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Sunday papers , does anyone bother any more

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Since my teens I've once in a blue moon bought The Daily or Sunday Sport - very much dependent on how filthy the cover girl looks.

Shaun Ryder did a column years ago and he namechecked me - very proud. 😀

Used to get the Sunday Express and read the match reports then recycle bin it - only bought it to do the supplement's £1000 crossword; never sent it off though.

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  • The Pink was Manc and The Buff Bolton. Growing up in L/H, the newsagents sold both and it gave me as much pleasure as a whites win to walk in and say “Buff please”

  • Nah, they're always there, they just move them around a bit  

5 minutes ago, green genie said:

😄 could be worse as delivers to Tom Daleys street. 

Poppers, and lube. He’ll make a killing

7 minutes ago, Rudy said:

Poppers, and lube. He’ll make a killing

Mainly widowed pensioners he does best off. Have to show him the Dolly Parton pics , although as a randy 14 1/2 year old probably wouldn't blink at half a chance. 

Edited by green genie

I used to do coupons as a kid - lied about my age, nice earner for one nights work.

I'd also stick the odd 'Spot The Ball' down a grid if I adjudged it to be astronomically unlikely to be a winner. Trouser the stake.

I got my comeuppance though - a punter killed my pet kestrel.

Edit: The National Lottery launch killed off The Football Pools almost overnight - used to earn 12.5% of the take, which after the lottery was next to fuck all - fucked it off within weeks.

Edited by Youri McAnespie

When I was still drinking & whatnot at away games, I'd call round at my parents on the Sunday & my dad who was mad keen would ask about the game, so i had to call in Asda or the newsagents on the way up & have a quick read through the Sunday paper match reports to get some idea

I used to buy the Guardian but whether it went too far left or i went to the right, i got sick of it & can't remember the last time i bought any paper.

5 hours ago, embankment said:

 Visit the outlaws most Sunday Mornings . ( up Wallbank).

 

6 miles south of me.

My dad paid me a fiver each week not to have a paper round. He thought it was child exploitation.

I subscribed to the Sunday Times paper edition and had online access throughout the week up until child number 2 came along 3 years ago. 

I don't think I've had chance to sit and read a paper in peace since! 

 

Enjoyed taking the hound up to the paper shop of a Sunday morning when I was a youngster. 

Get back and spend 5 minutes reading the few paragraphs of our match reports!

BiL buys a paper every day and two on a Sunday. As an ex-printer he does it out of principle. Problem for me is if I pick them up and read them I already know so much from reading it online the previous day. They’ll die off soon enough. Even my 83 year old mum reads the BEN on her iPad 

7 hours ago, Youri McAnespie said:

I used to do coupons as a kid - lied about my age, nice earner for one nights work.

I'd also stick the odd 'Spot The Ball' down a grid if I adjudged it to be astronomically unlikely to be a winner. Trouser the stake.

I got my comeuppance though - a punter killed my pet kestrel.

Edit: The National Lottery launch killed off The Football Pools almost overnight - used to earn 12.5% of the take, which after the lottery was next to fuck all - fucked it off within weeks.

Used to love doing the pools with my Dad and then sitting through the football results on Grandstand on a Saturday afternoon

Was always Vernons. He hated Littlewoods - think he had some business fall out with the Moores family? 

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Read the Daily Mail for free by reading any of the politics-related threads on here 

54 minutes ago, jules_darby said:

Top tip

Read the Daily Mail for free by reading any of the politics-related threads on here 

Very good that Jules

4 hours ago, Traf said:

 

6 miles south of me.

A646 on that sharp bend where the suicidal sheep lurk.

Nice hut .

21 hours ago, radcliffewhite1 said:

Not bought a paper in yonks

anyone remember the pink 

 

The Pink was Manc and The Buff Bolton. Growing up in L/H, the newsagents sold both and it gave me as much pleasure as a whites win to walk in and say “Buff please”

Wasn’t there a green results paper as well?

28 minutes ago, MickyD said:

Wasn’t there a green results paper as well?

I think that was the Sheffield one, which was one of the last ones to give up. iirc Birmingham had a football paper that survived longer than most.

1 hour ago, MickyD said:

Wasn’t there a green results paper as well?

Green un

Ipswich

A sports paper on a Sunday would be great covering all the weeks sport, I’d buy that 

3 hours ago, embankment said:

A646 on that sharp bend where the suicidal sheep lurk.

Nice hut .

I live on the 671

I used to get £5 a week for 7 days when I was a lad.

did weekly free papers and used to get a hundred or so  quid tip at Xmas for delivering c200 papers

We did the weekly frees, but just burned them.

The Blackpool gazette always had a green too. 

We always had the Manchester Evening news and pink in our house as they sold it at a newsagents in town and it was the closest my dad could get.

My aunt used to post Mondays BEN to us every week.

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