Using the internet for free food? 242
GreyOrange writes "With all the offers for free food on the internet how can a hungry person differitiate between the bogus ones and the ones that fill the tummy? One legitimate offer I've found so far is from www.jellybelly.com were they give you a free sample. But theres a tremendous amount of websites that are missleading and offering food in exchange for credit application and other horrible things like spam and never living up to their end of the deal. Got any good websites for free edibles, how about other things that might be of equal value that are not bogus. How about some methods you have picked up for all you veterans out there. Is there a directery out there that is true to its word, how about a wikipedia page?"
April Fools: An Important Message (Score:1, Insightful)
page for April Fools Day. As a united userbase, we must take a stand. Enough is enough. If
an attempt is going to be made at the funny, it should be bold and [eff.org]
pervasive. Right now regular Slashdot readers tremble at the approach of April due to
the impending parade of sickening unfunny that is April Fools on Slashdot.
If you're SICK OF IT and FED UP, mod this post up. If you're afraid of the "metamod
consequences", us
This year is higher quality, MAYBE (Score:5, Informative)
It is a pretty good way to see some of the lamest submissions that make it into Ask Slashdot - the ones that get posted are often lame, but these are orders of magnitude beyond that.
I vote to keep it.
MOD PARENT UP!!! (Score:5, Insightful)
Please take note of the from the real-submissions-unedited dept. subtitle under each post. These posts were submitted as serious questions and that's what makes them so funny. I think it's great that the editors are sharing with us some of the lamest posts that they've had to read through.
Keep 'em coming!
Re:This year is higher quality, MAYBE (Score:3, Funny)
Your post is at +5 - you succeeded again!
Re:If you can take a joke mod this up (Score:2)
Looks like thousands of readers actually care about your post enough to do just that . . . APRIL FOOLS!!
Re:April Fools: An Important Message (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:April Fools: An Important Message (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:April Fools: An Important Message (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:April Fools: An Important Message (Score:4, Insightful)
Just because we're nerds and supposedly more intelligent than average hu-mans doesn't mean we're not still stupid as hell.
Why it sucks (Score:5, Interesting)
The April Fool's Days in the past used to be great because you never knew which was real and which was fake. A really absurd story might have this strange grain of reality in it, and it would turn out to be true. Then the seemingly benign announcement would turn out to be a great prank. People would still be referencing the April Fool's posts in their comments on April 2nd.
The point of an April Fool's joke is to actually fall for the joke. Not this lame, "it's stupid so we'll post it" strategy that michael is employing. Real-life l33t names? Usenet audio? Using the internet for free food? These barely even qualify as April Fool's jokes. Most of them aren't even trying to fool you with anything. Posting really stupid shit isn't funny, and it's not clever.
What's worse, I know of several groups that crafted well-done April Fool's jokes and submitted them for today, and they have been rejected. Their greatness was that some of them were half-true, some were false but had entire websites and everything set up, and some were completely absurd but totally true.
Instead, we get "Using the internet for free food?"
Re:April Fools: An Important Message (Score:2)
Re:April Fools: An Important Message (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:April Fools: An Important Message (Score:2)
Re:April Fools: An Important Message (Score:4, Informative)
Maybe it's not a real good fit for April Fools, but I think it's as good a time as any, and I for one enjoy the opportunity to look at some of the submissions that we otherwise wouldn't have the opportunity to.
If you honestly have that much of a problem with it, take a day off from
Re:April Fools: An Important Message (Score:3, Funny)
In one of the oddest moves yet, Guillaume Desnoix (head of the JDistro [jdistro.com] project) has ported the open source Kaffe [kaffe.org] Java Virtual Machine to his Apple ][c. When asked why he did it, he said, "The main reason was to fasten my programming daily work. I felt a little limited by the 6502 instructions and wanted to enjoy the highlevel bytecode of Java." Read the full scoop over at JavaLobby [javalobby.org].
Re:April Fools: An Important Message (Score:2)
Sheesh, why don't you just not go to Slashdot on April 1? It's one day out of the year.
Re:April Fools: An Important Message (Score:2)
the impending parade of sickening unfunny that is April Fools on Slashdot."
Well I haveta agree, it really sucks that Slashdot is only serious 364 days out of the year.
I actually laughed at this one. (Score:2)
Re:April Fools: An Important Message (Score:2)
Re:April Fools: An Important Message (Score:2, Informative)
Oh wait this is slashdot, the domain of the superior geek. No laughs and sex.
Re:April Fools: An Important Message (Score:2)
Google causes C-N-K style event in real life (Score:2)
She understood that it was an April Fool's joke which had hit the big time, but was too hazy on what a gigabyte was to understand why it was funny.
Re:April Fools: An Important Message (Score:2)
Think Nazi food critics.
Yum! (Score:4, Funny)
Dumb (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Dumb (Score:2)
I wouldn't mind finding some free goodies online, and I definately could've used some free food last year when I was in college.
