Does anyone read The Sun?

[hunkermunker]

In public?!

Saw a woman reading it on the train today and it looked...odd.

[SherlockLGJ]

The Murdoch Man

[bundle]

times is evil, olive, everyone knows that (do read Torygraph online though )

[Janh]

Well I have this residual primeval (?) aversion to Murdoch because of what he did to Fleet Street (even though FS needed shaking up) - like Cape grapes and Chilean wine, I still get twinges of guilt!

[Janh]

That would be a knee-jerk Guardianista aversion you understand

[harpsichordcarrier]

good god no, murdoch etc.
I used to have a sticker in my car that's how old I am
tbh though I have sort of forgotten why I am boycotting him, it's so long ago now. Like I still get a bit confused when I am choosing apples (South AFrican is OK now, but what about French??)
remind me janh?

[bundle]

exactly janh, showing our age, or wot? (barclays bank does it too)

[oliveoil]

[harpsichordcarrier]

Barclays! yes me too... I always give my local branch a bit of a look when I walk past...

[Janh]

He took the Times to Wapping, hc (love your name btw) and they had barricades and stuff, loads of people lost their jobs, it was like the miners' strike.

Bill Bryson worked there at the time and there is some great stuff about it in Notes From a Small Island (I think)

[Tinker]

Is French boycott because of nuclear testing? Was never sure of that one.

But echo GoodGod, No! at Murdoch press.

[Janh]

Oh, I'd forgotten about Barclays!

[Tinker]

And Thatch changed the rules on press ownership in order to appease him [Ben Elton emoticon]

[bundle]

I used to classify people at uni over which bank they were with:
Natwest (like me) - ok
Lloyds - came from small town that didn't have natwest or their parents banked there. they would never give one of my friends even a £20 overdraft, so still think of them as mean.
Barclays - conscienceless individuals who supported apartheid

[harpsichordcarrier]

that's right - anti-union thing. it's all coming back to me now.
French thing was about the Rainbow Warrior, I think...

[bundle]

my dad wouldn't have one of the free local papers (warrington) in the house because of all that eddie shah stuff..

[harpsichordcarrier]

little bit of politics, little bit of politics
I was with the Midland; they gave me a lovely Young Person's Railcard, as I recall. And a lovely overdraft.

[bundle]

hc, midland was OK too

[SherlockLGJ]

Girls, the energy we used to expend on our causes.


Nuclear Power ???


No Thanks.

[Janh]

BBC bio including Dennis Potter cancer (called Rupert) reference.

[harpsichordcarrier]

thanks bundle, I feel better now

hc wanders off, muttering about the iniquity of the class struggle

[Janh]

bundle, I was with Barclays at college - Brighton Poly, 1969, it was the only bank with a branch in the building so I went there with my grant cheque. Pls forgive! (I did move later!)

[Tinker]

I was and still am at Barclays Rationalised (ie too lazy) that all banks were bar stards anyway.

[JoolsToo]

I read the Mail occasionally

what d'yer wanna do about it?

[bundle]

janh, and sussex was such a hotbed of student protests too

[charliecat]

A girl on the bus always passes me her copy of the sun, I wish she would buy something else! I can always feel people learing towards me as I flick past Page 3