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Hey, if that’s what it takes to raise $25,000, then why not?
Its immoral :O :O :O :O
immoral is fun, u should try it more often
My morality goes out the window when $25,000 is involved…
LOL!
whats that number?? i only ask for….uh a freind
haha the same thing happened to our junior high cross country team. the number is 1-800-Eat-Dust
I just want to know how the parent knew…just sayin.
Why would an 800 number be a sex chat line? That’s a free call.
*entrepreneurially confused*
Maybe they do it for kicks?
OK, or maybe they just want to be on elementary school kids’ shirts. I say, if you enjoy what you’re doing, the money doesn’t matter.
Interesting variation of ‘kick me’ sign.
♪ You shouldn’t let other people get your kicks for you. ♪
They probably charge a credit card to actually talk to anyone.
it´s 1-800 on the shirts… 0-800 is free…
Sorry, that’s not the answer we’re looking for.
oooh, MRN is not serious… tryin to be funny, huh?
Well, usually I am trying to be funny, but… I’ve never paid for any of the hundreds (OK, dozens) of 1-800 numbers I’ve called, so… what was the question? Oh yeah, how about them Yankees?
I do beleave that wether its 1-800 or 0-800 that is a free call all depends on where you are in the world
Yarrrr!
Somalia?
Dunno, any 800 number is free though. *shrugs*
Oh, I thought your “yarrr” was a hint about where you are in the world.
…but now I see the name of that guy above. Ignore me.
I’ve pirates on the brain.
*squeeze*
And by “pirates” you mean Johnny Depp?
*squeeze*
Umm… yeah, yeah that’s it!
If you have pirates on the brain, does that mean you’ve been boarded, looted, and you now have a pirate captain at the helm? Yarrrrrrrrrrr!
No, it means I have a beard and I’m a cutlass.
isn’t your name from dark tower?
Only in Kenya!
they beat philly
I’m guessing you’re in the UK.
In North America, we use “1″ to dial outside of the local calling area, so toll-free numbers are 1-800 (also 1-888, 1-877, and 1-866).
“0″ reaches an operator, instead of “100″.
One more note.
Most entertainment services in USA that apply the fee to the telephone bill start with 1-900. Another option is the 976 exchange within local calling areas (e.g.: +1 313 976 ####).
Since many customers choose to block out 900 and 976 numbers from outgoing calls, the businesses have set up 800 numbers and local numbers instead.
“Area code 801″
-Glenn Beck
I live in area code 801.
area code 801 for me too.
crazy, huh?
That was a joke, right?
The 800 number gets you to an operator that takes your card number and connects you to someone. . .or so I’m told
Rightie-O Me Mongo!
Can I borrow your credit card?
a lot of them are 1800 numbers with an automated machine and you have to pay to talk longer i guess. they show them on tee vee at night all the time. 1800-50-girls for example
It’s a trick. You call a 800 num and they route you to one where you are charged an outrageous amount.
They probably make you enter a credit card number to pay for minutes. There are a lot of 800 numbers that go to things like that… and holy crap you’d be amazed how many businesses you try to dial, get one number off, and end up where you didn’t intend to be. (I rather think they do that on purpose…)
2nd
darn
You can still recover – answer either question.
had to go visit some courses ;>
only just returned for some more useless internet activities
*faints at the idea that FailBlog is a useless internet activity*
maybe i was a little harsh Oo
Do you call a she-male sex chat line because you want to talk to a she-male, or because you are a she-male?
… and which is a larger potential audience, anyway?
Can’t it be both?
1-800-EAT-DUST
Buy it!
ht tp://www.zazzle.com/hows_my_running_call_1_800_eat_dust_tshirt-235740388053626253
The period at the end of 1-800-eat-dust looks stupid on the shirt. Double fail!
Triple-Fail, if you look at the link, they advertise it as “G-Rated”, lol, wonder if they tried to call it?
I guess sex numbers are now Rated G!
Watermark placement fail.
