Newspaper sales quite surprised me

[theclaud]

Oh no, I was treating is as an educational experience.

I've not started yet on Great Headlines from the South Wales Evening Post.

 

[Wobblers]

I love my local rag, this is one of my all time favourite letters to the editor.

In a comment on your article online about transport extensions in the borough, Steve7 complains about the Tramlink bringing in riff-raff and undesirables to Beckenham.
We don't have a Tramlink, DLR or the Tube here in Orpington, yet our high street is overrun with this sort of lowlife.
Walk down this thoroughfare any day of the week and you will see scruffy, tattooed men and women with pot bellies.
They have cigarettes hanging from their mouths and mobile phones stuck to their ears, wandering about aimlessly.
The women can also be seen sporting the mandatory Croydon facelift while they push expensive baby carriages (courtesy of the state) occupied by their benefit babies.
They can often be observed resorting to foul language when bus drivers have to deny them access because of their oversized prams when they attempt to board crowded buses.
Orpington was once a proud town but I am afraid it has now become a repository for dregs of humanity .
I can't wait to leave.
Mick Barnes
Allington Road
Orpington

What happened to all the rest of your letters then?

 

[ufkacbln]

Yes Minister:

Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers: the Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.

Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?

Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.

 

[jayonabike]

[QUOTE 2815469, member: 9609"]Is that a standard size round these days?[/quote]
It's his first paper round (he started about 6 weeks ago) and it is one of the easier rounds. After a while he can progress to a larger round (and more money.) At the weekends he has another 4 or 5 houses to the list.

 

[asterix]

What the shop owner said was that National news is of no interest for most people...I can see her point, and she only read it for the non political stuff..meaningthat most of its contens were general interest, and non political.

What the name of the local? It's not 'The Slaughtered Lamb' by any chance?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=07FdVcspOfQ#t=141

 

[MarkF]

Checked with the newsagents, the DM does indeed sell out all other papers each day, by 2:1, the 1 is all the other titles put together. 12 paperboys are employed and 4 Guardians are delivered daily in total. The Yorkshire Post is Saturdays 2nd most popular paper.

My lad gets £20 a week, the round takes about 1h 20 mins x 5, 35 mins when I help him on Saturdays. He now has a gofer job at the local mini-market on £35 per week for 9 hours so is finishing his paper round after Xmas, after, because he will get about £200 in tips.

PS I don't like it when a person is into some silly beef with one other, and they post as if they are leader of a gang, presumptuous in the belief that they have total and unswerving support, from everybody, a bully.

 

[asterix]

It's like missionary work, bringing CA&D to cafe.

Yes, I did wonder what such a thread, with its obvious implications, was doing in Cafe!

 

[Spinney]

Mod message: As some of you may have gathered, Linford is currently not posting in CA&D. It therefore wouldn't be fair to move a thread in there that he is posting on (esp. as he actually started this one).

 

[asterix]

Mod message: As some of you may have gathered, Linford is currently not posting in CA&D. It therefore wouldn't be fair to move a thread in there that he is posting on (esp. as he actually started this one).

Nor am I posting in CAd. Hence I don't post stuff in cafe that ought to be in there. Is Linford exempt from such rules?

 

[Spinney]

Nor am I posting in CAd. Hence I don't post stuff in cafe that ought to be in there. Is Linford exempt from such rules?

The thread didn't seem to me like a CA&D thread when it started.

Now you know this is looking like a CA&D thread, feel free not to take part if you don't like this kind of discussion...

 

[asterix]

The thread didn't seem to me like a CA&D thread when it started...

Then 10/12/14 will be your first birthday!

 

[User482]

The thread didn't seem to me like a CA&D thread when it started.

The OP contained an obvious provocation ("vocal minority").

 

[theclaud]

The thread didn't seem to me like a CA&D thread when it started.

That's what the Year Zero thing'll do...

 

[Spinney]

The OP contained an obvious provocation ("vocal minority").

If that's provoction you must have a short fuse...

 

[User482]

If that's provoction you must have a short fuse...

I said it was a provocation, not that I was provoked. But if you really can't see that it was trolling by the OP, then I can only assume you are applying the Year Zero rule as theclaud suggests.