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Calling all duffers
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Message 1.Β
Posted by nikd - host (U1150305) on Monday, 22nd October 2007
If modern life bemuses you then we want to hear from you:
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Message 2
Posted by U5930342 - Banned (U5930342) on Monday, 22nd October 2007
I feel I'm a dead cert for duffer glory: card carrying CAMRA member and prefer banjo to Strat.
Looking forward to the new show, but might be listening again 10am-1pm. -
Message 3
Posted by RichardW (U1168137) on Monday, 22nd October 2007
Ooh, card carrying CAMRA member; me too, since I turned 18 aswell. Dufferdom at an early age.
Seriously considering a life membership...... -
Message 4
Posted by mumbler (U9494732) on Monday, 22nd October 2007
Tuned into some young whipersnapper and his pals on the radio this morning going on about some celebrities. I suspect that due to my onset dufferdom I found it very hard to understand what they were tawkin' abaht and even more difficult to care.
Something different for your weekday morning? Car crash radio everybody? -
Message 5
Posted by Ethalrocks (U10136879) on Wednesday, 24th October 2007
I would like a duffer badge having laughed at two boys in the high street sharing a cigarette. I told them it made them look like a pair of "well hard lads" and made them look older than 13 or 14. They protested most vehemently that they where in fact 15, which prompted me to laugh somewhat more loudly and shake my head. I was then called a "weirdo" by the perplexed boys who probably thought they looked older and tougher given they where smoking.
This isn't the first time i have laughed in the faces of children smoking in the street it. I also found myself saying βhere hereβ to a chap (and I like to use the word βchapβ) telling off someone yesterday for parking in a bus stop. -
Message 6
Posted by alan_lloyd (U1160366) on Wednesday, 24th October 2007
Well you wouldn't catch me wearing one of the darn badges after seeing the design of it. Why oh why does everything have to be plastered with corporate logos these days? If the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ want me to act as a walking advertisement for a radio station that's rapidly going to the dogs they can damn well pay me.
Could do with a duffer mug for my Gid-time Ovaltine though. Just as long as it's got a nice tasteful traditional design rather than being covered in Radio 6 branding. -
Message 7
Posted by the-airshow-duffer (U10124730) on Friday, 26th October 2007
Being a fully qualified and badge owning duffer (thankfully got in there before the 'badge pending pile' was introduced for legal reasons....) I do like to continue with the occasional act of duffing. I find it helps keep a sense of duffing karma.
However, this karma is loosing its balance as am now getting frustrated at dead end internet searches. So, am asking you fellow duffers - what is that instrumental bed music used for the feature??
Answers on a beer mat under a pint of mild please... -
Message 8
Posted by Bargeman (U1017072) on Tuesday, 30th October 2007
I'm wondering if any duffers out there have a reliable method for ensuring that they hear all the evening shows using a combination of 'listening live' and 'listen again', avoiding duplication (purely due to time constraints).
One week in I am struggling to know which bits I missed going up to bed, where exactly I fell asleep, and what bits I've listened again to, as I haven't managed to do a solid 3 hour sitting of listen again, then get tempted by a more recent show, combined with the computer dropping out occassionally I have no idea where I am.
Perhaps I should employ a calender or spreadsheet in order to record what I've heard. -
Message 9
Posted by RichardW (U1168137) on Tuesday, 30th October 2007
Airshow-Duffer:
The music for the duffers feature may well be the theme tune to an old Southern TV programme form the seventies; the title of which may have been 'Down Your Way', presented by a guy called Jack Hargreaves.
At least my memeory of those days tells me that - I weas about 9 at the time....
I think Gid has mentioned it once before, but that was in a previous existence...... -
Message 10
Posted by RichardW (U1168137) on Wednesday, 31st October 2007
Having thought about it again this morning, the programme may have been called 'Out of Town'.
