Waiting room magazine 18 years old.

[julianm]

Had to pop into the docs today. Idly picked up a magazine to kill a few minutes & discovered it was dated 2001!!
That's about 6500 days. 4 pick ups a day & it's been handled by over 25000 sick people.
I put it down quickly & used the handwash stuff. I suppose it keeps them in business.

[foxbody-87]

Imagine if it was a Razzle - you’d need a gas axe to get the pages apart

[Pistonheader101]

julianm said:

Had to pop into the docs today. Idly picked up a magazine to kill a few minutes & discovered it was dated 2001!!
That's about 6500 days. 4 pick ups a day & it's been handled by over 25000 sick people.
I put it down quickly & used the handwash stuff. I suppose it keeps them in business.

Those numbers are so flawed

[poing]

foxbody-87 said:

Imagine if it was a Razzle - you’d need a gas axe to get the pages apart

[Pericoloso]

When I read the thread title .I thought it meant the waiting room table had indeed got a pile of

Razzle type mags piled on it..........for 18yo + only.

[yellowjack]

Pistonheader101 said:

julianm said:

Had to pop into the docs today. Idly picked up a magazine to kill a few minutes & discovered it was dated 2001!!
That's about 6500 days. 4 pick ups a day & it's been handled by over 25000 sick people.
I put it down quickly & used the handwash stuff. I suppose it keeps them in business.

Those numbers are so flawed

Absolutely.

I've got a bunch of cycling magazines in the bottom of my wardrobe. I skim-read them once, and stored them for the self-guided ride cards and descriptions in the back pages. Some are ten years old, but they've been kept in a plastic box since I took them out of their wrappers. If I tear out the route-guides, then dump them in some random waiting room somewhere, will some doofus pick one up, immediately throw it as far as possible with a look on their face like they've just picked up a stick of dog-toffee, and scurry off to the internet with some fag-packet calculations and some guff about germs?

All very silly.

[foxbody-87]

yellowjack said:

Absolutely.

I've got a bunch of jazz magazines in the bottom of my wardrobe. I skim-read them once, and stored them for the odd wk and readers wives in the back pages. Some are ten years old, but they've been kept in a plastic box since I took them out of their wrappers. If I tear out the dirty letters pages, then dump them in some random hedge, will some excited teenager pick one up, immediately run home as fast as possible and be on the vinegar strokes by tea time?

All very silly.

EFA

Edited by foxbody-87 on Tuesday 5th February 22:33

[yellowjack]

foxbody-87 said:

yellowjack said:

Absolutely.

I've got a bunch of jazz magazines in the bottom of my wardrobe. I skim-read them once, and stored them for the odd wk and readers wives in the back pages. Some are ten years old, but they've been kept in a plastic box since I took them out of their wrappers. If I tear out the dirty letters pages, then dump them in some random hedge, will some excited teenager pick one up, immediately run home as fast as possible and be on the vinegar strokes by tea time?

All very silly.

EFA

You're showing your age there chum!

Do they even sell "jazz mags" anymore? It's decades since I've seen one cast away in a hedge. I thought all those mags had been replaced by internet websites by now? About 25 years ago I remember finding "revenge porn" while cycling to work. These days I believe that images get sent to victims' social media "friends" via the internet. Back then it involved driving along a road throwing 6" x 4" colour prints out of the window of your car for their neighbours or colleagues to find. Strange to be cycling to work past photos of an attractive middle-aged lady in FMBs and black stockings in various poses. And yes, I did stop to pick them up, as my kids walked to school along the same road.