• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    WTF is “Gold Moms Choice Award”? The newest warning label?

    If the Americans are so keen about banning books, they should really start with this one. Ever thought about “What if books could kill?” - This one can.

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      7 months ago

      It sounds like a bit of an award scam actually - there’s a disappointed recipient taking about it here.

      I don’t think there’s a lot of legal stuff around awards - you can pretty much just make one up and give it to things.

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          Hooray! - It’s a great honour to receive this award :)

          Incidentally, I’d like to present you with the MOMU* Award Gold Trophy for Comment Excellence🏆


          *MOMU = My Own Made Up Award

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      If memory serves correctly The Daily Wire invented their own awards just to say their journalism is “Award Winning”

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        I’ve met this kind of awards somewhere. One supermarket chain boasted that one of their businesses won the “Supermarket of the Year” award. And the next year it was again that one of their locations won that price. So I dug a bit deeper and learned that they own the local version of “Supermarket of the Year” award, and only markets of their own chain “participate”.

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      7 months ago

      Gold Moms

      Imagining a big pot of molten gold, and a middle aged woman in one of those perfect blonde helmet hair cuts slowly dipping her elderly mother into it, while laughing and screaming about how “I’m going to post you to instagram! I’m going to treasure you forever!”