When I'm bored, I'll read just about anything. I've been this way since I was little. I cannot stand just sitting there doing nothing. My great-grandmother still tells people about the time I was visiting her, and lacking any other books in her house, I started to read the dictionary.
Due to my willingness to read just about anything, I come across some weird things.
Please feel free to comment with your own forays into the sometimes disturbing world of the printed word!
WTF is up with magazine renewal request forms? They're getting seriously creative. In the last week, I had one magazine warn me that the "crazy liberals are trying to take over the country" and that if I didn't renew I'd be personally responsible for it. A cooking magazine implied that my family would love me so much more if I kept making great recipes from their magazine, which I could only get IF I RENEWED TODAY! God knows, if I don't renew today, the magazine will disappear off the face of the Earth.
On the subject of magazines, WTF is up with Cosmo magazine. I used to read this a few years ago. I grabbed an issue at the check-out stand (I was bored waiting in line).
The magazine is aimed at "Fun, Fearless Females!". But half the magazine is on how to catch a guy's attention, how to get him to commit, and, of course, tips and tricks to keep him interested in bed.
Fun, fearless females...get real. They need to the change the tag line of the magazine to "desperate women with mediocre jobs trying to catch men."
WTF is up with the Sweet Valley series. I saw a box of these at a used bookstore I frequent. On a lark, I grabbed them. Hey, I'm going to have kids someday. Like, ten years from now (ha-ha).
I was flipping through a couple of them the other day. What rubbish! And we let teen girls read these? My god, reading this you would think everyone in the world was required to have "perfect, size six, model thin bodies." And when a fat girl appears on the pages of these books....well, she goes on a diet and starts working out! Of course, for her own self-esteem, not so everyone else in the book will stop making fun of her!
Due to my willingness to read just about anything, I come across some weird things.
Please feel free to comment with your own forays into the sometimes disturbing world of the printed word!
WTF is up with magazine renewal request forms? They're getting seriously creative. In the last week, I had one magazine warn me that the "crazy liberals are trying to take over the country" and that if I didn't renew I'd be personally responsible for it. A cooking magazine implied that my family would love me so much more if I kept making great recipes from their magazine, which I could only get IF I RENEWED TODAY! God knows, if I don't renew today, the magazine will disappear off the face of the Earth.
On the subject of magazines, WTF is up with Cosmo magazine. I used to read this a few years ago. I grabbed an issue at the check-out stand (I was bored waiting in line).
The magazine is aimed at "Fun, Fearless Females!". But half the magazine is on how to catch a guy's attention, how to get him to commit, and, of course, tips and tricks to keep him interested in bed.
Fun, fearless females...get real. They need to the change the tag line of the magazine to "desperate women with mediocre jobs trying to catch men."
WTF is up with the Sweet Valley series. I saw a box of these at a used bookstore I frequent. On a lark, I grabbed them. Hey, I'm going to have kids someday. Like, ten years from now (ha-ha).
I was flipping through a couple of them the other day. What rubbish! And we let teen girls read these? My god, reading this you would think everyone in the world was required to have "perfect, size six, model thin bodies." And when a fat girl appears on the pages of these books....well, she goes on a diet and starts working out! Of course, for her own self-esteem, not so everyone else in the book will stop making fun of her!
