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Post by rockkid on Sept 29, 2005 14:22:44 GMT
which men's weekly do you prefer?
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Post by groopie on Oct 3, 2005 16:13:40 GMT
You're kidding, right..?
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Post by rockkid on Oct 5, 2005 9:51:45 GMT
No, dont tell me your favorite mags are Heat (rolls eye ball icon x a googol!)
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Post by Carrotline on Oct 6, 2005 14:35:33 GMT
There's very little to differentiate one from the other.
It's all tits, arse, (nearly) minge and then some sport, cars, books/films/records that Xr3i Darryl and his pals should be tuning into and some comedian quotes thrown in for good measure for him to toss around with his mates in the pub.
I hate them both.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Oct 23, 2005 17:58:27 GMT
Gay Times
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Post by SweatShop on Oct 28, 2005 22:58:22 GMT
which men's weekly do you prefer? Obviously hasn't read this board before posting this question. He hasn't realised that not many straight 15 year old boys read this board. |
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Post by Danniiboy on Nov 9, 2005 19:00:37 GMT
Nuts outsells Zoo, but both magazines aren't exactly high brow. I bought the first week's issue of Nuts just to see what it was like, and it was all tits, sport, cars and more tits. And I don't like any of them!
There was a gay version of Heat around for a wee while, but the market just wasn't there. Heat is so gay anyway!
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Post by rockkid on Nov 28, 2005 12:24:09 GMT
which men's weekly do you prefer? Obviously hasn't read this board before posting this question. He hasn't realised that not many straight 15 year old boys read this board. Yes I have read this board, but unlikle many gay men i dont live my life as a gay cliche eg i don't like pop music so i think girls aloud/ charlotte church/kylie/ madonna are a load of shite. i can't bear most gay mens magazine as they assume that we all like madonna/ Home and Away/ fashion etc. i don't, but i still am gay. in a bizarre way i actually prefer (str8) men's mags like nuts, zoo, fhm, GQ, esquire and arena. they make less assumptions about the reader eg featuring indie, rap, rock and r'n'b music genres, a wide variety of films, practical non to poncy fashion, humour. Nuts and Zoo are better reads than Attitude etc |
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Post by theactresswhosings on Nov 28, 2005 18:00:26 GMT
Don't nuts and zoo just assume that the readers are straight, hence all the tits and arse?
These mags are aimed at stereotypes just as annoyingly unfair and unbalanced as the typical "gay" stereotypes if you ask me.
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Post by Cherubic on Nov 29, 2005 11:29:31 GMT
Yes I have read this board, but unlikle many gay men i dont live my life as a gay cliche eg i don't like pop music so i think girls aloud/ charlotte church/kylie/ madonna are a load of shite. i can't bear most gay mens magazine as they assume that we all like madonna/ Home and Away/ fashion etc. i don't, but i still am gay. in a bizarre way i actually prefer (str8) men's mags like nuts, zoo, fhm, GQ, esquire and arena. they make less assumptions about the reader eg featuring indie, rap, rock and r'n'b music genres, a wide variety of films, practical non to poncy fashion, humour. Nuts and Zoo are better reads than Attitude etc I have to say that while I hate Attitude, its ferretty little editor, most of its contents and all its works; by including such revolutionary features as sentences and articles of more than one paragraph it makes itself a better read than Zoo or Nuts, which in all honesty are merely cowards porn. I'd say FHM was roughly Attitudes equivalent in presumptive takiness that nonetheless requires some semblance of a reading age. From what I have read (when bored and hung over on a train) between Nuts and Zoo there is nothing to choose between them. |
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Post by mintjesus on Jan 22, 2006 17:43:43 GMT
Don't nuts and zoo just assume that the readers are straight, hence all the tits and arse? I got the Scandinavian version of Nuts and Zoo the other week when i was in Denmark...along with the Swedish and Danish versions of FHM as well as Slitz magazine [like a Swedish Maxim]...sorry to report that they all seemed to be full of Jordan and Abi Titmuss!! Not only that the Girls of FHM from Germany seemed to only have 1 German model i it...full of Page 3 stunnas with their boobs out...American models posing so not to offend WAL*MART and a couple of Eastern Europeans!! |
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Post by booers on May 18, 2006 11:27:06 GMT
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I got the Scandinavian version of Nuts and Zoo the other week when i was in Denmark...along with the Swedish and Danish versions of FHM as well as Slitz magazine [like a Swedish Maxim]...sorry to report that they all seemed to be full of Jordan and Abi Titmuss!!
