When was the last time you actually looked at a phone book. It's okay, I'll give you a little time to think...
Would you like to hear some musak while you ponder?...
No, I don't remember either. Which is why it's so frustrating to get one of these behemoths through the door every year, as happened around these here parts yesterday.
Except, we didn't get them through the door, we got them left on the stairs two stories down.
They come wrapped in plastic, and I have to be honest and say they stay wrapped in plastic until such times as I can put them in the recycling bin. I have a large collection of phone books, Yellow Pages and Thomsons Local's going back a fair few years, so I've been steadily going through them and throwing out one every month or so.
The phone book concentrates these days on businesses rather than individuals, so the crazy thing is that all three directories do the exact same job. Even crazier is that by law, BT have to provide you with a phone book - there's no way you can opt out.
There's now a campaign called Say No To Phonebooks, organised by 192.com - who admittedly have a vested interest! - which is hoping to persuade the government to let us opt out of receiving these waste-of-paper, waste-of-money, waste-of-resources items that no one uses.
On the flip side, how are we then going to show all the women how masculine we are if we've nothing to rip in half?
Would you like to hear some musak while you ponder?...
No, I don't remember either. Which is why it's so frustrating to get one of these behemoths through the door every year, as happened around these here parts yesterday.
Except, we didn't get them through the door, we got them left on the stairs two stories down.
They come wrapped in plastic, and I have to be honest and say they stay wrapped in plastic until such times as I can put them in the recycling bin. I have a large collection of phone books, Yellow Pages and Thomsons Local's going back a fair few years, so I've been steadily going through them and throwing out one every month or so.
The phone book concentrates these days on businesses rather than individuals, so the crazy thing is that all three directories do the exact same job. Even crazier is that by law, BT have to provide you with a phone book - there's no way you can opt out.
There's now a campaign called Say No To Phonebooks, organised by 192.com - who admittedly have a vested interest! - which is hoping to persuade the government to let us opt out of receiving these waste-of-paper, waste-of-money, waste-of-resources items that no one uses.
On the flip side, how are we then going to show all the women how masculine we are if we've nothing to rip in half?
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