Readers Digest about to go bust and its about time.

Run_to_da_hills

One of the largest contenders of junk mail and letter box scammers are about to go bust and its about time.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1251742/Readers-Digest-UK-goes-administration-72-years.html

mikom

It's the recession.
I just got a letter from them saying I had not been included in this month's prize draw.

Biggins

I used to love that magazine in its day.
Ok, I remember being pestered by the "Yes" and "No" envelopes for a prize draw but the mag itself was great reading for the price it was.
I'd be sorry to see it go.
I've a copy of one from late 1945, must dig it up.
I'm sure its a collectable now.

alwaysadub

Only time i ever read it was sitting in the Doctor's waiting room. Or if i was in my old Aunt's. Wasn't really my cup of tea.

Run_to_da_hills

My old man has probably every issue of it since the before the 70ies and still gets it, earlier pre 90ies copies were the best.

Recently i started dumping the prise draw promotional stuff in the recycle before the old man would get to them.

Super-Rush

I bet Irelands Own are getting nervous.

Run_to_da_hills

super-rush wrote: »

I bet Irelands Own are getting nervous.

My old man gets that too. :eek:

kumate_champ07

super-rush wrote: »

I bet Irelands Own are getting nervous.

I love Irelands Own! Its so oldschool, I read it at my grandaunts, its pretty good value. its funny reading the readers questions, If only they knew about google

_Whimsical_

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

I love Irelands Own! Its so oldschool, I read it at my grandaunts, its pretty good value. its funny reading the readers questions, If only they knew about google

That's always in my doctors office. The classieds are an excellent good read. There's always at least one advertising a rosary bead repair service for €2.50 or a similar amount.

Mike 1972

chilly wrote: »

That's always in my doctors office.

Why do Doctors waiting rooms always have such crap reading material ?

I mean Readers Digest/Irelands Own/Peoples Friend actually rank among their better magazines. Mostly its womens magazines (men never get sick ?) with those pictures of undernorished celebrity fashion models which were always being told are the cause of eating disorders/becoming generally ****ed up psychologically ????

MIN2511

I loved RD; my dad bought me a 3yr subscription. It will be sad to see it go

Dunjohn

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Why do Doctors waiting rooms always have such crap reading material ?

I mean Readers Digest/Irelands Own/Peoples Friend actually rank among their better magazines. Mostly its womens magazines (men never get sick ?)

I think it's more a case of, men never bring sick kids to the doctor :cool: On the rare occasions that there are men's mags in there, they're all car mags. 'Cuz that's all blokes ever think about.

What I wouldn't give for a doctor's waiting room with Reader's Digest or something in it.... my family used to subscribe to that magazine when I was a younger lad in the early nineties, and I'd read it cover-to-cover, but I eventually started to see it as a little too right-wing and sensationalist for my liking, and the subscription soon ended. The scams could be surprisingly elaborate; I remember one time they sent you a "golden stamp" made olf plastic. I forget what you were supposed to do with it, but I put it with my stamp collection because it was pretty cool.

cherryghost

Readers Digest needed to change anyway. Any articles/information in the last few years are freely available on the internet now.

aDeener

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Why do Doctors waiting rooms always have such crap reading material ?

I mean Readers Digest/Irelands Own/Peoples Friend actually rank among their better magazines. Mostly its womens magazines (men never get sick ?) with those pictures of undernorished celebrity fashion models which were always being told are the cause of eating disorders/becoming generally ****ed up psychologically ????

Agree completely, it pisses me off no end. Opticians, dentists are all the same. Not once have i come across an any way male orientated magazine

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Biggins wrote: »

I used to love that magazine in its day.
Ok, I remember being pestered by the "Yes" and "No" envelopes for a prize draw but the mag itself was great reading for the price it was.
I'd be sorry to see it go.
I've a copy of one from late 1945, must dig it up.
I'm sure its a collectable now.

Sorry, but just how old ARE you...?!

Biggins

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Sorry, but just how old ARE you...?!

Old enough to have four children, divorced once, married again to a great woman and blessed enough to still have both ageing parents still alive.

I consider myself very lucky.

CrazyRabbit

Biggins wrote: »

Old enough to have four children, divorced once, married again to a great woman and blessed enough to still have both ageing parents still alive.

I consider myself very lucky.

So you're in your 20's then & from Finglas. I see.

eddie the eagle

used to love reading that when i was younger. especially the 'lifes like that' and the wordplay pages. cool the way it was a small hand held size too.

bonerm

"Print is dead"
- Dr. Egon Spengler

Biggins

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

So you're in your 20's then & from Finglas. I see.

:pac:

cashback

I'm not old but I still prefer reading printed publications than online material, though I do a lot of both. So I wouldn't really celebrate the demise of RD.

Sheeps

I find it funny and slightly ironic that you should talk of the journalistic integrity of Reader's Digest, and then link to a Daily Mail article about it.

goose2005

aDeener wrote: »

Agree completely, it pisses me off no end. Opticians, dentists are all the same. Not once have i come across an any way male orientated magazine

I always find Time, Nat. Geo., sometimes a Sunday Times magazine.