[Chris]

Emails featuring Chris have been sent from Sport Relief promoting their upcoming sponsored running event - see below for the message (and join in to help a worthy cause!):



1, 3 or 6 - What's your challenge?

Now then,
It's time to get off your jacksey and enter your nearest Sainsbury's Sport Relief Mile. No excuses - everyone can do it (even your Nan).

If just the thought of running for the bus makes you break into a sweat sign up for the one Mile challenge or, if like me you are a finely honed physical specimen, push yourself a bit harder and do the three or six Mile challenge to impress your mates.

In fact, get all your mates to do it with you and remember to get sponsored - you're not doing it for fun you know. Well actually you are, but your sponsors don't need to know that!

Just find your nearest Mile and enter right now.

That's it.

Chris Moyles

Sign up for your nearest mile now.

[Vivienne]

I'm just doing the mile, but no more than that. Actually, I don't think I could manage more than that.

I'd like to add the fact that you can purchase stuff from the sport relief website, so even if you don't do a run, you can still do something!!

[Yudster]

I reckon you'll surprise yourself Viv - you swim a lot, I reckon you must be fairly fit - I bet you you'll finish your mile and wish you'd done a longer run!

[Vivienne]

HA!! I wouldn't bet on wanting to do a longer run. The run, as it is, will be just sheer force of will, I think. I'm taking my friend to stand at the side, and cheer me on.

[MK Chris]

Swimming is entirely different to running, it must be different muscles and breathing techniques that does it.

[wurzel]

HA!! I wouldn't bet on wanting to do a longer run. The run, as it is, will be just sheer force of will, I think. I'm taking my friend to stand at the side, and cheer me on.

Why not get someone to run with you?

[Yudster]

Swimming is entirely different to running, it must be different muscles and breathing techniques that does it.

Yes but swimming regularly and for good distances does build general cardiovascular fitness, and in a relatively short run - 3 miles or so is relatively short - that should be enough. As long as you aren't looking to break any records of course.

[foot-loose]

Swimming is only really effective for cardio if you do front crawl for long distances. Most people don't do this. Me included.

[Yudster]

I go the impression Viv does though - I may have been wrong about this.

When I was very overweight for a long time the only exercise I could do was swimming, until I got to a stage where higher-impact stuff wouldn't be both painful and dangerous! I used to swim a mile four times a week. It was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo boring...............worked though.

[MK Chris]

I wish I could do that. I need to develop my breathing technique while swimming.. I don't breathe properly, which renders me out of breath after two lengths at the moment. That is a marked improvement on when I started out, though.

[Yudster]

I'm a rubbish swimmer. I just struggle from one end of the pool to the other really. I could only manage a couple of lengths when I first started though, I just built it up gradually and then it started to be of some use. I would get a lot more out of it in terms of a workout though if I learned to do it properly.

[MK Chris]

My trouble (or strength, whichever way you wish to look at it) is that I'm very competitive, so I start off on a mission to learn to swim, then I want to learn to swim well and better myself.

[Yudster]

I can relate to that. I think its a strength, but then I would.......!

[Vivienne]

Swimming is good, because you are exercising everything, while feeling like you are doing not much at all. Plus, it's a solitary sport, which means you don't wind up in an argument. That's why I don't do team sports.

[Sotonian]

Moyles you are a totally thoughtless fool. Some people cannot .... I repeat, cannot, for medical or physical reasons run or even walk a mile so don't write words like "Everyone can do it" because a great many of us can't you prat. Think before opening your fat mouth unless you are determined to prove yourself to be as utterly self centred as you sound. I really hope that one day you too will be disabled and maybe then you will realise how a stupid twat like you can really upset people who through no fault of their own cannot walk or run or even crawl a hundred yards let alone a mile.

[MK Chris]

Have you ever thought that the text above was not actually written by Moyles, it was written by someone else involved in the marketing for Sport Relief?

You prat.