Can't beat a bit of vagueness eh.......? -
Message 11
Posted by alan_lloyd (U1160366) on Wednesday, 31st October 2007
I believe you are correct on all counts Richard. "Down Your Way", as many fellow duffers will recall, was a long running wireless programme on the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Service. It was taken off the air at one point in the mid seventies, but was soon reinstated after a storm of popular protest.
If only listener power could always be harnessed to such good effect. Harrumph. -
Message 12
Posted by Valour Gull (U1637480) on Wednesday, 31st October 2007
Broadcasting whilst smoking a pipe. I wish Yawn Keaveney would do that. -
Message 13
This posting has been hidden during moderation because it broke the in some way.
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Message 14
Posted by xseawitch (U2046563) on Wednesday, 31st October 2007
I'm feeling rather duffery because I bought tickets to see CSS in a moment of youthful excitement and I'm now having a panic about what one should wear to such an occasion.
As an old goth, I'm used to faded black clothes, big hair and plenty of eyeliner as the costume for gig going, but what do Brazilian indie disco fans wear?
Should I get some glo sticks and bright lycra or is that unseemly for someone over thirty? I feel that it probably is...can any people less duffery than me help? -
Message 15
Posted by Witchy-o (U4944417) on Wednesday, 31st October 2007
I couldn't begin to help since I'm older than you
Hm, this means I'm an even older goth so bring on the goth duffing! -
Message 16
Posted by xseawitch (U2046563) on Wednesday, 31st October 2007
probably not much older Witchy-o, I've got a big scary birthday not far away!
I reckon I'm a goth duffer, I think deathrock sounds just like the the Cramps, but not as good
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Message 17
Posted by Tommy Shots (U4068938) on Wednesday, 31st October 2007
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Message 18
Posted by ncgirl (U1915388) on Thursday, 1st November 2007
Im a budding duffer... I found myself listening to George Lamb today for the SFA session and found myself bewildered by the "posse" in the studio, crass subject matter and general all round boisterousness from the presenter, I mean who says "mugging me off" unless you're in Eastenders or Danny Dyer. Needless to say after the session finished I switched off. I think I need to get a pan pipes CD to redress the balance, or maybe a duffer badge.
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Message 19
Posted by the-airshow-duffer (U10124730) on Thursday, 1st November 2007
I come with news...
Cut and paste Recuerdos de la Alhambra into any online music vendor worth it's salt, and for 79p, you can have your very own duffer theme!! My particular favouite is the Nana Mouskouri vocal version...
A big thanks to 'The shrew' (have posted the youtube link on the GCAS pages), Mr Weir and Mr Lloyd, for pointing this duffer in the right musical direction. I leave this message as a contented man... -
Message 20
Posted by zcrookes (U3556829) on Friday, 2nd November 2007
Some recent dufferish behaviours:
- filling in a hotel feedback form with the phrase 'this is not adequate as a main meal option!' in response to another veg and cheese main course type situation. I have a point, but a dufferish one at that.
- shouting 'do you not understand traffic lights/the principle of the mini roundabout?' at pedestrans or car drivers as i dodge and swerve them with their lax highway code.
- being thrilled to discover we DO have a local paper, and rushing out to buy it every friday to read about local crime - so i can dufferly tut and tat away
- filling in an online survey and putting inconsistent answers in to deliberately fox and confuse them. they think they are so clever with their online survey methods, but i will show them the error of their modern ways!
Rachel -
Message 21
Posted by Richard (U4566524) on Sunday, 4th November 2007
That "Out of Town" clip left me wanting more. I think that alone qualifies me as a duffer.
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Message 22
Posted by WiseinMilan (U10121305) on Monday, 5th November 2007
As a card carrying duffer (well, badge wearing) I couldn't agree with you more. Lamb and his mate have turned the morning slot into a total waste of air-time. With Keaveny having ruined the breakfast show, and the afternoons being a big no no for some time, this station is really going downhill. Thank Christ for the "listen again" facility, without which I'd be truly donald ducked!
