It's Magazine Week!

Please, bear with us here.

So we've spent the last two weeks bringing you some of the most eye-popping, pant-endangering chap-friendly movies in celebration of Boys' Fortnight, and we loved it. Afterwards, we felt an emptiness not unlike the post-Christmas downer which grips you on the day after Boxing Day. We'd had so much fun sharing our collection of cool things that, when all of a sudden it was over, we missed it. We had nothing to celebrate anymore.

Then our inbox made a 'ping' noise.

Guess what, kids? IT'S MAGAZINE WEEK! According to this press release we've been sent, from September 17th the nation comes together in a celebration of magazines. And let us tell you right now, this is no shallow promotional gimmick flung together by a bunch of gits in advertising in an attempt to flog a few more copies of Amateur Photographer. Hell, no. Magazine Week has been celebrated since Medieval times, when villagers would come together and worship a huge wicker effigy of Woman's Realm. Then they'd probably drown a donkey or something. Believe us, Magazine Week is big news.

Stick with us. We can do this.

So, in an attempt to satisfy our desire to 'celebrate' something, we're proud to bring you Magazine Week at RunForYourLives.co.uk. This should be a hoot. Every day this week, or until we lose the will to live, we'll be bringing you some amazing facts about magazines, plus some incredible offers on the nation's top magazines. You see, magazines aren't just something you lean on when you're trying to fill out a form in the dentist's. Apparently you can read them and, if you really like them, you can even subscribe to them.

So, here are today's incredible Magazine Facts. DID YOU KNOW:

• On average, each person in the UK buys a magazine every 18 days
• 82% of all women and 69% of men regularly read a magazine
• Each magazine is picked up 5.4 times before it is finished with
• This is approximately 4.4 more times than the average sheet of toilet paper
• Due to their glossy nature, magazines don't work well as a toilet paper substitute
• You're probably better off using a copy of the Daily Mail for that sort of thing
  

As if that wasn't reason enough to subscribe to your favourite magazine, we've rounded up some of the best special offers currently available. There are some great free gifts on offer when you buy a subscription to some top titles. Just look:

Subscribe to Total Film and get FREE box-sets of Goodfellas, True Romance, Heat and the Matrix trilogy!
Subscribe to Fast Ford and get a FREE Griffin iTrip (that nifty gadget that lets you play your iPod through your car radio)!
Subscribe to Heat Magazine and take a long hard look at your life.

You see? Magazine week is FUN! You can see a whole range of magazine subscriptions at RunForYourLives.co.uk, with loads more special offers and free gifts to make things even better. Woohoo!

We're going to go and have a little cry now.