"flirt divert" on radio 1

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I hear this phrase mentioned on radio 1 sometimes. Driving home last night, I heard the actualy feature it refers to. It is on the evening drivetime show - they give out a telephone #, and if a person finds themselves out on a weekend, in an, er, potentially romantic situation with someone they perhaps are not that keen on really, they're supposed to give them the "flirt divert" number instead of their own.

then, the other person calls the number, and if they leave a message, and if the message is "funny", they play it on the radio and laugh at it.

There were a couple of innocuous ones - a woman who'd been waiting for something like 3hrs, and she'd phoned what she thought was her date's number, etc.

Then they played this message from this young-sounding woman who sounded quite upset, by the tone of her voice. at the end of her message there was a pause, as if she were a bit embarrased, before she said "...I really like you". I felt kind of sorry for her. The DJ and his sycophant were all like HAR HAR HAR LISTEN TO TAHT SHE IS A BUNNEY BIOLER!!1 and they kept playing the bit where she said "... I really like you" and acting like she was all creepy. I found myself wishing to do actual physical harm to the DJ, and to the person who gave the girl the number.

Am I being a emo whiner, or is this whole thing just incredibly cuntlike?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

No, this is the most horrible thing on Radio 1 and Scott Mills is a shit.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

So thats what that scene in Hollyoaks was about!

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

That sounds awful, and confirms that I did the right thing by giving up on Radio 1 years ago.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

There was one classic one where they got a guy who'd pretended to be the lead singer of Maroon five, and the girl back together on live radio 1, and he had to answer 2 questions on Maroon Five to win her some great prize.

Meanwhile, the real singer was on line three.

Apart from that, dud.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

This is one of the things that made me give up on Radio 1. It appeals to the same minds who find Chris Moyles entertaining and not at all cunt-like.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

a friend's friend thinks i look like scott mills, ;(

― foxy boxer (stevie), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

I think you should cease to associate with them.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

i've never even met her! my friend is trying to set me up with her... it seems ill-advised, for sure.

― foxy boxer (stevie), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Yes ... yes it does. RUN!

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Hey why not give her the flirt divert number!!!

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

more inclined to run, tbh.

― foxy boxer (stevie), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

i can't believe that's on radio 1!

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

The sister of one of my workmates is Mills' researcher, so I found out the HORRID TRUTH about Flirt Divert. Those aren't even the real voices.

My workmate was drafted in to reprise a message, but make it sound even more creepy and twatty. Presumably for hem hem 'legal reasons'.

― Vic Fluro, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

And this is supposed to be a public broadcasting service funded by my taxes? Time surely to sell off Radio One to the private sector if this is all it's "good" for now.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 05:44 (twenty years ago)

Private Eye recently pointed out a day where Radio One's Newsbeat lead on a report saying how countless teenagers were being driven to self-harm and suicide after being bullied with mobile phones — text abuse, silent calls 'happy slapping' etc — and then went straight back to Scot Mills encouraging listeners to humiliate their less popular peers on national radio via their mobile.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 05:51 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

well i think radio one rocks. What else would you want to wake up to in the morning other than good old Chris? Surely nothing else is on at these early hours we are forced to rise up at. What other radio programme can you listen to when you are half asleep but still be able to actually laugh aloud to? We shouldn't be dissing it, we should be praising it. It is a success, it entertains and makes people happy...what else do you people want? gorrr blimey, stop acting like your grampa and join me over here on this side of the pond that is a fan to it, who knows you may get some lovin... wink wink nudge nudge say no more!

― Regina Ferlangie, Monday, 24 April 2006 14:58 (twenty years ago)

What else would you want to wake up to in the morning other than good old Chris?

There are probably several million people I'd rather listen to first thing in the morning than him, if I'm honest.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:00 (twenty years ago)

Moyles at least superior to this Ferlangie character.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:04 (twenty years ago)

people still listen to radio 1????

who knew?????

actually, i did, cos my housemate listens to some drivel in the evenings. worst. station. ever

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Radio 1 DJ's probably the number one argument in support of why ageism is a bad thing.

The fuckers just wouldn't get away with being such arseholes & mediocrities, pandering to the lowest common denominator, if they were all ten years older. I can't imagine it appearing quite so "funny" being so juvenile. Although I prefer the term retarded for these specimins myself.