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Message 23
Posted by the-airshow-duffer (U10124730) on Monday, 12th November 2007
I saw a re-run of an episode of Top Gear on one of these new and trendy digital channels, might have been called 'the lager and beer mat channel' or something equally nonchalant.
Anyway, it was the episode whereby Messrs Clarkson, Hammond and May decided to grow their own bio fuel, and set about causing havoc in a field somewhere near Ampthill.
As I sat in mild amusement at their lack of technical prowess or machine handling skill, all of a sudden, in came the gently wafting melancholy tune of 'Recuerdos de la Alhambra', alias theme tune to 'Out of Town', alias alias 'The Duffer Theme'!!
Then i knew, that in their self created mess of confusion, sheared bolts and mechanical turmoil, the Top Gear team had unwittingly committed 'Top Gear Tractor Duffing'.
Gid & Team - Clarkson, Hammond and May must surely be eligable for the Badges Pending Pile? -
Message 24
Posted by JeanR0x (U10692891) on Thursday, 20th December 2007
It is absolutely NOT duffing to be annoyed by the George Lamb show.
It is just really poor broadcasting: using exactly the same intonation for every phrase; using silly slang; laughing at studio jokes; being rude to each other are all just bad practice and insulting to the listener.
But worse is the key mistake of thinking that the DJ is more important than the music. He should go to Radio One; that's what radio one is for. -
Message 25
Posted by Pete_inthehills (U1342784) on Tuesday, 15th January 2008
hmmm...I've just participated in an online meeting using one of those modern messaging programs. My goodness, what has happened to basic punctuation and why does everyone use garish font colours and bizzare font styles?
What happened to sensible Times New Roman in black?
And why don't folk use their names, rather than suggestive puns or Roman Gods of excess.
Someone should do something. I've a good mind to write to the Times. On paper. With a pen.
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Message 26
Posted by blue-monday88 (U10854175) on Thursday, 17th January 2008
By adding the Duffer mug on to my MySpace page I've just managed to successfully delete my lovingly created United States of Hacienda background and my "Which New Order album are you?" quiz.
Technology, tsk.
Adam
Aberdeen (Berryden) correspondent -
Message 27
Posted by Pete_inthehills (U1342784) on Thursday, 17th January 2008
Wow, Berryden has a correspondent.
The next time I'm at a gig in Aberdeen, I'll look out for you.
Pete
inthehills
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Message 28
Posted by GuideDogSaint (U10906123) on Wednesday, 23rd January 2008
Not sure this is strictly duffing but I really wish the Snake on my new Nokia was the old Snake on my 3310, or 3210 or whatever it was. New one has got coloured lights and funny mushrooms and things and I just don't understand the rules. Give me the old one back.
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Message 29
Posted by marvinmolar (U9474984) on Friday, 25th January 2008
What ho duffers.
I too find Lamb unbearable. In fact I pretend that nothing has changed by listening to Gideon's show again between 10am and 1pm.
I can't listen to Gid's show live anyway as it's way past my duffing bedtime.
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Message 30
Posted by LarchTheSingist (U11002972) on Wednesday, 6th February 2008
Oh my! "Out of Town"... the memories... sigh...
I may even have been in single figures when I avidly drank in this cornucopia of duffer's delights. Perfect weekend mornings, with a nice cup of tea - perhaps dunking a malted milk (resplendent with cow motif).
I have duffed a lifetime away... sigh... -
Message 31
Posted by LarchTheSingist (U11002972) on Thursday, 7th February 2008
I have accidentally got Lamb on 'listen live' at the mo'.
I am about to hurriedly click my way through to 'listen again' to Gid last night.
If this is duffing then I am proud one.
PS. Note to ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ6 director: Have you thought to ask Gideon if he would be happy to do both the 10am to 1pm slot as well as 10pm to 1am?
