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crazy!
Enough SAID
Don’t let old people without it little girls
:D:D
dont let little girls go after older man.
to be honest she started flirting with me
Don’t You all young ladies believe in magic….. ?
Thank heaven for little girls.
WTF?! Did the Trolls win? Dammit! I thought this straw house would hold them!
*loads up acid cannon*
Yeah, the Trolls won.
They came running in here with their chubby little naked bodies with their bright colored hair sticking straight up. A bunch of older men had sex with them because they hadn’t ever been exposed to this sign, and now the comments on this page are filled with nothing but videos of Ronald McDonald again.
If you stop schoolgirls stop doing it with older men they’ll never get written into the will.
Why yes, we believe the magic athame will poof your dick!
This probably has is put up in a one of the countries that have working men that believe that sex with virgins will cure their Aids. This does happen in Africa right now, so I doubt this sign is as much fail as you think it is.
Um…they don’t speak english in those countries (at least the native population doesn’t anyway). And the car in the picture is driving on the right side of the road (majority of African countries don’t)…
South Africa much? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa#Languages
The original point was that it might be Africa because 1.) it’s pertaining to AIDS and 2.) Because of poor awareness on the spread of AIDS there. Suggesting that it could be South Africa because it’s written in English completely nullifies the reason anyone suspected it could be Africa in the first place, because this is not the case in the South half of the continent. So could it be South Africa? Of course. Is it likely? No.
This issue is actually a serious problem in some African metropolitan cities (and likely elsewhere too). English is a second language that is spoken in many of these places. Whether this sign is from here or abroad, as goofy as the sign may look, it’s not an issue that should be taken lightly. This should be taken down from this site – I love failblog, but this is one thing that is really not actually a joke.
You’re actually not a joke.
I don’t really see how this sign is a fail either, to be honest.
1. There is nothing remotely funny about it.
2. It is probably in a South African city or a city in a similar country with an AIDS problem.
Not a fail. But rather, it is a win. An EPIC win.
Are you serious? You can’t tell? I’ll help you out some. You can get aids for any person of any age.
As someone who actually works in HIV prevention (and has for over 20 years) I’m calling this a FAIL. It fails dismally in the realm of social marketing. It looks like a bad ad campaign from the 1960s, but isn’t kitchy enough to be retro. It screams public morality as the framework for the message (rather than youth empowerment), guaranteeing that no adolescent or teenager would give it more than a brief glance and a tired, exaggerated eyeroll. My colleagues and I snort and sigh over how useless it is. It sux. Total FAIL.
I believe the fail here is that AIDS (and the other things listed) are not only given by older men. The sign implies that girls are guaranteed to get these things if they have sex with older men, but has nothing to say about having sex with guys their age.
Yes, AIDS is not only given by older men, but in some of these countries you have older men trying to pay young girls for sex and hanging out around schools and stuff. There is a reason why the old men targeting schoolgirls is a particular issue.
yes…thank you for explaining the joke. how kind of you…
Yeah, public health win.
Everyone keeps saying this isn’t a fail and should be taken down. I don’t think its about the fact that its a poster about older men giving aids to younger girls, I thought it was just the fact that it mentions they could give her “Illegitimate Children” was the fail, seeing as it doesn’t matter who’s doing it with who or weather its concented, but the children wouldn’t be illegitimate, it would still be biological’
So no, I don’t think this fail should be taken down, it may be a on a poster of a sensitive and serious subject matter, but so is alot of things on Fail Blog and other such forums. If you feel this fail offends you then just move on to another fail.
AIDS miseducation is a massive problem in the country with the highest incidence rate of AIDS in the world. Pssst, it’s South Africa. The last president, Thabo Mbeki, believed that AIDS was not caused by HIV and was a Western conspiracy concocted against Africa. The current president, Jacob Zuma, testified during a rape trial that immediately after having consensual sex with the plaintiff (who has AIDS), he showered to decrease the risk of transmission. Anything reasonably accurate pertaining to AIDS would be very welcome South Africa.
agreed. is not a fail and is not funny.
p.s. FYI Nigeria also speaks English (of a sort) and AIDS is a serious problem there.
This sign is in the Bahamas. I’ve seen it many times there before and I recognize the buildings in the background. There IS actually an issue of older men hanging around high schools looking to get laid and one of the major problems is that many people don’t see anything wrong with it. I don’t see any fail here.
Thank you! I don’t see a damn thing wrong with this poster. Sorry to disillusion you, but we have creeps that troll poorer neighborhoods here in the US and try to lure young girls into their cars for $20 a go. I’m talking 12 year old kids in school uniforms, people.
I wish our schools would speak as frankly as this to girls, then 70% of black and 40% of white births in my state wouldn’t be illegitimate ( no data on Hispanic, sorry ).
I believe the highest rate of increase in AIDS in the US is among rural young women. Was the last I checked.
If the truth is offensive, let’s solve the problem.
Highest increase in AIDS cases is in blak females between ages 18-26
If only they had a cardboard sign to take the place of responsible parenting and instilling of values! That and a letter c.
