Groupon Wants You to Celebrate ‘The Man Who Gave Birth to You’
- Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:44pm by
Becket Adams
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Well, this is slightly embarrassing. Whoever put together Groupon‘s Father’s Day promotional material made a slight error:
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“Father’s Day deals for the man who gave birth to you [emphasis added],” the coupon reads.
For “the man who gave birth to you”? Now we don’t remember biology class that well (it was a long time ago and we spent most of it giggling), but we’re pretty sure that’s not how it works.
Silly mistake, right? We’re just poking fun at you, Groupon. It’s not like this happened more than once:
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Seriously?
“Celebrate the man who gave birth to you”? Is there something we don’t know about? Did we miss a crucial bit of information when we were being told where babies come from?
Fine, Groupon. Have it your way. If you think that’s how it works, go ahead. Don’t let us correct you.
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Comments (54)
Meyvn
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:57amSomeone did not pay attention in biology class.
Report Post »rosegrower
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 11:31amThey got an “A” anyway, because they participated. They went to a public school, dontcha know.
Report Post »Gumbercules
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 11:46pmArnold Schwarzanequer (sp?) gave birth. Look it up!
Report Post »SuperSuineg
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:22amYes, Dad’s do give “birth” because life starts at conception.
Report Post »listeninginVT
Posted on June 9, 2012 at 8:34pmDad’s can help create life, but they can‘t give ’birth’. please.
Report Post »bbell37968
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 6:49amYikes: watch out Blaze, lest you be branded as humorless. Groupon always has wacky descriptions of its deals. This one is business as usual and totally intentional.
Report Post »o2bsailn
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:08am…and every woman knows that has gone through child birth, if men had to do it the human race would go extinct.
Report Post »mdeputy7
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 9:41amEh….my guess is they are exact copies of the templates set up for Mother’s Day, and they did a “replace-all“ in which they replaced all ”mother”‘s with “father”’s…..and all “woman”’s with “man”’s.
Report Post »DRAGONSEED
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 4:50amWHO the hell is GROUPON?
(i.e., many of us more INTELLIGENT LIFEFORMS just ignore or turn off ads on the internet and on our TV sets. HA HA!)
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 2:30amWell, if J.C. Pennys can have ads where BOTH parents are male, then one of them must have “given birth” to the kids, right? Maybe not in a literal fashion — but such slavish adherence to “birth” involving things like ovaries, a uterus, a placenta, and an umbilical cord is tired, old, and outmoded. As a society, we have moved beyond the boundaries of the physical, natural world.
Report Post »Southernguy
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:52amWell, if J.C. Pennys can have ads where BOTH parents are male, then one of them must have “given birth” to the kids, right? I can just see it now: Paul and Steve announce the birth of a bouncing, healthy 8 pound turd, lol.
Report Post »JayVee
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 2:27amYou guys never read Groupon ads, do you? They’re ALWAYS intentionally odd. Often, they’re quite hilarious. Like this one, for instance:
“Working out is No. 2 on the list of most popular daily activities in America, behind teaching dogs to swear. Be your own best friend with this Groupon.”
or this:
The Groupon Guide to: Birthstones
Every month has its own precious birthstone, and people born during that month are advised to wear it and eat a small handful of it on their birthdays. Here’s a list of the birthstones by month:
• January: Garnet
• February: Amethyst
• March: Mercury
• April: Sunflower seeds mixed with Elmer’s glue
• May: Moon rock
• June: Baby’s tooth
• July: Hunk of the Berlin Wall
• August: No birthstone, to punish the naturally evil people born during August
• September: Phlogiston
• Bichat: Necco wafer
• November: Wad of wet $100 bills
• December: The fingernail of a loved one
etc…
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 2:31amObama’s birthday is August 4, 1961. Just sayin’
Report Post »JayVee
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 2:33amOne more, on an ad for teeth-whitening services:
“A glowing smile charms irritable librarians, stern highway-patrol officers, and reactionary judges with their big, fancy ideas about driving through the library. Rev up your smile with this Groupon.”
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 5:20am@Jayvee
Loved it! Lol.
Especially the last one.
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 9:35amHahahaha! I may actually have to go check out Groupon.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 2:07amHow gay was that? Bunch of idiots.
Report Post »R.A. Bullseye
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:49amMaybe it’s a way of mocking hippie couples who say “we’re pregnant”.
Report Post »Lost Rebel
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 11:31pmHmm, last time I looked, the male anatomy is not equipped to give birth. America just gets dumber and dumber!!
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:29pmThank you obama for giving birth to ALL the white crackers like me.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:25pmWait till you see him, see how he looks, wait till you hear him laugh…
Report Post »Truthnotpolitics
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 7:47am@mouswhatever….people should read all your posts. You’re a nut bag. You must reside in Northern Ca.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:56am@Truthnotpolitics: Big time! It only took one post for me to notice.
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:11pmMy husband help me give life to my children, but he definitely didn’t give birth to them. He never had one contraction, though he helped me to manage them. He didn’t have any stitches, either. And he didn’t gain 25 pounds and have a bowling ball tummy. I don’t regret a second of it, but please don’t tell me he gave birth to the babies, though he certainly did his part in conceiving them and helping me raise them.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:06pmI’m battering you. I’m sorry. But it’s necessary sometimes.
