{"id":1783,"date":"2009-10-16T16:55:07","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T23:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2009-10-16T16:55:07","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T23:55:07","slug":"pepsis-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/pepsis-score\/","title":{"rendered":"Pepsi&#8217;s Score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what it is.<\/p>\n<p>But I say they&#8217;ve hit a new low with their latest effort to amp up the debasement of the culture:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amp, an energy drink made by Pepsi, has an application (app, for short) for the iPhone called \u201cBefore You Score.\u201d It\u2019s billed as a \u201croadmap to success with your favorite kinds of women\u201424, in all.\u201d Choose your type and get suggestions on how to \u201cscore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a boast from the online commercial for it: \u201cIf you\u2019re anticipating a successful night, the Before You Score app gives you up-to-the minute information, feeds, lines, and much more to help you amp up and talk to 24 different types of ladies.\u201d By \u201clines\u201d they mean pick-up lines. As for \u201ctypes,\u201d you can choose from \u201cbusinesswoman,\u201d \u201cforeign exchange student,\u201d \u201csorority girl,\u201d \u201crebound girl,\u201d \u201cnerd,\u201d \u201ctreehugger,\u201d \u201ccougar,\u201d \u201ctwins,\u201d even \u201cmarried.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Have they no shame?<\/p>\n<p>Have they no decency?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently not:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pepsi issued an apology via Twitter that said, in part: \u201cWe apologize if it\u2019s in bad taste.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got to be kidding me! \ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n<p>Well, read the rest of Marcia Segelstein&#8217;s post over at <a href='http:\/\/online.worldmag.com\/2009\/10\/16\/looking-for-casual-sex-theres-an-app-for-that\/'>WorldMagBlog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what it is. But I say they&#8217;ve hit a new low with their latest effort to amp up the debasement of the culture: Amp, an energy drink made by Pepsi, has an application (app, for short) for the iPhone called \u201cBefore You Score.\u201d It\u2019s billed as a \u201croadmap to success with your &#8230; <a title=\"Pepsi&#8217;s Score\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/pepsis-score\/\" aria-label=\"More on Pepsi&#8217;s Score\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,395],"tags":[416],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-days-of-noah","category-dumb-and-such","tag-morality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-sL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}