This is not funny and should be taken down. Young girls under a year old are raped in South Africa daily as some men mistakenly believe that sex with a virgin cures Aids. This is sick as far as any African is concerned.
so what was it suppose to do with the age? i mean, stop older men from dating school girls? i dont think that it is not directly pertaining to africa because the illustration there was clearly not africans there. ^^
Its is a picture of an African man and an African school child – she is wearing school uniform.
These men rape the girls to get cured of Aids.
AE, I’m sorry that you are too ignorant to realize a lot of Americans are stupid. (Therefore proving my point)
Both the people in the poster are white.
Um…they speak english in most african countries champ…
Um….yes they do. Or at least they did when I lived in 3 different countries in southern Africa (not South Africa itself–but 3 countries in the southern part of Africa). English is the official language (or one of several official languages) of many African countries. This is partly because there are so many “native” (try “indigenous” to sound less like a cultural elitist) languages spoken throughout some of these countries that English is a common language. The official language status means that all government, business and schools are conducted in English. So most people speak it as a first language (along with another language) or as a second language at least.
Pick up a book someday, moron.
Yup, lots of English in Africa:
In some countries where English is not the most spoken language, it is an official language; these countries include Botswana, Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, the Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
It is also one of the 11 official languages that are given equal status in South Africa (South African English).
South Africa is or was colonized by England I believe….
People in Africa don’t speak English? Do you live in your mother’s basement with no TV or something?
And the image of the car is a REFLECTION, so it’s flipped. It is indeed on the left side of the road.
Brian below is just as big an idiot. Apparently it’s never occurred to him that buildings and street layouts in small American towns might resemble those in small towns in other countries.
You can tell that is an small American town by the reflection.
You can tell that is a small American town by the reflection.
The sign is a bit silly, but the point it makes is not. Older men take advantage of girls who aren’t old enough to make rational decisions.
watch pozart.wordpress.com
awwww first?
don’t get so negative be HIV postive
Win!
nice response
Enough S-AIDS
No.
Oh cmon!
I had no idea AIDS was transimtted via large white cards.
Or a tounch on the arm
We can’t really see where his other arm is touching, so it could be a number of places.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUNGER WOMEN CAN GIVE YOU?’
• A child you never wanted. (You wore a condom you say? Well, she had different ideas that started with a sewing needle!)
• A judge ordering you to give 75% of your wages as child support.
• An extremely pissed off father with a collection of Semi-Automatics.
• Jail time. She told you she was 18? Well guess what ? 2 years in the slammer says shes not!
STOP SCHOOLGIRLS HAVING SEX WITH OLDER MEN
Just got out and went back to your shotgun wife, sweety?
Aw, Michael, are you still pissed cause that 13 year old’s mom turned you in?
Gotta watch those tweens, they just sneak up on you when you least expect it! What’s a poor pedophile to do??
Apparently they can also give older men Parkinson’s.
What? Stop looking at me like that!
Okay fine, that was in bad taste.
*limps in screaming incoherently*
*feels the need to eat something living*
*finds the perfect victim*
*tackles MJF and rips out MJF’s jugular with his teeth*
*violently rips MJF to shreds, making a horrifying mess*
*consumes the contents of the cranium anyway, despite what it contains*
*leaves a nightmarish bloody mess behind as a warning to others*
*limps off screaming wildly*
*watches everything carefully*
*waits patiently for the zombie musical to begin*
*hopes there will be dancing as well*
Blah. That can be fixed by older guys liking women instead of stupid lil young things …
Oh puh-lease! If you don’t whip it out for a school kid you don’t have to worry about the sewing needle threat. Lets not try and give rapists the power, okay? Not to mention girls that are exploited by pimping parents and siblings. The grown-up is supposed to be responsible enough to keep the hormones in check and find out who they’re banging. Idiot.
What does this mean, really? I’ve never heard of a needle threat.
Or the evil eye.
“K@ the custard platypus” did you make the cake in the pic below this fail LOL
*limps in screaming incoherently*
*feels the need to eat something living*
*finds another perfect victim*
*tackles bt and rips out bt’s jugular with his teeth*
*violently rips bt to shreds, making a horrifying mess*
*consumes the contents of the cranium anyway, despite what it contains*
*leaves a nightmarish bloody mess behind as a warning to others*
*limps off screaming wildly*
Zombie Apocalypsy…. being straight fail
This ad is only telling the truth. I should know — I’m an expert.
And the solution? To ban things like Viagra, or at least to make a female equivalent.
Wouldn’t the female equivalent of Viagra be Astroglide?
Or a roofie?
LOL, WIN.
This is not funny you moron. Girsl younger than a year old get raped as men mistakenly believe having sex with a virgin cures them of Aids
Mouse, ya made me laugh. ^^
…nothing else on here did.
Ruh-roh, Rorge!
*runs like he!! on treadmill*
There’s so much we can get from the elder generation. We should respect and treat them properly.
Older generation* or elderly*
I messed that sentence up.
nah, it works the way it is.
