“Groupon is bad at math!” the subject line of Amber’s e-mail to Consumerist proclaimed. I expected to see a poorly-calculated coupon discount or something else related to actual deals. But the error is even weirder than that. Groupon’s Earth Day deals page trumpets that the company is celebrating the planet’s 400th birthday. They offer no explanation for where this number came from, or why it’s missing approximately seven zeroes.
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Do those bags look very unsanitary to anyone else?
Doesn’t really matter since these days so many fruits and vegetables are coming preloaded with all kinds of fun contaminations like e coli and salmonella.
I’m sure they’re dishwasher safe…. kind of negates some of the “eco-friendliness” of them, but still
It is my understanding that dishwashers use less water than hand washing. I will stand corrected if anyone knows different.
That said, my preference is to use a plastic sandwich box, because you can clean them and dry them thoroughly. I don’t think I would use these, for fear of growing mold after being unable to dry them properly.
I have this and can never clean it to my satisfaction.
As beyonce might say, time to “upgrade ya” dishwasher.
This is crazy. We know from the bible it’s 6,000 to 10,000 years old. And the bible must be right, because God wrote the bible.
in English!
Even better … in Elizabethan English!
So… God speaks The Queen’s English?
Last time I saw God, he sounded more like a British rock star.
But that was in the ’70s.
But God himself was blatantly copying it all from “Monotheistic Religions For Dummies!”
totally not cool, man.
Was that a Caprica Press title?
Is anybody else a fan of Tim Minchin?
I only read one book, but it’s a good book, don’t you know
I act the way I act because the Good Book tells me so
If I wanna know how to be good, it’s to the Good Book that I go
‘Cos the Good Book is a book and it is good and it’s a book
I’ll believe that when I see a signed first edition.
if jesus could ride on dinos…
Bunk. We all know the Earth really is only three decades old. Nothing existed before I was born.
On and I am not conceited, i’m perfect.
My psychiatrist says I suffer from narcissism.
Pffft, yeah right. ‘Suffer’…
That’s total bull because I was here at least three years before that and I can state with some confidence that the Earth was present, I postulate its age to be in the 35 to 45 range, but science cannot know for certain
This is total bull because I was here at least three years before the earth was, estimating it’s total age to be about 28-29 years old.
Was Groupon taken over by some extreme religious group in a private placement deal?
Every Groupon email I’ve ever gotten has had some silly, funky, facetious statements. It’s a part of their style.
Winner winner chicken dinner!
I don’t think it looks a day over 317.
So, the Earth was born in 1612?
Those Groupon faces look creepy and stupid… like a Steve Oedekerk film.
Turns out this is supposed to be a joke, like it’s supposed to be funny.
https://twitter.com/#!/GrouponNJersey/status/192703359860477952
We’re not laughing because we don’t get it; we’re not laughing because it’s not fucking funny. :I
I don’t get it. Can someone explain it?
Good thing this is Groupon’s first attempt at injecting a little earth humor into their product descriptions (NOT!), otherwise the intolerance of a few anti-religion, humor impaired bloggers might rear its ugly head on a regular basis. :-/
If your joke requires an in-depth explanation for the majority of your audience, it is a poorly written joke. This was a poorly crafted joke.
Wait, this was a joke?
Well I followed the link you provided earlier and they attempted to explain the humor that was apparently present. Apollo 16 took place in 1972. The earth somehow answered 360 after someone sang How Old Are You? 360+40 and we get groupon’s determination that the Earth is 400 years old…hilarious I know.
Or perhaps you were thinking I was implying that my comment was a poorly crafted joke? I wasn’t, but it was probably just as funny as Groupon’s intentional “joke”. That is to say, neither contained any humor whatsoever.
I mean that Groupon’s “400 years old” was a joke. I get that Apollo 16 was 40 years ago, but where did 360 come from? 360 degrees in a circle? What does that have to do with age?
I’m so confused.
We are both confused on this. I understand that it was intended to be funny…but that’s about as far as my understanding of the humor goes. The explanation was barely coherent. I’m not sure if the earth replied 360 by rotating fully on its’ axis, or by simply being roughly spherical in shape. Either way, this “joke” was not funny.
The only way you could take this seriously is if you have a tectonic plate in your head that keeps shifting.
I’m sure that creationists will use this as proof that evolution is bogus.
Is it possible they are being sarcastic? Every single Groupon deal has a description with jokes in it.
The jokey/snarky tone of their offer descriptions really gets on my nerves. I h8 it.
“Yeah, but we love the moon….’cuz it is close to us…”
(Sorry for putting that back in your head. I could have gone with “I am Earth’s birthday party guest.”)
I think this is kinda funny. Earth Day/ birthday…and by saying 400 years old, it won’t piss off various religious groups or even scientists; it side-steps all the flaming between the two sides. It’s a creative compromise.
So what? They’re only off by a factor of about 1.1 million. Not much worse than your average Gallup poll.
By which I mean 11 million.
They’re using the same kind of math they did on their IPO.
The Consumerist, standing up and fighting for your rights on a daily basis.
STOP JOKING, GROUPON! Nobody appreciates your lame attempts at comedy, and the Consumerist is here to stuff you into a metaphorical locker for even trying.
*Grabs pitchfork*
Probably just baiting people into another round of hate-speech against Christians.
This must have been an engineer’s idea. He announced the idea, then walked out the door in slow motion. Then Neil De Grasse Tyson gave him a PhD just before he spontaneously grew a neckbeard and opened his car door and drove to his science club meeting.
I wish you did understand that young earth creationism does not represent the whole Christian? They may not even be mainstream worldwide.
I actually tried to google that figure after receiving that email and thinking, “what the deuce?? The earth was proven round 420 years ago…”
Heh heh… 420.
The earth (and everything on it) is three minutes old. Things older than three minutes you are seeing now, also your memories about things happened more than three minutes ago, are placed there when the earth was created, three minutes ago..
Wow that is so deep. [takes bong hit]
Thank you Edward Norton. And Earth.
Thank you Earthward Norton.
What the hell does Edward Norton have to do with this? Is he sponsoring Groupon now to take the attention away from the fact that he was fired from the Avengers movie?
wow.