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| 05-20-13 08:07am - 4 days | I'm back... and motivated. (15 Posts) - #7 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User  Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Not entirely dissimilar to what some of us were expecting or wanting. Let us all hope the changes are ones some of the regulars and part timers like. Sometimes the most profitable changes go against what a minority want, and obviously quite a few of us here are in the minority with our tastes. People need a break, if you continue without one, diminishing returns usually kick in. As a part timer I am hoping to retain some interest in what's going on here, so I am hoping you ally yourself with the more reputable networks and companies. Too many companies have questionable standards. It may work short term but once customers get tricked, they are very wary of handing over their credit card details again. Enjoy the graduation party - don't forget your hood and axe. | |
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| 05-17-13 03:40pm - 7 days | PU Official: Raffle Update (28 Posts) - #23 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
My positive rating came with this comment "Reviews have improved enormously, and are now very good indeed. Come on whoever registered that "no," do the decent thing and change it to "yes," My comment may have had nothing to do with it but you lost that one "no" vote. That brings me to another point. Some members make newbies feel welcome but occasionally some jump on them too quickly for limited reviews. No long time forum receives many new members, but at least new ones here are mainly welcomed by old hands. We could do with some more input from old original members, some of whom have almost disappeared - Wittyguy, Drooler, Toadsith, Exotics4me and there's less of Denner nowadays, although he does at least put in some appearances. Suggestions would be visits from the TBP team plus more of Rick and Khan. Messmer, Pat, Turbo, Capn and Ik do the most, which is far too few members, but compared to most long lasting forums, I suppose this is a very healthy one. I have suggested in the past a different section for experienced reviewers and newer reviewers who don't quite put in the detail. Maybe that's a useless idea, but it will take time and money for an overhaul which Rick may not want to do. PU/TBP may not survive without some new ideas, and we may be reading too much into the end of the raffle, but saving $200 a week isn't going to pay many bills. Looking at what they say "We're making cuts to a number of areas of our operation but the one that will be the most noticeable to our users is that we can no longer hold the weekly raffle." Obviously the raffle is just one of the measures, but it doesn't look good for poor old TBP/PU. Edited on May 17, 2013, 05:46pm | |
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| 05-17-13 09:37am - 7 days | PU Official: Raffle Update (28 Posts) - #21 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
One thing has occurred to me. As a semi or occasional regular I have been contributing less in the past couple of years. My most recent review was going to be my last for quite some while as I didn't want to put in the effort of doing it anymore. Once the raffle stops, reviews may well lessen. One upside is that may stop the newbie quick review in search of raffle tickets, so may lead to more quality. On the downside will be fewer reviews meaning less income. If I make the effort in doing just one review I wasn't going to do, and others do the same, it will help a little. It certainly wont do any harm. Any contributions once PU goes raffleless will help in the short term. | |
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| 05-17-13 06:21am - 8 days | PU Official: Raffle Update (28 Posts) - #19 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
There may be a little truth in this, but to blame everything on free download sites undermines the argument. This has been discussed before, and many of us think it is merely one reason. One of the others is an overload of mainstream porn. When you look at prices a few years ago it gives you an idea of how much people will pay for porn when it isn't saturating the market. Maybe Videobox started it all with low price mainstream porn. There are hundreds, come to think of it maybe thousands of porn sites and producers, just take a look at the TBP A-Z, and they're just the English speaking ones. Dodgy practices are another reason. Personally I have spent more on online porn in the past couple of years due to me checking free download forums. There is an argument free download sites generate income, and some porn producers even own free sites to generate interest. People wont pay for what they can't afford so a lot of the free downloaders aren't buying anyway. I hear there's something called a recession, which may have something to do with it. All logical reasons, but no truth is the whole truth, especially when it's just opinion. Yes Pat, in my opinion, like yours, free downloading may be a reason, but to suggest it's the only one or a big one, is just opinion, and so lopsided, it appears to undermine the argument. I hate cross selling, regional discrimination, and other dodgy practices, but I don't let those particular bees in my bonnet sway my judgement. Yes they are things that irritate us. Personally I am very thankful for free download sites as I have made several subscriptions which I wouldn't otherwise have made, and in every one of them I found some good download stuff. I try to not let things that annoy me cloud my judgement. I like free download sites but that doesn't mean they aren't partly to blame. It needs an objective rational analysis of what is happening in porn. Porn is always going to be worth a lot of money. That's just economics. Whoever works out how to make the most money out of it will survive. The rest will go to the wall. Edited on May 17, 2013, 06:37am | |
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| 05-16-13 12:43pm - 8 days | PU Official: Raffle Update (28 Posts) - #8 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
