i really have nothing to add to what you've said except to agree with your disgust.
that is so sad and so awful.
a new low
.
As usual, when I got up this morning the radio in the kitchen was tuned to the vile, music-for-the-lobotomised easy listening station that my beloved enjoys over breakfast (mystifying, given the excellence of her musical taste in so many other areas). I listened to the DJ laughing at a story about a company in Bosnia (I think?) that has resorted to paying its employees in pigs because cash is short.
Maybe I'm being over-sensitive, but his complacent chuckling - with its characteristic British "aren't foreigners funny?" undertone - made my blood boil. How unthinking, insensitive and downright shitty is it to laugh at someone else's hardship like this?
Put yourself in those employees' shoes. Your economy is fucked, you're grateful to have a job at all, your employer's fortunes look uncertain and due to a lack of hard cash you're being asked to support your family by being given live animals for slaughter or barter. And then some over-paid, over-privileged, under-informed dimwit laughs at you and says "hey, that's really cute... pigs, huh... gosh, what will you wacky Bosnians think of next?" Wouldn't that make you feel really good?
Sometimes I despair.
Posted by Hg on Wednesday 26 June 2002 at 11:39.
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Re: Magic FM - yes, it is terrible. Yes, it is bloody awful to listen to in the mornings. But - as I have said before - on a Friday night, when you've had a nightmarishly hectic week, there is little better than going to sleep to the soothing middle-of-the-road sounds of . . . well, you get the picture.
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