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The Groupon Guide to: Shame (Their idea of "funny")
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Posted on 06/04/2011 10:47:45 AM PDT by FlyVet

The Groupon Guide to: Shame

Like all emotions, shame sneaks into the pit of your stomach when you least expect it. Sometimes, however, biological or environmental triggers may cause you to feel shame even when you've got nothing to be ashamed of. Here's a guide to feeling shame appropriately:

The Situation: You've been caught cheating on an exam. Shameworthy?: No, unless the exam proctor explicitly forbade cheating by tattooing "No Cheating" on your forearm before the exam, or if the test questions were arranged to form an acrostic that spelled "DON'T CHEAT." If not, then cheating is not just allowed, it's encouraged, so that the test resembles real life.

The Situation: You're fired from work for stealing. Shameworthy?: Absolutely not! Only by stealing can you help your company update its shrinkage and disciplinary policies. March into your boss's office and demand an apology, a raise, and 15 minutes of unsupervised personal time in the CEO's private zoo.

The Situation: After eating from the Tree of Knowledge, you realize you're naked.

Shameworthy?: Heck no. The handful of states that ban public nudity do so only because the 1970 census declared those particular residents too ugly to be naked. Occasionally, public nudity is required, as on Election Day, when voters must enter voting booths nude to prove they're carrying only one ballot.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: groupon; grouponsays
Check out the "comment on our feelings board". Almost no one thinks it's "funny".

Groupon doesn't seem to understand the cheaters and thieves will be our future leaders in business and politics, as if there isn't enough corruption already, and will be looking for ways to punish them for their success. Or, maybe they can hire some of them, to undermine them from within.

1 posted on 06/04/2011 10:47:47 AM PDT by FlyVet
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To: FlyVet

What’s a “groupon?”


2 posted on 06/04/2011 12:38:36 PM PDT by Rudder (The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
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To: Rudder
What’s a “groupon?”

A jar of grey poupon that fell off the shelf and now you can't read the label correctly anymore.

3 posted on 06/04/2011 1:06:15 PM PDT by Moltke (Always retaliate first.)
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To: Moltke
Okay...for all I know, you may well be correct no matter how absurd it sounds.

is this a system?

4 posted on 06/04/2011 1:19:40 PM PDT by Rudder (The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
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To: Rudder

I have no idea at all. But when reading ‘Groupon’, the first thing that came to mind was ‘grey poupon’. Go figure. Association by rhyme I guess.


5 posted on 06/04/2011 3:22:07 PM PDT by Moltke (Always retaliate first.)
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To: Moltke

First to mind for me was a hybrid Grouper-Tarpon ... I thought to myself “now that’s one big fish,” lol.


6 posted on 06/04/2011 3:24:24 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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