Check out this fascinating blog post from Agent FareEvader about his frustration with the train enthusiast magazines being located next to what he calls “hardcore, plastic-wrapped pornography”. He wonders at the reason: is it a large practical joke at the hands of the national newsagent’s licensing board to make train nuts look like bigger perverts than they might or might not already be?”
Good on Agent FareEvader for his commitment to train magazines. We need more like him.
That is a bugger…I know my local newsagent puts the porno next to the motorcycling magazines…at least there is some sort of connection there…I think 😛 Anyways, great blog! I got it in my live bookmark menu. 😀
I would’ve thought this was less embarrassing than when you try to buy any respectable magazine the counter staff want to “put it in a bag for you”. When I was a tacker they only put Man magazine in a bag.
Plus they always put the Astronomy magazines in with the Astrology ones at my local newsagents. When I tried to explain to them that there was a difference they looked at meas though I was mad. You can’t be nice to some people.