Free guide to the best bike rides in Britain with The Times this Saturday

[Bigtwin]

Apparently...

 

[nigelnorris]

Wonder if they're just recycling a bit?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/destinations/england/article548191.ece

 

[Joe24]

I hate the Times.

 

[Black Sheep]

I hate the Times.

care to give a reason?

i hate lots of things, most of which i have some sort of reason for, eg the sun being much more of a comic, full of typographical and spelling errors to the point that its quite hard to read, that and half the facts are incorrect (picture of a ford mondeo accompanying a review of the fiesta

however it is cheap when your wanting newspaper for decorating with

 

[Joe24]

Im a paper boy.
I hate most Broadsheet papers. They are stupid, wider then the others.
One road i deliver to, just has The Times delivered to it.
I hate that road.

I hate people with stupidly small leter boxes aswell, that you have to take bits out of the paper to make fit

 

[longers]

You need one of these Joe.

 

[Joe24]

Do you know something, its come to the point sometimes, where i just want to leave the paper on the floor outside the door, and put a note through telling them that im going to leave it there.
or just refuse to deliver it.
A few of them have The Times, and have a letter box you can only just squeeze a cd through.

 

[thomas]

Im a paper boy.
I hate most Broadsheet papers. They are stupid, wider then the others.
One road i deliver to, just has The Times delivered to it.
I hate that road.

I hate people with stupidly small leter boxes aswell, that you have to take bits out of the paper to make fit

jeez....anyone would think you're not getting paid for your troubles

 

[Joe24]

Not getting paid enough i tell you!
Im sorry, but spending ages taking a paper apart, folding each bit twice, then posting each bit seperatly, is not the msot fun thing to do. Especially, when its raining, or your in a rush.

 

[Dave5N]

You're losing here joe, cos we were all paper boys back in the Golden Age of paper delivery. We loved it.

 

[Black Sheep]

one person on my round used to have the times, telegraph and Mail and sometimes the independent

the sunday ones didn't fit through the letter box

my brother one day covering my round posted each page individually through the small slot in protest at a complaint having been made of me having used the cat flap to put the papers through.

if you've got a news agent who's on your side it can be a great job, for example ramming a fat news paper into a small box, page end first so that it gets stuck and your boss tells them its their fault for having a tiny letter box

 

[Globalti]

Gawd, I know what you mean - I have leafletted every one of the 72 houses in our road several times and I can't believe the crap letter boxes people have. Either they are the old vertical sort with a knocker, which even covers the slot, which is too small for anything bigger than a postcard or they are the stupid modern ones with a flap then furry teeth inside, which prevent anything that's not rigid from going through. So you have to fold the leaflet over the tops of your fingers and push them in then try to withdraw them without losing the skin off your knuckles.

Muppets, all of 'em. How do they expect the postie to deliver A4 envelopes and the paper boy to deliver their Express? You'll be pleased to know that I have installed a massive stainless steel letter box in our door, which takes the Sunday Times folded in two easy bites.

As for the Sunday Times, it's just become an adult rag. There's a scantily clad bird in almost ever section, even the business news to illustrate some article about an underwear manufacturer or some other thinly-veiled excuse. Not that I'm complaining, mind, but it's no longer a serious paper requiring concentration and slippers & pipe to read.

 

[peanut]

Im a paper boy.
I hate most Broadsheet papers. They are stupid, wider then the others.
One road i deliver to, just has The Times delivered to it.
I hate that road.

I hate people with stupidly small leter boxes aswell, that you have to take bits out of the paper to make fit

leave the paper on the step.simples

 

[dellzeqq]

They still have paperboys? I've not seen one round here in twenty years.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

They do Dell - ours is an oik on a tiny BMX - he's usually puffing away on a ciggie too!

In my day it was a two ton Elswick Hopper with no bloody gears! Thursday was the killer, local paper and the Radio and TV Times + the daily rags!

Halcyon days!!