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― you too could be called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:39 (eight years ago) link
My wife just informed me that leaked names from here include my name but with a billing address in Toronto. Wasn't planning on looking at this stuff beyond what can't be avoided when looking at news on the Internet or whatever, but should I be concerned? Fake profile perhaps?
― andrew m., Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:40 (eight years ago) link
what do you mean by funhouse of uncertainty? did you sleep with any married women?
― dylannn, Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:40 (eight years ago) link
Just to clarify, it's not me and not a dummy acct. Had never heard of AM until all this biz.
― andrew m., Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:41 (eight years ago) link
I wonder how many people have signed up in the last few days.
― ryan, Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:42 (eight years ago) link
andrew can you check to see what the credit card number (the last 4 digits) at least is that's associated with your name/email?
― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone), Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:43 (eight years ago) link
how did your wife bring it up...?
― dylannn, Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:43 (eight years ago) link
also i signed up for a related one at almost the same time, i get kind of confused about which was which
one was much more like a thirst trap for unsuspecting creditcard holders, seemed to have seeded the listings with lots of probably fake succulent 20-year-olds
the proper adultery one had a surprising number of, like, schlubby 30-40-something midwesterners, way out of proportion to what you see on dating websites or plain old sex websites
though there were still a certain amount of people who clearly put an emphasis on fitness/body specifically for sex-related purposes
and the level of frankness about the reason for cheating was fairly high. whereas you might see a lot of poly-leaning talk on many other sites, and there was a little bit of swinger/open marriage talk on this one, really it was more a lot of unmet needs / sex part of my marriage is over / just have to have a thrill stuff. not very defensively either, though there was an undertone of that sometimes.
― j., Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:44 (eight years ago) link
xp she IM'd me a little bit ago haha. I'll see about the email/credit card stuff when I get home. Hopefully it's nothing to worry about.
― andrew m., Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:46 (eight years ago) link
haha no dylannn i would never, it's just that most of these sites seem to fake / juke the listings, maybe even show stock photos of people not in your locality, to generate the impression that there are sooo maaaaany hoottttt willllllling ppl out there
one of these sites i looked at, ashley madison i think, also had a prominent kept-young-hottie contingent, sugar daddies, etc., even some that stipulated explicitly looking for someone to pay for college and getting companionship but no sex out of the deal
― j., Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:48 (eight years ago) link
cannot comprehend using an official or work email to sign up for a sex site
― goole, Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:49 (eight years ago) link
your mind lacks the unique dumbness
― j., Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:50 (eight years ago) link
so when "adultery" became "legal" in south korea, the korean version of ashley madison went live and it had thousands upon thousands of sign ups. i want to read the story of the leaked information of korean husbands and wives more than the north american one, though it's all too amusing
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:53 (eight years ago) link
why did you put adultery in "quotes"
― j., Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:55 (eight years ago) link
feel like there are a number of reasons people seek out infidelity instead of leaving a relationship that are mundane and depressing and not well-represented in the ashley madison marketing
corsets and lipstick pretty well represented, though
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:55 (eight years ago) link
― j., Thursday, August 20, 2015 10:55 PM (52 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
because korean laws are a mindfuck...i don't want to derail this thread. if you're interested, there are tonnes of fun resources explaining this weird law
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:57 (eight years ago) link
"adultery" being an act that's more social convention than legal one, codifying it as legal/illegal is kind of ridiculous, although possibly less so in cultures where coupling is more of an arranged structure than a romanticized ideal
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:59 (eight years ago) link
looks like a good court for dealing with adultery in
http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/02/27/world/27korea/27korea-master675.jpg
― j., Thursday, 20 August 2015 22:04 (eight years ago) link
andrew, couldn't it have just been another dude with the same name?
― pplains, Thursday, 20 August 2015 23:39 (eight years ago) link
Or is that the joke.
― pplains, Thursday, 20 August 2015 23:40 (eight years ago) link
The joke is that everyone believes him
― The Once-ler, Thursday, 20 August 2015 23:42 (eight years ago) link
I've met, he's definitely not Canadian.