But late-twenties/early thirties? Hey man cool britannia. Youth >>>>>> Talent. I despair.

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:24 (twenty years ago)

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they are definatly made up, mate working on another radio station which did the feature (which was paoched by radio one) so not only rubbish but copied and i got called up by him a few times to ring in fake ones when no one had left any decent ones

― secondhandnews (secondhandnews), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:52 (twenty years ago)

The fuckers just wouldn't get away with being such arseholes & mediocrities, pandering to the lowest common denominator, if they were all ten years older.

And one obvious-but-true fact: until his death their best DJ was also by far the oldest.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Who actually is the *best* Radio 1 DJ now Peel's coke abuse caught up with him? Gilles Peterson? Tim Westwood? Ras Kwame? Man that's depressing.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Best DJ on R1 is now Annie Nightingale.

― Venga (Venga), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:21 (twenty years ago)

It's (Radio) 6 Music in the daytime for me now.

Surprisingly, Mark Riley > Mark Radcliffe as well.

― David Orton (scarlet), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

If you realy don't like this radio station soo much...Why don't you simply tune in and listen to your preferred station???

No-one is asking you to listen to radio 1, so why not tune in to the dribble on radio 2. There are plenty of alternative radio stations for the listeners with no sense of humour.

― Gavin Lloyd, Saturday, 29 April 2006 09:18 (twenty years ago)

go suck jo whiley's cock a bit more.

― teh_kit has 18 friends (g-kit), Saturday, 29 April 2006 09:26 (twenty years ago)

pwn3d.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 29 April 2006 09:28 (twenty years ago)

What's surprising about Marc Riley being better than Mark Radcliffe?

― There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvish (noodle vague), Saturday, 29 April 2006 09:29 (twenty years ago)

I suppose because he was the sidekick when Radcliffe had his R1 show?

Listened to Radcliffe's show on R2 a coupla times. His current peel-a-like act is dissapointing. He's capable of far, far better.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 29 April 2006 09:32 (twenty years ago)

Radio 2 is not dribble! Only this morning, I was listening to Jonathan Ross being very humorous and playing Orange Juice and Roxy Music. I'd take that over any amount of wacky japery and pish music on Radio 1 any day.

(Pash OTM)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 29 April 2006 09:33 (twenty years ago)

Anyway phuck R1, the new car has a CD player & a good sound system, last night I drove home listening to "gates of delerium" cranked up super-loud. C Moyles & S Mills can eat my shit.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 29 April 2006 09:34 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I got the point about his sidekickery but a cursory examination of Riley's pre-Radio 1 career would make it obvious that he is a hero.

― There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvish (noodle vague), Saturday, 29 April 2006 09:34 (twenty years ago)

The aerial on our car is knacked so I haven't heard Radio 1 in months. Which make me v. happy.

― There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvish (noodle vague), Saturday, 29 April 2006 09:35 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i broke mine on purpose for same reason.

― teh_kit has 18 friends (g-kit), Saturday, 29 April 2006 09:38 (twenty years ago)

So do you reckon "Gavin Lloyd" is one of those vacuous nerks that Moyles employs as a Greek Chorus to pretend he's funny?

― There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvish (noodle vague), Saturday, 29 April 2006 09:41 (twenty years ago)

Peel's coke abuse

you shouldn't believe everything conor from bright eyes tells you, you'll end up looking like a fool

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Saturday, 29 April 2006 09:45 (twenty years ago)

"a cursory examination of Riley's pre-Radio 1 career would make it obvious that he is a hero."

Yeah, sure (anyone who has ~~The Fall~~ Oink! comic on their CV is fine by me) but I relly meant Riley's 6Music radio show/s are much better - and closer to the old Mark n Lard "graveyard shift" R1 shows - than Radcliffe's current easygoing R2 gig.

― David Orton (scarlet), Saturday, 29 April 2006 10:04 (twenty years ago)

Radcliffe co-hosting with Shelley off Coronation Street or Noddy Holder depresses me in ways I cannot quite explain.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 29 April 2006 10:04 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure what Radcliffe's gameplan is at the moment: perhaps he's angling after some of Peel's Radio 4 work.

I need to find some Marc Riley and the Creepers stuff now.

― There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvish (noodle vague), Saturday, 29 April 2006 10:09 (twenty years ago)

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