Is rotten cabbage date food?
There is a younger generation of conservative Poles moving into influential positions in the media, the academies, and politics who came of age not under communism, but under the conditions of the post-communist democracy since 1989 - messy, chaotic, corrupt, permeated by what they see as rotten compromises dating back to the Soviet era.
By contrast, other variables like release dates, Rotten Tomatoes scores and box office grosses (otherwise, how could "Avatar" have been upset last year?) don't seem to matter, at least not once you've accounted for these other factors.
Web sites like DontDateHimGirl.com, ManHaters.com and TrueDater.com are dedicated to outing bad apples or just identifying people who may not be rotten but whose dating profiles are rife with fiction.
Flixster's popular cross-platform movie discovery application on mobile platforms has seen 35 million downloads to date and Rotten Tomatoes is seeing 12 million unique visitors per month.
The only news that travels faster amongst the Twitter community than a bad date, is a rotten advertisement.
So why shouldn't we be warned, like a grocery-store expiration date, when one is rotten?
If you continue to store food that is rotten, moldy, or past its expiration date, it may not only be contaminated, but may transfer bacteria to nearby items.
I'd just finished a piece about a rotten experience I'd had "speed dating" that I thought was a scream.
Nothing damaged or rotten at all, just packets that would be beyond their 'display until' date at midnight.
