Punch on: Open thread 10/02/2011

Dave-o says:

07:28am | 10/02/11

106.1 is about the only station that plays music all morning.

acotrel says:

07:40am | 10/02/11

I’m big on conspiracy theories.  I believe there is a conspiracy amongst radio station people to destroy our society by depressing people with local commercial radio.  My own radio never moves from the ABC, and when I go to Melbourne, I use the MP3 player in my car.  You can fit 180 3 minute jazz MP3s on a CD, and I can get to Melbourne, drive around, and return to Benalla without hearing the same track twice, using the shuffle button.  Some years ago I converted a lot of old jazz tapes and records to MP3s using Clean 4, and MS Media Player.  I have a DVD with 1500 Jazz MP3’s on it, ande another with 1500 blues MP3s.  When I mix these up with selected modern tracks on a car disc, I get a variety of music which doesn’t do my head in, while driving.

Listener says:

08:28am | 10/02/11

I always wait until 9am to turn on the radio. There’s a market out there for some station that foregoes inane chatter in the morning.

David C says:

08:28am | 10/02/11

and you dont get depressed listening to the likes of Deborah Cameron or Fran Kelly?
Did you do one of those courses that teaches you to withstand torture?

TheRealDave says:

10:40am | 10/02/11

Danny, buy an MP3 player. Its the only solution. 100% music and 100% less moronic bogan stupidity

Laura says:

10:50am | 10/02/11

Take CDs in yout car?

stephen says:

11:40am | 10/02/11

Triple M.
What’s wrong with music and a laugh ?
And 106.1 is excerpts from portuguese operas.
(And by the way, the compere on this station asked yesterday : what colour are harp strings ?)
Zeta ?

MarK says:

12:05pm | 10/02/11

What’s a cd?

Download podcasts of your favorite news shows or net radio streaming music and play them on your media player of choice.

Internet radio has a heap of music only stations

Zeta says:

12:21pm | 10/02/11

@ stephen - I don’t know everything, just most things.

But they’re red, green, black and silver. I know red strings are C strings but that’s it. Buy a Joanna Newsom album.

stephen says:

12:45pm | 10/02/11

Zeet…it wasn’t a test.
I actually didn’t know.
And i don’t care how much you don’t know.

Laura says:

12:59pm | 10/02/11

@MarK - did Apple sponsor that comment?

I like cds! I think I’m the only 21yo in the world without an iPod.

mary says:

07:12pm | 10/02/11

Acotrel care to share? That sounds AWESOME!

acotrel says:

07:50am | 10/02/11

‘The Labor Government gave a $250 million handout to commercial TV stations last year. This year, commercial TV smeared Tony Abbott. Hmmmmm.’

I love it!  Are you really telling us that the ALP is using Lib techniques?
At least the bias is party based, and not some whim of someone who owns a newspaper, and TV stations, and wants to exert an undue, and undemocratic influence.

TChong says:

08:00am | 10/02/11

Yes Ecks, a wise investment from sussex street.
Who said the ALP doesnt know how to get value for money?

Zeta says:

08:14am | 10/02/11

Right. So it’s better to be biased toward one party consistently instead of being biased ‘on a whim’?

Richard says:

02:40pm | 10/02/11

I also think that the Murdoch press has it in for Abbott too. Now I do know that they are more pro-liberal than pro-labor, but the muted reported of the latest newspoll, the baseless insinuations and attempts to destabilize his leadership, and countless other small slurs and tidbits against Abbott are starting to mount.

Do you want to hear my speculation as to why? Probably not, but I may as well let you have (even though it will most likely damage my credibility in your eyes).

If there is an illuminati-type shadowy elite group that is currently trying to bring about one world government (which is not inconceivable to me, as a student of history, fact is often stranger than fiction), Rupert Murdoch, as one of the most influential men in the world, would probably a member of it.

But a one world government would need a great big new tax that can be levied across the whole world to bring in income. What could that be? Nation-states already tax income and sales etc. They are not going to tax financial transactions, since that is where there power stems from. So what possible commodity could they tax?

THE AIR THAT WE BREATHE! Everyone must use it, so they decide to try and set up a carbon tax to tax the air we breathe, its like the holy grail of big government.

And they nearly pushed it through. The two wealthiest members of parliament, Kevin Rudd (U.N lickspittle) and Malcolm Turnbull (former Goldman-Sachs executive) had it all but stitched up, a done deal.

But then along comes the People’s Champion, Tony Abbott, and scuttles the dirty little deal. If this were an accurate appraisal of the real situation, then it would be no wonder that the Murdoch press would then be trying to destabilize Abbott’s leadership and pave the way for Turnbull to return.

As I say, you probably think I’m a nutjob, but I keep my ears and mind open and try to collect as much information as possible, and then twist my theories to suit the facts, not the other way around. This is one possible conclusion that I have theorized about, and why I subsequently set about protecting myself by buying silver bullion.

grumpy says:

03:25pm | 10/02/11

Broadcasting always receive government grants. Always has. I imagine this has something to do with digital and freeview.

persephone says:

05:59am | 11/02/11

Richard

aha! but what if the true motivation of this conspiracy is to drive up the price of silver?

fairsfair says:

09:09am | 10/02/11

I hope Whitney Jnr bought him something special!

