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 Meet your everyday Baby Boomer. Born the right side of the second world war, these young people are responsible for everything from global warming (oops) sorry lets make that climate change, through to being far too white and the cause of slavery way before their grand parents were born. Living For Kicks was a TV documentary made in 1960. The teenagers appearing here were clearly not the brightest bunch, something I would hastily add was on evidence presented, not their own fault, however the personal aspirations voiced were at least grounded in reality. Considering that Now & Then is about Radio from that era on-wards I picked up on a point worth mentioning. So OK the class distinctions are clear enough. An older well educated journalist does the interviewing with a sense of self importance undermined further by his need to be better and all knowing. Condecending in action if you get my drift. However the interviewees have something up their sleeve, they have jobs and they have buying power, note the statistics towards the beginning of the video, these young rebels have cash and they spend it. They have limited outlets to enjoy themselves, and a youth culture held in dim regard by the establishment, these people would surely love to hear their music on the radio, all day, everyday if only some clever people would fill that void! Think about it, spending power, limited entertainment, a love of the new musical culture, dancing, having fun in the shires and beyond, all ready for a clever, gifted entrepreneur to deliver the goods. The chance just a couple of years later for Radio Atlanta and Radio Caroline to become their champions? Well you know the rest, so why was this obvious target audience passed over for a safe housewives choice audience? With hindsight are the teenagers of that era another elephant in the room when it comes to the real (part establishment) goals of free radio's first UK pioneers? Or should I have been born a few decades earlier and filled my boots? Hang on a minute, that means I would be brown bread or there about. What a conundrum!
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Talkin bout my generation
3/1/2020 11:02:24 pm
'why was this obvious target audience passed over for a safe housewives choice audience?'..................Arrogance or ignorance?
Mervyn Hagger
4/1/2020 12:01:10 am
I was 17 in 1960, and those were drab years in which teens grew up imitating American rock 'n' roll - after growing imitating the Hollywood made-up culture of cowboys and Indians and wagon trains. It was a time of awful coffee bars serving terrible liquid in glass cups, and in England, the oppressive Church of England was trying to keep kids entertained in 'Youth Clubs' - as portrayed in that Cliff Richard movie 'Serious Charge', So when teens saw the Alan Freed cameo films such as 'Don't Knock the Rock' featuring Little Richard, there was a sense that we were living in a cage and we wished that we could break out like Little Richard. When friends emigrated to the USA and related back that they were earning three times the money; paying far less in taxes and going to drive-in movie theaters in those giant cars where gas (petrol) was as cheap as water, there was a yearning for something more. But in the UK in 1960 the threat of nuclear annihilation was a constant factor. Americans would have 15 minutes warning, the British would have none. They had atomic fall-out shelters, and we had none. So it was an era for teens who were living on the edge of life itself. Americans had the money, the choices in clothes, food, cars and music, but the British had Mrs Dale and Choral Evensong on the radio. British TV had limited choices in black and white on small screens and it was difficult and expensive to get the GPO to install a home phone. Meanwhile American kids were seen on imported American shows doing all the things that British kids could only dream of doing. So they did try to put those dreams into action, they joined groups such as the Silver Beatles who began like everyone else with washing boards and thimbles to simulate a rhythm section. Radio Luxembourg faded in and faded out with a selection of 15 minute and 30 minutes shows from plays to quizzes to those sponsored record shows. 1960 was not a good time for teens who knew virtually nothing about sex which resulted in a lot of groping in the dark trying to unfasten cheap bras and fighting with suspenders holding up nylons. The business of foreplay and climaxes to be enjoyed by girls was not something that boys knew anything about. Sex was all about groping to insert a penis somewhere. The only kids who knew anything were those who said 'stuff this' and rebelled against their families and then they either got out of the UK,or they got out of English society and joined the street gangs. The gangs took what they wanted, or at least that was the idea. The so-called 'Swinging Sixties' were a myth created by American magazines running features on selective interpretations of UK life. When the Atlanta and Caroline came along they were the products of the more affluent part of that older generation which set the stage for us teens to walk on to. So Caroline aimed its signal at those 'housewives' chained to the sink and to babies in order to make sure that the 'man of the house' could come home and put his slippers on and light up his pipe and read the paper in peace. Women were servants who existed to please men. It was a very boring age of deprivation when compared to what those kids in the American big cities were experiencing. On the other hand, American kids who were not cosmopolitans and living in rural America were probably less aware of the world around them than British kids who were living in daily fear of being wiped out by a Russian nuclear bomb. Drugs and Vietnam were the factors that put and end to all of that and introduced an age of chaos.
Testing 1.2,3
4/1/2020 10:32:17 am
My 1960s was nothing like yours thank God .It's a wonder you didn't pack up and move to the promised land .Wait, you did, then years later you came back to the UK. I wonder why?
Mervyn Hagger
4/1/2020 11:16:24 am
Thanks for asking, because that is what 'Dial 999 for Caroline' will explain in detail. 1960 was a different age, it was nothing like the imagined age as related in the offshore books written by people who either weren't there or who were too young to know, or who, unlike myself, were interacting with events as a journalist. Consequently everything written about Radio Caroline between 1964 to 1967 is based upon either misinformation deliberately fed to the press, or the memories of DJs who like mushrooms, were mostly kept in the dark and had limited access to any sort of real knowledge. Their own lack of source information was compounded by the fact that because they lived on the fantasy of misinformation, they did not know that there were questions to be asked. I was there. I knew and talked to many of the key players, and for decades I have been working with a team to document all of this in a series of newspaper and academic articles. Now it is time to put it into single storyline book format, because other books in academic format have either already been published or are in the process of being published. 'Dial 999 for Caroline' will be aimed at the commercial market for publication sometime later this year.
