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to think Sun readers are as lowlife as the hackers

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moogster1a · 27/04/2012 09:27

That's it really. Anyone who is aware of the Sun's treatment of people such as Millie Dowler's parents, and of Ann Diamond is as complicit and scuzzy as the people at the Sun who condoned it.

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DPrince · 27/04/2012 14:32

The drinks you buy doesn't raise money for Chelsea, does it

Nancy66 · 27/04/2012 14:32

Bonnie - no, they did not do it. The Daily Sport did it - not The Sun

Pinkshoes2 · 27/04/2012 14:34

How are you a pervert for liking page 3? lol It is outdated etc but i dont think only perverts look at it.
Have you caught your bf/partner/dh or whatever you have looking at it?

WorraLiberty · 27/04/2012 14:34

I'm not sure what year the Sun went online

But I'd hazzard a guess then that you went at least 30yrs, hating a newspaper you'd never actually even looked at.

Now that is bizarre

frikinfabulous · 27/04/2012 14:36

the sun does have alot for answer for but imo they do alot of good if it were'nt for them would we have sarahs law, help for heroes just to name a few no i don't think we would and as for you saying that all readers are scuzzy lowlives is bvu.

anyway im off to have a Brew and read my scuzzy paper

hairylemon · 27/04/2012 14:37

I like this game

"My DH's cock fell into the freezer and thats why our son is a fish finger"

oh wait that was the Sport wasnt it Hmm

WorraLiberty · 27/04/2012 14:39

That's actually a sport hairylemon?? Shock

I wonder how well we'll do in the Olympics Grin

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moogster1a · 27/04/2012 14:39

Not that bizarre. I'm quite certain in my dislike of far right propaganda pamphlets but I've never seen any. Likewise I'm never read any paedophilic magazines but again, am pretty confident I don't like them.
I also have a hatred of golfing magazines without having ever read one.

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SuePurblyingoodVOICE · 27/04/2012 14:41

Help for Heroes isn't run by the Sun, is it? And they don't back that or campaigns like the one for Sarah's Law because they're such lovely, lovely people. They do it to sell papers and for the PR. It's not 'doing a lot of good' in the altruistic sense.

So pinkshoes are you saying that you think having topless teenagers in the mainstream press is a good thing? Just a bit of harmless fun for the menz?

WorraLiberty · 27/04/2012 14:41

Yeah bit different to a newspaper though, no?

I mean all of those things just contain the one subject.

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moogster1a · 27/04/2012 14:42

I also never said I'd never seen it. Of course I've seen the front page when waitig in chippies etc. I said I'd never bought it and people who are readers of it ( implying more than a glance at the front page every 6 months) are scuzzy,

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WorraLiberty · 27/04/2012 14:42

And perhaps the womenz

Remember some womenz read page threez tooz

Nancy66 · 27/04/2012 14:43

chippies....ewww - how common.....

BonnieBumble · 27/04/2012 14:43

To all of those of you who do read it, can I ask why?

WorraLiberty · 27/04/2012 14:43

Ok OP so all those people are scuzzy and you're not.

Better now?

donnie · 27/04/2012 14:43

yes, the Sun is a ghastly dumbed down soft porn gossip rag for people who don't really want to know about anything important. If you buy it then you are paying money for teenaged girls to be turned into sex objects and regarded as nothing more than a pair of tits and an arse. You are paying for people's lives to be ruined, for door-stepping, ambulance chasing and a celebration of all that is mediocre, written in the vocabulary of someone verging on illiterate.

We pay our money and we make our choices. SardineQueen is right.

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moogster1a · 27/04/2012 14:44

Where did I say it was common? Scuzzy is the word, scuzzy.

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southeastastra · 27/04/2012 14:44

agree with sardine

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moogster1a · 27/04/2012 14:45

take it you're a reader of the fine publication then Worra? As a few people have asked, Why on earth do you read it?

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WorraLiberty · 27/04/2012 14:45

Or if you read it online donnie

For the love of sweet baby cheeses don't forget the online people who are paying for that too.

Nancy66 · 27/04/2012 14:46

No, that's just my view moogster - you go to the chippy therefore you must be common. Thick too probably.

hairylemon · 27/04/2012 14:46

Page 3 is actually quite ejucational, the commentaries are very insightful when it comes to politics, I just stick a post it note over the general areola area

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moogster1a · 27/04/2012 14:47

OK nanny. Bit of leap from 'phone hacking murder victims' families to my going to the chippy every 6 months or so, but there you go.

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WorraLiberty · 27/04/2012 14:48

Why on earth don't you read your own thread OP? Grin

Ahem....post 13:25

"I don't read any newspapers. I listen to the news on the radio, watch it on TV and online.

I've just been enjoying seeing the OP furiously back peddle regarding the links

I've got a feeling someone shot themselves in the foot there regarding their blanket judgement."

BonnieBumble · 27/04/2012 14:48

What's wrong with going to the chippy?