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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 53 points 5 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.

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 23 points 5 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.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

Winners who pay $500 may use the Mom’s Choice Awards seal “for marketing and promotional purposes” BUT must pay the $1500 fee to actually put the seal on the books. Unless you purchase the stick on seals, 100 for $50.00.

Yeah, that's definitely a scam.

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Congratulations! You wrote the best comment I have read in the last 30 seconds! 🏅

[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 6 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Fontasia@feddit.nl 21 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

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".

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

I recently went on a drive from Indiana to Minnesota and back, doing a different route each time. Almost every hospital we passed said it was one of the 100 best hospitals according to (I think) U.S. News and World Report.

What are the chances?

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I, too, often pat myself on the back. If I don't, who will?

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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!"

[-] directive0@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

I imagined that as a Gary Larson cartoon for some reason.

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

We love feel good awards. Did you know I'm a Times Person of the Year?

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

So am I! The year 2006 was a great year for everyone.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

I feel sorry for everyone born after 2006. It must feel so lame not being a Times Person of the Year.

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