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Previously on "So bored with CUK I've gone and begun a subscription with The Times"

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  • scooterscot
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    Originally posted by doodab View Post
    It's good to absorb a wide spectrum of viewpoints & analysis, and particularly to listen to those you disagree with.
    Yes it is. Kind of like know thy enemy. I also read recruitment weekly "how to milk the cows into submission" and der spiegel from time to time.

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  • doodab
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    Why are you not buying local newspapers? You cannot possibly be interested in the UK after all the sweeping critical generalisations you seem to enjoy making against it.
    You are a European now and the Times is as anti Euro and anti federalist as you can get.
    It's good to absorb a wide spectrum of viewpoints & analysis, and particularly to listen to those you disagree with.

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  • DodgyAgent
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    No annoying advert telling me 'Expat abroad, you need an account with £$bl32'

    Why are you not buying local newspapers? You cannot possibly be interested in the UK after all the sweeping critical generalisations you seem to enjoy making against it.
    You are a European now and the Times is as anti Euro and anti federalist as you can get.

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  • scooterscot
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    Giles Coren

    He tells it like it is.


    Giles Coren reviews Massimo, London SW1

    The dining room is vast and made of marble. The ceiling is so high that if you brought the Hubble telescope in here it would eventually start beaming back images of the cornicing only long after your grandchildren had died.
    Last edited by scooterscot; 2 July 2011, 11:02.

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  • doodab
    replied
    Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
    Buying papers is a mug's game now.
    I bought 2 rolls yesterday. I suppose I could have gone to macdonalds instead.

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  • OwlHoot
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post

    Not paying for news. Hoping I'm paying for quality journalism, the Guardian and Torygraph are becoming so repetitive and predictable.
    They've all gone down the drain in the last couple of years.

    I was paying for the Times or the Mail a few weeks ago, to read on the tube, thinking a freebie like the Metro must be a worthless rag.

    But I've stopped now, having found the Metro is as good, or no less bad, than the others.

    Buying papers is a mug's game now.

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  • scooterscot
    replied
    No annoying advert telling me 'Expat abroad, you need an account with £$bl32'

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Originally posted by Troll View Post
    But let us know how you get on - it will be interesting to compare the written word with big pictures
    FTFY

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  • Troll
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    Not paying for news. Hoping I'm paying for quality journalism, the Guardian and Torygraph are becoming so repetitive and predictable.
    I'm not sure you'll get quality journalism, mostly opinion these days- although their lead sports and science writers used to be OK- but I'm not sure if they still write

    But let us know how you get on - it will be interesting to compare free with paid for

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  • MarillionFan
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    Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
    When a man is tired of CUK, he is tired of life, as Dr Johnson would have said.....if he had a login.

    HTH
    Bet that wasn't in his dictionary.

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  • shaunbhoy
    replied
    When a man is tired of CUK, he is tired of life, as Dr Johnson would have said.....if he had a login.

    HTH

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  • MarillionFan
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    £2 p/w

    What would I get for a £5?

    News. Doom. House prices. What I had for lunch and a hand shandy & free chips from a greasy spoon owner in Bute. (though actually not sure that last bit is a good deal)

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  • scooterscot
    replied
    Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
    Give me £5 a week and I promise CUK will be more exciting.
    £2 p/w

    What would I get for a £5?

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  • scooterscot
    replied
    Originally posted by Troll View Post


    You pay for news... how quaint
    Not paying for news. Hoping I'm paying for quality journalism, the Guardian and Torygraph are becoming so repetitive and predictable.

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  • MarillionFan
    replied
    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    Reviews to follow...
    Give me £5 a week and I promise CUK will be more exciting.

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