What Wittyguy say makes sense. I agree with virtually the whole post, so there isn't much point quoting it all. He outlines why I consider PU/TBP's days to be numbered. Unfortunate but not surprising. PU/TBP money comes from linking to porn sites and taking a cut from the join fee. The more reviews the more the income. In the office they will have been discussing income. One of the suggestions would have been advertising. I know PU/TBP is in it's own way one big advert, but it has so far steered clear of direct advertising. That would of course have its own consequences, involving impartiality. It's also very obvious the better a review, the more money PU/TBP makes. They are in dire trouble, along with parts of the porn industry, which is why immediate short term action has been taken. Sometimes short term action can hasten the demise, but it may be a choice of sink now or sink later. One thing I considered was forgetting the hazy facade of impartiality and linking up or doing a deal with a number of the best porn sites (the ones with the best reputation), and staying strong together. Porn is too cheap. Quality material should have quality prices. Together sites could produce less porn but with a higher price and more quality. It pains me to say it, but with quality you should have to be a continual member to gain access to all the material. Make a little available each month. Be up front and honest about it. Bonus material for the longer you are a member. Bonus material for TBP/PU members who have signed up to a number of porn sites or generated income maybe. Another consideration would be when members here contribute and generate income, they receive reasonable discounts from affiliate porn sites. Drawbacks are members wanting discounts would therefore give glowing reviews. Before powers that be shake their heads, it is obvious to me that TBP reviews are quite often a little too glowing anyway, so members would only be doing what TBP reviews are doing. PU has been a great idea, but great ideas don't always generate income. In the end someone else could use the same idea and with a few tweaks make some money out of it. Something needs to be done. Panicking is fine as long as it is creative. Having said all that, my ideas are usually crap because I am not creative. My brain is a number cruncher brain with no creativity. I can make money as long as I don't have to be creative. Good lucks folks - you're going to need it. Oh and by the way - hardly a brainstorm this one, but what attracts porn fans? Naked women or men. Pretty bleeding obvious, but maybe a few naked women around the place (in the best possible taste of course) would attract the impartial surfer. Edited on May 16, 2013, 12:50pm | |
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| 05-16-13 09:56am - 8 days | PU Official: Raffle Update (28 Posts) - #4 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
It comes as no suprise to me at all. I have occasionally suggested that PU/TBP may well be struggling and in danger of closing. Although I am nowadays only an occasional contributor, like the others, I will continue to be active. This is the first place to look when thinking about which site to join. | |
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| 04-05-13 12:58pm - 49 days | A Note from Khan (50 Posts) - #26 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Hospitals are dangerous to your health. Welcome back. | |
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| 04-02-13 06:06pm - 52 days | A Note from Khan (50 Posts) - #9 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Best wishes to Khan RoseAnn and family. Get well soon. | |
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| 01-31-13 06:12pm - 113 days | News you can use. (7 Posts) - #6 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Excellent stuff IK. I consider the police force of most countries to be the biggest criminal organisation in that country. Although I like America and Americans there are many parts where I would not care to be black, or any colour except white. Just as there are not enough muslims willing to speak out against extremism, there aren't enough Americans willing to speak out against the police force or government. Are whites not getting involved or protesting because it's only blacks and ethnics who are getting killed? It's also far easier to blame a race, immigrants, males, females, or gays, for an unhappy life, than it is to blame police, judges, government, and big business. Media tells most people what to think and who to blame. Does this mean that basically once the lines are drawn the attitude is far too often, they may be murdering lowlife criminal scumbags, but they're our murdering lowlife criminal scumbags? Edited on Jan 31, 2013, 06:22pm | |
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| 01-20-13 10:09am - 124 days | Off Topic: Mad Magazine (22 Posts) - #20 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Mad magazine disproves the British idea about Americans that they don't have a sense of irony. There's wonderful irony and sarcasm in some of those spoofs. I think Mad must have been inspiration for the Airplane (and similar) send ups. There are some very witty and clever Americans out there. The only negative about Mad was I thought what a waste of talent, seeing something that clever in a mag, where very few would be able to appreciate it. Heavy Metal mag is something different, but like jberry, I loved that one too. It started life as the French mag Metal Hurlant. Edited on Jan 20, 2013, 10:13am | |
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| 01-20-13 07:44am - 124 days | In defense of Tube sites (36 Posts) - #23 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
It does suck, which is why I agree with jberry's suggestion that the best use for tube sites is as a useful reference tool. | |
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| 01-19-13 06:53pm - 125 days | In defense of Tube sites (36 Posts) - #21 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Naturally I consider this to be one of the most sensible and reasoned posts on this thread. Everyone has an opinion, but I tend to stay away from the armageddon response. There is a comedian called Harry Enfield who used to have a character who whenever anyone argued with him had a kind of armageddon response - he would come up with the most extreme frightening consequences of any opposing views and then say something like "is that what you want because that's what you'll get." Personally I think being positive, supporting decent sites or networks, and staying away from rogues, helps the industry. Naturally I would argue it that way. There is truth in any opinion. I think piracy does weaken the industry as a whole, but then so do rogue networks who rip people off. I have chosen to download for free from sites I wouldn't touch with a barge pole, and subscribe to what I consider to be the honourable ones. There are a lot of grey areas in here. I think Bibo did a good job pointing this out. Life isn't black and white, nor is piracy or the consequences. I look at tube sites to see who has the best material, and then subscribe to what I consider to be the best ones. Maybe some networks should have better previews. Yes some people would just look at the free preview stuff, but they are unlikely to be the sort who subscribe. Online porn is very cheap and those of us who want to pay actually prefer to pay for it, for a number of reasons. Download material of rogue sites for free and see them go broke. I wish they would. Edited on Jan 19, 2013, 06:59pm | |