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I am surprised to see that no one has posted a comment on the appropriateness of a magazine full of shots of Jordan and Abi Titmuss is called Slitz. I think that's hilarious!
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Post by 1stpoofinspace on May 19, 2006 18:16:04 GMT
Oh, I used to read FHM back when I was a closeted 15 year old...I remember, the first one I bought had an interview with Kylie. Hmm. I often found solace in the very homoerotic fashion pages/adverts.
I do remember, after switching to attitude et al, the 'tude did seem slightly more highbrow, what with it's monthly 'Sometimes People Kill Themselves'-style article. Plus it didn't give me 'feminist guilt'.
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Post by LoveMusic on May 22, 2006 10:53:10 GMT
Someone in 6th form had a copy of nuts
We looked through going car...whore...car...whore...car...whore...
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Post by Ugly Netty on May 22, 2006 14:30:09 GMT
Oh, it didn't go car...whore...football... then?
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Post by LoveMusic on May 22, 2006 16:09:01 GMT
Probably. We only looked through the first bit
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Post by frap on May 22, 2006 16:59:15 GMT
I read Attitude regularly. I'm a straight lady. I love it.
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Post by gecko on Jul 20, 2006 21:40:27 GMT
all the issues look the same.
you cant tell one month from another
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Post by stale on Jul 21, 2006 22:21:44 GMT
Oh, I used to read FHM back when I was a closeted 15 year old. I actually giggled a bit when i read this, me too! ah, the follies of youth! My house-mate buys Nuts and Zoo, they are just like The Star really! Tits and football and cars! really get on my nerves! I actually quite like Attitude, it's a really good read! |
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Post by Bungle on Jul 21, 2006 22:23:43 GMT
But the typos, oh the typos!
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Post by WhiteNoiseMaker on Jul 22, 2006 0:00:59 GMT
I have a copy of nuts knocking around somewhere that I bought foolishly hoping to perve over Imogen from BB alleviate train-journey based boredom. God damn I hate that magazine. The standard of writing and humour in it is so piss poor it made me wish I was watching Ben Elton's Blessed instead of reading the rag. Their attempts at FHM style captions (which tend, as with most of FHM, to be alarmingly morally vacant but frequently quite amusingly absurd) are just so weak as to be embarrassing.
Ultimately reading any 'men's magazine' always makes me feel like I've just paid over the odds for an eastern-bloc prostitute who's made off with my wallet and left me to count the stains from splatted insects on the brothel wall, waiting for some nightmare pimp dressed in a football shirt to come in and remove my kidneys whilst leering so hard his face is in danger of falling off into my tear-stained lap.
Heat, on the other hand, makes me feel like my blood has been replaced with pure liquid smiles.
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Post by ruthie on Jul 23, 2006 17:21:47 GMT
I read Attitude regularly. I'm a straight lady. I love it. Ditto. I like it - it's funny. |
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Post by raspberry on Jul 24, 2006 19:01:04 GMT
I like attitude, but I refuse to buy a magazine with the likes of Shayne Ward on the cover.
I hate Heat. I hate paparazzi shots of stars looking odd/drunk/human with captions slating them. I hate full pages devoted to close ups of possible surgery scars or sweat patches. I hate celebrity quotes. I hate interviews with Tess Daly and Vernon Kaye. I hate the week or two behind Big Brother coverage from Dermot O'Leery.
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Post by fused on Feb 23, 2007 11:41:42 GMT
Don't nuts and zoo just assume that the readers are straight, hence all the tits and arse? These mags are aimed at stereotypes just as annoyingly unfair and unbalanced as the typical "gay" stereotypes if you ask me. Well said, I agree. I only usually buy music, TV or film themed magazines myself. I think all 'lifestyle' magazines are a load of crap. They all have their place I suppose, but they obviously have to be targeted at stereotypes or demographics and you pretty much have to be a stereotype to get much out of them. |
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