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Jack Vincennes
10:24 / 08.10.03
I suppose the 'kiss your hand' advice was a useful enough way of saying, "14 year old boys are unlikely to know, or care, whether you are good or bad at kissing"...

As for the 'most embarrassing moment' section, I never understood it either. Maybe the rationale is that it's nice to read about other people cocking up, although I shudder to think of the time I've wasted reading stories with the exciting conclusion "and then I farted... in front of my best friend's fit brother!".
FHM have something similar now, actually, but I suspect that many of the episodes described therein are not based entirely in fact.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
13:49 / 08.10.03
I don't understand why the teen mags always have a "most embarrassing moments" page. What's up with that?

Easy. Focus groups give them thumbs-up every time. they're amazingly popular, probably because they involve shame and othering much like everything else in high school. They also don't mind that they're made up (as in, we suspect the kids sending them in are faking it) - the grosser, more fucked-up they are, the better they go down. Hence, stories that invariably end in (in the initial copy, at least) with "...and then I came on" are sure-fire winners.
 
  

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