AIBU to think we still need hard copies of the Yellow Pages?

[Njordsgrrrl]

Or it is destroying the planet?

How else will J.R Hartley types find their book about Fly Fishing? Or AAAA Plumbers?

I'm on the fence.

We still get them, they are about an inch thick here

Jr Hartley didn't have the internet though most businesses are online these days?

I think JR Hartley might be dead by now...

Whit? J.R Hartley can't be dead. He was in fine fettle in the ads only, er, a few years ago. Bless him. I bet he quite liked ringing all those bookshops instead of looking on Amazon / eBay.

Showing your age op - first shown in 1983

We still get the ultra thin version too but think it is getting discontinued in the next couple of years

Poor Mr Hartley. If he had just had access to Amazon. Can you imagine how huge that poor pensioner's BT bill would have been?!

Don't they recognise how old rubbish is at the tip by the layers of yellow pages or something?

TheKids

Did someone actually publish that off the back of the yellow pages ads?!

I'll keep the one we have got as the landline phone sits on it.

Yes - someone bought me a copy - it was awful

I've got the music from the advert in my head now

at J.R Hartleys BT bill.

1983? I was twelve. Always liked him, poor old soul.

"Oh you doooo. That's wonderful! < arm swing>

Oh and there's the French polishing one with Max from Eastenders.

@Sohurt17 It's genius when you think about it. How many internet searches are going to show your book up if you entitled it that and your pen name was JR Hartley? Brilliant. And how many people bought it simply because of those adverts?
Very clever author.

And how many kids won't get that mistletoe kiss now the books are thinner than a Biff and Kipper book?!

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We no longer have them. I am glad because we never used them and they would go straight into the recycling. Google is a necessary bitch these days.

TheKidsAreTakingMySanity

And what about all the strongmen who can no longer demonstrate their prowess by tearing a Yellow Pages book in half?

The music 😭 and the mistletoe kisses.

You wankers.

I'm off to watch Watership Down. It won't make me cry as much.

If they're still supplied because of all us old folks without access to t'internet then it's pointless because the print is far too small to read.