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Shiny Magazine

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David Brooker

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Posted April 28, 2012 at 1:41PM

I found that the latest issue of the PC Advisor magazine has a back cover that is so shiny it keeps slipping off my lap while I am reading it in my archair! It is so shiny that I amtempted to take a rasp to it in order to roughen it up enough to stop it sliding. Has anyone else notcied this? David Brooker

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Aitchbee

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Posted April 28, 2012 at 2:06PM

A pair of rubberized trousers might help ;0]

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lotvic

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Posted April 28, 2012 at 2:07PM

Maybe it's turning into a glossy magazine starting with the back page :)

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Forum Editor

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Posted April 28, 2012 at 2:25PM

We like shiny things at PCA.

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Forum Editor

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Posted April 28, 2012 at 2:27PM

lotvic

Give us some credit - we're not cheapskates, the front cover is glossy, too. We ran it through the 'slipping-off-lapometer', and it passed with flying colours.

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WhiteTruckMan

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Posted April 28, 2012 at 3:04PM

This has set me wondering. How enviromentally friendly is this? Can shiny paper be easily recycled?

WTM

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Bingalau

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Posted April 28, 2012 at 3:07PM

David. If you raise your knees up a little, you will create a better angle and if you raise them up enough, the magazine will only slide as far as your lap. The exercise will do you good too.

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wiz-king

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Posted April 28, 2012 at 4:41PM

WhiteTruckMan Yes and no. It contains a lot of china clay and can only be pulped if mixed with ordinary paper (it is also almost water and fireproof so if you shred it and use it as hamster bedding you wont have to worry if your pet smokes in bed).

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morddwyd

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Posted April 28, 2012 at 5:07PM

It may be shiny but it stinks!

Not sure if it's the packaging, the disc or the mag, but something in the garden is definitely not lovely!

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Forum Editor

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Posted April 28, 2012 at 6:05PM

morddwyd

I'm sniffing my copy as I type, and it smells...of paper. Nothing more, and it's not unpleasant as far as I'm concerned.

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Fruit Bat /\0/\

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Posted April 28, 2012 at 6:34PM

No smell here either.

Mine only slipped off my lap during my afternoon snooze - knew that new comfy office chair was a good idea :0)

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