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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Fleecewife on February 07, 2014, 05:55:33 pm

Title: I hate shiny......
Post by: Fleecewife on February 07, 2014, 05:55:33 pm
I hate shiny magazine and catalogue covers.  Even with just one on top of the other they slither and slide around and do my blood pressure no good.   :rant:

Top marks to DTBrown's latest seed catalogue which is nice and papery - and just as appealing as all that shiny stuff.  I'm sure the shiny finish is bad for the environment.  Something so horrid is bound to be   ::)  :tree:.

Am I on my own here?
Title: Re: I hate shiny......
Post by: tizaala on February 07, 2014, 06:05:38 pm
It's worse than Izal :innocent:
Title: Re: I hate shiny......
Post by: Rosemary on February 07, 2014, 07:25:45 pm
I find shiny paper really hard to read - I suspect it scores pretty low in accessibility.

I find a lot of magazines either use a coloured type face or coloured paper and I find that difficult and tedious to read too. Must be getting old  ::)
Title: Re: I hate shiny......
Post by: Fleecewife on February 07, 2014, 09:27:17 pm
It's worse than Izal :innocent:

 :roflanim:  My Mum used to buy that - years of torture.
Title: Re: I hate shiny......
Post by: Greenerlife on February 07, 2014, 09:34:54 pm
I hate shiny magazine and catalogue covers.  Even with just one on top of the other they slither and slide around and do my blood pressure no good. 

Top marks to DTBrown's latest seed catalogue which is nice and papery - and just as appealing as all that shiny stuff.  I'm sure the shiny finish is bad for the environment.  Something so horrid is bound to be   ::) :tree: .

Am I on my own here?
No you are not!  You can't even burn them!   >:(
Title: Re: I hate shiny......
Post by: Mammyshaz on February 07, 2014, 09:37:52 pm
Shiny is no good for lighting the log burner   :rant: and I would put anywhere near my compost heap with all that chemical.
But shiny magazines mop up well when somebody spills a drink at the table where I've been reading. A common occurrence with the clumsy man  or energetic boys in this house   ::)
Title: Re: I hate shiny......
Post by: Lesley Silvester on February 07, 2014, 10:29:39 pm
It's worse than Izal :innocent:

 :roflanim:  My Mum used to buy that - years of torture.


My nan liked to use it and moaned because my mum insisted on getting soft stuff. Nan liked Izal because it had the word Medicated on it.
Title: Re: I hate shiny......
Post by: Penninehillbilly on February 08, 2014, 01:25:09 am
It's worse than Izal :innocent:
:roflanim:  My Mum used to buy that - years of torture.

Made good tracing paper though
Title: Re: I hate shiny......
Post by: Penninehillbilly on February 08, 2014, 01:27:18 am
Shiny is no good for lighting the log burner   :rant: and I would put anywhere near my compost heap with all that chemical.
But shiny magazines mop up well when somebody spills a drink at the table where I've been reading. A common occurrence with the clumsy man  or energetic boys in this house   ::)
I use one sheet of newspaper, then the shiny stuff, I find once the newspaper is alight other stuff gets going easier.
Title: Re: I hate shiny......
Post by: Rosemary on February 08, 2014, 08:49:20 am
I use one sheet of newspaper, then the shiny stuff, I find once the newspaper is alight other stuff gets going easier.

For a brief moment, I thougt we were still on toilet paper  ;D
Title: Re: I hate shiny......
Post by: doganjo on February 08, 2014, 10:00:04 am
I use one sheet of newspaper, then the shiny stuff, I find once the newspaper is alight other stuff gets going easier.

For a brief moment, I thougt we were still on toilet paper  ;D
So did I  :roflanim: :roflanim:
Title: Re: I hate shiny......
Post by: Bramblecot on February 08, 2014, 03:22:25 pm
Me too ??? ??? :roflanim: :roflanim:
Title: Re: I hate shiny......
Post by: Lesley Silvester on February 08, 2014, 09:51:45 pm
It could have been if it was after a Vindaloo.  :innocent:
Title: Re: I hate shiny......
Post by: tizaala on February 08, 2014, 10:15:22 pm
Paper feed bags are great to get logburners going, plastic ones are better still...( naughty) :innocent:
Title: Re: I hate shiny......
Post by: Penninehillbilly on February 09, 2014, 12:52:34 am
I use one sheet of newspaper, then the shiny stuff, I find once the newspaper is alight other stuff gets going easier.

For a brief moment, I thougt we were still on toilet paper  ;D
So did I  :roflanim: :roflanim:

 :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:
eyes and brains sometimes outrun each other  ;D