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The Most Nitpicky Post Of The Year
OK, I admit this is the dregs of complaints but I'll just get it off my mind and then we'll never mention it again.
Why does GNR 640 Toronto insist on calling its road reports "Chopper Traffic" when 80-90% of the time, no one is actually reporting anything from a helicopter? If they're up and flying during the morning and afternoon drive, that's about it. It sounds ridiculous to brand it "chopper"-anything the rest of the time.
And speaking of unimportant minutiae, CFRB claims its 5 PM weekday drive home hour is commercial free, but still sponsors its quarter hour traffic reports. How then can they claim to be 100% spot free?
I will now climb back into my cave, wishing all of you a commercial-free and traffic-spot-less Merry Christmas...
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I don't think it's particularly nitpicky. These are examples of small and needless bullshit that contribute to the ruinous whole.
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As for chopper traffic, they never do mention the word "helicopter".
Perhaps they mean this:
or this...
...or maybe even this...
Merry Christmas.
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If I may, I pointed out their incorrect use of the word "Chopper" as a major pet peeve of mine before.
In the GTA, with all the MTO cameras out there, frankly, there's no need for any station to go airborne.
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Peter the K wrote:
As for chopper traffic, they never do mention the word "helicopter".
Perhaps they mean this:
or this...
...or maybe even this...
Merry Christmas.
That's hilarious! But you left out one. Perhaps the traffic department reporters all wear dentures. In which cause, it could be "chopper" traffic:
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Reminds me of many years ago in Toronto. CITY TV rented a helicopter, had it all painted in station colours, and decals applied. Video was shot and used in the intro to the evening news.
But what viewers did not know was that CITY was the only major station in Toronto that did not have a chopper.
CFTO, and GLOBAL were in the air for local coverage, but CITY had a chopper shot in their intro.
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Reminds me of many years ago in Toronto. CITY TV rented a helicopter, had it all painted in station colours, and decals applied. Video was shot and used in the intro to the evening news.
If 'chopper' traffic were willing to inject at least an iota of that kind of effort in supporting the subterfuge it wouldn't be so contemptible.
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How could I have forgotten that definition of "chopper", RA? Funniest of them all.
I remember names like "satellite weather" that really don't mean anything but my I'm sure a lot of people read the wrong thing into things based on the name. My mother in law, who is diabetic, refers to "no sugar added" food as "sugar free" despite my attempts to point out the folly of that assumption. Then again, she also believes that a Butterball turkey is injected with butter. 