Lita
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Post by Lita on Aug 24, 2004 13:59:40 GMT
...although even the Ideal Homo show wasn't as rubbish as Winter Pride. It was like a crap village fete-cum-craft fair.
Obviously I went every year.
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Post by Cherubic on Aug 25, 2004 19:38:53 GMT
...although even the Ideal Homo show wasn't as rubbish as Winter Pride. It was like a crap village fete-cum-craft fair. Envisions raffia butt plugs.
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Post by Lita on Aug 26, 2004 11:32:42 GMT
The scary thing is, you're not far off there.
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Post by Cherubic on Aug 26, 2004 22:54:14 GMT
The scary thing is, you're not far off there. My blissfully unshredded rectum cringes at the thought.
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Post by JonSpice on Sept 13, 2004 22:10:03 GMT
Attitude's typos are AWFUL
I wonder if they're looking for a sub-editor? I know I don't have any A-levels yet (one year left) but I can SPELL.
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Post by jamie on Sept 25, 2004 8:27:07 GMT
I bought Attitude this week as I wanted to read the Jordan interview. The rest of it is a bit rubbish as I previously thought, even the interview was a bit wank(it made me laugh a lot the very small print at the end in almost unreadable colour saying "phil's suntan provided by selftan" or something like that)
I'm not going to buy it again. The embarrassment I had definitely wasn't worth this mediocrity. The music issue is the only one I would consider buying, but then I doubt I'd even buy that.
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Post by elmsyrup on Sept 25, 2004 19:55:52 GMT
Embarrassment?
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Post by jamie on Sept 26, 2004 8:06:17 GMT
Well going into one newsagent not being able to find it so i had to go into another one. in that one i picked it up and took it to the counter. the woman looked at the cover for ages then disapprovingly went "£2.50."
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Post by si on Sept 26, 2004 8:12:26 GMT
Well going into one newsagent not being able to find it so i had to go into another one. in that one i picked it up and took it to the counter. the woman looked at the cover for ages then disapprovingly went "£2.50." Surely that's £2.50 well spent in that case?
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Post by jamie on Sept 26, 2004 9:10:57 GMT
Surely that's £2.50 well spent in that case? Eh? I didn't find very much interesting in it.
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Post by Cherubic on Sept 26, 2004 12:02:00 GMT
Yeah, but making a statement, fighting the power, grr, etc.
You've got to see the inherent value in that?
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Post by Steven on Sept 27, 2004 16:18:30 GMT
That's the thing. I buy Attitude as a statement (I don't want to sound wanky, but I don't how how else to word it), but I don't usually bother to read it.
I don't really have a problem with the content, as such. Yes, the typos are annoying, but when you spend as much time on the internet as I do, typos become a part of your everyday existence. The articles themselves are usually pretty interesting and I can overlook the shortcomings of the sub-editor if the content of the article is good enough.
The reason that I don't usually read it is that I usually find myself wholly depressed after reading it - either because it's one of those issues that focuses on serious issues and I feel sad after having read the horrible and tragic true life stories, or it's one of those issues that tries to reaffirm your faith in mankind by doing lots of stories about true love and happy young gays, and then I get depressed because I'm single. It's a bit of a lose-lose situation when you have me as a reader.
That said, I know I should be grateful it's there, and I wouldn't particularly like to live in a world where I was deprived of the option of buying a gay magazine, so every month, regular as clockwork, I buy it.
Jamie: a hint - buy it from WH Smith. They've usually got it in stock and nobody ever gives a possum's rectum what you're buying in there.
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Post by Cherubic on Sept 27, 2004 22:47:18 GMT
That's the thing. I buy Attitude as a statement (I don't want to sound wanky, but I don't how how else to word it), but I don't usually bother to read it. Not to be trite for once, why do you choose specifically Attitude as the medium through which you make your statement, rather than say Gay Times, or pornography or something else. Just out of interest.
