I haven’t had a Monday morning rant for a while so I thought that today would be a good a day as any to have one. First off, I should let everyone know I do have my cranky pants on this morning. You have been dutifully warned.
The reason I have my cranky pants on is because I was woken up at 02:00 this morning.
While I accept the noises of the city in my stride after all, it is a trade off for living where I do, today was a little different.
Usually the noises of the city don’t bother me, and if they do happen to wake me up, I can just roll over and shuffle off back to the land of nod without too much of a hassle.
Not this morning.
Today, it was a 02:00 fire alarm coming from the building next door. You know that annoying bell that once it gets inside your head, it just keeps going and going and going. Then came the evacuation tone. As soon as I heard that I didn’t even try going back to sleep because I knew that it wouldn’t be too long before the lights and sirens from the BRT’s that belong to the QFRS came screaming down the street.
Sure enough, they weren’t too far away, and I could hear the sirens in the distance getting closer. The funny thing is that once the two BRT’s got into the street, they turned the sirens off, so all I was left with was the flashing lights. Those of you that know me, know I am always distracted and mesmerised by flashing lights and shiny things, and even though it was a little after 2AM, today was no different…
Anyway, thankfully it was a false alarm, and they trundled off on their way, once they had the issue sorted.
I breathed a sigh of relief and thought I would be able to get back to sleep again. So I fluffed up my pillow, grabbed by Humprey B Bear teddy and closed my eyes…
I swear only 2 minutes had passed and the fire alarm went off again, then came the sound of the BRT’s. Though looking at the time, it was about 45 mins. Only BRT turned up, and left shortly after. Thinking that this was the end of it again, I settled back down to attempt to get a few more hours of slumber before the day began. Except for some reason, the lords of slumber had other ideas, and the fire alarm proceeded to go off every 45 mins to hour, and is still going. This time the BRT’s didn’t turn up, though I have seen one parked in the street as they try to help the property manager fix the problem.
Now that I have that off my chest, here comes my rant.
If I get one more message through Facebook about signing a petition to get rid of Kyle Sandilands, I am going to have a meltdown.
Seriously people. This is the sort of attention that he wants, and is actually good for him. Remember he is a Shock Jock, and as such the more people that are complaining about him the better.
Now I can’t say that I have actually listened to one of his radio shows, and frankly don’t really care what he says. Which is the same way that other people should be too. If him or his co-host say something that has upset you, don’t listen to the show. If you are listening to see what he might say that is upsetting, then you really have no one to blame except yourself.
If you really want to get him off Australian airwaves, then ignore him. No matter what he says or does, or how controversial he tries to be, ignore him. If he is ignored for long enough, his ratings will drop because no one finds it offensive any more and he may just fade away into obscurity…
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