…but on the plus side, they’re quite generous when it comes to giving out sweets…
*wink*
giggidy
Oh yeah, lets sugar coat the stds
Hmmm, well yes…
I’m boycotting this fail. If anybody wants to talk to me, look for me on the last fail, or wait until the next one.
*blames brain for not waking up*
I am coming with you Gracie.
I’m with you. I voted against this “fail”.
*leaves*
I agree. This fail is a fail.
I’ve lived in many countries with signs like these. This is NOT a fail. The fail is a fail, as you’ve said. I join the boycott!
This is absolutely NOT a fail. Even if it was, it is not remotely funny.
Why is this a fail? Did an “older man” submit this one?
no pedobear did, he want to have all the schoolgirls
Ow, i know, he’s bagging all of them, we need to something…
And puppies and diamonds.
♪♫Diamonds are a girl’s best friend…♪♫
It’s a funny sign but I hardly consider this a “fail” by failblog’s standards…
:rolleyes::rolleyes:
Crap, it didn’t work.
All I got was candy.
Awww….that’s sad
Was the window made of wood?
AIDS AND DEATH!!
…are two ways in which I want you to piss off. Seriously.
*limps in screaming incoherently*
*feels the need to eat something living*
*finds yet another perfect victim*
*tackles the imposter troll and rips out the troll’s jugular with his teeth*
*violently rips the troll to shreds, making a horrifying mess*
*consumes the contents of the cranium anyway, despite what it contains*
*leaves a nightmarish bloody mess behind as a warning to others*
*limps off screaming wildly*
*limps in screaming incoherently*
*feels the need to eat something living*
*finds yet another perfect victim*
*tackles the annoying zombie guy and rips out the zombie’s jugular with his teeth*
*violently rips the troll to shreds, making a horrifying mess*
*consumes the contents of the cranium anyway, despite what it contains*
*leaves a nightmarish bloody mess behind as a warning to others*
*limps off screaming wildly*
*walks in quietly*
*sees phoenix*
*promply slices phoenix in half with katana*
*leaves*
Its trolls like you who piss everyone off trying to insult the regulars of FAIL Blog.
I love you zombie apocalypse…”limps off looking for fellow zombies”
And In 50’s world Fake ID has never been concieved of.
Second!
Come on – Does anyone really think a schoolgirl would be a willing participant? Most girls have a natural aversion to sexual attention from older men, regardless of their education. Whoever’s behind this campaign has either been taking fantasy porn too seriously, or else girls in (which country is this?) are remarkably gullible.
there are countries in which it is thought preferable to wed a young girl to an older man – congo is one, cambodia has been another inteh past, but I think that culture is changing.
Just FYI…
My age: mid 30’s
My girl: School girl… but 100% legal at half my age.
Is she a willing participant: Oh God yes. Yes she is.
In fact, in my opinion, most teenage girls prefer older men. Maturity and financial security are very attractive things.
You sad man lol
Um, when a girl can’t afford food, and an older man offers her food for sex, it becomes more tempting. There are dozens of countries in the world with signs like these, and they are needed, NOT a FAIL.
That in some reality the sign would be necessary to make is a fail.
Whose responsibility is it to teach children about sex and its consequences?
A) the childrens’ parents
b) schools
c) cardboard signs in shop windows
d) sexual predators
e) Fox News
*hesitantly looks at options while holding finger over “d”* … er… *puts finger over “a”* but that wouldn’t be funny… *magically hacks and puts down a sixth choice*
f) The voices in their heads
*chooses option “f”* I was told I could get new friends by having sex with girls OwO
Mouse, if a child isn’t taught by their parents (who may actually be the predator) about responsible sex, than I would think any source for information that saves their health, well-being and potentially their life is valid and necessary. Even signs in a shop window.
My great grandmother was 13 when she got married and I don’t believe 18 before she gave birth to her first child. But that was damned near a century ago. It was commonplace in those days. Hopefully we’ve learned better since the common cause of death before the mid-1900’s for young women was complications of childbirth because their reproductive systems weren’t capable of carrying a child to term and vaginal delivery. All because they were encouraged to marry well and start pumping out babies. So their husbands would have free farmhands. Ugh!
Some are sadly very willing very early in life. Most seem to have a daddy complex, come from a single mom family. Others are aware early that their bodies can buy them lots of goodies. I think it is mostly lack of self respect.
There are signs like this all over the place in the Bahamas.
And the sign is not 100% incorrect — it is possible that an older man could give a girl AIDS / HIV.
not 100% incorrect?!? is that a double negative?
Not really. It means that some points of the sign may be incorrect, but others are not incorrect (which mean theat they are correct).
So basically, yes, it is a double negative.
No, it’s litotes.
No, “not incorrect” is a double negative, “not 100% incorrect” implies that is a percentage of incorrect other than 100% and means the same thing as “not 100% correct”.
Grammar troll fail.
*is totally confused now*
*gives up*
What gives?
Why are you giving up?
Why not… Give Away?
*finds ZA in a state of confustion
*sees the torn up bodts of his victims
*uses E-tool to put an end to the ZombieApocalypse
*buries the three bodys with E-tool
Really funny sign. Reminds of the anti-pot propoganda movies from back in the 60s. This is only a fail in the sense that its a load(pun intened) of crap.
