Really Boring Magazines

[radger]

We've just been having a discussion in the office about the really rubbish publications that we get. While I reckon Vehicle and Plant Technology is one of the worst, my colleague trumped it with Modern Asphalt.(Admittedly, this was her husband's, not ours)

What truly dull magazines do you get through your job? Can you surpass Modern Asphalt for sheer mind-crushing boringness?

 

[4F]

We've just been having a discussion in the office about the really rubbish publications that we get. While I reckon Vehicle and Plant Technology is one of the worst, my colleague trumped it with Modern Asphalt.(Admittedly, this was her husband's, not ours)

What truly dull magazines do you get through your job? Can you surpass Modern Asphalt for sheer mind-crushing boringness?

I have a part time job at a local distribution company and some of the boring titles that go through there have to be seen to be believed.
"Materials and Recycling weekly" is one that spings to mind

 

[Maz]

We get journals from ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, I think), filled with hyper-technical papers written by clever bods who appear to know what they're on about. No-one has time to read them, either. You get the most splendiferous titles to their papers - stuff like "Surface Profilometry Based on Fringing Capacitance Maintenance", with the most amazing calculus derivations...then you see the kit they've been using in the lab and it's cobbled together out of pieces of wood, springs, some old electric motors etc.

 

[radger]

I have a part time job at a local distribution company and some of the boring titles that go through there have to be seen to be believed.
"Materials and Recycling weekly" is one that spings to mind

Vehicle and Plant Technology is a bi-monthly special from MRW. (I am supposed to read MRW, but I usually manage to 'lose' it before I get round to reading it )

 

[Greedo]

I do property development and get a variety of crackers some include

Tile and Stone Journal
Concrete
Architects Journal
Timber Building
Planning

 

[HLaB]

Modern Asphalt

Modern Asphalt is gripping stuff, unless its covered in ice or something

 

[GrahamG]

Local Transport Today
Transit (all just buses and trains!)

There are shedloads, although the most dull sounding has to be the concrete society mags. I work for an engineering consultancy, there's just too much dull to pick from.

 

[palinurus]

On my desk I've got Soldering and Surface Mount Technology and Cycling Weekly. CW is more interesting, it's got the Helms cartoon.

 

[domtyler]

I get some real boring ones working in the porn industry,

"Muff Diving Monthly", "Fluffers Fortnightly", "self-gratification artists Weekly"

to name some of the more obvious ones, then checking under my desk there are copies of such gems as "Practical keyboard cleaning", "WebCam technology for the misty eyed gentleman" and "Efficient use of public toilets for the utterly desperate".

 

[HLaB]

Local Transport Today
Transit (all just buses and trains!)

There are shedloads, although the most dull sounding has to be the concrete society mags. I work for an engineering consultancy, there's just too much dull to pick from.

ditto

 

[lycradodger]

Concrete? You lucky, lucky b*****ds.

Tax Advisor. Tax Journal. Taxation.

 

[Chiefwiggum]

I too receive the wisdom of Concrete Magazine, top read!

 

[yenrod]

>Tile and Stone Journal

Hard read ?

 

[Aperitif]

>Tile and Stone Journal

Hard read ?

At least something gets laid in your mags Lee

 

[PaulB]

At least these journals do what they say on the tin. I'd like to nominate FHM for this dubious prize. Promises much but delivers precious little.