James McGregor
4/1/2020 11:11:27 pm
I agree with Mervyn about what he say above! I can do with more of that and less of the other. Bears Den on 648 sounding very good tonight to win a back in time Luxembourg Luxury watch. More sense with back stories of this please Merve but not just parroting slabs of freshman students stating the blind folded obvious about the past they never experienced themselves. Welcome to the world that never pauses to draw breath and sleep. 60m dead we will rebuild. You gotta work your margins, your percentages and make your own life calls on your hopes and dreams. Oh and don't talk to journalists.
Teenage Kicks
4/1/2020 11:15:16 am
Born in 1952 in coastal Essex, my formative years were great. No TV and initially no inside toilet, but come the mid sixties, cars, girls, clubs and of course, the numerous pirate stations which is all we listened too, having forsaken the dire reception of Luxembourg. I don't know about 1960, but a few years later was a wonderful time for teens. So much great music, and any thoughts of impending doom was the furthest thing from our minds. Blissful ignorance perhaps, but our teenage minds were firmly focussed on other things. Many evenings were spent sitting around the record player or radio, listening to the sounds of the day, and exploring the roots from which they came. We only considered America as a source of music and I don't recall anyone wishing they were there. We had a great time. Perhaps being a little younger made all the difference.
Mervyn Hagger
4/1/2020 11:32:33 am
In 1960 you were approximately 7 years old, so you had not entered your teens. You reached the age of 17 in 1970 which is when I was heading for Canada and then the USA. So by the time you reached 13 it was approximately 1966, and the days of Radio Caroline were about to end, and you would have been approximately 15 when both Caroline ships were towed away. So to be fair, you really had no knowledge of what the era of Radio Caroline from 1964 to 1967 was all about. I did. In 1966 I was sitting in Allan Crawford's office going into business with him, and that same year my first paid half-page newspaper article appeared about the offshore stations. That is why what I will be revealing in 'Dial 999 for Caroline' will come as such a shock to everyone who has been reading Brian Lister's 'Pirate Gold' or Paul Rusling's 'The Caroline Bible'. By the way, my book will be factual and documented while still written for the mass market, but it will not be fiction, nor a novel, but I hope that its impact will be better than reading most true crime stories because it will be quite an eye-opener for most people who think that they know the story of Radio Caroline. They don't.
Testing 1.2,3
4/1/2020 11:56:08 am
You are writing a book are you ? I never would have guessed as haven't seen it mentioned anywhere before.Tick,Tock day 4 of 2020.
Teenage Kicks
4/1/2020 02:48:23 pm
I was born at the start of 1952 so was 12 in 1964, and well accustomed to dial twiddling by then. All I knew at the time was that suddenly there were refreshing alternatives to The Billy Cotton Band Show. At the time I don't think that myself or my friends worried to much about the background to the new choices. It was a little later that I became more interested in that aspect. It was a huge disappointment when the pirates all but disappeared and we asked ourselves why. So retrospectively, I do have some knowledge of that era, and have collected many books on the subject. Yours will be added when it finally goes to print.
James McGregor
5/1/2020 02:11:24 pm
Trumpton is giving us the New Age Romance of Chaos alright. You want WWIII dial 911 and ask for the Westinghouse Wing
Mervyn Hagger
5/1/2020 04:08:36 pm
You are watching and listening to too much MI5/MI6 via British broadcasting propaganda. It is of the same ilk that that Sixties Propaganda Chief called Ronan O'Rahilly spread about the start of Radio Caroline. These people are sick bastards and now Ronan seems to have manifest a real biological representation of the kind of absent memory that he wanted to wipe from all our minds in true Orwellian fashion. That is why I despise those trying to foist off on us the nonsense about this 'Church of Caroline' with their rusting hulk temple. The fact is as Mike stated in the last thread about Christine Keeler that so many wanted to obliterate, ground zero of the lies about Donald Trump begin with MI5/MI6/BBC in London, England - NOT in Washington, DC. The scumbag that Donald Trump wiped out is the same scumbag who is responsible for killing so many British troops and Syrian people along with many others. The reason I am writing this book is because the idiots waving the offshore fandom club flag will not study academic articles which are already out there. These people are twerps who won't research and who will sponge off those who do in order to create books like 'Pirate Gold' and 'Caroline Bible' - and still get the story screwed up! That is why I fight back so hard against the lying and thieving scumbags who try to steal our lives by lying to us and telling us that what is black is white and what is up is down. You raised this issue and that is my response with full barrels loaded and fired back.
Mervyn Hagger
5/1/2020 04:12:15 pm
By the way not all offshore people are stupid: Charlie Wolf is also a Trumpster!
My Hat The Cat
5/1/2020 06:59:45 pm
Pop Pop Snap Cap
Not Really A Fan
5/1/2020 07:14:17 pm
Bigot Racist Dishonest Clown Disgusting Narcissist Bully Arrogant Stupid Egotistical Ignorant Unqualified Liar Incompetent Idiot Warmonger......
Not Really A Credible Person
5/1/2020 08:15:41 pm
When your brainwashed or lied to so much you believe the fiction that BBC and Sky News serve up as factual. Racist Trump yet Black, Hispanic and Asian unemployment is at record lows stateside and Mr Trump has plenty of supporters from those ethnic groups. But don't let facts spoil your ignorance and denial, now just up and carry on being an idiot who will cling on for dear life to your spoon fed mantra.