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| 01-16-13 08:40am - 128 days | Off Topic: Mad Magazine (22 Posts) - #6 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
I used to get Mad all the time, and was a fan just like you Denner. I haven't read it for years, but from the sound of it, Mad is now a different magazine. Things change. The old magazine is dead but at least we have fond memories. Ebay/Ebid and comics/comix shops or dealers are possibly the best place to get the old ones. For me the beginning of the decline was when they started doing British spoofs just for this country. The American material was good enough for me. | |
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| 01-15-13 01:41pm - 129 days | In defense of Tube sites (36 Posts) - #12 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Quality on tube sites is crap messmer. They are useful for tasting material so you can see what is available. I rarely download from free download sites nowadays, but I think they are a much better way of finding out who has what. You don't need to download as most threads have screen caps or pics of the videos. I find that is the quickest way to sift through all the material and decide which site is best for me. ...and yes you do have to realise there are nasty spyware bugs and viruses around those places. | |
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| 01-15-13 01:31pm - 129 days | In defense of Tube sites (36 Posts) - #11 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Hodayathink/Claypaws - Your point of view is one that I believe the majority have. Obviously I disagree about breaking the law. I always say if you don't like the law, break it, just don't get caught. From my point of view the law is made up by enemies of normal people. They own the media, therefore there is no free speech, therefore there is no democracy. By all means, campaign to change the law, but if you don't like it, break it without any conscience. The moral law is different. I think most people have a kind of built in inherent feeling about what they think is right or wrong. Therefore they feel uneasy about theft, murder, rape, violence etc but everyone is different. Obviously in the interest of the many we need laws to stop people doing things that the majority do not like. That is the reason we are supposed to have law, and have a police force and rulers. Unfortunately I consider our rulers to be the enemy, the greatest crooks. They are an enemy which is corrupt, crooked, and makes sure the world is run by the minority for the benefit of the minority. They pretend they are there to protect us fom all those bad things we don't like to see. I don't believe a word of it. That is only a facade, a pretence in order to control us. I am in the minority feeling about things the way I do. The majority will agree with you both. I have done things in my life which have been, and are, illegal - viewing porn has been one of them. Sometimes it feels good to break the law. I have no qualms or conscience about it. | |
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| 01-15-13 07:19am - 129 days | In defense of Tube sites (36 Posts) - #6 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
A large part of this forum will always disagree with me on this one. I have no problem at all with this. "Rights" is an abstract concept. They are not real, they are created by human beings, unless you believe in some sort of god. You can then say, "god says this is right, or this is wrong, you do not have the right to do that." Fair enough if you believe in that. Just because a company doesn't offer their content in a way that I want, doesn't mean I have the right to steal/pirate/consume it, but it doesn't mean I don't have the right either. I could say if I can do it, I have the right. "Rights" is an abstract idea. I have the right to do anything I am able to do. I am my own god, and my own arbitor of what is right or wrong. This is what most people do anyway. They do what they want then try to justify it. I don't. I don't think it's right or wrong, I do it because I am able, and also because it gives me a nice warm feeling to rip off some organisations. It makes me feel good. If this makes me totally selfish, I am totally selfish, pretty much like 99.9 per cent of human beings. Whether you download or view for free I will say one thing: It is in all our interests to support those who do not try to rip us off or have dodgy practices. It is in all our interests to support those who do present their work in a way the majority here want, but not give money and support to those who don't. I suppose I could say it is selfish to support and give money to those who have those dodgy practices, but it's for everyone to decide on what is right for them. I don't much care whether it's the nice or nasty version. You obviously have a strong opinion on this (as do many), and I would not consider it to be flaming, as this is the way you feel. It is good that you express that opinion. We merely disagree, but it makes the forum more interesting. We can't have everyone here loving one another: Well I suppose we can, but it would be a lot more boring. Edited on Jan 15, 2013, 07:26am | |
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| 01-14-13 08:57pm - 130 days | Websites ripping off customers... a new trend? (9 Posts) - #4 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
