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Chongo · Mar 24, 2008, 07:48 PM

Outrage at Miss Bimbo website - Times Online

The internet game, aimed at girls aged 9 to 16, gives users 'bimbo dollars' to buy lingerie, diet pills and nightclub outfits. It has attracted 200,000 members in Britain

A website that encourages girls as young as 9 to embrace plastic surgery and extreme dieting in the search for the perfect figure was condemned as lethal by parents’ groups and healthcare experts yesterday.

The Miss Bimbo internet game has attracted prepubescent girls who are told to buy their virtual characters breast enlargement surgery and to keep them “waif thin” with diet pills.

Healthcare professionals, a parents’ group and an organisation representing people suffering anorexia and bulimia criticised the website for sending a dangerous message to impressionable children.

In the month since it opened the site, which is aimed at girls aged from 9 to 16, has attracted 200,000 members. Players keep a constant watch on the weight, wardrobe, wealth and happiness of their character to create “the coolest, richest and most famous bimbo in the world”. Competing against other children they earn “bimbo dollars” to buy plastic surgery, diet pills, facelifts, lingerie and fashionable nightclub outfits.

turtle777 · Mar 24, 2008, 09:06 PM

WTF did anyone expect from a site with such a name ?

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cjrivera · Mar 24, 2008, 09:19 PM

Odd... I would have thought Paris Hilton would have trademarked that name and website already.

Doofy · Mar 24, 2008, 09:20 PM

Storm in a teacup if you ask me. I mean, in the UK they've already had 5 or 6 kids by that age so their character is the nearest they're going to get to 110 Lbs.

andi*pandi · Mar 25, 2008, 09:31 AM

that's just stupid.

Chongo · Mar 25, 2008, 10:34 AM

The French girls must love it. The article there 1.2 million users in France.

This the part that gets me:

Registration on the Miss Bimbo site is free but it makes money by charging £1.50 per text message to buy “dollars” to spend on the characters. On the rules section it states that despite contestants wanting “to keep your bimbo waif thin . . . every girl needs to eat, every now and again”. It suggests feeding the character to prevent her dying of starvation.

and where do they get the money, use their parent's Visa card?

turtle777 · Mar 25, 2008, 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by Chongo

and where do they get the money, use their parent's Visa card?

Duh. They charge you PER TEXT MESSAGE. The charge appears on your cell phone bill, or is deducted from your prepaid card balance.

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Dakar the Fourth · Mar 25, 2008, 10:36 AM

I imagine it's a fee found on the next phone bill.

I also imagine the parents send the girls to bed without dinner as punishment.

turtle777 · Mar 25, 2008, 10:40 AM

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth

I also imagine the parents forcing the girls to eat two double Whoppers as punishment.

Fixinated.

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olePigeon · Mar 25, 2008, 10:48 AM

Pfft. Next thing you know the parents will be protesting kids cloths that say "slut," "porn star," and "cum bucket." Don't those parents have any sense of decency?

Dakar the Fourth · Mar 25, 2008, 10:50 AM

Originally Posted by turtle777

Fixinated.

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*snore*

osiris · Mar 25, 2008, 11:00 AM

Originally Posted by turtle777

WTF did anyone expect from a site with such a name ?

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thank you.

andi*pandi · Mar 25, 2008, 11:09 AM

Originally Posted by olePigeon

Pfft. Next thing you know the parents will be protesting kids cloths that say "slut," "porn star," and "cum bucket." Don't those parents have any sense of decency?

I have difficulty enough with baby clothes that say, "princess" "diva" and "drama queen." Don't tell me those exist.

osiris · Mar 25, 2008, 11:12 AM

Originally Posted by andi*pandi

I have difficulty enough with baby clothes that say, "princess" "diva" and "drama queen." Don't tell me those exist.

I know porn star was a brand.

Doofy · Mar 25, 2008, 11:58 AM

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth

I imagine it's a fee found on the next phone bill.

Depends on whether the loving parents got their little darlings a pre-paid or account phone. Pre-paid, it'll come off what's already in. Account, it'll come in a bill at the end of the month.

Dakar the Fourth · Mar 25, 2008, 12:04 PM

That was uncharacteristically anal.

Doofy · Mar 25, 2008, 12:07 PM

Muesli's killing me.

Dakar the Fourth · Mar 25, 2008, 12:10 PM

Man, I remember the marketing for that crap back in 80s.

olePigeon · Mar 25, 2008, 12:21 PM

Originally Posted by andi*pandi

I have difficulty enough with baby clothes that say, "princess" "diva" and "drama queen." Don't tell me those exist.

Yes, they do.

Dakar the Fourth · Mar 25, 2008, 12:24 PM

Originally Posted by olePigeon

Yes, they do.

Cum Bucket? Really?!

osiris · Mar 25, 2008, 01:05 PM

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth

Cum Bucket? Really?!

Sperm Dumpster... Cream-filled bearded lap flounder... etc...

wallinbl · Mar 25, 2008, 01:50 PM

Originally Posted by andi*pandi

I have difficulty enough with baby clothes that say, "princess" "diva" and "drama queen." Don't tell me those exist.

Actually, the whole princess thing is useful. When our daughters exhibit poor manners, we simply remind them that a princess wouldn't act like that. It works pretty well as a role model for being polite and courteous.

Shaddim · Mar 25, 2008, 01:58 PM

Originally Posted by osiris

Sperm Dumpster... Cream-filled bearded lap flounder... etc...

I've seen Ho, Skank, Slut, Porn Star, and Sperm Dumpster on shirts, but not Cum Bucket (yet).

The best was a 12-13 y/o girl running around the mall wearing a shirt that read, "give me diamonds and you can give me pearls".

d4nth3m4n · Mar 25, 2008, 05:23 PM

personally, i bow down to our new vapid overlords.

::maroma:: · Mar 25, 2008, 08:15 PM

Originally Posted by Shaddim

The best was a 12-13 y/o girl running around the mall wearing a shirt that read, "give me diamonds and you can give me pearls".

turtle777 · Mar 25, 2008, 08:27 PM

Originally Posted by Shaddim

The best was a 12-13 y/o girl running around the mall wearing a shirt that read, "give me diamonds and you can give me pearls".

Is there a sexual innuendo that I don't get ?

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d4nth3m4n · Mar 25, 2008, 08:30 PM

Originally Posted by turtle777

Is there a sexual innuendo that I don't get ?

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yup.

- - e r i k - - · Mar 25, 2008, 08:49 PM

Originally Posted by turtle777

Is there a sexual innuendo that I don't get ?

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Yes.

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

The film Half Baked makes a reference to the pearl necklace. When Brian (Jim Breuer) says to Thurgood (Dave Chappelle) "You said you gave Mary Jane a pearl necklace. How much did that cost, man?" to which he replies "Obviously you missed the point of that story."

turtle777 · Mar 25, 2008, 09:08 PM

Ok then...

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d4nth3m4n · Mar 25, 2008, 11:11 PM

well then, you asked man. nobody said it'd be pretty.

turtle777 · Mar 25, 2008, 11:15 PM

Originally Posted by d4nth3m4n

well then, you asked man. nobody said it'd be pretty.

True. WTF did I expect posting in this thread...

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Railroader · Mar 25, 2008, 11:18 PM

How do you explain a "pearl necklace" and still maintain SFW standards? Let's just say, a man makes a deposit, and "pearls" are laid on an area where a woman would wear a necklace.

SFW?

brassplayersrock² · Mar 25, 2008, 11:19 PM

"True. WTF did I expect posting in this thread..."
Bimbo lessons for turtles?