(Guest Author: Peter Moore)
I am glad that Christopher England has reopened this discussion [about radio ‘anoraks’](here). It enables me to explain some things and clarify some others.
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| A modern day transistor radio |
It is fine to like Radio Caroline or not to like it. In the second case, don’t listen, don’t assist us. Listen to something else.
In the first case listen and enjoy, be our guests. If you like Radio Caroline a lot, you can donate to help us continue and we in turn will work for no wages to provide the entertainment, repair our boat and hope to be able to use it for a worthwhile purpose. There is no obligation at all, what we do and what our supporters do is all a matter of free choice.
It is all so delightfully simple and it works.
It has been suggested that I have ‘turned’ on the supporters, absolutely not, I love them. The vast majority do not even feel the need to make contact. The few that do, write sensible leters and I make sensible replies. But we need to define ‘supporters’. Supporters provide support, observers, just observe.
I’m not even targeting anoraks who just look on. Radio Caroline devised the phrase and it now has passed in to general useage as someone with a unusually strong interest in any specialist subject, but mostly interests of mature males and mostly mechanical and historic such as old trains, machines, buses, aircraft and Pirate Radio.
The problem is with the small number of Megoraks, Madoraks and Dementoraks, for whom a completely acceptable interest in Pirate Radio has assumed a towering importance in their lives.
Christopher England has suggested that these people are dangerous to Radio Caroline, even if they are in favour of the station.
He is correct in part. In practical terms they are not dangerous since they are small in number and I doubt that they actually contribute anything to the station financially or materially.
But now we are dealing with 71 MP’s in our attempt to gain a decent AM frequency. I will not go in to the precise details of why we feel this is deserved. The info is on our web site (here). MP’s are intelligent and mostly ‘normal’.
The danger is if they get a letter written in green ink on lined paper torn from a notebook, saying ‘Peter Moor is an traytor. He did take THE LADY from her writeful plaice in the sea which is FREE and did do a deal with the DTI who are the ‘Dasturdly Terribule Infidels”.
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| The Lady in Red (and other colours too) |
Conversely, ‘Peter Moor is an heroe, he did save THE LADY. Now she must have an licence for an Million Watts. Johnie Walkah did say ‘Radio Caroline belonges to yew and she loves you’ so Radio Caroline does belong to me, cos he said so, and now I want you to get a licence so we can beam our signal to a free and peaceful nation. Oh yes’.
In each case the MP says ‘Oh my word, these people are raving mad’. Because…. they are.
So, that is the problem, this handful of people with nick names like ‘Mi Amigo Rudder Bearing’ or ‘Mebo 2 Hand Basin’, who inhabit these strange message boards that have sprung up.
For a while, quite a long while in fact, I posted on these sites, based on the fact that I like to write and the hope that the board members might be interested in some hard facts. But they did not like my facts since they did not fit their impressions of the truth. In the end I realised that I was fighting a hopeless cause and that my very involvement may suggest that I was part of the general lunacy. So I quit.
Even here, the Derangeoraks could not take this in. ‘Hah,’ they said ‘We have FLUSHED HIM OUT. It Got TOO HOT FOR HIM, he is RUNNING SCARED’. This lack of understanding of their utter insignificance is very frightening.
There is an old joke of someone, completely lost, who stops an old man on the street and asks him for directions. The old man says ‘If I were you I would not start from here’.
When the whole matter of Radio Caroline landed in my lap, I could not choose the circumstances and was not informed of the various skeletons in various cupboards. I could only say that for better or worse, this was the situation existing and that the choice was to give up or see what could be rescued.
Some would say that ‘given the circumstances’ we have done rather well. The Lunoraks deny the circumstances and thus conclude that we have done very badly.
But if you ask them what would make them content, a hundred differing opinions appear.
So, as I say, I give up. Better people than these, deserve my time and appreciation.
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| Peter Moore causing the potato famine |
I guess in the same way that the Protestants and Catholics will always fight over bad things that happened 90 or 150 or 300 years ago.
‘What about the Potato famine?’.
‘There was no potato famine’.
‘Oh yes there was’.
‘Who caused the potato famine?’.
‘It was that Peter Moore who did cause it’.
Oh no, here we bloody well go again.
Author: Peter Moore.
from: A Bit Moore
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