I absolutely agree with you. Unfortunately there will always be those who try to rip you off. If you have quality you don't need those dodgy practices. Some have lousy material so need to trick you out of as much as they can because you're not coming back. The shocking thing now is there are even sites who have great material but still try to trick people. The more this happens the more people wil be scared away from legitimate subscriptions and end up on free sites. The industry has always had a cloudy reputation. We need to support the good guys, because there are some out there. If customers are tricked the good guys suffer, so the industry needs them gone as soon as possible. It's hard out there, but it's in both industry and consumers' interests to see the garbage go to the wall asap. | |
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| 01-14-13 08:46pm - 130 days | In defense of Tube sites (36 Posts) - #2 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
You wont be getting any flak from me. I agree with what you are saying on this one, although the heavy artillery is probably being loaded at this very moment. Like you I look on tube sites and free download sites. It helps me decide which sites or networks I am going to subscribe to. It also makes me feel good to view or download material from those who practice pre checked cross selling, regional discrimination, or have a bad reputation for ripping people off. | |
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| 01-14-13 08:35pm - 130 days | So what do you think of it so far? (9 Posts) - #9 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Yep, nothing like a good rant RB. Thanks for the tip about the hard drive docks. Have to look into that one. | |
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| 01-13-13 06:24pm - 131 days | So what do you think of it so far? (9 Posts) - Original Post - #1 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
So what do you think of it so far? With apologies to two much loved old time British comics I have named this thread "So what do you think of it so far?" They're dead now so aren't going to care much anyway. After being a member of PU for over four years, I pondered on what conclusions I have come to after surfing porn, and doing a few reviews. What started me thinking about this was joining Team Skeet, which was my first membership in about 3-4 months. I wanted to join something at the end of last year but it was so so difficult to decide. Every time I considered a network it had either pre checked cross selling, download limits, or regional discrimination. From the rest I found it very hard to choose. They were either very samey, or I had subscribed before and wasn't entirely knocked out by the content. I kept surfing those free download sites trying to work out who had the best material, and in the end didn't subscribe, as basically the most interesting sites for me, either had pre checked cross selling or regional discrimination. I joined Team Skeet simply because it looked good, and they removed pre checked cross selling. Here are the conclusions I have come to. 1. Quality over quantity. Quite frankly I would rather join a network that has 30 decent downloadable scenes out of 80 than 50 downloadable scenes out of 1000. I'd rather have fewer scenes to download, than spend hours searching through a mass of, for me, uninteresting scenes (I was tempted to put "rubbish" instead of "uninteresting scenes" but one man's meat...). That way I end up with fewer downloadable scenes but have spent less time sifting through what I consider to be uninteresting material/rubbish. If I had unlimited time to view porn it would be okay, but I don't. I want to spend that time viewing great stuff, not hours sifting through material just to find a couple of scenes half way worth keeping. I have sympathy with webmasters because everyone has different tastes. I am not saying what I like is good and what I don't like is bad, I am simply looking at it from my point of view. From my perspective I would rather find fewer scenes on a smaller site, but with a higher downloadable strike rate, meaning I spend a higher proportion of that time viewing great material. 2. Price doesn't matter. Well it does sort of. As someone who used to buy vhs videos, going by those prices, I have probably downloaded about $500,000 worth of material from subscribed sites, stored on one small 1TB external drive. However if material between sites is always the same or very similar, obviously I am going to go for the cheapest or best deal. 3. Don't try to trick me you fucking bastards. That sums it up perfectly. Pre checked cross sells, regional discrimination, unstated download limits, and preview clips which aren't in the subscription, piss me off. At one time I would only subscribe to sites like that if they had outstanding and unique material. Now my attitude has hardened and I simply will not subscribe at all to any sites with these practices. I hope the sites who do use those cons, go to the wall. I have absolutely NO qualms about ripping them off by downloading their material for free. In fact I feel good about it. For the record here are the sites I looked at and discounted. Some sites appear twice as they practice both cross selling and regional discrimination. Pre checked cross selling - 18XGirls, Casting Couch X, Babes Network, Fame Digital, HD Porn Pass, Hustler Mega Pass, Naughty America/College Sugarbabes, Reality Gang, Swank Pass Twistys/Twistys Hard, Massive Access, Zero Tolerance On Demand, Lords Of Porn, The Hardcore Network, Teenie Access, Teen Pink, Lords Of Porn, Porn Multi Pass, Casual Teen Sex, Teenie Lovers, Way Out Sites, Youn Sex Parties, Reality Junkies, Young Courtesans, Young Libertines, Sell Your GF, Lethal 18/Lethal Hardcore, Naked Pages, HD Love, Passion HD, Mofos Network. Regional discrimination - Mofos Network, SpunkyBee/Tin Seks/Teenburg, Anal Tryouts/Russian Teens Club/Slovak Teens Club/Sextronix, Reality Gang, Cum Louder, Home Girls Party. Download limits - Casting Couch X, Dane Jones, No Rest Network, Fake Agent/CastingXXX/Public Agent. 