You can tell I’ve read a whole lot of one of the greatest writers ever — George Hayduke.
Report Post »marine249
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:28pmget a life or better get lost
Report Post »mharry860
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 12:43amCome over to my house. I‘ll fix whatever’s wrong with you.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:03pmThis site has been taken by the Mafia. So, to a great degree — here’s controversy — has the United States military.
I wouldn‘t be able to say all this to you if I wasn’t what I am.
Total abstinence forever. Except sexually (perv). Go Celtics. I idolize Paul Pierce.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:00pmI give birth to the worlds smartest Democrat everyday, but then I flush.
Report Post »1956
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 6:44amNow THAT’s FUNNY!
Report Post »oldduffer
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:00pmDon’t use them after finding out how very left wing they are and the overwhelming support and money they give to Obama and the Jackass Party.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:00pmThat’s right. This site has been taken over by the Mafia. They are waterboarding Glenn Beck.
Says Anna Sun, who can be tortured and not even feel uncomfortable.
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:58pmI said that and I’ll keep saying it. Romney is the Mafia candidate. I lost both my grandfathers to the Mafia. I have no respect whatsoever for the Mafia.
Obama isn’t the Antichrist. Soros is the Antichrist.
In steadfast faith, until I see you face to face,
Report Post »Inlightofthings
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:56pmThis is just ahead of its time. No clue who the defendant will be, but there will be a lawsuit for men not being able to birth a child…count on it.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:55pmLOL .. I would like to see any who have ;-)
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:52pmAll I can say CATB is OUCH !!!!
Report Post »moussiagilda
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:55pmLiberty, egalite, fraternite, and all that killer, kickin’ stuff, from Anna Sun who thought she was born in Milwaukee, who was born in Milwaukee, same as Obama was born in Hawaii. Death to falsehood.
No Romney. Since my baby is so sickeningly stubborn, let’s try out the ticket of Daniels/West!
No Romney, who is the Mafia candidate.
I am still amazed at the heaven around me. I always will be.
Report Post »spareGgnome
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:54pmIts funny how people are so eager to point the finger at others. I have seen a few goof ups on titles on the blaze to. I like this site but im just sayin……..
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:54pmRight on!!! NOT
I am WHITE.
I was abandoned by “the man who gave birth to me” before I was born.
I was ADOPTED by a wonderful man whose life I celebrate every day of my life.
S CREW “the men who gave birth” to us whatever our colors may be and ran away never to know us.
What an IDIOTIC slogan. Who came up with this? Oh, I know. Some queer person. duhhhhh.
Report Post »Tired of Code Names
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:27pm@kickagrandma
thank you for your real heartfelt response. I am so tired of this imagined thing that Dad‘s can’t possibly love their children as much as a mom. Quite frankly, the article is correct. There would be no birth without the dad. Yes, I watched my wife‘s head spin around and cuss me when she was giving birth to my two boy’s albeit it a few years apart number two from the first. But, the pain I felt watching her give birth was quite great. I have participated in butchering cows, pigs and chickens and am no stranger to blood. Watching my wife give birth about made me pass out…twice. However, that does not mean that because she “gave” the birth does not mean I don‘t love my two son’s just as much as she does. NOT. No one can take that away from me.
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 10:35pmWow Grandma,
Report Post »Put that stuff in Quotation Marks
there for a minute I thought you’d
gone batshit crazy like
Golden Mouse
kickagrandma
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 8:36amTo all men who “gave birth” to your children and who stayed on to labor and love, discipline and mold the children you helped make, my hat is off to you. What society requires of REAL MEN is a very hard, unrelenting job. I admire you for you are like my “adopted” dad. My earthly father that I knew from two weeks of age until his death was probably the reason it was so easy for me to love my HEAVENLY FATHER. I was loved deeply, disciplined sharply (but always tempered with love), encouraged mightily and empowered gently by a wonderful, kind man. Whatever our colors, being human is difficult. Thank you to all father’s who stayed. And, even to those who left, thank you to the men who provided the sperm to give us life.
Sorry if I confused some by my first post. I’m just sick and tired of the perverted left trying to diminish and destroy our way of life and our faith. I stand by my first post in my anger toward those cowards who ran.
Report Post »fishandpoi
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:51pmThat is funny and if it were true? The kid would be a little fart. If Obama had a son?
Report Post »Rayford
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 11:34pmIt would be a SHART
Report Post »Southerner01
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 9:47pmThat‘s what happens when some lazy person edits the ad they used for Mother’s day, instead of starting from scratch.
Report Post »Rayford
Posted on May 31, 2012 at 11:33pmEspecially if that person does not live in the US and understand English well. Most likely an outsourced employee that has a bad translator program.
Thats my guess.
Although a lazy or uneducated US citizen is not too far off. From looking at many news sites and reading the local paper, I dont think correct word useage and spelling is taught anymore.
Report Post »JayVee
Posted on June 1, 2012 at 2:28amI promise you, this was entirely intentional.
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