Selling a lads magazine to a 12 year old ?!

KeyLimePie · 03-06-2009 06:23PM #1

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 ?

easyeason3 · 03-06-2009 06:26PM

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

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.

GLaDOS · 03-06-2009 06:26PM

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

SV · 03-06-2009 06:29PM

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

Tar.Aldarion · 03-06-2009 06:29PM

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

GLaDOS · 03-06-2009 06:30PM

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

TheZohanS · 03-06-2009 06:32PM

You should have sold it to him.

End of story.

5uspect · 03-06-2009 06:33PM

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

truecrippler · 03-06-2009 06:33PM

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

Latchy · 03-06-2009 06:35PM

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

Full of adds :pac:

easyeason3 · 03-06-2009 06:35PM

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.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 03-06-2009 06:36PM

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.

Diabhal Beag · 03-06-2009 06:36PM

Everybody **** in the male community

dr.bollocko · 03-06-2009 06:39PM

5uspect wrote: »

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

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

TheZohanS · 03-06-2009 06:40PM

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Legally? Don't. As someone else said, cover your own ass first.

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

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 03-06-2009 06:44PM

TheZohan wrote: »

Legally the OP would have been doing nothing wrong.

He/she would not have sold Zoo to someone, it came free with a motor mag.

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.

KeyLimePie · 03-06-2009 06:48PM

TheZohan wrote: »

Legally the OP would have been doing nothing wrong.

He/she would not have sold Zoo to someone, it came free with a motor mag.

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.

Gazza22 · 03-06-2009 06:49PM

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

5uspect · 03-06-2009 06:51PM

dr.bollocko wrote: »

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

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

CianRyan · 03-06-2009 06:53PM

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

callaway92 · 03-06-2009 06:55PM

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

KeyLimePie · 03-06-2009 06:57PM

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.

5318008! · 03-06-2009 07:08PM

Little Shyte wrote: »

Everybody **** in the male community

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

.

CrazyRabbit · 03-06-2009 07:08PM

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.

CianRyan · 03-06-2009 07:12PM

5318008! wrote: »

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

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.

Bottle_of_Smoke · 03-06-2009 07:17PM

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.

Berty · 03-06-2009 07:19PM

* Off to Google Boobies.

netwhizkid · 03-06-2009 07:20PM

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!

netwhizkid · 03-06-2009 07:21PM

Berty wrote: »

* Off to Google Boobies.

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

KeyLimePie · 03-06-2009 07:23PM

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 $:\$

netwhizkid · 03-06-2009 07:26PM

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

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