If I want a f****** newspaper I will take one

TheMonster

[Rant]
This has really gotten to me the last few weeks. Those bloody Metro and Herald AM sellers are becoming more and more agressive. They literally shove the paper in your face as you pass.(Theres one girl at Tara St that you actually have to walk around as she always steps in front of you) If I want one of them I know they are there and will put my hand out and take one. FFS At this stage I know what they are.
[/Rant]

Downtime

Try cycling - I am offered it at every set of lights - where the f##k am I going to put it?

Sgt. Politeness

I was only thinking the same this morning! I must walk past these two oafs at sydney parade every fecin morning for the last 6 months, and have i ever taken a paper? NO! So why the f*ck are you STILL offering them to me??

God!

Idiots!

Pighead

Downtime wrote:

Try cycling - I am offered it at every set of lights - where the f##k am I going to put it?

Down your pants, theres plenty of room down there.

The Monster if thats all you have to be ranting about then you're doing well. Personally Pighead welcomes the aggressive nature of the paper sellers. It gives him a chance to engage in social interaction where as normally everybody ignores me.

connundrum

I take a Herald AM at Westmorlan St cos at this stage I feel sorry for the guy there and he just looks so greatful every time I take one off him... but then when I get to Camden St there's a psycho bird who insists that one Herald AM simply isn't enough, and she follows me for about 5 steps trying to push another Herald into my hand.

Sooner or later I'm going to have to take the drastic step of rolling up her fcuking newspaper and smacking her on the bleedin nose with it.. twat :rolleyes:

shroomfox

Step 1: Take the paper.
Step 2: Promptly fling it to the ground. Observe the look of shock on the distributor's face.
Step 3: Repeat daily as necessary.

justsomebloke

shroomfox wrote:

Step 2: Promptly fling it to the ground. Observe the look of shock on the distributor's face.

Do you really think they care what you do with it once you take it, chances are that they won't even be looking at you long enough once you have taken it to see what you do with it

Töpher

Walking down the road this morning, reading a ****ing Metro, having 3 people in a line trying to shove another into your hands - even though they're holding the ****ing paper I was reading!

Pighead

shroomfox wrote:

Step 1: Take the paper.
Step 2: Promptly fling it to the ground. Observe the look of shock on the distributor's face.
Step 3: Repeat daily as necessary.

Alternatively
Step 1: Take the paper.
Step 2: Promptly read the newspaper. Observe the look of shock on your friends faces as you dazzle them with your new found knowledge of current affairs and horoscopes.
Step 3: Repeat daily as necessary.

What have you got against the knowledge shroomfox(3/10, minus marks for disliking reading)

shroomfox

Step 1: Take the newspaper.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit.

Alternatively, offer to take the whole stack off them. Then drop them into the recycling bin on your way to work. You'll be doing everybody a service, especially the environment!

connundrum

Distributor: Herald AM!
Me: No, I've got one (show her the one I have)
Distributor: Que?... Herald AM (she stands in front of me)
Me: Ahem, no. I have one (try to move past)
Distributor: <insert foreign language smartarse remark> Herald AM?! (leg trips me and holds me in headlock)
Me: AAAAHHHH I don't want a fcuking Herald AM you silly biatch!! :mad:
Distibutor: Hmmmm... Herald AM?
Me: Fine

I feel less of a man now.

s10

these morons only get to finish when they have distributed all papers they were given, then they go off to their other jobs.
Anyone know how much they get??
any where this paper is distributed from

Töpher

€250 a week IIRC was being offered to college students. For about 1, maybe 2, hours work 5 days a week. Not bad money really.

johnnyrotten

shroomfox wrote:

Step 1: Take the paper.
Step 2: Promptly fling it to the ground. Observe the look of shock on the distributor's face.
Step 3: Repeat daily as necessary.

