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Original poster

To switch off/glaze over when someone says they're a Sun reader...

44 replies

JeremyVile · 17/05/2007 00:45

....because i do, cant seem to help it!

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MrMariella · 18/05/2007 01:14

Am with you a wee bit there. I do dislike the "oooh I am much better than that." Glaze over , yes. I wouldn't. I would find a great deal more of interest in chatting to a "Sun reader" than alot of 'comfortable' Guardian reading types I come across.

BassMama · 18/05/2007 01:07

How unbelievably snobby and judgemental!

I read the sun, I find the articles quite factual, and straight to the point. As long as you can see past the blatant use of suggestive phrasing then it is a fast, easy way to read up on daily events. And you get a laugh at the same time.

Whats wrong with that?

But then, it is only 10p, and us working class sun-reading folk cant afford the guardian..

MrMariella · 18/05/2007 00:54

The Guardian..Hmm..what exactly are they guarding us against???

Kevlarhead · 18/05/2007 00:45

YANBU BTW. Not in the slightest.

Kevlarhead · 18/05/2007 00:44

I tend to try and divine if they actually believe what the ranting, shrieking, masturbating, screaming chimp-like creatures (AKA journalists) write in their chosen paper.

If they actually believe that the chimps write The Truth, as opposed to The Truth According To Their Multi-Millionaire Owner's Political Agenda And Personal Prejudices, then they're obviously dead from the neck up, and should be treated with sympathy before being humanely destroyed. Or at the very least, avoided for the good of my blood pressure.

Having said, I do read the Daily Mail website. The reason is here . I'm a masochist just like him.

Whoa... did I just write that? Must sleep now...

FlossALump · 17/05/2007 22:11

I heard of someone reading the daily sport - for the sport!

bumposaurus · 17/05/2007 22:08

THAT's what my Dp says...personally, I think its the norks...

lucyellensmum · 17/05/2007 20:58

my dad used to read the Sun, for the crossword!!!!! Bless

Carmenere · 17/05/2007 20:01

I like reading the DM when they give it to you free on an aeroplane or the Sun if someone has left it on the train but I certainly wouldn't buy them.
I read them because it is good to know what is being said in them and I view them as comics for adults.

nickytwotimes · 17/05/2007 19:53

i'll only allow the guardian in the house- total paper snob- so imagine my horror when my aunt turned up flaunting a copy of the previously mentioned dm!!!!!

MrsWho · 17/05/2007 19:47

Yay, more newspaper snobs

southeastastra · 17/05/2007 11:27

yes i feel like that when people start talking about how much their house is worth.

FlossALump · 17/05/2007 11:26

But apparently there was recently an article in the sun claiming giving men oral sex increases your risk of getting oesphogeal cancer. I am now a convert to all things printed in the sun.

AnneJones · 17/05/2007 11:25

Daily Mail readers have that effect on me. We haev the DM and the Express in the staffroom at work. I sometimes flick through them while waiting for lunch in microwave and inevitably get angry and outraged at the narrow-minded scare-tactics. I don't learn though.

unknownrebelbang · 17/05/2007 09:22

YABU.

I glaze over when people say they read most "newspapers".

Freckle · 17/05/2007 09:20

But they don't read do they? Just look at the pretty pictures, surely .....

Pixiefish · 17/05/2007 08:31

Solcredulists

stoppinattwo · 17/05/2007 08:28

hear hear ..............

oggsfrog · 17/05/2007 00:47

You are no longer in a minority of one.

Unite against the comic papers.

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