Why do people call radio phone ins?

[roydo]

Its been a beef of mine for a while now. Not just footie ones, but in general. I mean, if you are an expert in a particular field that is being discussed, then fair enough I guess, but what sort of person seriously thinks that anyone else is remotely interested in their (often plain daft) opinions on abortion, fox hunting, etc etc etc.

Baffles me.

 

[Tubey]

For the very same reason you talk about Everton on an internet forum.

 

[harry]

People who ring in post match radio shows and have nothing to say, they just talk nonsense and don't make any sense. Surely they have thought about what they are going to say before they dial.

 

[Tubey]

People who ring in post match radio shows and have nothing to say, they just talk nonsense and don't make any sense. Surely they have thought about what they are going to say before they dial.

But the same could be said for the GrandOldTeam match thread, or Twitter, Facebook etc.

A radio phone-in is basically facilitates communal interactions on a common topic. There's very little difference between a radio phone in and an internet forum; only the methods used to interact are different.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

For the very same reason you talk about Everton on an internet forum.

To be fair though, we all hide behind usernames I mean I bet Neiler wouldn't go on a phone in and say how great Charlie Adam was using his real name.

 

[roydo]

For the very same reason you talk about Everton on an internet forum.

That is an interesting point, which I had not actually considered!

On reflection, I guess I feel part of a community, of sorts, on here, a bit like your local pub, with kind of one to one conversations. To call a phone in, you actually think your opinion is valued to 3 or 4 million people, which takes some kind of delusional thinking, IMO.

 

[TX Bill]

There is a show here in the USA on Sirius 94 called Counterattack and is hosted by ex USA internationals John Harkes and Tony Meola.

They were talking about Fellaini to Chelsea so I called in and told them that it wasn't happening unless Chelsea coughed up around 40M (this was over a month ago). They laughed until I mentioned Andy Carroll's fee to Liverpool.

They found my point a bit more reasonable after that.

 

[TheNiz]

A radio station was running a competition for anyone who could name an english word not in the dictionairy. This was a time before live radio had a time delay, and these words may have since been added to the dictionairy. One man rang and proposed the word "Goan". The radio presenter asked him to use it in a sentence. He replied "Goan get F*****". Shocked, the presenters immediately hung up on the man and apologised to their listeners. A few minutes later the phone rang again, and the caller proposed the word "Smee". Again, the presenter asked him to use it in a sentence. "Smee again. Goan get F*****"

 

[Brennan]

That is an interesting point, which I had not actually considered!

On reflection, I guess I feel part of a community, of sorts, on here, a bit like your local pub, with kind of one to one conversations. To call a phone in, you actually think your opinion is valued to 3 or 4 million people, which takes some kind of delusional thinking, IMO.

You just have to feel like you have something to add to the conversation, nothing delusional.