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Safe Sex Ringtone for India, Funded by Bill and Melinda Gates
Posted by Mark Wilson at 1:15 AM on August 20, 2008
In order to thwart the spread of HIV in India, "condom a cappella" has been released by an organisation that's funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. A ringtone that's meant to promote safe sex, we thought that it might consist of a crying babies, nasty bodily functions or soliloquies from one's parents, but instead the ringer is a chant of "condom, condom!" And as everyone knows, if people chant a word on a mobile phone ringer, its correlating concept is immediately embraced by the youth of the world. [breitbart]
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behavin
Posted 1:53 AM 20/8/08
Here's the linky to their site: [www.condomcondom.org]
behavin
Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish
Posted 1:45 AM 20/8/08
That shot's like a centerfold for PC Magazine in the 80's.
Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish
psybacc
Posted 1:39 AM 20/8/08
I am so gay for bill gates right now.
psybacc
Monty
Posted 1:33 AM 20/8/08
Bill was so hot back then that he could even have a Macintosh in the background and it could not diminish his hotness. But, can we confirm that Bill was using condoms in the 90's? I have heard otherwise.
Monty
jayhawk11
Posted 1:26 AM 20/8/08
This picture makes me feel very, very insecure.
And is that an early concept of the BSOD in the background?
jayhawk11
tiffanyrules
Posted 1:24 AM 20/8/08
Haha wow, that is amazing. Better safe than sorry though... I'm not sure how easy access to emergency contraceptives - link to ebooks version is in India.
tiffanyrules
Rabid Penguin
Posted 1:22 AM 20/8/08
Ring. Ring.
Who's there.
Condom.
Condom who?
Rabid Penguin
Jimbuck
Posted 1:22 AM 20/8/08
I likey.
Jimbuck
hu_hu_cool
Posted 1:20 AM 20/8/08
Could someone post a link to it? maybe....
hu_hu_cool
hu_hu_cool
Posted 1:59 AM 20/8/08
@behavin: thats pretty catchy.
hu_hu_cool
drzeller
Posted 1:57 AM 20/8/08
@behavin: Is it just me, or does the soundwave graphic that builds as the song plays look a lot like a, well, condom?
D.
drzeller
dysthymia
Posted 1:56 AM 20/8/08
@Monty: "he could even have a Macintosh in the background" I have seen this picture a dozen times and never, ever expected a mac in the background.
dysthymia
ReynaldoRiv
Posted 2:27 AM 20/8/08
@vinnyr: As do I, but it's more likely crappy Monitor technology of the time.
ReynaldoRiv
vinnyr
Posted 2:21 AM 20/8/08
i like how the computer in the back of that picture looks like it blue screened!!!!
vinnyr
Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish
Posted 3:04 AM 20/8/08
@Mayor McRib: It's go time.
Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish
DisposableInterloper
Posted 2:58 AM 20/8/08
It might sound stupid, but it's even the stupid-sounding or the pointlessly subtle things might well have a respectable impact in the long run.
DisposableInterloper
bpapa9013
Posted 2:46 AM 20/8/08
Well, when you donate that much money to charity, some of it is going to be used for something stupid sooner or later...
Not that I'm complaining, I wanna find this ring tone as soon as I get off work...
bpapa9013
Mayor McRib
Posted 2:42 AM 20/8/08
mandelbaum....mandelbaum....mandelbaum
Mayor McRib
bignaz2k
Posted 3:46 AM 20/8/08
@Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish: You think you're better than me?
bignaz2k
Purple Dave
Posted 4:28 AM 20/8/08
They should just ship The Baby Borrowers (or, as I call it, Televized Birth Control) over there and show it to kids in school. If that doesn't teach them to never have kids, nothing will. Yeah, okay, its impact would probably be lessened considerably in a third-world nation, where they'd be looking at all the wonderful stuff more than the whole "parental experience" (which wouldn't even come close to matching the experience they'd be likely to have).
Purple Dave
Confuzius
Posted 6:12 AM 20/8/08
Does it happen to be to the tune of Tunak Tunak??!!
Condom, Condom
Condom, Condom
Wrap it up or you'll die die die!
Confuzius
darundal
Posted 1:37 AM 21/8/08
@Purple Dave: Do you think the kids deserve to be put through that?
darundal