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Selling a lads magazine to a 12 year old ?!

  • 03-06-2009 5:23pm
    #1
    KeyLimePie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 861 ✭✭✭


    Sooo in the shop in this morning some 12ish year old lad, still in primary school went up to me to buy some motor magazine, that had Zoo free with it :\
    Right off the bat I was like No, and he pulled all the excues like oh i'm 14 and my ma's only out the door ! She gets it for me all the time and I was just like no sorry.

    Was I right to is what I'm wondering :\ on one hand he was on his way to school and he'd have shown EVERYONE that dorty magazine and that'd get him in trouble with teachers, then his ma is called in and then it's traced back to me !

    On the other hand he's probably gonna go home and google boobies and whatever he finds on the internet will be ten times worse than what's in Zoo magazine.

    Your opinions ? :)

    Should a 12 year allowed be sold a Lad's Mag ? 115 votes

    Yes
    0% 0 votes
    No
    100% 115 votes


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  • #2
    easyeason3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,104 ✭✭✭easyeason3


    You should have sold it to him, he's probably just interested in the articles :D

    By the way I'm a woman & mens magazines rock. They are hilarious & have taught me what will happen to my arm should I ever swim with sharks.


  • #3
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,238 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Cover your own ass (pardon the pun) before anythiing else tbh

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #4
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    I don't see why not.
    zoo isn't porn tbh.


  • #5
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Dude, this kid has the internet, zoo is mild in comparison. :S


  • #6
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,238 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    You don't know how uptight the parents could be though.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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  • #7
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    You should have sold it to him.

    End of story.


  • #8
    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,520 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    Isn't 12 the average age of a Zoo reader?


  • #9
    truecrippler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,243 ✭✭✭truecrippler


    OP, that was my son. He's doing a project on Animals in the Zoo. I'll report you to your manager and have you sacked straight away.



    /end furious father rant


  • #10
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Poor lads mind will be warped for life after reading that zoo mag .;)

    Full of adds :pac:


  • #11
    easyeason3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,104 ✭✭✭easyeason3


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    You don't know how uptight the parents could be though.

    All the more reason to sell it to him. If his parents are uptight then they would deal better with finding a harmless magazine than the young lad trying to catch a look at his mother/ sister/ aunt/ friend in the bathroom.


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  • #12
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,762 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Practically? Makes no difference. He'll see tits on page three of The Sun.
    Legally? Don't. As someone else said, cover your own ass first.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #13
    Diabhal Beag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,238 ✭✭✭✭Diabhal Beag


    Everybody **** in the male community


  • #14
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    5uspect wrote: »
    Isn't 12 the average age of a Zoo reader?

    No. It's the average age of a Zoo writer.


  • #15
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    Legally? Don't. As someone else said, cover your own ass first.

    1. Legally the OP would have been doing nothing wrong.
    2. He/she would not have sold Zoo to someone, it came free with a motor mag.
    3. The OP didn't know how old the young rascal was, "ish" is not a clearly defined age.


  • #16
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,762 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    TheZohan wrote: »
    1. Legally the OP would have been doing nothing wrong.
    2. He/she would not have sold Zoo to someone, it came free with a motor mag.
    3. The OP didn't know how old the young rascal was, "ish" is not a clearly defined age.

    True, but wouldn't be surprised if it still wound up in court. And then it's a real lottery.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #17
    KeyLimePie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 861 ✭✭✭KeyLimePie


    TheZohan wrote: »
    1. Legally the OP would have been doing nothing wrong.
    2. He/she would not have sold Zoo to someone, it came free with a motor mag.
    3. The OP didn't know how old the young rascal was, "ish" is not a clearly defined age.

    well the youngster was in a primary school uniform, so I could put him at least 12.


  • #18
    Gazza22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Gazza22


    He's a frustrated young man - let em have it! He could be spending his money on much worse.


  • #19
    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,520 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    No. It's the average age of a Zoo writer.

    Ah, but if the articles are the best bit...


  • #20
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Forget Zoo, Front FTW.
    You should have told him to buy that instead.


