The Angry Geek » Advertising http://www.angry-geek.org I am geek - hear me roar! Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:27:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How Insensitive! http://www.angry-geek.org/2009/02/how-insensitive/ http://www.angry-geek.org/2009/02/how-insensitive/#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:22:32 +0000 Rocketeer http://www.angry-geek.org/?p=176

There’s a sign just gone up in my office building advertising a chocolate sale. It looks like this:

CHOCOHOLICS

Come and try free samples and buy gifts for friends and family, 12pm-2pm today.

Now… imagine the outrage if that had read “Alcoholics” instead… Why are chocolate addicts treated so badly that we don’t care about this kind of insensitive taking of advantage?

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Supposedly, this site is an advert for Compare the Market (dot com), where you can compare quotes for all kinds of things – insurance, credit cards, mortgages etc.

To be honest though, I think Compare the Meerkat is an entertaining website in its own right (although the annoying voice-over is, well, annoying).  Even if it is viral marketing… I like it!

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