i know you’ve got to call your airline loyalty points scheme something but i resent the suggestion that i am “collecting virgin points”
@pisscotheque maybe it implies you're cracking 30 year old virgins somehow
@georgespolitzer how can i sign up to this
@pisscotheque sadly you have to luck into a Steve carrell situation. maybe try the Warhammer night?

@pisscotheque All I can think of is worse ways of saying this now.

Virgin Miles/Milege
Virigin Rewards
Virgin Credits

They all sound like something a repressive school would give students

@pisscotheque My ISP is called Virgin, so my wifi is called VIRGIN7342 or whatever. I'm afraid people will get the wrong idea about me, so I really should change it to "abstinence is cool"
@renardboy @pisscotheque
that's cool. they should say you're collecting "abstinence is cool" points
@floppyplopper @renardboy @pisscotheque
I read it as Absinth is cool...
@drchaos @renardboy @pisscotheque
incorrect. absinth drinkers are the dullest people on the planet
@floppyplopper @renardboy @pisscotheque It still had me confused for a bit...

@renardboy @pisscotheque

I am really weirded out by how many companies are called Virgin in English-speaking countries. The only German one with the same meaning I ever shopped at was JungfrauPlus (predictably a sex shop). In English-speaking countries they seem to be everywhere.

@blind_mapmaker @renardboy @pisscotheque That's what happens when a record shop diversifies into having a record label and gets really lucky when the first LP that they release sells 15 million copies*

Thereafter Virgin Radio, Virgin as an ISP, Virgin Money, Virgin Atlantic the airline, Virgin Trains, and so on, pretty much all from Richard Branson even though he sold many of them off when a new project caught his fancy

*The LP in question was an instrumental called Tubular Bells, back in 1972

@pisscotheque The most unsettling part is that, considering the folks involved in the history of the airline and its genesis as just an airline to fly businessmen between London and the Falkland Islands,,,
@pisscotheque I'm sure every university halls of residence for freshers was known as "the Virgin Megastore" for several decades.
@pisscotheque They should rebrand them to Mile High Club Points.
@pisscotheque I kinda want to know what you get when you cash in your virgin points, but I also don’t wanna know…

@pisscotheque alright, fine, we'll can or something else.
How about "cherries?"

(Like Pac-Man)