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Xaintrailles posted:Are you here for xmas OP? If so, there's things you need to know: its amazing how our cultures can be so close .. and yet so different ...
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/nuts-final-issue-lucy-pinder-cries-on-the-front-cover-as-the-lads-mag-9310248.html so sad 
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Dr. Quarex posted:I bet if you went to a Barnes & Noble in America you would still see like 100 magazines, though. I am always confused by how many still exist every time I randomly end up there They have a bunch at my local Bass Pro Shop that I may actually want, like about gun stuff. But they're located after the registers by the exit. This is a store with a separate designated entrance and exit. So like if you intend to buy anything at the store the only way to get to them is after you've already been through the checkout. I don't know if they've ever sold one.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/nuts-final-issue-lucy-pinder-cries-on-the-front-cover-as-the-lads-mag-9310248.html Nuts Magazine, featuring Tits
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Go to North Ireland and just cause a loving ruckus OP
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LOVE BIG BRITISH TITTIES!!! 
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I'm here as a Christmas gift to my wife who always wanted to take a vacation here I still really want intel on the booming paper magazine industry here
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Dr. Quarex posted:This is Finnish Nah, I’m pretty sure there’re Swedish
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NotJustANumber99 posted:https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/nuts-final-issue-lucy-pinder-cries-on-the-front-cover-as-the-lads-mag-9310248.html She must be pushing 40 by now. Gravity comes on best boobs alas.
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What the gently caress is a "bloke?" Why the heck is it bloody?
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uk:print media::us:meth
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At least our two nations have common ground in our love of tits.
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Go to Finchley and pay your goddamned respect to the Baroness Thatcher.
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Collateral posted:She must be pushing 40 by now. Gravity comes on best boobs alas. I also comes on best boobs
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Thought that was a shop of Natalie Portman and suddenly remembered webrings. Like these huge boobs? Sign my guestbook.
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If you want some good non-tit related magazines, get Private Eye and Viz. Private Eye is a weird combo of comedy and investigative journalism. They've been sued for libel by some of the worst people imaginable, but they just keep on going. Viz is some of the best childish toilet humour you will ever see.
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Private Eye is basically the only actual journalism in the UK; the newspapers are owned by crooks and about on par with the US news cycle.
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Although Private Eye's jUsT aSkInG QuEsTiOnS stance on Andrew Wakefield's vaccine "research" is one of the reasons antivaxxers are such a prominent force today, so it has a lot to answer for there.
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Poohs Packin posted:Who the actual gently caress are 99% of british celebs you can literally do one good tv season and youll end up doing game shows and talk appearances in perpetuity . Doesn’t have to be good. Also: win an Olympic medal or 11. You have a US centric view if you don’t think your celebs are the same though. Thousands of sportspeople who are household names in the USA, but no one knows elsewhere outside of Brady. Literally a billion US only chat shows, news presenters, politicians etc that are unknown. The big movie stars and musicians are the exception, but fully half of them are British anyway. This is the same for every country you don’t live in in the world.
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Whybird posted:Although Private Eye's jUsT aSkInG QuEsTiOnS stance on Andrew Wakefield's vaccine "research" is one of the reasons antivaxxers are such a prominent force today, so it has a lot to answer for there. I'd think the alarmist coverage by the tabloid press would have had a much bigger effect. Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think the Eye even featured it on their front page. Also it's easy to criticise with hindsight now that we all know Wakefield was a charlatan who fabricated his results.
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It's insane that something called Mince Pie doesn't have like actual "beef / lamb mince" as the name suggest but filled with some weird rear end jam/marmalade filling. UK, are you trying to be a special boy again?
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Galewolf posted:It's insane that something called Mince Pie doesn't have like actual "beef / lamb mince" as the name suggest but filled with some weird rear end jam/marmalade filling. You can mince many different things. But there did used to be sweetened and heavily spiced minced meat in them, you can still find the old recipes. The proper ones still contain beef fat at least.
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Caesar Saladin posted:dad reads a magazine about freight shipping so what?
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jazzyhattrick posted:I'd think the alarmist coverage by the tabloid press would have had a much bigger effect. Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think the Eye even featured it on their front page. They ran a whole special report on it: 
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wooger posted:You have a US centric view if you don’t think your celebs are the same though. Until the HBO show, John Oliver was practically unheard of in the UK. Craig Ferguson is probably still mostly unknown. Makes me wonder how many Americans know who Ruby Wax or Rich Hall are, I’m gonna guess not a huge amount.
