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Old 20-12-2016, 21:53
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She often calls Duncan Barkes on BBC London, she sounds much the same as ever.
That's good to know .... glad she's still on the air
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Old 22-12-2016, 13:09
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I've been listening to Nick this evening and, as usual, the show seems so slow-paced and dull.

The first half of the programme was spent discussing 'excess packaging' on food products in supermarkets, which I'm sure is another of those topics that Nick has covered multiple times before now. It just didn't make for an interesting debate at all.

Since then he's been going on and on about Southern Rail and driverless trains etc. Slightly more interesting than the packaging chat, but still nobody has said anything particularly thought provoking and combined with Nick's silly sound-effects it just makes the whole show so utterly missable IMO.
q agree
well past his sell by date
not funny.
horrid whiney voice.
awful sound affects.
a real marmite presenter
love or hate...personally cant stand
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Old 23-12-2016, 00:44
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q agree
well past his sell by date
not funny.
horrid whiney voice.
awful sound affects.
a real marmite presenter
love or hate...personally cant stand
I don't love or hate him, but I used to 'love' him back in the old days.

These days I just think he's very very boring and unworthy of a show.
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Old 23-12-2016, 08:43
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NA is a breath of fresh air on such a stuffy station. If only once he could do a week of breakfast shows. Is it wrong to wish a bout of laryngitis on NF.....
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Old 23-12-2016, 09:09
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Nick Abbot used to be a breath of fresh air. These days he is as stale as the air in a pub toilet.
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Old 23-12-2016, 09:19
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He is one of the few on LBC to oppose this Brexit nonsense, probably because he has a better education than all the rest of the Daily Mail clowns on that station put together.

Long may he continue.
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Old 23-12-2016, 09:25
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I did start to get a bit fed up of the Brexit/Trump shows every week (I subscribe to the podcasts for Nick alone and it was getting a bit samey). Last weekend's episodes were good though and Nick sounded happier.

I'm sure there will be plenty to talk about next year though!
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Old 23-12-2016, 13:47
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q agree
well past his sell by date
not funny.
horrid whiney voice.
awful sound affects.
a real marmite presenter
love or hate...personally cant stand
I used to really like Nick 'in his day' but you're right. He's nudging 60 and he's still playing those sound effects.

Hasn't moved with the times one bit.
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Old 23-12-2016, 20:08
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He is one of the few on LBC to oppose this Brexit nonsense, probably because he has a better education than all the rest of the Daily Mail clowns on that station put together.

Long may he continue.
He completed a degree in psychology at Brunel University and admits that he's forgotten most of what he studied. That's probably because he spent a lot of his time on the student radio station before moving to the Virgin Megastore as a DJ.

I'd rather "educated" people like that get off their high horse and become more grounded in reality. Educated doesn't equate to intelligence, you know, and it's wrong to say he opposes "this Brexit nonsense because he has a better education than all the rest" because that's an extremely simplistic way of looking at it. Ian Collins nor Darren Adam went to university, but both have opposing views.

As he's presented music shows on commercial stations before I don't think it shows that his degree did him much good in the intelligence stakes.

If he returned to what he's good at (i.e. not talking about politics) he might be worth listening to again. As he is now, he appears to sound redundant and should look for an opportunity on another station.
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Old 23-12-2016, 20:54
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The listener figures differ from a half dozen of you who dislike his radio skills now. Like to see some of you crack on with nicks years of radio experience. Long may he continue on LBC...
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Old 23-12-2016, 21:32
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The listener figures differ from a half dozen of you who dislike his radio skills now. Like to see some of you crack on with nicks years of radio experience. Long may he continue on LBC...
As I've said on this thread I loved Nick, i'm a big fan. I enjoyed Nick on LBC up until when we decided on brexit and since then he just hasn't seemed the same. It's s shame as when Nick is on form he's by far one of the greatest broadcasters this country has.
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Old 23-12-2016, 22:22
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Once again, his show tonight is all talking the same old nonsense about Trump and Brexit.

