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Some pics of Ben:-

England rugby star Ben Cohen is using his huge gay following in the US to highlight his campaign against homophobic bullying.

The married World Cup winner, recently retired, is visiting four cities in two weeks to promote his StandUp charity.

Hundreds of men have flocked to his fundraising events, organised with the help of gay-friendly rugby clubs.

Sport and sexuality is being hotly debated in the US after two basketball players were fined for saying "faggot".

Joakim Noah received a $50,000 (£30,400) penalty for directing the slur at a fan, while Kobe Bryant was fined $100,000 (£60,800) for a similar outburst in April.

"It sends out the wrong message - that it's fine to call people names," Cohen said as the tour's third leg in Washington DC ended.

While a rugby World Cup winner has little currency in the US, the father of twins does have a profile in the American gay community.

His Facebook page has 150,000 fans, many of whom are men living in the US.

It was some of their stories of prejudice and isolation - leading to suicidal thoughts in some cases - that drew him to this issue a few years ago.

"People were sending us e-mails and it came with a sense of responsibility," he said.

Cohen finished his career with Sale Sharks "I might be straight but I understand the mental scarring you can suffer from people being bullied and a tragedy happening."

In 2000, Cohen's father died after being beaten when he stepped in to protect one of his employees in a dispute.

"We are trying to stop bullying across the board but especially in the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community."

Sport should tackle homophobia in the same way that football tackled racism, Cohen said, with tough penalties for offenders.

The US trip has included educational visits and rugby coaching sessions at schools and universities.

And the job of raising awareness and money has focused on gay nightclubs and the media, even including an appearance on a reality TV show.

The so-called Acceptance Tour began in April in the UK

Interview on the bbc here:- hxxp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13871817 (not sure if it's viewable outside the UK)

I would go with MrMazda's suggestion. General chat about something in the news, the weather, price of petrol, sports results etc, can tease out more information about each other without being too blatant, therefore reducing the chance of scaring him off. Soak up any nuggets of information he tells you, read up on it if necessary and bring the subject up the next time. At worst, if it all comes to nothing, you will still have the exciting 'thrill of the chase' experience to look back on.

I wouldn't like their food bills

Absolutely shocking and pathetic. He was basically blackmailing people at £500 a time and he gets fined £1000 

"it did not have the power to audit people's accounts but said that Andrew Crossley had provided a sworn statement on the state of his finances" ..of course he did, wonder if they bothered to check if his fingers were crossed.

Final twist in this sorry saga:-

"Andrew Crossley, the controversial solicitor who made money by accusing computer users of illegal file sharing, has been fined £1,000. The penalty has been imposed for a data breach which saw the personal details of 6,000 computer users, targeted by his firm, exposed online. Information Commissioner Christopher Graham said that the severity of the breach warranted a heavier fine. But he added that Mr Crossley was not in a position to pay.

"Were it not for the fact that ACS:Law has ceased trading so that Mr Crossley now has limited means, a monetary penalty of £200,000 would have been imposed, given the severity of the breach."

A spokeswoman for the ICO told the BBC that it did not have the power to audit people's accounts but said that Andrew Crossley had provided a sworn statement on the state of his finances.

The security breach occurred following a denial-of-service attack by members of the hacktivist group Anonymous, who were unhappy at the tactics being used by Mr Crossley and his law firm.

"Sensitive personal details relating to thousands of people were made available for download to a worldwide audience and will have caused them embarrassment and considerable distress," said Mr Graham.

As well as exposed peoples' names and addresses, a list of pornographic films they were accused of illegally downloading was also made available.

"The security measures ACS:Law had in place were barely fit for purpose in a person's home environment, let alone a business handling such sensitive details," Mr Graham said.

ACS:Law was conducting a widespread speculative invoicing campaign, which saw Mr Crossley send letters to thousands of people accusing them of downloading content without paying for it and asking them to pay a fine of around £500 per infringement. The scheme came unstuck when a handful of the cases went to court and the judge ruled that the Mr Crossley had mishandled them and abused the court system. He faces a disciplinary hearing at the Solicitors Regulation Authority next month. The data breach was one of the most high profile and worst seen in the UK to date.

The relatively small fine imposed on Mr Crossley will anger opponents who argue that the ICO lacks any real teeth when it comes to data breaches. It was recently criticised for not being tougher on Google after the firm accidentally collected personal information from millions of unsecured wi-fi connections when it collected pictures for its StreetView service. The ICO has called for greater powers to investigate data breaches and to probe deeper into peoples' finances.

"We would welcome the power to refer cases like this to the court who can order people to be questioned about their financial affairs with appropriate sanctions if they do not cooperate," an ICO spokeswoman told the BBC.

But critics think more is needed.

"There should be a complete review of privacy policy in the UK. The ICO has been given half-baked powers that haven't been thought through and that they aren't able to exercise fully," said Jim Killock, director of the Open Rights Group.

"This fine is shockingly low. Many people have been aggrieved and wrongly accused. They are entitled to some form of compensation," he added.

Consumer watchdog Which? was among the first to expose that people had been wrongly accused. It described the fine as "paltry".

"ACS Law demanded around £400 from each of the people it accused of illegal file sharing, yet for a serious breach of data protection law, it gets a paltry fine of £1,000. This is utterly inadequate - the ICO should have imposed an appropriate sanction," said Deborah Prince, head of legal affairs.

"The ICO said that if ACS Law was still trading it would have imposed a penalty of £200,000. This beggars belief. It sends the message that businesses that commit a data breach can expect appropriate punishment, unless they dissolve their business, in which case they'll get off lightly," she added

I'm sure all those 14 girls that he beat were magnanimous in defeat and very supportive  :fight:

I can certainly sympathise with your plight ballard. Your name is one of the most recognisable uploaders, with varied content and plenty of pictures and description. Sad to see that your last 3 uploads only got you 35 bonus points. To be honest, because your profile isn't viewable and I know you upload a ton of stuff, I just assumed you would be rolling in seed bonuses with a healthy ratio.

Oops

These 'Strongest Man' tv shows were a great source of wank material before the days of the internet. Loved the bulging biceps, sweaty thighs and clenched buttocks. Strangely enough, as with bodybuilders, I never imaged any of them having big cocks.

btw I'm surprised the name Phil Pfister wasn't been used by a porn star  hxxp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Pfister

@stealfire:

You may have to do a lot of personal searching to find what interests you personally.  Have you seen "Nigga's Revenge?" Pretty rough stuff.  Very sexy as well.

The 2nd part is good too

"Just say yes to crack" … brilliant 

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Some more ….

I think it's all just a ploy to get that Blondie song back in the charts (worst bored-out-her-tits rapping EVER)  ;D

Great read  :clap2:

Fantastic !!! The guy is a genius

Good find  :clap2:

I had a very similar thing happen on my Yahoo mail account a couple of months ago, as did someone else I know on their hotmail. I only realised mail had been sent out by the undelivered messages bouncing back from defunct addresses on my list. I'm ultra cautious when it comes to anti-virus/malware so I was puzzled how it could happen. All I could think of was shortly before, I had clicked on one of those irritating 'chat requests' which are obviously spam to delete it, but  I didn't quite hit the X, and it opened. I remember spending ages going through all the settings to try and stop these spam chats for good, but yahoo in their wisdom don't make it easy.

The first thing I did was change my password. I did the usual anti-virus scans but nothing showed up. That was the only occurence, fortunately. Presumably the scum behind these viruses are able to easily adapt them for yahoo, hotmail and gmail.

"Tony Blair couldn't be Prime Minister and be catholic, because it's against UK law"

What law is this?