The Mail vs WH Smith

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:28 am

Top stores agree to hide lads' mags from children... but WHSmith refuses to cave in to pressure
By Sean Poulter

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1ElwZqlOL

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I'd be more concerned about children being exposed to the horrors of the dm.
Bertram Gussett, The Real Middle England.

Pugwash2 · **Joined:** Sat Jul 24, 2010 6:14 pm **Posts:** 183

How helpful some one at the Mail has gone that extra mile and made a breast count of three lads mags.
Why employ and pay models when you can zoom up Kate Moss' dress for free?

Olcan · **Joined:** Tue Feb 01, 2011 3:32 pm **Posts:** 21

If the children want a look at a set of tits they can just log onto http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html and take a look down the right side.

Mr Mordon · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 11:41 am

I remember some time ago Smiths used to sell true nudie mags, Playboy, Penthouse etc, but then stopped. Whether this was a result of a tabloid campaign i don't know.

One area i think does need to be looked into though is the prevelence of 'sexline' ads in these and even DVD and gaming mags, the latter of which can be said to be aimed at children as well as adults.

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 11:46 am

Mail shits on one of it's big sellers on the high street, eh? I forsee this running for a while.

davidjay · **Joined:** Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:24 pm **Posts:** 3837

The Mail v Smiths with Nuts et al on the side. That's my own personal Top Trumps.

Paul · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 1:27 pm

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If I want gratuitous nipples, wardrobe malfunctions & upskirt al la Moss, my first choice is the DM.

Bishop Basher, Putney 12.25

AOB · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:33 pm

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The Mail is just as bad as these magazines, in the last week you have published Emma Watson's nipple,Kim Catrall bent over showing her behind and Denise Welch in her underwear.Should I ban my children from looking at the Mail?
- Gary, liverpool, 23/2/2011 6:32

Yes. But not for those reasons.

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This is plain discrimination. Despite being over 18 I'm too short to reach the top shelf. A lot of teens these days are taller than me so I have to ask them to reach the title for me.
- Avid Reader, Sussex, 23/2/2011 7:57

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:54 pm

Paying models to take pictures of them v hanging around celebrities, trying to sneak a view of something rude

I think the ladmags come out ahead.

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 3:05 pm

At least they've got decent tech/boy's toys articles.

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 3:09 pm

Actually once you get past the tits element "Lads mags" can be quite entertaining purely as a read. They clearly don't take themselves too seriously and IMO they've grown up a bit from where they were a few years ago. FHM is, IMO, a pretty good magazine, although obviously I disapprove of the rampant sexism in seeing a minor celebrity in her smalls (sometimes).

eddyk · **Joined:** Mon Aug 02, 2010 11:19 am **Posts:** 422

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Nanny state strikes again. Haven't they got anything better to do with their time. These are hardly pornographic magazine and since when did some pictures of scantily clad women do anyone harm?

- Steve Angell, London, 23/2/2011 1:59

Nanny State?

It was a group of mums, members of the public. Nothing to do with the state.

mojojojo · **Joined:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:33 pm **Posts:** 4307

eddyk wrote:

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Nanny state strikes again. Haven't they got anything better to do with their time. These are hardly pornographic magazine and since when did some pictures of scantily clad women do anyone harm?

- Steve Angell, London, 23/2/2011 1:59

Nanny State?

It was a group of mums, members of the public. Nothing to do with the state.

You sheeple - it was Gordon Clown and Alastair Starling dressed as mums.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 5:22 pm

For a moment I thought that said 'dressed as nuns'.

If that image comes back into my mind as I am trying to sleep I will never forgive you...

mojojojo · **Joined:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:33 pm **Posts:** 4307

Sorry. Someone on the BBC Have Your Say board kept referring to Alasdair (sp?) Darling as 'Starling'. Don't know if he was trying to say 'Stalin' or if he really thinks being called a small bird is an insult but i'm glad he tried as it makes me laugh whenever I think of it.

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