if you're female and use the web you can't have escaped the zillion ads for something called 'the pink patch'. the pink patch claims to help you lose a lot of weight in a very short amount of time, it works on the nicotine patch principle, with a slow release of, er, a magic weightloss potion, but, hey, it's for girls, so it's pink.
the first time i saw an ad for it i was so outraged i actually went to the site to see how they could possibly claim the results they tout on the ads. but, you know, it's pretty normal, frankly, for this day and age, for marketers to lie blatantly, so i shrugged and ignored it.
then i saw a headline that the ads had been pulled from facebook. hurray! i went to read all about it only to discover that the first google ad under the article was for, guess what? yup, the bloomin pink patch. irony rules ok.