Somewhat tangential observation: It’s mildly interesting to see an Associated Press article informing its readership that the phone number was for a she-male service without finding it necessary to define the term “she-male.” They don’t even put quotation marks around it. Here, at least, the AP is taking for granted that its readers will be familiar with what used to be fairly outré kinks; thanks to the Internet, the she-male, decidedly a specialty fetish, has achieved significant market penetration (so to speak). Would we see such casual usage of somewhat fringe sexual terminology in the New York Times, for example? Or would they obscure the specific detail with a vague euphemism like “sexual service line”? What’s the percentage of readers who will see this article, wonder about the term, and head off to Google, only to be shocked and/or horrified and/or stimulated, as their personal situations warrant? … Anyway, not to belabor the point, but I thought it was interesting, and worth noting as a small sign of major change in the world.
Um…well, the word she-male sounds pretty self-explanatory, just like potato-and-berry-cake. You might not really know what it is, but judging by the smaller words that make it up, you can kinda know what it is.
Not to mention that the term “she-male” is not generally used in the LBGT community (it’s considered derogatory). It mostly comes from the porn/sex chat communities
Good point Me-Mongo.
Being from around the Bay Area of California, I’ve heard it all, though. Our GLBTQ2 friends sometimes throw around terms to lessen the stigma, like embracing the word “queer.” I’ve learned to be very careful in the language I use in CA so as not to offend any group, which, in such a diverse place, is increasingly difficult. Feelings are running high on both sides as evinced by the great tumult recently over legalizing same-sex marriage.
I think it is nicer just to go with the content of peoples’ character. What goes on behind closed doors really isn’t any of my business. I just think mean people suck in general.
Wow, now I’m totally expecting to get flamed. *love, peace, and squeezies to ALL* I tried hard not to offend anyone, for the record.
As long as we’re bringing up pet peeves… I like how they now include a character for “Two Spirited” in the acronym but STILL can’t be bothered to include asexuals. 1 in 100 people is asexual; I seriously doubt there are that many gay Indians.
Reading your other posts, “diversity education”? …that must be a strictly California thing. Here in Texas, as recently as 2002 (when I was in high school) we were taught by a private sex-ed company, that was affiliated with a Christian “crisis pregnancy” center, that 70% of gay people have AIDS and that gay men never live past the age of 40.
Surely there is a happy medium between spreading this kind of hate-based lies, and wasting valuable class time memorizing the latest politically-correct terminology. There’s plenty of time to discuss the particularities of gender theory in college, if you make it that far. However I do think public schools are obligated to teach kids, at the very least, that gay and trans people exist and that it’s not OK to beat them up. Seriously – how is that harmful? Schools are supposed to be safe places for everybody. And no, you should not be allowed to opt out of it any more than you should be allowed to opt out of learning about the Civil Rights Movement.
No one should ever be beat up at school for any reason whatsoever. The punishment for bullying and assault should be the same regardless of the reasons behind it. That’s equal protection and equal rights.
We have a responsibility to keep ALL kids safe in schools.
Whoa, that is horrible! 70%? No chance of getting older than 40? Because someone is gay? Disgusting. Seriously disgusting. I thought you Americans love to sue everyone for everything? Why the fück is hateful propaganda like that NOT illegal?
Things like that make me more glad that I live here where it’s unthinkable that this kind of disgusting stuff is teached in schools!
Intellectual dishonesty sucks. Real statistics are bad enough. You don’t need to exaggerate to teach kids the risks/benefits/alternatives where sexual behavior is concerned.
Then again, “There are three kinds of lies. Lies, damned lies, and statistics!”
Real statistics are bad enough? What do you mean with that?
I don’t see a need to teach about “alternatives where sexual behavior is concerned” when it comes to homosexuality. Simply because one does not choose his or her sexual preferences. If someone is gay – what could his alternative be?
Well, I was referring to safer sex practices. Some sex acts are more inherently risky than others. Certain segments of the population have higher rates of incidence than others.
If you want to see if the rates of infection and morbidity for homosexual males is significantly higher you can look at the Centers For Disease Control website here in the US.
Science should not be motivated by politics or done with an agenda. Let the facts speak for themselves. My concern is not at all with people’s private lives and activities, it is the effects on public health and disease prevention.
I certainly am not going to get into some debate about whether people choose to be gay or not. We do have a choice about how we express our sexuality through behavior regardless of our inclinations. I am not making judgements on people; it is not my place.
Yes. This is also a news-reporting fail. I suppose if this writer wrote an article about a gay-rights event, he might refer to the participants as “homos”. What a double-sided fail.
