RIP the london lite

ghst · Post by **ghst** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:05 pm

Today was its last day of distribution...what am i gonna read on the bus now!

HeavyUntitled · Post by **HeavyUntitled** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:11 pm

what why did they do that, that papers sick people always leave them on the train and it travels to bognor and i read it on the way to college in the morning haha

Pi-Krust · Post by **Pi-Krust** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:30 pm

ghst wrote:Today was its last day of distribution...what am i gonna read on the bus now!

A proper newspaper?

ghst · Post by **ghst** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:54 pm

Pi-Krust wrote:
ghst wrote:Today was its last day of distribution...what am i gonna read on the bus now!
A proper newspaper?

haha if someones willing to buy a proper newspaper for me every day and give it to me as i'm stepping on the bus, i'm all for reading it!

Coppola · Post by **Coppola** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 8:40 pm

Cheapskate!

z.u.bee · Post by **z.u.bee** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:10 pm

you mean people happily pay to read bullshit???

tr0tsky · Post by **tr0tsky** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 8:21 am

Or...

buy a book and expand your mind. The London Shite was brain-rotting drivel.

dubluke · Post by **dubluke** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 8:25 am

well said trotsky, was just a massive celeb gossip rag, in fact FUCK the london lite, rest in pieces

kion · Post by **kion** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 9:49 am

ain't the standard gonna be given away for free soon.

z.u.bee · Post by **z.u.bee** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 10:27 am

dubluke wrote:well said trotsky, was just a massive celeb gossip rag, in fact FUCK the london lite, rest in pieces

ok cos newspapers like the sun aint??? fair enough it was mostly shite, but it didnt charge you, and neither did it ever lead you to believe in it...

dubluke · Post by **dubluke** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 10:40 am

z.u.bee wrote:
dubluke wrote:well said trotsky, was just a massive celeb gossip rag, in fact FUCK the london lite, rest in pieces
ok cos newspapers like the sun aint??? fair enough it was mostly shite, but it didnt charge you, and neither did it ever lead you to believe in it...

when did I say the sun wasn't?

but yeah fair play it was free, and it didn't lead you into believing in it, but at the same time as this, it would have been nice if the majority had been actual news rather than celebrity goss - for example, the london paper, whilst not a pinnacle of good journalism, gave you a good outline of current events everyday and is also totally free

tr0tsky · Post by **tr0tsky** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 11:13 am

Read newspapers website/the BBC/indymedia websites at my desk.

Read a book on the tube.

Watch C4/BBC News at home or in the gym on TV.

That's plenty enough to get my daily dose of current affairs.

ghst · Post by **ghst** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 3:52 pm

dubluke wrote:
z.u.bee wrote:
dubluke wrote:well said trotsky, was just a massive celeb gossip rag, in fact FUCK the london lite, rest in pieces
ok cos newspapers like the sun aint??? fair enough it was mostly shite, but it didnt charge you, and neither did it ever lead you to believe in it...
when did I say the sun wasn't?

but yeah fair play it was free, and it didn't lead you into believing in it, but at the same time as this, it would have been nice if the majority had been actual news rather than celebrity goss - for example, the london paper, whilst not a pinnacle of good journalism, gave you a good outline of current events everyday and is also totally free

Hah yeh I'm not exactly mourning the death of the lite per se, just the end of widely distributed free paper. I do agree the london paper was a higher quality newspaper but that gave up the ghost week ago...
And trotsky yeh fair enough but you don't always want to carry a book with you wheever you go...it was quite convenient to get on the bus or tube and generally have something to browse to hand.

inb4 metro, its always gone by the time I'm awake

alfie · Post by **alfie** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 7:54 pm

fuck free papers like this, such a massive waste of resources- most people scan them for a couple of minutes then chuck them in the bin, i was amazed at the state of the streets in london around where their distributors were....plus the journalism is no better than the average sixth former could churn out

ajantis_art · Post by **ajantis_art** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 10:44 pm

evening standard is a shite paper tho

xarcane · Post by **xarcane** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 11:45 pm

Only free paper worth reading is the metro. Right on, fuck the London Lite. At least the Sun has puns and shit.

missedthebus · Post by **missedthebus** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 11:53 pm

kion wrote:ain't the standard gonna be given away for free soon.

it already is, theyre just limiting distribution.

Like Trotsky said read a book. Im reading Me Cheeta' at the moment for journeys on the tube

ghst · Post by **ghst** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:07 am

missedthebus wrote:
kion wrote:ain't the standard gonna be given away for free soon.

it already is, theyre just limiting distribution.

they give it out in the most random places...first time i got given one was outside mornington crescent station?!

tr0tsky · Post by **tr0tsky** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 9:06 am

I do this worryingly often, but I sometimes take the 'long' route home on the tube rather than the 'short-cut' route (that involves a couple of changes) if I'm at an interesting part of a book just so I can read it for longer.

Hold tight geek massive.

missedthebus · Post by **missedthebus** » Sun Nov 15, 2009 11:51 am

ghst wrote:
missedthebus wrote:
kion wrote:ain't the standard gonna be given away for free soon.

it already is, theyre just limiting distribution.
they give it out in the most random places...first time i got given one was outside mornington crescent station?!

also outside embankment and holborn

tr0tsky wrote:I do this worryingly often, but I sometimes take the 'long' route home on the tube rather than the 'short-cut' route (that involves a couple of changes) if I'm at an interesting part of a book just so I can read it for longer.

Ive missed so many tunbe stops engrossed in my current book

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