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    Class Only Works for Teacher

    Edit Now. Pay Later Never.

    Click This Post One Million Times to Save a Baby Seal!

    A Hipster Grifter-esque Affair

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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    10/27/09

    In reply to Class Only Works for Teacher
    Those who can't, teach. And they suck cash out of the wallets of the gullible. #scams
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    10/27/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: College! #scams
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    Image of goetz goetz
    10/27/09

    In reply to Class Only Works for Teacher
    It's a pyramid scheme, selling magazine subscriptions door-to-door. #scams
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    Image of se7a7n7 se7a7n7
    10/27/09

    In reply to Class Only Works for Teacher
    She also offers VCR repair classes. #scams
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    10/27/09

    In reply to Class Only Works for Teacher
    "intimate class" = 1 attendee

    "we'll send you the location after you sign up" = we're expecting stalkers #scams
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    10/28/09

    @depardoo: No, it means "we're not gonna book a space until we're sure this class is gonna pay for itself.

    I'm in the social media teaching racket, or was until recently. I've been teaching this stuff for longer than it's had a proper name, but in the last year it seems that every douchenozzle with a Twitter account is charging three figures for an afternoon of "Social Media 101." It's mortifying to those of us who actually have something to teach and consider teaching an honorable profession, rather than a quick buck source to tack on to your day job in case you get fired.

    I mean, there are people with ads in the paper, $150 for a two-hour class. And these people were sitting in MY class six months ago. I'm good, but no way can I turn out a guru that fast. #scams
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    Image of lil red lil red
    10/27/09

    In reply to Class Only Works for Teacher
    Does the class just hand out applications for jobs at Huffington Post? #scams
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    Image of Chore Boy Chore Boy
    10/27/09

    In reply to Class Only Works for Teacher
    Awww! Look you're making her blush!

    Or is that the gin? #scams
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    Image of Drunken Economist Drunken Economist
    10/13/09

    In reply to A Hipster Grifter-esque Affair
    Yikes, it's like Rae Dawn Chong got hit with a truck. Or a rolling pin.
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    Edited by Drunken Economist at 10/13/09 6:35 AM Drunken Economist was starred Drunken Economist was unstarred
    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    10/12/09

    In reply to Edit Now. Pay Later Never.
    EIC = freelance?
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    Image of sarrible sarrible
    10/12/09

    In reply to Edit Now. Pay Later Never.
    I think we need a new word for "bullshit."
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    Image of Aatom Aatom
    10/12/09

    In reply to Edit Now. Pay Later Never.
    Isn't this just another way to say "be a blogger"?
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    Image of NotSafeForLife NotSafeForLife
    10/12/09

    @Aatom: It looks a little better on the resume, but yeah.
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    Image of Maulleigh Maulleigh
    10/10/09

    In reply to Click This Post One Million Times to Save a Baby Seal!
    I totally bought that Dawn bottle because of the baby seal and I'm not kidding.
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    Image of krismry krismry
    10/09/09

    In reply to Click This Post One Million Times to Save a Baby Seal!
    Dawn turned out to be pretty good for washing the oil off birds whose feathers got caught in oil spills. Sometimes things in the humaniac movement are inconveniently complicated.
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    Image of Gonkette Gonkette
    10/09/09

    In reply to Click This Post One Million Times to Save a Baby Seal!
    I've had this problem today over the ConAgra fan group going around on Facebook: "Join the ConAgra Foods Foundation, Help me fight child hunger. When you become a fan of ConAgra Foods Foundation, they'll donate $10 to Feeding America - up to $100,000 through Oct. 10th!" They have just over half the maximum members; only about $54,000 will (supposedly) be donated to Feeding America.

    Yet this is a terrible company. Environmental issues, labor issues, health issues, ethical issues. Becoming a "fan" comes with an implicit approval of the company, but refusing to do so means withholding a sum of money from a children's hunger charity based on a moral stance. Even if I donate $10 to the charity on my own, I'm still aware of the $10 I could be donating but am not. What's a girl to do?

    (PS: Become a part of the quandry! [bit.ly])
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    Image of trustsatan trustsatan
    10/09/09

    In reply to Click This Post One Million Times to Save a Baby Seal!
    I am tired of people pretending that product marketing is anything but the work of the fucking devil. Why can't consumer products be judged on their merits, not how "edgy" their nonsensical short films are or how deep the manure pool of their disingenous emotional pleas are. Proctor & Gamble using animal rights as marketing tool? Cognitive dissonance, anyone?
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    Image of Mike Byhoff Mike Byhoff
    10/09/09

    In reply to Click This Post One Million Times to Save a Baby Seal!
    For me, what would work far better would be to clip enough coupons to see the CEO of Dawn® flogged in public.
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