Comments for Riviera Radio in poor taste? at http://www.rivierareporter.com , comment 1 to 44 out of 20 comments http://www.rivierareporter.com Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:40:47 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.rivierareporter.com/content/view/824/132/#comment-335 And another thing. Lighten up a bit will ya Mike??!!!! Grumpy Old Men called to get you on yet? - Burty1 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:46:06 +0100 http://www.rivierareporter.com/content/view/824/132/#comment-334 Her style of English accent is very irritating to me (an Australian). I liked it when Rob and Peter were doing morning by themselves. An Aussie making an Englishman sound good. I think their rotation of music could be more diverse but I think it comes down to what they can afford to play, as they are obviously not on a big budget. I used to hear Jessie by Joshua Kadison on a daily basis at least 4 times - like nails down a blackboard. Henk Potts with the finance report is entertaining. - Burty1 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:43:07 +0100 http://www.rivierareporter.com/content/view/824/132/#comment-326 Internet radio is great but it needs internet! So listening in the car is impossible and that's where I listen most. I think others do too. - Hollander Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:31:42 +0100 http://www.rivierareporter.com/content/view/824/132/#comment-325 Perhaps Internet radios will be the death of Riviera Radio. You can listen to whatever you want from anywhere in the world, so the English language monopoly of RR is dead. Don't bother worrying about how good or bad the presenters on RR - go and listen to some proper radio stations. - Ian Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:57:59 +0100 http://www.rivierareporter.com/content/view/824/132/#comment-181 Arthur : I did indeed say it was not worth further discussion, and I was referring to discussion as the suitability or otherwise of the comments which gave rise to the original complaint. That is down to personal standards and therefore does not merit further discussion. I have posted subsequently in order to defend myself against personal attacks, although why I bother I don't know, and I probably should not have done so. I also made a subsequent posting when it was drawn to my attention that RR are still disseminating childish and inappropriate (in my opinion but of course I live on another planet) 'jokes' on the morning programme. It is probably best now if I simply rise above all the various insults which have been levelled at me by some people and I will do so. So from now on you can accuse me of being a misogynist, lacking in joie de vivre, living in another stratosphere, all-pervading, a wanabee D.J, failed media person, unemployed with too much time on my hands, obsessed, quiet, sad, and any other insults you may deem fit, and I will simply ignore them. I wish I had the time and versatility of character it takes to be all those things! - Mike Preston Wed, 07 May 2008 13:51:29 +0100 http://www.rivierareporter.com/content/view/824/132/#comment-180 Mike-In a previous post on this subject you said 'it was not worth further discussion' Since then you have posted several more times. Hugh-what is this 'community based station' that you talk about. It's my understanding that Riviera Radio is a commercial entity in the business of making money. A community based station is one that operates under a free licence with volunteer staff. Also-while some might find the occasional risque joke or comment offensive-maybe you would like your children to listen to one of the french stations in the morning such as Skyrock where a string of english language expletives are heard on a regular basis(you see as english is not their language it is totally meaningless and unoffensive to say words which would shock and offend the vast majority of native english speakers) By the same token-are you going to rush into the local newsagents when your children are walking past and demand that he removes his advertisments for x rated top shelf publications from his outside display ? - arthurB Wed, 07 May 2008 09:58:23 +0100 http://www.rivierareporter.com/content/view/824/132/#comment-179 Quiet? You see my comments on other websites but you accuse me of being 'quiet'. I would say the opposite, I'm outspoken which is the opposite of quiet. At least I post consistently under the same name and not under different pseudos as do many. Sad? I find it strange that you can describe someone whom you do not know of being sad. Please have it your way though, and maybe you could express an opinion about the topic rather than making rather poorly expressed jibes at the poster. Also, could you perhaps explain what you are trying to say in your previous posting (below) as the meaning is somewhat unclear to me, but then I'm an obsessed quiet sad person so perhaps my mental capacities are diminished. "written by Mrs Slowcom , 02 May 2008 78% of people now listening to Riviera Radio, could it be all the promotion they get here. is it all the money they give away or is it really good station? Please vote here" - Mike Preston Wed, 07 May 2008 08:51:59 +0100 http://www.rivierareporter.com/content/view/824/132/#comment-178 how else would you describe someone who is on about the same thing for over a year.i see his mike p comments on other websites too. does he have nothing else to do? if not obssesed what would you call it. quiet sad? - mrs slowcom Wed, 07 May 2008 06:04:56 +0100 http://www.rivierareporter.com/content/view/824/132/#comment-177 Thanks, Jenny Dumont, for your meaningful comment. I'm not quite sure how you can arrive at such a conclusion without even knowing