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Post by Bridgey on Apr 3, 2005 13:38:36 GMT
Is it really a sparklier version of Take a Break?
Bridgey xxz
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Post by Cherubic on Apr 3, 2005 23:29:15 GMT
On Friday I saw a woman harrangue the staff of a newsagent because she couldn't find a copy of take a break.
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Post by lowculture.co.uk on Apr 3, 2005 23:43:06 GMT
Pick Me Up is a treat. Someone I work with has started inventing ridiculous things to try to win money by writing in with her ideas.
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Post by Bridgey on Apr 4, 2005 14:44:44 GMT
On Friday I saw a woman harrangue the staff of a newsagent because she couldn't find a copy of take a break. That raised my suspicions. I saw that and "Full House" in Borders but none of "Take a Break" and "That's Life" - I think they have been rejigged and relaunched. Oh, and what other songs should be bastardised into jingle-friendly magazines? Bridgey xxx |
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Post by startrak on Apr 5, 2005 23:15:58 GMT
Pick Me Up is for crap women who wear leggings, watch The Paul O Grady Show and go to Bingo.
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Post by puppydogstail on Apr 6, 2005 0:56:55 GMT
Pick Me Up is for crap women who wear leggings, watch The Paul O Grady Show and go to Bingo. This would be me if I were a woman! |
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Post by Danniiboy on Apr 12, 2005 12:00:22 GMT
Now that is nothing to be proud of. These magazines are just Closer/Heat/Star etc for the older woman, who likes reading true life stories about people who have had terrible things happen in their lives, and makes them feel much better for being fat and ugly, but the truth is their lives are just as bad!
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Post by SweatShop on Apr 12, 2005 16:29:38 GMT
Pick Me Up is for crap women who wear leggings, watch The Paul O Grady Show and go to Bingo. I don't read Pick Me Up, though I do watch Paul O Grady and wore leggings when I was 5 or 6. Oh, and I don't go to the bingo. |
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Post by groopie on Apr 13, 2005 12:56:05 GMT
I've always wanted to go to the Bingo, even before it was in trendy adverts dontcha know. Anyone in the Manchester area fancy it?
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Post by klee on Apr 13, 2005 14:21:53 GMT
What, the Gala one in Didsbury, or BingoJesus in Hulme?
I used to read Take A Break during my breaks (funnily enough) when I was a teenager working in a butcher's shop with a load of middle aged women.
These magazines Our Tune in print form.
In this week's issue: "She was sixteen, he was eighty-four. They fell in love, he shagged her sister, they had four disabled babies and then she got terminal cancer."
I'll get my leggings.
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Post by Nick on Apr 13, 2005 15:29:25 GMT
I can see BingoJesus from my bus stop, and I can see my bus stop from my bedroom window, so it's ALMOST as though I can see BingoJesus from my bedroom window, but I can't, I don't think.
Reader's Digest only offer £100 for anecdotes now. How come? Fuckers.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2005 12:08:55 GMT
BingoJesus got arrested for illegally trafficking underage girls and getting them in and out of the country hidden in boxes and stuff. It was in the Manchester Reporter.
ALSO: I bought Pick Me Up once, to use in a collage. I was incredibly entertained. My favourite was the travel article, "SPAIN: Where in the World Is It?" There was also a competition where you had to guess how many chips there were in a bowl of chips.
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Post by JonSpice on Apr 26, 2005 20:58:12 GMT
Pick Me Up is for crap women who wear leggings, watch The Paul O Grady Show and go to Bingo. That's the funniest thing I've read all day. I'm not meant to do this, but I will:  |
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Post by toby3000 on May 1, 2005 15:39:31 GMT
What I love is how grossly insensitive the headline is in relation to the story. 'Happy Birthday; You're Dead' being a favourite.
Send a picture of a baby or some middle aged man (pretend he's your husband) and they'll give you money.
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Post by JonSpice on May 24, 2005 8:02:42 GMT
I had a pop-up advertising bingo while reading this thread.
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Post by parsnip on Aug 11, 2005 7:12:58 GMT
We buy it for a laugh sometimes at work. The crap jokes and the 'Useful Household tips' are our favorites. Every week it seems to feature using kitchen roll tubes for something, cutting the top off a plastic bottle and using it to hold flowers ('nobody noticed!'). The best yet though is the GENIUS who wrote in telling of how she puts hairnets on her feet when in the shower to prevent her from slipping. With a picture. Awesomeness.