  • #21
    callaway92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,006 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Wait, I dont get it..was it a 12 year old girl or something??..

    If it was a lad why didnt you sell him the magazine ffs


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  • #22
    KeyLimePie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 861 ✭✭✭KeyLimePie


    callaway92 wrote: »
    Wait, I dont get it..was it a 12 year old girl or something??..

    If it was a lad why didnt you sell him the magazine ffs

    Cause he was 12 ? :\
    That's actually sexist right there, a 12 year old girl has just as much of a right to be refused a boobie magazine as a 12 year old boy does.


  • #23
    5318008!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 228 ✭✭5318008!


    Little Shyte wrote: »
    Everybody **** in the male community

    Maybe i'm weird, but i didn't start **** till i was 14 :confused:.


  • #24
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    When I was 12, I was reading a whole lot 'worse'.

    Seriously, half the movies that come out of Hollywood show more than what you find in Zoo. And if he's ever used the internet, I can guarantee that porn is one of the first things he searched for.

    A few pics of semi-naked women is not gonna turn him into a violent sex-crazed rapist.

    Of course, you could have just sold him the Motor Magazine.


  • #25
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    5318008! wrote: »
    Maybe i'm weird, but i didn't start **** till i was 14 :confused:.

    I started at about 12, but never properly till i was about 14.
    I didn't get what it was all about, didn't understand what all the fuss was about.
    And then BAM!!!!

    Yeah, this kid is probably looking at way worse on his computer right now.


  • #26
    Bottle_of_Smoke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,770 ✭✭✭Bottle_of_Smoke


    Don't think it would have done him any harm, but his parents would want someone to blame when they found it - let them blame the internet rather than you.


  • #27
    Berty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,158 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    * Off to Google Boobies. :D


  • #28
    netwhizkid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭netwhizkid


    Jeez the boy was buying a Motor Magazine *that had* Zoon with it free, most likely he may have being buying it for the cars. When I was 12 and in school some kid brought penthouse to school he had robbed of his older brother, naturally we all took a look but eventually got caught. We then got a lecture on Morality and our bodies from........ A Priest FFS:eek: Oh how I cringed being a precocious 12yr old. bertieahern.com now that was the fun back in my day!


  • #29
    netwhizkid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭netwhizkid


    Berty wrote: »
    * Off to Google Boobies. :D

    I found boobies on the Internet .... run to the hills, women and children first, save yourselves, society is collapsing :eek:


  • #30
    KeyLimePie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 861 ✭✭✭KeyLimePie


    netwhizkid wrote: »
    Jeez the boy was buying a Motor Magazine *that had* Zoon with it free, most likely he may have being buying it for the cars. When I was 12 and in school some kid brought penthouse to school he had robbed of his older brother, naturally we all took a look but eventually got caught. We then got a lecture on Morality and our bodies from........ A Priest FFS:eek: Oh how I cringed being a precocious 12yr old. bertieahern.com now that was the fun back in my day!

    Well now it wasn't just a motor magazine.
    It was one of those motor/slash magazines, this issue was featuring their new slutty mascots :\


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  • #31
    netwhizkid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭netwhizkid


    KeyLimePie wrote: »
    Well now it wasn't just a motor magazine.
    It was one of those motor/slash magazines, this issue was featuring their new slutty mascots :\

    Lucy Pinder on a BMW? ...... runs to the newsagent


  • #32
    Zippitydoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 222 ✭✭Zippitydoo


    The kid could have been 14 even if he was in primary school, but even if he was 12 I don't think it matter, should have sold it to him. Whether he genuinely wanted it for the motors mag or zoo I don't think it really matters.
    I just to dread buying magazines like that when I was younger just in case something like this did happen! Poor kid :pac:


  • #33
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    No. It's the average age of a Zoo writer.

    Theres writing in there?


  • #34
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    Well if he was in a primary school uniform you probably did the right thing. If he went into school showing his mates and it was spotted there'd probably be a few angry teachers and parents baying for blood.
    "Won't somebody please think of the children?" and all that sh!te...