STEP 4: Get €63 litter fine :rolleyes:

colincarnate

I always take one from the savage chick at trinity college, jet black hair and fake tan i think - always has skin tight pants on! .... come on it's 7:45 in the morning!

But do they get commission or something, what's with the exuberence? is it because they're not irish?

xzanti

Theres a girl who hands them out at the corner of Baggot Street (Lwr) beside Eddie Rockets... and shes the happiest, cheeriest looking person at 8am Iv ever seen... Id nearly take one off her just for her smile but I never get a chance cause the lights change too quickly.. Id love to know what shes having for her breakfast..

Pighead

xzanti wrote:

Theres a girl who hands them out at the corner of Baggot Street (Lwr) beside Eddie Rockets... and shes the happiest, cheeriest looking person at 8am Iv ever seen... Id nearly take one off her just for her smile but I never get a chance cause the lights change too quickly.. Id love to know what shes having for her breakfast..

What happens in Pigheads bedroom, stays in Pigheads bedroom.
But anyway its time for everybody to lay off the paper sellers. They do a sterling job and are a Godsend for many commuters about to head off into the peak time traffic jam hell in the evenings. Hurra for the paper sellers. Boo to the cranky boardsters.

Drax

Every morning coming up to the lights at Whitehall church I put my hand out and the same guy always rolls two papers up and hands them to me... Why is this? Is it in case I lose one copy I will have a backup? Or can he only leave once he has got rid of all his papers? Hmmmm

johnnyrotten

Most of these girls are Brazilian!

RE*AC*TOR

Distibutor: Please take this printed collection of advertisments, designed to make you buy things you don't need or want, with some lazy journalism and other garbage tacked-on.
Consumer: Yes, thank you. All hail consumerism. Where can I hand over my money?

Pighead

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

Distibutor: Please take this printed collection of advertisments, designed to make you buy things you don't need or want, with some lazy journalism and other garbage tacked-on.
Consumer: Yes, thank you. All hail consumerism. Where can I hand over my money?

Distibutor: Please take this printed collection of advertisments, designed to make you buy things you don't need or want, with some lazy journalism and other garbage tacked-on.
Consumer: Yes, thank you. All hail consumerism. Where can I hand over my money?
Distributor Eh you don't hand over any money dumbass, these papers are free.Sort yourself out man.:rolleyes:

RE*AC*TOR

Pighead wrote:

Distributor Eh you don't hand over any money dumbass, these papers are free.Sort yourself out man.:rolleyes:

free my arse.

Pighead

Distibutor: Please take this printed collection of advertisments, designed to make you buy things you don't need or want, with some lazy journalism and other garbage tacked-on.
Consumer: Yes, thank you. All hail consumerism. Where can I hand over my money?
Distributor Eh you don't hand over any money dumbass, these papers are free.Sort yourself out man
Consumer: Free my arse
Distributor: What the fcuk are you talking about ya spanner. You the consumer, have a choice to pick up one of these papers and I the distributor am not asking for any monies in return. That my friend means the paper is free. Costing nothing; gratuitous, FREE

RE*AC*TOR

Nothing in life is free. At best you are tainting your mind, by reading this horse****, pretending to be a newspaper. Furthermore, we the tax payer have to pay for the disposal/recycling of this crap, and we the inhabitants of this planet have to pay for the trees chopped down.

Heinrich

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

free my arse.

Judging from what is emanating from said orifice I would say your a*se is very free.

The distributors are just trying to earn a living.

"No thank you" is free for daily multiple use. so what is your beef?

connundrum

Distibutor: Please take this printed collection of advertisments, designed to make you buy things you don't need or want, with some lazy journalism and other garbage tacked-on.
Consumer: Yes, thank you. All hail consumerism. Where can I hand over my money?
Distributor Eh you don't hand over any money dumbass, these papers are free.Sort yourself out man
Consumer: Free my arse
Distributor: What the fcuk are you talking about ya spanner. You the consumer, have a choice to pick up one of these papers and I the distributor am not asking for any monies in return. That my friend means the paper is free. Costing nothing; gratuitous, FREE
Consumer: Ah, it all makes sense now...
Distributor: You have seen the wrong in your ways dear consumer. Please feel free to grace my palms with much silver, as I am the one who has brought you enlightenment.
Consumer: Sure, have you change of €50?
Distributer: Tee hee hee

RE*AC*TOR

Heinrich wrote:

Judging from what is emanating from said orifice I would say your a*se is very free.

