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Dec. 14th, 2009 05:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rimturse"Win 1 year's consumption of burgers and coca cola at known burger chain"
This is just mind-boggling on so many levels. Who are the people where this would be a good deal? And what if I were to fill out the contest questionnaire and, as a side note, allow 50 gazillion advertising companies to contact me through phone or letter* - and then won?
Would this mean that I would feel pressured by the whole free meal thing to visit known burger chain more frequently than I do now**? What would this do to my weight? And my taste buds? And would I *gasp* become addicted to junk food?
I can just see myself; a blubbery mass living on the couch with the phone within reach so that I can answer all those "Do you have a thigh-master?" and "Buy three electronic keyhole cleaners today and pay for just 2!".
Is this even a prize or is it just evil?
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*Which, with a very few exceptions, is otherwise illegal in Denmark without the poor marketing victim's consent.
**Last time I went was in 2008 - and only because a friend wanted to bring her toddler there.
This is just mind-boggling on so many levels. Who are the people where this would be a good deal? And what if I were to fill out the contest questionnaire and, as a side note, allow 50 gazillion advertising companies to contact me through phone or letter* - and then won?
Would this mean that I would feel pressured by the whole free meal thing to visit known burger chain more frequently than I do now**? What would this do to my weight? And my taste buds? And would I *gasp* become addicted to junk food?
I can just see myself; a blubbery mass living on the couch with the phone within reach so that I can answer all those "Do you have a thigh-master?" and "Buy three electronic keyhole cleaners today and pay for just 2!".
Is this even a prize or is it just evil?
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*Which, with a very few exceptions, is otherwise illegal in Denmark without the poor marketing victim's consent.
**Last time I went was in 2008 - and only because a friend wanted to bring her toddler there.
burger prize!!
Date: 2009-12-14 09:41 pm (UTC)Monica :)
Re: burger prize!!
Date: 2009-12-14 11:15 pm (UTC)That they might have to put a roof on the consumption is just scary!