• UK supermarkets to hide newspapers from children
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[B]Two of the UK's leading supermarkets are to change the way they display newspapers because of fears about children being exposed to sexual content. [/B][img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/79198000/jpg/_79198881_de27-1.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30157742[/url]
This sounds like a case of soccer moms complaining for the sake of 'Think about the children!', even though their kid probably looks at porn on their tablet all the time. Alright maybe if they're like, 4, it's a bit different, but you're basically telling people to change how every other age group views things because some kids pointed at a newspaper.
Yes let's shelter children from reality even more, that always works out perfectly
I don't understand the market for sexual content on newspapers. Is that the reason people buy newspapers nowadays?
Since when do they call porno mags newspapers?
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;46550408]Since when do they call porno mags newspapers?[/QUOTE] The Sun has Page 3 which has women topless in it.
[QUOTE=Morbo!!!;46550402]Yes let's shelter children from reality even more, that always works out perfectly[/QUOTE] The front pages of most newspapers are hardly reality.
[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;46550414]The Sun has Page 3 which has women topless in it.[/QUOTE] Yeah, not to mention the rapist headline. "Mommy what's a rapist?"
So newspapers are bad, but women's magazines are OK? There are only a couple of sexualised newspapers, but there are tonnes and tonnes of women's magazines that feature bloodied and beaten images of women and children, idealist body images and sensationalist statements about sex.
Good, now I don't have people thinking I'm a perv' when I go get a gaming magazines as the shop owners LOVE to display them next to the 'Lads Mags' with the big titted models on the front.
Hide UK from children until they are old enough
Making newspapers even less relevant for the next generation, good one!
Why hide everything from children? It's much easier to hide children from everything!
[QUOTE=Chrisordie;46550507]Good, now I don't have people thinking I'm a perv' when I go get a gaming magazines as the shop owners LOVE to display them next to the 'Lads Mags' with the big titted models on the front.[/QUOTE] They know you're looking at gaming mags instead of tits. That's why they think you are a perv. Sorry to break it like that. [editline]22nd November 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=MuffinZerg;46550643]Why hide everything from children? It's much easier to hide children from everything![/QUOTE] This basement, Tommy, is where the government decided you'll live until you're old enough.
[QUOTE=gudman;46550661] This basement, Tommy, is where the government decided you'll live until you're old enough.[/QUOTE] We call it school here
"newspapers"
tabloids are shit. this is only a good thing [editline]22nd November 2014[/editline] this reduces the usefulness of sensationalist headlines on tabloids like DM and the sun. thank fuckin god
[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;46550414]The Sun has Page 3 which has women topless in it.[/QUOTE] I was in the supermarket checkout line a few days ago and there were 3-4 gossip/woman's magazines that had big bold captions "XYZ WAYS TO ACHIEVE ORGASM" over some scantily clad woman. And for whatever reason they were angled forward so they pointed downward :v:
"Mommy, what's an orgasm?" "I'll tell you when you get older, sweetie." Problem solved.
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;46550421]Yeah, not to mention the rapist headline. "Mommy what's a rapist?"[/QUOTE] I used to pronounce it like rap. Whenever I read my mums magazines for no reason I always thought it said "He rapped me". [editline]23rd November 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Thomo_UK;46550414]The Sun has Page 3 which has women topless in it.[/QUOTE] I found the key to my brothers safe and opened it. Inside was a PSP and about 100 cutouts from Page 3.
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;46551438]"Mommy, what's an orgasm?" "I'll tell you when you get older, sweetie." Problem solved.[/QUOTE] ah but i think the fear is that the kid might go around saying "i like orgasm" or "my daddy's an orgasm" or some shit because they don't know what it means, causing embarrassment for the parents and whatnot. i think if they are exposed it would be better to explain what it means and that they shouldn't say it
Not exactly on topic but is it true that newspapers are pretty much dead in the US?
Kids must see the world, how would they be able to do that if they can't see the news, its not like there's some other way to see the news like...TV......or the internet...
[QUOTE=Scot;46552257]Not exactly on topic but is it true that newspapers are pretty much dead in the US?[/QUOTE] No
[QUOTE=007JamesBond007;46552169]I used to pronounce it like rap. Whenever I read my mums magazines for no reason I always thought it said "He rapped me". [/QUOTE] MY FATHER RAPPED ME ON MY WEDDING DAY! [editline]23rd November 2014[/editline] Actually, that would probably be more devastating. My dad is a terrible rapper.
[QUOTE=MuffinZerg;46550683]We call it school here[/QUOTE] We never leave The Vault.
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;46551438]"Mommy, what's an orgasm?" "I'll tell you when you get older, sweetie." Problem solved.[/QUOTE] Actually pretty dangerous. It makes the kid associate getting old with orgasms. Can cause unexpected results. For example kids that ask parents about alchohol and recieve "You will drink it when you areo ld enough" type of response are more likely to have drinking issues later in life.
but what if natural selection causes our whole country to be ruled by a mutated generation of freakishly tall eight year olds!? this will be the fucking doom of our species
I don't get why newspapers are still even a thing. They must solely exist for people as reading material while they are taking a shit.
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;46551438]"Mommy, what's an orgasm?" "I'll tell you when you get older, sweetie." Problem solved.[/QUOTE] :quagmire:
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