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Post by David Hunter on Jun 25, 2004 10:51:49 GMT
In this week's edition there was a bizarre insert. A sheet of peel off Malteesers you're meant to stick beside your favourite shows in the listings so you don't forget they're on! Whoever came up with that marketing idea really needs to take 2 weeks off and lie down in a darkened room.
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Post by mikemk on Jun 25, 2004 12:01:55 GMT
I'll look out for those tomorrow - I'm glad you told us because I usually chuck all the inserts in the bin Tesco's thoughtfully provides for junk. Hopefully they are 2D not 3D.
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Post by QuincyMD on Jun 25, 2004 13:58:23 GMT
I'll look out for those tomorrow - I'm glad you told us because I usually chuck all the inserts in the bin Tesco's thoughtfully provides for junk. Hopefully they are 2D not 3D. I do that in newsagents, if there is a fall out sheet for insurance etc then I just dump it on top of a paper I on't like, normally The Guardian, and I also do the same with motoring supplements which are the most tedious thing ever. I couldn't give a flying sig for the 0-60 time for an Astra. And why are motoring supplements given away on the same day as the jobs section?
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Post by rondette on Jun 25, 2004 17:53:26 GMT
I'm guilty of the old 'dump 'n run' technique when it comes to magazine inserts. Our Tescos has a bin next to the magazines SPECIALLY for putting all the inserts in. I guess a lot of us shake out the magazines before buying.
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Post by zaffra on Jul 23, 2004 16:00:13 GMT
Have you seen the cover for next weeks RT? It's got Joanna Lumley on it, she's recreating an old pose (from the 70's?) which is printed along side it. She looks really good and has aged very well, yes she's older, but still beautiful.
Inside they have done the same with some other actress'. Britt Ekland looks awful, It's so obvious that she's had cosmetic sugery.
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Post by elmsyrup on Jul 23, 2004 16:49:13 GMT
if there is a fall out sheet for insurance etc then I just dump it on top of a paper I don't like, normally The Guardian Gasp! How can you not like The Guardian?!
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Post by QuincyMD on Jul 26, 2004 14:09:33 GMT
Gasp! How can you not like The Guardian?!Cos it puts forward a political agenda that I do not agree with, namely supporting The Labour Party, plus Doonesbury is just not funny, plus it's so politically correct that I fear all of the staff vanished up their own arses in 1980.
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Post by elmsyrup on Jul 26, 2004 17:21:06 GMT
Doonesbury is just not funny I don't understand Doonesbury at all. I'm not sure it's supposed to be funny, though.
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Post by QuincyMD on Jul 27, 2004 9:26:30 GMT
I don't understand Doonesbury at all. I'm not sure it's supposed to be funny, though. I actually prefer Garfield to Doonesbury and lets not get started on The Far Side where upon getting cows to speak can make you millions.
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Post by klee on Jul 27, 2004 9:57:00 GMT
Steve Bell's cartoons in The Guardian are almost worth the cover price on their own. I used to buy it all the time, but now I only take it for the jobs on a Monday and on a Saturday for the books coverage, which is rather good.
As for the journalism, it can turn in a good investigative piece now and then (there was an excellent expose of the mismanagement behind privatising BR a few months ago) but it's fundamentally let down by this awful new-left triumphalist tone. As though we should all fall down on our knees and praise the Lord Labour are in, even though the fact they're a load of hippies who got mugged makes them far more reactionary than most dyed in the wool Tories.
The real world and The Guardian seldom measure up to each other, as far as I can see.
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Post by ste on Jul 27, 2004 13:31:31 GMT
I actually prefer Garfield to Doonesbury yes, it is so heartwarming when the cat is lazy
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Post by flum on Jul 27, 2004 19:38:15 GMT
I do that in newsagents, if there is a fall out sheet for insurance etc then I just dump it on top of a paper I on't like I used to put those inserts into newspapers for my job. It always gave me a happy warm glow to know that my work was being appreciated by the recipients.
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Post by Cherubic on Aug 15, 2004 20:22:48 GMT
but it's fundamentally let down by this awful new-left triumphalist tone. As though we should all fall down on our knees and praise the Lord Labour are in, even though the fact they're a load of hippies who got mugged makes them far more reactionary than most dyed in the wool Tories. I find the Independent much more cringeworthy in it's right-onness and backing for anything mildly leftwing ever without thinking about it. The Guardian is a good paper in that it carries more stories about foreign issues than most of the others, isn't run by fascists (or even by anyone with a personal ulterior motive) and makes an small (if largely failed) effort to eschew metropolitan bias. If only it was still called the Manchester Guardian it would be perfect. Well maybe not, but claose.
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Post by frap on Oct 5, 2004 0:07:05 GMT
Gasp! How can you not like The Guardian?!Easily?
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Post by Jonny on Oct 7, 2004 18:36:56 GMT
Dry wit, thy name is Penisero
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Post by elmsyrup on Oct 9, 2004 16:43:24 GMT
Dry wit, thy name is Penisero And did you think nobody would notice THAT?
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