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New app saves you from drunk texting disasters!
05.06.2015
04:34 pm
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For better or for worse, our highest priority as a civilization is probably avoiding social faux pas—more than climate change, more than a cure for cancer, more even than an end to world hunger, we just want to escape shame! Technology has only made these social anxieties more intense. We’ve all sent a regrettable text, whether typo/autocorrect error, a drunken mistake or the dreaded accidental “sending of a text to the person the text was about” (as brilliantly demonstrated below by comedian David O’Doherty). Finally though, there is hope!

A “Chicago-born entrepreneur” (okay, whatever) named Maci Peterson has recently developed On Second Thought, an app that could very well save us the embarrassment of texting disasters by putting a 60 second delay on all messages, giving you time to reread, rethink, regret and correct. From the site:

Never regret another message.

We understand, mistakes happen. Whether we’ve accidentally sent our boss a message meant for our spouse, or auto-correct has made us look like a jerk, we’ve all been there. With On Second Thought we can undo those mistakes before anyone knows we’ve made them. All you have to do is swipe your message left or right within moments after hitting “Send.”

Peterson was inspired by her own experience, once intending to send an ex “Hey, for some reason I keep missing your calls,” which was autocorrected to “Hey, for some reason I keep missing your cock.”

There but for the grace of God go we all!
 

 
Via Chicagoist

Posted by Amber Frost
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05.06.2015
04:34 pm
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10 sexting codes parents should know
12.07.2011
03:18 pm
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A handy guide to sexting in 2011. Do teens and adults really use these?
 
(via The World’s Best Ever)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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12.07.2011
03:18 pm
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Your Facebook Status Can Wait
08.26.2011
12:24 pm
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This sign, by Jason “Jay Shells” Shelowitz for his “Metropolitan Etiquette Authority” project deserves a standing ovation. Bravo! 

(via TDW)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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08.26.2011
12:24 pm
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She texted, they kicked her out
06.06.2011
10:29 pm
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At the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, Texas, when they say “no talking” or “stop texting” during a movie, they really mean it. This is hilarious:

As many of you know, I really can’t abide people who talk during a movie. A couple of years ago I was accosted in the Village parking lot by a patron who was warned for talking in a movie. I’ve nearly come to blows more than a few times over the years with rude customers over the same issue. When we adopted our strict no talking policy back in 1997 we knew we were going to alienate some of our patrons. That was the plan. If you can’t change your behavior and be quiet (or unilluminated) during a movie, then we don’t want you at our venue. Follow our rules, or get the hell out and don’t come back until you can.

Recently, we had a situation where a customer persisted in texting in the theater despite two warnings to stop. Our policy at that point is to eject the customer without a refund, which is exactly what went down that night.  Luckily, this former patron was so incensed at being kicked out, she quickly called the office and left us the raw ingredients for our latest “Don’t Talk or Text” PSA. You can check it out below, or come to the Alamo this weekend where the video will be playing before all of our R-rated movies.

Ma’am, you may be free to text in all the other theaters in the Magnited States of America, but here at our “little crappy ass theater,” you are not. Why you may ask? Well, we actually do give a f*$k.

Sincerely,

Tim League
Founder/CEO
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema

 

 
Thank you Adam Parfrey!

Posted by Richard Metzger
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06.06.2011
10:29 pm
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