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

[JeremyVile]

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

You are no longer in a minority of one.

Unite against the comic papers.

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

Solcredulists

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

YABU.

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

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.

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.

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

Yay, more newspaper snobs

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!!!!!

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.

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

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

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

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...

YANBU BTW. Not in the slightest.

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

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..

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.

I was on a packed train a couple of days ago. I nearly fainted, none of the Guardian/Telegraph/FT readers gave me the seat. I got off that train, on to the next, a young Mirror reader got up to offer me his seat (I'm pg too). Definitely made me think again about judging ppl on what they read. I don't know how long this will last.

yep. There are many ways of understanding folks. Only one of the limitied ways is what paper they read.

night.

Bassmamma, what i think is horrendously vile and snobbish is that the Sun (star,sport,express....) is written by a bunch of middle class tossers who aim their rag at the working class (a group to which am very proud to belong)and believe that they have to dumb down, sex up, sensationalise and out and out lie in order to make it digestable by the working class.As though we are a bunch of mindless morons.
You must know what i mean surely? If not then compare the coverage of the same story by say the Sun and the Times for example.....you'll get it, i promise! I used to read the Sun oh god and the Mail . It wasn't til i could compare that i realised just how crud it all was.
BTW, reading articles online is free....Bargain!!

oh, Build a bridge and get over it.

night.

Dont you try and out-last-word me!
Or 'night' me in that manner.
Ok, so uh, night.

night. Sleep well.