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Post by wickedmountain on Jan 11, 2020 2:10:59 GMT -5
Hi Everyone , Couple of questions , What book is Huntress in currently and What book is Power girl in currently ? I don't think either character has appeared since DC Rebirth Oh wow really ? okay thanks friend |
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Post by wickedmountain on Jan 11, 2020 2:21:00 GMT -5
My sister visited New York a little while back. She bought me back copies of The New York Times and The New York Post. They seemed like quality newspapers with proper news and analysis. Here we get lousy papers like the Daily Star! That's hardly fair. In Britain we have quite a lot of high quality newspapers available, such as The Times, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian, The Observer, The Financial Times etc, etc. Sure, we have crappy tabloids like The Sun and The Daily Star -- and even worse, the gutter press masquerading as something higher brow, like The Daily Mail and Daily Express -- but rest assured, America has loads of shitty newspapers too. What about the Daily mirror now known as the Mirror lol |
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Post by wickedmountain on Jan 11, 2020 2:23:33 GMT -5
So which paper supports the Green Party?  (No need to answer, just being silly). Vince Mcmahon's paper lol |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2020 7:50:21 GMT -5
My sister visited New York a little while back. She bought me back copies of The New York Times and The New York Post. They seemed like quality newspapers with proper news and analysis. Here we get lousy papers like the Daily Star! That's hardly fair. In Britain we have quite a lot of high quality newspapers available, such as The Times, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian, The Observer, The Financial Times etc, etc. Sure, we have crappy tabloids like The Sun and The Daily Star -- and even worse, the gutter press masquerading as something higher brow, like The Daily Mail and Daily Express -- but rest assured, America has loads of shitty newspapers too. To be honest, when I made that comment, I was thinking of tabloids rather than broadsheets. On the rare occasion I buy a paper, chances are it'll be The Times or The Telegraph. Broadsheets tend to avoid salacious nonsense. But the tabloids irk me. When I glance their front pages (Sky News does a paper review every night), I wonder if I'm reading The Beano. |
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 11, 2020 13:39:38 GMT -5
Prince Harry and Meghan have been hiding out here and you can't believe all the media trucks and reporters from around the flipping planet (she's back, and being hunted down by the Japanese press). I do not understand this kind of er 'interest'... to me it's like that old Peter Cook bit with E.L. Wisty about how everything a 'royal' does being intensely fascinating to some and making headlines. I guess it must sell or they wouldn't want more photos and 'news' of their doings. Absolutely bonkers to me. When William was here it was a massive streets closed circus even. A couple of people and their little kids have breakfast, play with a goat, shake hands, OMG... hold everything, stop the presses, block off traffic, call out the police in force!
I'm going to offend people who actually buy these kinds of fluff celeb papers, or gossip rags, or whatever but... stop, don't. You'd seriously being doing civilization a great service.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2020 14:01:23 GMT -5
I don't want to fall out with Becca so I will cancel my subscription to the National Enquirer and the 12 magazines I have on order at the corner shop. Seriously, it depresses me too. In a dentist's waiting room, they have those magazines cluttering up the tables. It'd be nice to sit in a dental waiting room and see magazines devoted to baseball, guitars, wrestling, comics, etc. But it's all the salacious nonsense stuff. I mean, who really cares about who is sleeping with who? Who cares that a celebrity has put on weight? Or whatever? |
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Post by wickedmountain on Jan 11, 2020 14:22:23 GMT -5
Prince Harry and Meghan have been hiding out here and you can't believe all the media trucks and reporters from around the flipping planet (she's back, and being hunted down by the Japanese press). I do not understand this kind of er 'interest'... to me it's like that old Peter Cook bit with E.L. Wisty about how everything a 'royal' does being intensely fascinating to some and making headlines. I guess it must sell or they wouldn't want more photos and 'news' of their doings. Absolutely bonkers to me. When William was here it was a massive streets closed circus even. A couple of people and their little kids have breakfast, play with a goat, shake hands, OMG... hold everything, stop the presses, block off traffic, call out the police in force!I'm going to offend people who actually buy these kinds of fluff celeb papers, or gossip rags, or whatever but... stop, don't. You'd seriously being doing civilization a great service. I Actually don't buy them at all lol |