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Post by Steven on Sept 28, 2004 9:56:01 GMT
Process of elimination, really. It's the only gay magazine left that I would read, if I had the inclination. Gay Times was never really to my taste.
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Post by Gordon on Nov 16, 2004 15:25:19 GMT
When I buy it, and I do every month, I have to make sure I'm looking my best (or at least decent). I'm still a bit self conscious buying it, then other times I want to laugh at how uncomforatable it is. I only read the interviews, and music and film reviews. Josh Rafter or whoever now's fitness tips I find quite alientating as I don't know how to get started doing weights to begin with let alone try this new leg stretcher from Sweden, or whatever. I like to cut out the pictures of Cher and Joan Rivers, et all, and stick 'em with blue tac on my wall.
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Post by FeelsLikeKellyCrabtree on Nov 17, 2004 13:55:18 GMT
Josh Rafter or whoever now's fitness tips I find quite alientating Never mind alienating, I just find him hideously repulsive. Why do they continue to employ him? It drives me mad. He's so smug and just generally vile. Everyone I know just flicks past his page ( recently it seems to have become pages). Is it just me or does anyone here want rid of him?
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Post by Gordon on Nov 17, 2004 16:35:18 GMT
I want rid of this idea that Gay people find Robbie Williams attractive. As if we are all (collectively) looking up at him like excited puppies, just waiting for him to say he is actually gay, it is patronising. I find him utterly repulsive, I really do. I almost don't want to breathe when I look at him.
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Post by frap on Nov 17, 2004 17:35:55 GMT
I read Attitude (occasionally) and I love the Robbie. However, I am a straight female.
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Post by ladytrol on Dec 23, 2004 15:19:59 GMT
sQueeze like their boys showering, obviously. He doesn't wear to the right, he doesn't wear to the left, he wears up.
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Post by Cherubic on Jan 5, 2005 0:57:33 GMT
He looks like he should play the lead in Obelix: the twink years.
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Post by si on Jan 11, 2005 7:57:59 GMT
He looks like he should play the lead in Obelix: the twink years. I like his vitalstatistix, fnar.
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Post by frap on Feb 2, 2005 1:37:05 GMT
1. Josh Rafter looks kind of funny.
2. I'm a straight female yet I buy this. Not quite the target audience they were looking for, perhaps...
3. Mmm Charlie Simpson. Kudos to Attitude, they keep putting gorgeous lads like JRM and so on on the cover. Keeps the ladies and the lads alike abuying.
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Post by marknyc on Feb 10, 2005 22:00:03 GMT
I'm a gay man and I quite enjoy Attitude.
It may be the best mainstream gay periodical in the English language.* I am constantly surprised by how often it is slated by UK gays. Perhaps I am just starved on US publications like OUT, Instinct and the knee-jerkness of The Advocate.
Attitude is well designed, it features great photographs, the articles are often amusing, it contains UK porn adverts which seem somewhat interesting to me as an American, it is a great size for a magazine and the pages are glossy.
Perhaps I am secure enough with my gay that I do not expect a single magazine to represent me and all my interests or define my sexuality to myself and the rest of the world.
Also, Attitude has does great celebrity interviews and sometimes gets them naked. Can't go wrong with that.
*qualified there for the Dutch Squeeze rag which has just given me a contributing credit and the brilliant BUTT.
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Post by Cherubic on Feb 11, 2005 2:55:22 GMT
Perhaps I am secure enough with my gay that I do not expect a single magazine to represent me and all my interests or define my sexuality to myself and the rest of the world. *qualified there for the Dutch Squeeze rag which has just given me a contributing credit and the brilliant BUTT. This is the best defence of it I've read. I still wouldn't buy it, but then my gay and I aren't on speaking terms. I'd just rather buy a new scientist and something with erections. BUTT is brilliant though. If only for the bit in the back where people send in pictures of rotund straight art students they've drugged into nudity but didn't touch.
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Post by ladytrol on Jun 8, 2005 18:39:32 GMT
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