[Sotonian]

Moyles puts his name to it ......... he takes the responsibility for it.
Simple really but given the other rubbish he utters I am not surprised that he relies on others to hide behind. More fool you for speaking for him you Pillock

[Console]

I think this needs to be added to the list of complete overreactions that occur just because it's Chris Moyles saying it. People use the term 'everybody' to mean 'everybody except such a tiny minority that it makes no difference anyway' all the time - I really hope that you, Sotonian, jump down their throats as well.

Moyles puts his name to it ......... he takes the responsibility for it.

Watch this, carefully: -

I am a thoughtless fool

See, even though I've inferred that you said it, by putting your name on it, it doesn't mean that you actually did. Amazing, no?

Simple really but given the other rubbish he utters I am not surprised that he relies on others to hide behind. More fool you for speaking for him you Pillock

Who is he hiding behind? Topher? Topher thought your comments were prat-ish, and said so, how is that Moyles hiding behind someone? Or is logic and rationale not a big concern when you're trolling?

[Sotonian]

Every time I get the chance Console .... everytime. Particularly when people are making a fortune out of being in the Media. Words are all he does, they are his stock in trade (Well he certainly didn't get there on looks now did he?) therefore he needs to watch the words that he is willing to put his name to or accept the resposibility. I am just amazed at the speed of his tame apologist.
Even if only one disabled person is upset by his insensitivity that is one too many. It only requires a little thought and that thought is "What if it was me?" ... not hard is it.

Oh and do cut the crap selective quoting ... everyone is wise to that trick nowadays.

[Console]

Well he certainly didn't get there on looks now did he?

A cheap shot, interesting - especially considering the current topic.

I am just amazed at the speed of his tame apologist.

People can type pretty fast now-a-days. Some people can type upwards of eighty words-per-minute.

Even if only one disabled person is upset by his insensitivity that is one too many. It only requires a little thought and that thought is "What if it was me?" ... not hard is it.

So he has to take into consideration the feelings of everyone on the planet? Now, Moyles is only human, something that I think we'll agree on, and as a human that a pretty gargantuon task. Even if he were to consider everyone, he may still get it wrong; after all, he is only human. Now, not being allowed to use the term 'everyone', as in the context above, is, in my opinion, going way, way too far in the 'trying not to hurt peoples feelings' category. If people are that sensitive that they are hurt by completely benign words, such as those, then perhaps they should get their feelings hurt more often so they can learn to cope with them.

[Sotonian]

Why not show consideration to the disabled? He is careful not to offend or upset Blacks, Asians, Women, Muslims etc. so why should the same courtesy not be extended to those who have suffered enough from the thoughtlessness of the able?

[Console]

Nice avoidance of my points.

Why can a disabled person not run in a Sport Relief event? I'm actually a little staggered that a generalisation is causing you this much bother. Are you, yourself, disabled (or whatever the ridiculously over-protecting PC term is now-a-days)? Have you had your feelings hurt by Moyles', obviously vicious and callous, words - specifically crafted to inflict the maximum amount of pain on all the useless disabled people?

[Sotonian]

Not at all ... I am making a plea for someone who has a large following (and I'm not talking about the size of his arse) to think more carefully before putting his name to something that is offensive. Like I said, he makes his living out of using words, he should therefore consider more carefully those that he puts his name to.

And speaking of words I think you meant "Gargantuan" an adjective from the noun Gargantua a large-mouthed voracious giant (Rabelais's satirical romance) Very apt really even if you couldn't spell it.

[Console]

Not at all ... I am making a plea for someone who has a large following [...] to think more carefully before putting his name to something that is offensive.

It wasn't offensive, you're being an over-sensitive prat? Are you disabled, or in any other way directly offended by the remarks?

And speaking of words I think you meant "Gargantuan" an adjective from the noun Gargantua a large-mouthed voracious giant (Rabelais's satirical romance) Very apt really even if you couldn't spell it.

Eh, it was a bit of a stab in the dark.

[Sotonian]

Indeed I am offended by the choice of words but I thought that would have been obvious by now. I have explained why I find the choice of words offensive now it's your turn to explain why failing to recognise that the words used could be offensive and upsetting to some you feel it right to defend them.