Coupons Gone Wild

Well this is not a news article, this is more like a phenomena that has become a way of life for some. My wonderful boyfriend turned me to this phenomena, so I thank him again. I'll give you a brief history of when the first coupon made its appearance, but I'm not going to give you any boring history lesson. In 1887 Coca-Cola company was created in Atlanta with one of the partners being Asa Candler, he was the man who was behind the first coupon. He had a new and ingenious way of marketing their product, so he created coupons for one free drink of their product Coca-Cola.

By 1913 Coca-Cola had redeemed 8.5 million tickets, but widespread use of coupons in US didn't start until 1909. During the depression in 1930, coupon use shot up dramatically. In 1940 big chain grocery stores began to use coupons to attract more customers away from the local markets.

Well there you have a brief history of coupons, but I should get back to the point of this blog. Now there is in a way this way of life or culture called "Extreme Couponing", they have even made a reality show called Extreme Couponing. Basically this is a show about people who collect coupons to purchase massive amounts of food, hygiene, beauty and other products. Those purchases might go over 1000$, yet with the help of coupons and sometimes some store card they only pay like 10$ of the 1000$.

Even to me this was quite a shock, how can these people do this. Well they just found a loophole in the system, which isn't bad. You might think, why am I doing a Idiocracy News blog about this. Well let me explain, because I do have a good reason.
Some of these extreme couponers are insane, they buy all the stuff and hoard it. You find they have shelves full of useless products, well useless for them. Like some own over 4000 diapers and doesn't have children, they just say they might get children. Also couples that don't have children buy massive amounts of anything they can get their hands on just cause its cheap or free. This is where my mind just goes to mush, why the fuck do these people buy so much. I know some of them might be those 2012 Mayan doomsday dickheads, they must get enough stock to survive. That is just insane I think, nobody has ever proven that this Mayan doomsday shit is even true. Others then again just hoard for no reason, just gather up and wank off while watching their stock.
Now on a more sane and smart light, some who have large families buy them to save up for their children's future. Others use this loophole to buy large amounts of stuff and then donate like 80% to 90% to charities, only keeping enough for themselves to survive.
I suppose there are so many reasons why some do this, but there are those who use this for their own idiotic selfish gains. If you'd ask me would I do this, I would say yes I would. Still I wouldn't buy in the amounts they do, I would only buy what I need and that's it. Also this extreme couponing phenomena mostly seems to be a American thing, maybe in Canada as well.

What do you think of this, comments are very welcome.

Eggs Of Mystery

Once again my wonderful boyfriend turned me to this article, this is kinda disturbing. LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming) has done a survey with 2000 participants, 33% of young adults of ages between 16 and 23 do not know where eggs come from, some even said eggs are made of wheat of maize. Also of the same age group, 36% do not know that bacon comes from pigs. More ignorance came from this group, cause 40% did not know that cows produce milk. They even gave this group a challenge, to link pictures to which animal or crop produces it. The sad thing was that only 41% of those young adults linked butter to cows, so 59% didn't know that even if they most likely use butter everyday.

My thoughts on this, its disturbing how stupid and ignorant the young adults these days are. It just baffles me how they could be so ignorant, like how can't they know that cows produce milk. On most milk cartons, bottles and bags they have a picture of a cow on it, which is pretty logical since COWS PRODUCE MILK!!!

I have no idea how young adults can get this stupid, I learned these things when I was very young. These people want to become world leaders, big business tycoons or international spies, well okay that last one was a joke. Still where the hell do these dumbasses think milk comes from, a dogs ass. Maybe before they aspire to become something big, they should get the simple facts of life in order.

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Go Go Orville

Once again my wonderful boyfriend gave me this article, so hats off to him. Most of us remember the pain of the loss of a dear pet, we'll never forget that pet and nothing can replace a dear pet. Bart Jansen, a Dutch artist had to go through this pain as his pet cat Orville (named after the aviator Orville Wright) was run over. Well Mr. Jansen decided to have Orville stuffed, which sounds fine. This is when it gets weird, Jansen teamed up with a radio controlled helicopter flyer Arjen Beltman. Well Arjen helped Jansen, he tuned Orville into a helicopter. This is a part of Jansen's art, so Orville now is art.

