The Golden pages

rob316 · 16-10-2015 10:44PM #1

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 · 16-10-2015 10:47PM

I use mine as toilet paper.

Westernyelp · 16-10-2015 10:49PM

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 · 16-10-2015 10:49PM

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

kneemos · 16-10-2015 10:50PM

Useful for pinpointing unoccupied houses.

policarp · 16-10-2015 10:51PM

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

mad muffin · 16-10-2015 10:52PM

I give mine to the homeless to use as bedding.

Ruu · 16-10-2015 10:54PM

Let your fingers do the walking!

Oh wait, that was Yellow pages.:o

KungPao · 16-10-2015 10:55PM

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 · 16-10-2015 11:59PM

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 · 17-10-2015 12:02AM

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 · 17-10-2015 12:03AM

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 · 17-10-2015 12:05AM

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 · 17-10-2015 12:15AM

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 · 17-10-2015 12:16AM

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 · 17-10-2015 01:02AM

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

Faith+1 · 17-10-2015 01:28AM

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

wil · 17-10-2015 01:40AM

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 · 17-10-2015 01:54AM

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

KungPao · 17-10-2015 03:14AM

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 · 17-10-2015 03:33AM

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 · 17-10-2015 03:43AM

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

kneemos · 17-10-2015 11:55AM

I wear them under my shirt when walking through Tallagh.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 17-10-2015 12:00PM

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 · 17-10-2015 12:02PM

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

Mickey H · 17-10-2015 12:06PM

The Sidewards Man wrote: »

I use mine as toilet paper.

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

kneemos · 17-10-2015 12:06PM

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 · 17-10-2015 12:14PM

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 · 20-10-2015 04:14AM

Yellow pages?

Sofiztikated · 20-10-2015 05:11AM

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 · 20-10-2015 08:48AM

Sofiztikated wrote: »

You can do that?!?

http://www.phonebookoptout.ie/

I did it a few years ago.

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