Topic: Times readers fall after paywall

[Clive]

More than 100,000 people pay to go behind the Times and Sunday Times' new online paywalls but visits to their websites have fallen by about 87%.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11671984

[Simon]

I guess the true test will be, how many renew their initial subscriptions.

[chorleydave]

Who would want to pay to read THAT garbage - especially online.  At least the hard copy is useful for wrapping fish and chips or wiping your ar5e on when you've run out of loo roll.

[Simon]

Doesn't flush too easily, though.  So I'm told. 

[Clive]

It did when we had proper toilets with the high cisterns!   

[Rik]

Getting the printers' ink off your skin is another matter, of course.

[Simon]

Yes, they would flush anything!   It was like a tsunami! 

[Rik]

Always wear wellies...

[Simon]

That was before flushing! 

[GillE]

We insisted on getting a high-level cistern to replace our old one when it finally cracked.  They're not easy to source!  We had to visit a manufacturer in the end, which fortunately for us is based only twenty minutes away.

Sadly, modern cisterns are not allowed to hold more than about two-thirds of the water of the old ones.  This is an EU measure to conserve water.  As a result, it now takes several flushes to get rid of traces whereas the old cisterns used to manage it with one flush.

Penny wise, pound foolish.

[Simon]

Is 'traces' the polite term for skid marks? 

[GillE]

'Traces' is the polite word for what remains in the toilet when the first flush doesn't quite do the job  .

[Simon]

That's what I meant!  Nothing worse than a floater, especially in someone elses house! 

[daveeb]

That's what I meant!  Nothing worse than a floater, especially in someone elses house! 

Just cut out all fruit, veg, wholemeal bread and cereals from your diet and the floater problem takes care of itself 

[Simon]