me but no doubt you have your own reasoning and I respect that. As the subsequent poster pointed out, it might have been more helpful if you'd expressed an opinion related to the topic, but I'm sure you enjoyed letting off steam and please feel free to continue to do so. - Mike Preston Tue, 06 May 2008 18:32:30 +0100 http://www.rivierareporter.com/content/view/824/132/#comment-176 It is not my habit to voice an opinion on forums and such but I have been following this discussion since the beginning and feel I should comment this once at least. We all have the right to have our opinion respected. In my experience, those who do not respect the opinions of others, seldom merit to be respected themselves. They are often insecure people with chips on their shoulders. If Mr Preston's detractors can find nothing more than clumsily expressed insults to bolster their case, they can't have much of one. It's ludicrous to call anyone "obsessed" because he is of the opinion that a community radio station would be wise to temper its language at a time of day when children are likely to be listening. That is a perfectly normal and defendable opinion which, as a father of 2 children, happens to coincide with my own (and that of a few others here). Those who express their opinion through insults merely humiliate themselves and lessen their case.. - Hugh Tue, 06 May 2008 17:37:49 +0100 http://www.rivierareporter.com/content/view/824/132/#comment-175 What a sad man you are Mike. Obsession is a dangerous thing and you are clearly obsessed(even if you don't listen). - jenny dumont Tue, 06 May 2008 16:40:28 +0100 http://www.rivierareporter.com/content/view/824/132/#comment-169 What is the French expression? Plus ca change? Just after 0830 this morning a friend of mine rang me. "Were you listening to Riviera Radio a few minutes ago?" "No, I don't listen to it any more, why?" "Well, they're back on the smutty schoolboy humour." There's no hope really is there, they clearly don't care. The 'joke' that was told was the one that ends : "Did you prick his boil, nurse?" It wasn't a joke 'phoned in, but one read out by one of the studio staff. I'll leave you to guess which one. Whilst this type of humour is certainly not as offensive, other than to the intelligence of the audience, as the type that gave rise to my original complaint, it clearly shows that there is little or no hope for improvement if they continue to dredge the bottom of the barrel with comments of that nature. - Mike Preston Mon, 05 May 2008 08:15:09 +0100 http://www.rivierareporter.com/content/view/824/132/#comment-168 yeah but you forget that 64.8% of people tend to make up statistics on the spot. - Iain Sun, 04 May 2008 17:00:03 +0100 http://www.rivierareporter.com/content/view/824/132/#comment-166 ' Riviera Radio wouldn't have to give things away to get listeners and they wouldn't have to give away advertising at cut-rate prices either.' On what facts do you base this statement ? - arthurB Sat, 03 May 2008 11:56:23 +0100 http://www.rivierareporter.com/content/view/824/132/#comment-165 78% listening? 78% of which "people"? I don't believe that for an instant. Most people I know don't listen (or very rarely) and I bet BVP stats which measure audience figures would show nothing like that figure. If they did, Riviera Radio wouldn't have to give things away to get listeners and they wouldn't have to give away advertising at cut-rate prices either. - HappyInFrance Fri, 02 May 2008 17:06:11 +0100 http://www.rivierareporter.com/content/view/824/132/#comment-164 78% of people now listening to Riviera Radio, could it be all the promotion they get here. is it all the money they give away or is it really good station? Please vote here - Mrs Slowcom Fri, 02 May 2008 16:39:38 +0100 http://www.rivierareporter.com/content/view/824/132/#comment-163 i would like to object to the word pussy as one of the subjects on this website, it am sure Mike P would agree - who has the time Fri, 02 May 2008 16:31:41 +0100 http://www.rivierareporter.com/content/view/824/132/#comment-159 Well, call me a prude (which I ain't), but I agree with MikeP (altho not to the point where I could be bothered to contact RR and complain). I was doing the school run with kids in car when EL made the pussy/brazen hussey remarks and I thought they were pretty tasteless. Perhaps wouldn't have minded so much if they'd actually been funny but I think most of us stopped laughing at that kind of stuff when we were 8 or 9 and it probably wasn't even funny then! - Ghost Girl Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:28:38 +0100 http://www.rivierareporter.com/content/view/824/132/#comment-157 I disagree Mike - I made no snide personal attack on yourself. I merely suggested that you have an opinion on whats acceptable and other people also have opinions on whats acceptable. Yours conflict with a vast majority of other people. It dosent make you wrong though. You should try channeling your time on other things than worrying about a risque comment on the radio - Why don't you open a bank that stays open at lunchtime...or a shop that stays open on a Sunday. - Iain Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:11:46 +0100 http://www.rivierareporter.com/content/view/824/132/#comment-150 Iain, it's not the same at all. Your comment, and Arthur's to a greater and more offensive degree, were snide and personal attacks on me. My original complaint related more to content, than to a person, granted of course that there is a person behind the comments. Really though we're splitting hairs here and it's not worth further discussion. We've made our points and we'll just have to accept that we disagree. - Mike Preston Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:29:08 +0100