Comments on: Platitude of the Day

By: I suppose

I suppose — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:29:56 +0000

Perhaps pointless to not have a clever remark of your own, but this is what I think: Valdemar: “Excellent stuff! TFTD is a real pain in the ear, just the sort of waffle, cant and special pleading you don’t need when you’re setting off for work. I often want to slap the contributors for their mediocre reasoning, smug arrogance, and general unwillingness to consider that they might be wrong or ignorant.”

Indeed!!!

By: Angela K

Angela K — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:22:47 +0000

Well done Mr Hearty! There is also a ‘god slot’ on BBC Radio 2 every morning that always has me screaming abuse at the wireless. Why Radio 2 & 4, what about the other channels? Radio 3 is mainly free of this bilge but does have ‘Free Thought’

By: Stuart H.

Stuart H. — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:01:38 +0000

Another advantage of Platitude of the Day over TFTD – you can talk back! Some days the comments section is as funny as the ‘main event’.
BTW – over here (Isle of Man) we got humanists on to the local radio equivalent of TFTD 2 years ago, and because that worked they’re opening up the slot to other groups – like Amnesty International for the week including Human Rights Day. We get 1 minute 40 secs, which also makes it shorter and sharper.
Fully support Peter’s idea for TFTD – ordinary people giving a view over here certainly makes for better radio and bigger audiences, by the station’s own research.

By: Valdemar

Valdemar — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:40:16 +0000

Excellent stuff! TFTD is a real pain in the ear, just the sort of waffle, cant and special pleading you don’t need when you’re setting off for work. I often want to slap the contributors for their mediocre reasoning, smug arrogance, and general unwillingness to consider that they might be wrong or ignorant. For me, an Atkins diet would be less of that bloody woman on the wireless.