{"id":613,"date":"2009-04-01T08:29:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T07:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pouringbeans.com\/?p=613"},"modified":"2009-04-01T08:30:25","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T07:30:25","slug":"newsboost-flash-scoop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/?p=613","title":{"rendered":"Newsboost Flash Scoop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People are being put under increasing pressure to buy carbonated soft drinks, a recent study has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Men and women between the ages of 21 and 47 are having their co-workers, bosses and relative unknowns come up to them in the work place and force them to buy numerous canned beverages. The phenomena, known as &#8216;Can Bullying&#8217;, originated from the US but has found its way into UK via a series of carefully administrated plastic straws across the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>George Loft, head of\u00a0BIW (Bullying\u00a0Is Wrong), has commented, &#8220;This is unacceptable, totally unacceptable. I myself have suffered &#8216;Can Bullying&#8217; first hand and the immense pressure is truly frightening. People have to know that this is out there and it can affect you. The forty-eight year olds should be thanking their lucky stars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Victims have said that it will start off with a simple conversation but suddenly turns sour. The bully will then continue to repeat the same lines over and over again, usually asking whether the person would like a drink or not. They refuse to leave until the victim has given in and handed over the correct change for which the bully will then vacate the area and return with a cold infusion of some sort, mostly carbonated and made of vegtables.<\/p>\n<p>Government Watchdogs have refused to comment, although they probably wouldn&#8217;t have told us anything anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are being put under increasing pressure to buy carbonated soft drinks, a recent study has revealed. Men and women between the ages of 21 and 47 are having their co-workers, bosses and relative unknowns come up to them in the work place and force them to buy numerous canned beverages. The phenomena, known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}