Heppy Borthday Bull

acotrel says:

11:10am | 10/02/11

@Zeta - No, it’s better if the bias is due the influence of a large number of voters, instead of just one self styled patrician with delusions of grandeur!  - I’m referring to Andrew Bolt’s boss!

Aitch B says:

12:52pm | 10/02/11

@acotrel

I see you still haven’t learnt how to reply to the correct comment, Alan.

It’s NOT the reply button directly below the comment you want to respond to….. it’s the next one up!!

Tony of Poorakistan says:

09:17am | 10/02/11

I don’t think it is inconsistent at all. He is a compassionate conservative and believes that health, education and an independent voice for the indigenous are important if they are to get off the welfare wagon. 
 
It is no secret that he has spent some of his own time volunteering in predominately aboriginal schools in the Cape York area, or that he consults identities such as Noel Pearson when thinking about aboriginal policy initiatives.  Don’t forget he was also Shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs some years ago.

acotrel says:

11:14am | 10/02/11

’ He is a compassionate conservative and believes that health, education and an independent voice for the indigenous are important if they are to get off the welfare wagon.’ 

Are we taliking about the same Tony Abbott, the politician we all know and love? ’ Compassionate conservative’ - is that an oxymoron?

Zeta says:

09:00am | 10/02/11

I know! My brain is literally melting because I couldn’t figure it out.

Anthony G says:

09:13am | 10/02/11

I think it may have been has-been.

TChong says:

09:20am | 10/02/11

After yestdy, the Puch word of the week would have to be “hyperbole”!
A standard Punch theme, for use, and used by all sides for all occasions.

Tony of Poorakistan says:

09:28am | 10/02/11

I think the person who said lame duck was correct. The cryptic clue was ‘a foot breaks a chevron’ or similar. If a foot breaks, you are lame and ducks fly (and swim) in a chevron formation, which is broken if one goes lame.
In politics a lame duck is a person who holds office at the end of their tenure, when the next person has been selected, but not installed or sworn in. ie, they have little to no power and zero influence. Except in America, where outgoing presidents burn the midnight oil giving pardons to various inmates and relatives at the behest of donors.

dead as a doornail says:

09:44am | 10/02/11

Today’s word is “commonly used to describe the term in office where the person has reached a shelf-life and is useless”.
Can’t think much past lame duck with this one.

It also comes with this cryptic clue: “a foot breaks a chevron”.
This led me to a foot breaking a toenail as in chevron or herringbone nail then I got lost and couldn’t see how I could turn that into another description of a politician waiting out his time.
I did think of the person being “dead as a doornail”, but that’s more than one word.

Tony of Poorakistan says:

09:50am | 10/02/11

Although i still think my guess of ‘‘limp dick’’ was close. You limp if your foot breaks and Dick Cheney was CEO of Chevron

Plus, with the non cryptic clue, a limp dick is something that has reached a shelf-life and is useless

fairsfair says:

10:47am | 10/02/11

Gladys did let slip in the QT forum that it is actually a phrase, not a word. Sneaky sneaky.

TimB says:

11:04am | 10/02/11

If it WAS Lame duck, then I’m going to claim a win. Quite a few of us came up with it, but I believe I was first

dead as a doornail says:

11:32am | 10/02/11

TimB
Perhaps others thought of it before you and disregarded it, as it wasn’t a word, but a phrase.
No points for you - under the rule stipulating no one gets points when a word competition is abandoned under rule 13.4.25 of the word of the week competition.
The rule clearly stipulates that should the clue contain erroneous clues, all words suggested are returned to the suggester.
Please come back and try again next week.

mary monica roche says:

11:41am | 10/02/11

the words of the week were “Shit Happens”
thanks tony abbott the winner of words of the week this week.

fairsfair says:

12:32pm | 10/02/11

Tors I think Gladys is boycotting following the cessation of Cover It Live.

It is genious - She has us all over a barrel and knows it!

mary says:

09:27am | 10/02/11

It means that they’ve got holes in them.

sneakers says:

09:47am | 10/02/11

Did you not get an acceptable answer the last time you asked this?

hot tub political machine says:

10:06am | 10/02/11

There is a code to this (or there used to be) a piercing in the left ear = straight, a piercing in the right ear = gay and a piercing in both ears means figure it out for yourself.

Tony of Poorakistan says:

10:19am | 10/02/11

just be thankful they don’t show you their Prince Alberts

NicoleG says:

11:00am | 10/02/11

That’s really nice fairsfair. We haven’t spoken to him since the weekend, but I’ll get in contact with him today and let you know. I’m sure any help would be appreciated. He works and lives in the pub, so as far as I know, that came out ok, but the rest of the place was a mess. He did lose his car though, but that’s replaceable. Thanks fairsfair, I’m on to it

BTW, did we get an answer to the word of the week? It’s done my head in.

Adam Diver says:

11:14am | 10/02/11

We have had a manufactured story with the “shit happens” deliberately taken from context so that Abbott could be confronted.

Then we have Roxon placing GP superclinics arbitrarily “The Department of Health and Ageing did not undertake an analysis of existing primary healthcare providers.”…

Its the Meeja I tell ya.

iansand says:

11:22am | 10/02/11

Surely she could not be deputy to four leaders?  They will have to re-name cockroaches bishops.

Stewart Henstock says:

05:41pm | 10/02/11

Exactly and Labor isn’t much better…anything to get a vote.