After an entry on sarcasm, here’s one on irony.
The Google adverts down the right-hand side of this page are now proudly trying to encourage you, the humble blog reader, to depart this site in favour of those extolling the virtues of the Republican cause. That’s right: all my railing against Bush has convinced Google that I must be a big fan of this intellectual midget. Now, that’s irony!
One of the adverts, however, is simply too crass to pass up. If you thought the next American election would be fought on foreign policy, taxation or something similarly banal, think again. The real action is on the dining room table, where condiments are the new weapons of mass distraction.
I hope you care as much as I do about which way your ketchup will vote.
It works the other way around too! Try to find some pages about keeping pet rats that use Google’s patented BadSense advertsing.
That’s right; put up a page about loving something and Google assumes you hate and want to exterminate it!
I thought we didnt do politics?
I also thought we didnt do porn, but I found out I was wrong about that a few weeks ago. What dont we do?
Hmm, I searched for BadSense. Google is convinced I meant Madscience… Maybe I did…