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Post by Confessor on Jan 11, 2020 14:49:39 GMT -5
That's hardly fair. In Britain we have quite a lot of high quality newspapers available, such as The Times, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian, The Observer, The Financial Times etc, etc. Sure, we have crappy tabloids like The Sun and The Daily Star -- and even worse, the gutter press masquerading as something higher brow, like The Daily Mail and Daily Express -- but rest assured, America has loads of shitty newspapers too. To be honest, when I made that comment, I was thinking of tabloids rather than broadsheets. On the rare occasion I buy a paper, chances are it'll be The Times or The Telegraph. Broadsheets tend to avoid salacious nonsense. But the tabloids irk me. When I glance their front pages (Sky News does a paper review every night), I wonder if I'm reading The Beano. But at least the Beano was entertaining.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2020 15:37:51 GMT -5
Incidentally, I did subscribe to the i newspaper around 7-8 years ago. You pay your subscription and they send out vouchers for each day's paper, to be exchanged at any reasonable store. I said *reasonable* store. Some, including WHSmith, did not want to take the vouchers.  Me: I paid for a subscription. Those vouchers were sent to me after payment. You can exchange them at your wholesaler, no-one will be out of pocket. WHSmith/corner shop guy: I don't know if I can accept these. Me: You really can. I paid for the newspapers in advance. You redeem at your wholesalers. Everyone gets what they are due. WHSmith/corner shop guy: I don't think we can accept them. Me: Okay, suit yourself. You've lost my custom, I do buy other things here. Give me strength. When even the WHSmith lady does it, you give up. The words "To be redeemed at a wholesaler..." mean nothing to these people. So despite paying in advance, for convenience and savings, it was a battle to often get the pre-paid vouchers exchanged. I had thought about a Telegraph subscription. Out of the papers I will buy, that is one I do like. And they are offering a free FitBit if you take out an annual subscription. But after that voucher nonsense of years ago, I don't think I'll bother. |
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 11, 2020 16:17:25 GMT -5
Prince Harry and many other notables thank you for your lack of patronage.  Yeah, I always see those People and Us magazines in waiting rooms, I think maybe offices subscribe to those things as the cheapest offerings or something. Now and then you will find a doctor or dentist's own interest reflected with specialist magazines, but I've yet to run across a music magazine never mind for collecting comics. I have seen actual comics... one dentist even had Dracula!  I used to subscribe to Vanity Fair so I guess I'm a bit guilty there myself. Like The New Yorker, it was much better only getting it when there was something of major interest in an issue. I did subscribe to The Atlantic, Harper's, and a Canadian magazine nobody else has probably heard of called The Walrus. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2020 17:27:31 GMT -5
I don't have any magazines around ... Period!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2020 17:37:07 GMT -5
I follow The New Yorker via Twitter. Some great articles at times.
I really need to live in the US and/or Canada so as to enjoy all the magazines. I mean, they don't publish any baseball magazines here. Plus, we have to pay for a TV licence every year. I want to live in the US and Canada so I can read all your great papers, attend wrestling events, go to a baseball game, see a Monster Truck, drive a yellow cab, etc.
Does anyone want a roommate? I would like to live 6 months in the US, 6 months in Canada. I'll pay rent. Thanks!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2020 18:00:47 GMT -5
I follow The New Yorker via Twitter. Some great articles at times. I really need to live in the US and/or Canada so as to enjoy all the magazines. I mean, they don't publish any baseball magazines here. Plus, we have to pay for a TV licence every year. I want to live in the US and Canada so I can read all your great papers, attend wrestling events, go to a baseball game, see a Monster Truck, drive a yellow cab, etc. Does anyone want a roommate? I would like to live 6 months in the US, 6 months in Canada. I'll pay rent. Thanks! Your experiences would be very different depending on where you would live. City vs country. Northeast vs West Coast. North vs South. To get the full experience you should live one month in 12 different locations throughout both countries. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2020 18:04:03 GMT -5
Sounds great. I'll get right on it (I want to live in a US/Canada border town).
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 12, 2020 12:01:35 GMT -5
I'm going to be MIA for the next week or so. We have a winter storm closing in on us, so I'll be hunkering down at my sister's for the duration. It's a question of safety, mine and hers.
Cei-U! Catch you on the flipside!
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