Not Really A Fan
5/1/2020 08:36:30 pm
So no defence for the other descriptions, just 'racist'? And did I not say you only need to consume his own media output to know what he is. You are the brainwashed being spoon fed by an orange ignoramus and you love it because you identify with his style of bombastic gaslighting which he uses to cover his own inadequacies. The less competent you are, the louder you shout 'look at me, look at me'. You have fallen for it hook, line and sinker and you don't even know it.
Definitely NOT a fan of not really a fan
5/1/2020 11:14:25 pm
You are part of the problem. Another brainwashed idiot who does not understand how your freedoms are being taken from you and why the world needs Donald Trump to stop the wave of insanity that is again trying to create a One World government using dictatorial methodology in the name of socialism. Socialism is insane religious dogma dressed up to look like a friendly helping hand, but in reality socialism is the methodology of dictatorship.
Forestry Commission
5/1/2020 11:19:50 pm
Next time you see those raging fires in Australia and hear a daft commentator mention 'climate change', ask yourself, "why are all those houses surrounded by dry trees and dry bushes and dry grass?" Isn't that the BEST way to burn down a neighborhood. Oh, I forgot, we have to plant more trees to save the Planet. The socialists are arsonists killing human beings by fire. CUT DOWN THE DAMN TREES AND CLEAR THE BUSHES and then water down everything. Open your eyes and see what it is that you are really being shown on TV news - houses surrounded by trees!
Not Really A Fan
5/1/2020 07:26:04 pm
Oh, and being shouty and sweary doesn't make you smart, it just reveals your insecurity.
James McGregor
6/1/2020 02:21:24 am
I sort of formulate to get what The Forestry Commissions says about the bush fires and sort of get it but then I just giggle at the top 15s of little Sir Echo and the Funny Money Men
James McGregor
5/1/2020 08:03:26 pm
I used to listen to the Sea Wolf on R5 Live what the papers say but that was several years ago and the set up was the "Bishop" would be the Government are ghastly to the the poor (which IMO ALL Governments have as Common Economic Policy) All CW said was that he had a conventional upbringing and his father told him that as an adult leaving institutional education he could stay under the family roof as long a there was one and have food from the table if there was any. Any extras, cars and luxury he would have to get a job. This has somehow been misinterpreted though the years albeit from 5 live understandably wanting a show with the opposing views as CW being some kind of reborn fend for yourself right winger. I don't believe this is this case and it has next to nothing to do about Eurosiege 85 on Laser 558. He is yet another not in good health and it is not fair to drag him into whatever this is.
Not Really A Fan
5/1/2020 09:08:30 pm
Trump wants to control the media for his own agenda. Exactly what Hagger is so vehemently objecting to here.
Mike Pose and Doze
5/1/2020 08:25:35 pm
I am all for that Guy
Mervyn Hagger
5/1/2020 11:09:26 pm
The thing that you trolls need to fear is Hillary Clinton and MI6. She has just become Chancellor of Queen's University in Belfast and this is the same road taken by the entire Joseph Mifsud set-up that involves the BBC as a propaganda weapon. We stand on the brink of another Churchill replacing another Neville Chamberlain with Donald Trump election in 2016, and you had better hope that this time the loony left does not sweep away a person who will not allow a WWIII to develop. Churchill came in too late to stop WWII, but hopefully Trump came in at the Eleventh Hour to save humanity from a WWIII. Churchill was not a nice man or even someone who I could agree with in many ways, but he was the man of the hour, the man who stopped the insane looney left from enslaving us all. I am hoping that Trump will also stop this nonsense of a one world government under the dictatorship of socialist madmen. We have had enough of them.
Not Really A Fan
6/1/2020 07:30:28 am
Are you insane? Trump saving humanity? He's about to blunder his incompetent way into WWIII. What is wrong with you?
Mervyn Hagger
6/1/2020 08:45:49 am
No, but you must be in thinking that Hillary Clinton is okay as Chancellor of Queen's University. She's the one who paid for MI6 to invent the anti-Trump "pissing prostitutes" dossier and she is the one who was bribed by all those foreign governments and backed Obama sending over a plane load of printed bank notes to Iran to buy them off. That worked out okay, didn't it. Bit like paying off the Mafia or Hitler, or Mao, or some other thug. Blackmail never works.
Board Monitor
6/1/2020 07:55:39 am
Where are Sean and Barry W when you need them?
Sean
6/1/2020 08:35:43 am
i'm bored because just as iwas reading 'forestry commission' the tv news came on and i saw what 'forestry' was getting at. dont know how i missed the obvious before. i guess you really do reap what you sow when you plant trees next to houses and a drought comes along.
James McGregor
6/1/2020 03:36:55 pm
Why are Hurricane black spots always rebuilt with the same wood and bamboo that then inevitably blows away 12 months later.?
Mervyn Hagger
6/1/2020 04:47:29 pm
James, your recital reflects a true account of the non-functioning state of most human minds who could prevent such calamities, but they don't, but they do complain about the results. Worse still are the people who know that they can get away with deception to use and abuse other people in order to further their own financial well being..
Swervin Mervyn
6/1/2020 08:36:29 pm
'deception to use and abuse other people in order to further their own financial well being'. That's Trump in a nutshell.
Open your eyes
6/1/2020 08:10:44 am
From The Guardian: A British prime minister flies back from a Caribbean holiday where he has been, courtesy of millionaire friends, sunning himself on yachts while the Middle East is in flames and Britain in the grip of a security crisis. Britain’s key ally is accused of war crimes on foreign soil in a fight with Iran and its regional proxies. European opinion has quickly solidified around the idea that both sides show restraint. The British response is to defy this advice and endorse a belligerent US administration’s approach. Deja vu? It certainly should sound familiar.