Re:Dumb (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Dumb (Score:2)
Besides grandparent that is.
Re:Dumb (Score:2)
Re:Dumb (Score:2)
These actually provoke creative responses rather than 'use Google!' or 'hire a lawyer!'
Nasubi!! (Score:2)
Wiki (Score:3, Funny)
Foo (Score:2, Funny)
I wonder if they have red herring flavor yet
That makes me sad (Score:4, Funny)
god help.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:god help.. (Score:2)
My only question... (Score:2)
--trb
Re:god help.. (Score:2)
If you can't take a day of sillyness on a web page, then you are really too serious of a person and should seek theropy. Of course, people who stay around just to bitch in stead of just not coming to slashdot REALLY need theorpy because they seem to think there day can't go on without it.
Buying a Car (Score:5, Funny)
Step 1) Ruin Credit Horribly.
Step 2) Go around town applying for car loans.
Step 3) Rake in the free dough!
Re:Buying a Car (Score:2)
Re:Buying a Car (Score:2)
Theoretically, they could give you a 0-second loan.
Re:Buying a Car (Score:3, Informative)
Sadly, they always approve you -- but would you take out a loan at 38.4% interest?
(Did I mention that I love the credit agencies?)
Re:Buying a Car (Score:2)
Let me get this straight... (Score:2, Funny)
Sure, it's not a steak, but com'on, it's free? What did you expect?
Okay. I'm going to the pub. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Okay. I'm going to the pub. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Okay. I'm going to the pub. (Score:2)
Funny? (Score:2)
Free Fast Food (Score:2, Funny)
My mom used to do this. Of course, she's an evil being who is currently serving 25 years for a hire-to-kill fo
Re:Free Fast Food (Score:3, Funny)
OT - True story (Score:3, Funny)
When I was 19, I landed a job working as a waiter on Amtrak (America's nationalized passenger railroad, in case you're overseas) as a Summer job. It was a good job with more money and benefits than anything I'd done before. Since railroad work has a history of being somewhat dangerous, the job came with automatic life insurance. Something like $10K from the railroad and $75K from the union. This was at a time when my family's home in suburban Los Angeles was as
Ummmmm.... (Score:2)
Spam [spam.com] is food, you insensitive clod!
-psy
Pull my filter... (Score:3, Funny)
Free food MAKES UP the internet (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Free food MAKES UP the internet (Score:2)
Non-subscriber.
Public Use workstations. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Public Use workstations. (Score:2, Funny)
I was changing a user's keyboard and it was FULL of crackers, chips, whatever else she had been eating over her keyboard for who knows how long.
I was appalled and said this was the most disgusting keyboard I have ever seen.
Her: You should see my floors at home, you could eat off of them.
Me: I could eat off of your keyboard, there's a whole damn meal in it!!!
Re:Public Use workstations. (Score:2)
Re:Public Use workstations. (Score:2, Funny)
They're people!
Keyboard crumbs are made from people!
O...M...G... (Score:2)
With all the offers for free food on the internet how can a hungry person differitiate between the bogus ones and the ones that fill the tummy?
This takes cockroaching to a new level, dude...
freshmeat. (Score:4, Funny)
Come on...every slashdotter should know that site.
Excellent job promoting www.jellybelly.com! (Score:2)
Excellent job promoting www.jellybelly.com! You, Sir, deserve both a pay raise and a promotion!
My vote for best food. (Score:5, Funny)
Even if... (Score:2)
A bit late (Score:4, Informative)
Unfortunately the're no longer many money burning web ventures.
Fucking april fools bullshit. (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Fucking april fools bullshit. (Score:2)
A lot of stores have clerks handing out free samples of food (often pizza - yum
One has to think that it's kind of counter-productive in a way, tho. After all, we all know that going to the grocery store hungry results in a spending spree
Or... maybe not. Chicken Barbecue Ranch Pizza Samples sure burned my wallet last week
Re:Fucking april fools bullshit. (Score:2)
free dinner? (Score:3, Funny)
And no, I've never done this. Ever. Not even when I was a poor student. Really!
Re:free dinner? (Score:2)
Forget the free food (Score:2)
Food is for pu55ie5 (Score:2)
http://www.surbiton.com/enough/beer.html
Seriously, we need to liberate beer:
http://members.aol.com/Dbix7/beer.html
Or if your near Atlanta:
http://www.atlanticbeerclub.com/
Hmm (Score:2)
Just listen to the Bart (Score:2)
No! Don't go there!!! (Score:2)
I didn't know it was a porn site before I put that up.
I should have checked first. Sorry.
