Please, please, PLEASE - no more ID card schemes, no more police DNA registries, give us what we really need - forced sterilization.

Umm first of all a Playmobile reconstruction of the real life pic would have been alot easier on the eyes....though I guess there is a limit to how many pieces you can use....

On a side note.....why must we be subject to such horror Reg? WHY!!!??

<uses spoon to start scooping out eyes>

/mines the one with the dark glasses and cane next to it.

i think it's incredible how their avatars are virtually indistinguishable from the 'real' them!

i wonder if beautiful people go on second life and create fat, ugly, sweaty avatars?

Everything that is wrong with our world... paris because she's stupid too.

Never seen a dwarf?

For the record, I am hung like a Tauren in real life. :P

...for 16:9. What?

I thought Europe was supposed to provide the ultra-chic uber-fit tree-hugging commie-loving model lifestyle. Well based on this story and accompanying pix you can cross one off the list.

>>Now, if he had been ignoring his wife in favor of his fantasies, that would be different. But it doesn't sound like that's the case here.<<

"He confessed he'd been talking to this woman in America for weeks and said he didn't love me any more," she said.

Did you read the whole article? "he didn't love me any more" sounds pretty much like he preferred his fantasies to reality, no?

Hey Reg, can we have some extra icons - we need a good Facepalm and Head-desk to deal with incidents of stupidity.

or are these really scary people....at least they can't multiply - they couldn't get close enough to copulate

According to the story his avatar was having sex with a Sadville call girl.So there are prostitutes in Sadville? People pay their Linden dollars to have sex, and other people create an avatar and charge other avatars to have sex with them? Are there pimps too? Are we going to see stories of Avatars being traffic'd and forced into prostition?

I'm getting to old for this modern living malarky.

(Aliens because this is all pretty alien to me.)

Yeah ok! Someone needs to add VAT to that...

If he'd been playing gta4 he would of pistol whipped the prostitute to death after sex and got his money back, that would have changed his wifes bull crap decision immidiatly.

what happened to the pics? did the metro news bust you for nicking them off their site.

naughty! naughty!

My moneys on him being bald and her being a fat chick.

FREE WILLIE!!!!!!!!!!!!

As Daily Mail readers would rant 'This is an example of bad American influences along with McDonalds enduced obesity as opposed to celery munching euro communism.'

Hang on, I like a crafty Big Mac and the occasional crack at Halo. Am I following the fat yank role model? Probably. Better than being compared to a euro cretin. Just.

I'll get my coat. Anyone want anything from McDs?

Read the article without noticing the link. Read the comments and went back and found the link .... cheers guys .... laughed like a drain.

I'm not sure there is anything sadder than only being able to get the Metro interested in your sad story about your sad lives.

OMG, how sad are these people , reading this story made me smile, what makes it even funnier that she has found a new love in WoW!!!! Both of these people need to make contact with the real word and get a real world friends.........

Is that the place they went to in Top Gear?

Paris 'cause she'd know all about top gear

Human gene-pool, exit stage left.

I am so sick and tired of all the 'OMG WHAT LOSERS' comments that follow stories like this. Online games are a lot more social than people seem to think. How is this different to meeting people through any other hoby/interest, or even through a dating agency? A few of my friends have met people through online games, and are now engaged to these people. These are not ugly, socially inept nerds like people always seem to assume. These are normal people who met someone through a shared interest. Stop being so judgemental.

Fortunately for Taylor, online romance is a tree with many fruits. She said after being down for a while, she's found a new man on the online game, Noddy leaves toytown for the day

"Online games are a lot more social than people seem to think."

Yeah but Second Life isn't an on-line game.

It's a glorified chat server. Graphics aside, they haven't changed much since pre-www days.

If your hobby is "talking to strangers" then you deserve what's coming to you.

When I was a kid we even an animated cat called Charlie warning us against talking to strangers. I must have missed the follow up ad when he went on to say "but marrying them is ok".

..and just how does a woman manage to get so fat and ugly at age 28? By putting a stack of pies next to her keyboard so that she doesn't have to go "AFK" when she needs to stuff her fat face?

Paris - 'cos that's what I look like irl, honest!

Those two have their own gravity!

Get out & get some exercise the pair of you (he says sitting at his keyboard munching away & slurping coffee).

:-)

first, it's fun when Studly BiggusDickus gets killed by a character that's fat, fifty and balding. Second, you don't get hassled by women characters (and the men that play 'em) doing the old a/s/l or "cyber for loot" crap.

the few people or situations where I care about interacting with someone out of game, then they aren't disappointed:) At least I still have hair and am under 40 anyways

Well said. The article states "...and said he didn't love me any more,"

SAID HE DIDN'T LOVE ME ANY MORE.

What a completely rubbish story, move along please nothing to see.