360 Issue 14 Feedback

[Sasso Palmieri]

buy Potato Storage International.

where on earth do you get some of this random **** from neil?

Far from random. Watch Have I Got News...and take note of the quotes in the last round from the most obscure and made-up-sounding publications ever. PSI was one that stuck and then became the subject of a (terminated) attempt to get freelance from the most ridiculous titles, then publish it in Agenda as a ****-take.

[The Gladiator]

I can't remember whether she got paid or not, but she did literally fit that description.

[The Gladiator]

Far from random. Watch Have I Got News...and take note of the quotes in the last round from the most obscure and made-up-sounding publications ever. PSI was one that stuck and then became the subject of a (terminated) attempt to get freelance from the most ridiculous titles, then publish it in Agenda as a ****-take.

Strangely enough I also know someone who's written for one of those magazines. I think it was "Cement Mixer News" or something like that. For all I know maybe he's still working there. He was a suitably dull, boring, bland man.

[Sasso Palmieri]

While I agree with you in principle, I can attest to having met plenty of people who thought videogames were boring and that I was a geek for actually being paid to play them. Perhaps Coach Driver Weekly is the rebirth of the cool (to use a Miles Davis-ism).

[MEEX]

God, I hope not...Rambling FTW...
Once coach driving gets a decent following the transport system will surely collapse...

[Curley]

Of course people who write for the BI get paid - and of course they should do. It's a business, not a charity, that's the whole point of the BI. Do people who sell it aren't beggers, they're vendors - workers. I know a few people who've freelanced for it.

But when I say they should do, I mean they should do it they did a good job. Which they don't. £1.20 a issue, and it sells six figures, just likes Nuts and Zoo. The economics of it don't weigh up, the cut the vendors get's probably not much more than the cut WH Smiths and the distributors get from a normal magazine.

**** it - action, not words, gonna pitch some ideas there way, make myself a few quid and make the mag better.

1. A piece on the re-housing project in the North East will do for starters, followed by an angry column on why the goverment should do more to help people get re-homed ... oh jesus.

[MEEX]

I feel a reversal within the force...

[The Gladiator]

While I agree with you in principle, I can attest to having met plenty of people who thought videogames were boring and that I was a geek for actually being paid to play them.

Sure, we're boring in our own particular way, but this guy was boring in every way. I'm not saying that he was "into" cement mixers, but I wouldn't put it past him.