Barry W
6/1/2020 08:41:00 am
Too early to open my eyes, I need more sleep. Trump obviously thinks that politicians are sleeping on the job and its time for action and not more blah, blah, blah. Clearly Iran is the source of trouble and having their general going around blowing up people and things unchecked is not a good idea. So he's dead. Pity the attempt on Hitler's life did not work, because a lot of British troops would not have died trying to stop his mad wars.
James McGregor
6/1/2020 04:15:13 pm
Thank you for opening our eyes to slabs of The Guardian Editorial when a simple link would have sufficed. Who's slabing up the slate now? My garden paths are all my own work with some foundation assistance from you tube
Mervyn Hagger
6/1/2020 10:41:09 am
Did anyone other than me watch Episode 3 of the Christine Keeler docudrama on TV last night?
Swervin Mervyn
6/1/2020 03:08:30 pm
Yes
Mervyn Hagger
6/1/2020 03:38:45 pm
What was your opinion of it? Did you see Episodes 1 & 2?
Swervin Mervyn
6/1/2020 04:10:45 pm
No.
Swervin Mervyn
6/1/2020 04:51:50 pm
Actually I did see 1 & 2. My opinion? Profumo's hair looks weird.
sean
6/1/2020 06:20:15 pm
Ive just seen the latest pro-iran show on bbc tv and they expect people to pay for a licence to watch this stuff? i reckon that iran is going to bit the dust like saddam's iraq. back in the50s britainand america topplied theiranian govenment andnow the sooner we do it again the better andwhile they are at it they need to free ireland fromlondon and eradicatebbc.
Swervin Mervyn
6/1/2020 06:37:09 pm
When you have learned how to construct a coherent sentence, get back to us.
Mervyn Hagger
6/1/2020 07:19:47 pm
Just a heads-up if you listen to Rush: President Trump is due on in about 15 minutes from now and Rush will be asking him all of the obvious questions and more.
Mervyn Hagger
6/1/2020 07:22:38 pm
Here is one of the links you can use to listen to Rush Limbaugh - its a local station in Louisiana. https://streamdb3web.securenetsystems.net/v5/KSYL
Mervyn Hagger
6/1/2020 07:32:35 pm
President Trump will be on with Rush as soon as the latest commercial break ends in a couple of minutes from now.
Swervin Mervyn
6/1/2020 07:33:45 pm
Perhaps he'll tell us how he's starting WWIII to divert attention from his impeachment proceedings.
Mervyn Hagger
6/1/2020 07:51:20 pm
Why are you not listening to President Trump to get first hand information? Because you are like all of the Ronan O'Rahilly cult idiots who believe in propaganda, you dare not consider the fact that the BBC and MI6 created the entire anti-Trump scenario. President Trump is still on - tune in! https://streamdb3web.securenetsystems.net/v5/KSYL
Mervyn Hagger
6/1/2020 08:05:55 pm
By the way, there are NO "impeachment proceedings". The have not been presented to the Senate. The entire thing is a hoax and a fraud, just like all those who say that Ronan O'Rahilly started Radio Caroline.
Swervin Mervyn
6/1/2020 08:06:12 pm
For the same reason I'm not listening to the sound of fingernails raking over a blackboard.
Mervyn Hagger
6/1/2020 08:07:37 pm
No, you mean that you are scared shitless that what I have told you is the truth.
Swervin Mervyn
6/1/2020 08:09:17 pm
Perhaps you'll visit him in jail, where he'll be sucking even more cock than he does for Fox News
Mervyn Hagger
6/1/2020 08:13:23 pm
No wonder the BBC and MI6 can get away with crap when scared cowards like you prop up their lies while hiding like a sniveling little twit behind a fake name - Adrian.
Swervin Mervyn
6/1/2020 08:16:45 pm
It may be your thruth but it isn't mine, and I am hardly likely to be scared shitless by anything you have to say.
James McGregor AKA Ella Stone 312
6/1/2020 07:45:34 pm
The National Lottery is now reinvented. Every citizen, Man Woman, Transgender or Child is entered in at not much data mining cost to the state. The Winning Senarios. One hundred a week will receive wealth and riches. Five hundred will be put to the painless stop and drop in the red phone box sword.
Mervyn Hagger
6/1/2020 07:53:11 pm
James - blow out the rubbish in your head and listen to something else: https://streamdb3web.securenetsystems.net/v5/KSYL
James McGregor
6/1/2020 08:18:16 pm
Yeah,Good One Mervyn. It is a fine line between evil genius and room one on one BW JM
Mervyn Hagger
6/1/2020 08:26:17 pm
Evil genius is Obama + MI6 + BBC. Room 101 in Orwellian is BBC. I noted your earlier comment about Charlie Wolf. He is/was one person who told the truth. Unfortunately no such individual existed between 1964-1967 who was in a position to know the truth about offshore radio and then tell us the truth. Instead we have crap upon crap upon crap all by self-glorifying authors who know nothing buy distortions and lies which they willingly relay to the gullible masses. Watch that Nazi movie 'Triumph of the Will' with the sound down and note the kids and the women in fawning love for Adolph Hitler. Of course in 1945 most of them who were still alive denied that they had ever supported Hitler, let alone worshiped him.
Swervin Mervyn
6/1/2020 08:39:10 pm
Like Trumpsters, you mean?
Kevin H
6/1/2020 08:35:42 pm
If you love Trump & America so much, why did you return to the UK?
