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Penthouse buys AdultFriendFinder

Published Wednesday 12th December 2007 16:28 GMT

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I don't have a comment 

By Colin Millar
Posted Wednesday 12th December 2007 16:31 GMT
Paris Hilton

but i thought I should add the paris icon here

spelling police 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Wednesday 12th December 2007 17:20 GMT

Pron? Or has Penthouse descended into the seafood fetish business?

Pron... 

By Nick
Posted Wednesday 12th December 2007 17:42 GMT
Go

...skates past filters that block "porn."

Anonymous coward @ 17:20... 

By George
Posted Wednesday 12th December 2007 17:48 GMT
Stop

...has officially lost his Internets License.

Let's not forget the spamming industry 

By Morely Dotes
Posted Wednesday 12th December 2007 17:52 GMT
Alert

Ferguson vs. AdultFriendFinder established beyond a legal doubt that AFF was founded and flourished on spam.

A former employee of AFF and Andrew Conru, founder of AFF, has published a good-sized exposé of their practices at http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/118/RipOff0118795.htm

So now Penthouse has officially purchased a business based on spam.

I take it you've never had a myspace account then... 

By Chad H.
Posted Wednesday 12th December 2007 18:12 GMT
Dead Vulture

Those accounts are always recieving friend requests for girls and their XXX webcams...

what? 

By Rick Brasche
Posted Wednesday 12th December 2007 19:11 GMT
Joke

you're trying to tell me all those hawt chix don't really want to get to "know" me?

I'm crushed:P

What about all those girls from nearby parts of the city? They want me so bad they follow me from city to city, so whenever I log into a site that's hosting their ads, I see those same poor lonely girls are nearby me again! Poor things!

AdultFriendFinder ... 

By Daniel
Posted Wednesday 12th December 2007 19:21 GMT
Jobs Horns

... is the swinging / find a f***buddy part of the biz. FriendFinder is the "I just want to trade stamps/cuddle" part.

Not that I'd know. I don't go to them sort of places.

Heh 

By Chris
Posted Wednesday 12th December 2007 20:13 GMT
Joke

The only thing I ever found on AFF was a load of people who wanted to charge me to watch webcam shows. Or access their website. Or enlarge my penis.

You find more action on craigslist. It's still not the hot horny nymphos these companies would like you to believe exist - It's the "massage" parlors and escort services of the world.

Everyone knows the real nymphos are out in the clubs looking for men who aren't wankers like myself.

(Should have posted anonymously - But it's ok because *I* never used any of these services personally. It was a friend. Or a friend of a friend. Or something.)

Domain name? 

By Jamie Davis
Posted Wednesday 12th December 2007 20:18 GMT
Coat

www.sitonmyfacebook.com?

AdultSheepFinder 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Wednesday 12th December 2007 23:07 GMT
Paris Hilton

Will they resurrect the AdultSheepFinder site that briefly promised so much joy to us Aberdonians? (OK, it was mostly directed at New Zealand, but that is too far away, what with Wales being closer if I should travel at all)

Paris icon added since I am sure she would find sheep good intellectual company...

Welsh sensibilities 

By Sceptical Bastard
Posted Thursday 13th December 2007 01:21 GMT

"...potential partners interested in friendship, dating, serious relationship or marriage"

Or shagging as it's commonly known.

As to AdultSheepFinder, FFS don't upset the bloody Welsh - the last time a commentard cracked that joke, sensitive Taffs wrote in for days after.

@Jamie Davis 

By Mr Larrington
Posted Thursday 13th December 2007 08:56 GMT
Thumb Up

Please send new keyboard!

@Sceptical Bastard 

By Markie Dussard
Posted Thursday 13th December 2007 09:41 GMT
Flame

"FFS don't upset the bloody Welsh ..."

There's two ways to deal with bullying: appease them or stand up to them. Personally I refuse to appease the joyless, life-denying whiners. They are not a "race" and their principality is not a country. They lost to the Normans a millennium ago. It's time they got over it like the rest of us, stopped crying and took it like men. Or sheep-shaggers.

@ Sceptical Bastard 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Thursday 13th December 2007 11:41 GMT
Pirate

" ...is AdultFriendFinder...which lets surfers search for potential partners interested in friendship, dating, serious relationship or marriage"

Totally agree...I never found anyone on AFF looking for anything other than a sh*g...or in most cases just wanting me to get my jugs/lady bits out on webcam...I wouldn't have minded if they ACTUALLY wanted to get laid...

Mind you, the aforementioned comment applies to most of the 'mainstream' dating sites as well...

Pirate icon due to the 'prepare for boarding' caption

@ Anonymous Coward (pirate version) 

By Law
Posted Thursday 13th December 2007 13:48 GMT
Paris Hilton

"...or in most cases just wanting me to get my jugs/lady bits out on webcam...I wouldn't have minded if they ACTUALLY wanted to get laid..."

I had to read that several times before I settled on the fact you were a lady... well, judging by the get laid comment maybe not a lady, but a woman all the same! ;)

Why do I assume all Anonymous Cowards are men.... maybe the years of torture by the wife about how evil and decieving men can be are finally starting to brainwash me.

@ Law 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Thursday 13th December 2007 14:49 GMT

I'm not normally an Anonymous Coward...but given the topic I thought on this occasion I would hide...after all, the internet 'tis a marvellous place for tracking people down...and I was stupid enough to sign up on El Reg using my real name...take that as proof of female intelligence ;)

And you're right...I'm not often accused of being a lady...but women have SOOOO much more fun ;)

Lies 

By Dimitrov
Posted Thursday 13th December 2007 15:34 GMT
Coat

I don't see how this enterprise could succeed. We all know this is the Internet, where men are men, women are men and children are the FBI.

Hurray 

By Charlie
Posted Thursday 13th December 2007 15:47 GMT
Thumb Up

Full marks for the excellent euphemism "grumble mag"

Markie 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Thursday 13th December 2007 20:52 GMT
Paris Hilton

Talking of sheep-shagging a limey was caught in Leeds recently by a bus load of people passing by a field, It was in an article in the Yorkshire post. This will interest Markie Dussard 'aka the english sheep shagging coward' who has quite an inferiority complex with himself. Personally I refuse to appease the joyless, life-denying whiners like him.

@ Coward 

By Markie Dussard
Posted Friday 14th December 2007 10:26 GMT
Happy

Heh heh. Only a puritanical descendant of our transported convicts could believe that the mere accusation of sheep-shagging would act as an insult to anyone with an adult and sophisticated sexual appetite.

No ear for the musicality of language either.

Love and kisses,

The Marquis

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