1+3. This one's a mix of 1 and 3. I am sure you are aware of the kind of network that produces good material, but they just can't stop themselves from mass producing more and more of the same type of material using the same models, over and over and over and over. It may be well produced but personally there is only so much of a girl I want to see. It's a small type of con but it's annoying when they have 36 sites that all look the same and all use the same "house models." It pads out the perceived content - and pisses me off. Let's look at this scenario, and call some imaginary network The Squirrel's Nuts. They advertise 14 sites, and 4 updates a week across the network. The sites are Bedtime Bonkers, Natural Bangers, DP Dynamos, Lesbian Sex Orgy, Wet And Wild, Fantasstic Fuckers, Bestial Desires, Young Sex Crazy Drunken Party Orgies, Gagging Gulpers, Balloon Bang Fetish, Disgusting Old MILF Slags, Innocent Newcomer Casting, Young Teen Schoolgirls, Me And My Bangers. Now let's look at the latest 14 updates, you may feel you recognise some of these (any resemblance between these and real networks is purely intentional). Laura and Sergei have sex in bed on Bedtime Bonkers. Lara has sex outside with Chuck on Natural Bangers. Laura has sex with Sergei and Chuck on DP Dynamos. Laura and Lara play with some toys on Lesbian Sex Orgy. Lara gets out of the shower and has sex with Sergei on Wet And Wild. Laura takes it up the ass on Fantasstic Fuckers. Laura has sex with Sergei dressed as an owl on Bestial Desires. Laura has sex with Chuck and Lara has sex with Sergei while five girls in short skirts who you'd rather see without clothes, and five guys holding beers and cheering watch, in Young Sex Crazy Drunken Party Orgies. Sergei shoves his dick down Lara's throat on Gagging Gulpers. Laura and Chuck have sex with five balloons tied to the bottom of the bed on Balloon Bang Fetish. Lara wears a pound less of makeup and has sex with Chuck on Disgusting Old MILF Slags. Chuck interviews newcomer Laura and finally convinces her to undress and have sex on Innocent Newcomer Casting. Lara dressed in a college uniform and pigtails has sex with Sergei on Young Teen Schoolgirls. Sergei picks up Laura in a car and convinces her to have sex after 25 minutes of chatting up on Me And My Bangers, 4. External drives are your greatest porn friend. If you find great material don't lose it. I learned the hard way, but that was before I found out about external drives. I was vaguely aware of them, but didn't know exactly what they did, and anyway thought they would be too difficult for me to use. Nowadays external drives rule: I even backup the backup, because one day your external drive will fail. It's inevitable. 5. This is still the golden age of porn, given the amount and price of material. PU members will sit young kids on their knee (just before the police knock down the door), tell them tales, and fill them with fear about times when there were no computers, no downloadale porn, and the only pictures of people having any kind of sex at all were illegal and would cause their distributors to go to prison for a very long time. This meant you could either buy a new Ferrari or third generation vhs video of The Devil In Miss Jones. Well that's it, if anyone is interested. I don't post often nowadays as I simply don't have enough time to bore the shit out of everyone. I also have less time to view porn, but that's okay because I don't get jaded, but I clearly do get pissed off. I don't mind paying for something, but I want to be the one to decide. I don't want to pay for something then discover I have either bought something else or haven't bought what I originally thought. | |
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| 01-07-13 06:39pm - 137 days | Value for money on porn sites. Is this the golden age? (28 Posts) - #3 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
I am one of those who says unequivocally "yes." I am old enough to remember how expensive porn was. The value for money today is quite ridiculous in comparison. On the other hand, porn is now a very competitive market, with a big mix of professionals, amateurs, semi pros and semi amateurs. I want to see the pre-checked cross sellers, regional discriminators, and other kinds of rip off artists and crooks, go out of business, and go out of business fast, leaving a clean healthy fat free porn industry, scum-free. I would much rather pay $50 to a site that I know is not going to try and trick me, than pay $10 to one who is not to be trusted. I have limited time to watch porn, so I don't want to spend hours of that time trying to cancel credit cards, writing letters of complaint, or trying to get access to that material. This has been the golden age of porn, and imo, still is. For how much longer I don't know. Obviously there are powers out there, who want to impose their superior morality on those of us who are of inferior mind and morality. They will want to gain control of the internet, as control means money. I think they will eventually impose their morality, and at the same time make money from the internet. I do rather like the idea of being able to publish the address of one of those moral guardians, or maybe one of those politically correct fascists, or a local councillor who made some money out of his office by taking back handers and dumping on the rest of us, along with just a hint of a suggestion that someone should give them a visit and kick the living shit out of them. Irresponsible? Oh yes. That sort of thing is being cracked down on, but I have to admit I quite liked that wild west sort of thing. Edited on Jan 08, 2013, 10:12am | |
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| 01-01-13 05:23pm - 143 days | Hopefully a very easy solution to regional pricing! (18 Posts) - #18 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Absolutely. That's the reason my money does not go to sites who have either pre checked cross selling or regional discrimination. I'd rather rip them off, than have them rip me off. My money goes to sites who really deserve it, not con artists. | |
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| 01-01-13 06:27am - 143 days | Happy New Year - 2013 (20 Posts) - #6 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Happy New Year 2013 to everyone. | |
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| 12-26-12 07:27pm - 149 days | Merry Christmas (10 Posts) - #10 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Hope you all had a great Christmas, and will enjoy a Happy New Year. | |
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| 12-10-12 09:36am - 165 days | Currency Transaction Fee on Credit Card? (14 Posts) - #10 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
The one compensation for all that crap is that time is money, so you are costing them a lot of time by writing to them and complaining. The more time you spend complaining the more it costs them in money, because of time it takes them to deal with the complaint. It's why I never hesitate to complain to organisations who I think might be ripping me off or attempting to rip me off. Cost them more than it costs them to implement all that trickery crap, and it is no longer cost effective for the bastards. | |