I’m sorry but you obviously haven’t been paying attention to diversity education and sex education in our US public schools. They just redefined gender to include someone’s perceived gender as protected under the law in CA for their schools. (2007 – SB 777, signed by Gov. Schwarzenegger *clickie*)
The GLBTQ2 (Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual, Transgender, Questioning, Two-Spirited (Native American) movement has, under the guise of safer schools, made it necessary to teach kids about all kinds of different sexual relationships and it is quickly becoming illegal to protest (hate crimes), and they are eliminating a parents’ right to be notified or opt-out of such indoctrination.
Depending on your personal, political and religious views, this could be a good thing or a bad thing.
Teaching about what exists is indoctrination? How so?
Good point Arthur. My bad.
I’d rather my kids learn math, science, languages, arts, history, and liberal arts in general at school. I’m a little wary of social engineering.
I’d like to teach them about things like citizenship, values, religion, and sexuality at home. Of course, I’d want them to respect all people, and be loving and gracious; I guess the schools don’t trust parents to do a good job of that. When only ONE viewpoint is tolerated and reinforced, that’s indoctrination.
There has to be a viewpoint before you can indoctrinate it. I don’t know about US schools, but I presume that the kids learn that all of that exists and that they should be tolerant. If they’d have to learn something like “being lesbian is better than…” I would call that a viewpoint – and be sceptical about it. If it’s only “It exists. Live with it.” I would think it’s appropriate.
Balance and moderation are a good thing Arthur. So is teaching things that are age-appropriate. Kids are ready for certain information at different rates.
I think it’s just that sometimes I’m shocked by the things kids are bringing home from school.
Indoctrination can be a strong, perjorative term, upon a second look (again, thank you), it was a poor word choice. But certain ideas and a worldview are being repetitively and un-critically impressed upon young people with a definite agenda. I was also thinking beyond sexuality. “Two girls one cup” exists and so does BDSM – but I consider whether the young’ns really NEED to know yet.
I hesitate to say this, but kids are being taught to scorn things that the Bible teaches plainly. A good example would be abstinence. It’s quickly tossed aside as impractical, as if people are not able to exercise self-control.
Kids are being taught fairly graphic things about oral sex, for example, but I don’t remember being told that HPV can cause throat cancer. It just seemed like a really good way to maintain technical virginity and keep my boyfriend happy. No one told me that I was trading my body and dignity to feel loved and accepted like it was some currency. Or maybe, that I deserve better, that I’m valuable, and I should wait for someone worthy to bestow my love upon. No, I was taught to make myself a plaything and that if you use a condom, sex is just a fun recreational event. It hurts to be discarded as a plaything when you’ve been too intimate too soon.
I saw parents who hold to a Biblical standard being regularly ridiculed as narrow-minded bigots when I knew for a fact they had gay and lesbian friends that they cared about. All open-dialogue was simply shouted down with oft-repeated slogans.
Sorry to all the Fail Bloggers for being subjected to this long post. It would be better if I had Arthur’s email or IM and we privately chatted.
Don’t worry; we sometimes are serious.
I think you’re mingling several unrelated things; your personal experience can’t really be blamed on schools or other authorities. Therefore it doesn’t make a good example for what sexual education is or should be. Or has a teacher really told you to make yourself a plaything? I find that’s hard to believe. My guess is: Your boyfriend back then was an asshöle. You weren’t indoctrinated too NEVER have sex before marriage, hence you did it – with said asshöle (chances are good that you would have also done it if you were indoctrinated). I don’t want to sound cynical, but shit happens.
For me as a non-religious European the whole US thing about abstinence and religion doesn’t belong in this discussion either. I indeed “toss (it) aside as impractical, as if people are not able to exercise self-control.” Because they aren’t – not in great numbers at least. And even if 90% of all teens were able to practice abstinence, I’d say the 10% also deserve appropriate education. In schools, because that’s the place where we have stuff teached to our kids.
No doubt, how and when are very important questions about sexual education. As I said, I don’t know details about that for US schools – it may be worth reforming, I don’t know. But I think the general principle of teaching kids what exists, what they should know and how to protect themselfs shouldn’t be questioned (abstinence can easily be mentioned for the last aspect, as long as it’s not abstinence only).
