Pet Peeves

I've reached my limit with local radio stations around here. It's gotten to the point where it's Sweet Home Alabama all day every day, which has gotten on my last nerve. Thank you very much!

I'm disappointed with our local NPR station... OPB. I've had a radio on since I was a little kid. But it seems to me that PC has taken over the station... the announcers don't have to sound good. They don't have to have pleasant or interesting voices just to have a job announcing.

Plus, they run most shows two times a day, some three times. The way shows are sent to OPB there are scheduled breaks though out the hour long productions, where OPB comes in and gives their call #s or their own little blurb about the weather or traffic. But, if they are running that show at 3am there may not be all that prepared to speak through their section, so now they have "music beds." A music bed is a random selection of music that is computer selected, and as soon as any programs cuts to an OPB time, the music starts. It is almost always inappropriate and doesn't sound good... or right. Anyway, it goes on 24/7 now, and if there is a report to be given, this music plays behind the voice. Distracting as hell, and lazy radio production. It often makes me believe that no one is actually listening to how their radio stream sounds.

The BBC ALWAYS sounds great!

Gotta love having a cellphone that can do internet radio. I haven't listened to AM/FM in ages.

Speaking of sounding good... did you catch WHYS's rap opening today? BRILLIANT!

Roy... I do listen to some internet radio... tell me about your phone. I hear that Iphones may soon have FM radio?

I had an iPhone for a while, but switched to Verizon a few months ago, because Verizon actually works indoors where I am.

I have a used Samsung Omnia at the moment (planning on getting a Droid tomorrow). It's a fairly low-resolution Windows Mobile phone, but it does what I need it to -- streaming audio/video, plus it's easy to tether other devices to. It has an FM radio, but I've never used that.

... I don't know. I've been listening to BBC World Service for several years now, but I must say that I'm tiring of hearing the same reports in the evening, the next morning and again the following evening, They also often have these "focus points" where they go into extreme detail over some story, to the point where it comes pouring out of my ears. I took a break from listening to them; let's see if I'll start again...

Daylight Savings Time is on the pet peeve list too. It gets dark much too early.

i thought daylight saving is meant to do exactly the opposite - extend light in the evening. ahhh you mean going back to standard time in winter?

when I was in Canada I used to go to work in the dark in the morning and come home in the dark in the afternoon in mid winter. that was pretty ordinary.

I get it confused. Half a dozen of one half a dozen of the other. I just hate it that since we pushed the clock back an hour it gets so dark so early.

After a while it'll be dark in the morning here and dark early too. (Right now the sun comes up early.) It doesn't help even with Atlanta being reasonably far south.

My pet peeve is using lay for lie.

http://www.english-zone.com/verbs/lie-lay1.html

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/lay-versus-lie.aspx

Alas, much as it rankles, I am afraid this is one I can never win as it has become firmly entrenched in the lexicon.