Just a thought... -
Message 32
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Thursday, 7th February 2008
Go on Gid, you could do it! There must be an in-house ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ doctor who could provide the necessary pills.
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Message 33
Posted by smallfrancois (U11013006) on Thursday, 7th February 2008
Was so pleased to have discovered a virtual sanctuary in which to vent frustrations about 'George Lame' that I had to put myself through the relevant painstaking registration process in which to contribute.
What used to be such comfort at a difficult time of day for duffers or anyone else has become merely an excuse for a radio show. What they seem to think is amusing, I seem to find racist.
Duffer status: I am in my early twenties and people call me Granny. On Boxing Day I accidentally wore the same outfit as my own Gran (and was not at all displeased). -
Message 34
Posted by Valour Gull (U1637480) on Thursday, 21st February 2008
I wasn't a fan of the new Elbow single at first, but the more that I am subjected to repeated listenings, the more I begin to appreciate the grammar of the lyrics thus gain fondness for the song.
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Message 35
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Friday, 22nd February 2008
I've noticed that many of your miodern, up-to-date presenters, make extensive and unusual use of gerunds - eg "I am loving it" or "we are wanting more of that", instead of the simple present tense.
I have also noticed Gideon is somewhat lacking in the gerundive. Gid - get with the NOW. Or is that - you gotta be GETTING with the NOW?
I'm sure it's what the elsuive female audience craves. Draw them like easily distractable moths to your late night gerund candle.
PS Do I get on the pending pile for knowing what a gerund is? -
Message 36
Posted by knerak (U10891878) on Saturday, 29th March 2008
Gideon - have you written your letter yet? -
Message 37
Posted by telfordscat (U12868733) on Tuesday, 5th August 2008
i've just bought some chelsea boots, am i old now?.
inca babies please. -
Message 38
Posted by alan_lloyd (U1160366) on Thursday, 14th August 2008
Can I be the first person this year to deplore the continuously falling standards of A level examinations? They used to be a serious test of one's knowledge in my day. There were none of those wishy-washy pseudo-subjects such as "media studies" either. Now it seems you barely have to be able to write your own name on the paper to get a grade A.
Honestly, young people today don't know they're born. -
Message 39
Posted by laurencea (U4486044) on Tuesday, 19th August 2008
today i bought a 'bag for life' from my local supermarket (other local supermarkets are available). i now feel very old.
i was slightly perplexed that the handles seem to stretch after just one trip home. i need to check the meaning of 'life' in terms of a large bag.
the next step will be buying one of those hessian thingies... or probably something so eco-friendly that it biodegrades on the way home.
all this to do my part and the croissants still come wrapped in two types of plastic. pah. -
Message 40
Posted by Bargeman (U1017072) on Tuesday, 19th August 2008
and the plastic your croissants are in probably won't be recycleable in your area.
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Message 41
Posted by tolhurst (U6377463) on Wednesday, 20th August 2008
...and if you find Larry the Lamb so bad that you have stopped listening to 6 Music during the morning in the week, you will, like me, not have watched any of the Olympics because you have been missing all the adverts!
Hello Lesley Douglas and Paul Rodgers!
However, if you agree with VIZ that the Toytown presenter is worse than useless, you have a problem: do duffers ever touch VIZ without tongs and going "Pshah!"?
Can Lamb be the secret weapon? Look at this mission statement:
(I quote)
"ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 6 Music is the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's digital music and archive station aimed at 25-44 year old music fans."
So are all the 45-year-olds being pushed, lemming-like, off the cliff, by a crack team shouting "Shambles!", "Shabba!" or whatever?
And Paul Weller is now far too old.
So the music fans are being culled with the duffers too.
But how do we explain the sudden appearance on our favourite music station of things like The Monkees and The Move?
Is it so the duffers can say, "Choh! Get your hair cut!"?