Mervyn Hagger
6/1/2020 08:49:55 pm
I returned to complete a research project.
Testing 1.2,3
6/1/2020 09:31:15 pm
When the "research project" is complete sometime in 2020 then you are going back to the USA?No,thought not.XX
James Mcgregor
6/1/2020 08:36:08 pm
Were these these spoof commercials that Hank Hayes and Jim Nasium did not have time from the Bob Sherwood School of Broadcasting to to recuse from Weird Al Yancovic UHF Spatula City Station. Mega Love Fran Dresher - My Nanny of Choice
Mervyn Hagger
6/1/2020 08:53:04 pm
Lay off the booze and take your meds James. You are making no sense at all. Time for a new topic Mike, I am through with this one.
Swervin Mervyn
6/1/2020 09:04:30 pm
Whatever happened to Barry Spoon's book review? Maybe it's time for that.
James McGregor
6/1/2020 10:16:51 pm
Your dismissal to me is a shame.I came back from the liquor store and listened. I can see the interest in listening to others viewpoints which is why I used to like listening to far away radio stations in the first place. The Shawn Kennedy viewpoint is not really that different from our 5 live talk shows, a bit more shock jocky but that's it. I learnt nothing substantially new from him or the few phone calls from the top knowing CIA people! The commercials are incredibly parallax view to ours. Patriotic to Vets, Patronising to "Learning Development people" But that bastard Ricky Gervais gets on information overload and Shawn Kennedy's buddies are happy to ham it up with whatever Shawn tells them to say. There were some valid points Gervais made about, though a bit of damage limitation scripted for him? - creeepy
Mervyn Hagger
7/1/2020 07:29:21 am
James - I have no idea what you tuned in to, but it obviously was not Rush talking with President Trump for about 20 minutes on air. The link I provided was to a local radio station in Louisiana which carries many other programs as well as the Rush Limbaugh morning show for 3 hours Monday-Friday. To get GMT time just add 6 hours.since that local station is on Central Standard Time.
James McGregor
6/1/2020 10:37:09 pm
I think he would do better criticising his own stations commercials and the motive of their sponsors. I am thinking much more appreciatively of sewage treatment pension retirement and cat rescue.pets now. Lotto 649 Win and your talent will be taken out?
James McGregor
6/1/2020 11:08:35 pm
I am not thinking his name is Shawn Kennedy now, it is more likely to be Sean Hannity. Scottg will know and will liaise with you shortly with a dark suit a dole pole and a walker. James is in trouble with the IRS and his liver is garnished and overwhelmed with faux guilt. This is a public service announcement. Thank F u*K we dont live in the USA and have to suffer total shit radio stations like this one Mervyn Worships.
Mervyn Hagger
7/1/2020 07:33:35 am
Obviously you put booze first and listening second. By then the program I mentioned called the Rush Limbaugh Show had come and gone. So your comments about something else have no relationship to what I suggested you listened to which was a long segment in which President Trump called in to the Rush Limbaugh Show and they discussed the current situation with Iran among other things.
Mervyn Hagger
7/1/2020 09:17:28 am
James, you get everything wrong! Quote: "....we dont live in the USA and have to suffer total shit radio stations like this one Mervyn Worships." Rush Limbough is carried by over 600 radio stations Monday to Friday for 3 hours each morning (beginning at 5 pm UK time.) KYSL-AM is just one local station in Louisiana that I use to listen to him because KYSL streams all of their programs which I receive via Tune-In. I could use another station but I found that the stream sent out by KYSL is the most reliable on Tune-In for this purpose. Because it is a very LOCAL station in the central part of Louisiana, I might listen from 5 pm for about an hour or so while in the kitchen where I have a mini-transmitter relating the signal from my computer to a DAB set on the window ledge. Then, I switch off and either listen to something else or watch TV or go back to my computer or read a book or go out. In other words your interpretation, as usual is completely off course, and that is when you are trying to be sane!
Swervin Mervyn
7/1/2020 09:30:44 am
'Thank F u*K we dont live in the USA and have to suffer total shit radio stations like this one Mervyn Worships'......... Still a good point well made, though.
Mervyn Hagger
7/1/2020 08:00:44 am
James has just identified a big part of the problem in trying to communicate with anoraks - they think they know it all already - so anything discussed is analyzed by them according to their existing knowledge base. But anoraks are using damaged software - if their hard drive minds are still working that is - because their software is about Ronan O'Rahilly and how he created Radio Caroline - which of course he did not. At one time I tried to make sense out of the existing and known Radio Caroline Story, but the more I probed, the more I ran into dead ends. That is when I discovered that Ronan O'Rahilly did not just exaggerate - Ronan O'Rahilly made up his entire account about the creation of Radio Caroline. I discovered that it was not that he got the newspaper or magazine article about Caroline Kennedy wrong, it was that there never was such an event as the one he described and that the 'Caroline Kennedy Hoax' was not launched until the Spring of 1965. Then there is that stupid story about 'Jimmy' which has had lots of writers naming Ross Fisheries and Car Phone Warehouse and all manner of things trying to pin down this mythical 'Jimmy Ross'. But he never existed! That story is also a hoax. So I went back and looked at his claims about the Scene Club and even his so-called actor's studio and discovered embroidered stories to the point that they are totally fake. The same is true of the so-called private port at Greenore owned by Ronan O'Rahilly's father. Another fake story. This business about Ronan's love of the Kennedys is more rubbish. Same goes for all the nonsense about claiming identity with 'The O'Rahilly'. Fake, fake, fake. Ronan's dad was born near Brighton, England and he married an American citizen and bought plans for his house in Ireland from a New York department store. Ronan O'Rahilly is a fake, a fraud; a con man. To find out what really happened and who really created Radio Caroline it is necessary to start with a blank piece of paper and original research. That is what my team have been doing. That is not what Brian Lister did in 'Pirate Gold' nor what the author did in creating the ridiculous 'Caroline Bible'. So O'Rahilly's worshiping fans flock out to protect their sick saint and reveal that they are just a bunch of nincompoops who are no better than the worst of the worst 'God Hour' shows that once aired on Radio City - like A.A. Allen - who was an alcoholic and who died from the effects of his booze drinking. O'Rahilly may really be ill now, but he was driving his legions of fans round the bend into insanity by preaching his totally fake message about the start of Radio Caroline. This is a case of what goes around comes around, and now his fake stories are a part of his own real life. In other words his hard drive is genuinely faulty, but his operational software has now totally screwed him up. The best thing anoraks can do is get rid of the O'Rahilly software that they have installed in their own brains!
