Posted on 04/26/2006 10:48:25 AM PDT by ChessMan
S.F. using text messages to get sex advice to teens
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Call it shorthand sex ed for the text message generation.
San Francisco health officials have started using text messaging this week to direct safe sex advice to teenagers.
Teens text the phrase "sexinfo" to one of two health department phone numbers.
Within seconds, they get a reply asking them to desribe their question.
The automated responses include how to handle a condom breaking and responding to peer pressure about sex.
Messages are written in the shorthand style teens prefer for texting, and most end with the phone numbers and hours of nearby clinics.
Health officials say that teens prefer the method's privacy for asking intimate questions.
The program will cost 25-hundred dollars a month.
It is modeled after a similar program in London.
This is ripe for mockery.
Teen: "omg my bf deosnt no how u put on a cnodom how do u do it lol"
Text: "wtf ur bf is teh n00b XD lol k lisen u put teh cnodom in ur mouth n tehn u ptu it ovar teh end of his wang rofflecopter!1!!!1!11!11one!111!eleven!11!!!!"
Hahaha...awesome. u r0x0rs.
lol kthxbi
I'm not trying to be cynical or bashing here, maybe somebody can explain texting's popularity to me?
Within seconds, they get a reply asking them to desribe their question.
Within hours they get propositioned by at least four 'gay' adults via text message
u rit so good! omg im soo jealus!!1
lol bc talking with ur mouth is 4 n00bs!1!!!!!!111! teh kewl kdis all uz teh textin rofl
O_O omg i no
hunter dosnt txt? he suxs!
I don't know, I've never used it. I can't type on the telephone keypad anyways!
Hilarious! Well done.
Will they also give history lessons? Here's my favorite:
If world war II was a game.
*Hitler[AoE] has joined the game.*
*Eisenhower has joined the game.*
*paTTon has joined the game.*
*MacRthr has joined the game. *
*Churchill has joined the game.*
*benny-tow has joined the game.*
*T0J0 has joined the game.*
*Roosevelt has joined the game.*
*Stalin has joined the game.*
*deGaulle has joined the game.*
Roosevelt: hey sup
T0J0: y0
Stalin: hi
Churchill: hi
Hitler[AoE]: cool, i start with panzer tanks!
paTTon: lol more like panzy tanks
T0JO: lol
Roosevelt: o this ****in sucks i got a depression!
benny-tow: haha america sux
Stalin: hey hitler you dont fight me i dont fight u, cool?
Hitler[AoE]; sure whatever
Stalin: cool
deGaulle: shit Hitler rushed some1 help
Hitler[AoE]: lol byebye frenchy
Roosevelt: i dont got shit to help, sry
Churchill: wtf the luftwaffle is attacking me
Roosevelt: get antiair guns
Churchill: i cant afford them
benny-tow: u n00bs know what team talk is?
paTTon: stfu
Roosevelt: o yah hit the navajo button guys
deGaulle: eisenhower ur worthless come help me quick
Eisenhower: i cant do shit til rosevelt gives me an army
paTTon: yah hurry the **** up
Churchill: d00d im gettin pounded
deGaulle: this is ****in weak u guys suck
*deGaulle has left the game.*
Roosevelt: im gonna attack the axis k?
benny-tow: with what? ur wheelchair?
benny-tow: lol did u mess up ur legs AND ur head?
Hitler[AoE]: ROFLMAO
T0J0: lol o no america im comin 4 u
Roosevelt: wtf! thats bullshit u fags im gunna kick ur asses
T0JO: not without ur harbors u wont! lol
Roosevelt: u little ***** ill get u
T0J0: mac i'm totally kicking ur ass
MacRthr: BRB AFK
Hitler[AoE]: wtf
Hitler[AoE]: america hax, u had depression and now u got a huge ****in army
Hitler[AoE]: thats bullshit u hacker
Churchill: lol no more france for u hitler
Hitler[AoE]: tojo help me!
T0J0: wtf u want me to do, im on the other side of the world retard
Hitler[AoE]: fine ill clear you a path
Stalin: WTF u asshoel! WE HAD A ****IN TRUCE
Hitler[AoE]: i changed my mind lol
benny-tow: haha
benny-tow: hey ur losing ur guys in africa im gonna need help in italy soon sum1
T0J0: o shit i cant help u i got my hands full
Hitler[AoE]: im 2 busy 2 help
Roosevelt: yah thats right ***** im comin for ya
Stalin: church help me
Churchill: like u helped me before? sure ill just sit here
Stalin: dont be an ass
Churchill: dont be a commie. oops too late
Eisenhower: LOL
benny-tow: hahahh oh shit help
Hitler: o man ur ****ed
paTTon: oh what now *****
Roosevelt: whos the cripple now lol
*benny-tow has been eliminated.*
benny-tow: lame
Roosevelt: gj patton
paTTon: thnx
Hitler[AoE]: WTF eisenhower hax hes killing all my shit
Hitler[AoE]: quit u hacker so u dont ruin my record
Eisenhower: Nuts!
benny~tow: wtf that mean?
Eisenhower: meant to say nutsack lol finger slipped
paTTon: coming to get u hitler u paper hanging hun
lol
I can see it now.....
teen desperately dialing *SEXINFO* !!!
HELLO HELLO !?!
you've GOT to help me!!! i'm in the middle of sex... and the condom just BROKE !!!!!
OMG !! what am I supposed to DO !!!!!!!!!!!
HELP me PLEASE !!
ROFL!
on the plus side, Text messages cost ten cents.
so if you monitor your kids bills, you'll see these.
Whoever the powers that be shall ever feel compelled to nuke. The roots of evil will survive unless one Mutha of all bombs is saved for San Francisco.
LOL! "Take a Liquid Plumber Dusche and call us........Oh, uh...you are a guy......Make that a Liquid Plumber enema........... " " "
"I just never "got" text messaging, it seems to me, if you have a cell phone in your hands, why not just talk to the person you want to communicate with? Why go through the hassle of a tiny pseudo-keyboard to send information?
I'm not trying to be cynical or bashing here, maybe somebody can explain texting's popularity to me?"
They text so they don't have to say their messages aloud in front of teachers and parents.
works well in theaters, at work, places where you get spotty reception, or allows you to hold multiple conversations at a time. kinda like having multiple chat windows up, or for us old school chatters.. multiple ewtoo windows, while talking to someone else in the same room.
i use this alot when working in the bar, where i can hold a conversation with my wife, without it cutting into my productivity, just text when i have a second.
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