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This Black Friday, Cards Against Humanity is...digging a hole

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Too bad they are slowly cutting down how much a dollar buys. I wanted this to go on forever or something (or at least until the end of the year)
 
Brakke said:
Was it last year or two years ago they played off this expectation and bought themselves a bunch of loot. One of them bought an ultra-lux golden dildo.
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I mean, is it fair to say "they played off" it when they were very clear beforehand that the money wouldn't NOT go to charity?
 
Pretty abhorrent people would give money to this while important charities such as Holes Without Homes go grossly underfunded. That's consumerism I suppose.
 
ptolemy said:
Pretty abhorrent people would give money to this while important charities such as Holes Without Homes go grossly underfunded. That's consumerism I suppose.
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This is a forum where people spend hundreds of dollars each year to twiddle their thumbs in different ways.
 
ptolemy said:
Pretty abhorrent people would give money to this while important charities such as Holes Without Homes go grossly underfunded. That's consumerism I suppose.
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I'm sure that the hundreds you spent on your electronic device you used to type this sanctimonious drivel could have fed dozens of starving families somewhere on earth, too.
 
Welp, to be quite Anne Frank, I'm not cool with this.

Call me soft or sensitive or whatever, but I can't get behind this one. I love CAD and some of the stunts they've done in the past, but with the Standing Rock crisis and our abandoning of action prevent climate change with our president-elect, this gag is less "against humany" and more "against the planet". I know this is just a big-ass hole, but symbolically this feels very anti-environment. It's not absurdist humor. It's just low-intelligence and appealing only to immature people.

A better idea would be for the CAD owners to partially castrate themselves by severing one of their testicles live on a video stream for every million dollars donated. That would definitely be anti-humanity and one for the history books if they had the balls to pull something like that off, no pun intended. It would only be one testicle to per owner, though, not full castration, so they'd still be able to reproduce. No biggie, really. Not kidding when I say that would be brilliant.

I think I just suggested a plot for a Black Mirror episode. I hope Charlie Brooker is reading this in preparation for season 4.
 
seat said:
Welp, to be quite Anne Frank, I'm not cool with this.

Call me soft or sensitive or whatever, but I can't get behind this one. I love CAD and some of the stunts they've done in the past, but with the Standing Rock crisis and our abandoning of action prevent climate change with our president-elect, this gag is less "against humany" and more "against the planet". I know this is just a big-ass hole, but symbolically this feels very anti-environment. It's not absurdist humor. It's just low-intelligence and appealing only to immature people.

A better idea would be for the CAD owners to partially castrate themselves by severing one of their testicles live on a video stream for every million dollars donated. That would definitely be anti-humanity and one for the history books if they had the balls to pull something like that off, no pun intended. It would only be one testicle to per owner, though, not full castration, so they'd still be able to reproduce. No biggie, really. Not kidding when I say that would be brilliant.

I think I just suggested a plot for a Black Mirror episode. I hope Charlie Brooker is reading this in preparation for season 4.
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What's a CAD
 
ptolemy said:
Pretty abhorrent people would give money to this while important charities such as Holes Without Homes go grossly underfunded. That's consumerism I suppose.
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No one is innocent.

Taxes go towards helping people, but also you could donate half your salary to helping people too if you really wanted and not have a cell phone, computer, TV, etc.
 
I can't quite put my finger on it but there is something poetic about this. Together, the words hole, dirt, digging, and holidays just feel right at the end of 2016.
 
ptolemy said:
Pretty abhorrent people would give money to this while important charities such as Holes Without Homes go grossly underfunded. That's consumerism I suppose.
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...I think that's pretty much the point of it. As in, that's exactly what they're trying to show.

I mean, they are literally throwing money into a hole.
 
Natiko said:
They decreased the amount of time a donation gets? That's disappointing.
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That's usually how stuff like this works, though. Have it on somewhat of a curve so the event (Digging a giant hole, Mario Marathon, Desert Bus for Hope) doesn't go on for literally forever. Keep raising the value so eventually the event has to end.

Brakke said:
Was it last year or two years ago they played off this expectation and bought themselves a bunch of loot. One of them bought an ultra-lux golden dildo.
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While it's true that all of the money from last year didn't go to charity, it's still kind of interesting to see how the money was spent. Some of it was spent very frivolously, some of it was donated to charities of the employee's choice, some of it was spent on themselves in pretty responsible ways.
 
Hoho for breakfast said:
They're literally throwing money into the hole, or you're using the word literally wrong?
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Well. They use the money to build a hole. People pay money for them to build a hole. I know it's not quite literal, but pretty much close to it. Also, I'm pretty sure you know what I meant anyway.
 
Usually things like this are combined with a charity incentive, so I can see where people's expectations are coming from, that said, if you think it's stupid just don't give them money.
 
There is a Simpsons pic for everything?

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LOL
 
vid said:
That's usually how stuff like this works, though. Have it on somewhat of a curve so the event (Digging a giant hole, Mario Marathon, Desert Bus for Hope) doesn't go on for literally forever. Keep raising the value so eventually the event has to end.



While it's true that all of the money from last year didn't go to charity, it's still kind of interesting to see how the money was spent. Some of it was spent very frivolously, some of it was donated to charities of the employee's choice, some of it was spent on themselves in pretty responsible ways.
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The only item I take issue with is the guy that wanted his mom to have "one less thing to worry about" so he bought her a 10-15 year old Chevy for $1000. You just bought her more worries dude!
 
Dear consumer,

Thank you for contributing $2.00 to the Cards Against Humanity Holiday Hole. That's 1 seconds of additional dig time. Your generous donation will help us keep digging this tremendous hole in the earth for no reason.

As long as money keeps coming in, we'll keep digging.

Let the healing begin,

- Cards Against Humanity
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Did my part.
 
InfiniteBento said:
The fact that they've raised $80,000 towards this shit

smdh
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All they did was allow people to send money to them. It's not their fault those people are dumb.

Maybe at the end they'll be like "Wow, you guys are so dumb! We actually paid the hole digging guys beforehand, so all of your money will be going to [insert charity here] instead".
 
Finally got to see the live feed that is hilarious. Watching that makes me think they are actually building something and not just digging a hole.
 
The best thing about these annual stunts are the Gaffers who get inexplicably salty about them and wish the guys behind it go out of business and stuff.
 
QuantumSquid said:
All they did was allow people to send money to them. It's not their fault those people are dumb.

Maybe at the end they'll be like "Wow, you guys are so dumb! We actually paid the hole digging guys beforehand, so all of your money will be going to [insert charity here] instead".
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Wouldn't that be grounds for suing if they straight up lied over what the money is going towards?
 
lazygecko said:
Wouldn't that be grounds for suing if they straight up lied over what the money is going towards?
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No?

Person A: Gimme some money for absolutely no reason. I'm not even going to do anything with it.
Person B: Ok, here's some money.
Person A: Changed my mind, going to give it to charity.

Where are the suing grounds?
 
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