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Students using bracelets as sexual signals

The multicolored set of plastic bracelets many Palm Beach County middle and high school students are sporting these days aren't just a fashionable fad. At some schools, boys and girls snap off one of their classmate's colored gel wrist bands in exchange for a corresponding sexual favor, health department officials told school board members Monday. For example, a person wearing a white band may mean she is willing to give a kiss to the person who pulls it from her wrist. A red band means a lap dance and black is intercourse. The meanings may vary from school to school, and students are wearing them countywide, health officials said.
"There's a lot of things going on out there that we don't know about," said a Health Department spokesman.
"This is frightening. This is absolutely frightening," a school board member’s said.

Oh my muthafuckin god, Ethel, close the shades and bar the door, high school kids be a fuckin, and they’re using semaphore. Teenagers have been trying to figure out how to fuck each other every since Adam and Eve figured out that a pussy wasn’t for hauling firewood. It’s like a goddamn teenage national pastime. Instead of freaking out and screaming hell and damnation, why not educate, educate, educate. And throwing condoms at em by the thousands wouldn’t hurt either.



Wal-Mart is selling the world's first DVD player that can seamlessly skip over violence, swearing, nudity and other potentially offensive movie content. The $79 unit features technology by ClearPlay and is manufactured by Thomson Inc. under its RCA brand.
The product comes in the wake of the Super Bowl halftime controversy as well as the FCC fining Clear Channel for indecent content on "The Howard Stern Show." But ClearPlay CEO Bill Aho said the timing is coincidental. It's just fortunate," he said. "There is a lot of interest and sensitivity around the topic of potentially offensive media content."


Consumers can play any DVD in these units in the usual manner. In addition, however, they can activate a variety of different filtering levels that work according to ClearPlay's preprogramming. The player filtering works only on selected titles; it has no effect on movies that it has not been preprogrammed to handle, but for those it doesn't recognize, it has the capability to completely block movies based on their rating. The sophisticated process is rather like very smoothly fast-forwarding and muting the original movie as it plays back. The DVD remains unchanged and unharmed.
Aho said that is an essential distinction between ClearPlay and fellow defendants named in the pending suit, because others provide consumers with a copy of a physically edited DVD or VHS movie. ClearPlay offers several settings in four categories of filtering -- violence, language, sex/nudity and explicit drug use -- with the user able to choose any combination. For example, the language setting can range from irreligious exclamations to ethnic slurs to graphic phrases used as profanity. Demonstrating a low violence setting, Aho showed a scene from "The Patriot." The viewer sees a soldier firing a rifle at an enemy followed by Mel Gibson's character turning away in dismay: ClearPlay eliminates the close-up of the bullet's impact and blood spurting from the wound. Aho said ClearPlay tries to program popular movies that contain elements people might be uncomfortable seeing or allowing their children to see. "About a Boy," "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines," "When Harry Met Sally," "Zoolander," "As Good as It Gets" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" are among the movies with available filters.

He added that ClearPlay will not offer titles that cannot be edited in a way that retains their sensibility, such as "Saving Private Ryan," "Schindler's List" or "The Passion of the Christ."

Each RCA unit comes with 100 filters. Additional filters can be purchased from ClearPlay's Web site for $4.95 per month or $49 per year. Movies more than 90 days old are less expensive at $20 for as many filters as the customer wants during a three-year period. Once a filter is installed it is permanently in the player.

If I kind’a close one eye whilst squinting at the sun with the other one and at the same time lifting my right leg and peeing into the wind, I can almost see this one. But really, it’s a fucking DVD player playin fucking DVD’s that you fuckin rent or buy from the fuckin DVD store. And if you look at the back of the fuckin DVD it clearly gives you a description of what the fuckin DVD’s about along with a MPAA rating of anywhere from G to R. A muthafucker doesn’t have to be a fuckin Rhoads Scholar to maybe figure out that the muthafuckerin DVD might have shit that the little meat beaters shouldn’t be seeing. I see it as just another mechanical babysitter for parents too fuckin lazy to tell their kids that they shouldn’t be seeing certain shit on the TV. So instead of showing them the back of their hand and doling out the discipline, they instead buy a DVD player that cuts out the naughty bits. All in all it just seem like something stupid, but I’m sure I’ll have some parent tell me that I’m off my fuckin nut.



Tammy Lynn Michaels weighs in on that Madonna-Britney Spears smooch. “I thought it was cheap,” Melissa Etheridge’s sweetie told Steppin’ Out magazine. “It was a slap in the face to me. It was blackfacing lesbians. It’s not titillating for me. I found it boring and contrite . . . . Real lesbians just rolled their eyes at it. It was like wearing parachute pants five years after they’ve already been out.”

Some “real” lesbians should just concentrate on eating pussy and shut the fuck up and leave the “real” issues to the lesbians with a clue. Plus whats the big issue if you eat pussy full or part time that rags so many lesbains out? I'd think as long as a chick was batting on the same team amature or pro, she'd be welcome in the clubhouse. Fuck, do what the guy's do and shit. "A man can build a thousand bridges and he's known worldwide as a builder of bridges. But let that same man suck one cock, and for the rest of his life he's a cocksucker.

gbeck@kc.rr.com