villakram Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 18 hours ago, Chindie said: Last Podcast Network has signed exclusivity with Spotify. I love Last Podcast on the Left and many of the other shows they produce, and have had 5 years or so laughing at their stuff. But exclusivity with podcasts **** sucks. I don't want to have another app on my phone just to listen to one podcast. The signs were there I guess. The show has grown considerably in the hat few years and especially in the last 18 months the advertising had become obnoxious, clearly the money had turned and now Spotify have slapped down some cash and they've grabbed it. A shame. Incidentally the increasing fragmentation of media is going to backfire quite quickly I suspect. Every man and his dog wants their own streaming service, every company is grabbing any emerging opportunity in the field, and it appears to be predictably anti-consumer. When the thought for a long time was the separation of content would benefit the consumer. That's a pity. I stopped listening 18months ago as far too much time was being spent telling us about their other projects etc., well, and the humor was becoming pretty repetitive. Can't really blame them for cashing out I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted November 21, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted November 21, 2019 3 hours ago, villakram said: That's a pity. I stopped listening 18months ago as far too much time was being spent telling us about their other projects etc., well, and the humor was becoming pretty repetitive. Can't really blame them for cashing out I suppose. It's still my favourite podcast but it's definitely not as great as it was. The biggest issue has been the adverts for me. The episode length has ballooned but a lot of it has come from the sheer number and length of adverts, and they're all done in this horrible style. Their other shows are the worst for it, particularly Page 7, but all of them suffer. I've also noticed that Ben is becoming insufferable, the politics show recently had him clearly talking absolute bollocks but he was having none of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post chrisp65 Posted November 22, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted November 22, 2019 Very let down by my local record shop earlier today. Went in there with my missus, a highly unusual event, to pick up some things she might like to buy me for Christmas, having explained that I haven’t bought much this year as the budget hasn’t really run to it. Got in there to be greeted by the owner announcing ‘ah Chris, can you look after the shop for me, I’ll literally be a couple of minutes’. 1 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 the constant jerkathon frenzy the media are in over Mourinho.... Totally nauseating to see the amount of fawning and sycophancy by grown men, who are supposed to be impartial journalists. the sports media have become nothing more than an advertisement for the elite few, hell bent on ramming their paymasters agenda down the consumers throats. (Just finished a week of night duties so easily narked!) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam-AVFC Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 3 minutes ago, theboyangel said: the constant jerkathon frenzy the media are in over Mourinho.... Looks like it has pissed Solskjaer off too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 2 minutes ago, Sam-AVFC said: Looks like it has pissed Solskjaer off too! Fair play to him. Every game presser this week has had Jose shoehorned in - who gives a shit? cant wait for the inevitable failure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted November 22, 2019 Moderator Share Posted November 22, 2019 47 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Got in there to be greeted by the owner announcing ‘ah Chris, can you look after the shop for me, I’ll literally be a couple of minutes’. That literally happened to me in Probe on Sunday (the look after the shop bit) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 28 minutes ago, theboyangel said: the constant jerkathon frenzy the media are in over Mourinho.... Totally nauseating to see the amount of fawning and sycophancy by grown men, who are supposed to be impartial journalists. the sports media have become nothing more than an advertisement for the elite few, hell bent on ramming their paymasters agenda down the consumers throats. (Just finished a week of night duties so easily narked!) Apart from Villa I hate the whole **** Premier League 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A'Villan Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 My birth mark. Just had to be on my willy, didn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 7 minutes ago, A'Villan said: My birth mark. Just had to be on my willy, didn't it? If it wasn’t there yesterday, it could just be a sweet corn husk. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 On 20/11/2019 at 19:04, mjmooney said: Eighties nostalgia. Love it myself, but then I did grow up in the eighties. Nostalgia innit. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 19 minutes ago, A'Villan said: My birth mark. Just had to be on my willy, didn't it? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's Your Round Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 On 20/11/2019 at 19:04, mjmooney said: Eighties nostalgia. It’s not what it used to be. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 23, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted November 23, 2019 1 hour ago, Xela said: Love it myself, but then I did grow up in the eighties. Nostalgia innit. Exactly so. Had I been born even ten years later, I would probably have loved all that 80s music. But I wasn't, and it will always sound shit to my ears. Then there's the fashions and the politics. Ugh. Even the Villa nosedived after '82. Only saving grace was getting married and having kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 6 hours ago, mjmooney said: Exactly so. Had I been born even ten years later, I would probably have loved all that 80s music. But I wasn't, and it will always sound shit to my ears. Then there's the fashions and the politics. Ugh. Even the Villa nosedived after '82. Only saving grace was getting married and having kids. Mike, I reckon you have got ten years on me and I hate it as much as you do. It pains me that there is so much nostalgia for that decade. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 Add me to those who find the 80s absolutely hideous, I was born in 85 so missed it first time really but looking back at it I've always been mystified how a culture that horrific could develop. I assume in 10-15 years' time they will look upon the 2010s as similarly awful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 (edited) 80's nostalgia is such a wide thing to measure though. I have 80's nostalgia but only for certain things, I dont love the 80's as a whole. It had lots to look back fondly on and lots of iconic things still loved today. Gameboy, Master System, NES, the best cartoons, great TV and films, the toys, some great music etc... Lots that were very bad outside of pop culture type things of course but it's no different to any other decade in terms of good and bad. Edited November 23, 2019 by Ingram85 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 49 minutes ago, Ingram85 said: 80's nostalgia is such a wide thing to measure though. I have 80's nostalgia but only for certain things, I dont live the 80's as a whole. It had lots to look back fondly on and lots of iconic things still loved today. Gameboy, Master System, SNES, the best cartoons, great TV and films, the toys, some great music etc... Lots that were very bad outside of pop culture type things of course but it's no different to any other decade in terms of good and bad. I think you like the 90s based on the named examples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 2 minutes ago, Seat68 said: I think you like the 90s based on the named examples. I meant NES not Snes. Doh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 I've seen it suggested that the reason that the whole eighties revival is being pushed in popular culture is because the decades since the 90s have pretty much become indistinguishable from one another and don't really have their own identities in the same way that previous decades had done, so now the identities from older decades are having to be used for marketing purposes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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