It looks like our decision to have a bit of an August slowdown was smart not only because we got to goof off – it also helped us avoid getting snookered by what surely must be the biggest dumbass non-story international story about Hungary of the summer, namely the saga of an 18-year-old young lady known only as “Miss Spring.”
As you may have heard, Hungary filled the “oddly enough” quota of numerous international media outlets early last month with reports that the aforementioned young woman was auctioning off her virginity on Ebay. It’s not exactly clear where the story got its start – it looks like local tabloid Bors was on the case early – but within a few days top UK tab the Sun was titillating its readers with a version of the tale that had the action being won by an unnamed Brit with a bit of £200,000, which is roughly Ft 70 million, or approximately 15,000 excellent lays in your average Budapest whorehouse, give or take a few hundred vigorous baby-oil handjobs in the bathroom of the Nyugati tér metro underpass.
Other variations of the tale included different figures for the bids offered, as well as the girl’s reasons for peddling her cherry on the web. The initial Bors piece said she was willing to submit to anyone who paid her Ft 30 million, regardless of age, nationality or gender (does a dildo really count?) provided the lucky winner “first takes her out to dinner.” Most reports had Miss Spring claiming that she needed the money because her family was deep in debt (damn Swiss franc loans!) and about to be evicted, though a few updates had her admitting she just wanted the dough to go to university and get a good job, by which we assume she means not hooking up with strangers on the Internet and then taking cock for cash. The different versions also featured a rather alarmingly wide range of photographic portrayals of Miss Spring, including the obviously (and, as it turns out, rather overly optimistic) stock shot at bottom right pushed out by Bors.
Aaaaaanyway, the whole thing has now turned into a major anti-climax, because late last week Miss Spring said she was canceling the auction, claiming that it had ruined her relationship with her mother. More likely, she saw this and realized that what she had been trying to sell she might even have trouble just giving away.
Finally, as for the Sun, don’t take it too hard, guys, it happens to everyone once in a while. Really.
Like I’ve been saying, the rules of morality, culture and law are spiraling into an abyss. (Especially in Russia and the former Godless eastern satellite nations.) No rules, no fear or humanitarian belief in anything. The world would be a much better place if about 60% of the world’s population (thugs, thieves, killers, baby snatchers, drug dealers, most politicians and low lives) were to simply jump into a meat grinder. We could use the chum to feed the fish.
@Jackson :
You be the first!
BTW: Which of the above group do you belong to ?
Multiple answers are allowed …