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A Few Proposed New Foursquare Badges

In order to keep up with demand, geosocial sites like foursquare need to continually create new badges for their members to earn. Here are a few badges I’d like to propose.

We Should Probably Have a Talk Badge.

We Should Probably Have a Talk BadgeCheck in to 10 bars between the hours of 2am–4am on weeknights and earn the We Should Probably Have a Talk badge. Your family may have given up on your drinking but Foursquare wants to make sure it covers its legal bases by suggesting that you may have a problem.  Now we can’t be held liable for encouraging your incessant drinking!

 

 

I Know Most of My Friends Only Online Badge

I Know Most of My Friends Online BadgeAfter your 5th check in at a Renaissance Faire you unlock the I Know Most of my Friends Only Online Badge. You live in a world of dragons, swordplay and online raiding guilds so bravo for getting out of the house and actually going to an outdoor event. We just wish your gamer friends and twitter crushes could be there with you.

 

 

I have Issues With Food Badge

Checking in to the gym is good, but checking in to a 5 Guys Burgers 2 hours later kind of defeats the purpose. Do so 5 times and earn yourself the I Have Issues With Food badge. Now your online friends will understand why you shake uncontrollably just walking past a Cinnabon.

 

 

I’m Going to Die Alone Badge

It’s Thanksgiving and/or Christmas and for the 3rd year in a row you’ve checked in to a greasy spoon diner. Congratulations, you’ve just unlocked the I’m Going to Die Alone badge. Connect with other people who’ve earned the badge to make one of  those “If we’re not married by 40” pacts to keep the badge’s dire prediction from coming to pass.

 

 

It’s Not Them It’s You Badge

It's Not Them It's You BadgeYou’re on your 25th speed dating check in within a 12 month span which means it’s time to accept the It’s Not Them It’s You Badge. There’s nothing wrong with high standards, and maybe you keep going to these speed dating events just to prove to yourself that no one could possibly deserve the image you have of yourself–we just want to make sure you know that it’s you, not them.

 

These are just a few of the new badges we’re proposing, hope you enjoy them. Let us know if you’d like to see any others!

 

Fave Tweets from 2010

2010 was my first full year of tweeting! There were some fun posts, some road pictures, and hopefully enough jokes to justify hitting the ‘refresh’ button every once in a while.

So, in case you missed them, or you think twitter is annoying (it can be) and you haven’t been following my feed, here are MY FAVORITE TWEETS FROM 2010!


Jan 9
RobPRocks enjoys the fact that whenever WE TV promotes an upcoming show they have to say “tonight, ennui.”

Jan 19
They say everything happens for a reason, and sometimes that reason is to piss you off.

Feb 4
FYI, they’re going to know you’re a Northerner when you ask for one collard green.

Feb 5
My check engine light really needs to be more specific. I checked the engine, it’s there.

Feb 22
I saw a cell tower that had fake branches on it to make it look like a tree. I played along and disguised my phone as a pine cone.

March 11
“Bottle service” is just a nice way of saying “we’re reserving this section for jackasses.”

March 17
The bagpipes are truly awful instruments. I think it’s why people drink so much on St Pat’s.

March 22
I hope we all can at least agree on this: Glenn Beck has been a boon to the chalkboard industry.

May 21
American Apparel is $91 million in debt. What’s that, like two t-shirts?

June 9
She said, “you’re pretty quiet off stage,” to which I replied, “I’m pretty quiet on stage, it’s just that I have a microphone.”

June 25
Local diner put an orange, parking ticket-sized flyer on my car. I taped a thank-you to their window the shape of a health code violation.

July 26 (a fun little game I started that day)
Exit line for Bravo TV’s new massage reality competition: “I’m sorry, you rubbed us the wrong way.”
Exit line for Bravo TV’s new bread baker reality competition : “I’m sorry, your bread did not rise to the occasion.”
Exit line for Bravo TV’s new bartending reality competition: “I’m sorry, we’re going to have to cut you off.”
Exit line for Bravo TV’s new barista reality competition: “I’m sorry, the cafe is for closers.”
Exit line for Bravo TV’s new furniture lacquering reality competition: “I’m sorry, you didn’t finish the job.”

Aug 3
My 1st post-college apartment was very crate & barrel, but only if you use the name literally.

Aug 27
Why are one-trick ponies a bad thing? It’s already a pony AND it knows a trick!

Sep 9
Had to explain to a friend that you don’t just ‘declare’ bankruptcy, there’s actually paperwork involved.

Oct 27
Hollywood horror films have no effect on me. If they really want to scare me they should make the film “Uninsured Abdominal Pain”

Dec 11
You can spell acid wash” without “ass” but you can’t say it.

Dec 18
Hangin with video golfers against my will ‘cuz I thought the sign said “Golden Tee nowhere” instead of “now here.” stupid bad spacing.

Dec 22
The Maya said the world ends in 2012 but they also thought the universe was a turtle so, you know, grain of salt.

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