New Filter for Slashdot (Score:3, Insightful)
Free sample (Score:2, Funny)
Congratulations, we may have
Free food, the ugly truth (Score:5, Funny)
She logged onto a web site, expecting to find some innocent pop-up p0rn and dialer windows. Instead, she got a popup reading "Click here and get a free pizza!" Like a fool, she clicked on the popup. A few minutes and a registration page later, she got an email titled "Read this, activate your free pizza delivery!".
You know what she should have done. Delete the email. Just delete it and forget about it. But no, what did she do? She opened it and read it. The email read: "Thank you for opening this email. Through the magic of Outlook Security we have run a software agent that has activated your PC's modem and dialed our central computer. Using called-id we have identified your telephone number and we now know your name, street number, and postal code. The pizza you have ordered is SPICY BEEF and will be delivered to your door in TEN MINUTES".
You could tell from the capitals that SOMETHING TERRIBLE was going on.
The pizza arrived. Inexorably, like a hangover on Sunday morning, a small white van drove up to the house and a man stepped out, dressed in white and carrying a flat pizza tray.
What could she do? "Run!" I hear you scream. "Hide", perhaps? "Release the hounds?" No, she calmly opened the door and accepted the pizza box.
Open... the... box...
Open... the... box...
The smell of warm pizza did a BDSM on her conscious mind and she found herself opening the pizza box...
What did she find?
( ) A Hot'n spicy Beef pizza for four
( ) A CD-ROM labelled "Do Not Play"
( ) A mercedes, a portable phone, and a laughing Dutchman
( ) CowboyNeal
( ) Yes
( ) I'm a vegetarian, you insensitive clod!
Well, the answer is stranger than any of these. She found a small piece of paper. Printed on it were the words: "Missing field! Please click back and enter full name!"
You know... (Score:2)
seriously (Score:5, Informative)
But if you are really interested in free stuff, may I suggest FatWallet's Free Stuff [fatwallet.com] forum. FW is "known" for its Hot Deals forum so I imagine the Free forum would be of substance as well.
I would guess sites like Anandtech and bargainshare.net would have similar forums.
Nanotech == near-zero cost food (Score:2)
With the democratization of molecular manufacturing [foresight.org], anyone will be able to download a "molecular blueprint (scan)" of any object -- including food, clothing, iPods, diamond, etc. -- and recycle local component molecules into that configuration. Of course this doesn't mean that you can transmute nitrogen into gold, but it does mean that you can turn the raw atomic material in, say, Ethiopian compost, i
Zero cost? Unlikely. (Score:2)
Also practice, simple economics would mean that the price of "Ethiopian compost" and other suitable raw materials would rise due to increased demand.
That's not to say it wouldn't have some interesting economic effects, though. Totally different classes of products would potentially become convertable...
Re:Zero cost? Unlikely. (Score:2)
somebody still has to pay the electric bill...
The same molecular manufacturing process that assembles the food can also make highly efficient solar panels that provide the power for the molecular manufacturing process... bootstrapping your self-sufficiency.
simple economics would mean that the price of "Ethiopian compost" and other suitable raw materials would rise due to increased demand.
There's an over-abundance of suitable raw material all
Re:Nanotech == near-zero cost food (Score:2)
Dan's Chocolates (Score:3, Interesting)
The chocolate was pretty good, though I personally didn't order again (I still like See's better). What's amazing is that, even after that expensive publicity stunt and the
What's Wrong With Free Spam? (Score:2)
What do you mean, "horrible"? Spam is good food!
P2P food sharing program. (Score:5, Funny)
Go online, fire up "Snackster" and check what's out there. Oh look, via Snackster's geographic IP address location logic you see that a guy two blocks away has three two day old tamales and a six ounces of chips. With the click of a button you make your offer, yesterday's curry for Tuesdays's mexican food. A quick link from Snackster to mapquest get's you directions and twenty minutes you're eating something you'd like.
You avoid tossing out stuff that's perfectly good but not appealing, plus you can take advantage of the huge portions most restaurants serve by saving half for your Snackster catalog.
-dameron
Re:P2P food sharing program. (Score:2)
Re:Dude, already been done (Score:3, Funny)
they come over, and viola
He was using it as a verb. One of them distracts you by playing a musical instrument very badly while the others disappear your food, beer, and perhaps other things as well.
My Free Jelly Bellys are Slashdotted! (Score:5, Funny)
Get your SCO loving hands off MY Jelly Bellys!!
Here's a site where you can get free food... (Score:5, Informative)
TANSTAAFL (Score:2)
Will Use The Internet For Food (Score:2)
Goat Sex (Score:2)
Free Shrimp (Score:2)
http://www.longjohnsilvers.com/press/freeshrimp.h
Dont forget (Score:2)
How is unwanted e-mail or CC application a horror? (Score:2)
For someone with no money to buy food, unwanted neither unwanted e-mail, nor having to fill out some application is "a horror".
Someone is out of touch...
Usenet (Score:2)
Re:free food (Score:2)
Re:fool (Score:2)