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Question London Evening Read

Name your read


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I use to struggle to find enough worth reading in the London ****e or the London only-good-for-Toilet-Paper to keep me occupied when I had a 5 minute tube ride back from work. When I changed jobs and faced an 11 minute commute, I stopped reading those papers entirely.

The commute back for most of you guys has to be about 45 minutes to an hour, how do you cope if that is your reading material? The Metro in the morning isn't quite as bad, and the Sport one on a Friday is readable, but otherwise I find I come out knowing less than when I started.

Wel the trick is, you read the paper which for me takes 20 mins front to back (I read pretty much all of it) and then I flip to the Su doku and have a stab at the middle difficulty one. If I can complete it by the time I get to Rayleigh then it counts as a successful train journey.
 
Lite and the London Paper take me to about Limehouse. Then I go back to my book/podcast.

Oh and Shortlist on a Thursday is a bit of a diversion.
 
I get very irritated when people shoot me dirty looks for reading their free paper over their shoulder on the train/DLR.

It's not like they paid for it.


I agree wholly with you there... if you havent paid for it, then its fair game.

As with YB's comment.. i only read the Lite on my tube journey from Oxford Circus to Bank (9-11 mins)

For the main commute, out comes the trusty old PSP.
 
Only because you got a mention! No, seriously, I loved the Bohemian Rhapsody using footballers' names.

The Now Show's a good laugh as well.

Ha ha. If only I could claim credit for Bohemian Rhapsody using footballers' names. That was possibly the greatest moment in broadcasting history.
 
I used to read the Echo on the way home but as it is now available for the morning journey, my evenings tend to be filled with reading scripts or technical documents or chatting to the TFS in rare occasion end up on the same train.

Podcasts: John Richardson, Adam & Joe, Dilbert Animated and The Friday Night Comedy
 
I used to read the Echo on the way home but as it is now available for the morning journey, my evenings tend to be filled with reading scripts or technical documents or chatting to the TFS in rare occasion end up on the same train.

Podcasts: John Richardson, Adam & Joe, Dilbert Animated and The Friday Night Comedy

What's the Friday Night Comedy?
 
I used to read the Echo on the way home but as it is now available for the morning journey, my evenings tend to be filled with reading scripts or technical documents or chatting to the TFS in rare occasion end up on the same train.

Podcasts: John Richardson, Adam & Joe, Dilbert Animated and The Friday Night Comedy


dont see you on the train too much these days mate. What one you getting?
 
I read City AM in the morning because it is about as much business information as I want to digest each day plus it isn't full of celebrity related borax.

I also felt compelled to read Cityboy in The London Paper for some reason despite thinking the author was a vanden plas stroker.

Speaking of which, I've written a fair amount for City AM. Us S(tr)oke(r)s get all over the place in your chosen literature.
 
Its all about the London Lite! For all three reasons that Dave mentioned! I even have a selected distributor that I always get from too! I find the London Paper ones try and Karate chop you with a paper if they already see you carrying a Lite.

Text column is great. I have had 3 texts in one week go into the Lite and Bitter sports section a month or two ago about women in football if anyone say them?!
did you go on a date with that gooner then?
 
I think the only redeeming factors for any free paper are:

- Having a big picture of Freddy Eastwood when Southend beat Man Utd
- USUALLY, the Metro pictures page on the second page
- the Science bit in the Metro used to be quite good but sometimes is just dull
- Reader texts in London Lite (although the good ones seem to have been diluted since everyone realised how good these are)
- Reading the texts from readers invariably ending in ", drink?" and directed at "the stunning blonde" getting some public transport somewhere who its pretty much fair to say would never engage in any relationship based on a public column in a paper.
- Making funny solutions to the pictionary type puzle in the Lite.
- The betting column in thelondonpaper - for comedy and occasional good tips.
- My frequent appearances in the soundbytes when friends working for the paper clearly can't be bothered to actually approach the general public. Actually, my creative hands are normally tied on these.


My answer to the actual question is that I don't pick up a free paper for the 20 minute walk to work. I think I used to be londonpaper but I didn't have much choice
 
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Thanks everyone - just in case I started to feel homesick being reminded of the commute to London, and the fact I no longer have to do it, has made me feel much better.
 

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