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Old Mar 18th 2008, 1:47 pm
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Honestly with newspapers all over the world, they have the small print classified section, where people advertise their cars, boats whatever. I could never care about that section of the paper, so turn over 4 pages at once.

Mrs JTL pointed out to me last week that the Courier Mail classifieds have ads for prostitutes. I mean really graphic ads, like" 18 year old thai 40 DD bust, kissable, shaved, new to Oz, ready for anything"

I can't believed I skipped that section for 3 years assuming it was people trying to sell thier 5 year old fridge.

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Old Mar 18th 2008, 2:13 pm
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Originally Posted by JackTheLad
Honestly with newspapers all over the world, they have the small print classified section, where people advertise their cars, boats whatever. I could never care about that section of the paper, so turn over 4 pages at once.

Mrs JTL pointed out to me last week that the Courier Mail classifieds have ads for prostitutes. I mean really graphic ads, like" 18 year old thai 40 DD bust, kissable, shaved, new to Oz, ready for anything"

I can't believed I skipped that section for 3 years assuming it was people trying to sell thier 5 year old fridge.

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Not just the Courier Mail, most Aussie papers do. I couldn't believe it when I saw the first lot, certainly wouldn't let kids get hold of the papers as some of the ads are pretty graphic
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At least kids don't go looking for secondhand sheds too often.... now the radio here... that IS a worry.... can't let the little darlings listen to it without having to explain what nasal delivery is every five minutes..
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At least kids don't go looking for secondhand sheds too often.... now the radio here... that IS a worry.... can't let the little darlings listen to it without having to explain what nasal delivery is every five minutes..
I'm still waitng for mine to ask me 'Mum, what is premature ejaculation?'
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If I think one of those ads are just about to come on(excuse the pun)I just turn the radio down.My 10 year old daughter has copped on that its something unsuitable and will turn it off telling my nine year old that hes too young to listen to it.Most times we listen to Sunshine Fm and they dont have the ads on.
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Originally Posted by JackTheLad
Honestly with newspapers all over the world, they have the small print classified section, where people advertise their cars, boats whatever. I could never care about that section of the paper, so turn over 4 pages at once.

Mrs JTL pointed out to me last week that the Courier Mail classifieds have ads for prostitutes. I mean really graphic ads, like" 18 year old thai 40 DD bust, kissable, shaved, new to Oz, ready for anything"

I can't believed I skipped that section for 3 years assuming it was people trying to sell thier 5 year old fridge.

JTL
Thats my subscription renewed for the year !!! Well SPOTTED pmsl !!
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When I first arrived I noticed an advert for a local brothel that said something like.

"We have 6 beautiful girls to fulfil all of your desires. We've got one ugly one too."
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Funny thing is they can't legally put a price in Not sure why though.

Originally Posted by JackTheLad
Honestly with newspapers all over the world, they have the small print classified section, where people advertise their cars, boats whatever. I could never care about that section of the paper, so turn over 4 pages at once.

Mrs JTL pointed out to me last week that the Courier Mail classifieds have ads for prostitutes. I mean really graphic ads, like" 18 year old thai 40 DD bust, kissable, shaved, new to Oz, ready for anything"

I can't believed I skipped that section for 3 years assuming it was people trying to sell thier 5 year old fridge.

JTL
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Originally Posted by JackTheLad
Honestly with newspapers all over the world, they have the small print classified section, where people advertise their cars, boats whatever. I could never care about that section of the paper, so turn over 4 pages at once.

Mrs JTL pointed out to me last week that the Courier Mail classifieds have ads for prostitutes. I mean really graphic ads, like" 18 year old thai 40 DD bust, kissable, shaved, new to Oz, ready for anything"

I can't believed I skipped that section for 3 years assuming it was people trying to sell thier 5 year old fridge.

JTL
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I'm still waitng for mine to ask me 'Mum, what is premature ejaculation?'
That'd be you're sex ed opener then.
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Originally Posted by nightnurse2
I'm still waitng for mine to ask me 'Mum, what is premature ejaculation?'
Isn't the response.. Go ask your father
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Isn't the response.. Go ask your father



Seriously, that's a conversation that both parents need to be involved in
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Originally Posted by JackTheLad
Honestly with newspapers all over the world, they have the small print classified section, where people advertise their cars, boats whatever. I could never care about that section of the paper, so turn over 4 pages at once.

Mrs JTL pointed out to me last week that the Courier Mail classifieds have ads for prostitutes. I mean really graphic ads, like" 18 year old thai 40 DD bust, kissable, shaved, new to Oz, ready for anything"

I can't believed I skipped that section for 3 years assuming it was people trying to sell thier 5 year old fridge.

JTL
That is a coincidence. I recently started working in the approvals (environmental etc) team at work so have started looking in the public announcements section of the West Australian so see which projects are going for which approvals. But this section follows immediately on from the personal ads. Many of them are cryptic but the one offering "hand or French relief" caught my eye. The majority seem to involve Korean ladies (which sounds worrying like Thai lady boys). There was another for a "mature" lady in Joondalup - so I kept that one in my wallet in case I ever feel like a "Rooney".
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Originally Posted by datamile
Isn't the response.. Go ask your father
No that's the answer to "What's an orgasm"?
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Originally Posted by worzel
The majority seem to involve Korean ladies (which sounds worrying like Thai lady boys).

Now that I've been studying the section for a week, I have to say, there is a worryingly large amount of it devoted to transvestites.

There are roughly 20 ads for transvestites. Now if you do the maths, each transvestite would need about 10 customers a day to be economically viable and there is 365 days a year, you end up with 73000 men who use transvestites at least once a year in Brisbane.

Brisbane is a city of about 1 million, but the adult male population is only about a quarter of that, and I'm assuming the ones over 65 don't need the services of transvestites. So cut that to about 200,000 sexually active males in Brisbane.

That means 1 in 3 men in Brisbane shag transvestites And thats only going by the ads in the Courier Mail. If you assume there are at least 3 times as many transvestites in Brisbane as advertise in the Courier Mail, then you end up with the conclusion that every male in Brisbane shags a transvestite at least once a year.

Do I have to?

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