Labour MP swallows urban legend

[NickFitz]

Actually, what has happened is that some manufacturer has picked up on the urban legend and started selling packs of these bracelets, marketed specifically to schoolkids, which include a key stating which sex act corresponds to which colour... pretty disgusting, but that's capitalists for you

There was a piece on Radio 4 news the other day about it, talking to a mother who was asked to buy them by her 9 year old, it being the latest playground craze.

I liked the twelve-year old girl they interviewed who said "All the fuss is just over-protective parents - it's just a joke, nobody's actually gonna do that stuff"

[NotAllThere]

If any of us boys had gone up to any of the girls in my school and said "Hey, you're wearing a black bracelet - that means if I ask, you have to shag me", we'd have carried our teeth home in a paperbag.

Guess I went to the wrong type of school.

Those who were putting it about didn't need the bracelets.

[Pondlife]

Don't christian virgin types wear special "I'm not going to have sex" rings? So just look for somebody not wearing one of those and you're good to go.

If you want a ring to signify you're not having sex, you should just get married like the rest of us.




(c) Marcus Briggstocke

[VectraMan]

Don't christian virgin types wear special "I'm not going to have sex" rings? So just look for somebody not wearing one of those and you're good to go.

[TimberWolf]

The Daily Mash has a piece about how children should be raised in the 1950s, but sadly it's not funny enough to be worth providing a link here. No doubt in the 1950s they thought the 1900s were better than the promiscuous 1950s.

Haven't rings been used to signify 'this is my shagging partner so hands off', for millennia? And isn't there some secret code about which finger and which hand in some countries - e.g. left hand means shagging but no long term commitment yet (i.e. engaged but not married). And no ring means you are anybody's?

[Moscow Mule]

Good idea. Sent to Guido.

I was watching The Wright Stuff* last week - they were all outraged...




*I know, there's nothing else on at that time of day whilst WFH...

[NotAllThere]

Send it to Guido or oldhoborn - they love this sort of stuff.

Good idea. Sent to Guido.

[RichardCranium]

It looks like a spoof web site. Especially the last line:

"Mary has also written to Lord Mandelson and Children's Secretary Ed Balls."

At least it wasn't Lord Adonis (what a ******).

If this had appeared a few years ago we'd have said it was made up.

[TimberWolf]

How come these weren't available when I was at school?

[Zippy]

I know a lot of apparently smart people who fall for this kind of stuff.

[DimPrawn]

I thought this was a thread about a Labour MP becoming a porn star.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Send it to Guido or oldhoborn - they love this sort of stuff.

[NotAllThere]

Compare this with http://www.snopes.com/risque/school/bracelet.asp.

Silly bint.