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Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 30, 2004 @03:30AM from the brilliantly-insipid dept.

Digitus1337 writes "Wired has an article up about a new online service known as 'FunHi.' You sign up and join a community, and give your fellows gifts, but as Wired has reported, 'these are not ordinary gifts. They're purely digital: little flashing icons of cars, planes, diamond rings and other virtual representations of expensive items included in messages members send each other. And FunHi members don't seem to care that the real money they're spending on the gifts, at prices as high as $30 an item, is going straight into the company's coffers." This leaves just one question unanswered... why didn't I think of this?" It sounds like an April Fool's Joke, but then, so does online trading of Everquest loot.

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Read it all...you'll be glad you did! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-30 03:34 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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1. Re:Read it all...you'll be glad you did! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-30 03:39 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  TRANSLATION:
  
  I remember watching Blair grow up alongside my own children. Though older than them all, she was a fine playmate for my girls, and since her parents are quite devout, I had no qualms about her giving my children any strange ideas. I remember a freckled and knee-skinned eight year old, riding bikes with my eldest daughter on our avenue beneath the sycamores in their Springtime glory. I watched her as she went through her awkward teenage years, uncertain and confused. The proudest memory we have of her is as a young woman, freshly home from finishing school, before she was sent off to receive a higher education. I had my qualms about her parents' decision to allow her to attend MIT, a notoriously secular university, but these were settled when some brief investigation revealed that MIT was considered to be even more conformist than Berkeley. So, it was with a proud smile and a merry wave that my family watched young Blair leave our town to seek her destiny in the halls of academe. Little did we realise that the girl who would return to us would not be the same radiant young woman whose memory we had cherished.
  
  It wasn't until Thanksgiving dinner, which our families traditionally eat together, that I met young Blair again. The aggrieved expression on her father, Miles' face was all the first hint that this would not be the joyful reunion we had expected. Minutes later, Blair was coaxed downstairs by her mother. The sight of her left us all quite taken aback. Gone was the long, strawberry-blonde hair that had made her the envy and delight of all her peers. It had been cropped to barely shoulder length and dyed fiercely black. Her once radiant skin was now sickly pale, giving the impression, I felt, of a subterranean lifestyle. She dressed in the anti-social style of a militant nonconformist; in purple boots, grey army-style pants and a heavy, drab wool sweater.
  
  Throughout dinner, young Blair was a sullen presence at the table, casting a pall on what should have been a convivial evening. She was monosyllabic in her replies to questions about college. Her face was constantly downturned, as though she wanted to pretend there was nobody else present at the table. When I asked her about the boys she had met at college, and if she was having finding any good husband material, she finally looked up, only to give me the most angry, hurt stare I have ever had from a young woman. The whites of her eyes were very red, as though she had been crying for hours, and her lip trembled, as if she were on the verge of saying something, but she obviously thought better of it, and returned to resolutely studying her dinner plate. It was then that I realised that something terrible had happened to her at college, most likely at the hands of heartless college men.
  
  How could a few months of college change a person so completely? As much as it hurt me, I knew that I could not allow the drastically altered attitudes of young Blair to affect my family. I would not allow my children to be so irrevocably damaged. With heartfelt apologies to Miles, I told my children that they were not allowed to see Blair ever again. The strident complaints of my three daughters told me I had made the correct decision. Already they had begun to be drawn to her attitude of teenage rebellion. It felt good to know that I had acted in time to save them.
  
  Of course, I was shaken enough by the events of Thanksgiving to begin reassessing the pros and cons of a college education for my children. The misgivings I had been feeling over the past few years now seemed more well-grounded, while the benefits of college had taken on the aspect of wishful thinking. Was it really worth the risk, to send my children away, to pay tens of thousands for an education that they might not even get?
  
  Americans have not always harboured college ambitions for their progeny. Until the 1960s, it was not common to meet college graduates. Even though the GI benefits program provides for college education for returning soldiers, most of those w
How much to send a goatse pic? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-30 03:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic

When you care enough to send the *very* best, why bother sending it yourself if you can pay professionals to do it?
Funny as Hell by stoolpigeon · 2004-03-30 03:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Stupid mods

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Mod is drunk at 11:00 AM!!! by DR+SoB · 2004-03-30 03:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Just like me!! :)

How can the third post be redundant when it is a new topic?? LOL! DRUNK I TELLS 'E!!!

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1. Re:Mod is drunk at 11:00 AM!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-30 03:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Mod is drunk at 11:00 AM!!!
  i'm on the west coast you insensitive clod! i'm drunk at quarter to 8!
Re:More proof that... by ratamacue · 2004-03-30 04:16 · Score: 0, Offtopic

A fool and their money soon part. Capitalism seems to make this easier
Funny you say that. Under socialism, the fool and his money are forced to part. In other words, the fool doesn't even have to be persuaded. What could be "easier" than that?
Re:Personally... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-30 04:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The Mods have heard your prayer. Go forth now and be Funny.
Show me some luv.... by Thud457 · 2004-03-30 04:42 · Score: 0, Offtopic

gimmie a dollar!
For TWO dollars, I'll go away and leave you alone!

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Re:More proof that... by ratamacue · 2004-03-30 05:13 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Yes, but the post was trying to imply (quite incorrectly) that capitalism somehow makes it "easier" for money to be "wasted", when exactly the opposite is true. (Who's more likely to "waste" their wealth -- he who earns it through honest work, or he who simply takes it by force?)

Whether the money was originally owned by a fool wasn't really my concern.
Re:Status symbols by syrinx · 2004-03-30 07:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Speaking of real-world, where are you living? All women will do that. Don't believe me? How many women do you know that are engaged that don't have a diamond ring?

My roommate just got engaged. His fiancee doesn't have a diamond engagement ring.

So there's one.

I haven't seen any other engagement rings recently, so so far I'm at 100% non-diamond. :P

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