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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>date machine : The Guardian</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/archive/tags/The+Guardian/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: The Guardian</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20910.1126)</generator><item><title>Celebrity Confessions: Boy George plus Nerve Confession: Boy Miserable</title><link>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/archive/2008/09/11/celebrity-confessions-boy-george-and-boy-miserable.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:34:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bd485f5c-a45b-491f-8e52-c79e7f680fc3:126338</guid><dc:creator>airheadgenius</dc:creator><slash:comments>8</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=126338</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/archive/2008/09/11/celebrity-confessions-boy-george-and-boy-miserable.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/insider.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/insider.png" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;
It&amp;#39;s my &amp;quot;Celebrity Confession&amp;quot; day, (err, well wednesday was and it&amp;#39;s now thursday, Oops) but I must first confess that it&amp;#39;s not my bag. I have a decade old TV attached to a DVD player for my children, but there&amp;#39;s no cable and we don&amp;#39;t even get the free channels. Once in a while, I watch online shows, but TV isn&amp;#39;t really my thing. (Except when I am in Blighty when I overdose on it.) And I only read gossip magazines once every 6 months when I am getting my hair cut. I saw the Helen Mirren confession last week because it was in &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/" title="The Guardian" target="_blank"&gt;The Guardian.&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://perezhilton.com/" title="Perez Hilton"&gt;
Perez Hilton&lt;/a&gt; need not sweat in other words.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/george.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/george.png" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
But, I do remember a confession from back in the day. When dear &lt;a href="http://www.boygeorgelive.com/" title="Boy George"&gt;Boy George&lt;/a&gt; as he was being questioned about his sexuality and it hadn&amp;#39;t yet become fashionable to be gay or bi, said &lt;a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Take-It-like-a-Man/Boy-George/e/9780060173685" title="&amp;quot;Sex, I&amp;#39;d rather have a cup of tea&amp;quot;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;quot;Sex? I&amp;#39;d rather have a cup of tea.&amp;quot;
&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Which neatly (in my mind at least) segways into Nerve&amp;#39;s Confession of the Day:
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/player.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/player.png" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;
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Is it permissible to &lt;font size="4"&gt;not&lt;/font&gt; be out there having sex? It seems not.
&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
We are all supposed to be dressed up (or dressed down Williamsburg wannabes) lipsticked and high heeled, if applicable, and out on the town. Flirting with boys, kissing with girls, fingers in arses, tongues in salads. Basically having a rare old raunchy time.
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Back in the day, growing up in a town of 20,000 people, no one was ridiculed for not having a boyfriend or girlfriend. I guess it was an accepted fact that there were only so many people to meet in any given week and you couldn&amp;#39;t shag all of them. An extended dry spell might raise a few guffaws, but in general it was &amp;quot;allowed&amp;quot;.
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But in this technological age, there&amp;#39;s no excuse. There&amp;#39;s &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/login/LaunchPad.asp" title="Internet Dating"&gt;Internet dating&lt;/a&gt; doncha know? Permanent access to new and exciting people across the globe. Even if you live in East Bumblefuck and there&amp;#39;s only one other dater in the vicinity, there&amp;#39;s no excuse not to be logged on and having phone sex with someone in a different state. And if you&amp;#39;re in New York, LA or London where bodies are a plenty, then you must be some kinda desperate &lt;a href="http://www.sadsack.org/" title="sad sack"&gt;sad sack&lt;/a&gt; if you&amp;#39;re sat home cutting your toenails.
