Entries Tagged as 'Consumer'

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

5 Screwed-Up Kid’s Toys From Hell

Do you want your child to grow up to be a well-adjusted, emotionally-secure, happy, considerate, compassionate, principled, free-thinking, decent person? If the answer is an emphatic “NO”, then here are a few gift ideas for the coming holiday season…

Kid’s Pimp Costume
Does your son seem like a budding young entrepreneur? Is he a “people [...]

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

The 5 Worst McCrimes Against Humanity (and the Planet)

McDonald’s, the world’s largest food chain, is a staggering company. The figures speak for themselves: over 26,500 outlets in 119 countries serving around 39 million people every day and annual revenues of over $23 billion. But this success has not come without its fair share of criticism and controversy.
Serious critisicm of the company has grown [...]

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

5 Ill-Advised Celebrity Endorsements

Those crafty marketing executives know exactly what makes us tick: they take a picture of whichever ‘celebrity’ tosspot they think is currently ‘hot’ and slap it onto the advert for whatever overpriced piece of crap they’re trying to sell and like lobotomised, star-struck automatons we scurry along to the nearest sterile, over-lit shopping centre to [...]

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

The 5 Most Pointless Wii Games

What can we say about the Nintendo Wii? Innovative? Absolutely. Revolutionary? Probably. Commercially successful? Definitely. Record-breaking? Certainly. Home to some of the most pointless videogames ever? Yup.
It seems every games developer wants a piece of the Wii pie; and why not? You don’t need imagination, vision, intelligence, a huge development budget or even respect [...]