Drinking and gambling on Google

Drinking and gambling on Google

Google’s willingness to advertise on sites that promote wine, but not beer has always irritated me. I’m English. Beer is my national drink and I find the idea that beer drinkers are somehow below wine drinkers insulting and culturally insensitive; particularly coming from people who’ve made a fortune indexing the world’s porn collection.

It’s also worth noting that as the British have given up beer for wine, so alcohol related deaths have increased. We talk about winoes, not beeroes.

So the decision to lighten up and allow the advertising of spirits (and gambling) is a welcome step in the right direction.

Posted at : December 8th, 2008 - 4:42 pm
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So, you want to say that wine caused more deaths than bear? Well, I can’t really say my opinion, but… who knows, maybe that really is a case. But I doubt it, actually.

Stella / June 3rd, 2009, 12:16 pm / #

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