― pplains, Thursday, 20 August 2015 23:43 (eight years ago) link
You met him. Who you didn't meet was "theTorontoBronco77"
― The Once-ler, Thursday, 20 August 2015 23:45 (eight years ago) link
I love hackers. Hack the planet.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 21 August 2015 01:50 (eight years ago) link
Understand people being worried about the effects on the users now exposed, but not sad to see a business based on such an unpleasant moral basis have its model effectively wrecked
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Friday, 21 August 2015 03:42 (eight years ago) link
what if last of summer wine modarn day? Howard go on ahsley madison get found out by pearl
― 2011’s flagrantly ceremonious rock-opera (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 21 August 2015 07:41 (eight years ago) link
I just found a review of the Good Wife episode Getting Off which is the adultery site one. http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/the-good-wife-getting-off-55741 it mentions Ashley Madison by name and talks about previous notoriety. That's dated May 2011.I was just wondering if Ashley Madison had been the one site to have previous media notoriety prior to the current story. I haven't really heard of other sites than theirs but wouldn't really be looking anyway. So if their site was mentioned by name 4 there years ago, it does look like they have some history of scandal.
Were they well known for it, like was it a well known name for people here prior to the current scandal?
― Stevolende, Friday, 21 August 2015 08:46 (eight years ago) link
Well yeah, they're Ashley Madison - you've literally never heard of them before?
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 21 August 2015 08:53 (eight years ago) link
NOt really something that crosses my radar I don't think. Are they International? Could be me not being in the US that influences that too.
― Stevolende, Friday, 21 August 2015 09:28 (eight years ago) link
They had a few publicity stunts, like trying to get a Super Bowl commercial and getting turned down by the NFL, that boosted their profile.
― how's life, Friday, 21 August 2015 10:34 (eight years ago) link
i hadn't heard of ashley madison before either.
― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone), Friday, 21 August 2015 13:05 (eight years ago) link
I still can't believe they were *actually* going to do a Super Bowl commercial (and also find it hard to believe that the NFL would reject anyone's money) - what they actually did was pretty effective. That's the first time I started hearing about the site.
― frogbs, Friday, 21 August 2015 13:14 (eight years ago) link
sure
― irl lol (darraghmac), Friday, 21 August 2015 13:15 (eight years ago) link
That's prob the case, yes. Just got concerned someone had used my email or whatever. They didn't, so it's all good. Now I'm dropping it before my wife says I protesteth too mucheth.
"theTorontoBronco77"
haha
― andrew m., Friday, 21 August 2015 16:01 (eight years ago) link
:)
― The Once-ler, Friday, 21 August 2015 16:03 (eight years ago) link
"I ain't ever even been to Toronto. You can ask my wife!"
http://i.imgur.com/MYF81X4.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 21 August 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link
gets me every time
― goole, Friday, 21 August 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ugMeAUQ.jpg
"What a world we live in. I guess we'll have to reset all of our passwords."
― pplains, Friday, 21 August 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link
but really there are more women named "ashley madison" in the US than there were affairs conducted on this site. i thought everyone knew it was a scam.
― goole, Friday, 21 August 2015 16:13 (eight years ago) link
lol ron is stunned
― drash, Friday, 21 August 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
I can not find a woman actually named "Ashley Madison" right now. That's nuts.
""ashley madison" -cheating -adultry -hack -infidelity -dump -hackers -membership"
― pplains, Friday, 21 August 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
i knew about ashley madison because a friend's band has a song called "ashley madison account"
always found it strange to contemplate the meetings at which "ashley madison" was deigned to be a name at the right confluence of "classy" and "adventurous"
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Friday, 21 August 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link
top 2 most popular girls' names at the time, no pretence at class
― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Friday, 21 August 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
like a debutante president
― j., Friday, 21 August 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
might be worth searching for ppl called like ashleigh maddison or w/e
― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Friday, 21 August 2015 16:26 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdmmQX3UlMw
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Friday, 21 August 2015 16:28 (eight years ago) link
who knows what could happen!
― j., Friday, 21 August 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
imago that explanation is both a relief and a lil disappointing
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Friday, 21 August 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
thought they were operating at a higher level or creepiness :/
― oh, i am a lonlely poster. i live in a box of posts. (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 21 August 2015 16:31 (eight years ago) link
*of