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The pressure is most definitely on.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Now I like dating - well, at least beyond the first date when you&amp;#39;ve met someone you like and the excitement is building. I like relationships. I really like to have sex. But some days I just can&amp;#39;t be bothered. As a 40 year old woman though (actually 41, but that&amp;#39;s a story for another day) I am comfortable with myself. If someone was to ridicule my sex life, I&amp;#39;d tell them to do one.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Why does this guy have to pretend to be a &lt;a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=playa" title="player"&gt;player&lt;/a&gt;? Maybe he would prefer to be having a cup of tea. Make that &lt;a href="http://www.starbucks.com/" title="Starbucks"&gt;cawfee&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Maybe we all need to give each other a break and acknowledge that being home alone doesn&amp;#39;t mean you are unattractive or unappealing, but rather that you are a discerning individual comfortable enough in your own skin to opt out. And if your friends tease you for your temporary celibacy and they are under 30, fuck &amp;#39;em - get new friends. If your friends tease you and they&amp;#39;re over 30, get them a few therapy sessions, cos they could surely use the help.
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Would someone pass me the clippers...
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&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/archive/2008/09/09/personals-drama-the-d-ck-trilogy-part-lll-ultimate-d-ck-in-my-inbox.aspx"&gt;Dick Trilogy Part 3&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/archive/2008/09/08/personals-drama-dick-trilogy-part-ll-more-dicks-in-my-inbox.aspx"&gt;MORE dicks in my inbox&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/archive/2008/09/06/personals-drama-dicks-in-your-inbox-or-are-romantic-relationships-becoming-obsolete.aspx"&gt;Dicks in your inbox&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/archive/2008/09/06/personals-drama-would-you-please-read-my-sodding-profile.aspx"&gt;Read my Sodding Profile!&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/archive/2008/09/04/nerve-confessions-herpes-what-s-a-dater-to-do.aspx"&gt;Nerve Confessions: Herpes&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/archive/2008/09/03/celebrity-confessions-the-queen.aspx"&gt;The Queen Confesses&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/archive/2008/09/02/sex-machine-the-arse-man-cometh.aspx"&gt;The Arse Man Cometh&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/archive/2008/09/01/sex-machine-the-ass-play-chronicles.aspx"&gt;The Ass Play Chronicles&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/archive/2008/08/31/sex-machine-the-sandwich-blowjob-porn-connection.aspx"&gt;The Sandwich Blowjob Porn Connection&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/archive/2008/08/30/pontifications-on-pontifications-on-the-bangin-of-ass.aspx"&gt;Bangin Ass&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/archive/2008/08/29/deformed-dicks.aspx"&gt;Deformed Dicks&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/archive/2008/08/29/sex-machine-did-i-really-dream-that.aspx"&gt;Did I really dream that?&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/archive/2008/08/27/Why-I-don_2700_t-date-celebrities.aspx"&gt;Why I don&amp;#39;t date Celebrities&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href="http://nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/archive/2008/08/27/fashionably-late-or-just-a-slacker.aspx"&gt;Fashionably late or just a slacker&lt;/a&gt;
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Well, sort of the Queen, but more like Helen Mirren.
An article in &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/sep/01/drugsandalcohol.drugstrade" title="The Guardian" target="_blank"&gt;The Guardian&lt;/a&gt; a few days back explained why she gave up snorting coke. She was quoted as saying:
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&amp;quot;And I read that in the paper, and all the cards fell into place and I saw how my little sniff of cocaine at a party had an absolute direct route to this fucking horrible man in South America. And from that day I never touched cocaine again. Until that moment I had never grasped the full horrifying structure of what brings coke to our parties in Britain.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;
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How honorable!!! Giving up hedonistic enjoyment to spare those poor child drug runners and to stop making a horrible man even richer! What a woman. Did she simultaneously switch to fair trade coffee and start recycling? Maybe a percentage of her earnings goes to poor Indian children?
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She was quoted in &lt;a href="http://www.gqmagazine.co.uk/Daily_News/default.aspx?sid=53142" title="GQ" target="_blank"&gt;GQ&lt;/a&gt; too. There, she said that she was was locked in a room and forced to have sex &lt;font color="#993366"&gt;&amp;quot;a couple of times&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt; during her college days but did not report the incidents because &lt;font color="#993366"&gt;&amp;quot;you couldn&amp;#39;t do that in those days&amp;quot;.
