Flatulence Haunts Male - Users Guide to FHM....... (FHM)

Member Name: Muffin_the_Mule

Product:	FHM
Date:	05/08/01 (319 review reads)
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Advantages: Humour, informitave, Beats pooing unaccompanied

Disadvantages: hmmm, ummm, err...........

I have been a loyal reader of "For Him Magazine" (who decided that was a good title!?) for around 5 years now.

Ever since someone decided that Gillian Anderson was attractive and put her in a bra on the alluring, shiny front page of FHM.
I was 17 and looking for any excuse to not do my revising for those darn A-Levels.

Revising huh? there's a curious thing. Thats the only time CountryFile gets watched - it becomes curiously fascinating when you're meant to be learning Taylor's Managment Theories, or figure out just what the hell a "Rational" number really is - and when you'll ever need to know ever again.

FHM was to be my escape. not John 'Silver Fox' Craven.

Now i'm hooked on it.

I'll admit freely, it did go through a distinctly rough patch a couple of years ago when the "men's mag" genre expanded exponentially, and it had to re-allign with the new market.

It has now, however, re-established itself at the top of the pile, benchmark to the other publications attempts.

FHM is witty, well written, easily read. Perfect toilet reading fodder for the hard of pooing amongst you.

My favourite regular slots ( not in any way a phrase chosen carefully after the 'hard of pooing' thing, sorry.) and the articles which i flick to enthusiatically are:

====True Stories====

Where the great and the good, and a disturbingly high ratio of Her Majesty's armed forces, write in to regale us with their hilarious life experiences. "they're all lies!" i hear you cry!....aah, i will fend off your attack with the foil of... on the same page, the "heard it before" box, where the Pinnochio penned out there (Lord Archer take note) are ritually humiliated with sharp sarcastic punishment.

====Bar Room Jokes====

Ever notice that the guys in the office only swap new jokes on about the
25th of every month? (well you will now).


====Life Support====

A whole section dedicated to whats wrong with other people, and how to sort them. Appeals to the same part of your brains that makes us rubber neck on the motorway. Horrific? Occasionally. Nausiating? often. Educational? Always.

and last but not least,

====Those funny little picture captions====

I'm not sure if this appeals just to my sense of humour, or if they genuinely are funny, but on every page where there is a picture, there's a caption.
Not the normal "Man cutting Turkey" informitave captions. oh no.
A man cutting a golden brown turkey in FHM is accompanied by the line

"On his last day in Lanzarote, Turkey got mugged"

is that funny? i think so.

There are many other sections i could wheeze on and on about(Ed Halliwells eye on the world, Grub Smith's Sex lab, Letters from Lesbos), but i'm sure you are waiting for me to finish so you can rush out and purchase a copy of your own!

FHM - not only is it big, it's also Clever. and silky smooth shiny.

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