Mens Magazines
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You have to love them 
I love FHM and am rather partial to Loaded. Wouldn't touch Zoo (is it Zoo?) or Nuts with a bargepole but the two above are actually quite good. Ok they have small bits nudity but generally speaking they're not too bad at all! Apart from they really have the wrong ideas about women, you have to laugh at what they suggest!
Apart from Evo, if you buy - which
I love FHM and am rather partial to Loaded. Wouldn't touch Zoo (is it Zoo?) or Nuts with a bargepole but the two above are actually quite good. Ok they have small bits nudity but generally speaking they're not too bad at all! Apart from they really have the wrong ideas about women, you have to laugh at what they suggest!
Apart from Evo, if you buy - which
If I have to, GQ, simply because it doesn't treat me like a knuckle-dragger, and editor Dylan Jones is a top bloke (knows his cars too)
FHM's a bit too 'Carling, kebabs & w@nking', if you know what I mean, and most of the others are the same. As for Nuts and Zoo - yes, well titled. Reading them I can only assume they refer to the favoured food and place of residence of the target readers.
I don't really read any 'general' mags like that, I only buy car mags, film mags and music mags (speaking of music mags, the current issue of Metal Hammer is brilliant - a Judas Priest special, with 2 free full-length compilation CDs (one of them is 100% listenable too
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FHM's a bit too 'Carling, kebabs & w@nking', if you know what I mean, and most of the others are the same. As for Nuts and Zoo - yes, well titled. Reading them I can only assume they refer to the favoured food and place of residence of the target readers.
I don't really read any 'general' mags like that, I only buy car mags, film mags and music mags (speaking of music mags, the current issue of Metal Hammer is brilliant - a Judas Priest special, with 2 free full-length compilation CDs (one of them is 100% listenable too
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cosmoschick said:
"Men's Health" under the pretence that it's for my man and not for me to have a closer inspection of those gorgeous front cover models!
I think I got sent an issue of that mag free during fresher's week. It basically divides into 3 sections - 'bodybuilding', 'shagging' and 'avoiding testicular cancer'.
The only mag I get on a regular basis is "Circuit Driver"
On the lad's mag front I used to read "Playboy" once long ago - good for an insight into American Culture as the UK edition used to be absolutely no different to the US one. Oh...and good for an "insight into" very beautiful American women, too.
Haven't bothered with it in years now though...
On the lad's mag front I used to read "Playboy" once long ago - good for an insight into American Culture as the UK edition used to be absolutely no different to the US one. Oh...and good for an "insight into" very beautiful American women, too.
Haven't bothered with it in years now though...
_VTEC_ said:
Mimi, do you buy EVO? If so, then 
It's the only mag I read really. Any form of entertainment has to be a little bit escapist for me.
Has been known! Always surprises people. I don't know why 
Forgot Mens Health. GQ and Esquire seem a bit serious for lighthearted reading, they never seem to have the truly braindead ideas that FHM and Loaded have, maybe it's because they appeal to different 'types'
Always puzzles me why they don't put male models in womens magazines and women in Mens (Ok, so that's the focal point but you see what I mean!). I mean, do men actually look at the male models like women do and think, 'Golly, he's attractive.' or 'Oooh look at the packet on him', in a totally non sexual way of course - or is it just women who pour over the models and pick them to pieces?!
Until a couple of years ago my wife wrote sex articles for FHM. Believe it or not they (the editorial team)genuinely did try to impart some useful knowledge to the readership, basically along the lines of trying to be a bit more imaginative and sensual. There was a bit of a bust up when FHM did a sort of carnival-of-the-grotesque supplement and the new editorial team had a far more "Loaded" type of agenda.
Doing some of teh reasearch was fun though...
Doing some of teh reasearch was fun though...
yertis said:
There was a bit of a bust up when FHM did a sort of carnival-of-the-grotesque supplement
Yeah, can someone explain why it is assumed that one of blokes engrossing interests is looking at pictures of some of the most disgusting accidents people have been unfortunate to endure, and laughing at them?
I mean, what makes someone jump at the fact that a mag comes with a free supplement of genuine pictures of people with their heads impaled on gate posts, or their eyes dangling from fishing hooks, and the caption 'but he survived, so it's all right to look and laugh'. Huh? Psychos...
v8thunder said:
There was a bit of a bust up when FHM did a sort of carnival-of-the-grotesque supplement
Yeah, can someone explain why it is assumed that one of blokes engrossing interests is looking at pictures of some of the most disgusting accidents people have been unfortunate to endure, and laughing at them?
I mean, what makes someone jump at the fact that a mag comes with a free supplement of genuine pictures of people with their heads impaled on gate posts, or their eyes dangling from fishing hooks, and the caption 'but he survived, so it's all right to look and laugh'. Huh? Psychos...
I don't think laughter is the usual response, more
but you're right, I don't understand teh attraction.Gassing Station | The Pie & Piston Archive | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff