Work hard lads

[Les Woodard]

Bob did you ever try out on bush jobs as that was the closest I came to be with a crew similar to a ships crew minus the upper deck crowd. Now there are many yarns both on elastic and actual from them days LOL. Great for the drinker as well. After about a month before hitting town would build up ones thirst I can tell you. Smallest crew I worked with was four Foreman and three riggers.

[happy daze john in oz]

I try to tell my MP what I think but unfortunately I dont speak Urdu very well.

Do they still have night school over there? Maybe you still have time to learn! LOL

[Bob Petty]

Is this the same Allen Jones!! who a few years back who was busted in a gents toilet in London with his pants round his ankles??
If I remember rightly he was an official on a Kangaroos rugby tour.
Your right he don't like women.

[Gulliver]

Is this the same Allen Jones!! who a few years back who was busted in a gents toilet in London with his pants round his ankles??
If I remember rightly he was an official on a Kangaroos rugby tour.
Your right he don't like women.

Perhaps he was just having a SH*T ,and the stalking press made something of it--or are you just being homophobic?


You can't be famous these days (politician,celebrity,sportsman,broadcaster whatever ,)without your private life being minutely examined ,and any trivial mundane facts added to the mix to make a sensational ,denigrating story.

His sexual persuasions and peccadilloes aside ,from what I've read and heard the guy has balls and I wish we had outspoken controversial radio broadcasters like him in the U.K.Coffee & News.gif
There are none at the BBC( naturally), and just a few at LBC.

Gulliver

[Bob Petty]

Sorry old chap Allen Jones is just a ******, who never cheeks the facts on what he is talking about.
Another like him is John Laws, same format as Allen Jones, but on another Radio station.
Involved in a huge land scandal in Ballarat Victoria in the early 1970s, both of them would sell Grand mama, if it would be an advantage to them.
If a caller is getting the better of them in a discussion the caller gets cut of.
Allen Jones, not the sharpest toll in the shed.

[happy daze john in oz]

Like most of the shock jocks on talk back radio here in Oz Alan Jones has his followers and critics. Most do not like it when the caller appears to be getting the better of them, but they do at times hit some very hard notes. One here in Melbourne, Derryn Hinch, named a priest who he knew was involved with young children. He spent time in jail for that but has continued his campaing to out all those who interfere with kids. The more the shock jocks shock the more chance companies will want to advertise with the station, so very often the commenst are more aimed at getting ratings points than maybe giving all the facts. typical media, never let the truth get in the way of a good story. But love them or hate them they continue to reign.

[Gulliver]

If a caller is getting the better of them in a discussion the caller gets cut off.
Alan Jones, not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Bob,you’ll find that’s pretty much standard for any radio phone-in show.
I’ve been cut-off mid-flow once,but usually they use the pretext of time constraints and have to take a break.They will then continue after the break--with another caller.
James O’Brien on LBC-London Broadcasting Company-London’s Biggest Conversation-is a master at doing just that,especially when your viewpoint is contrary to his.

Sending an e-mail to be read out during a live show is also worthless,as they are obviously vetted by a producer or researcher,who usually don’t know enough about the subject under discussion anyway.
I feel sure that my literary skills are not lacking,so it must be my contrary viewpoint to the presenter that excludes them being aired.

So ,unable to reply,I just sit there listening and fume,whilst popping another blood pressure pill…or two,before logging on here and listening to all the rantings and ravings about the world -and the UK in particular. (I’m tongue in cheek there !)


Thankfully we don’t have that kind of censorship on our site here. Scribe.gif
All the Best
Gulliver

[happy daze john in oz]

Thankfully we don’t have that kind of censorship on our site here. Scribe.gif
All the Best
Gulliver[/QUOTE]

What's that you say, you do not like our censored comments! Stand in the corner lad while we give you ten lashes with a fresh lettuce leaf.

[Les Woodard]

You mean to say that there are people who listen to these shows? I have better things to do than to waste time and heartbeats listening to a one sided converstation which it seemed to me was happening when I inadvertantly tuned into one of them years ago. It was not informative then and seems like it is still the same today. As the old saying goes? Follow the money and you will see where it all eminates from.

[j.sabourn]

What more could you ask for. The pollies and the media, both tarred with the same brush, trying to crucify each other. Its a pity they couldnt annilihate each other and give us all a break. While they are both spinning lines and trying to b....t the general public in the process, the real world and people can get on with their lives without too much bother from the second rate journalists which abound in our present day society. Regards John Sabourn