The last thing I found to be incorrectly mingled is parental responsibility. I don’t see how that is diminished, let alone taken away, by sex ed in schools. Unless the parents wish to keep their kids uninformed or, worse, intolerant against whatever (homosexuality etc.). You migh argue that it is, or should be, the right of parents to do so. I think it isn’t, because we’re all living in pretty diverse societies. To keep as much social peace as possible is an important task for any government and I don’t see how that can be possible without knowledge and tolerance. But apart from that the parent’s responsibility to also teach their kids and not leave that to schools isn’t changed, diminished or taken away.
Yeah, Arthur, I sure did mix up a lot of topics in that post.
I don’t think ignorance is bliss; kids need to learn to be safe, and that includes their sexual behavior. You only need to look at statistics to see the risks. Loving parenting means equipping our children with information.
I would disagree in that I do believe that parental rights are being usurped in a slippery slope fashion.
My early mistakes made me stop and think. I was taught abstinence and to value myself and, I’m happy to report, that since I have yet to marry, I have been able to maintain my virginity (“technically”) at 32. I didn’t repeat those mistakes and I have nothing to regret! It has been VERY difficult to maintain but I have high expectations for my life and support of a like-minded community and family. I simply do not date anyone that does not support that decision and we avoid putting ourselves into tempting situations. One day I will be happy to share myself and become one flesh in physical unity with my husband, being bonded to him and only him; I will probably wear the poor guy out!
So, I would disagree and say, yes, abstinence is possible and it is a choice. Communicating this expectation is important and will keep young people safer, at least until they are more equipped emotionally and rationally to make that decision.
The religious freedom to speak and disagree respectfully about matters of sexual behavior is increasingly infringed upon. The name calling (ignorant, bigoted, hateful) only shows that we aren’t communicating well in a civilized public discourse about the implications and consequences of lifestyle choices on society as a whole. I have lesbian friends and family members that I love dearly; we simply agree to disagree and focus on the positive aspects of our relationships.
Oh, yeah, and Arthur – *squeezies*. You’ve made this an interesting day in FailBlog land. I respect your viewpoint.
I like how you guys talked it out instead of arguing and flaming each other.
We need more of this!
You can find plenty of this on failblog. We’re pretty good.
I said I consider abstinence to be impossible “in great numbers”. Surely, some people can exercise it, but I doubt that the vast majority of kids can, let alone all of them. Especially not in free societies like yours or mine.
Out of interest: Aren’t you afraid that the man you marry will be unable to satisfy you once you’re married? My experience is that it’s absolutely possible that two persons simply don’t match in bed, even if both are technically able to perform sex. I had that a couple of times myself – I had sex with girlfriends, but it was unsatisfying for one of us or both of us, because we liked different things in bed. If I imägine having married one of these former gfs, my life would be much worse in one very important aspect.
I’m just asking because that’s something I failed to understand so far. I guess you heard sentences like “you have to test drive a car before you buy it”. Surely not a nice way to put it, but therein is truth, I think. No worries?
I really am not worried. We’ll work it out together. I am, ahem, very good at communicating about sex.
There’s another saying. . .”Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?”
Good luck for that. As I said, my experience is different; there were some girls in my life (read: In my bed.
) with whom it would have been impossible to establish a satisfying sex life. I don’t blame them, nor myself; it just didn’t work out together.
Even though I love my girlfriend very much and I plan to spend the rest of my life with her – if we weren’t as good in bed together as we are, I couldn’t continue our relationship. Same for her.
Again: Good luck to you.
*facepalm*
this terrible! what about conservatives who are offended by the mere thought of it? do they not have any rights anymore? and the answer is no! they take away from them everything.
How is this a “fail”, sounds like a tremendous success. Has a legitimate shot of raising some serious money, gives parents what they really want and introduces the children to alternative lifestyles. Very forward thinking, that school.
Someone creates a 1-800 number for people who have a fetish for she-males and it gets printed on t-shirts for an elemantary school fundraiser.
Anpu creates a team of Ancient Egyptain female cheer leaders, complete with historically accurate see-through uniforms and people call his work “extremely inappropriate and sexist” instead of finding contestants who are willing to joust eachother in boats floating in a river infested with angry hippoes and starving crocodiles.
Come on. Anpu’s thing is educational. How else will people learn about Ancient Egypt’s practically-naked cheerleaders?
YES! FIRST!!!
Yes! LAST!
What I want to know is what the number was and how good it was
1-800-EAT-DUST. Really. That’s the #.
