I love how The Consumerist doesn't pull punches

[giza]

An image from their current top story:



It's my understanding that Consumer Reports (owned by Consumers Union, who also owns The Consumerist) used to be this uppity and snarky back when they started out. So I guess this is like continuing the tradition!

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[tgeller.livejournal.com]

Consumer Reports has always been serious, and never really snarky. They show their nerve in being direct and unflinching -- IMHO, a much harder job than parody.

Anyway... I totally LOL'd when I saw that picture!

[simbab.livejournal.com]

s my understanding that Consumer Reports (owned by Consumers Union, who also owns The Consumerist) used to be this uppity and snarky back when they started out.

Uh, no. Consumerist is part of the Gawker universe of terminally hip snarksters.

I like the Encyclopedia Dramatica description of Consumerist: "Employees complain about having to do their jobs, consumers complain about not getting free shit. Rinse, repeat."

[giza.livejournal.com]

Not anymore. Consumerist changed hands on January 1st. (http://consumerist.com/5119817/consumers-union-buys-consumerist)

[miami-pony.livejournal.com]

I still find it funny that this variant of the swine flu (H1N1) has NEVER been found in swine at all.. Humans took the flu and mutated it, and swine are taking the blame for it. Sometime soon I will come up with a proper analogy for it.

[simbab.livejournal.com]

I reduced them pretty quickly to the crowd that complains about being abused by (Best Buy, Sony, Nintendo, etc. and so on) and then comes right back for more, genuinely surprised that these companies, that have treated them shittily in the past, are continuing to do so. They then expect everyone else to be also outraged instead of recognizing the basic pattern here, that retail corporations suck, the end.

Masochism plus whining is about as tolerable as a migraine headache for me, but everyone's got their own thing, I guess.

[camstone.livejournal.com]

Swine flu, the next STD.

[wally-wabbit.livejournal.com]

LOL!

Want the Wabbit Flu? :P