    With that said if it was me I probably would have just sold it to him because I'd just see it as +1 sale and nothing more. If overprotective parents came I'd let them yell at me all they like and just point out to them that it was a motors magazine, and the lads mag just happened to be with it.


  • #35
    markok84
    Closed Accounts Posts: 857 ✭✭✭markok84


    KeyLimePie wrote: »
    On the other hand he's probably gonna go home and google boobies and whatever he finds on the internet will be ten times worse than what's in Zoo magazine.


    Everybody google boobies and hit the I'm feeling lucky button!!!:pac:

    edit: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=60522670&postcount=29 damn you Netwhizkid!!


  • #36
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    markok84 wrote: »
    Everybody google boobies and hit the I'm feeling lucky button!!!:pac:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNDlf6hA6TY

    What the hell?


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  • #37
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    I've voted yes.. poor fcuker just needs inspiration. If his parents found it and came back to the shop, I'd tell them that the original magazine is within his age group but didn't realise there was anything extra. I'd also give them a quick chat about how their 'little boy' might be growing up :rolleyes:


  • #38
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Abigayle wrote: »
    I'd also give them a quick chat about how their 'little boy' might be growing up :rolleyes:

    "He's reefing the belly off himself everynight!!"


  • #39
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    "He's reefing the belly off himself everynight!!"

    I'm likely to tell them to cop the fcuk on, he's probably heard you riding since he was at least 8. :)


  • #40
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Abigayle wrote: »
    I'm likely to tell them to cop the fcuk on, he's probably heard you riding since he was at least 8. :)

    ewww...


  • #41
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    ewww...

    Any parent that walks in shouting the odds at a shop keeper over a bit of tit, needs a bit of a wake up call ;)


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  • #42
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Voted Yes.

    It seems almost romantically old-fashioned to be worried about a kid looking at rags like that when he's probably more than savvy enough to ferret out far worse on the net.


  • #43
    markok84
    Closed Accounts Posts: 857 ✭✭✭markok84


    I voted yes: it's better he gets his jizz on a magazine than all over the keyboard and monitor.


  • #44
    Maddison
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭Maddison


    IMO I dont see the harm in it, hes going to get his rocks off anyway like most boys his age!


  • #45
    netwhizkid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭netwhizkid


    Maddison wrote: »
    IMO I dont see the harm in it, hes going to get his rocks off anyway like most boys his age!

    Yeah better he get it off on some glad rag than getting some tart aged like 13 up the pole!


  • #46
    Maddison
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭Maddison


    netwhizkid wrote: »
    Yeah better he get it off on some glad rag than getting some tart aged like 13 up the pole!

    Well that wasnt really what I was getting at but yeah I see your point. I was referring to something a bit more hardcore than boobs. The interweb has some yukky stuff on it that even makes my eyes water.


  • #47
    lostexpectation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    ya could have seperated the mags and sold him the motorone kept the zoo for yourself :P


  • #48
    bronte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,331 ✭✭✭✭bronte


    Probs best covering your butt op!


  • #49
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,594 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    was it Bob Geldof who went apeshít over what he saw in a girls magazine
    it had cheap plastic tat on the front that only very little girls would accept and inside stuff about how to pleasure boys ?


  • #50
    r3nu4l
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭r3nu4l


    KeyLime Pie, don't you see what you have done? You've ruined the hopes and dreams of that young lad! I bet he woke up this morning thinking, I'm going to get that mag today and I'm going to bring it into school and show all the lads. No longer will I be 'little primary school boy', I'll be little primary school man', 'the legend'. No more bigger kids picking on me, no more cries of 'nerd', I'll be the king of the playground, life is on the up for me!

    Then cruel reality smashes down as KeyLime Pie, judge and purveyor of titty magazines refuses to serve him, leaving the boy to walk the lonely road to school, confidence shattered, just another nerd!

    Shame on you! :mad:


  • #51
    Splinter
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 3,331 ✭✭✭Splinter


    Maddison wrote: »
    Well that wasnt really what I was getting at but yeah I see your point. I was referring to something a bit more hardcore than boobs. The interweb has some yukky stuff on it that even makes my eyes water.
    really? wouldnt think so with that signature of yours? :pac:


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