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&amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s such a tricky area, isn&amp;#39;t it? Especially if there is no violence,&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;I mean, look at Mike Tyson. I don&amp;#39;t think he was a rapist. I guess it is one of the many subtle parts of the men/women relationship that has to be negotiated and worked out between them.&amp;quot;
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She went on: &lt;font color="#993366"&gt;&amp;quot;I was [date-raped], yes. A couple of times.
&amp;quot;Not with excessive violence, or being hit, but rather being locked in a room and made to have sex against my will.&amp;quot;
&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The actress also explained that she &lt;font color="#993366"&gt;&amp;quot;loved coke&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt; [cocaine] during her younger days but stopped after learning of the drug-dealing success of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie.
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First of all, she was concerned about some nasty South American. Now she&amp;#39;s got her knickers in a twist about Klaus Barbie. The two quotes were all but interchangeable though. Does she think the two are connected?? Was Klaus on his holidays or something and set up a drug cartel because he was bored of making sand castles?
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(What is mind blowing is that if you google dear Klaus, the FIRST hit is Helen Mirren. Nothing to do with his Nazi war crimes, but all to do with some daft bint from England!)
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But forget about the drug thing, what about the date rape thing?! Oh yes Hels, date rape is most certainly one of those little subtle nuances of behaviour between the male and the female. Oh yes indeedy.
What a tool.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
And let&amp;#39;s not forget, way back when, that HM got her kit off in those Peter Greenaway movies. She claimed over and over again that she only embraced nudity in film if it was central to the theme and not in any way gratuitous.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I don&amp;#39;t care about celebrity behaviour. It makes no difference to my life. It just irritates me when their baser instincts are elevated to celebrity status also. Like, I gave up doing drugs because it was affecting my work and I couldn&amp;#39;t afford to get fired. She did it for the greater good.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Her ludicrous confessions are the latest in a long long line though. Remember these?
&lt;font color="#993366"&gt;&amp;quot;I tried marijuana once, I did not inhale.&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;  Well then, dear Bill, that was a bit of a waste of effort wasn&amp;#39;t it?
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
or
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color="#993366"&gt;
&amp;quot;I did not have sexual relations with that woman.&amp;quot; &lt;/font&gt;Again, barely worth the scandal if you&amp;#39;re not even going to get your end away.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Why can&amp;#39;t Mirren just fess up and say &lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&amp;quot;I like getting stoned, I like getting laid and I like getting my tits out for the lads&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt; and be done with it. And why couldn&amp;#39;t Bill simply have said &lt;font color="#ff0000"&gt;&amp;quot;I get stoned to cope with Hilary who happens to be a man and that&amp;#39;s why I fucked Monica&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt; and we would have all just said &amp;quot;of course you had to Bill, it would&amp;#39;ve been rude not to.&amp;quot;
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Here endeth my celebrity confession.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
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Read more about &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/archive/2008/09/02/sex-machine-the-arse-man-cometh.aspx"&gt;The Arse Man Cometh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

Or check out &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/archive/2008/09/01/sex-machine-the-ass-play-chronicles.aspx"&gt;The Ass Play Chronicles&lt;/a&gt;
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Or maybe the &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/archive/2008/08/31/sex-machine-the-sandwich-blowjob-porn-connection.aspx"&gt;sandwich blow job porn connection
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
And whilst you&amp;#39;re there &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/archive/2008/08/30/pontifications-on-pontifications-on-the-bangin-of-ass.aspx"&gt;a little ass bangin&amp;#39;?&lt;/a&gt;
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Or perhaps &lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/archive/2008/08/29/deformed-dicks.aspx"&gt;tickle your fancy?
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&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/date-machine/archive/2008/08/29/sex-machine-did-i-really-dream-that.aspx"&gt;Did I really dream that?&lt;/a&gt;
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