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Post by SBaholic on Aug 17, 2005 20:06:49 GMT
The best household tip has got to be putting spoons on your wall, as they make great decorations. Genius!
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Post by spore on Aug 24, 2005 15:36:48 GMT
What I love is how grossly insensitive the headline is in relation to the story. 'Happy Birthday; You're Dead' being a favourite. Yes, it's rather excellent. "My husband's dying of bowel cancer - and it's saved our marriage!" I also love the way Pick Me Up articles are always written in the first person and the journalist's name is never printed. It almost feels like I'm reading a piece of short fiction. Which, I suppose, I am. We should write some of our own and send them in. I Clubbed Our Babies to Death Sleepwalking!When Bertha Bigley, 31, woke one morning to find her 6-month-old twins bludgeoned to death in their cots, and a golf club clasped in her hands, and some brain all up the shaft, she was quite distraught.It was a few weeks after the twins were born that I started walking in my sleep. My boyfriend Ewan, 22, was the first to notice. To begin with he thought I was just getting up to go to the toilet, but when he listened he couldn’t hear the noises... |
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Post by lowculture.co.uk on Aug 24, 2005 21:42:04 GMT
Pick Me Up is a treat. Someone I work with has started inventing ridiculous things to try to win money by writing in with her ideas. Update! My workmate has recently received the sum of £15 from Pick Me Up following publication of the hint she submitted (it was a rather unlikely suggestion involving turning an old dishcloth into a means of displaying jewellery). My favourite Pick Me Up coverline, for the record, was "My Saucy Swede Did The Dirty Deed". |
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Post by Steven on Aug 29, 2005 11:47:20 GMT
I bought Pick Me Up once to read on a coach when I couldn't get a Take A Break (because Take A Break will always be the quintessential read for a long coach journey), and I thought it was a total swizz. The headline on the front was something like "Tornado Hell: My Face Was Found 15 Miles Away", and I thought I was in for some fantastic gore and tales of miraculous plastic surgery.
Then I read the actual article and it turned out the headline came from a throwaway sentence near the end where they found a photograph, post-tornado, 15 miles from her house.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2005 21:16:17 GMT
That is the joy of Pick Me Up. "I died seven times!" followed by "says woman who has had lots of past life regression."
I quite like their competitions, which - last time I bought it, at least - were fronted by a gym instructor called Steve. One of his quizzes was " Guess how many chips are in the bowl." Gym... chips. It's like two ends of a spectrum at once.
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Post by Steven on Aug 30, 2005 13:33:33 GMT
What happened to Puzzlin' Paul? (I think that was his name, anyway.)
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Post by toby3000 on Aug 31, 2005 23:27:21 GMT
The headline on the front was something like "Tornado Hell: My Face Was Found 15 Miles Away", and I thought I was in for some fantastic gore and tales of miraculous plastic surgery. Then I read the actual article and it turned out the headline came from a throwaway sentence near the end where they found a photograph, post-tornado, 15 miles from her house. We had that one, and I didn't understand it for age until I eventually realised that it was the photo. I laughed foolishly at the sleep walking story. I also just found a Bella with the promiseing front page promiseing stories like 'An evil monster wreaked my childhood- Then Married My Mum!' and We Let doctors cut off his feet- NOW HE CAN WALK. Shoudl be good reading! |
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Post by Danniiboy on Nov 9, 2005 19:05:11 GMT
These magazines are so chavtastic it's unreal. Why would any sane person want the whole nation reading about some tragedy in their life? If something terrible happened to me, I wouldn't want anyone knowing about it. It reminds me a little bit of when people stop and stare at car crashes. I'd slit my wrists after reading a whole issue of Pick Me Up!
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Post by boxedjoy on Jan 6, 2007 21:23:59 GMT
"What's that? The baby's head won't stop growing? Get the camera, we could make £500 out this! Then push it down the stairs and we'll send the film into You've Been Framed!"
Inspired tips from this weeks copy include an alternative to soap and water for washing dead skin on your feet in the form of a pan scourer, and the classy girl who didn't get slippers for Christmas, so decided to fabricate her own using sewable fabric Santa faces and sanitary towels. The latter came complete with picture.
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