Posted October 9, 200618 yr It seems I cant bloody well go anywhere in Central or North London now without someone trying to shove a ruddy free paper in my hands...... <_< It started off with Metro on the tubes, now you've got "London Lite" and 'thelondonpaper', and even "Evening Standard Lite" as well.... How many ruddy trees are being chopped up for this sh!te....? Is it really necessary...? If you ask me it just creates more litter on the streets....
October 9, 200618 yr Is it really necessary...? If you ask me it just creates more litter on the streets.... as someone who has got both the the guardian and the independent today to have a look at. it would be good if they would be free too. then again media analysts prob think they will all be free in about 20 years time. weekend getting expensive too what with all the freebies like dvds.
October 9, 200618 yr Author You can get a fair amount of any given newspaper's content on the Internet these days, and you've got BBC, ITN, CNN on the net as well, all downloadable on your 3rd Gen mobile phone as well... Newspapers will be a thing of the past inside of 25 years I reckon....
October 9, 200618 yr You can get a fair amount of any given newspaper's content on the Internet these days obv. thats where most of my news articles are knicked from :lol: omg me hands would drop off if i had to type out all of that :lol: however i dont own a computer (its my dads) and so i have to go on it when he's not on it. and anyway reading a newpaper gives me something else to do when watching a tv show (better than twitching the thumbs)
October 9, 200618 yr Author we get free papers delivered, mine goes straight into the recycle pile unread. It wouldn't really be so bad if they actually delivered them, so you could do that - ie put them in the recycle bin, but the ones I'm talking about are distributed on the streets, so what do you think the vast majority of people do with them...? Chuck 'em on the streets..... <_<
October 9, 200618 yr It wouldn't really be so bad if they actually delivered them, so you could do that - ie put them in the recycle bin there is an icelandic firm pioneering the free daily newspaper to people's homes (think there might be no actual paid for daily papers there now!!) to get a lead on fellow scandis Metro International. Copenhagen is suppose to a much worse battle ground for free papers they have about 5 or 6 of them now :o
October 9, 200618 yr The one that gets delivered here also gets put on the recycle pile as it mainly consists of adverts. I have seen the ones you talk about on a few trains. People just leave them on the train. <_< Edited October 9, 200618 yr by Flatcap
October 9, 200618 yr Living a little out in the country. I don't get free papers, in fact I'd have to pay quite a bit to have them delivered. So don't encounter the problem that people in London and I guess other large cities get. I don't read any papers, saves a lot of time, and really they are none to interesting for me. What I do find is a lot of free junk mail coming via Royal Mail but not addressed to anyone. It's getting worse and worse..I think it's time to get put on the Royal mail no junk mail list, but I can't remember how you go about it.
October 9, 200618 yr Author Living a little out in the country. I don't get free papers, Consider yourself lucky not to be accosted by purple-clad, free paper-wielding numpties mate.... :lol: :lol:
October 10, 200618 yr Consider yourself lucky not to be accosted by purple-clad, free paper-wielding numpties mate.... :lol: :lol: like this by any chance :rofl: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8e/Barneythedino.jpg
October 10, 200618 yr It seems I cant bloody well go anywhere in Central or North London now without someone trying to shove a ruddy free paper in my hands...... <_< tell me about it- outside my uni there's always a London Lite guy, who's not too bad, but now the competition's going crazy- today there was a london lite guy and a thelondonpaper guy standing literally within 100m of eachother trying to shove papers into ur hand <_< and the other day i was at waterloo station, there were 2 people from each paper surrounding the exit, trying to outdo eachother.
October 11, 200618 yr I don't live in London, so the only free paper I see much of is the Metro, which is fine to read to pass the time on the bus or the train. Most people leave it on the bus or train when they get off for other people to read anyway, which means it all works out.
October 16, 200618 yr We have The Metro on the buses here which is OK I guess - good to read when you have your headphones in and are stuck in a traffic jam in the morning. But people are standing in town everywhere giving them out literally thrusting them at you. <_<
October 16, 200618 yr I share your frustration, it's the same with these leaflets that come in magazines, and people try and to hand to you in the street. All that happens is they get thrown in the bin, or worse thrown in the street. The ramp heading up to the pallasades in Brum is littered with leaflets handed out by people.
October 18, 200618 yr Oh God walking round Old Street/Angel in London and you get mobbed, I mean you get 2 rival paper comapnys stood next to each other :lol: I just keep my hands in my pockets. The whole point of these papers seems to be more about money than anything else, certainly not as transparent as the "proper" papers make out. And just think of the increases in London's street rubbish these papers are going to generate.
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