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Olympic Martial Artist Raises Money to Compete By Selling Sex
Remember in middle school when you had to sell candy bars door-to-door so that you could finance your trip to Orlando with the school band? Well Logan Campell, a young man from New Zealand, is doing much the same thing. Except instead of a band field trip, it’s the taekwondo competition at the 2012 London Olympics, and instead of oversized Butterfingers, it’s sexual intercourse:
His own costs leading up to Beijing totalled some NZ$150,000 (£58,000), much of it provided by his hard-working parents, Campbell noted.
To take the financial strain from his parents Campbell has gone into partnership with Hugo Philiips, a 20-year-old accountancy graduate, to set up what the pair insist is a “high-class” escort agency.
In Beijing, Campbell lost to Sung Yu-Chi of Taiwan, who went on to get the bronze. Prostitution has been decriminalized in NZ, and besides, Campbell insists he’s opening a high-class escort agency, not some common whorehouse.
“When people think of a pimp they think of a guy standing around on a street corner with gold chains,” he told the Sunday Star Times.
“Pimps are more tough-type guys. I’m an owner of an escort agency.”
Whereas Campbell beats people up separate from his job. I’d still bet he’ll come to London with the strongest pimp hand in the taekwondo field. He did have to get the OK from his mom, though:
“Mum was hesitant but she met the girls, a couple came over to her house and she was sweet as. She realised they were just normal people supporting their kids and stuff.”
The reality show will follow shortly.
Source: BBC.
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So from July 9th, you’re no longer publishing full content or photos in your RSS feed. A software error or on purpose? Hope it’s the former but if it’s the latter, buh-bye.
we’re trying out the summary feed right now, in part to get a better idea of what content some of our more frequent readers (e.g. those subscribed to the feed) are most interested in and in part, of course, because for FL to exist, it needs to make money, which unfortunately means hits/ads.
it is not an ironclad change yet, however, and i’m open to hearing arguments against it…
bodonnell@flisted.com
I do understand that this is a commercial endeavor and that it’s your site to do with as you please.
(1) Plenty of web sites run ads in their RSS feeds and presumably collect the stats on those who subscribe by RSS. I have no problem with seeing ads in my RSS reader. (2) Do a bit of research on preferences and behavior and I suspect you’ll find that partial RSS feeds are so 2006 and that most people prefer to get full content. (3) Celebitchy and The Bastardly among others in this space continue to publish full content in their feeds and I think you need to factor that into your decision as well.
I do click over to your pages when an item catches my eye – but I need the picture in order for it to catch my eye! If there’s just 3 or 4 lines of text mostly I won’t even bother to read them, let alone click on them. That’s why it took me a few days to even notice you’d changed the feed.
My suggestion is – as an example, on your “afternoon pick-me-up” posts, previously you had one large size pic and then thumbnails of the other pics, now you have no pics at all – just have the one lead image and then a link in the feed to read the full article in order to see the rest. This same philosophy could be applied to all items that have multiple images as part of a single post.
ads in the RSS reader would be the best solution, but i’d have to look into the feasibility of that.
i agree that a summary with images is probably the best compromise between ease of use on the feed reader and need for hits on the website. it’s reasonably fair and a lot of sites (asylum, the superficial) do something in this vein. i’ll check with the FL developers about this RSS option.
Cool. I appreciate your taking the time to read my comments and consider them. You’re still in my RSS reader.