You can now "reach" talkSPORT via WhatsApp

[The Ghost of Alex Higgins]

Fuck me can you imagine the 2am messages from battered "appy ammers"?

[JimmyDee]

More like "retch" at the desperation of:
1) the people that leave messages
2) the presenters that play them when they need to disguise the fact that no-one's phoning on the phone about the latest wind-up.

Still, nice to know that talkSPORT has finally been informed about that WhatsApp, five years after it stopped being a thing.
Coming soon, in 2027 ... post a TikTok video

[JimmyDee]

More of my important thoughts about the Whatsapp thing ...

it's to get people to keep listening, to see if their message got played. Usually NOT, it has to be said. Still, it bumps-up the "minutes listened" number. Mugs.

You know, and I know, and everyone knows that it won't be a caller talking in a normal voice, making a reasonable point. It will probably be a ranting raving screamer, or someone doing that "haaaas anyyyybodddy seeeen?"wank, that tS is desperate to turn into "a thing".

[JW90]

End this now.

[The Ghost of Alex Higgins]

End this now.

Send them that on a voice note myJW

[Sadact7]

Just Whatsapped them offering to have Clinker a fight.

Been blocked.

[JimmyDee]

Even Danny Kelly's doing it now, with his Musical Homework, presumably under orders.
He no longer gives out his Twitter (or "X", if you will) address to send him suggestions.

Why, though? Is tS trying to be down wiv da kidz, as middle-aged management often do; adopting a new thing they don't really understand, a few years too late? Da kidz have all moved on to something you've never heard of.

[scully]

Even Danny Kelly's doing it now, with his Musical Homework, presumably under orders.
He no longer gives out his Twitter (or "X", if you will) address to send him suggestions.

Why, though? Is tS trying to be down wiv da kidz, as middle-aged management often do; adopting a new thing they don't really understand, a few years too late? Da kidz have all moved on to something you've never heard of.

I’m going to WhatsApp a picture of one of my steaming freshly laid brown eggs

[The Ghost of Alex Higgins]

Arite derr Andy la, 'av dis yer fochin terwaattt *spppllllatttter splat splat SPLOSH*

[Sadact7]

Arite derr Andy la, 'av dis yer fochin terwaattt *spppllllatttter splat splat SPLOSH*

That’s the sort of content I’d happily pay a subscription fee for.

[scully]

Arite derr Andy la, 'av dis yer fochin terwaattt *spppllllatttter splat splat SPLOSH*

Hahahaha your a fucking funny feller you ghost

[scully]

Are they going to persist with this fucking nonsense forever now?

[The Ghost of Alex Higgins]

Yes or until we're all dead

[JimmyDee]

It's been going for a few weeks now, and I think we can confidently declare it a "FAIL".

Here's the thing ... you can scroll quite rapidly through texts, to see if they're worth further investigation, but voice-messages, you have to listen to all of it, to when they finally get to the fucking point.

"Hi, Andy here. I'm a Liverpool fan, obviously. I called you a few days ago, with a thing of a thing, Great show, as usual, by the way. You guys really crack me up. So, anyway, great show, as usual. Hang on, I've dropped my phone. Ah, it was under the settee, but anyway, great show as usual. Now normally I disagree, but this time I have to say that you were bang on the money. My little boy was in tears. Great show as usual. So, anyway, Liverpool are great"

If that were a text you'd just scroll past all of it, but some poor sod has to listen to that and twenty more.
What a marvellous use of all the earth's electricity.