Minimum Age to Buy The Sun

rammy007

some places they ask for id now if you look under 21 even though the age for buying alcohol is 18 they are in their rights to do so as it is the assistant themselves who get fined and in trouble if they serve you ,but i had never heared of refusing to serve a kid with a newspaper perhaps its a new law,the paper my son wanted only had a free football sticker book in it(and i suppose aload of boobs and bullsxxt)

mhoc

rammy007 wrote:

my son has had exactly the same problem today in morrisons he wanted to buy the star for the free football stickers and book in it but they wouldnt sell it him i had never heared of this before so i thought it must be cos of all the boobs in it i would be very interested to know the correct legal position on this myself

Same problem here the other Sunday. The girl in Morrisons would not sell my son a newspaper, it had a DVD in it, not sure what it was?. Anyway I was stood next to him in the queue!

Mary

sandybrag

No - I think its a general message that appears to the cashiers for all types of newspapers and magazines. It the item is in that category it appears for everything I reckons.

DazedByTheLight

With the sort of rubbish they spout, I think you would need a gullibility test before you buy the Sun!

rdwarr

DazedByTheLight wrote:

With the sort of rubbish they spout, I think you would need a gullibility test before you buy the Sun!

What makes you say that? The Sun is the country's best selling newspaper. Are you saying that we're all thick or something?

welf_man

The Sun is good at what it does - but it's not a "news" paper, along with NOTW and others.

Buying it is not an issue of intelligence but of personal tastes - also fine, but there is the potential for giving children/young people the wrong messages about what is newsworthy and the relative importance of Albert Square and Iraq.

Mel.

chaffordred

After the lies about Hillsborough, I would never buy that rag of a so-called newspaper.

libitina_2

What lies?

Dora_the_Explorer_5

You've just jogged my memory! When I looked at my Sainsbury's till receipt last week there was a line which said something like 'customer over 16?' as I'd bought a bottle of plonk. Interestingly I'm 16 x 4 + a bit ! Should I feel flattered ?

impy78

rdwarr wrote:

I don't think The Mail should be sold to anybody below the age of 50

I don't think the Mail should be sold to anyone who hasn't had a lobotomy!

I hate most "newspapers"

Even the ones that do have shred of truth in them bury it all under a load of opinion and conjecture. (The Guardian is as bad as any for that, although it does have the best tv guide!)

But no, I don't like the Sun particularly,

a) because of what they did to the Liverpool fans at Hillsborough (for those of you too young to remember, they accused Liverpool fans of urinating on the bodies of their dead companions.)

They're always trying to form some sort of vigilante lynch mob for some reason or another.

C) I really couldn't give a toss of the whole cast of every soap died whilst sniffing cocain from underage girl's breasts. It's not news.

D) If some dozy bint is too dumb to make a living any other way than getting her bits and pieces out, fairplay, but I really don't want to watch it.

oh yes,

Their editor is a hypocritcal, lying b*tch!


But it's STILL not as bad as the Mail.


Can't we just have a paper that has news in, and that's all?