Young men cant give women these things?
Nope, just puppies and candy and life! It’s only after they turn 40 that they can hurt and kill young women.
oooh! puppies! could i have one?
and he will tell you ( I’ll give you a puppy if you do me a BIG favor)
Drats, foiled again.
I don’t think the sign means “old” men .. older, as in, older than school girls. So like a 22 year old guy with a 16 year old girl. He’s older. I’m pretty sure that’s what the sign means.
Yeah, people need to be aware of aids, and the prevention of it. But why do I get the vibe that this is just targeting older men? Now I know it’s been a few years since my last health class, but last I heard, there are other various ways of getting aids besides just older men. Am I not right?
Nope, new findings. Older men give it on cards. Forget the any gender, unprotected sex, shared needles, exposure thing.
Let’s put it simply. Let’s keep pedophiles from diddling children. Period.
What the heck! This is a perfectly sensible message. Silly contribution.
The sensibility of the message IS the FAIL.
The message is so obvious that the fact that a [very cartoonish and patronizing] sign needed to be created points to a much bigger FAIL on the part of our society and especially some particular individuals in it.
Not to mention the fact that younger men are just as capable of giving those things.
Except that there are few men younger than schoolgirls.
That’s right, so only have sex with younger men
Plus they smell like candy!
“I smell sex and candy….” What? It’s a SONG!
The poster is most likely targeting paedophiles, I’d say.
What?
like Mr. Herbert? NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
♫I had the time of my life…♫
Duh!
I like how it says AIDS & Death, like death isn’t enough, you gotta have AIDS when you die too.
Someone care to tell me where the fail is?
I’m serious.
I was thinking the same thing.
Same here – it seems to do what it does just fine. It’s a bit silly like many public service posters, but lacks failitude.
Because the society in which such a poster has value is a society of WIN?
I feel that it’s rather effective, i mean i wouldn’t want to sleep with an older man if he was going to give me aids…
Older men should never tounch teenage girls especially the ones with warts.
I think this sign came from Thailand or one of the other countries with a serious HIV problem and a child sex industry. I don’t see how it is a fail. In those countries this is a serious problem, and should be treated as such.
That’s what I was thinking. I bet this makes a lot more sense in context.
Don’t know about you guys, but the single word and second word fragment in the reflection don’t ring an “English” bell at all to me. Of course, the reflection of the colonial style brick building on the left hand side is a little more likely to be found domestically…
If you flip the image, you can see it the sign reads “Diamond Center” on top and then you see part of the same thing underneath.
Don’t kid yourself. It’s a problem right here in the US as well. And it isn’t just school girls. It’s school children. Pedophilia is an epidemic worldwide. It’s more shocking in countries where men think that raping a virgin will cure AIDS, but children are raped and exploited everywhere. The only way this sign fails is that it isn’t more widely placed, and followed up with a giant red P tattooed on the forehead of every pedophile so that we can see them coming from a distance and run.
AIDS is evil
Dude, this isn’t a Fail, this is a complete WIN!
Each single Fail incluedes a win somehow…
For every Fail there is a Win
damn do i hate that sign, its hard for an old guy like me, ya know
Why can’t you just diddle an old woman?
Why is this a fail. This is true. School girls don’t have AIDS, but older men, especially sexually promiscuous men, do have AIDS. They will automatically transfer the virus to the school girls. Condoms have a ~10% failure rate (officially). In addition: it’s morally wrong. School girls can’t make this decision on their own. Everything about this poster is right.
Ok firstly, condoms have ~1% failure rate (slightly less, but the companies cover themselves by saying it is 1%).
Secondly the chance of contracting AIDS from someone with it, through vaginal sex is 0.1% for the recipiant, so combine this with a condom break ur looking at 1% of 0.1% = 0.001% chance of contraction with a condom.
Older men do not stand that much chance of having AIDS than a younger man who may have had a blood transfusion as a child for example, or received it down from a parent, where the chances of contracting AIDS are much higher.
Morality is determined on a whole number of things. Is it immoral for a 17 year old boy to have sex with a 16 year old girl? He is technically older. In terms of school girls not being able to make decisions for themselves, possibly true of some, but certainly not all.
Everything you said in your post is rubbish.
Your numbers are wrong. Through unprotected sex between a male and a female, there is a a 30 to50% chance of transmission.
Condoms DO have a 10% fail rate AS USED BY THE GENERAL POPULACE. Th 1% fail rate is for those who use them correctly every time.
Using a condom during sex does, indeed, reduce your chance of getting HIV infection, but it does not eliminate it.
All of this sort of pales in comparison to the transmission rates of other fun STDs, though…
References:
European Study Group on Heterosexual Transmission of HIV (1992). “Comparison of female to male and male to female transmission of HIV in 563 stable couples”. BMJ. 304 (6830): 809–813. PMID 1392708.
Varghese B, Maher JE, Peterman TA, Branson BM,Steketee RW (2002). “Reducing the risk of sexual HIV transmission: quantifying the per-act risk for HIV on the basis of choice of partner, sex act, and condom use”. Sex. Transm. Dis. 29 (1): 38–43. PMID 11773877.
