This new dating advice website HeTexted.com masks itself as a way to help women decipher text messages from boys, but is actually all about making fun of how "clueless" women are when it comes to men.
Leaving no form of warfare unexplored, Syrian forces employed a teenage form of warfare and sent out a text-message blast to phones across the country that said "Game Over" on Thursday, reportedly the bloodiest day of the country's 18-month civil war.
We sort of wish we didn't have to say this, but if you receive a text message from a "hitman" asking for $5,000 for your life, as thousands of Australians already have, do not pay it, just delete it.
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