Very similar to a situation at work. One of my colleagues transposed two digits in our government telephone number. For two months, people she’d emailed had mistakenly called a gay chatline instead of our financial support service.
What does it say under the “failblog.org”?
Underneath is another, smaller “failblog.org”.
You’d think someone would have the brains to call the number before printing all those shirts. Dummies.
Okay, here’s the really confusing part: How is a long string of numbers a “cute slogan”? Unless their target was in the $8 billion dollar range.
“Eight hundred four five two five six hundred!!!”
Terrible slogan.
“1-800-EAT-DUST”, as mentioned above.
Something track/ cross-country runners might wear.
but presumably if you take the same numbers – 328-3878 – you can also spell something more explicit on the keypad?
FAT ….. er… ETRU?
…. i’ll get me coat
PS does seem a little forward to be saying exactly what the sex line was, they could have just as easily covered it with “adults-only chat service” or something…
I can haz proofreader?
Erm… a parent ‘discovered’ the number?
Well, to be fair, it was printed right there on the back of the shirt.
That’ll show those morons to do a “Jog-a-Thon”. (To anyone who doesn’t know, it’s this fundraiser where the teachers sit back in their chairs while the kids run for over an hour without water or stops. It’s an Orange County thing.)
Thong-a-John?
ok so, to clear things up… call 1-800-sex-**** fill in the stars with anything… or be creative with those seven letters, what you’ll have is a FREE phone call, that connects you to the *option* of paying by the minute to talk to… whomever… and it’s funny… if I were on the t-shirt design committee… PTA or whatever… the FIRST thing I would have done is call the fake number to see what it is. What a buncha uncreative idiots.
holy crap my last name is howland
Ha this happened at my middle school in columbus three years ago too. I still don’t think they’ve changed it; they’re pretty clueless.
A Catholic middle school had the same number on their track shirts in my town. They got in trouble to =P It’s 1-800-EAT-DUST
This is so hilarious. My c**** *o***** ****h (for privacy reasons) is the guy whos in charge of keeping the media away from the campus. One day, he was late and he explained to us this, the sex chat line. Except with the sex chat line part. He told us that the numbers on the jog-a-thon shirt was a real number. He gave us the number too…
1-800-Eat-Dust
The school has been on the media a lot lately.
THATS MY CITY RIGHT THERE
yorba linda pride! Along with ylhs pride.
lolz. that’s my city too.
Haha… that is so bad!! Something similar happened at work where our IT guy accidentally mixed together our FAX and 800 number on our email signatures…. and somehow the mixed number was for a foot fetish hotline! Our customers were a little confused when calling, haha.
with phone chats, as with any non-personal relationship, it could be false advertising. the SheMale could be a SheMale in name only.
Damn shminos.
and the Jog a Thon raised $25,000 – there’s a lesson to be learned here
A strange case of life imitating Fletch! Gotta love it.
BUT WHO WAS PHONE?!!!!!!
I remember seeing this on YouTube. The tagline went along the lines of “We have chicks with dicks and dudes with bewbs!”
Lol, the same thing happened in Illinois… the rest of the number is ‘eat-dust’ (I’m not spamming, but i’m sure some of you were wondering…)
hi how are you ///i am faraz rana..please chat me…my id,,,rana_fraz2001@yahoo.com..my number +923006565580..call me…bye
how are you rana faraz
HAHAHAHAHAHA OMG I KNOW THIS SCHOOL ITS CLOSE TO MY HOUSE! FINALLY I SEE SOMETHING FUNNY HAPPENING YORBA LINDA. WOOOOO!
It was an accident. A simple mistake. We are ALL paying for it dearly. The saddest part is that now the children are paying too. Due to the media making such a big deal out of the situation, we now have to explain to small children what an adult chat line is…
How can a ‘phone number be a “Cute Slogan”?
Also, didn’t they know about the rule to alwys use 555 in a US ‘phone number to ensure it’s always fake? I thought everyone knew that.
this is crazy this happened at my school in massachussets too and the number is 1-800-EAT-DUST lol
oh my goodness… I saw this post, noticed it was in OC. Looked closer because I live in OC. Then I noticed what school it was. Guess who went to that Elementary School…
Ok…i am in love with this because i have like 100 kids from this school at my middle school…i will soooooo tell my frind abou this tommaorw