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Popeyes Or Popeye’s? JCPenney Or J.C. Penney? Do You Know The Proper Names Of...
(Great Beyond)When we eventually hit the lottery and fulfill our dream of opening the world’s largest chain of Skee Ball parlors, we’re going to name it “Consumerist’s’s’s’s” in honor of all the...
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For-Profit Online University Lets You Spend ThoughtCoins On Way To Job As...
Have you been thinking about enrolling in a for-profit online college that saddles you with thousands of dollars of debt and no job to show for it? Then get ready to spend your ThoughtCoins and...
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Someone Made A Table Out Of The Pages Of An IKEA Catalog
(via DesignBoom)Have you ever flipped through the IKEA catalog and wished you could order everything you see? (Probably not, but for the sake of this story, let’s just say “maybe.”) Well, that would be...
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John Oliver: New Year’s Eve Is “Like The Death Of A Pet”
For some people, Dec. 31 is the night to send out the old year with a blast, celebrating and partying into the early hours of the new year. But for others, it’s a day marked on the calendar to lock...
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Do Funny Consumer Complaints Lead To Better Results Or Just Hurt Your Case?
(frankieleon)A bad consumer experience can result in a lot of anger, perhaps even rage, toward the offender. For some people, the healthiest way to direct that fury is to have a sense of humor about...
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Conan O’Brien Visits Taco Bell Test Kitchen, Creates The Irish “O’Taco”
One of the staffers on Conan O’Brien’s show is an aficionado of the fine, authentic Mexican cuisine at Taco Bell, so using the “incredible power” he has in show business, Conan did what any good boss...
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Video Game Simulates The Singular Thrill Of Assembling IKEA Furniture
Unlike many of my friends, I enjoy assembling IKEA furniture — to a point. I have been known to utter a few Scandinavian profanities after a few days of shredding my fingers with an allen wrench. Now a...
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Ad Execs Pick Their Favorite Fake ‘Saturday Night Live’ Ads From Last 40 Years
“After five or ten fish, it gets to be quite a rush,” is a slogan more ads should employ.This weekend, NBC’s Saturday Night Live will celebrate turning 40, which is incredibly depressing for some of us...
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Visitors Bureau For Ice-Cold Ithaca Tells People To Just Go Get Warm In Key West
While the central New York city of Ithaca might be home to lovely Cornell University and the fictional University of Ithaca from the classic Breckin Meyer comedy Road Trip, it — like many places north...
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Home Depot Employees Build Custom Wagon For Cancer-Stricken Dog
(KABC-TV)The owner of an elderly cancer-stricken canine says she was just hoping for some wagon-building advice from Home Depot employees but she ended up with something much more — a custom-built cart...
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You Can Now Turn Any Google Map Into A Pac-Man Game
Pac-Man eats his way through the Grays Ferry section of Philadelphia.Have you ever looked at a Google Map and thought to yourself, “It would be flippin’ awesome if I could play Pac-Man on this street...
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Michael Bolton Serenades The IRS: You’re The Anus Of Our Country
Sir Michael Bolton reminds us all that without taxes, we can’t pay the salary of Colorado National Parks procurement assistant Brian Reed.Since 2010, Congress has cut the budget for the IRS by around...
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NJ Residents Call For Info On Sprint Refund, Get Phone Sex Line Instead
(Misfit Photographer)Earlier this week, Sprint and Verizon reached multimillion-dollar settlements with federal regulators for allowing third parties to bill for unwanted and unauthorized add-on...
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Walmart Is Now The Rightful Owner Of Walmart.Horse
The image above represents all of the content ever posted on Walmart.horse. Think about the money wasted on legal fees to have this site taken down the next time the price of bread goes up.You’ll have...
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Indiegogo Campaign To Bail Out Greece Has Raised $1.65 Million… Only $1.77...
With Greece facing such a dire debt crisis that it recently shut down the country’s banking system in order to keep money from flooding out across its borders, it’s going to take a massive effort to...
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John Oliver’s Rousing Speech Rallies American Sports Fans To Stop Wasting...
In spite of the fact that new sports venues often cost upwards of billions of dollars to construct, many American teams play in stadiums and arenas that are less than 25 years old. Heck, once the...
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Furniture Company Mocks Coupon Fine Print With Rambling 350-Word Disclaimer
For years we’ve been highlighting ridiculous coupons with fine print so restrictive that it basically ruins all the fun of saving money. In that spirit, the folks at home furnishings chain Lovesac...
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InterContinental Hotels Surprises Loyalty Members With Customer Care Number...
UPDATE: A spokeswoman for IHG told Consumerist that the company had sent Spire Elite members an email alerting them to the incorrect number printed on their cards in September, and that they should...
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How Well Do You Remember 2015? Take Our Quiz To Find Out
With only hours to go before we bid adieu to 2015, it’s time to look back and see how much you can recall about the year that was. Take Our Survey
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Hotel That Inspired “Fawlty Towers” To Be Torn Down
More than 45 years ago, the uptight manager of an English hotel inadvertently inspired Monty Python’s John Cleese to create a comedy legend. Now comes news that this landmark of sitcom history will...
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