March 22, 2004

• It is not known if the News of the World paid her for her story. *howls*
• This is extremely weird. I really really hate to be callous here, but did anyone else feel like slapping this girl and saying, "Duh?"
• Well, considering that she managed to wipe out half of her debt in one night, I think it would be more appropriate to slap the guy and say, "Duh?" Personally, I'm fluctuating between flabbergasted and a horrified envy.
• Hell, yeah, slap the guy! How good could it possibly have been, for godsake's!!! She's an eighteen year old virgin AND a lesbian. That guy was truly desperate to have paid that much money! I mean, really. Is it the virgin angle, or what? Dammit! Why didn't I think of that?
• Virginity is only worth 8,400 pounds? Admittedly that's, like, fifteen million NZ dollars. She certainly is, er, enterprising. Surely that counts as prostitution -- what are the laws against prostitution/solicitation in the UK?
• This would be illegal, I think, tracicle. Although you are allowed to be paid for sex, you can't advertise or solicite.
• Hmm. I suppose for some the appeal of deflowering a lesbian virgin would be worth that much. If I had a spare NZ$25,000, though, I'd probably drop $5k on a week in New Caledonia and stick the rest on the mortgage. If I was going to hire people to fuck for money (or, in old-fashioned, prejudicial parlance, whores), you can bet I'd be looking for something involving a group of primo-looking experts in their trade for a full day or two of orgiastic decadence, not some scared kid.
• Prosti-tuition? The whole thing seems off to me, but if the guy got what he wanted, and she got her money, then nobody really has anything to complain about. Interesting that it's legal over there though.
• Prostitution itself is not illegal but there are 36 offences linked to it, such as soliciting in a public place, kerb crawling and living off "immoral earnings" Now that sounds like a well worded law. I wonder what the definition of immoral is.
• I don't get this. In all its forms. Wouldn't an ex-junkie know better how to prevent the desire for and/or know better how to quit drugs? (The drug Czar (odd term, not mine) here in the USA must have never taken drugs). Wouldn't someone that has had sex be better at it than someone that never has? Do they recruit CEOs' at the unemployment office? Airline pilots at the local Center for the Blind? By that logic I'm Mr. Shakespeare Einstein Jordan. Also: "A lesbian university student..." Where is this Lesbian U they speak of? And, um, ick
• There are two possibilities, dave. One is that the guy probably felt that a virgin would definitely not have any venereal diseases (but if she was only a virgin in the sense that her hymen was unbroken, that would be a false assumption to make, since she was a lesbian). The second possibility is something rather Asian. Certain Asian cultures - especially the Chinese - believe that deflowering virgins somehow helps to boost a man's virility. Please don't ask me how that works - I have no idea. "Barrel-of-a-Gun" Mao was a big proponent of this theory.
• Hey, there are plenty of Western guys who have a fixation about virgins. It's not just for Asians! I can easily see it as a bragging points kind of thing. Like shagging Britney Spears - you get to boast about it. Or power ("I bought her!"). Or perhaps he's just afraid of anyone who can make a comparison.
• Or perhaps he's just afraid of anyone who can make a comparison. *Fell off chair laughing*
• >>Page Not Found. This might be because you typed the web address incorrectly. Please check the address and spelling ensuring that it does not contain capital letters or spaces. It is possible that the page you were looking for may have been moved, updated or deleted. *sigh*
• You think it's been Monkeyfiltered?
• SideDish - here's the google cache of the article
• we should say "that page has been monkeyed with" when that happens :-D altho' i'm inclined to believe that page may have been purposely removed by bbc news, and not because we overloaded it.
• must second vapidave: ick.
• Hey, I'm a truly, painfully lonely guy. How can I make myself feel that one little bit more pathetic than I already felt? I know! I'll sleep with a girl who secretly loathes me.
• i'd hit it. /obvious
• I'm a virgin.
• No - wait - a Scorpio, I mean. Sorry.
• Currency Converter says: 8,400.00 United Kingdom Pounds = 15,525.02 US Dollars Does that man realize that for $15K he could have gotten FIVE $3,000 a night hookers? Professionals with superior skills and experience who wouldn't slag him in the papers afterward. Plus the $525 leftover for Dom and coke. I guess this is just a lesson for all of us that it always pays to shop around.
• No need for a Google cache of a BBC report - you can see the original NoW article on-line. Those who haven't seen the NoW before may be able to get some idea of its tone and trustworthiness...
• Here's something scary at the bottom of the News of the World: DO YOU KNOW WHO HE IS? CAN you help us find the mystery man who bought Rosie's virginity? He said he was a 44-year-old divorced father of two who worked as a BT engineer and came from south-east England. Call us on 0207 782 1001 or email us by clicking here. Do they do this sort of thing in the UK?
• Possibly even ickier - now NotW wants to out the man. Well, this is what higher tuition will get people - strippers in Ontario, sex auctions in the UK. Students have to know the value of a dollar, don't they? Knowing the value of education is second.
• No, they do it in the News of the World. The same newspaper that started (illegally) printing the names, photos, phone numbers and addresses of convicted paedophiles, leading (I believe) to a number of vigilante murders.
• Of course, if she wanted to make *serious* money, she should have taped it and sold it on the Intarweb!
• And this is indeed par for the course for the News. They're a pack of shitbags writing fiction and selling it as news. For a while their favourite tactic to get good stories about sportsmen partying hearty was to hire two or three young ladies, have them run up to the sportsman with drinks in their hands, pull their tits out, and then the NotW photographer would snap a shot. It would be presented the next day as evidence of debauchery.
• Well, obviously the guy didn't want a top-model-grade, $3000 a night pro. He wanted THAT specific lesbian virgin, she accepted the deal, that's it. I'm sure he's happy. Hell, I've seen pieces of plastic sold for thousands on ebay... Of course, it looks like she got the short end (so to speak), but wait until the hidden video, shot by lesbian lover, comes out. I'm sure quite a few tabloid media outlets will pay a pretty price...
• Um first, ewww, and second... Hmmmm. guess it's not worth it...
• we should say "that page has been monkeyed with" when that happens :-D "Monkeyslashed" is my preference. Short, catchy, and derivative. Like all the things that burrow into your brain and never leave. As far as the story, I totally dont get this. I never really understood the psychological fascination with virgins, I think it has one of those primordial male urges to ...errrr... plant a flag. People spend their money foolishly all the time though...talk about a midlife crisis.
• Maybe Mystery Chump will "come out" and recoup his losses via the mystery of paid TV interviews? Maybe both of them will sell their story to Hollywood and make a ton 'o' yen? Maybe this is all staged by performance artists?