The distributors are just trying to earn a living.

"No thank you" is free for daily multiple use. so what is your beef?

*FREE SWIMMINGPOOL*

Come enjoy a free session at a new pool in the Dublin Area. Relax and unwind in our 30 metre heated pool*

*Pool is filled with raw sewage.

Pighead

Distibutor: Please take this printed collection of advertisments, designed to make you buy things you don't need or want, with some lazy journalism and other garbage tacked-on.
Consumer: Yes, thank you. All hail consumerism. Where can I hand over my money?
Distributor Eh you don't hand over any money dumbass, these papers are free.Sort yourself out man
Consumer: Free my arse
Distributor: What the fcuk are you talking about ya spanner. You the consumer, have a choice to pick up one of these papers and I the distributor am not asking for any monies in return. That my friend means the paper is free. Costing nothing; gratuitous, FREE
Consumer:Nothing in life is free. At best you are tainting your mind, by reading this horse****, pretending to be a newspaper. Furthermore, we the tax payer have to pay for the disposal/recycling of this crap, and we the inhabitants of this planet have to pay for the trees chopped down.
Distributor: Ah get off your high horse sonny, tainting your mind indeed, I know for a fact you visit that well of mind tainting, After Hours, on a regular basis. And stop being so pedantic with your interpretation of the word FREE. If you rang up the Ray D'arcy Show and won free oxegen tickets tomorrow would you harp on about how "Well actually they weren't free as i paid for the phone call and it costs money to print and dispose of the tickets" .You know we're right Mr Consumer

Heinrich

[QUOTE=RE*AC*TOR

Come enjoy a free session at a new pool in the Dublin Area. Relax and unwind in our 30 metre heated pool*

Pool is filled with raw sewage[/QUOTE]

You must be doing a lot of swimming in that pool (see previous post)

RE*AC*TOR

To Pighead:
I stand by my interpretation of "free". These rags are more trouble disposing of than they have value. The Evening Herald is bad enough, imagine an even lazier version of it!

To Heinrich:
*clap* *clap*

ilovemybrick

colincarnate wrote:

I always take one from the savage chick at trinity college, jet black hair and fake tan i think - always has skin tight pants on! .... come on it's 7:45 in the morning!

But do they get commission or something, what's with the exuberence? is it because they're not irish?

some of us are irish. i do it at molly malone at the bottom of gratfton street. and the girl is italian and the fake tan isnt actually fake. also no commisioin its just easier to get rid of the papers if you are smiley, loud and keep asking people.

Einst&#252 wrote: »

€250 a week IIRC was being offered to college students. For about 1, maybe 2, hours work 5 days a week. Not bad money really.

its gone down. at the begining it was 50 a day but we were rostered from 6 until ten (although always finishing before then.) now its from 7 until half nine in the city centre and 6.45 until 9 in the suurban teams and the money is now 40 euro a day. its not fun in the cold and rain so be nice. although if theyre being rude just ignore them.
tbh its a job which pays well over minimum wage and is not very challenging. but its typical that it is mostly foreign students who are doing it, as a whole it seems they are willing to do things we the irish wont.
also in case you dont believe me come and have a chat im at molly malone every morning listening to my earphones and trying to be friendly.

s10

these guys should be given badgerhair toilet paper.
And we all know recycled paper is .000000001% recycled paper the rest is "recycled" from trees

phantom_lord

The other day I had two papers in my hand. And they were still trying to give me hearld am....