Now my thoughts on this, this is fucking creepy. I know its funny, gave me a smile when I first saw it. Still this is fucking creepy, a Orvillecopter. What the hell was this guy trying to do, turn his dead cat into cyborg that would destroy mankind or the next Inspector Gadget. Whatever his reasons for this was, he's a fucking nut. I have heard of animal lovers and pet lovers, even saw the Showtime Bullshit! episode with pet lovers. There I saw how some people take their love for pets to a whole new level, one guy had even designed a line of fake testicles for animals. I don't know why Jansen did this, I would have been okay if he just had Orville stuffed. People do crazy things and Mr. Jansen has done it in spades, if its art I just don't get it.

If you want to read the article (and laugh) yourself, please click here.

First Bank of Facebook

This news article has been given to me by my brother, something from Australia. Well this 17 year old girl was helping her grandmother count her savings, that is very nice of her. For some reason she posted a picture of a stack of money on Facebook, commenting on it being a large sum of cash. This post was made 4pm and 11:30pm the same day masked men broke into her home, luckily the cash wasn't at her house and nobody got hurt. Still the men did steal some money personal belongings from her home, again nobody was hurt.

Well my thoughts on this, she was a fucking dumbass. Why didn't she just post a sign "come rob me, I got lots of money", cause that's what she basically did. What in the world made her think "hey I'll post a picture of this stack of money", why would anyone do something so stupid. Facebook isn't known to be so safe, mostly because lots of people fail to set the security settings in the right way. Also many have the most idiotic passwords ever, so that's why its easy for criminals to get all they need from them. I'm happy that nobody was hurt, but she is one of the dumbest I've seen in a while. Hope she learned a lesson from this, don't brag how much you got money on Facebook.

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Cleaning Fairy Strikes Again

This is something I found myself as I was browsing through the articles, I think this fits right in here with the other idiots. This takes place in Ohio, in a town called West Lake. Susan Warren had broken into the home of Sherry Bush, well first thing to comes in mind that she broke in to burgle the place. Sadly the logical reason was wrong this time, Susan did not break into the home of Sherry to steal. Instead she did something that nobody could expect, she broke in to clean the house. That's right, she broke in just to clean. It gets worse, Susan actually left a bill written on a napkin of 75 dollars and her phone number. She already had a criminal record for breaking and entering, so now she might be facing jail time.

Now my thoughts on this, she is a idiot. What in the world possessed her to do something like this, she claimed that she was desperate for money. That is bullshit, if she was so desperate for money then get some clients that want their house cleaned. I really don't know what it is, but when you break into someones home you steal things or trash the place. The weirdest thing is, that she has a cleaning service called Sue Warren Cleaning. So why the fuck did she break in, I just can't fathom this. Someone needs to slap her in the back of her head and wake her up, tell her that "breaking into others homes is a crime, even if you just clean there".

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Mayan Doomsday Calendar "BUSTED"

My brother turned me to this article, but this isn't that much about the article itself. This is more what the article busts, something I find completely insane. Most of you are likely to know the Mayan calendar that supposedly predicts that the end of the world is 21st of December 2012, for those who don't know go look it up. Anyway recently researchers found new astronomical tables carved while excavating the lost city of Xultún in present-day Guatemala. Well those tables have a little bit different story to tell us, these tables pre-date the oldest known codex by about 500 years and span over 7000 years. Whoops....so the tables we have come to know so far are the older version, according to this new table they found means the "doomsday" is far off. Well really far off, very far.....well you get the point.

My own thoughts on this, those fucking Mayan doomsday assholes just made a huge mistake. Also like in the Showtime series Bullshit, they already slammed these jerks down and now its my turn. Those fucking loonies are insane, nobody can predict anything, the freaking future isn't set yet and it most certainly isn't written in the stars. They are just big hot spheres of gas, also most of them that we see now have long since blown up. Also where the fuck in Mayan history have they said that the world would end when their calendar ends, tell me where is it said. Simple answer, they never said it you bunch of loons. I mean its insane to give your life to a bunch of flickering lights in the night sky that might not even be there anymore, our lives aren't controlled or predicted because some photons that come from a star millions of light years away say so.

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Politics Politics Politics

This time I decided to go with politics, sort of my favorite subject on finding idiotic behavior. Well the President of United States has done something this time, but its not him who is the idiot here. While the President was awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom to a Polish resistance fighter, he gave a speech after it. There he accidentally made a small mistake, he was talking about the Nazi death camps in Poland. Then he referred to them as the "Polish Death Camp", this enraged the Poles and Polish-Americans. They didn't like when he said Polish Death Camp, that was just a mistake.

What makes me think that those people are idiots, everyone makes mistakes. They have to understand that its high doubtful that President Obama intentionally meant to insult them. Being a President of a country, let alone United States can't be a easy job. Maybe they should concentrate on something more important than one little mistake, give they guy a break.

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