I just lost all respect for Maxim

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Siddhartha

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Oct 17, 1999
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Let me make sure I understand what I am reading here.

If you guys would not call Ms Lohan if met her at a party and she gave you her telephone number?



 

Verse914

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your missing the point...she may have some hotness to her, but definitely not the hottest.
 

krunchykrome

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I've received Maxim, FHM, and Stuff magazine for maybe five years. I got the subscriptions for free from hot deals. I can say that I've probably read only a handful of articles in all of those years and I quickly skimmed through the pages looking for hot women.

There was never any respect for those magazines though.
 

Drakkon

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Aug 14, 2001
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Maxim = Crackwhore Magazine?

the reports in them from jail life to drug cartels and terrorist operations are rather interesting reads (even if they are likely works of fiction) and the "how to" articles are always good. unfortunately from there it turns into crap.
 

Aharami

Lifer
Aug 31, 2001
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there are many many many hotter celebrities out there. no way lohan is the hottest!
 

Descartes

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Oct 10, 1999
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I can't believe I'm arguing this, but the article very clearly points out that it's about buzz and beauty. For whatever reason, she can't seem to keep herself out of the tabloids, etc. so I'm guessing the buzz more than compensates.
 

Nerva

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it's articles like this that stopped me from reading cnn. i pretty much stick to reuters now.
 

jman19

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Nov 3, 2000
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Originally posted by: pontifex
haha, and you guys flame me for saying Alba is ugly?

Moron. Maybe you don't think she is as hot as people say, but to say Alba is ugly is pure idiocy.
 

deerslayer

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Jan 15, 2001
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Originally posted by: BigJ
Gives me something to read on the crapper and I've got a free subscription till 2013. Fine with me.

Agreed, but my subscription won't last that long.
 

Vinny N

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Feb 13, 2000
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Strange picture they used. I wouldn't have recognized her without a caption.

Anyways, I suppose that list is fairly reasonable, though I would have guessed more males are obsessed with Scarlett Johansson.

That whole list is 18 or older I assume?

On the not legal yet list? I'd bet Hayden Panettiere is #1 :p
 

LegendKiller

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Mar 5, 2001
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I found this to be truly stupid.

I first got Maxim when they initially started up. I loved the mag but I stopped getting it for 2 or so years. My wife got me a new sub about 7 months ago. Now that I read it it's chocked full of advertisements, probably 3x as much as before. The articles used to be *MUCH* longer. The woman spreads a lot better.

The buying guides on the end used to be a lot better. Now, the fashion guides show blurry distanced pictures, so you can't see what the hell the stuff even looks like. They also used to include more lower-cost options for those of us who don't spend $300 on a shirt, $150 on a tie, $1,500 on a suit, and $600 on shoes.

The last issue had a fashion match-up between two boxers. One was a lot more conservative, the other had a diamond watch the size of the Superdome. Who won? The guy with more ghetto bling. Wow, great.


Maxim has lost almost all of it's appeal to me.