The Virtual Pub
Come Inside... => The Library => Topic started by: Pastis on May 18, 2009, 07:28:21 PM
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Does anyone take them anymore? When I say take them I mean subscribed to a monthly/weekly delivery of a magazine?
I remember having a comic as a kid and the one after that was probably Private Eye with the occasional flirtation to some others.
Currently I am getting a couple of unsolicited trade mags on a regular basis, very glossy and upmarket for which I pay not a penny Shrugs: plus the magazines related to membership of a couple of museums. The latest of which has a nekked lady on the front eeek:
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.postimage.org%2FPq3Ba2J.jpg&hash=42e467806aa2f3a893d0974630072ac52b55e93d) (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=Pq3Ba2J)
I wonder that with access to online versions these will sadly become a thing of the past much like newspapers rubschin:
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The Brat was subscribed to a couple of magazines - usual tat for young girls, with collectable pink and glittery things that you store in a 'special ' presentation box after about 3000 editions noooo:
But I cancelled those several years ago.
I did subscribe to a puter one for a while but never read them and just decided it would be better just to buy the ones I wanted Shrugs:
I now just get bombarded with reminders and special offers to subscribe once more evil:
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Well one you won't get solicited about, and I think they've hacked into a national database, is effing Saga evil: I get mail from them about every fortnight promoting Insurance, their effing magazine, their effing holidays... the lot ::)
The ones that do arrive now receive a common treatment:
Hold by the spine firmly over the waste basket and shake until all the freebie postcards, promotions etc have fallen lol:
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I get fast Bikes and SuperBike magazine monthly, although I may well stop doing so as there are rarely any good articles these days.
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I receive a couple of quarterlies associated with membership of societies and, of course, I edit and publish a community magazine for this area. I have no intention of making that available on-line after an unscientific survey conducted by me (basically I asked some people what they thought of the idea) overwhelmingly came down on the side of "But we don't have a computer".
Other than that I cancelled my subscription to Private Eye some couple of years ago because it seemed like the only way they would ever publish a letter from me
"Sir,
I cannot disagree strongly enough with your article etc ...... I am cancelling my subscription immediately.
Yours faithfully
Snoopy"
Such letters, it seemed to me, got published so I thought I would do it as a laugh ~ they didn't publish my letter but they did cancel the subscription eeek: ~ So I thought "Sod 'em" and didn't renew it.
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I get fast Bikes and SuperBike magazine monthly, although I may well stop doing so as there are rarely any good articles these days.
SuperBike is all tits and bums isn't it...? rubschin:
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BM gets some DIY stuff and Goats Weekly, I spect
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BM gets some DIY stuff and Goats Weekly, I spect
Goats 'n Pools (monthly)...
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Spect they give stuff away on the front cover. Lifebelts and flippers and such.......
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eeek:
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Pool Free edition, obviously.
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I receive a couple of quarterlies associated with membership of societies
rubschin:
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It's me uncle!
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I get fast Bikes and SuperBike magazine monthly, although I may well stop doing so as there are rarely any good articles these days.
SuperBike is all tits and bums isn't it...? rubschin:
Gone are the days... noooo:
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Spect they give stuff away on the front cover. Lifebelts and flippers and such.......
Fins! ::)
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Spect they give stuff away on the front cover. Lifebelts and flippers and such.......
Fins! ::)
FINS and flippers then. ::)
No need to get tetchy.
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Spect they give stuff away on the front cover. Lifebelts and flippers and such.......
Fins! ::)
FINS and flippers then. ::)
No need to get tetchy.
lol: lol: lol:
evil:
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To be serious for a moment Mr Wench and I have a few each that get delivered.
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eyes:
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I subscribe to the 'BIS' (http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/) magazine "Spaceflight"
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To be serious for a moment Mr Wench and I have a few each that get delivered.
Those being.... Popcorn:
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To be serious for a moment Mr Wench and I have a few each that get delivered.
Those being.... Popcorn:
Tatler...? whistle:
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He has a cricket and a football one delivered, I have a blog magazine, Martha Stewart and something else that escapes me at the moment. rubschin:
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I get 'The Watchtower' delivered a lot. Does that count?
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I used to save those and give them to the Mormons
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When I was a kid this used to arrive...
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.postimage.org%2FPqpPm3S.jpg&hash=970e664624b187145aac0a36219fb43862ef8c33) (http://www.postimage.org/)
cloud9:
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When I was a kid this used to arrive...
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.postimage.org%2FPqpPm3S.jpg&hash=970e664624b187145aac0a36219fb43862ef8c33) (http://www.postimage.org/)
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But nowadays it's this instead
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noooo:
point:
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Wowzer! Now that's what I call a top shelf magazine eyes:
I mean just look at the ears on her! whistle:
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No, that would be Suicide Weekly ::)
I see you corrected it evil:
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point: Beat ya!
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eeek: