Car Magazines banned / sensored
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MitchT said:
The irony of them not selling car magazines on pollution grounds while the majority of their core demographic, while not remotely interested in cars, rock up in colossal w
kpanzers.
It might sound bizarre, but "petrolheads" are an easy target for stuff like this. They/we are an easily identifiable group, and most people aren't in it. Quite easy to turn "a group" into "an out-group". Welcome to the 21st Century.kpanzers.I'm waiting for the day when they stop selling...
Angling mags (polluting rivers with discarded tackle and litter, and cruelty to fish)
Golfing mags (when was the last time you heard of golfers turning up at the course on foot or on the No 23 bus?)
Cycling mags (too much unnecessary, non-recyclable carbon fibre, much like golf, and too much driving to "nice" places to ride)
Shooting mags (yes, "country folk" are peak Waitrose, but the ordinary 'man on the Clapham omnibus' is unlikely to be a gun owner/user)
They'd have a far greater positive impact on the environment if they banned lamb from New Zealand, cash crop vegetables from Africa and Asia, salads and soft fruits from Spain, tulips from Amsterdam, and Avo-bloody-cados from absolutely anywhere. But none of that is "good business" so they won't do it. But Tarquin and Evangeline will continue to lecture you "because V8s are bad" while they fly away for a fortnight in the Maldives, or tool around in some Korean built electric SUV, buying imported vegetables with exotic names and telling you to stop mincing up the poor lamby-wambies and switch to growing strawberries and wheat on hill farms a thousand feet above sea level. But it's the lobbying against "polluting hobbies" magazines from the Sebastians and Isabellas of this world that Waitrose will listen to, not a bunch of middle-aged men moaning about having to go somewhere else to get their fix of Evo or Classic Car Monthly.
ZedLeg said:
Iv always have a little chuckle when I go into a newsagent that still has top shelf mags. You hardly see them any more.
Yes, they're a very rare sight these days. Although I went into a newsagent in Woodstock this week and they had a full "top shelf" with a lot of familiar titles surviving from my youth. We'd gone into a Co-op store, initially, to buy a newspaper, but "we don't sell daily papers, we only have the Oxford Mail", so we went into the newsagent a couple of doors along. I'm surprised the traditional "top shelf grot mag" survives at all in the internet age, if I'm honest.I stopped buying print magazines ages ago. I used to buy cycling mags, and read them avidly, cover-to-cover, but it eventually became apparent that they were just rehashing the same seasonal rotation of stories/articles and there was very little actual "new content" in them. I had a couple bought for me when I was laid up with a broken leg s few years ago, and I foolishly bought a mountain biking mag about three months ago but never got around to reading much of it at all. And they're pretty poor value for money if you're barely going to dip into them.
Sorry to disappoint the OP in this thread, but on Saturday I went into Waitrose in Ringwood, and they had a number of different car and motorcycle magazines. I'd have taken a "custard" picture of them, but was getting the "Paddington Bear stare" from my wife. Titles I definitely remember there were 'Octane', and 'Classic And Sports Car', among others. So it would appear that it isn't any sort of national policy at Waitrose to ditch these titles. #fakenews
av185 said:
Well I got up at 5.30a.m last Thursday and ran down to the newsagents to get the latest Autotrader magazine hot off the press to ring up and view the latest bargains before any fker else did.
In all my excitement I suddenly realised it was 2023 and not 2003.......
You must be a lot younger than me!ker else did.In all my excitement I suddenly realised it was 2023 and not 2003.......
The last time I bought Autotrader regularly it wasn't even called that. It was called the Thames Valley Trader. Was a regional mag then. Got going and then appeared in other regions until becoming Auto Trader in the late 1980s. Used to buy a copy regularly on a Thurs. I bought a few cars via it, but most especially do recall 'buying a car' from it in 1981 and so glad it was only 'regional' then otherwise I'd not have got the car.
I'd actually bought the mag on the Thursday, but hadn't had time to read it.
Sat down Sunday and did read it while eating breakfast.
My eyes popped, bloody hell! It was a really rare car (only 2 - of the example in question - ever made)... rang the number immediately and the guy says: 'Yep, still have it. Several interested buyers coming to see it at midday today...'
Grabbed his address, jumped in my car for the roughly 40 mile journey. Dismayed as I got there to see several people viewing it. Some made offers after a test drive. I had my test drive - I kept mum. Seller refused offers - he wanted his asking price. While the haggling continued he came over to me and asked if I was willing to pay the full price? I said yes.
Long story short I got the car. Buyer said he wanted me to have it - Why? I'd turned up in the same marque! (but a different model).
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