Here in the UK*, the nation's favorite one-handed newspapers regularly contain relationship advice that is portrayed in picture form. Obviously, these hilariously scripted columns are simply another excuse for tabloid editors to meet their monthly quota of exposed female flesh, and would usually line our cat's litter tray as a result, but this recent column from the News of the World made us chuckle, as it heavily features the Wii and Wii Sports.
Anyway, the story so far: we've learned that young couple Ash and Mel are in a crisis. Young Ash up there is apparently declining Mel's amorous advances in favor of boxing on the Wii, so Mel did what any rational individual would do with their relationship on the rocks: she wrote to a national newspaper to explain her problem and have it presented to millions of readers in pictures.
Want to see how they ended up and what conclusions agony aunt "Jane" reached? Then click the image above or hit up the "Read" link below (it's NSFW, naturally), and see for yo -- you've already gone, haven't you? Hello?
* From what my colleagues tell me, U.S. papers don't carry such features. But then they read nice, respectable newspapers.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
5-06-2008 @ 10:41PM
CJLopez said...
Answer to this predicamment:
Get a girlfriend who really likes videogames!!!!! Like I did!!!!!
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5-06-2008 @ 11:19PM
SoshiKitai said...
Or just get video games that like girlfriends......
..........no wait... what?
5-06-2008 @ 10:47PM
TheOverlord#2 can has Mario Karts?(MK:2578-3517-9859) said...
Bow-chicka-wow-wow?
:P
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5-06-2008 @ 10:57PM
Jared said...
brilliant.
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5-06-2008 @ 11:45PM
Jake said...
Did the ceiling just fall on my head or something, because I feel dizzy?
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5-07-2008 @ 1:58AM
RupeeClock said...
The idiot is holding the nun-chuck and wiimote backwards until the last frame.
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5-07-2008 @ 12:13PM
Duo said...
Ever heard of left-handed boxing?
5-07-2008 @ 12:15PM
RupeeClock said...
Incidentally, you missed the part where he was holding them the other way around in the last panel.
5-07-2008 @ 4:09PM
Mr Khan said...
You have my first-ever weblogs inc avatar, Duo
Never thought i'd see it again
5-07-2008 @ 2:03AM
Spekkio said...
Ha! Like we have respectable newspapers in the United States. Pfft.
This recalls the beginning of Kevin Smith's Mallrats - "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for Sega."
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5-07-2008 @ 2:47AM
MarMar said...
the remark was tongue-in-cheek; he wasn't actually advocating that American papers were nice or respectable...
5-07-2008 @ 2:57AM
Ethan said...
I think trying to bring back the phrase "stud-muffin" is admirable.
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5-07-2008 @ 4:17AM
velocitystrike said...
It's so bloody pathetic, this. It makes me want to vomit over ever copt of NOTW I see. In fact, that's my plan.
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5-07-2008 @ 4:18AM
velocitystrike said...
Eek, I meant "copy", clearly.
5-07-2008 @ 10:32AM
danny. said...
tried strip wii bowling with the ex back around launch... it wasn't as much fun as drinking bowling and didn't become a habit, but would be at least some way to mitigate the needs.
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5-07-2008 @ 5:48PM
AshStampede said...
the problem isnt he is addicted to wii sports, its that the real "mel" does not look like that model. Living in the UK and not being from here our girls in north america are way hotter.
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5-07-2008 @ 9:28PM
Pan said...
The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal until Murdoch... I'd take that over your Daily Mail any day.
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