The Daily Mail discovers Chatroulette!

GordonBennet · 26-04-2010, 09:35

I know that the Daily Mail sometimes gets slagged off on here for going over the top with its right wing hysteria, but this is hilarious!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...craze-yet.html

Never mind that Chatroulette has been going for months and isn't a "cool teen" site anyway, it totally misses the point that it's the responsibility of the parent to block any sites they wouldn't want their children to go on. Is anyone really surprised that a website where you can watch strangers on webcams is likely to be full of perverts and weirdos?

auto98uk · 26-04-2010, 10:10

I like the way it very quickly glosses over the fact that you can just click next and get taken elsewhere, and the person you finished with has no way of reconnecting to you. If anything, it is far safer than normal messaging programs, because once they have your address on those they can keep contacting you.

Number Six · 26-04-2010, 10:12

This could get messy. Imagine if they randomly connected to Jonathan Ross!

rubydazzler · 26-04-2010, 10:13

I hadn't heard about it before, but now you've brought it to our attention, I'm gonna have to go and take a swift peek .... tch!

auto98uk · 26-04-2010, 10:16

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Originally Posted by B Trautmann

This could get messy. Imagine if they randomly connected to Jonathan Ross!

Leslie Grantham?

millhouses24 · 26-04-2010, 10:24

Now I'm worried that if I go on it I'll find another Sheffield Forum member asking me to do something obscene. I think I'll pass

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rubydazzler · 26-04-2010, 10:30

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Originally Posted by millhouses24

Now I'm worried that if I go on it I'll find another Sheffield Forum member asking me to do something obscene. I think I'll pass

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It might even be me! hahaha. The article wasn't specific as to whether you can choose the gender of your tete-a-tete, was it?

millhouses24 · 26-04-2010, 10:37

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Originally Posted by rubydazzler

It might even be me! hahaha. The article wasn't specific as to whether you can choose the gender of your tete-a-tete, was it?

We don't actually need Chatroulette, we can just use this forum to do EXACTLY the same thing

Whenever I think of internet chat I always think of this clip, it's the BEST:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9PKyfkHZgU

Agent Orange · 26-04-2010, 10:39

I'm gutted that I don't have a cam. I want to show the world my......... inner workings.

Dozy · 26-04-2010, 10:46

I can't decide which is my favourite paragraph! This:

"For this, the latest Frankenstein monster spawned by the internet is, as with so much web-based activity, impossible to monitor, restrict or control."

or this:

"And, as I discovered during my short venture into that world, it's yet another example of the pernicious sexual culture that threatens to corrupt the fibre of our children's innocence."

I'm just surprised she didn't end the article with:

"Will nobody think of the children?"

Silly, hysterical woman.

horribleblob · 26-04-2010, 10:46

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Originally Posted by millhouses24

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9PKyfkHZgU

Terrible punctuation.

rubydazzler · 26-04-2010, 10:47

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Originally Posted by Agent Orange

I'm gutted that I don't have a cam. I want to show the world my......... inner workings.

Haven't most people already seen your ...... inner workings?

Stormy · 26-04-2010, 10:47

The journalist must have been watching South Park recently

millhouses24 · 26-04-2010, 10:47

Bet her daughter is delighted that her mum is making money out of her. Typical Daily Fail piece of dross.

Agent Orange · 26-04-2010, 10:48

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Originally Posted by rubydazzler

Haven't most people already seen your ...... inner workings?

It depends which inner workings we are talking about

millhouses24 · 26-04-2010, 11:01

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Originally Posted by horribleblob

Terrible punctuation.

Darn, that was the wrong clip! This is the right one - the Jude Law character knows that Anna (Julia Roberts) will be in a certain place so sends the doctor to meet her......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG2b3GzHsxk

GordonBennet · 26-04-2010, 13:26

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Originally Posted by Dozy

I can't decide which is my favourite paragraph! This:

"For this, the latest Frankenstein monster spawned by the internet is, as with so much web-based activity, impossible to monitor, restrict or control."

or this:

"And, as I discovered during my short venture into that world, it's yet another example of the pernicious sexual culture that threatens to corrupt the fibre of our children's innocence."

I'm just surprised she didn't end the article with:

"Will nobody think of the children?"

Silly, hysterical woman.

My favourite quotes are ;

"Most of the people I encountered were foreign - and while their English was often poor, they knew the words required to fulfil one purpose: to persuade young girls and women to undress."

You just knew the DM would somehow manage to blame foreigners for it!

And

"The ability to parachute into the lives of strangers is simultaneously addictive and repellent. Just like pornography, it leaves the user feeling dirty and ashamed."

Don't know about her, but in my experience pornography actually leaves the user feeling happy and satisfied!

millhouses24 · 26-04-2010, 14:02

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Originally Posted by GordonBennet

My favourite quotes are ;

"Most of the people I encountered were foreign - and while their English was often poor, they knew the words required to fulfil one purpose: to persuade young girls and women to undress."

You just knew the DM would somehow manage to blame foreigners for it!

And

"The ability to parachute into the lives of strangers is simultaneously addictive and repellent. Just like pornography, it leaves the user feeling dirty and ashamed."

Don't know about her, but in my experience pornography actually leaves the user feeling happy and satisfied!

I particularly like the "ability to parachute into the lives of strangers is simultaneously addictive and repellant" bit. Surely the "ability to parachute into the lives of strangers" is what reading the Daily Mail is all about?

donkey · 26-04-2010, 14:21

My God! To think, our children could be corrupted by foreigners or - heaven forbid - gypsies! That is why all right thinking people should support the Daily Mail campaign to invent a time machine and transport Britain back to the 1950s!

Longcol · 26-04-2010, 23:06

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Originally Posted by GordonBennet

My favourite quotes are ;

"Most of the people I encountered were foreign - and while their English was often poor, they knew the words required to fulfil one purpose: to persuade young girls and women to undress."

Perhaps they could make a few bob telling Slimsid their technique.

BTW have the British youth of today forgotten how to charm lasses out of their undies?