texting

Small Screen

British Texting While Driving PSA Will Make You Think Twice, Squirm

4:20PM Andrew Belonsky | Britain isn’t fooling around when it comes to texting while behind the wheel, and a recent PSA attempts to — and does! — drive that point home. More »
People

Lily Allen’s Celebrity Status Prevents Her From Purchasing Prophylactics

8:32AM Jess McGuire | Pity Lily Allen, you bastards. Her full on celebrity status is preventing her from doing everyday things the rest of us simply take for granted. For instance, while yours truly can merrily skip down to the shops and buy a value pack of condoms, and then – if the mood takes me – wrap the daisy chain of dingers around my neck like a silk scarf and skip around the store singing “Hearts In Danger” by Southern Sons without anyone taking any notice at all, Lily can no longer enjoy the high of purchasing latex sheaths without feeling judged by the public. Lily Allen says she is too famous to buy condoms. The ‘Fear’ singer says fame prevents her from doing “regular daily stuff”, like buying contraception, without causing a fuss. More »

OMG Girl Snds 14K Txts 2 BFFs, Oldz Totez Mad @ Her LOL!!1!

2:29PM Jess McGuire | I thought I was keen on texting chums idiotic updates about my life, but my keypad happy thumbing ways are nothing compared to a thirteen year old school girl who sent over 14,000 text messages to her mates in just one month. Astounding. A 13-year old American girl sent 484 text messages every day during the month of December. That was a total of 14,528 texts for the entire month and an average of one message every two minutes while awake. Damn, she texts like I make Facebook status updates! Reida Hardesty’s father was shocked when he received the phone bill at the end of the month. “First, I laughed. I thought, ‘That’s insane, that’s impossible’,”the 45-year-old told The New York Post. Clearly Mr Hardesty underestimates a teenage girls ability to talk about nothing at length. More »