April 7th, 2006
Was that broken?
This morning was not as usual. Got up way too early and just decided to do something else of my time. What better to watch a part of Kill Bill in the morning
Now what about this broken stuff? I few months back I recall visiting this website: This Is Broken. This project website shows pictures of business that make stupid things or make weird associations. For example having an Ice Cream stand in front of a fitness center (it’s bad business for one of them). Now this site only displays pictures and it’s not meant to be hilarious or anything but makes you think about serious stuff: This morning on the radio (CKOI 96,9, French Canadian - American influenced) aired a short ad about gambling and gaming problems. This message was quite crude but can’t translate it for you because there was a pun that works only in French. Now this is a good thing and I really think that people with gaming problems should seek for help, but someone on that radio station does not agree. Call it a human mistake, careless misfortune, but right after that particular advertisement we had an other one about the Lotto Super 7 and it’s 17 million dollars prize. Now you get the non-sense? It’s not like you had a break or anything, those two ads were consecutive! Even more shocking is that most people wont see it as an attempt to maintain a healthy number of “gamblers”, we all know that if they loose all their cash in gambling they will not have three bucks to put on the Super 7, 6/49 or other lottery for that matter.
Seriously you can go check their website, they actually made a Foundation for Responsible Gaming, you can see part of their ad campaign there.