It is horrible. If someone on the radio played a prank like that on me, I personally would not care about myself. However, I would care about my loved ones' reactions if they hear the news. Some people have actually been taken to the hospital for adverse reactions to bad news. A likely scenario would be someone fainting and hitting his/her head on a table/chair on the way down to meeting the ground. This actually happened to my friend's dad, and he was in the hospital for a month.
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It is horrible. If someone on the radio played a prank like that on me, I personally would not care about myself. However, I would care about my loved ones' reactions if they hear the news. Some people have actually been taken to the hospital for adverse reactions to bad news. A likely scenario would be someone fainting and hitting his/her head on a table/chair on the way down to meeting the ground. This actually happened to my friend's dad, and he was in the hospital for a month.
postmortemIA
Diamond Member
That is great, the consumers need to learn few lessons.
AMDZen
Lifer
I work downtown so yea, I see them daily. They always have a huge smile on their face, more then I can say for a lot of people who have to live the daily grind.
All I'm saying is that everyone see's them as the victim, and "oh poor homeless people" but maybe they really do enjoy their lives. Its not like I'm telling everyone here to agree with me or even expect anyone to share my opinion. I just wanted to throw it out there.
Considering that the Gap wouldn't even let them in the doors, I don't think it made it any better. But to not do anyting isn't any better either. At least the listening community got a reminder that there are homeless people still out there. And these homeless now have some money to buy warm clothes, and some food. If they use it for booze then that is their right.
Turin39789
Lifer
LOL
yes you are right Howard did start it. He is the pioneer of shock radio. The fact that it has a name means something. It could almost be considered a genre. So does that mean that mean that since Charlie Chaplin defined the comedy Genre in movies, everyone else is a Pretender?
Get over it. Howard called Bubba the Love Sponge a rip-off too. Now look where he is. He is working with Howard.
boomer6447
Senior member
Exactly the point....dopey and acneothy haven't had an original thought EVAR....
boomer6447
Senior member
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yes you are right Howard did start it. He is the pioneer of shock radio. The fact that it has a name means something. It could almost be considered a genre. So does that mean that mean that since Charlie Chaplin defined the comedy Genre in movies, everyone else is a Pretender?
Get over it. Howard called Bubba the Love Sponge a rip-off too. Now look where he is. He is working with Howard.
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I agree with you to a point...any kind of morning talk radio is deemed a rip-off by howard, and your analogy about charlie chaplin is a good one... but what specifically honks me off about these two is the total lack of respect for his acheivements, and how they use him to get ratings...(albeit small ratings)..If you tune into o and a for more than 30 minutes they WILL be talking about howard...
yes you are right Howard did start it. He is the pioneer of shock radio. The fact that it has a name means something. It could almost be considered a genre. So does that mean that mean that since Charlie Chaplin defined the comedy Genre in movies, everyone else is a Pretender?
Get over it. Howard called Bubba the Love Sponge a rip-off too. Now look where he is. He is working with Howard.
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I agree with you to a point...any kind of morning talk radio is deemed a rip-off by howard, and your analogy about charlie chaplin is a good one... but what specifically honks me off about these two is the total lack of respect for his acheivements, and how they use him to get ratings...(albeit small ratings)..If you tune into o and a for more than 30 minutes they WILL be talking about howard...
boomer6447
Senior member
golly, gee willikers, maybe when you grow up you can listen to real radio....
shortspanishguy
Banned
The Sybian > O&A
I laughed. Look, they brought fvcking homeless people to an upscale mall, you know, where rich people go to pretend homeless people don't exist. If you don't understand that concept then you are dumber than shock radio. People with money move away from problems, which is their right, but ignoring the problem is just as evil as O&A making fun of the problem. Think about it for a sec. And who won out? The homeless people did, they got some free sh!t at the cost of their pride, which they probably do not have considering they beg other people for money on a regular basis.
Red Dawn
Elite Member
They'd probably have brought along another additional thousand listeners. I wonder when Sirius finally buys out XM what they'll do? If like Bubba they suck up to Howard he might cut them some slack and put them on his optional third channel..that's if he actually acknowledges them. Of course if they couldn't knock Howard they'd run out of material.
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