Snogging many 'risks meningitis'

[DoYouEverWonder]

10 February 2006

Snogging many different partners can quadruple a teenager's risk of meningitis, a study has found.

Kissing with tongues enables the potentially deadly meningococcal bacteria to pass between partners.

The Australian researchers who carried out the British Medical Journal study defined multiple partners as up to seven in a fortnight.

Lead researcher Robert Booy said teenagers should change their behaviour - but accepted most would not.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4696974.stm


Snogging? Must be a British term? I've never heard of it but that doesn't mean I'm not guilty.

[DS1]

1. think making out

with tongue

[KansDem]

24. "French kissing?" Didn't the GOP change that to "freedom kissing?"

About the time they changed "french fries" to "freedom fries" in the Congressional cafeteria...?

[BiggJawn]

2. Yeah, "Snogging"=kissing.

Kissing 7 different partners in a fortnight! Heavens!
Gawd forgive that you might FUCK that many, too!

Looks like thay caught on to our "Scare 'em into keeping their panties up" dogma down in Strylia...

Hey, Cobber, it doesn't WORK! Look at out teen preggers rate if you don't believe me!

[Tesha]

18. Am I the only DUer who watched the Harry Potter movies?

Snogging was involved in the latest episode.

Tesha

[BiggJawn]

21. Really??

Harry??? SNOGGING????
:D
Haven't seen it yet.

[Tesha]

22. No, Harry only *WISHES* for it. Hermione and Victor Krum! (NT)

[Miss Chybil]

3. Weird word, for sure.

I like "French kissing" better. Snogging? Not very romantic.

[enlightenment]

16. But you have to admit that there is a certain amount of

onomatopoeia in "snogging" -- if you're listening . . .
:evilgrin:

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Yeah, it's a Brit thing

[MissB]

5. Fascinating.

We always have an outbreak around here in December/January. Usually there is at least one teen involved, but more often it is younger kids (6 and under). I'm not thinking that crowd is seeing much snogging.

[TroglodyteScholar]

6. Snog?

Verb: snog (snogged, snogging)
Usage: Brit vulgar
1. Kiss and caress amorously


Strange.

[Buns_of_Fire]

19. Reference: Romeo and Juliet, Act V (the unabridged version):

ROMEO

...Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous snog
A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!
Here's to my love!

Drinks

O true apothecary!
Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a snog I die.

Dies

Will was a randy sort, he was. (A little necrophilic, too.)

[rzemanfl]

7. I can never remember how long a fortnight is either. May have

snogged and been snogged and not known it.

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. Play it again Sam

A snog is just a snog....

[f-bush]

17. I thought a fortnight meant twenty eight days, maybe I'm wrong?

[bleedingheart]

20. two weeks?

[rzemanfl]

25. A fortnight is two weeks (14 nights). n/t

[f-bush]

26. Thank you...

I knew it was measurement of some form of weeks. Thanks for setting the record straight.

[rzemanfl]

8. They should stay home and wank their willies in safety. n/t

[Bark Bark Bark]

10. The Most Awful Family In Britain

God, I haven't heard that word since the days of "Monty Python's Flying Circus:"

Mr Garibaldi: I heard you in the hall last night, snogging away!
Valerie Garibaldi: I was not snogging!!
Mr Garibaldi: Sounded like snogging to me! I could hear his great wet slobbering lips going at yer...and his hand going up yer--
Valerie Garibaldi: We was talking, we was NOT snogging!!
Mr Garibaldi: Talking about snogging, I'll bet...
Valerie Garibaldi: If you must know, we was talking about Council re-housing.
Mr Garibaldi: Where to re-house his right hand, that's all he was interested in!

[Crunchy Frog]

13. .

:rofl:

[HuffleClaw]

11. 'snogging' heehehehee

what a great word. sounds like a scare tactic to me. i bet focus on the family jumps on this one.

[Crunchy Frog]

12. Yes, a British term.

You need to watch more British comedy.:D

[daleo]

15. Smeggin' right they do. n/t

[Dogmudgeon]

14. Enough of the word games! KISSING KILLS!

Who can think of discussing the meaning of "snogging", when a new terror stalks the Youth of America (and Great Britain) -- Kissing!

--p!
We're all gonna die. Any day now.

[formercia]

23. The speed of light in furlongs per fortnight?

anything to keep from using that commie metric system.