The dial has moved from radio 1 to 2 and 4

[Millymollymandy]

Can anyone understand anything from Andy's first paragraph? Cos I can't.

That makes two of us, it must because we live a different world

Thanks god for that! And thank you AnnPan for the translation, although it still doesn't make any sense. Who is 'them'? (no don't bother answering!!!)

As this has become a thread about what radio stations we like to listen to, I have become my mother and now listen (when I am in the mood, which isn't often) to Radio 2 thru the TV.

My husband on the other hand often puts on Radio 4 on a portable radio (can actually get it here in France). I absolutely LOATHE the sound of it - it reminds me of Voice of America and 1940s wartime government advert voices - nobody speaks like that these days in those hoighty toighty accents. Just. Hate. The. Noise. ergh!

[mrsflibble]

Marshlander: I have the baz luhrman remix version, set to music. it's on on of my most played minidiscs. i was given it as a single by my mum when I left school to go on to college and didn't understand much of it then. I do now, and I'm sure I'll understand more of it as time goes on.

[Thurston Garden]

I listen to Tom Morton , Radio Scotland 2-4pm in the afternoon. Give him a go. All the way from Shetland.

Is he in Shetland now?

I used to listen to radio Scotland - but found there was too much shallow stuff on... And I must admit, I'm a really lazy person: once my radio is set on a station, it stays there.

Aye he broadcasts from his hoose & call it his Beat Croft. I really like him! Farming Today on R4, then in my radio-less Landy. Wogan then Ken Bruce on R2, then R4 at lunchtime, Tom Morton in the afternoon and back to R4 at tea time.

Never was a lover of R1 even as a yoof

[ina]

Farming Today on R4, then in my radio-less Landy. Wogan then Ken Bruce on R2, then R4 at lunchtime, Tom Morton in the afternoon and back to R4 at tea time.

Never was a lover of R1 even as a yoof

Oops - obviously another early riser! I often know first what's going on in the world of farming - although I work on a farm, and you'd think the others would take an interest, too... It's usually you and yours for lunch we stop at 12), and pm for tea.

I'll have to try and catch Tom Morton - maybe next week, when I'm off(-ish). Can't listen while I'm working - and for whatever reason this computer won't do listen again.

[Thurston Garden]

Oops - obviously another early riser! I often know first what's going on in the world of farming

Is this where I admit to listening to it in bed, half asleep and then hear a quote or a sound clip later in the day and think "I already knew that!"

[Wombat]

I have known the meaning of fear.................I have listenend to 2CH.......and liked it!

Nev

[ina]

Is this where I admit to listening to it in bed, half asleep and then hear a quote or a sound clip later in the day and think "I already knew that!"

Me too! I get up just before, make a cup of tea - and get back in with the cats. And yes, I must admit, sometimes I fall asleep again...

[Andy Hamilton]

There was a scene on the simpsons where grampa simpson says to homer what is coll seems weireed and alien to you and what you think is coll is the same to them. As the radio dial becomes ashamed of radio 1 and adores radio 2 &4 ..... in fact I have had an argument with my Radio6 music producer mate - wogan is not that bad.


anyway my point is, when did you notice you were no longer cool and a teenager ( or either or).

Damb it thought I got away with that one - I must carry on trying to hide the important parts of my computer before I go to the pub!

I sometimes feel (on this forum) like the landlord of a local pub who will happily walk downstairs in pants in a busy Saturday night; have a chat then wander back up to his living room again.

Anyway for a translation of the first paragraph.... (hope you don't need one for the last )

In one episode of the Simpsons Homer is talking to Granpa (Abe) simpson about music and being cool. Granpa says that what he thougt was cool is no longer and what is cool now is strange and scarry and that it happens to everyone.

As for the radio 1,2 and 4 stuff I think I just meant that that is the sign that you no longer care what is popular. The Radio 6 comment is about the grey area that exisits these days, is just good music always considered cool? And my mate who works on Radio 6 was slagging off Wogan.

These were the conversations I was having that evening so I am sure that Is what I meant.

[contadina]

I think that people always have a soft spot for music that they loved when they were young and as we grow older we tend to change stations in search of the those tunes.

I must say that it was a bit of a shock to discover that the likes of the Smiths and REM etc are mainstays of Radio 2 but it shouldn't have been. When I was listening to them in my teens and feeling oh so trendy, Radio 2 was playing the Beatles, Stones etc. I'm pretty sure that my older sisters felt similar pangs that the tunes they thought were cutting edge were now seen as easy listening.

[hoomin_erra]

tbh?? I don't care whether i am cool or not. The kids think i'm a cool dad, and that is enough for me. (Until they're teenagers, then i'll become an embarrasement.)

Radio stations? Varies between R1, XFM Scotland, and some radio station with "countryfile" on it when i am feeling especially rural.

[the.fee.fairy]

I don't think i was ever 'cool'. i was a bit of a trendsetter though - mainly in the hairstyle depatrment - you could guarantee that whatever i did would ahve some other kids doing it by the end of the week!

It seems to happen a lot! I get into self sufficiency and green issues, and suddenly, its everywhere. I get into knitting, and all these new 'hip' knitting magazines come out...i think there must be spies watching me...

[ina]

I get into knitting, and all these new 'hip' knitting magazines come out...

It was terribly uncool to do your own knitting when I was a teenager - and I still did it; I'm doing it now - and the rest of the world is catching up! Hey - we were just ahead of our times!

[Martin]

I think I need "knitwear therapy"...............in theory I should be all for hand-knitted stuff, but was mentally scarred for life with knitted garments as a child..........I was "blessed" with several aunts who reckoned they were dab hands with knitting needles - EVERY christmas and birthday there would be what seemed like hundreds of ghastly lumpy woollies, cardigans, gloves, scarves etc, which you HAD to wear to show how grateful you were............and write "thankyou notes".........I have a feeling one of them had bought a barnful of the most awful bluey maroon wool, as she used it for years.........I think what finished me off were knitted wool swimming trunks...........
(I still have nightmares!)

[ina]

.I think what finished me off were knitted wool swimming trunks...........
(I still have nightmares!)

I don't blame you!

Not long ago, I saw an old leaflet with a pattern for a knitted lacey men's vest... Cooool! I think it was called a "health" vest. Goodness knows what's healthy about the holes in it...

[justskint]

.I think what finished me off were knitted wool swimming trunks...........
(I still have nightmares!)

I don't blame you!

Not long ago, I saw an old leaflet with a pattern for a knitted lacey men's vest... Cooool! I think it was called a "health" vest. Goodness knows what's healthy about the holes in it...

Wool swimming trunks, that dates you.