Swervin Mervyn
7/1/2020 10:00:08 am
Must you keep repeating the same thing over and over in practically every thread? We get it, Ronan was a con man. Wow, who knew??You've made your point. Now shut up.
Mervyn Hagger
7/1/2020 10:06:52 am
Since worshipers of the Caroline Cult ilk are so thick-headed, until they stop printing rubbish books containing the stuff you say "you get" (you obviously do not), then I will have to keep banging the drum for sanity, logic, reason and learning. Someone has to do it otherwise we will drown in O'Rahilly rubbish.
Swervin Mervyn
7/1/2020 10:55:15 am
The reality is that no-one is drowning or is likely to drown in 'O'Rahilly rubbish'. This is your obsession, not theirs. You can bang on about it as much as you like to a minute audience on an obscure internet forum which is of no interest or significance to all but a few who participate for a bit of sport, or to read what insane, illogical, unreasonable vitriol you have posted next. Sadly, you are a one trick pony, so the entertainment value is rapidly diminishing, like repeats of Dad's Army. Don't tell him your name, Adrian!
Mervyn Hagger
7/1/2020 11:20:39 am
You don't get it, do you Swervin Adrian et al? I post here for amusement and because I am actually writing a work that requires a certain amount of focused attention. So this is like taking momentary breaks from work. It also serves another purpose and that is it reveals the idiocy of the mindsets behind the O'Rahilly cult which until now has been very successful, because the dogma of O'Rahilly cultism is the only version of the story of Radio Caroline that exists - outside of academia, and some of that has also been contaminated by O'Rahilly bilge. The more you post the more you reveal yourself as a cultist. A true believer. Nothing will shake you. Yours is the mindset in other areas to die for 'Queen and Country'. You are a sad joke on your own life. Not once have any of your posts queried the factual account, they merely reflect personal attacks. If you think that what I am writing is wrong - point out my errors. I welcome critical reviews. Nonsense like James is well, just nonsense.
Swervin Mervyn
7/1/2020 11:41:39 am
If you have read the published version of the Caroline Bible you will see that the Kennedy myth regarding the naming of Radio Caroline is well and truly debunked, so that's your thunder stolen right there. You have read it, haven't you?
Mervyn Hagger
7/1/2020 11:57:33 am
Swervin you have swerved into how Mr Rusting took from my what I had given him, did no more research on his own and so he does not know the complete story and thus he cannot join up the dots. There is a lot more to that story and if Mr Rusting had been able to follow the trail, which he could not, he would be faced with a conundrum - Ronan's so-called love affair with the Kennedys was with two nutcases who almost brought on a nuclear WWIII and all of that is related to that same thread - the one that YOU know nothing about. Lots of people steal stuff from me but since they are only stealing and not doing the research work, they have no idea of the subject matter, and thus, neither do you.
Barry W
7/1/2020 12:39:53 pm
Mr S.M. Do you know the rest of the story that Mervyn is alluding to or are you only aware of what is in the Caroline Bible?
sean
7/1/2020 12:42:39 pm
i thinkth at tickhas tocked swervinstick
Swerving Mervyn
7/1/2020 01:33:09 pm
I am aware of all that has been published thus far. When Mervyn stops just saying this is rubbish and that is rubbish, and backs his stories up with some evidence then he will have some credibility. In the meantime he is revelling in 'I know something you don't', and that's how he likes it so that he can call people thick, idiots, etc and continue with his holier than thou attitude. Any sane person would publish their book which can stand on it's own merits, but no, he has to keep on and on spouting the same old tripe. Any sane person would pick a passage in a published work with which he disagrees and explain why he disagrees with evidence. He won't do that, of course, because if he does then why buy his book? Other authors have just gone to print, but no, he has to lash out at everyone else without actually producing anything. He has history. Ask him about his failed Falkirk radio and press enterprises.
Swerving Mervyn
7/1/2020 01:39:15 pm
Mervyn - have you read the whole of the published version of the Radio Caroline Bible, yes or no? And it's Rusling, not Rusting btw.
Mervyn Hagger
7/1/2020 01:47:40 pm
Swervin, aka Mr Rusting? Seems like you know a little about the limited source material used in the Caroline Bible in the section under question. Maybe you already said too much.
Swervin Mervyn
7/1/2020 02:04:15 pm
Not another of your impersonation theories, please, but a nice try at diversion. I know about the material used in the Bible only because I have read it, and I know about your much publicised spat over the inclusion, or not, of your work and credits. I repeat, have you read the whole of the published version of the Radio Caroline Bible, yes or no?
