[P. J. Clarke]

Hi Chris: I'm still waiting patiently for the yellow car you promised me. Ballina, Co. Mayo.

[foot-loose]

To be fair, we've had worse first posts...

[pjordan2000]

...but this one does come quite close to being the worst.

[richardtomlinson]

Well, hang on a second.

Punctuation: check.
No text speak (other than the unhappy face, but let them off): check.
Level of interest: got me intrigued.
Grip on reality: fail, this is not Moyles' website.

I await their second post with anticipation ...

[Ed Pummelon]

No text speak (other than the unhappy face, but let them off): check.

I'd always assumed the using smilies was OK on here, on the basis that if they weren't the admin would have turned them off.

[foot-loose]

Using one is fine.

Using a collection is not.

[Yudster]

Using smileys to occasionally make a point is great, using them to write your post is not.

[Ed Pummelon]

Thank you for the illustrative examples

[Jill]

I think smilies make the post better as it helps to show how the comment should be read by people. On a forum it is sometimes hard to determine if something was a joke or not or if someone is happy about something or not happy about something or if a comment was sarcastic. That's my opinion on them anyway and that is why i tend to use them alot on forums

There is worse people on here then P.J. Clarke... At least his first post wasn't to slag of Moyles like alot of peoples are just to wind everyone up.

I agree, i like using smilies for that reason.

[richardtomlinson]

Great, but what about this bloody yellow car????!!!! ....

[Munki Bhoy]

If I'd seen this yellow car, I'd have punched you in the arm by now.

[foot-loose]

I thought that was purple cars?

[Zoot]

I thought it was VW Beetles?

[Munki Bhoy]

I'm just going with what Greg James had said on Chris' show last week.

[Johnny 1989]

Hi Chris: I'm still waiting patiently for the yellow car you promised me. Ballina, Co. Mayo.

Well Chris is still waiting patiently to appear in that film of Will Smith's, that he keeps promising that he has a part lined up for Chris & yet nothing so far.

Life's a bitch ain't it

[AndyJ]

Mrs AndyJ has a bright yellow (with black roof) Mini Cooper S. Its actually quite a nice colour and brightens up the street. Does anyone else have a bright coloured car?

[Yudster]

There are some lovely coloured cars around these days. I don't have one though.

[Yudster]

Why does the phrase "metallic diarrhoea" make me think of those Swiftcover insurance ads with Iggy Pop?

[Ed Pummelon]

Metal-lurgy.




....Taxi!

[Johnny 1989]

Why does the phrase "metallic diarrhoea" make me think of those Swiftcover insurance ads with Iggy Pop?

God he's sold his sold hasn't he, bloody seeing him dancing round topless just because he got a great deal on his car insurance, a sight I don't want to see every day on TV!

[MK Chris]

...he didn't get a great deal on car insurance though. It was banned because the advert inferred that he did, but they don't insure people from the entertainment industry.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/ap ... advert-ban

[Johnny 1989]

...he didn't get a great deal on car insurance though. It was banned because the advert inferred that he did, but they don't insure people from the entertainment industry.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/ap ... advert-ban

Eh? How comes it's back on TV and on billboards again then

[Zoot]

...he didn't get a great deal on car insurance though. It was banned because the advert inferred that he did, but they don't insure people from the entertainment industry.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/ap ... advert-ban

Eh? How comes it's back on TV and on billboards again then

Because it's been changed, watch it carefully, it doesn't mention him getting insured.

[Johnny 1989]

...he didn't get a great deal on car insurance though. It was banned because the advert inferred that he did, but they don't insure people from the entertainment industry.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/ap ... advert-ban

Eh? How comes it's back on TV and on billboards again then

Because it's been changed, watch it carefully, it doesn't mention him getting insured.

Ah right, I normally switch over when it comes on because it's such an annoying advert that I hadn't realised the change that was made.

[Yudster]

I can't think of any image on TV regularly these days which is more revolting than that ad. How the agency can imagine that anyone is going to be anything other than repulsed by it is beyond me.