was shocked recently when i asked my mother to send me an address of her friend to send a card too and she opened the phone book to find the address. then proceeded to write it out on the back of an envelope. i nearly fell off my seat.
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Agreed. They come in the front door and go out the back door into the green bin. Haven’t opened one in years – waste of paper, ink, time, fuel and money
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People with no internet, that’s why!
Eoghany
Fine, but what % of the population don’t have internet? Small id say. So, rather than send one out to every household in the country, at huge expense, why not just send it out just to those who want it…? Because that would make far too much sense, that’s why. It’s a ridiculous system.
was shocked recently when i asked my mother to send me an address of her friend to send a card too and she opened the phone book to find the address. then proceeded to write it out on the back of an envelope. i nearly fell off my seat.
Agreed. They come in the front door and go out the back door into the green bin. Haven’t opened one in years – waste of paper, ink, time, fuel and money
People with no internet, that’s why!
Fine, but what % of the population don’t have internet? Small id say. So, rather than send one out to every household in the country, at huge expense, why not just send it out just to those who want it…? Because that would make far too much sense, that’s why. It’s a ridiculous system.
Oul wans love a phone book
Like a newspaper
And biscuits
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Hah :)
Ouch!
A means of long term carbon storage?
What else would I use to demonstrate my herculean strength
Sir, Printed newspapers – why?
yours
Ranelagh
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xgS4I-47mJ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgS4I-47mJc&sns=em
Froinky,
Because people read and enjoy them,
Yours
most people
They are pretty much obsolete. Even the round in the ‘World’s Strongest Man’ where they rip telephone books in half has been retired.
They should be optional. Instead they clog up our lives like free U2 albums.
no. i have been iTunes free now for over 4 years. going to the meetings does help
ah here, i for one would miss our free, once-yearly doorstop/table-straightener/firelighter
Get a big old bath and put it on top of the water point. Get in, and have a bath. Let them drag you out of it on camera – instant world-wide coverage.
Circles within circles: https://www.broadsheet.ie/2013/09/13/eircoms-phonebook-opt-out/
I opted out of having a phone. Its simpler.
ditto
free fuel for the fireplace! winter is coming
No wonder we are such an environmentally unfriendly country when we waste millions on this needless crap.
Because work don’t allow internet access and I’ve no other way of looking up phone numbers (other than using my own phone, but, feck that)
we have smartphones now. or get a new job