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| 12-08-12 07:26pm - 167 days | How beautiful can you get/find them.. (19 Posts) - #9 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Fake without a doubt. I must be getting old, because I don't even find her attractive. | |
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| 11-20-12 07:01pm - 185 days | No more reviews from me (52 Posts) - #41 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
My hobby is completely unrelated. You sound quite well adjusted (more so than I am!). It's good to have a number of interests, and have a realistic perspective. | |
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| 11-19-12 07:43pm - 186 days | Burned out.....making reviews (11 Posts) - #12 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Denner, I can only agree with the others. For me your reviews, comments and opinions are amongst the best and most important on here. You are one of the "flagship" original members, and the place would not be the same without you. It's simple, take a break from reviewing until you feel you want to do it again. Regulars (and semi regulars like myself), would rather take the time and get it right than just churn one out. You don't want to do a review because you want it to be of a high standard like your others. It's only a hobby but we take it seriously. IMO, that's the way it should be, and makes the place what it is. Edited on Nov 19, 2012, 07:56pm | |
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| 11-19-12 03:00pm - 186 days | No more reviews from me (52 Posts) - #36 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
First of all congratulations to Claypaws. I am both pleased for you, and at the same time very disappointed. You have become one of the best reviewers in a very short time, your integrity appears sound, and you have great enthusiasm for the subject. I do not think you should have been designated webmaster. You are not a webmaster, and a little note that you contribute to this that or the other site should be enough to allow you to continue as normal here, and that includes reviews. Is there a suggestion that the integrity of PU is brought into question because you contribute to one site and review another? You could argue that, but I could argue the integrity of TBP/PU is already questionable as they make money from linking to the porn sites that are reviewed. I have no trouble with that myself, but for me it certainly brings TBP/PU integrity into question far more than allowing you to continue to do reviews. For me, a big cloud hanging over TBP/PU is the linking back to Porn Pros after link removal. The link was put back without a word as to why this happened. Pink Panther and myself questioned this. Not a word from TBP/PU staff. For me this says a thousand times more about TBP/PU credibility than allowing you to continue to do reviews. This isn't an attack on TBP/PU, although it may sound like that, because I understand there can never be 100% credibility and integrity due to the nature of the beast. I still come to TBP/PU for 90% of porn reviews and comments. It's just reducing Claypaws to webmaster status unnecessarily deprives this site of a very valuable contributor. It's a question of degrees and relativity. Maybe you shouldn't have experienced webmasters doing reviews of competitors' websites - hmmm, come to think of it, that would be fun. Claypaws, I hope you both enjoy your hobby and make some money. No one can ask more than that. As someone who makes money out of a hobby, I hope you never descend into some interminable black cloud of despair containing no hope, from which there seems to be no escape. I hope you don't start to hate that hobby with an intense passion like I did, and still do to a certain extent. That hobby can become a job and a chore. I started out with the intention of making money out of it in the first place, and certainly knew what I was getting into. I am not disillusioned, and have always been realistic. I have always been money oriented and always will be. I am sure there will come a time when the whole thing drives you round the bend and leaves you feeling tired and jaded, but the main thing is you are living that dream, so you get a big thumbs up from me. I think sometimes you just have to do what you want, because life is too short not to. If you are competitive and want success, I think it's good to have other hobbies and other interests, to keep things in perspective, and in case it doesn't all live up to expectations. I wish you much luck with your endeavours. Edited on Nov 19, 2012, 04:12pm | |
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| 11-12-12 01:42pm - 193 days | Good God… I woke up this morning liking tattoos…! (22 Posts) - #22 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Sorry to hear you have a brain tumour, admiral. | |
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| 11-09-12 09:26am - 196 days | Election Day - Go Vote (26 Posts) - #20 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Thanks toad. I regularly look in to see what's happening at PU, but admittedly don't contribute as much as I used to. Good to see you still around too, as you have left a couple of times Even though I tend to take the "don't vote it will only encourage them" and "if voting changed anything they would make it illegal" line, I'd take Carter and Obama over any other politicians, including British. He wont be allowed to do much, but it's nice to see one of the few politicians in history, who seems like a genuine human being, get voted in. I though at one point the only chance for America was for Mitt Romney to do a nationwide tour of grassy knolls. | |
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| 11-07-12 05:09pm - 198 days | Election Day - Go Vote (26 Posts) - #15 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Thank goodness the human being won. | |
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| 10-30-12 08:15am - 206 days | New Here (7 Posts) - #7 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Welcome to PU. | |
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| 10-21-12 04:06pm - 215 days | Need help picking up my $2.5 million USD ATM Master Card. (13 Posts) - #2 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Remarkably there are still people dumb enough to make this sort of thing profitable, or they wouldn't be doing it. It works. So do pre checked cross sales and mugging. | |
