Category: News

Today’s teenagers are not having sex as early as their parents did

Post author By web gangsta
Post date May 5, 2012

How old were you when you first had sex?

And if you have kids that age, have you taken the time to have THAT conversation with them, to ensure that your kids don’t make the same mistake (or have the same fun) that you had when you were their age?

Chances are, you haven’t. Web Watch doesn’t know many parents who have had that conversation at all.

But it may end up that today’s parents shouldn’t be that discouraged about their kids bumping uglies in an unresponsible manner, according to a recent report from the CDC.

Tags 10 Things, birth control, contraception, parenting, Relationships, survey, teenagers

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Only 15% of Americans avoid food poisoning by doing just one thing

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 17, 2012

Having food poisoning is not pretty, either for you or those around you.

Web Watch knows – the one time it hit us, we were trying to enjoy a group outing while on a trip away from home. You’d be surprised how quickly getting that ill, that quickly will identify who your real traveling companions are (hint: that number is close to zero during that time period — when it comes to food poisoning, you’re going to be mainly on your own).

So what can you do to avoid getting food poisoning?

Unfortunately, the majority of food poisoning occurs while you’re away from home, eating at restaurants with poor health scores or who happened to receive tainted food themselves.

In other words, when you’re eating out, there’s not much you can do if someone serves you bad food that really, really disagrees with you.

Tags 10 Things, e.coli, food, germs, health, How To, medical, News, shopping

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25 Ways to Tell that You’re Living in a Bubble

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 5, 2012

The other day, Web Watch was talking with an Internet-savvy friend of ours about the cool stuff we see online, and they surprised us by not knowing anything about the latest smartphone gaming craze, DRAW SOMETHING.

Seriously? The game has been out for over 2 months now, been all over the news. And while we haven’t explicitly mentioned it here, we figured that many of our faithful Web Watch readers had already installed it over their copy of Angry Birds.

What it really showed us was that our friend was living in their own little bubble world that they had created, to isolate themselves from the ‘net fluffernutter so they could concentrate on the really good stuff.

You know, kinda like what we do here every day at Web Watch.

Tags 10 Things, How To, Internet, Movies, Music, News, TV

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Pole-Dancing Classes for Children

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 26, 2012

Are you looking for something for your kids to do this year for summer camp?

Why not send them away to LEARN HOW TO POLE DANCE? All the kids are doing it, right?

Tags Cirque du Soleil, dancing, News, parenting, Party Talk

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Just like your underwear, sales are creeping up

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 7, 2012

Web Watch has previously covered news regarding how one can tell that the economy is picking up based on the increase in underwear sales.

But isn’t it time to take a look at exactly what type of worldwide retail trends we should be looking at when it comes to our underwear purchases?

Tags 10 Things, bra, business, News, shopping, underwear

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Pop Quiz: in an emergency, would you rather save your pet or another person?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 6, 2012

Web Watch would like to own a dog, but we’re more “borrow a dog” people over “own a dog” people. Too much hair and upkeep with a moving pet. We owned one of those beta fighting fish for a year or two. That seemed to work out okay, since the fish seemed to stay in its jar throughout the day.

But we’ve never owned a pet where we had an emotional connection that would come into play in an emergency situation.

So we ask you: in an emergency, if you only have one option – to save your pet or to save a person – which would you choose?

Tags pets, survey

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More scientific proof that men are funnier than women (but your spouse is funny, too)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 4, 2012

Web Watch has previously written about how MEN ARE FUNNIER THAN WOMEN before, so in some ways reporting on these latest findings is a bit like rubbing salt into a wound.

The difference in this survey is that the participants couldn’t consider any professional comedians in their answers… and even with that caveat, the results still came out the same.

Tags comedy, gender, survey

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Did Susan G Komen make the right decision?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 2, 2012

Pink Darth Vader Helmet
(because even though Darth Vader is evil, he still supports the fight against Breast Cancer)

Today, Web Watch received a flood of emails from friends and family regarding the Susan G. Komen Foundation pulling their financial contributions to Planned Parenthood.

There is even a petition asking Susan G Komen to restore their relationship with Planned Parenthood.

That there is controversy surrounding what the Susan G Komen Foundation does with their money, and that there is a brouhaha surrounding the marketing of the pink ribbon to raise money for breast cancer research, is nothing new. The people who are commenting on the petition are acting all shocked and surprised that Such A Thing Is Going On, when Web Watch has told you about this for years.

Tags breast cancer, charity, health, medical, News, petition