tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post7798562692456877821..comments2024-02-13T10:20:04.888+00:00Comments on David Hepworth's blog: Another Great Radio ClichéDavid Hepworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973053694541321308noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-31306843705146982802007-05-14T14:24:00.000+01:002007-05-14T14:24:00.000+01:00Download proceeds apace... I'd really hit somethin...Download proceeds apace... I'd really hit something like MegaUpload for the next one, David [he added with cordial presumption].<BR/>This is disconcerting news re the usually admirable 'In Business' prog.<BR/>You have to suspect 'da panel,like, innit' was the idea of some vile and beardless R4 producer, rather than the estimable old father Day - love his voice too. Tis a very curious misconception to which media / ad folk adhere that Today's Yoof have some refined, if subliminal sense of yer 'Postmodern Irony', when these media folk are merely ascribing their own [heavy parenthesis]'nicety of discrimination' to a worldview far less subtle. Surely we're talking about 'Thatcher's Grandchildren' here - and I imagine the simple horror of that term <I>should</I> precude any need for further explication, eh, dudes...?<BR/>God, this download <I>still</I> hasn't finished yet...24.7MB and counting...<BR/>What's likely to be on it then?<BR/>A Wild Man Fischer single B side?<BR/>Ah! Finished!<BR/>I go.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38548109.post-82706593640570511952007-05-14T10:26:00.000+01:002007-05-14T10:26:00.000+01:00There is little hope for big business in reaching ...There is little hope for big business in reaching the youth, as even though most of the people who run it are blokes my age or older, they regularly offer me services etc that have me chewing the carpet: two recent examples.<BR/><BR/>My phone company wakes me (I’d left my mobile on) at 9am on sat morning with text offering “hot downloads on 2007’s hottest celebs!” I.e. out of date sanitised gossip and blurry jpgs of Jordon in a hand bra all at the bargain price of only 6 quid.<BR/>Or<BR/>The major clothes shop that won’t me allow to buy some cords because “well it’s summer innit”<BR/>If they can’t sell to “themselves” they haven’t a hope in hell of reaching the Youth.BLTPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06564846497205095201noreply@blogger.com