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| 10-08-12 08:41am - 228 days | So how can you tell? (22 Posts) - #7 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Yeah there was supposed to be a guy with a super dong about 40 years ago. All fake, and I've never much seen the point myself. Both cosmetic surgery and the prosthetic thing seems pointless, since I'm more interested in the girls than the stunt dick. I don't think it's used much, and I'm sure I haven't seen one in general porn. Way back in the late 60's I remember a group of us kids talking of blow up dolls and whether the nude model in a porn magazine was one of those. Well, we were young. | |
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| 10-06-12 06:32pm - 230 days | So how can you tell? (22 Posts) - #2 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
I suppose it would explain that pained look on the closeup face of the male performer. That brings up a good point. Does anyone know why they use that shot. Okay yes they can use it to cut and edit, but why not just cut there without focussing on the male face. They are hardly going to be working on The Hobbit are they? But no, for some reason in the minds of people so stupid they failed the exam question "Name Richard The Lionheart?," they must think focussing on the anguished male face is sexy or a turn on. It isn't. Penile extensions - for those bimbo male airheads without a brain, just like their female cosmetic surgery counterparts. The very idea brings tears to my eyes. Edited on Oct 06, 2012, 06:39pm | |
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| 10-04-12 10:52am - 232 days | New Porn Website Name ! (24 Posts) - #3 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
The Squirrel's Nuts | |
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| 09-30-12 07:03am - 237 days | Problems with reality kings and their lack of support (7 Posts) - #3 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
First thing to do is cancel your credit/debit card and inform them you have been fraudulently charged. Reality Kings looks to be No.1 in the charts for complaints recently. | |
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| 09-24-12 11:13am - 242 days | Is it just my age ... (21 Posts) - #10 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Yes here is where I agree with you. Unfortunately each generation and advance brings its disadvantages. Porn will rarely be perfect because of very personal tastes and niches. At least at PU we can air our grievances, although we may be outside the porn norm, and therefore not worth listening to by the porn powers that be. Sadly for you, your own personal tastes may currently be out of fashion. I well remember my quest to find a pair of trousers that were straight legged when flares were "in." | |
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| 09-24-12 10:05am - 242 days | Is it just my age ... (21 Posts) - #6 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
The old saying about nostalgia not being what it used to be applies. Old cliche but very true. The problem is selective memory and thinking, and getting stuck in a rut. Sometimes it's easier to get stuck in a rut and consume what you're safe with than seek out new material. I am not talking just porn, it applies to everything. "The charts are crap, there's nothing worth listening to nowadays, it's almost a sign that your music is crap, if you get in the charts." Not said now, not said in the 90's, or 80's but said by an old school friend in 1974. John Peel was saying in 1980 about how everyone thinks 70's music was better, but if you really looked at the music charts in the mid 1970's they were filled with Wombles. I may be one of the few who thinks the porn produced now is sensational. Not only sensational, but sensational value. Just like John Peel searching for great new music I continue to search for great new porn, and even on the worst sites, usually find it. I'm still going to harp on about the great value, while people still moan about quality and quantity, because there is an abundance of quality and quantity. There's not so much of the stripping that messmer likes, but that is a very specialised niche. If you want a 45 and a third year old medium length strawberry blonde with a mole on the right side of her cheek, stripping down from a blue dress to red panties...okay I've made my point. General hardcore is available in huge quantities at amazing quality. There are a number of niches but some are rare. The more specialised your niche, the harder it is to find. That's true about most things we consume. There was one site messmer loved but refused to pay $50 for it. Sorry but that's crazy given the value of what money will buy nowadays. If we want quality we have to pay for it, not only that, we should be happy and pleased to pay for it. My memory is long so I still remember buying a truly crap 60 minute hard core porn video (illegal in the 1980's), for 60 GBP. An astronomical sum for then. Even if you're not allowing for inflation, 60 GBP today equals $100. Virtually no one will pay that for a month's subscription to any site or network in the modern day. You can spend more than a whole month's membership on one round in a pub or enough for a whole year's membership if you go out to dinner just once. Enjoy the freedom of internet porn. If anyone really wants to know how good it is, stay away from porn for 8 weeks, or even 4 weeks. Go on I dare you. The you will start to see how far porn has come, and how good it is. Edited on Sep 24, 2012, 10:12am | |
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| 09-23-12 03:53pm - 243 days | Well here another fine mess i've got my self into . (18 Posts) - #8 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
This sums up my attitude. There's no need to cut stuff that you'll watch again, but some material is just hoarding for hoarding's sake. When in doubt keep it, as the cost of a new drive is very cheap given the amount you can store on them, but you will find a lot you know you will never watch again. One piece of unusual advice I would like to offer is this - quite often nowadays I stream, and download only what I consider likely to be worth keeping. If it's not stored you don't feel the pang of getting rid of it. Edited on Sep 23, 2012, 04:04pm | |
