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...but it is cursed with belligerent pricks trying to sell it to me.

Out of choice when we want to read a newspaper, my dad reads the Telegraph, I read the Times. Both have good sports sections and are pleasingly devoid of tabloid crap and alliteration. I typically only read at home or when I am away from an internet computer, when I don't have access to BBC News Online that does a perfectly good job in their stead.

All this is being offered as proof that I am not badly disposed towards the Times.

Today, outside the SU shop, that same newspaper have set up a stall giving away free copies and merchandise, staffed by campus reps. As I walked past, one of them, in clothes not unlike my own mono-black work attire though sporting a pair of fishnet gloves to boot, came out enthusiastically with "You wanna Times today, Mr Cool?"

Mr. Cool?

I simply had to turn back and question it. "In you sunny's, Mr. Cool - you wanna Times?"

I shouldn't have bothered. With a mumbled expression of how I wear my shades for medical reasons, I made myself scarce before I screamed at her. What kind of raving tosspots are these that are trying to sell me a quality newspaper?

I wear my sunglasses because when I went to get my eyes checked, I said they were sensitive to natural light and the optician said, "I suggest you find yourself a good pair of UV-block sunglasses. Ray-Ban or Oakley are a good bet." So I went a bought a pair of Oakleys - Ray-Bans, with glass lenses and metal frames, are too prone to breaking if I drop them, and the Black Iridium series lenses I have in my current Oakleys let less light through anyway.

In short, I don't wear them because I am trying to affect a style. I wear them because it hurts if I take them off. You see someone wearing shades where everyone else doesn't, there has to be a reason for it. Don't assume it's because they are trying to be cool. If I were carrying a white cane as well you wouldn't dare.

Worst advert for a quality newspaper I have ever had the misfortune to be subjected to.
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