ODS

phantom_lord wrote:

The other day I had two papers in my hand. And they were still trying to give me hearld am....

Maybe they thought you were a collector

Dermington

Pighead wrote:

Down your pants, theres plenty of room down there.

The Monster if thats all you have to be ranting about then you're doing well. Personally Pighead welcomes the aggressive nature of the paper sellers. It gives him a chance to engage in social interaction where as normally everybody ignores me.

so the great PigHead stops talking in the 3rd person for a split second.

Shirley this is a great occasion...

RasTa

Typical Irish, moan moan moan moan
Jesus chirst is that the worst thing that happens to you in the morning ?, Someone handing you a free newspaper ? Either take it or dont, It aint that hard.

squrm

RasTa wrote:

Typical Irish, moan moan moan moan
Jesus chirst is that the worst thing that happens to you in the morning ?, Someone handing you a free newspaper ? Either take it or dont, It aint that hard.

Absolutley

Think yourselves lucky, some of us out here in the suburbs have to pay for a paper to get our daily dose of sukudo

constitutionus

just out of interest can someone tell me why these guys dont just dump the things in a recycling bin and go home
is there some kind of random inspection by the employers to make sure they do the deed? i mean with no receipts and no cash how do they know how many are actually getting into peoples hands? the herald am one has a circulation figure but by my reckoning and the dumping noticed by previous posters this seems to be dodgy in the extreme. in fact the word "guess" comes to mind

ilovemybrick

constitutionus wrote:

just out of interest can someone tell me why these guys dont just dump the things in a recycling bin and go home
is there some kind of random inspection by the employers to make sure they do the deed?

random inspection in the formof a supervisor. and also even if your finished you dont get to sign the sheet until the team is ready. and if you dont sign you dont get paid. and also sometimes the depot workers are b*stards and send us out more bags late in the shift on the little motorbikes. all in all its a fairly smooth operation. unless it rains. or someone is sick, or its cold, or the delivery drivers mess up.

Attol

I've gotten the Metro every morning I can when getting on the train in the morning since I moved to Birmingham. It's nice to have something to read on the train and you can get the jist of what's going on in the world, what there is on tv that night and you get puzzles to do so you aren't bored to death every morning when commuting. You people just enjoy complaining.

Ours are in little stands at all the stations but they're all taken by about 9am usually.

ODS

LadyLotts wrote:

You people just enjoy complaining.

Damn Right! Best thing about the (Dublin) Metro is that it is costing the Herald many €€€s to try and compete: Death to the Herald

I really wouldnt rely on either for news, probably a better news content in The Sun :rolleyes:

Now if they could only bring out a freebie on Sundays that would cost the Sunday Indo, ah I guess thats too much to wish for...:p

projectmayhem

i moaned about this in the "get it off your chest" thread a good while ago now. absolutely pisses me off walking from the top of o'connell st. down to kevin st. to college to have to avoid about 20 muppets holding out their crappy toilet paper in my face. top that off with the chuggers in the evening. not a good way to start OR end the day

[Jackass]

7.00am: BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

7.04am: I get up

7.15am: In the shower

7.45am: I'm leaving my home

7.47am: I arrive at Sandymount dart station...at this point, I am forced to either acknowledge a big oaf's presence and respectfully decline a METRO paper or conciously blank her as rudly as possible and barge past her as she blocks the enterance...it's too early for these types of decisions.

7.55am: I board the dart...I'm slowly beging to awaken.

8.05am: I depart the dart at Pearse street dart station....as I attempt to walk out, not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, not 5 but 6 paper pushers surround all exits..blue and red flashing in my face, I feel light headed and blindly barge my way through...

8.06am: I make it several steps clear of dart station...now am faced with a new foe of "promotion"...usually for some job website or some crap...leaflets shoved in my face....

