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And it's probably a criminal offence to call them 'they' now
In some cases "they" reckon it should be a criminal offence not to call them "they".
And it's probably a criminal offence to call them 'they' now
I still buy them but haven't read a new one since January. They're still piled up on the table. And the only sections I read without fail are Alan's ghost column, letters and "it happened to me." Most of the time I can finish a magazine in 5 minutes. Occasionally articles are published that I wouldn't normally have looked at but I'm glad I tried them - the article on the mystery body found on the Australian beach - Taman Shud, I think it's referred to?
Me too!! In recent times, several newspapers and magazines have disappeared. Hope it won´t happen to FT too soon.I'd much rather live in a world with Fortean Times in it than one that doesn't.
Just wanted to chip in briefly.
I find Naughty Felid's other comments odd too; FT was full of crop circles and X-Files stuff back in the 90s, although I'm not sure why the 'Second Summer of Love' (people off their tits in a field somewhere) would have been a particularly fortean subject. This was also the period when FT's readership – fuelled largely by the X-Files phenomenon – hit a massive, unsustainable, and never-to-be-repeated, peak.
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Oh, you're Welsh?Páiric O'Corráin, sometimes printed as O'Corcráin.
Oh, you're Welsh?
Irish!
This has my vote for, 'Post of the Month'!Not quite true. As Forteans, we look at the evidence, As the limitations of compact cameras produce orbs where previously there were none.
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What remains fascinating to me is the question of why should the human mind play these deception games on itself?
Sorting out the real wheat from the chaff is what we’re mostly and should be doing .
If you take this place as an example, there's me and Swifty that I know attended festivals and raves. I'm not sure who else did.
The letters page has always been the credulous aspect. There's been some WELL weird stuff on there. A couple of years ago there was a long rambling letter about a night-time ghostly visitation which was obviously a dream. Probably had cheese for supper.
Same thing.
No, I'm talking about potential readership a lot of those people was deeply interested in the esoteric and the supernatural at that time.
Ah, got it! I thought you meant we should have been running articles about all our friends off their tits in fields! Sorry; it's press week, so not much grey matter left at this point.
In retrospect, perhaps we should have sent an FT rep out to raves with an armload of mags to spread the word to the wasted. I'd have volunteered!
I wish we could reach younger readers, but I wonder if they are even out there. Dennis don't do anything to market the mag to readers of any age, let alone those elusive kids.
Sorry, I was joking. You're name is so obviously Irish, I thought I'd try to be funny.Irish!
"It happened to me," gets me like that.
When someone at a party says, "I'm writing a novel," the traditional reply is, "Neither am I."
Similarly, when I read those allegedly true stories, I usually think, "No, that didn't happen to me either."
I did submit one once, though. It was fairly unremarkable: an elderly friend in the Morris dance community who had never ever telephoned me, rang me one evening and left me a message to call him back. I did so the next morning and found that he had died, asleep in his armchair. His widow had no idea why he had rung me. However, having discovered the news so early, I was able to get the word out into the wider Morris community and was instrumental in getting a massive turnout of dancers from all over the country to his funeral. I vaguely feel that he sensed the end was near and had that in mind.
I would imagine they don't want to be made fun of by the various article writers...What I do miss are the mad letters...the really mad ones. Does no-one write them anymore? Or have all those guys got websites now? Or is it that the world's gone so nuts that nothing looks that weird anymore?
Although I don't buy every issue, if I flick through it in a shop and see something interesting, I'll buy it, even if it's only a short thing I could get away with reading in the shop, cos at the end of the day, I'd much rather live in a world with Fortean Times in it than one that doesn't.
Speaking of, if you could get Alan Moore to write on occasion for FT, .
Sorry, I was joking. You're name is so obviously Irish, I thought I'd try to be funny.
My wife used to have friend who was Irish (from Cavan), we were at home one day, when my brother in law's friend met her and insisted she was Scottish, despite her having a very Irish accent, and her protestations that she wasn't a Scot!
I'm Scottish and was having a Skype session with a friend in America, his wife said I sounded just like Tom Jones!
But that's not unusual (had to add that before someone else did )
Ah, got it! I thought you meant we should have been running articles about all our friends off their tits in fields! Sorry; it's press week, so not much grey matter left at this point.
In retrospect, perhaps we should have sent an FT rep out to raves with an armload of mags to spread the word to the wasted. I'd have volunteered!
I wish we could reach younger readers, but I wonder if they are even out there. Dennis don't do anything to market the mag to readers of any age, let alone those elusive kids.
Ahem.
Sorry, I was joking. You're name is so obviously Irish, I thought I'd try to be funny.
My wife used to have friend who was Irish (from Cavan), we were at home one day, when my brother in law's friend met her and insisted she was Scottish, despite her having a very Irish accent, and her protestations that she wasn't a Scot!
Are you asking for age, interests, preferred reading material outside Forteana, or our measurements?Is it possible that there is a young contingent within the readership, but they mostly do not frequent this board (or the official version it used to be)?
It is, after all, viewed as a rather old-fashioned medium in the world of social media.
Just pondering.
Do the FT have a demographic breakdown of the readership/subscriber base?
I'm very very sorry.