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Friends Magazine Memories

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pottyfry

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This thread is where you UK forum users (and US ones too) can share your undying love of collecting Redan Fun To Learn Friends magazines and its issues both past and present. You know, these days where I live Friends magazine contains stuff like Peppa Pig, Paw Patrol, Hey Duggee, Paddington, The Gruffalo and the like - but as far as I've read, it's all so very lazy these days! Not only do they constantly focus on pirates most of the time, but almost every workbook they print in their issues contains either Peppa Pig, Ben & Holly and Paw Patrol. Period. Nothing else. In my day, Friends magazine had stuff like Dora The Explorer and Max & Ruby and Clifford and Make Way For Noddy and all sorts of other fun stuff, and pirates weren't the main focus of the magazine. Here's what a typical Friends magazine looks like:

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So, this forum is dedicated to your memories, favourite activities, favourite crafts and favourite stories from Friends Magazine when you were a preschooler. For those of you who are young and young at heart, let the memories rejoice and begin!
 
Everything I grew up watching is banned these days, considered inappropriate for children, yet young people today seem to have far more social issues than anyone from my generation ever did.
 
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Everything I grew up watching is banned these days, considered inappropriate for children, yet young people today seem to have far more social issues than anyone from my generation ever did.
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Even Pepe Le Pew has been banned. 🙀

@pottyfry:
I don't think we have ever had "Friends Magazine" in Australia.
 
Good luck to the taste police. Whatever vulgarity there is in public life--and I'm sure it's far more than 40 years ago--here I am in my "old age" stuck in the world of 5th grade humor. That's what it's like to be autistic sometimes--you don't forget what it was like to be a kid.

And so, I remember the absolute scandal when the Topps Company decided to do a parody of "Cabbage Patch Kids" which was a huge fad in the 1980's. Topps introduced Garbage Pail Kids. Parents screamed and the schools banned the cards, but they were very popular with the kids. I remember smiling every time I heard the name. I thought, this was just the kind of thing we used to do, before companies could get away with it. Kids lead the way, after all.

Next thing you know, they'll be after the Road Runner.
 
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