Leynaert B, Downs AM, de Vincenzi I (1998). “Heterosexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus: variability of infectivity throughout the course of infection. European Study Group on Heterosexual Transmission of HIV”. Am. J. Epidemiol. 148 (1): 88–96. PMID 9663408.
Risskia you are mistaken on your numbers. The above cite the chance of transmission from penile heterosexual sex for the recipient at 10 cases in ever 10,000 (0.1% as i cited) when no condom is used.
Archeon has found the long scientific title upgrade. Risskia is owned.
Thanks for pointing that out.
That’s why I always have sex with younger men.
no .. wait. That’s not right.
oops, I think I just outed myself.
I should just shutup about sex with younger me.
not that I’m actually saying I have sex with younger men.
no, not with men at all!
this internet thing is really tricky, you’ve got to think really carefully before you come.
i mean before you come online
no! i don’t mean come online. i don’t look at porn of young men at all.
oh shit there’s no delete button.
Best soliloquy thread ever. (^_^)
I have to think its a joke.
Still funny as hell though.
Did you see the one man show? I laughed, I cried…
But you forgot one detail… shouldn’t you have invited someone to your “love cave”? (^_~)
s’all right Brettr I’m with you lol comment on the fail tho….epic….sad…glad they are out there hopefully where they need to be..
Looks like sign win to me
I was thinking the same thing.
Maybe it’s a fail for whoever posted it on this site. Was it a school girl or a pedophile man that got it here on failblog?
Ugh, this was at 69 comments when I looked at this. Horrible.
What, so it’s alright for younger men to have sex with school girls but older men can’t?
Well, if it’s a young teenaged girl, then an older man would be, say, 20 or 21, now wouldn’t he? Older is a relative term. Let’s just say pedophile. Any person older than 21 shouldn’t be diddling any child younger than 18. You know, kindof like the law says…
this isn’t a fail…. this is a WTF?!?!?!?
Well, I have to say, it’s only half as WTF and half as fail as the anti-aids campaign they recently had…or tried to have…over here >>
Where’s here?
Germany…. (I had hoped the news about that awful anti-aids campaign would have psread over the internet already….usually the net is faster with such things :/ )
Anyway… To get it straight: The thing I’m talking about is an Anti-Aids/Use Condoms Tv-Spot in which AIDS is personified by Hitler….
This Fail is a Fail
This comment is a win.
I think this was taken in a country were poor girls around 12-14 years old are tempted to have sex with older men because the men will give them clothing, food or money. The girls are often ignorant thinking only that they now have a way to help their family while being unaware that these men don’t love them and are only using them for sex. It’s also a common belief that having sex with a virgin will cure AIDS and other STDs.
Wait, so are you telling me that
male strippervirgin a I screwed in the backseat of my car the other day didn’t cure my airborne gonnorhea?Oh Mr Cuddles, so far you’re the only one who has been able to make me smile today. Why did your comment make me think of Stephen Lynch’s song Waiting? “I never should have blown that tranny in my Cadillac …”
Oh, I was gonna point out the clickie clickie, but it submitted prematurely. Gee, zombies rarely have that problem.
That’s a problem around the world and in the US. Many cultures have taught women to seek the “rich older” man. I don’t think this PSA is targeting the virgin cure belief though. More like trying to avoid girls being taken advantage of in general.
did she die?
So I don’t know why my company hates this site so much. It was fine when they blocked it, but this, this is much worse. There is no pictures or video or anything on the site except words. I need a cuddle puddle to cheer me up
*hugs Corporal/Doctor/*censored*/*timing*/Magnificent/mr. cuddles of the Order of FailBlog/worshiper of the Power that Be/FB addict*
Corporal Cuddles! I’m here to rescue you! Everyone is on the earlier Cake Fail. C’mon!
*squeezes*
*grabs WN and CC and flees*
I’m late but will offer a hug *hug* anyway. My job has blocked the videos.
I want to know what an older woman can give me.
Rug burn in a very unusual place.
A fat lip.
nightmares.
same nasty shit she picked up from the older man she’s married to….
: P
Yes! Get your AIDS infection from young men instead! It’s just as deadly, but your parents and priest will nag you less afterwards.
Yeah, the priest has no room to nag, he’s probably one of the older men in question.
Because you can’t get AIDS or unwanted pregnancy from 18-year-old men….
thing is – she looks old enough to be his mum!
Those pdofiles…… are swarming with diseases you could evevn smell it……*pervs*
Thank you, Amytime. There are places in the world where this is a real problem. In Africa, for example, it is a relatively common folk belief that sex with a virgin will cure you of AIDS. The sadly predictable result is an epidemic of child rape.
Someone tell this to Morshu the shopkeeper.
Sheesh, is there anything positive about getting older?
yeah, HIV.
Ok, bad joke
Yes. You discover that vibrators are wonderful things that can’t give you stds, unless you let an older man touch them….
Yeah, vibrators are great!! MUCH better than pervy old men!!