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i'm from the uk and i don't know who ruby wax or rich hall are john oliver and craig ferguson got famous in america and at least for craig, is actually an american now, so that explains them
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Craig Ferguson is the drummer of Peter Capaldi's old band, right?
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EL BROMANCE posted:Until the HBO show, John Oliver was practically unheard of in the UK. Craig Ferguson is probably still mostly unknown.
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I looked up Rich Hall a few years back because my parents and I all found Sniglets delightful when I was a young kid, and I was like... Wait, he is actually still working in entertainment? Hell yeah, you go Rich
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Once you get on TV panel shows you're set for life in the UK
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jazzyhattrick posted:I'd think the alarmist coverage by the tabloid press would have had a much bigger effect. Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think the Eye even featured it on their front page. Tabloid alarmist stories on vaccines happened in the 70's with the Whooping Cough Vaccine scare, bastards.  I would not surprised if this wasn't just another salvo in the class war.
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bitterandtwisted posted:Once you get on TV panel shows you're set for life in the UK Yep, closed list for the tv circuit, regardless of talent, or even writing a new set every year. Pure torture if you know actual talented standups who can’t get a sniff.
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serious answer, maybe because you spend a lot of time on public transport in the uk and grabbing a mag to distract yourself from your inner critic is a good option
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Gentle Autist posted:serious answer, maybe because you spend a lot of time on public transport in the uk and grabbing a mag to distract yourself from your inner critic is a good option Finally a real answer. Maybe Big Magazine has been the ones paying chavs to knick people's cell phones on the subways
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All I know about the UK I learned from Peep Show.
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roomtone posted:i'm from the uk and i don't know who ruby wax or rich hall are Craig Ferguson began his stage life as Bing Hitler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m4wkYWEK4c Funnier back then, IMO.
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Gentle Autist posted:serious answer, maybe because you spend a lot of time on public transport in the uk and grabbing a mag to distract yourself from your inner critic is a good option I'm sure this used to be true, but I don't think I see many people reading magazines on public transport any more. Of course I might be too busy staring at my phone to notice. I suspect the real answer is a combination of huge profit margin on sold copies and advertisers overpaying based on sketchy circulation figures, and that most that are printed go in the bin unread.
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Blooster posted:I'm here as a Christmas gift to my wife who always wanted to take a vacation here Dunno about lads mags and stuff, but one business (Future Publishing plc) owns a huge swathe of the hobbyist magazine market. It was teetering near the edge of collapse around 5 years ago, but it has been through a sort of miracle recovery under different leadership. Although market value isn't everything, it was valued at around £30 million in 2014. Now its market value is apparently £4.7 billion. Its share price has gone from like 80p up to £35+ per share. It did this by significantly building up the online side of magazines. They also expanded and consolidated other big magazine publishers. I seriously doubt the print magazines themselves are much more than marginally profitable/break even (some are likely even loss making), but their branding and market name recognition is still extremely valuable, and can be leveraged. For a magazine I used to get as a kid, PC Gamer, you can easily see how it now represents a key reviewer/product aggregator website. If you want the best gaming mouse, monitor, graphics card etc. it comes very high on Google rankings and it has a lot of affiliate links. It's probably the same for every magazine they run. The success of the online side effectively keeps afloat the print side of the business, and it will do while it is still seen as beneficial to keep them around. You can imagine that under other circumstances, the publisher would have gone insolvent a few years ago and a good deal of other ones too and then the shelves would have looked a lot more like they apparently do in the US. Hope you enjoy your trip, OP. Sorry you came when it is especially grey, miserable and plague-ridden. More so than usual, I mean.
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Convex posted:don't forget to catch EastEnders! Phil is a loving King. Anyway nice loving Seppo thread, nerds, what're you gonna do, die from lack of affordable healthcare about it.  Edit: I think the popularity of Magazines in the UK is probably moreso to do with the fact that about 80% of the over 40 population in the UK is completely and totally technologically illiterate outside of looking at the match scores on their phones so they still like to buy BIG FUCKIN' TITZ weekly and Viz magazines.
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