Everyday story of British scum

Look at human history in its entirety. Man left Africa 100,000 years ago and spread across the globe. For the majority of that time, everybody needed to be occupied in the process of finding food. Then we figured out how to produce enough so that people could be freed up to pursue other things. But it's only in the last two generations we have had so much wealth that some people could literally do nothing their whole lives.

So what do people do, once they get on welfare? Well first, they tend to blow up to 300 pounds each like the couple in this story.... (note: in the UK they throw around the term 'disabled' like confetti - it no longer implies 'wheelchairs seizures and oxygen cylinders', it is PC code to keep people out of the unemployment numbers)

A virtual affair is ending a real-life marriage
in southwest England.

Amy Taylor filed for divorce when she discovered 
her husband cheating in Second Life - an online 
community where players adopt personas called avatars, 
mingle with others and teleport themselves 
into a series of artificial worlds.

"I caught him cuddling a woman on 
a sofa in the game," Taylor told the 
South West News Service press agency.

"It looked really affectionate. He confessed 
he'd been talking to this woman player 
in America for one or two weeks, and 
said our marriage was over and he didn't 
love me any more."



Taylor, 28, moved in with her husband 
Dave Pollard, 40, in Newquay, about 
280 miles (about 450 kilometers) west of 
London, after the pair met in a chat room 
in 2003, according to the press agency's 
account. Both are disabled, Taylor said.

Both of them created personalities 
in Second Life, the three-dimensional 
virtual world with millions of users.

Taylor - represented in the game by a 
slim, dark-haired young woman with
 a penchant for cowboy outfits - 
first wed her beloved in a virtual
 ceremony held in an exotic tropical setting.

She and Pollard - whose Second Life
 avatar was sharp-suited, long-haired
 muscleman - then married in real life
 at a registry office.

The svelte images of their avatars 
stand in contrast to their real 
wedding photo, which shows a plump couple
 - him balding with glasses and a 
red boutonniere; her in a flower
 patterned shirt instead of a dress.

Their marriage started to fall 
apart after Taylor allegedly caught
 her husband's avatar having cyber 
sex with a virtual prostitute in 2007.

She said she had fallen asleep and
 when she woke up and spotted the
 pair cavorting on the computer screen.

She gave him a second chance but then 
discovered he allegedly strayed again 
in April. It was unclear how she 
learned of the couch encounter.

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