Freesheet action

[Nero]

Happening today

Petition against them here

1.7 million freesheets left on buses tubes and trams every year. Do your bit, people! Take yours home or bin it! Nero

[snorky]

or - be brave and dont pick them up in the first place - they are shite anyway / tittle tattle / sleb gossip /advertorials /txts speak quickies / unfunny viral pictutres /

all complete and utter shit.

The fast food version of reading - news for grazers and mobile phone fetishists

take a book or buy a paper - if you pay for a daily, it usually follows that you take ownership for it and dispose of carefully.

[SeanMacGabhann]

both absolutely true - but I don't think all the people who currently use 'em think the same. Does my head in as well

When I go to NY and get the freebies there the quality is fantastic - some of them anyway. But they are weekly. And aen't shoved into every commuters hands (that's the bit I object to most)

[snorky]

the London lite is DMG anyway and we all knoe they are pocket Nazis.

( awaits formal warning )

[david_carnell]

No formal warning but this might amuse you.

Daily Mail/London Lite headline machine

[SeanMacGabhann]

>:D< it did DC it did

[KalamityKel]

:-| didn't

[mightyroar]

very good(tu)

[Michael Palaeologus]

I like 'em. Lets have more.

[giggirl]

Like SeanMacG, I also object to how aggressive the street vendors are in trying to get you to take one of their crappy papers.

I have so little "me" time in a working day (don't we all) and in days gone by I used to look forward to a quiet walk (to/from the office to the bus stop, sandwich shop etc). I genuinely found these snatched moments in the "fresh" air to be therapeutic and calming. These days if you work in central London you can?t walk down the street without someone stopping you for something or other. I really find this invasive ? I just want to have a moment with my thoughts. Too much to ask?

[huncamunca]

dont blame the workers - they are only doing their job - something we all have to do - I wouldnt like to do ( they all seem o be doing MBS's tho' if you read thir biogs in teh papers)

blame the greedy publishers

smash the state

workers unite..

er...

[????]

READ A PROPER PAPER

[Moos]

Apparently the freesheets have affected the number of books that the average Londoner reads per year - i.e. people used to take a book onto the train but don't bother now. I guess the non-news is pretty unchallenging to a tired morning brain.

[snorky]

huncamunca Wrote:

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> dont blame the workers - they are only doing their

> job - something we all have to do - I wouldnt like

> to do ( they all seem o be doing MBA's tho' if you

> read their biogs in teh papers)

>

> blame the greedy publishers

>

> smash the state

>

> workers unite..

>

> er...