One good thing I’ll say about thelondonpaper: its sudoku ranks
Solely this: its ‘difficult’ sudoku really is *hard*. Fills up the train journey, in fact. Probably the most useful thing in the whole paper.
Meanwhile, we’re now moving to the time of year when the free papers will be properly tested. It’s going to be cold, and windy, and rainy, when the distributors are going to have to stand on street corners and try to persuade people who just want to get out of the rain/wind/cold to take a shoved-into-pocket hand out and grab a paper which they don’t really need to take anyway.
I’d be aiming to sell good weatherproof hats and coats to those distributors if I had a shop.
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November 21st, 2006 at 1:43 am
I’d be aiming to throw buckets of cold water on those distributors if four of them were trying to shove those purple dumbsheets at me every single day during what was previously my uninterrupted walk home.
Oh wait. They do try that every day.
Game on, mauve-chumps.
November 21st, 2006 at 2:25 pm
pauldwaite It would be a pity to take it out on the hawkers – they’re just paid grunts, after all. And I’d imagine quite poorly-paid grunts, at that.
Actually, does anyone know what or how they’re paid? By results I’d guess, given their unabated enthusiasm to laden me with papers.
Reminds me of my friend Tony’s free-sheet paper-round, 20+ years ago: he was paid a penny per paper delivered. My own paper round was a traditional one delivering paid-for papers, to customers quick to complain to base if their Daily Mail didn’t arrive. But it struck me that Tony could just dump all of his 300 freebie papers and collect the Ģ3 regardless, so I dared him to. And he did, two weeks on the trot. Then he was sacked – my teenage brain hadn’t banked on the area organiser carrying out doorstep spot checks. Oops.
November 23rd, 2006 at 12:02 am
They are indeed paid grunts, and probably poorly paid, just like cold-callers who bother me on the phone, and drug-dealers who offer me skunk on my way home. I don’t care. No-one’s holding their family hostage, forcing them to bother me (with the possible exception of the drug-dealers). Go get paid for something that isn’t organised harrassment.
November 23rd, 2006 at 5:46 pm
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