Not one for 648 either!!!
I'll get me coat......
Morning,
I hesitate to dip my toe in to this subject since as with Mervyn, any reasoned criticism creates a torrent of ranting abuse. But I guess that we are talking here about the Garry Stevens board. He is not a Pirate Radio Legend of course, but if he wants to think that he is, best to leave him with that happy delusion.
As has been mentioned, when he takes on another persona so as to post a message agreeing with himself, his errors of grammar and spelling at once give hims away. I won't describe the errors. Best to let him continue so we can say ' Yep, Garry again '.
Of course, the golden era of offshore radio that he and about ten others cling to ended 56 years ago, so it is inevitable that only the obsessives remain. When someone adopts the nickname such as
Norden A Feedthrough Insulator, you know you are dealing with a certifiable nut job. Basically, inadequate friendless young men have become old men.
I think ? Garry has the view that there was no good radio after 1968. He is quite entitled to that view, but surely it is extreme and not widely subscribed to.
Then there is my oft used Beetroot explanation. My partner loves beetroot. I hate the look of it and the smell of it, when I was made to taste some I spat it out ' Yeuk '. So I just don't eat beetroot, but I have not started a beetroot haters forum, slating those who happen to enjoy it, while eating some to prove how much I still detest it it.
But Garry posing at Wallis Anchor says that Caroline is the 'horriblest staysion ever, in the werld ' But he listens for 15 minutes. If you don't like it don't listen at all you Twat.
He tells me to ' grow a pair ' so I guess I need to man up, tell myself that a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do, take a deep beath and programme Caroline to play Freddie And the Dreamers, Sugar Sugar by the Archies or Everyone's Gone To The Moon.
Everything in the world of Garry is about music policy. If I caught Covid he would say ' Hah, see, that is because you don't play the 1910 Fruitgum Company.
I did try to give the give a break by clicking
on ' listen to free radio the way it used to be ' but the screen said ' this page cannot be found '.
Anyway, God bless em for giving me a distraction when I need a break from admin.
PM.
Fortunately whoever posts what, for or against on these forums or FB has no effect whatsoever in the real world, as PM has often observed in the past.
I was having a a look around a couple of forums yesterday and came across one where one of the Caroline obsessives was hanging out. Someone made quite an innocuous comment about something or other and the obsessive came back with the usual pointed reply. It prompted a response from someone who seemed quite level headed;
Why are you so rude to people who have the mildest of extremely mild comments about Caroline? The weird fanaticism is one of the main things that turns me off the station - which is a station I enjoy!
I think the obsessives need to be careful that they don't do more damage than good to that they obsess about.
Of course, there are obsessives on both sides of the fence. We see that clearly in the GS madhouse and on another forum there is an obsessive doing their best to destroy todays Radio Caroline.
Blinkers need to be removed.
David Parr
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