Image via Wikipedia
In an initiative that I think is a good idea, but I’ll still take the piss out of, health execs in the North East are offering entries into a draw to win a raffle in exchange for 16-24 year-olds taking chlamydia tests. Depending on which article you read, different health authorities are taking credit for it but I believe the overall aim for all of them is to reach government targets – I assume for numbers tested, not for number of positive results.
I don’t know why Chlamydia is specified, perhaps as it’s an easy test – the actual “piss in a pot”. Other tests can be somewhat more… invasive. From blood samples to having a whacking cotton bud thrust down your Jap’s eye. And you can think yourselves lucky I picked the picture I did to pop at the top of this post. There’s a nice one on Wikipedia of a penis with discharge coming out of the top of it.
But what do you win if you don’t have Chlamydia? A booby prize? A ceramic Dusty Bin? And isn’t offering a holiday for 4 to Ibiza to a 21 year-old effectively saying “bad luck, you’ve not got an STD… But here’s your chance to get a whole ******* boatload!!!!”?
Either way, get your “entries” in quickly as the competition ends on the 30th of May.
Is it me or isn’t it usually chav kids who are shagging about and getting diseases? And now they’re getting free holidays to join the adult chavs on the beaches? Makes me not want to travel anywhere…
Or travel somewhere nice like Asia. Then you just have to dodge the aging pop stars who’re trying to shag children.