I’m so old I remember when people would read the newspaper.

Like, read every sentence in every story of each day’s newspaper, trusting the editor not to print anything that would be too much of a waste of time.

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    6 days ago

    Used to remember reading the comic strips in the funday times.

    As I got older I used to read the Hexham Courant to see who’d been arrested I used to go to school with

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      6 days ago

      I started reading the Funnies when I was a kid, added sports, around 10, then the entertainment pages when I got old enough to go to the movies with friends around 13, then eventually started reading the boring stuff.