Testing 1.2,3
7/1/2020 10:31:16 am
No wonder my friend likened a certain poster to a "Thrush".
Barry W
7/1/2020 11:24:16 am
Give it a rest mate, or write something constructive. Your testing tick tock stuff is daft.
Testing 1.2,3
7/1/2020 12:37:20 pm
Every thread gets hijacked by the same person saying the same over and over pushing a never to be published novel and I get asked to "give it a rest" .!I could post lots of constructive comments believe me but it's pointless as we all know where the topic will end up.
Barry W
7/1/2020 12:47:07 pm
Well to be fair you keep saying he is writing and novel and he says that he is not. So why not just stick to the facts presented and comment on them?
sean
7/1/2020 12:49:27 pm
tocktick its allgoin backwards
Barry W
7/1/2020 12:59:10 pm
Look Sean I am trying to get Mr SM to explain whether he knows more than what is in the Caroline Bible. Testing is going on about a novel that Mervyn says he is not writing and you are incoherently plastering tick tock all over the place. Do us all a favour and SHUT UP
sean
7/1/2020 01:00:48 pm
to c kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
sean
7/1/2020 11:26:57 am
milllions ofwords ago testingwas ticking but iths now tocked
Testing 1.2,3
7/1/2020 12:54:48 pm
Time is my side, not his, as all those who have been sucked in by his blustering will see.
Barry W
7/1/2020 01:29:48 pm
Testing that only makes sense if you are writing a novel and he is not but you keep goading him to write one. So when is your novel going to be published and what is it all about?
sean
7/1/2020 01:31:24 pm
wheres yourtick tock
Mervyn Hagger
7/1/2020 01:50:34 pm
Buried up above in texts 'Swervin' has just provided some clues as to his identity. He appears to be none other than Mr Rustling.
Barry W
7/1/2020 01:51:49 pm
What makes you think that 'Swervin' is Paul Rusling?
sean
7/1/2020 01:53:18 pm
well illbe tickedif nottocked sowho is testingthe ticktock
Kevin H
7/1/2020 09:21:44 pm
Madness
Swervin Mervyn
7/1/2020 02:09:02 pm
Believe what you like, but I can assure you that I am not. It doesn't say much for your forensical investigative jornalism if that's the kind of conclusion you come to, based on no evidence or inference whatsoever.. As above, have you read the whole of the published version of the Radio Caroline Bible, yes or no?
Mervyn Hagger
7/1/2020 02:23:29 pm
Swervin Paul, you have provided a LOT of clues about your indentity. You know why I object to the crazy title of your book because it furthers a myth, and I also know where your limited information came from regarding the Caroline Kennedy hoax. It came from first hand contact with me. That is why I asked you to remove my name from the credits to your book. But you also got upset when I would not hand everything to you on a silver platter. So you have a smidgen of the story, not the whole story. For that you will have to wait a little longer.
Mervyn Hagger
7/1/2020 02:26:58 pm
Regarding the part of interest to me that relates to 1964-1968. Yes.
Swervin Mervyn
7/1/2020 03:56:52 pm
I will say this once more. I am NOT Paul Rusling, you paranoid idiot. I don't know what 'clues' you purport to have which lead you to that conclusion, but you are very much mistaken. I will hold my hands up and tell you that I posted here as 'Teenage Kicks' at the top of this thread to avoid an attack and to hopefully make some reasonable comment on the topic at hand. From that you will see that I was born in 1952 and I am from Essex...... So you haven't read the whole of the Bible. In that case you are in no position to comment, as you have done previously, on whether there is a Ronan blood line or not. Read the book and you might learn something.
Barry W
7/1/2020 04:51:18 pm
I don't know if you are Paul Rusling or whether you were born when and where you say you were. I have no way of knowing because no one can verify who you are. But to then attack Mervyn because he has not read the entire book which has no connection to his line of interest is ridiculous. He says that Radio Caroline died in 1967. If he believes that and has proof for his statement then clearly there cannot be a Ronan thread that continues after 1967 that is connected to 1964. I suggest you stick to the facts and not to personal attacks.
Swervin Mervyn
7/1/2020 05:10:23 pm
Barry W - There have been many incarnations of Caroline in which Ronan has been involved. What constitutes Caroline? A company? A person? A spirit? A call sign? Who's facts? Who's truths? I just don't see why it is deemed necessary to be so insulting to those involved in Caroline and to make unfounded accusations against the past and current custodians. Indeed, why not stick to the facts instead of using terms like 'rusting hulk', 'tinpot radio station' etc. That's where the attacks started, and as soon as anyone declares that they are a supporter they become a target.
Swervin Cretin
7/1/2020 02:26:27 pm
Paul Rusting can't spell, had no proof reader and claims other people's work as his own. The pictures were on occasion very poor and the same points repeated. Well that is what Brian Spoons told me.
Barry W
7/1/2020 02:28:37 pm
Mr Spoons knows what he is talking about.
Swervin Mervyn
7/1/2020 04:04:28 pm
Yes, there is some repetition and typos and I agree with regard to the quality of some of the photos. I found the content interesting and informative, particularly as relayed by people who were actually there. It is a good attempt to tell the whole of the Caroline story and the disputed section will no doubt be the focus of Mervyn's book when it is published later this year. Unlike Mervyn, I tend to read a complete work before I feel qualified to criticise the whole thing and dismiss it as rubbish.
