I'm going to be in a focus group

[KRCummings]

Yay for me!
They won't give me details though. Fuckers.
I'm sorta hoping it's opinions on live nude male models who look like Ryan Gosling and Channing Tatum. I'm all about scientific research like that. It's just how I roll.

 

[islandman]

You'll do great.

 

[KRCummings]

That wasn't funny. That wasn't funny at all.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Can we just focus on you?

 

[Sinny]

Demand that they give you a fancy catered lunch and parting gifts. Oh, and a ride home in a limo.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I got 75 simoleans last summer for being in a focus group for a proposed new product: Starbucks "Iced Muffins" aka "Muffincakes".

We laughed that product right outta the test lab.

 

[Very_Bad_Man]

So,

essentially you guys rate as a bunch of lab rats.

I knew you all were vermin.

 

[RjThoughts]

They're fun~~

I spent a week, earning $55/day watching tv pilots and answering questions from a few people.

 

[RobDownSouth]

So,

essentially you guys rate as a bunch of lab rats.

I knew you all were vermin.

Hey I was hungry and it was free food. Teh diabetic coma was a gift.

 

[KRCummings]

I got 75 simoleans last summer for being in a focus group for a proposed new product: Starbucks "Iced Muffins" aka "Muffincakes".

We laughed that product right outta the test lab.

I get 200 bucks but judging from the questions it's not food. My guess is local politics of some sort.

 

[RjThoughts]

I get 200 bucks but judging from the questions it's not food. My guess is local politics of some sort.

Just in case, load up on caffeine!!!!!

 

[oggbashan]

I get asked by our local City Hall to be part of several such groups.

They are required to set up 'focus groups' by legislation passed by the last government.

The usual suspects gather around tables to discuss particular issues and come to a consensus recommendation.

The last such focus group was a disaster. They wanted to know where to site 10,000 new homes within our district and gave us a sticker to put on a map to show where we thought 10,000 new homes should go.

We told them what to do with their sticker. There is nowhere suitable for 10,000 homes in a single cluster. The map did not show roads, railways, flood plains or anything much except existing towns.

Our table of 'usual suspects' had been poorly chosen. They had given their useless map to a group that included three geography professionals, two land surveyors and a geologist. Our consensus view was that whoever had defined the question was an incompetent fool...

 

[torchthebitch]

I was on one once.

We got free beer and £50.

It was about Guinness.

I like Guinness.

 

[Squibbs]

Once, someone asked me for directions.

I was no help.

 

[islandman]

No one's response so far has been as good as mine.

/awesomesauce

 

[gravyrug]

No one's response so far has been as good as mine.

/awesomesauce

I dunno. 50 quid to drink Guinness is hard to beat.

 

[islandman]

I dunno. 50 quid to drink Guinness is hard to beat.

It's also how KRC gets anal.

 

[KRCummings]

It's also how KRC gets anal.

I give up some ass for beer one fucking time and I never live it down.

 

[blobfish]

When I was younger, my parents were secret shoppers and they would also do online surveys for new products. They would pay like $10 plus expenses for them to go rent a movie, and sometimes we would get products in the mail. I had Coke Zero before almost anyone else in the country did. Too bad the products were never good.

 

[tactful]

I give up some ass for beer one fucking time and I never live it down.

A good reason to go back to drinking beer.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Lancecastor]

Is that what they're calling it now, "focus group"?

 

[chillywilly2]

You gonna call everybody that doesn't agree with you stupid and tell them to go fuck themselves?