8.12am: I arrive at the end of Nassau street....am confronted with a beautiful blonde girl shoving HEARLD AM in my face...I don't mind her doing it...I still don't take one, but the odd time I'd throw her a sympathy smile.

8.18am: I reach the intersection opposite entrance to Trinity on Nassau street...Usually confronted by 2, but sometimes 4 of the pests here, annoyingly, they stand in the spot you are going to step onto the path at, probably so you'll look up...I refuse to acknowledge his existance.

8.25am: I have now gone 7 minutes without being offerd a paper! My morning is already looking up, and I've made it all the way up Grafton street without being hasseled!! ....but no, just before I make it to the "Bus Stop" shop, I have two more of these gimps harrasing me.

8.27am: The Gauntlat. If this was a game, this would be the bonus round. On the home straight to the Luas station I am approached, from all angles, by multi-coloured annoyance...mainly red and blue, there must be eight of them...all eyeing me up and down along the long stretch to walk to the tram..they all make a move, but throw in another 5 or 6 "promotion" people wanting in on the action, offering me everything from lolipops, cookies, roses, air fresheners, tan & make up samples and even (I sh*t you not) a tampon.

8.32am: I board the luas...swiping the many papers off my seat, I take 2...one of each, and gradually sift through the sports sections whilst looking out the window at each and every stop to see the blue and red pestering the rest of the world.

8.57am: I arrive in Sandyford, disgard my 2 papers on the floor and get off the luas...now I'm going to be honest, if I havn't got a paper by now, I really musn't fuc*in want one!! But low and behold, YES! Even at Sandyford fuc*ing luas station they sometimes have people there.

9.03am: I walk into work, put the kettle on and browse through the "Hearld AM" convieniantly let beside the kettle.

9.07am: I sit at my desk, turning on my computer, I disgard the 2 papers I left on my desk yesterday after lunch.

1.34pm: After eating my lunch, I like to relax in the canteen with my friends with a cup of coffee...I read the "Metro" left on the table behind me as we chat...I ignore the "Hearld AM" left there...I already read that one...

That, lady's and gentlemen, is the amount of interaction I have with these "people" trying to off-load their "papers" ...... Too much?

slipss

Einst&#252 wrote: »

€250 a week IIRC was being offered to college students. For about 1, maybe 2, hours work 5 days a week. Not bad money really.

yeah if thats what they get it is good money, the thing I can't get my head around is if they have to stay till there stack of papers is gone then why not hand out five and leave the rest for the binmen to read? or do they have to stay there for a certain amount of time as opppsed to a certain amount of papers?

Chucky the tree

DubGuy wrote:

7.00am: BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

7.04am: I get up

7.15am: In the shower

7.45am: I'm leaving my home

7.47am: I arrive at Sandymount dart station...at this point, I am forced to either acknowledge a big oaf's presence and respectfully decline a METRO paper or conciously blank her as rudly as possible and barge past her as she blocks the enterance...it's too early for these types of decisions.

7.55am: I board the dart...I'm slowly beging to awaken.

8.05am: I depart the dart at Pearse street dart station....as I attempt to walk out, not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, not 5 but 6 paper pushers surround all exits..blue and red flashing in my face, I feel light headed and blindly barge my way through...

8.06am: I make it several steps clear of dart station...now am faced with a new foe of "promotion"...usually for some job website or some crap...leaflets shoved in my face....

8.12am: I arrive at the end of Nassau street....am confronted with a beautiful blonde girl shoving HEARLD AM in my face...I don't mind her doing it...I still don't take one, but the odd time I'd throw her a sympathy smile.

8.18am: I reach the intersection opposite entrance to Trinity on Nassau street...Usually confronted by 2, but sometimes 4 of the pests here, annoyingly, they stand in the spot you are going to step onto the path at, probably so you'll look up...I refuse to acknowledge his existance.

8.25am: I have now gone 7 minutes without being offerd a paper! My morning is already looking up, and I've made it all the way up Grafton street without being hasseled!! ....but no, just before I make it to the "Bus Stop" shop, I have two more of these gimps harrasing me.