Well yea, but you can get all those things from young men too. Eh…. This fail sucks, I think. In lots of ways.
So which rich, spoiled, privileged Internet College Male brat thought this was a fail? The ones that don’t realize there’s a world outside the US, or the ones who are convinced that Men Always Good, Women Always Evil Sociopathic Monsters?
yeah what is the fail?
…and yet not entirely wrong.
Those are just the cons! What about the pros….like free candy?!
No doubt this is on the door of a retirement village in FL where the tap water flows with Viagra enhanced water and the old men pick up young ladies in their ‘98 Olds….
what a fantastic piece of fail
This probably has is put up in a one of the countries that have working men that believe that sex with virgins will cure their Aids. This does happen in Africa right now, so I doubt this sign is as much fail as you think it is.
I really don’t see how this sign is fail… Condoms/africa/AIDs aside…
True, it takes two people to do it, but I think this is still kind of a good message. Though I’m tired of the lack of pro-safe sex education/signs. (mostly since abstinence only doesn’t work at all)
Just comes down to self-control and resisting pressure.
Abstinence works awesomely well, in America we call it WOW or World of Warcraft. For only $15 dollars a month you can ensure virginity for months, possibly years!!
LOL! And if WOW doesn’t work, Facebook addiction is almost as good…
Wait, what?! How is this fail material? Is this trying to tell us we should LET older men have sex with school girls?
No, it’s trying to tell us we should avoid talking about sex with our children (how embarrassing!) and LET a cardboard sign have that conversation for us.
I guess it doesn’t occur to you that fathers might just be the older men…
In many cases that’s true, and a sign about how you’re going to get AIDS and DEATH isn’t going to stop your pedophile dad from raping/molesting you.
Once again, the point is the importance of the message on the sign is not the fail. The cheesiness of the presentation of the message is a bit of a fail – and in the unlikely event that this sign actually helps a single person, then we’ll forgive how ridiculous it is. The real fail is that the message needs to be said in the first place.
As someone working in criminal justice in midwest USA, older men do prey on young, gullible girls, teens with poor self-esteem or no adult comfort. I’m ashamed to be a man sometimes, there are just so many old men knocking up these girls, often several of them. Some are violent, some not, but all predatory & the girls can’t see it — till they guy dumps them for their 12 yr old little sister.
With muddled thinking like yours in the “criminal justice system”, it’s easy to see why the US has one of the worst teenage pregnancy rates in the developed world.
How is CW’s thinking muddled? He’s bringing to light a problem that many people are unaware of or in denial about, and he said he’s ashamed of his gender because it exploits young girls. Seems pretty decent and lucid to me.
Don’t worry statutory rapists! Planned Parenthood is more than willing to cover up your crimes.
source: Lila Rose Live Action Films
Oh for God’s sake! This nonsense is beneath comment.
I don’t really see this as a fail, after all, it is fully intended.
This should be taken down from this site – I love failblog, but this is one thing that is really not actually a joke. This issue is a serious problem in some African metropolitan cities (and likely elsewhere too). English is a second language that is spoken in many of these places. Whether this sign is from here or abroad, as goofy as the sign may look, it’s not an issue that should be taken lightly.
It’s not supposed to be a joke. It’s supposed to be FAIL. Nobody said older men giving schoolgirls AIDS was funny or wasn’t a serious issue. Let’s assume big problem in whatever country this came from. But that doesn’t make this sign any less of a fail. They tackled a tough social problem with a cheesy cartoon and a poorly thought out message on a cardboard sign… and FAILED.
Sometimes you get more attention with a cheesy cartoon than a serious speech. I think the message is pretty concise and clear and would appeal to young girls. You have to think about a target audience when you’re creating a vehicle for a message.
Not a fail. Please remove.
This is a very common problem in the Caribbean islands. SOME young girls (secondary school 15-16 years old) do go after older men for money, clothes and trinkets – not because they are starving but just because they want those things. They compete with their peers to win the affection of men with money. The legal age of consent is 15 and as long as the men don’t interfere with a minor it is ignored by most of the population.
exactly what i was going to say. it’s a very serious problem that is actually attributed to low self-esteem and lack of awareness. and in the Caribbean country where i grew up, sex-ed was not taught in schools and many parents pretty much avoid the topic of sex on the whole. that is to say that many girls did not have access to this kind of information. that’s why public announcements like the one shown here are necessary to help raise awareness and decrease the number of young girls getting STDs from or becoming pregnant for older men. in my country there were announcements similar to this one even being aired on the national television station. there are cases where men as old as 40yrs even seduce girls as young as 12.
do forgive me, but i don’t see raising awareness to prevent crises as a fail.
Its called being a sex offender!
Disregard this sign.
Why is this on failblog?
i wondered the same thing…it looked like some good advice to me
School boys are still on the menu though, right?
Nasty!
OLd man here….stay away!!!!
SOOOOO…..What about Cougars….cause they always try to steal my boy!
*NOT* a fail!
What are you — a front page for pedophiles united?
FAILBLOG, you have f**ed up — time to apologise or lose quite a lot of your audience.
