Targeted advertising is one of the Internet’s many irritations. Sometimes it doesn’t work out too well for the advertiser, though.
Here is an ad from Rack King that popped up while I was perusing St. Faustina’s description of the tortures of Hell:
To my considerable satisfaction, it was followed by an invitation for me to sample the culinary delights of McDonalds.
From here:
An Occupy Wall Street protestor was arrested early Friday after a violent rampage at a McDonald’s that refused to offer him free food.
The NYPD says it happened at about 2:45 a.m. at a McDonald’s near the make-shift tent city in Zuccotti Park.
The man, who had not been identified, went into the world’s largest restaurant chain and demanded free food, apparently craving a burger over the gourmet food being served in the park.
The people behind the counter, who are working instead of protesting, were not about to offer the man free food.
The protester then turned violent, even breaking a machine inside of the store before police arrived and arrested the 27-year-old.
As we all know, McDonald’s is a place where the unspoken anxieties of society can often find a voice; it is a stage on which to conduct by proxy the arguments that society itself does not know how to handle. The urgent larger issues raised by those demanding free hamburgers remain very much on the table and we need – as fast food consumers and as society as a whole – to work to make sure that they are properly addressed.
The eviction of one hamburger-crazed anti-capitalist activist has constituted violence in the name of the purveyors of grease-laden unhealthy food the world over.
But at least it has triggered awareness of the need to advance the moral agenda of redistributing artery clogging fat to those who aren’t getting their fair share.
h/t mcj
McDonald’s France has released a new ad campaign titled “Come as you are”; it is designed specifically to attract homosexuals to McDonald’s.
As everyone knows, before this gay men had been too terrified to enter a McDonald’s.
