Thanks for the censor, it still jumpscared me but it was easier to recover ❤️

Unfortunately, there're a lot more UK rags owned by Murdoch than just that one :( and many others owned by other rightwing billionaires. It's insane we have got to this point where our majority sources of our local news is mostly all foreign billionaire + politically captured

my blood just ran cold

The big folded up poster in the center of the magazine, practically the "main attraction" of the whole thing

When making magazines you'd print long sheets of paper on both sides, lay them together in the right order, staple down the middle, and then fold the whole thing afterwards to make a booklet.

This means that all of your two-page spreads would be on the front of one page, and the back of the next page. All except the "centrefold", where the staples were, that was printed on one continuous sheet of paper. It would have been the bottom of the stack, before you folded it into a book.

This meant you could pull that single sheet out and it would essentially become a poster, and so many magazines would print big images in the centerfold with that in mind. It also helps that the center of a binding like that it is easiest to flip to, it's where the pages naturally want to return, so it helped to put your biggest attraction there.

If you've ever seen the trope / gag where someone is looking at a magazine, and then they turn the magazine sideways to oggle it, chances are the joke is that they're looking at the centerfold, and turning it sideways because this particular image is sideways because the poster is printed to be hung up in portrait orientation.

So anyway, because it was such a main attraction for a magazine, and in particular was a kind of artifact that might live on a wall beyond the normal life of the rest of the magazine, it was considered very high status for a model to be featured even once as the centerfold.

An early 80s hit song by J. Geils Band.

I do believe it's the name of a stand in Jojos. (/s)

EDIT: Oh wait. It's the user's name. Not the stand.

Like the other person pointed out, what it is is literally in the name.

Reminder Hefner reported Epstein to the FBI years before most others clocked him. He was a misogynistic lecher but he was one with standards.

Yeah unfortunately 😭 just gotta stock up on the jokes for the real ones - or until the topic climate hopefully eases up in the future. Have a good library of gold at the ready!

Ooo got any for the crowd?

Ooh I have a joke I picked up from an old bastard of a pastor years ago. For quick context I'm pretty sure the man was mildly insane but he hated prosperity preachers so take that as you will. So anyways here's the joke.

In many ways mankind is inferior to God but in many ways we have outstripped the creator. For example God created a woman from a man, but mankind can do that with but with scalpal and medicine we also didn't have to ask a man to marry an animal first we just asked the dude what he wanted. Turns out he is she.

Look I said the old bastard was mildly insane, a comedian he was not. Also I'm pretty sure I'm butchering the joke a bit. Regardless the but of the joke is clearly the god of the Bible, so you can only punch up.

The more women you allow to transition, the less you need to pay your work force! (please ignore trans men, they're used to being ignored)

I thought suggesting that sex change operation consist of chopping of the dick without anesthesia goes beyond being a little ignorant but who am I to say? If people agree it's funny and not offensive then I was wrong, that's it.

You know how when one guys gets hit in the balls, another guy in a 1km radius also feels it? I think they were more so trying to just mke conversation based on that while making it more lighthearted for their friend in support of equalising her operation to the normalest good thing she could've been doing (for herself) "but had to get hit in the balls", while also along the way expressing curiosity in the procedure.

• I'm likely overthinking tho and may be spoiled by a couple of amazing close friends