Oh trust me, the only audience member they’re going to lose is you.
And its not much of a loss.
but you are a great big loser.
Your ignorance makes me smile.
No one is condoning paedophilia here, what we are laughing at is saying that if you have sex with older men you are going to get AIDS.
Goodbye
it reminds me of the propaganda posters put out in ww2 discrediting the Jews.
this looks like christian propaganda
Well, suppose we put a priest collar on the man and turn the young girl into an altar boy. Same message: Children: Run from pedophiles!
This is not a joke, AIDS actually does fit appropriatly in here (you would get that if you read the poster)
oh well, I suppose some idiot sees the word AIDS and thinks its a fail, Its only a matter of time before a poster for the AIDS walk list is on here.
However, I must admit, it is not a great poster for getting children aware of pedofiles, they really could have done a better job, just nothing embarassingly bad to put it on this site
As if younger men also didn’t give girls aids xD
so you guys are idiots
my friend took this
and it’s definitely in america, not south africa
you guys are the definition of fail
This isn’t a fail. The sign said what it meant and meant what it said. If it had been talking about AIDES or something, it would have been more failish, but it wasn’t.
i pity those who discuss whether this is a fail or not. get a life.
Judging by the car in the reflection of the window looks like the vehicle is right hand drive model (remember its reflected) and also the picture on the sign looks like the car is driving on the left hand side of the road. So this would leave me to believe that it is from a few countries in southern Africa, the UK, Australia, India or another country that drives on the left side of the road. By looking at the building my guess is the UK but maybe South Africa. I’ll leave it at that.
who gives a shit where its from?
anyone care to answer that question please.
a sign of the times
I think the general implication of this sign is that an older man who has a habit of coercing younger girls into sex would have been exposed to more of these diseases than a younger man, simply by his lifestyle. So it comes across to me as a warning to younger girls to be wise and not let an older man try to get in their pants unless they’re willing to commit. In my opinion, not a fail. Perhaps the sign is a bit in poor taste, at least it would be in American culture, but not a fail.
Yeah, thanks. Totally not seein’ the fail.
ya, theres a difference between a fail and a stupid sign. stupid signs should not be fails, since they are intentional.
huh? i don’t get it.
i would say the sign is halff in poor tast half silly
Sexist FAIL.
This one’s a little subtle for some people I guess. You have to analyze a little deeper than “Pedophile BAD -> Sign GOOD” to see it.
Firstly, I’m actually horrified to find that so many people jumped to the gun and said this was somewhere in Africa. It’s not. This sign is from the Bahamas [which is a Caribbean nation, in case some people here fail with geography too], where we have a huge problem with AIDS in general, not to mention the promiscuity of teen-aged girls having sex with/getting pregnant by/catching AIDS or any other STD from older men whom they view as their ’sugar daddies’. And these older men are quite okay with using these young girls too. Even with all the education and common sense telling them otherwise, both parties are too materialistic and lustful to realize the damage they are doing to themselves and their loved ones.
Asides from the jokes that can be derived from the exclusion of younger men giving you the exact negative things through unprotected sex and the picture on top that can lead to all sorts of comments [this poster still makes me laugh whenever I see that interestingly disappearing hand], this is far too serious of a poster for it to be considered a fail.
I agree, this is not a fail.
As someone else said, “What is this, a support group for pedophiles?”
It’s NOT!? I thought this was the Internet!
LOL @ Anon. Unfortunately, the internet is teeming with pedophiles like that man in the public service announcement.
That’s so wrong… LOL
So screwing around with younger men wont give you AIDS? Stupid ad.
Absolutely not a fail. This is a valid public announcement which is very important in African countries where sex with underage girls is rife. There is no fail here except for Failblog for posting it as a fail. Get it off now!
“Get it off” might be a bad choice of words here.
Especially around Brewski.
Wouldn’t the people in this picture be black if it really was a sign in Africa or the Carribeans? Just wondering, because so many here immediately assumed that it has to be Africa.
Yeah, about that…..
There is a story from health workers going to Africa to help the local population, also educating them on how to prevent AIDS. They demonstrated the use of a condom by putting it on a broomstick.
Later they found out their demonstrations did not help, because the local people would put a condom on a broomstick, and then have unprotected sex!
Arthur, study geography and history. South Africa: colonized by England.
Off course younger men can give you Aids and STDs. But the sign is implying that if you’re in school and you have sex with your boyfriend who is also still in school, then the chances are that he doesn’t have nearly as much experience than a guy who is in his twenties or thirties, meaning it is less likely for him to have AIDS and STDS. Not unlikely, just less likely. And the sign is good, it uses a scare tactic.
The fail here is that someone, somewhere, thought this was a solution to the problem of older men preying on young girls.
Perhaps not solution, but pretty fair visual aid. Or will at least plants ideas and questions in a young girls mind that she should ask her parents about.
That sign should be quoted for truth! And it should be put up everywhere at every school.
I think this should be a WIN!
This has my approval! More school girls left for me
This isn’t a sign fail (although it could be so much better). It is a Society FAIL.
