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in thinking 'actually, I don't want my 4 yr old dd to see this pornographic fucking shite?

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onebatmother · 09/04/2010 21:52

Oh just what I wish my children to see when we go and buy icecreams

It was on the lowest shelf (ground-level) with the other papers. DD (4) and DS (8) were transfixed, as you would expect.

I complained, asked Newsagent Man if he agreed it was was pornographic, and whether he would like his small children to see it. Newsagent man shrugged "yes, and no. But it's a paper..."
Me: "So someone makes you put it there?"
Him: "No but."
Me: "You are responsible for where things are displayed in this shop. You put it out of sight of children. Until then, I won't buy anything from this shop. I will be spreading the word."

Really, I was very, very angry.

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cruelladepoppins · 09/04/2010 22:00

Blimey. YANBU.

pointydog · 09/04/2010 22:00

It's a bit much

Molesworth · 09/04/2010 22:01

YANBU

The Sport is always on the bottom shelf at my local newsagent as well. Inexplicable.

ravenAK · 09/04/2010 22:02

YANBU.

I find this far more offensive than 'proper' porn tbh - it's normalising it. Horrid.

Shaz10 · 09/04/2010 22:03

It wouldn't bother me, but then I don't have a problem with so-called "glamour" photography.

MaryMotherOfManchego · 09/04/2010 22:03

YANBU.

wonder if the newsagent man shifts it in future.

Thediaryofanobody · 09/04/2010 22:04

YANBU utterly vile.
Well done for saying something.

nighbynight · 09/04/2010 22:04

YANBU, this really annoys me in germany. porno magazines are at childrens eye height!

Athletic sort of lass, isnt she, maintaining that pose in those heels.

claig · 09/04/2010 22:07

YANBU. Good that you gave him a piece of your mind, I think he won't put it there again.

TidyBush · 09/04/2010 22:08

Our local shop used to display the 'lads mags' with at child's eye level until I picked them all up, dumped them on the counter and asked the manager to "kindly put them on the top shelf where they belong".

They've been there ever since .

SuSylvester · 09/04/2010 22:08

I told the Bp garage near us that has a marks

they looked at me blankly

" we haev to put the papers how they tell us"

i sdont want my kids to see someones arse

skidoodly · 09/04/2010 22:10

YANBU

TheCrackFox · 09/04/2010 22:11

YANBU

trying to explain to my 3yr old DS why that women has no clothes on (thank you Daily Star) is a pain in the arse. The newsagent looked at me like i was a moron when I complained.

As an aside, shouldn't a newspaper have some actual news in not just tits and arse?

AvadaKedavra · 09/04/2010 22:11

Yanbu, had a comment from a 5yo today in the shop - shouldn't be on the front page of a newspaper, it's normalising it

cyb · 09/04/2010 22:12

I moaned in my Asda about the NUTs /Loaded and their 'nipple stars'

they said they couldn't do anything

Now I make it my duty to turn all the copies around whenever I go in there and my mates do the same/

SuSylvester · 09/04/2010 22:13

yes why DO we lok like morons not that demented woman with her arse in the air

adn as for MARKS and SPENCEr condoning it

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onebatmother · 09/04/2010 22:14

Well, I'm hoping that's what will happen TB. But the problem is wider than my local newsagent - I was fucking outraged, but even my scary outrage is not so not so loud as to have transmitted itslef to the rest of the UK.

All newsagents make newspapers easily accessible - and as long as the Daily Sport looks like a newspaper, that's where it's going to go.

I can't believe there aren't limits on what can go on the front page of a newspaper. I'm going to find out. Really, this should be regulated.

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EdgeofReason · 09/04/2010 22:14

yanbu next time you go in just knock the whole shelf onto the floor. and then the next time again, and get yoru friends to aswell. Always think action gets results...

sweetkitty · 09/04/2010 22:16

She must be so proud posing like that on the front page of a newspaper

FlyingFig · 09/04/2010 22:17

YANBU - I have a horrid memory, of walking into a newsagents at the age of about 12, for a can of pop and a packet of sweets.

I remember this old man; leaning over the counter whilst he was leering over a copy of The Sport front page, asking me: "What do you think of this then?"

It's only now, as an adult myself, that I can appreciate the full horror of such a situation.

Yet, people could argue: "It was only the Sport".

Yack, yack and urgh.

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onebatmother · 09/04/2010 22:17

Yes Marks and Spencer really should get a grip on how their concessions market pornography.

Keywords: Marks and Spencer, pornography, boycott, outrage, protest, press coverage, Mumsnet

Their Social media monitoring better work

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SuSylvester · 09/04/2010 22:18

marks and spencer condone porn shock

lets keep bumping it
they are our NUMBER one target

SuSylvester · 09/04/2010 22:18

marks and spencer condone porn shock

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onebatmother · 09/04/2010 22:20

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onebatmother · 09/04/2010 22:21

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