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We appreciate how hard it is to pick a tattoo design. After all, this is something you’ll be wearing, whether you like it or not, for the rest of your life. As such, it should probably be something that remains relevant as you grow, or at least reminds you of some important time or period [...]

A good friend of ours once went to Chinatown to look for a cheap, fake Gucci purse. After some searching she stumbled into the back of a store where beautiful fake handbags hung from the ceiling like stalactites growing from a cave roof in a calcium-rich mountain range. She bought an imitation Gucci purse, proud [...]

We’d rather not think about all the stuff other than food that ends up in our ground beef and other various prepared and processed foods, but every so often the foreign contents is just too conspicuous to ignore. That said, when you’re serving like a billion people a year or some such absurd figure, it’s [...]

If you’ve bitten into any of the scary texts about the fast food industry (Fast Food Nation, The Future of Food, Food Inc., Poultrygeist, etc.), you’ll know that their operations often approach organized-crime levels of corruption and manipulation. To make that parallel nice and clear, artist Andrew Shirey made this awesome drawing depicting 5 Members [...]

We remember that first (and last) time we got an Egg McMuffin after seeing a really sexy one in a McDonald’s ad. Compared to its onscreen counterpart, the real sandwich was about as big a letdown as we could stomach that morning. Of course, Ronald isn’t the only culprit guilty of embellishing his product, as [...]

One of our absolute all-time favorite Onion articles was this hilarious piece about an ill-conceived McDonald’s mascot named the Hammurderer, who killed the restaurant’s other mascots and stole their burgers to satisfy his cravings. Certainly no real restaurant promotion has ever failed so disastrously, but several featured in mental_floss’s listicle of 7 Food Promotions Gone [...]

When in doubt, we generally assume that corporations are evil. Aside from being clever marketers with a sense of humor, they are the most readily available symbol of everything that’s wrong with the world. An annual report by Ethisphere, though, claims that companies can be moral pioneers in their hometowns and across the globe. So, [...]

A gay Ken doll, a cola drink for nihilists, a suicidal mascot, and six more desperate stabs at gritty credibility that blew up in manufacturers’ faces.
Go To List: http://www.cracked.com/article_17153_9-corporate-attempts-at-edgy-that-failed-hilariously.html

In case you hadn’t noticed, we love us some creative commercials. And while it’s sad that we’re in such an advanced stage of capitalism that one of the most potent arenas for creativity is the marketing of consumer commodities, we still see some sort of consciousness-raising value in unsettling ads like these 6 Strangely Funny [...]

In a culture predicated on alienation, is it really all that surprising that the national emergency number often functions as a 24-hour therapy service? We don’t think so. We also don’t think there’s anything wrong with laughing at people’s personal crises, no matter how pathetic and sad those perceived problems are. Thus, we encourage you [...]