The fact that this problem happens at all is a FAIL. Needing a sign to warn against it is an Epic FAIL.
This poster wouldn’t go down well with the Japanese…
In addition to AIDS, old men often give their schoolgirl lovers gifts like jewelry and flowers!
This sign is fantastic! I want a copy to hang on my fridge!
AIDS was created by the government in an attempt to eradicate the homosexual community.
And the innocent children of drug using parents…
Atleast thats what Family Guy says. : )
(picks up machetes and acid bazookas) I AM GOING TO KILL THE PEOPLE THAT MADE THAT SIGN!
Sounds like you should use the machete to castrate yourself old man
Republican fail.
society fail
Oh, it’s not Republicans that excel at pedo-tourism. That is mostly a Democratic pursuit. Many fine liberals spend vacations overseas exploiting and raping children.
You’d think with a sociology degree I’d be more sensitive to ways of foreign cultures but F-them. Aids is not a cultural value, just because your country is bassackwards on health education isn’t a free pass for you to put up idiot signs and expect us to pity you. A sign that implies Aids comes from old men is just as much a fail in Moronastan as it is anywhere else in the world, double-fail if your bassaakwards country has a major aids epidemic.
The kind of older man who actively pursues teenage girls is
1) more likely to have STDs
2) is specifically targeting sexual partners who are more likely to be ignorant as to how to protect themselves
3) is not going to disclose their own status if they are infected
Unless you are suggesting middle aged pervs that target school girls for sex are doing it out of their mature concern for the girls welfare?
How is the sign a plea for pity? It seems that it’s more a warning to the young girls who are being exploited and raped by older men who are infected. Imparting information to the intended victims is a good start on solving the problem. And I do want to reiterate that it’s only a start.
In some parts of the world, it is thought that a man having sex with a virgin girl is NOT ONLY SAFE in terms of not getting AIDS, but that it will also cure the man if he already has AIDS.
An inelegant sign? Sure. A fake problem? Oh, no. A FAIL? Only if you are either ignorant or callous.
haha, that shit is something to any girl/woman should think about whatever the age of the sex partner. Idiots
You’re saying women are idiots?
Whereas older men who look for sex with school age girls are living the dream or sumfin?
I guess you think anyone who’s against that is either a prude, jealous (if they’re a man) or bitter (if they’re a woman)?
Against the sign, or against the fail? I think the sign is good. Warns innocent victims away from protential predators. I think the fail is wrong.
I like failblog, but this is not a fail in anyway. This is a serious sign to warn uneducated people about the dangers of AIDS. The older a guy is, the more likely he is to have slept with someone else with AIDS, so that is why it is referring to old men only. There is a lot of child marriages going on, even in urbanized areas and the older the groom, the more likely he is to have AIDS and to pass it on to the young woman.
And to think that I used to look forward to growing up!
In America many teen girls are drawn to men in their 20s.
the guy has a car and a job and money and stuff.
he’ll tell her how great she is and she basks in the approval.
“sitting on a park bench, eyeing little girls with bad intent.”
BUT MOOOM!! THAT OLD MAN HAS MONEY !!! >.< UGH GUYS FROM MY AGE JUST DONT
Why is this a fail? Sounds like a (sadly) necessary public service announcement to me.
How are the sugar daddies out there supposed to get their groove on with these warnings?
How is this bad? It’s the truth!
To an extent. I completely agree that school age girls shouldn’t have sex with older men. Heck, they shouldn’t have sex at all in a perfect world!
But I don’t like how this is presented. It’s a scare tactic instead of simply informing girls what *sex* can cause (Not just sex with an older man). Now there are probably girls who think their father or older brothers will give them HIV if they hug them.
They went about it all the wrong way, but I do agree this is not exactly a fail. The statements they made were true because they could all happen.
I don’t really see how this sign is a fail either
1. There is nothing remotely funny about it.
2. It is clearly from a place with an AIDS problem trying to warn young girls about sexual predators.
Love this sign! No fail at all!
Ahahahahahahahahaha!
I’m sorry…but for personal reasons this makes me laugh my *ss off! Makes me think of somebody I used to know.
Oh my freaking hell! Is this the ONLY reason we should be concerned about this?
Ther’s something kind of Jack T Chick about this. Something other than the crap illustration, that is.
I would classify this as a WIN.
I think this poster may be from someplace in Africa, where not only is AIDS a real and pretty common problem, but there’s also this crazy folk belief that having sex with a virgin will cure one of AIDS, leading to situations like that which the poster hopes to prevent. (I think the logic is behind the practice is, since you contracted AIDS from having sex with an AIDS-infected person, having sex with a virgin will ‘infect’ you with purity and cleanliness.)
Not a fail at all! In most cases of teen pregnancy, the father is college aged or older. Unsurprisingly, many teenage girls who aren’t particularly tempted by their male classmates will look to older men for maturity/financial security. But, as the poster is trying to point out, if a bit graphically, the kind of men who seek out younger girls are unlikely to offer anything but STDs.
No, the poster neither implies nor explicitly states that sleeping with older men is the ONLY was to get AIDS or other STDs.
What’s going on behind that sign??