Megaphones. Why?

[poster342002]

Who's ever heard a political campaigner go past with a megaphone going "A wah! Wah! Wah! Blah! Blah! Blah-deBlablah! A wawawawa!" and thought (as it quickly fades into the distance) "well that settles it for me! I'll certainly be voting for them!".

 

[scawenb]

I'm afraid (or not afriad!) I've always had a very loud voice and never bothered with megaphones. On the Labour Party Demo I led the chanting for a whole section and even drowned out the SWPer.

The other problem is people not knowing how to use them. They are directional and work best if lifted-up or pointed to bounce of buildings. They are almost useless at appealing to people walking past.

 

[Wilf]

Who's ever heard a political campaigner go past with a megaphone going "A wah! Wah! Wah! Blah! Blah! Blah-deBlablah! A wawawawa!" and thought (as it quickly fades into the distance) "well that settles it for me! I'll certainly be voting for them!".

Yeah, Trotskyism's bad enough on its own - but with the Doppler effect thrown in ...

 

[Patty]

Yeah, Trotskyism's bad enough on its own - but with the Doppler effect thrown in ...

They're practicing for when they are giving the orders out after the glorious revolution.

"ATTENTION COMRADES. WE HAVE EXELENT NEWS FROM THE MINISTRY OF PLENTY. WE HAVE EXEEDED THIS QUARTERS TARGET FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PIG IRON"

"STAND STILL AND PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR HEAD, COMRADE"

"ONE TWO AND BEND, ONE TWO AND STRETCH, COMRADES-WORK HARDER"

"YOU MAY HAVE ONLY ONE SACK OF GRAIN PER FAMILLY. GREED SHALL BE PUNISHED"

 

[ViolentPanda]

Who's ever heard a political campaigner go past with a megaphone going "A wah! Wah! Wah! Blah! Blah! Blah-deBlablah! A wawawawa!" and thought (as it quickly fades into the distance) "well that settles it for me! I'll certainly be voting for them!".

Not me.

I have had political campaigners go past, megaphones blaring, but what I usually think is "I wonder if that megaphone will fit up his/her arsehole?".

 

[treelover]

We have a bullet for you....

"STAND STILL AND PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR HEAD, COMRADE"

 

[Wilf]

We have a bullet for you....

thats a workers bullet

 

[free spirit]

they can be put to good use in confronting the god squad

 

[mutley]

they can be put to good use in confronting the god squad

When we have a megaphone we sell more papers and talk to more people. True story.

 

[mk12]

 

[mutley]

:d :d

Translation please?

 

[mk12]

bloody emoticons don't work

 

[William of Walworth]

they can be put to good use in confronting the god squad

It's the bleedin God Squad who've got the bloody megaphone outside Somerfields, Walworth Road, on Saturdays .....

 

[poster342002]

I was more thinking of the "drive-by" political campaigners. You know the thing I mean - you hear this muffled ranting as it appraoches, catch a few "wah! wah! wah!'s" as it passes you and then it fades into the distance.

Who's ever made a political decision on the strength of some muffled inaudible ranting from a passing megaphone?

 

[Roadkill]

Much as they're annoying, I couldn't help but grin at John Major's grumble in his autobiography that on one when occasion he got on his soapbox (literally) the SWP turned up with a bigger megaphone than he had and drowned him out!

 

[mutley]

I was more thinking of the "drive-by" political campaigners. You know the thing I mean - you hear this muffled ranting as it appraoches, catch a few "wah! wah! wah!'s" as it passes you and then it fades into the distance.

Who's ever made a political decision on the strength of some muffled inaudible ranting from a passing megaphone?

We get the odd drive-by 'voting is haram' megaphone car in Brum when the election comes. Nowt so queer as folk.

 

[William of Walworth]

'voting is haram' megaphone car in Brum when the election comes

Anarcho-Muslims?

 

[Wilf]

Anarcho-Muslims?

They pray 5 times a day, but gob on the Imam

 

[Giles]

One time I was sitting out on my roof, enjoying a quiet summer Sunday afternoon, when I heard the sound of a loud an incomprehensible megaphone-amplified voice, over and over, as the car in which it was carried wound its way around our local streets.

As the car cruised slowly past my house, the passenger with the megaphone shouting into it, with the megaphone sticking out of the open sunroof, I switched on my hosepipe, and aimed the jet of water right into his megaphone.

The voice went muffled, then shut up as the car suddenly accelerated away.

Peace was restored.

Giles..

 

[JonnyT]

One time I was sitting out on my roof, enjoying a quiet summer Sunday afternoon, when I heard the sound of a loud an incomprehensible megaphone-amplified voice, over and over, as the car in which it was carried wound its way around our local streets.

As the car cruised slowly past my house, the passenger with the megaphone shouting into it, with the megaphone sticking out of the open sunroof, I switched on my hosepipe, and aimed the jet of water right into his megaphone.

The voice went muffled, then shut up as the car suddenly accelerated away.

Peace was restored.

Giles..

classic

 

[nwnm]

It's the bleedin God Squad who've got the bloody megaphone outside Somerfields, Walworth Road, on Saturdays .....

A god squadder used to do that at night where I live - but he had his megaphone nicked outside the 24 hour spar by a car full of kids buying after hours booze I thought about offering to buy it off 'em as I was pissed up meself, but then realised they would have knicked me tenner kept the megaphone and drove off....close one