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AIBU?

To rip things out of magazines? DH thinks so.... (Lighthearted!!)

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namechangedforaddedstealth · 22/07/2014 14:39

In the city where I live there is a monthly local magazine produced for the public to peruse which is widely available in businesses, pubs, restaurants, cafés, hairdressers, GP surgeries etc etc. I suspect these businesses have to pay some sort of subscription, but the magazine clearly makes money from local advertisements in its pages as well. It basically covers things like local pub/restaurant reviews, places to shop, local property, recipes, local days out, what's on at the theatre etc etc.

Where I used to work we always had several copies floating around the staff room and I used to rip out (mainly) recipes when the magazines were on their way to the recycling bin.

Well now I don't work there but still enjoy browsing the mag when in pubs/cafés etc.....and I still like to rip out the odd recipe etc Blush

My DH thinks I am being cheeky for doing this and now tuts and rolls his eyes whenever I rip things out like the entitled brazen hussy the stealthy ninja that I am.
although he will quite happily eat the products of my 'theft'!

I know I am not the only person to do this as I often see pages/sections missing and there are always several copies of the mag available at any one time.

So AIBU to do this? Anyone else out there a stealthy-ripper?? Or do you judge (with pearls-clutched!) anyone who does this??

(Ps, not to unduly influence you, but if you side with my DH he will be vilified and I will never hear the end of it!!) Grin

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MorphineDreams · 22/07/2014 14:43

I would just take a photo on my phone, I think it's unfair on others. Not a massive deal though.

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namechangedforaddedstealth · 22/07/2014 14:45

Well I would but I have a ridiculously old Nokia brick pay as you go (yes seriously!) and the 'camera' takes fuzzy, tiny, unreadable pics.....

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MagicMojito · 22/07/2014 14:45

If the magazine is free then I'd say Yanbu. If its not then yabu although I do the same, afterall possession is 9/10's of the law

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MrsCosmopilite · 22/07/2014 14:48

If the magazine was about to go in the recycling bin then YANBU. If the magazine was still 'floating around' for others to read then YABU.

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trikken · 22/07/2014 14:54

If its going in the recycling or bin its fair game. Its not like you are ripping off the freebies off the fronts of new mags on tesco/asda's shop floor or anything. (Pet hate as store worker)

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KnackeredMuchly · 22/07/2014 15:04

Yabu

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namechangedforaddedstealth · 22/07/2014 15:12

Oops, meant to say DH would be vindicated....not vilified!!

Ok general consensus so far is that I am being a cheeky old mare! Blush

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PorkPieandPickle · 22/07/2014 16:34

YABU. I secretly curse anyone who does this when I read magazines in the doctor/dentist/whatever

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namechangedforaddedstealth · 22/07/2014 17:38

Ha porkpie !!....I must have gotten there first.......!!!!

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Topaz25 · 22/07/2014 18:07

If I'm reading a magazine in a waiting room or wherever and I see a recipe I want to keep I just take a photo of it with my phone. That way I still get a copy of it but it's fairer for the next reader.

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TheSkiingGardener · 22/07/2014 23:41

It's very selfish. It says "I want this but it's not mine to take away. Sod it, I'll take it anyway and other people can lump it"

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flipchart · 22/07/2014 23:50

Your DH is right. People like you are fuckin' annoying and selfish.

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namechangedforaddedstealth · 23/07/2014 10:49

Wow am I not allowed one tiny flaw? I can assure you that I go out my way on a daily basis to think of others in life and be kind and considerate to all. This thread is meant in a lighthearted way (clues in the title)....quite a big leap to go from saying I rip a tiny corner of a page out of a public mag (where there is always more than one copy available) maybe twice a year so that means I am a fucking annoying and selfish person! Happy to be told IABU (I accept that I am so will stop doing it from now on) but no need for sweeping personal attacks

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ChablisChic · 23/07/2014 10:52

It's not so much the recipe or whatever that's missing, it's the fact that whatever's on the reverse of that's missing too, which might be the most interesting bit of an article or whatever.

Not worth getting worked up over though, especially with a free local mag - as you say there are always plenty floating about.

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flipchart · 23/07/2014 11:02

It doesn't matter if it is your only flaw St Namechange ( really, your only flaw) it's still annoying and selfish!
If you just ripped the corner tht would probably be fine but usually there is no information in the corner so why do that?

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ShineSmile · 23/07/2014 11:08

Yabu. Take a pic on your phone Smile

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puntasticusername · 23/07/2014 11:13

Erm, I don't think flipchart meant to say you are an ENTIRELY annoying and selfish, OP, just that the particular piece of behaviour you've just admitted to is annoying and selfish.

Which it is.

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namechangedforaddedstealth · 23/07/2014 11:23

Fair enough. It sounded like that was the statement from flipcharts first post people like you are fuckin' annoying and selfish

But like I said I will stop doing it! I think it's cause my mum always did it so I sort of never questioned the behaviour IYGWIM

Ps, yes it is my only flaw. It's a heavy cross to bear, being otherwise perfect, but someone's gotta do it I spose Wink

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bragmatic · 23/07/2014 11:25

Yabvvvvvvvvu.

Sometimes when I go to do it, you've got there first, you bitch.

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namechangedforaddedstealth · 23/07/2014 11:26

You snooze you loose brag

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puntasticusername · 23/07/2014 12:02

Ikwym, it did read that way, but I didn't think it was something you ought to take entirely to heart that's all! Smile

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flipchart · 23/07/2014 12:32

I meant that particular behaviour is selfish.

When I'm at the doctors ( which is often) waiting for my latest tests to come through reading the mags allows me to escape for a while. You start reading an article or something seems interesting but some git has come along and torn the mag up. Bloody awesome!

I see stuff I like I'm magazines or things I'm interested in. I used to have a note book where I would jot ideas or info down. These days I take a picture or put notes on my phone. That way I don't end up with a clutter of paper and the magazine stays in tact.

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FunLovinBunster · 23/07/2014 12:35

The use of "Lighthearted" on AIBU makes me want to commit random acts of violence. People who tear pages out of magazines and books should be shot.

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kiwi5 · 23/07/2014 12:41

so i am a page ripper-but i rip them out of mags I subscribe to,which I then donate to my docs surgery. I thought I was being kind but now realise people may be cursing me. better stop being so kind hearted! Grin

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namechangedforaddedstealth · 23/07/2014 12:44

books!!!?!? Oh no I would never do that. That is up there with someone recording over the last few minutes of a program you were watching!

I agree, corporal punishment all the way!

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