8.27am: The Gauntlat. If this was a game, this would be the bonus round. On the home straight to the Luas station I am approached, from all angles, by multi-coloured annoyance...mainly red and blue, there must be eight of them...all eyeing me up and down along the long stretch to walk to the tram..they all make a move, but throw in another 5 or 6 "promotion" people wanting in on the action, offering me everything from lolipops, cookies, roses, air fresheners, tan & make up samples and even (I sh*t you not) a tampon.

8.32am: I board the luas...swiping the many papers off my seat, I take 2...one of each, and gradually sift through the sports sections whilst looking out the window at each and every stop to see the blue and red pestering the rest of the world.

8.57am: I arrive in Sandyford, disgard my 2 papers on the floor and get off the luas...now I'm going to be honest, if I havn't got a paper by now, I really musn't fuc*in want one!! But low and behold, YES! Even at Sandyford fuc*ing luas station they sometimes have people there.

9.03am: I walk into work, put the kettle on and browse through the "Hearld AM" convieniantly let beside the kettle.

9.07am: I sit at my desk, turning on my computer, I disgard the 2 papers I left on my desk yesterday after lunch.

1.34pm: After eating my lunch, I like to relax in the canteen with my friends with a cup of coffee...I read the "Metro" left on the table behind me as we chat...I ignore the "Hearld AM" left there...I already read that one...

That, lady's and gentlemen, is the amount of interaction I have with these "people" trying to off-load their "papers" ...... Too much?

you've to wake up a 7:00am?

stinger.

Cosine

Right so most people are anoyed that they are handing out the papers. Why dont you hand yesterdays one back? If you pass a certain one everyday then hand him/her a paper or hand the one you just got back doing a really anoying accent etc. Vent some frustration that way*


*I say this content in the knowledge that no one will actually do it :cool:

Monty - the one and only

DubGuy wrote:

8.32am: I board the luas...swiping the many papers off my seat, I take 2...one of each, and gradually sift through the sports sections whilst looking out the window at each and every stop to see the blue and red pestering the rest of the world.

8.57am: I arrive in Sandyford, disgard my 2 papers on the floor and get off the luas...now I'm going to be honest, if I havn't got a paper by now, I really musn't fuc*in want one!! But low and behold, YES! Even at Sandyford fuc*ing luas station they sometimes have people there.

9.03am: I walk into work, put the kettle on and browse through the "Hearld AM" convieniantly let beside the kettle.

Curious...
You dont want the papers yet you read them anyway....:rolleyes: if you didnt want them, you wouldnt read them at all.

lostexpectation

reports in the paper today that some of them werent get paid, e900 in arrears, who is employing them(directly)?

http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/228-2125218.smil

****ing agency subscontractors!

what the name of the agency?

shroomfox

Did they report that in the Metro?

jonny68

Why cant i get a bloody Metro in the mornings,i get on sometimes @ Museum LUAS stop and there's no metro or herald people to be seen,only when you get to Heuston might you see somebody giving them out but im hardly gonna get off the tram just to get a free paper,so i do without unless someone leaves theirs behind which is only occasionaly so sort it out sellers the least you can do is leave 40/50 papers @ LUAS stations that are not deemed to be really busy stations:p

tosh_thedude

TheMonster wrote:

[Rant]
This has really gotten to me the last few weeks. Those bloody Metro and Herald AM sellers are becoming more and more agressive. They literally shove the paper in your face as you pass.(Theres one girl at Tara St that you actually have to walk around as she always steps in front of you) If I want one of them I know they are there and will put my hand out and take one. FFS At this stage I know what they are.
[/Rant]

I Seen a Guy on Dame Street Grab all the papers off the Girl and he Fired them onto a pile of bins bags. He loooked quiet angry.....Twas quite funny, Maybe it was the same girl?!