But what about Fats Waller? (played by Gid on 19/8)
Let alone the Cliff mentioned above! -
Message 42
Posted by Ethalrocks (U10136879) on Thursday, 21st August 2008
Re A-levels - question from a relatives Geography AS-level. (Thats AS -level, not noddy level)
For 10 marks (picture of a street scene) Identify the Health and Safety issues present when collecting data for a traffic survey (or similar, cant recall the exact question)
Yes really. 10% of your mark for remembering to tie your shoe laces and look both ways before crossing the road.
Even said relative quietly informed me that they thought the question was a "bit easy", before then telling me they where able to "resit a module" they they didn't do too well in and it still counted the same in the final result. I hope Gid is able to "resit" a portion of his show if it doesn't go too well one night.
Tsk, Tsk and treble tsk. -
Message 43
Posted by Valour Gull (U1637480) on Wednesday, 8th October 2008
Whilst playing the theme tune to our cherished duffing slot on my PC, I recalled an episode of Rick Stein, where Rick had a lad play him the duffing theme tune on his guitar as he cooked their dinner.
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Message 44
Posted by beautiful-zelda (U1160757) on Friday, 10th October 2008
National Trust v. English Heritage
To the duffer who couldn't decide which to go for I would offer the following facts:
- English Heritage is more expensive for joint membership
- Entry to EH properties is generally cheaper (and some are free), some NTs can be over Β£10 per person to get in
- You have to visit a lot more EH properties to make up the cost of membership
- Many NT properties close in the winter months, limiting the time available to visit, whilst EH are generally open all year round
- Some parts of the country have many more properties owned by one organisation than the other - where are you likely to be visiting ?
- Some people think membership of the Historic Houses Association is better, because it covers a range of independent properties - I haven't looked into this.
Hope this helps !
PS - sometimes the members' magazines include offers for a free eye test, which is quite a saving ! -
Message 45
Posted by andyorangepeel (U13636015) on Friday, 17th October 2008
In reply to the comments on george lamb
I recently signed an anti George Lamb petition
because i believe George Lambs style is not what radio 6 was set up for
the get george lamb off 6music website
obviously 4225 other people currently agree with me
I'm off to look for a badge making kit for making art into badges -
Message 46
Posted by Lawrence-of-Asda (U13725632) on Wednesday, 3rd December 2008
Christmas Duffing
Sir, having had trouble finding space to put the Christmas tree I longed for the days of fat TVβs. Back in the day there was plenty of room on top of those bulky idiot boxes to put our 70βs synthetic silver (and blue and purple bauble adorned) tree. And thereβd still be enough room left to put a nativity scene on one side and a small framed photo of whichever elderly relative was calling round bearing gifts on the other. Modern TVβs are far too slim to be of much of a team player in the living room. Ah yes but you can hang them on the wall thus freeing up space to put a Christmas tree you may add, but then were do you hang Christmas cards on string? -
Message 47
Posted by Bargeman (U1017072) on Wednesday, 3rd December 2008
Do you not have a nice Victorian bay window in which to place your tree?
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Message 48
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Wednesday, 3rd December 2008
Put it where it's going to end up anyway: in a layby on the ring road.
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Message 49
Posted by Lawrence-of-Asda (U13725632) on Thursday, 4th December 2008
I've ended up draping some tinsel and fairy lights of my shelving unit instead, but on plugging the latter in the perennial problem has come to light - or not in this case - they've all gone out. I've run out of the white fuse ones so called in at a well-known DIY chain to get some more, only to find they don't stock them anymore. Its all modern LED Christmas lights. The only other place I could think of was the 'owt ya want we got for a Β£1' store on the high street but they've closed down. I think my only option left is to make the Blue Peter coat hangar decoration and live the danger of the candles falling off and burning the house down.
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Message 50
Posted by U6679583 (U6679583) on Thursday, 4th December 2008
Why not just wedge a bit of wire across the terminals of the missing "fuse" one?
Everything will be all right, (as long as nothing goes wrong.)
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