MX and the bermuda triangle
September 21st 2006 00:14
I love MX 'paper'. Not because it's great, not because it has breaking news, not because it's aesthetically pleasing or well written - because it is none of these things. I love MX because like a handful of smarties; it's a bite size portion of escapism on my train ride home. It takes me from Wynyard to Redfern (where I get off) to read everything except the sports section. It could take me longer, but the last 15 minutes of my work day are usually spent reading msn online to avoid work. By the time MX is in my hands I have read the majority of the articles word for word.
But what baffles me is where does MX go? At all of the major city train stations during peak hour there are MX agents handed out MX from massive stacks. I have seen them there at 5pm with huge towers of MX and by 6pm they have none left and go on home. I can't even estimate all up how many of them they must hand out every day or week, but I am assuming it's alot. So where do they go? I personally take them home and promptly chuck them in the rubbish bin (I would recycle but that's a whole other issue between me and my stingy landlord) but from my observations most people are not so aware of rubbish and usually dump it somewhere. I can hnestly say though I have never seen a copy of MX lying in the gutter, on the train or flowing out of a trash bin... Come to think of it I don't relly see trash bins in public anymore, probably part of the war against terrorism.... Only a few times I saw MX on a bus but that was it. And further, i have never seen and MX agent collecting the discarded MX after peak hour. So where do they go?
Is it possible that by some reason Australian's have all suddenly grown em[pathy for the environement and public servants and are taking MX home to their own rubbish bins like me? Somehow I doubt it... Which makes me wonder, does MX perhaps have a deal set up with Cityrail? Why are they allowed to stand at the entrances of the train turnstyles and block my way to the timetable boards unless cityrail allow them? Surely that is loitering, or illegal hawking or something like that? And in theory you'd theink MX would be littered all over the trains, unless officers on the trains are picking them up as soon as they hit the seats? I want to know! Is cityrail getting a cut of MX advertising?!
But what baffles me is where does MX go? At all of the major city train stations during peak hour there are MX agents handed out MX from massive stacks. I have seen them there at 5pm with huge towers of MX and by 6pm they have none left and go on home. I can't even estimate all up how many of them they must hand out every day or week, but I am assuming it's alot. So where do they go? I personally take them home and promptly chuck them in the rubbish bin (I would recycle but that's a whole other issue between me and my stingy landlord) but from my observations most people are not so aware of rubbish and usually dump it somewhere. I can hnestly say though I have never seen a copy of MX lying in the gutter, on the train or flowing out of a trash bin... Come to think of it I don't relly see trash bins in public anymore, probably part of the war against terrorism.... Only a few times I saw MX on a bus but that was it. And further, i have never seen and MX agent collecting the discarded MX after peak hour. So where do they go?
Is it possible that by some reason Australian's have all suddenly grown em[pathy for the environement and public servants and are taking MX home to their own rubbish bins like me? Somehow I doubt it... Which makes me wonder, does MX perhaps have a deal set up with Cityrail? Why are they allowed to stand at the entrances of the train turnstyles and block my way to the timetable boards unless cityrail allow them? Surely that is loitering, or illegal hawking or something like that? And in theory you'd theink MX would be littered all over the trains, unless officers on the trains are picking them up as soon as they hit the seats? I want to know! Is cityrail getting a cut of MX advertising?!
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Television the drug of a planet
Mumma Mumma
I have contacted the council about our recycling issue and they said it will cost us $300 a year. It's not that much when you think of the planet. But it's a lot to us as we are low income earners with two little kiddies who grow as our bank balances shrink... Maybe I should ask MX to sponsor us