Friends of Radio Three?

[french frank]

Does anyone else think this his strange enmity against For3 and its "attacks" might be because he is an employee of R3?

I've personally never bought that line. There has long been a line of people who often actually have a gripe against Radio 3 - there's not enough jazz/world (say), why was Mixing It axed? Why is there now no children's programme? Why was Late Junction cut and put in the graveyard slot? &c. "It's pressure from those 'purists' at FoR3. They just want snobby classical music and they want to keep everyone else out."

That is the impression that press publicity gives too. And no matter how much we say that not only do we not have any influence to do those things, we didn't even want to. Back it comes again at regular intervals. In those cases it's just grumpy special interest groups finding a convenient target to bludgeon.

[amateur51]

An early entry for the inaugural and soon to be much-coveted Riposte of the Year Award. Gets my vote, anyhoo.

Wonderful reply Gordon & you get my vote too

[JFLL]

Originally Posted by Caliban
Excellent - we'll await some further, constructive or informative posts with interested anticipation.

It's a pity, that when talking about R3, some of you come across as a retired old colonel spluttering in rage over his breakfast while reading the Daily Telegraph and thinking the country is going to the dogs.

Well, you've got your constructive or informative post at last, Caliban. Do you think it's written by a Rent-a-Cliché machine?

[amateur51]

Well, you've got your constructive or informative post at last, Caliban. Do you think it's written by a Rent-a-Cliché machine?

Or the Daily Mail headline generator in neutral

[ahinton]

And he was brilliant on Superstars.

Jesus Christ! (and he actually was one, at least according to someone or other); I note that you omitted to notice "Calum" in my post...

[antongould]

............

Having said that, you're actually not a bad lot. During my time here I shall try to think of you as a bunch of lovable British accentrics.

They/we are a quite wonderful lot - I have been called a troll on a few occasions since I joined, perhaps I am but what the hell? You learn and experience such a lot - I would stick around............

[Gordon]

It's a pity, that when talking about R3, some of you come across as a retired old colonel spluttering in rage over his breakfast while reading the Daily Telegraph and thinking the country is going to the dogs.

You poked a stick into a bees nest and got what you deserved!! People here care about what R3 is and what it could be. Some of us have lived long enough to have experienced what it was and seen what it has become. Times change of course and so I for one am not surprised at how the world turns.

Having said that, you're actually not a bad lot. During my time here I shall try to think of you as a bunch of lovable British accentrics.

Good of you to say so. Do you have strong beliefs in anything? Your teasing flippancy suggests not. There is a great deal of humour here as you will have seen in your occasional visits. It should be clear to you that people around here take exception to your seagull visit, picking over old issues without adding any substance to your argument, if you actually have one. Keep poking your stick if that amuses you, we have a measure of the quality of your contribution to debate.

[Thropplenoggin]

It's a pity, that when talking about R3, some of you come across as a retired old colonel spluttering in rage over his breakfast while reading the Daily Telegraph and thinking the country is going to the dogs.

Having said that, you're actually not a bad lot. During my time here I shall try to think of you as a bunch of lovable British accentrics.

Interesting typo, especially when spoken aloud. You really are quite the execrable cretin, aren't you?

[kernelbogey]

You really are quite the execrable cretin, aren't you?

Ouch!

[Frances_iom]

... It should be clear to you that people around here take exception to your seagull visit, picking over old issues without adding any substance to your argument,...

a common Manx vernacular for seagull (actually no such bird but generally a herring gull is meant) is 'shitehawk' - for obvious reason as those who live near the coast will attest.

[salymap]

Ouch!

Our Thropple doesn't mince his words does he,even if others mangle theirs

[french frank]

A modicum of decorum, please, folks


All I can say is that it is much easier to respond meaningfully when specific points are made. 'a retired old colonel spluttering in rage over his breakfast while reading the Daily Telegraph and thinking the country is going to the dogs' tells us nothing about what is being said, or who is saying it. Most FoR3 official supporters are not into the messageboard culture, and don't post here. What is said here, as we say on the homepage, is the opinion of an individual, not of the group. Since when, for example, has an individual ordinary member of the Labour Party, spouting about something or other, been considered a 'spokesperson' for the Labour Party? Our views are laid out - consult the tabs on the website hompage.

'"Who are you people? The Opus Dei of the classical world? The freemasons? Whatever it is it sounds like every other fanatical cult I've ever heard of."

"If you’re the friends of Radio 3 it certainly doesn't need any enemies." Is that original?

"The Guardian article, though old, amused me the most. I could have picked a dozen more recent ones – all of them from the Daily Telegraph, funily enough. Which probably speaks volumes about the kind of people who inhabit Fo3." Oh, yes, probably if that's what you already think.

"I guess I was asking for that comment but it did make me chuckle. I'm an occasional listener because I have something called a job. You remember what one of those was, surely?'" - That doesn't tell us what you DO listen to or what you think in general about R3. Or whether you think anything about it at all

We have responded as best we can to such questions as you've asked, but you don't have much to say about the answers. Of the 66 members currently online, I can count about 18 who have formally associated themselves with FoR3 - how do you know your 'spluttering colonels' are even among them, and not simply Radio 3 listeners - for whom this forum was set up?

You give the impresion that you don't really want information as it might disturb your prejudices. We know facts don't change minds that are made up

[Nick Armstrong]

Excellent - we'll await some further, constructive or informative posts with interested anticipation.

I guess I was asking for that comment but it did make me chuckle. I'm an occasional listener because I have something called a job. You remember what one of those was, surely?

Yes, I recollect that quite distinctly, having worked all week, plus because I am typing this during a pause in a working Saturday. All being well I have a decade or two of "a job" to look forward to.

That's why I am also an 'occasional listener' to Radio 3 - when work and other commitments allow. Hence also, why I was hopeful that you might branch out from your posts on this thread, and give us the benefit of your views on the radio station generally, and on the music it transmits, as most of the other Forumites are enthusiastic to do.

Not sure why that idea makes you chuckle...

[teamsaint]

and as Oscar Wilde said, "The only thing worse than having a job is not having a job "!

[ahinton]

and as Oscar Wilde said, "The only thing worse than having a job is not having a job "!

And, had he said it the other way around, he'd have been correct! (or at least so says someone who's never had one).