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Plastic surgery all in the game for Bimbo



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A KEY figure behind a website on which children can give virtual girls plastic surgery and feed them diet pills has defended it against attacks from parent and health-care groups.
Businessman Chris Evans, 30, said Miss Bimbo was an internet game – and it was "ludicrous" to claim it was potentially dangerous. Players keep a constant watch on the weight, wardrobe, wealth and happiness of their character in an effort to create "the most famous, beautiful, sought-after bimbo across the globe".

Mr Evans said: "It is a game, you create your character and you can choose whether to give your character a boob job."

But Bill Hibberd, of parents' group Parentkind, warned the game sends a potentially dangerous message to young girls.





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  • Last Updated: 25 March 2008 11:29 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Spoot,

Third rock pool on the left 26/03/2008 09:06:33
I find it strange that a welll-known Spanish brand of wrapped bread should get itself involved in a daft project of this kind.
2

Hmmmm,

Glasgow 26/03/2008 11:36:32
If parents are not responsible enough to monitor what their kids are doing then they should pray that the child comes across this site rather than some of the seedier aspects of the web.

3

chuckle bunny ,

kirk hallam ilkeston derbyshire 26/03/2008 12:24:24
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha lol p.s just cus im on er dont mean in gunna go take deit pills en av plastic surgery
4

Parka Mark,

London 26/03/2008 13:42:41
Evans says "It is a game, you create your character and you can choose whether to give your character a boob job." This guy cracks me up!

The more experienced amongst us realise that he's in this to make money, as is any business, particularly when the media and children are concerned. It is individuals like him that are a fundamental cause as to why society today is so twisted, distorted and down right messed up. People like Evans will do anything to attract, mislead, and extort money from the naive and young, which is how this area of the media survives on a day to day basis. Some of the “teen girl” magazines give very good advice for young readers but they also, in my view, detract from their true intentions to push images of a celebrity culture of money, wealth, glamour, sex and drugs.

In short, I do not see Evans’s intentions any different from a drug dealer. He plays on the naivety of the young, damaging them in the process, to make personal financial gain. And this is how the media works in general.

You people above might sit there and pass the blame on to parents, and anyone else you can point a finger at, but Evans does not pull the wool over my eyes. The media are more powerful than we realise and their motives more wrong than we are prepared to acknowledge and if there is anything that, as parents, you should be doing, it is educating children on the pitfalls of today's state of society that we have not only created for them but also come to mutually accept.

 

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