Mervyn Hagger
7/1/2020 04:59:49 pm
I wasn't going to bother to respond until I read Barry W's comment. What he says is true. Rusling's book is a fraud by is cover. There is no O'Rahilly thread. Radio Caroline which O'Rahilly did not start, died in 1967. End of. Paul tried to argue with me by email that I had the 'Jimmy' story all wrong and that it was essentially a true story. It is not. It is bunk. But then I did not tell Paul what the true story is, so Paul got upset with me over that. But I found the entire concept of being bushwacked by Paul to be offensive since he and I spent time together chatting away more than once in person, and then by email, but I did not know that he had an ulterior motive. I later learned that he wanted to publish the book I am working on as part of a team of researchers. He then decided to go ahead and construct this 'Caroline Bible' nonsense. I disowned it the moment Hans Knott started promoting it with my name attached. I got Paul to remove my name. The reason I can tell you that Ronan O'Rahilly is a con artist and a fraud, is the same reason I can tell you that the 'Caroline Bible' is a ridiculous concept book containing factual error.
Juliet Bravo to Zero James
7/1/2020 04:25:12 pm
Wherefore art thou Wetherspoons
sean
7/1/2020 05:16:02 pm
weathertock weathertick plop
James Rambo Mervyn McGregor
7/1/2020 04:58:55 pm
Still in Kenya Coffee Colonel, hiding in the past unable to contemporary communicate on the 2 way reality at the throw of the spear that Major Minor Mervyn might be right. The North Sea, Nam, the Gulf between us. I fought damn hard for that ship and our leadership and our free way of life Colonel. Now I have been scrapped up, a mentally scarred rusty hulk, hunted down and hiding in a cave talking to ding ding bats and listening to Rush Limbore
sean
7/1/2020 05:18:22 pm
jamesatick jamesatock jamesatick jamesatock plop
James Rambo to Sergeant Shawn Wood
7/1/2020 06:15:13 pm
Colonel Pouting Trout. Man we were once not in the EU. And from the repeal of the corn laws until WW1 we had unilateral free trade with rest the earth and were the richest and most powerful nation on earth. It was not a coincidence. The politicians and other people who run things destroy prosperity to maintain their power and we should have the sense to see that the EU does not create a net silver slice ingot of gold standard of living wealth for anyone, but is a bunch of MPs on a lavish gravy train paid for by the rest of us. The signallers and lamplighters. The tobacco fiends, the alcoholics, the cal pol vaping car pool nuisances and the ironically named benefit claimants. They are all one and the same to them and are not allowed in the even more moronically named public transport first class seats. Either you have got a plane or train ticket (long cruise ships a bit different) or you have not. I can see these things and I don't want to watch any more C Keeler reviews or reruns of Barry and Shauns tick tock Home Improvements. I like Al Bundy Married with Children and regrets it and Fool House with wise monkey Charlie Sheen and I gather Hart to Hart is making an unwelcome comeback with the transgender butler Maxine saving Mr and Mr H to yestertec detective another day. Riding on the Root 66 Freeway to 6 - 4 -8
James Rambo to Sean
7/1/2020 06:56:41 pm
Me the James, who contributes to your lear
sean
7/1/2020 06:58:42 pm
spikesaid stringis strong but ropeis thicker. tick tock aroundtheclock
James McGregor to James McGregor (hic!)
7/1/2020 07:04:20 pm
Insult not thus the meek and low;
Barry W
7/1/2020 07:11:51 pm
Swervin, can we get back to the what Mr Rusling has written concerning the origin of the Caroline name?
Swervin Mervyn
7/1/2020 07:32:53 pm
Well, you had a go at me earlier, so I suggest you buy the book if you want to find out.
Barry W
7/1/2020 07:38:05 pm
I thought that you might want to discuss the issues.
Swervin Mervyn
7/1/2020 08:17:49 pm
I'd be glad to, but I know how it will end.
Hotpoint Washing Machine
7/1/2020 07:42:22 pm
I have not written any of these instruction books in many languages to cause bush fires in any language.
James McGregor to Hotmpoint Washing Machine
7/1/2020 08:31:39 pm
How many dirty clothes include a sheet
Rusting Rake
7/1/2020 08:45:22 pm
Well, Swervin says he will discuss issues but knows the ending before the beginning then Testing knows that a novel won't be written by a writer who says he is not writing one and James prattles on about washing machines and Sean joins in a chorus with Testing singing tick tock and then there is the subject of the thread that no one wants to write about except Mike and Mervyn who might as well write to each other by email while everyone else puts down their heads to study their anorak Bible with dictionary in one hand and a magnifying glass in the other hand.
Mervyn, once again you get numerous replies, and give VERY LITTLE info. It is very well known that you dispise ROH, and Peter Moore of the current Caroline Organisation. Remember the early 90's Caroline Franchise suggestion, that was turned down? Or your quest for info regarding Ian Cowper Ross - circa 2003? Do your self a favour, if you really had an article (or articles) published in newspapers, regarding offshore radio, many years ago, it was in the interest of public domain then, then WHY not know? Post the article, (should they exist), to get the respect of those who doubt you. Do yourself a favour (American spelling). Scottg.
Scott-gee-wiz
8/1/2020 06:56:27 am
I have it on good authority that Mervyn is actually Peter Moore's publicity agent. The plan is to stir up controversy to bring attention to the Ross Revenge. Same goes for the Caroline Bible which has the backing of Peter Moore, but its author does not know of this plan. Without publicity the 648 venture will wither and die, so next time you see mention of Mervyn by people attacking him look closely and you will find a pattern that of comments that all go round in a circle. "James" who posts under many names is also 'in' on their game. Don't fall for the outrage about comments concerning ROR, they were planted to get response from people like Fred Bramley and others. Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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