The Golden pages

rob316

Does anyone bar pensioners actually still use one? The new ones are been delivered at the moment they just seem an utter waste and pointless. Mine got the bin anyway.

The Sidewards Man

I use mine as toilet paper.

Westernyelp

rob316 wrote: »

Does anyone bar pensioners actually still use one? The new ones are been delivered at the moment they just seem an utter waste and pointless. Mine got the bin anyway.

recycling I hope!

Junkyard Tom

Interesting fact. In an average lifetime a sleeping person will unknowingly swallow approximately 3 small frogs.

kneemos

Useful for pinpointing unoccupied houses.

policarp

very useful for propping up broken or damaged furniture and beds.

mad muffin

I give mine to the homeless to use as bedding.

Ruu

Let your fingers do the walking!
















Oh wait, that was Yellow pages.:o

KungPao

Last time I used one was as a massive house spider killer.

*Dumpf*

Panic over.

But an Argos catalogue is useful for this too.

Notavirus.exe

It's a waste of paper and ink. The average person probably looks at it once or twice every 5 years just to find one phone number among millions of others. It should be digitalised.

smash

Notavirus.exe wrote: »

It's a waste of paper and ink. The average person probably looks at it once or twice every 5 years just to find one phone number among millions of others. It should be digitalised.

It is digital. But nobody uses it because it's easier to call 11850 or 11811 or just use google on your phone.

BunkMoreland

Notavirus.exe wrote: »

It's a waste of paper and ink. The average person probably looks at it once or twice every 5 years just to find one phone number among millions of others. It should be digitalised.

Yeah its mad the way they hand write them.

Notavirus.exe

smash wrote: »

It is digital.

Well I think it's stupid for them to be printed out despite being available in a digital format.

Turtyturd

Is it an annual thing?

They should cut it back to being released once or twice every 5 years. And only put in the 1 or 2 numbers people use it for to save on ink.

Turtyturd

Is it an annual thing?

They should cut it back to being released once or twice every 5 years. And only put in the 1 or 2 numbers people use it for to save on ink.

uch

Grand for putting under the telly so I can see from me armchair

Faith+1

It seems to get smaller and smaller each year. By 2020 it'll just be a flyer

wil

Notavirus.exe wrote: »

Well I think it's stupid for them to be printed out despite being available in a digital format.

I'm hoping the next version of Boards.ie is in paper format.

freshpopcorn

We need to show the J.R Hartley ad again!

KungPao

Faith+1 wrote: »

It seems to get smaller and smaller each year. By 2020 it'll just be a flyer

Or a pamphlet like Jason Alexander's 'Acting without acting'.

Nodster

Worked in advertising years ago and saw the annual costs for simple listings go literally through the roof for one particular client till they cried enough - thanks to lecky media, everything searchable

FanadMan

I use it as a target for a blow gun.......really handy when Boards dies (like tonight)

kneemos

I wear them under my shirt when walking through Tallagh.

DEFTLEFTHAND

We've a local telephone book issued by the Lions Club for my town and surrounding areas that I'll use occasionally at work.

SEPT 23 1989

If you put every copy of the golden pages printed end to end it would not travel around the earth even once

Mickey H

The Sidewards Man wrote: »

I use mine as toilet paper.

Can you read all the names beginning with C of your arse now?

kneemos

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

If you put every copy of the golden pages printed end to end it would not travel around the earth even once

That's amazing.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

rob316 wrote: »

Does anyone bar pensioners actually still use one? The new ones are been delivered at the moment they just seem an utter waste and pointless. Mine got the bin anyway.

How dare you. Why paint us pensioners as troglodytes? We either look up a number online, in our little hand written notebooks, or ask somebody.
I know of no pensioner who uses the yellow pages.
We work on word of mouth mostly.

I cancelled mine a couple of years ago after consigning them to the bin every year previously. You can request that they are not delivered and more people should do this to show them what a waste the whole enterprise is.

LordSutch

Yellow pages?

Sofiztikated

Halle Tiny Gill wrote: »

I cancelled mine a couple of years ago after consigning them to the bin every year previously. You can request that they are not delivered and more people should do this to show them what a waste the whole enterprise is.

You can do that?!?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Sofiztikated wrote: »

You can do that?!?

http://www.phonebookoptout.ie/

I did it a few years ago.

Capt'n Midnight

You can use them as a handy contacts list.

Just cross off all the people you don't know.

starling

Notavirus.exe wrote: »

Well I think it's stupid for them to be printed out despite being available in a digital format.

There's a golden pages website but nobody ever uses it because why the fúck would you google "golden pages" and then search for the number you want when you could just google whatever you're looking for.

One year back in the early noughties they produced a cd-rom for each area and delivered it with the directories, they were very excited about it, but then they found out there was a flaw or something that allowed people to use it as a reverse directory and get your name and address from your phone number. Apparently this was a terrible cock-up even though reverse directories seem to be a commonplace thing in the U.S.

Faith+1 wrote: »

It seems to get smaller and smaller each year. By 2020 it'll just be a flyer

It was getting bigger every year and they were concerned about how they would manage this until someone found a way to make paper that was significantly thinner and yet strong enough to withstand the kind of handling a phone directory used to get (people flipping quickly through pages and so on). They were mad excited about that too.

I used to work there and the management and all the older people in the company acted like the Golden Pages and the phone book would never be obsolete, while those of us who were under 30 already googled for any phone numbers or addresses we might need. True, that was in the days before smartphones and most Irish companies didn't have proper websites, but you could see where things were going.