These must be Miss Bimbo ‘graduates’.
Seriously one of the vilest things I’ve ever seen.
(and no, it’s not a late April Fools)
sweet sixteen?
02 Wednesday Apr 2008
Posted in culture, life stuff, video, wtf?
Category Archives: wtf?
miss bimbo
28 Friday Mar 2008
Posted in health & happiness, internet, wtf?
website promotes extreme diets and surgery to 9-year-olds
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 UK members
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.
It looks like since I first came across this article a couple of days ago that the Miss Bimbo website has been blocked. What do you think? Too much ‘nannying’ or does a website like this pose a serious threat to the young girls who visit it?
black bastard?
06 Saturday Oct 2007
Posted in culture, food & drink, language, rants, wtf?
Had to start a new category for this – guess which one.
Why on Earth would anyone use this name for anything at all, let alone an energy drink? Any bets on how long they stay in business without a name change?
Over at the Black Bastard Website you can contact them by email and complain, since this choice of brand name seems to be intentionally racist and not simply an example of a cross cultural marketing blunder.
Wandering further around the blogosphere today I also came across this BBC article about an unfortunate name choice for a restaurant in Mumbai.
~ found on Letters Home To You ~
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