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what is a 'steamboat'

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medley · 09/02/2011 09:27

What is steamboat? My daughter, 15, was asked if she fancied a steamboat and replied 'I only steamboat with one person and he knows who he is'. Can anyone help?

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potplant · 09/02/2011 09:29

Try urban dictionary

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medley · 09/02/2011 09:38

thanks potplant. I did last night and it got me VERY worried. There are so many possibilities and they differ quite a lot - I need to know what the kids as using it to mean now, here in the UK, perhaps private school slang.

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Glamour · 09/02/2011 14:10

i cant be sure but a motorboat is when a lad would rub his face in the girls breasts so perhaps there linked

Enchantica · 09/02/2011 16:34

It will either be a guy ejaculating on a woman's chest and rubbing his balls in it or taking a dump on their chest and rubbing their face in it... I assume it is either the first or she is just joking around. Each to their own really but I think it will probably just be talk.

Teens probably try most things that aren't full on sex, before having proper sex.

I guess it could also mean ejaculating on her chest and that is all.

Here in Scotland we call drunk people 'steam boats' at times.

Does she have a boyfriend that you know of? Could they be experimenting?

Buda · 09/02/2011 16:39

It's a whole other world out there these days! Crikey. Shock

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medley · 09/02/2011 17:22

aagh! I googled it and another site said it was a way of taking cannabis by inhaling through a loo roll. Somewhere else it said it meant being drunk. But the words: 'fancy a steamboat' and 'only one person I'd steamboat with' don't imply it's drink. Not sure if I'd prefer it to be the sex thing or the drug thing. Has anyone got a 15 or 16 year old who might know the current lingo?

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Glamour · 09/02/2011 17:57

agree 100% with enchantica

i think you know the anwswer to the question really, i mean it seems pretty likely that she was talking about a sexual act, infact i would say she defo was, it could be all talk though as enchantica said, or she may be experimenting

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medley · 09/02/2011 18:14

Humm, guess on reflection, although pretty shocking that would be better than drugs. She will be 16 in April so guess it's naive to think that she's barely been kissed, but did hope things hadn't got this far, particularly without a long-term or serious boyfriend. I found these comments on her Formspring page so also very unhappy she's announced this to all 450 facebook friends (is this how it works?). I did warn her we'd monitor the sites she visits(no password whereas there is on her facebook account). What would you do? Have it out with her, ignore it, or continue checking to see what else she's up to? Was it wrong for me to read her Formspring?

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Nagoo · 09/02/2011 18:18

I'd stay quiet I think, sounds like banter to me. those that don't talk like they do remember!

Why should you not read her formspring, she must know anyone can, it's not like a diary now is it?

SecondhandRose · 09/02/2011 20:03

You could say this to her "dont write anything on FB that you wouldnt be happy to shout down all you school corridors".

Glamour · 09/02/2011 21:46

erm, i agree that it sounds like banter, not to sure what a formspring page is, but the impact facebook has is unreal, i dont have a facebook page but nearly everyone i know does, and nothings private with them, as soon as something happens everyone knows about instantly because they read it on ''facebook''. Grrrrr

i would keep quiet for now, like you said the page wasnt private so its not like you were snooping in the popular sense of the word. although if you are worried about anything else that comes up speak to her! just keep a closer eye on her behaviour than usual if this is playing on your mind, but it sounds like just banter

bethelbeth · 09/02/2011 21:51

Steamboats is to get drunk up here... Fingers crossed it's just daft facebook banter

cluelessnchaos · 09/02/2011 22:23

When I was a teenager a speedboat was a guy giving a girl oral sex and then blowing a raspberry, caused much hilarity and chat at the time but none of us did it, not sure about a steamboat though.

billie50 · 12/02/2011 12:36

i urban dictionaried it and got this

Steamboat
While suffering from acute flatulence, stick your ass in a girls breasts and fart

GentleOtter · 12/02/2011 12:45

I thought a steam boat was inhaling a joint from a long tube like the inner from a roll of tinfoil then removing your hand quickly from the end so lots of smoke would be inhaled.

Lollypolly · 12/02/2011 12:51

Here in Singapore and Malaysia, a steamboat is a type of fondue dish - you get a hot dish of broth and cook slivers of meat, fish and veg in it. It's very popular..... I will never look at my local steamboat restaurant in the same way again Grin

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