687.html
Lads Over 30′s and beyond.
Do we ever get beyond 24 or 25 in our heads?
Regardless of everything else time, responsibilities and our bodies is telling us?
But I agree with you. News is meant to be sober and factual.
Comment on it as much as you like afterwards
Sky News are the devil’s cock cheese.
Noddy:Agreed but our reading levels should be way beyond 16 american high-school graduate level.
I shudder to think that in future years,a parent will walk into a kids bedroom of an evening with them watching The Hills and say “Oh good,you’re like totally studying for your leaving cert honours english exam.i though you were like totally slacking off…Laters.”
It’s not the News, Twenty, it’s the “LowDown”.
Turning on that fucking station while in the car is one of the few things for which I will still happily slap my children (or anyone else smaller than me).
My ambition is to be featured on the Spin FM LowDown for running one of their stupid pink cars off the road. Spin on that, love …wa-hey!
I once had sex with a spin newsreader girl. I was as thick as shit for days afterwards.
This is what happens when ‘regulations’ force radio stations to dedicate a certain % of their airtime to news, a certain % to Irish etc. Utter bollix. To be fair, it’s not much more low brow than Newstalk these days.
I like to break up Spin FM Mini convoys by merging in between them and then slowing up so they cut stuck behind me at the lights. They’re like sooo pissed at me.
I seriously think 20 should run for office. I dont agree with EVERYTHING he stands for. I think its time the good people of Ireland came forward. There are many of us.
I shudder to think that in future years,a parent will walk into a kids bedroom of an evening with them watching The Hills and say “Oh good,you’re like totally studying for your leaving cert honours english exam.i though you were like totally slacking off…Laters.”
That is a nightmarish thought. Cos like d’ya know what i mean like.