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Pith & Vinegar: The Spinning of the Chum
• If you think diamonds are for never, visit boycottzales.com. More » -
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UPS Takes a Year to Deliver Package
Matt got a funny package the other day through UPS. Inside was a hydraulic gear puller set which he had no recollection of ordering. Checking its tracking history, he had in fact hadn't: More » -
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This is Not News: Bayer Knowingly Sold AIDS Infected Drugs
We were shocked yesterday to see this clip accusing Bayer of selling medicine they knew was infected with AIDS, but maybe we should've been shocked back in the mid 80's. More » -
Amazon
Freeze Poop!
For only $12.99, you can have possess the power to freeze poop with just a blast from this 12 oz can. It contains no CFC's and doesn't harm vegetation. Removes the "mush factor" from animal waste disposal without the pesky waiting for the forces of time and weather. More » -
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USAA Continues to Rule
In all the the various shenanigans and nightmare-drenched, neo-Kafka retellings of financial institution experiences, one company swoops to the top among Consumerist readers. More » -
Customer Service
T-Mobile Rep Parries Consumerist Complaint
Back in February, we ran Sam C's complaint about a T-Mobile price increase for text messages, raising it from five cents to ten cents per message. On the page detailing the change a footnote remarked how long the "discounted" price would remain in effect. Our complainant compared it to the novel 1984, wherein, "Winston notes that people had demonstrated to thank Big Brother because their chocolate ration had been increased to 20 grams. (when it had actually be reduced to 20 from 30)." More » -
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Mormon Walmart Conscripts Customers
Until now, you wrote off Walmart and refused to get suckered into the self-righteous indignation game, purple ribbons aside... More » -
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Complaints
UPDATE: Trifecta of Crappy Airplane Stories
After going through a ringer of horror with three different airlines on Friday, Sebastien and his family retreated home to try again the next day. On Saturday, he and his brood were "selectees" earmarked for special detention by TSA at the security checkpoint. Later, he noticed his ticket had "SSSS" printed in the lower right-hand corner. His return ticket, where he had no special inspeciton, had no such S's. More » -
Scumware
From Zero To Computer Meltdown In 18 Days
A couple years back, when visiting my parents in Boston, my father woke me up in a flurry of panic in the middle of the night, dragging me groggily to the computer room. Pointing at the screen, he showed me numerous desktop icons that were all directed at sites specializing in fetishistic porn sites dedicated to the sexual proclivities of cartoon characters. While my father did admit to having visited these sites on occasion "for laffs", he uncategorically denied installing any software from them. He begged me to clean them off his computer before my mother could discover what had happened. Five minutes later, I was back in bed fifty dollars richer and my father had been introduced to scumware for the first time. More » -
Greenpeace
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When Greenpeace mobilized to protest nuclear energy at a recent appearance by President Bush to promote his nuclear energy policy, they forgot to fill in all the boiler-plate. More » -
Commercials
I Am Man, Hear Me Roar... When My Heart Explodes
Misogynist reinterpretations of female empowerment songs always bring a smile to our faces, especially when it involves what appears to be a concerted campaign to give every man in American a quadruple simultaneous heart attack. More » -
Sprint
Frivolous and Lawsuits Have New Bed Partner: Useless
Yay! Free money. Clampants got a card in the mail yesterday from the "Benny/Lundberg Settlement" against Sprint, reading: More » -
Chocolate
Chocolate Makes Us More Mensa
When we reported that squirting the fudgy nourishment from the chocolate teat into your mouth by the gallon counter-intuitively , many of our readers, cramming a last 100 Grand Bar in between their cavity-laced teeth, immediately defenestrated themselves. This led to a marked plunge in our readership, so much so that we were commanded from on high to find something good and quasi-scientific to say about our pal the cocoa bean. More » -
Barbie
Barbie Is Still A Dirty Whore
Given the fact that most children's first experience oggling the fascinating mystery of the opposing gender's genitalia comes from pulling down a Barbie or Ken doll's genitalia and examining the amorphous mass of plastic at the crotch, it probably shouldn't be surprising that there's a lot of busy-body parental groups who are willing to launch consumerist campaigns any time Barbie exhibits a glimmer of sexuality. More » -
Terrorism
The Government: Reading Your Email to Fight Terrorism!
Every day, I wake up to bluebirds twittering outside my window, throw up the curtains to wash my face in buttery sunshine and sing a little song to myself, confident that this will be the last day that I can enjoy another one of life's little rights to privacy. More » -
The News
The News is Incredibly Newsy
• After losing Nick Denton as a customer yesterday, Vonage is scrabbling to calm investors. [NYT] More » -
Morning Deals
Morning Deals
• Today's Woot! is a Roomba with Convenience Pack for $149.99. There's some HOWTO's out there that give instructions on how to hack the little dirt devil and turn it into your love slave. More »
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