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| 09-20-12 06:58pm - 246 days | Kate Middleton Thread (36 Posts) - #22 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
You get no argument there. Looking at the reasons behind that, you just have to look at who owns the media, and the intelligence levels of those who buy newspapers. | |
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| 09-20-12 06:46pm - 246 days | 'Real' reality sites (7 Posts) - #4 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Castingxxx aka Fake Agent is similar to Exploited College Girls. Young Models Casting, Porn Newcomer, Casting Interviews, Cash Strapped Teens, Prvnicasting, the list is almost endless. Nearly every network has one of these. The days of Ugly George picking up girls off the street is long gone. Nearest to Exploited College Girls is Castingxxx which is a stand alone site from what I can remember, and Prvnicasting which may be a part of Czech Casting or may be a stand alone. Porn Newcomer is part of the New Sensations network. At the other extreme are sites like Double View Casting, which "casts" quite a few girls who have been in the porn industry for more than 5 years and have probably had sex on camera more times than all PU members and TBP staff have had sex in their entire lives combined. Reality is dead, or at least not all it's cracked up to be. Edited on Sep 20, 2012, 06:51pm | |
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| 09-20-12 11:07am - 246 days | Old VHS porn - do you still have it? (22 Posts) - #3 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
About 3 tons. | |
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| 09-20-12 11:04am - 246 days | Kate Middleton Thread (36 Posts) - #20 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Nice one Toadsith. I reckon you could be on to a merchandise winner there! | |
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| 09-20-12 06:30am - 247 days | Kate Middleton Thread (36 Posts) - #17 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
I agree about the Hillsborough case, but to compare that with the death of an over privileged person who married for money and position actually highlights the difference between those who seek fame and fortune, and those who end up in the press due to unfortunate or tragic circumstances. The press could have helped to seek justice but didn't. The media is owned by the rich and privilleged, and that's who they are batting for. Rather ironic that those the paparazzi make money out of, are the rich and privileged. Diana was in a car supposedly fleeing the press, not some crazed gunman, mugger, or rapist. She was in no physical danger, unlike those at Hillsborough. I regarded her death as meaning there was one less undemocratic parasite to pay for. I agree with Toadsith's comment " The intense media interest surrounding them is not a symptom of their lives, it is one of the foundations of their lives. I do not care that most of the Royalty are born into their titles, their lives are so outrageously privileged that they should be able to weather some rude folks with cameras. I find appeals to our humanity with stories of the trials and tribulations of life in front of a paparazzi's lens ridiculous and factitious." Couldn't have put that better myself. The only thing I would add about the royals is we are given no choice but to pay for them. It's a history of inbreeding, thuggery, stealing, murder, invasion, pillaging, raping, and slavery. After all that they declare themselves, "royal." That the British public do too, shows how stupid some of them are. I'm not one of them. | |
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| 09-18-12 05:14am - 249 days | Kate Middleton Thread (36 Posts) - #6 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
I regard the royals as parasites, who are paid to breed. I may feel a little sorry for celebrities who have their privacy invaded at times, but not worried about prostitutes having photos of their breasts published. | |
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| 09-11-12 07:51am - 255 days | Manwin buys Reality king. (17 Posts) - #7 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
So they'll have 78 instead of 39 sites of shit porn, with tattooed, muscular, fake tanned, fake breasted, 35 year olds, with toast rack ribs, trying to look 22, but looking 78 trying to look 22, who look as though they've been shot in the back with two trident missiles, that got stuck half way....oh yeah, and still no customer service. Edited on Sep 11, 2012, 08:25am | |
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| 09-02-12 05:52pm - 264 days | Satellite Porn? (10 Posts) - #4 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
True about Europe, but we've always been behind here in the UK. You could get two years inside for selling videos or mags that were freely available in Holland, or Sweden. It's only in the past few years it's become better over here. What did it was the aforementioned satellite porn, beamed from Europe. You could either buy pirate cards or genuine cards for adult channels. Government tried to stop the wave of filth, but there were so many grey areas and so many people selling and so many wanting to subscribe, it was hard to prosecute, so we finally entered the 20th century, even though it was the 21st century. I bought both pirate and legit cards. As the prosecutions eased up it became easier to buy legit cards. It was only internet porn that stopped me subscribing to satellite. I guess satellite porn was the first generation of porn being available over here without going to prison for it. I haven't looked at satellite porn for about 6 years now, so I don't know if it's changed, but when I was watching, it was quite vanilla and plain. A few bits of spanking and light bondage, but nothing like what we see nowadays. | |
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| 09-02-12 05:05pm - 264 days | Satellite Porn? (10 Posts) - #2 | |
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TheSquirrel (41)
Active User Posts: 582 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
I used to subscribe to some of those satellite channels. About £130 for a year from what I remember. Maybe it's changed in a the last few years, but to be honest I haven't a clue what he's on about. The main thing is if you get a reply as pig ignorant and rude as that, it doesn't really matter what his opinion is, because he is too unimportant for it to count. | |
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