It's crazy how many distractions there are for kids nowadays!! I think I would have a different education if I had access to texting, closed captioned TVs, internet, video games and etc. I would have trouble concentrating on school if I had many distractions. I resorted to books when I didn't have a TV that came with captions, a cell phone, and computer when growing up. I think I was 14 when I got my captions device, 17 for a computer and so on. I did get my first Nintendo when I was 9 though. No wonder why my sister is doing poorly in school because she likes to watch TV, talk on her phone and surf the internet.
This is what I was going to say should be allowed. Nice to know something like this exists. Anything beyond this and you're looking for trouble... or well, huge bills. lol.
after 9/11, parents are on the winning end of the 'no cell phones in school' argument. but schools try their best to enforce the rules and keep the phones in the backpacks. kids these days are LOST in their cell phones/texting worlds. they keep each other informed during the day, it's like an underground network where you can send love notes, assignment updates, threatening messages, etc. it's this generations' version of passing notes in class. I work afterschool and have to continue to enforce the school rules. sometimes it's just Mom telling the kid to go out front to get picked up. but most of the times they are warning each other that I am right around the corner and they better stop making out with each other... In my perfect world, all cell phones would be disabled the minute you enter a classroom or an automobile. it just shuts off.
Yeah, me and my coworker, who has sex with insects, and has a cube right next to mine, were both trying to figure that one out.
I thought the joke was pretty obvious (and hilarious). ...unless i'm reading too much into this and that wasn't actually a joke, but a very awkward appositive.
yeah I got it, the woman and man symbols on the phone. But first I thought, does he have sex with his mom and dad?
Well, I'd prefer to think it was an awkward appositive, only because that would make it funnier, but alas...I think you're probably right. I missed the joke because I didn't really look closely at the phone. Either way, props to Roxfan73 for having such a dry delivery that I didn't even get it.
If I ran the Hangout, I would see to it that this became the new running joke (of 'ride ride' and 'hispanic?' fame). Newest Fatty thread: 'Just got a weird text from Dean in midtown, who has a strange elbow fetish, to meet him and his group up later in the night.'
I agree. Let’s hope that Clutch, who has a somewhat disturbing fixation with movies about gladiators, and also moderates this bbs, will make it happen
back to the OP though when i have a kid no way he or she will be getting a cell phone until they are in high school and only then will it be how responsible they are. i got my first cell phone back in late 99 when i started my senior year of high school it was one of those nokia ones everyone had. i dont think text messages were even in use then.
My brother went through this with his 15 yr old son. It was like $500 over the normal bill. Then he just got unlimited texting.
Well, apparently my little sister regularly hits 10,000 messages, but she does have unlimited text. She barely uses any minutes. I got my first cell phone when I was 14 ('03). I ran up a $500 bill, because I didn't know IM's weren't included in unlimited text back then. My mom paid it and took away my phone, but I paid her back. It took a year before she trusted me with another phone.
