haters gonna hate.

this is a bitch about talk back radio:

I visited two separate, independent hardware shops yesterday and both were listening to a talk back radio station (TBRS). Not sure if they were the same.

After being at the first for 10minutes, I found it increasingly difficult to choose between water based and oil based flooring oil due to the utter rubbish hitting my ears.

The first piece of radio was about the billions (the jock repeating ‘that’s b for billions’ with every mention…jackarse) the Govt is spending on diverting illegal immigrants from our shores. Each caller was up in arms about it. Saying that that money could be spent on us! On us Aussies! And ofcourse the blame being firmly directed the PMs way. All I could think about was how fucking stupid some people were, and how unfortunate it is that some people, who if you went to school with them were probably wankers then too, get to have air time and wield so much influence over the mob - who frankly hold views rooted in white Australia policy.

The next piece was bout the Milne/Bolt journalism saga, and for the remaining seconds I was in the shop before leaving empty handed, seemed to be digging for a way around the issue of defamation threatened by the PM at Milne, by holding Bolt up on a pedestal. The same Bolt who got his own riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight wing show thanks to a sizable chunk of Channel Ten shares being recently acquired by Gina Rinehart, whose corporate strategists include John McRobert, who used to advise Pauline Hanson, and climate skeptic Ian Plimer. Rinehart had also funded British skeptic Lord Monckton’s 2010 tour of Australia.

That’s FUCKED UP.

The second hardware shop, much to my dismay was also cranking out the talkback. And in the 15mins I was in there, I can’t even remember what they were bleating about. But on checkout, I read a couple of handwritten notes in nikko on the counter. Something about Jul-liar and how ‘our beloved steel is going to increase in cost under the carbon tax’. I then spotted a toy pole dancing thing about the size of a kettle, which looked like at the press of a button you could turn lights on and maybe the plastic bikini figure would be lifted up and down by the welds fusing her hands and feet to the pole. But then I saw the stickers - written in the same nikko, with ‘Julia’ written on one and something about asking for donations on the other, and I realised that there is a huge sexist undercurrent occurring against Miss Gillard, and in no small form fuelled by TBRS.

Two last comments.

1. It’s seriously unfortunate that bigots get paid for basically complaining about things they don’t agree with;

2. The folk who listen to this crap all day… Ain’t giving them the best mentality or frame of mind as they go around.

I suggested to the second hardware store he should listen to Triple J as an alternative that actually plays music and doesn’t exist to hate the world.

But i let it go after he hadn’t heard of it and as I wasn’t about to enter a conservation with a bloke who would probably have the opposite view to me. Perhaps that’s why they listen to TBRS so they feel safe.

Losers.

END RANT.