Zzzzzzzzzzzz -_-
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Old 23-12-2016, 22:59
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as i predicted,tuned in 5 different times and everytime he's bloody on about trump or brexit !! get lost nick BORING. used to look forward to these shows

Last edited by fast left : 23-12-2016 at 23:00. Reason: i hate it !
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Old 23-12-2016, 23:41
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as i predicted,tuned in 5 different times and everytime he's bloody on about trump or brexit !! get lost nick BORING. used to look forward to these shows
I completely agree.
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Old 23-12-2016, 23:47
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As I've said on this thread I loved Nick, i'm a big fan. I enjoyed Nick on LBC up until when we decided on brexit and since then he just hasn't seemed the same. It's s shame as when Nick is on form he's by far one of the greatest broadcasters this country has.
Unfortunately, he's like a racehorse that's best days are behind it. Occasionally a bit of the old form shows through, but more often than not, he's going through the motions.
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Old 24-12-2016, 00:47
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It strikes me that virtually everything about the show is stuck in a year 1999 time warp.

The South Park sound effects are a good example of this, but especially Nick's persistence in calling the internet the 'world wide wait'. Why does he do this STILL? It wasn't that clever or witty even in 1999 when all of us were struggling with dial-up, but since the early 2000s most people switched to Broadband and now many of us are on Super-fast Fibre packages and so the internet is anything but slow.

It's stupid.
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Old 24-12-2016, 01:08
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At least he doesn't refer to 'Youtube you tube" or "Twittweets" anymore...
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Old 24-12-2016, 02:31
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Earlier he read out a text from someone complaining about him endlessly going on about Trump and she was called a moron. What a wonderful man!
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Old 24-12-2016, 04:56
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At least from tonight he's doing the A-Z of 2016 so he won't have much time to rant about Brexit and Trump
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Old 24-12-2016, 08:10
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Well I love him

Interesting listening to the city banker who had become a teacher and voted leave who lives in Dulwich last night
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Old 24-12-2016, 08:16
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Can the Grinch please give us back the real Nick Abbot back? Pre 1996 please.
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Old 24-12-2016, 10:03
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Earlier he read out a text from someone complaining about him endlessly going on about Trump and she was called a moron. What a wonderful man!
He read out a text from someone called B about 40 mins into the show complaining about him going on about Trump. He didn't call them a moron he just said the text was moronic. Is that the text you were on about?
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Old 24-12-2016, 12:11
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It strikes me that virtually everything about the show is stuck in a year 1999 time warp.

The South Park sound effects are a good example of this, but especially Nick's persistence in calling the internet the 'world wide wait'. Why does he do this STILL? It wasn't that clever or witty even in 1999 when all of us were struggling with dial-up, but since the early 2000s most people switched to Broadband and now many of us are on Super-fast Fibre packages and so the internet is anything but slow.

It's stupid.
At least he doesn't refer to 'Youtube you tube" or "Twittweets" anymore...

And they are the reasons why I like him!

I love all the silly sound effects and phrases he uses.

I do think he could change his topics as Brexit & Trump are tedious now but I suspect he keeps going back to them because he gets the calls in. There is obviously still an interest as he is never short of participants.
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Old 24-12-2016, 12:27
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And they are the reasons why I like him!

I love all the silly sound effects and phrases he uses.
To understand certain aspects of Nick"s show and the sound effects and the phrases he uses you have to listen to the excellent Neil Rogers (R.I.P) who you can hear he is heavily influenced by. Neil would also had topics that he seemed fascinated by and would carry through many shows, the only difference with Neil's shows were that he got away with way more than you would on British radio station......I also love the sound effects...and the general style of the show. To people who don't then go and listen to something else instead.
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Old 24-12-2016, 13:46
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. . . To people who don't then go and listen to something else instead.
Well that's what we are doing, however, thre is this transitional period where we're in mourning for how entertaining he used to be and we're checking back to hear if he's regained his previous attraction. Sadly, he hasn't and now I don't listen to him as I've given up any hope.
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