The Taste of Berlin

This ad appears on Beer mats in the pub near to where I live:

At first glance it seems fairly innocuous I know, but glance at it again - it's stupid.

Now, I don't expect anyone to realise just how stupid this is if they don't know the area, so allow me to explain.

First of all, and this is the least of my problems with it, there's no bench where this guy is depicted sitting on a bench. But that particular beef is a small one. If there was a bench in this location however it would be right where the traffic lights are for pedestrians to cross. So basically this man with his big dog would had to have brought his own bench and place it right where it would be blocking a load of people, and maybe the odd chicken, from crossing the road.

There's also the fact that there's no pub near to here. The nearest one is about ten minutes away and they don't allow dogs in. So he would have had to go to the pub, tie up his dog outside, order the pint, rob the glass, untie his dog while the bar staff give out to him for being a thief, walk for ten minutes with the pint, and his dog, and then sit on the bench that he brought earlier to do all this - whilst blocking a load of pedestrian traffic with a big smug smile on his face.

 
                                    

Further, to get to the nearest pub to here he would have had to walk through the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe:

So this casually dressed Aryan man would just walk through the Memorial to one of the saddest events in history, where an invariably melancholy mood prevails and silence is advised, taking his dog for a walk and inexplicably carrying a pint in a glass he's just stolen. All presumably with the same pleased expression on his face.

It's safe to assume that anyone who would do this obviously doesn't pay much respect to the memory of the victims commemorated there, and since we've already established that he is a mad arsehole who would block a load of people from crossing the road with his bench, it's easy to imagine that he's racist, even if only unconsciously

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This ad has proved so offensive that someone seems to have kicked their foot right through it on a billboard:

So he doesn't let consideration for pedestrians or respect for the dead get in the way of his enjoyment. But what does he do when it's raining? It's unlikely that he wants to get wet. Does he still persue his anti-social hobby then?  Not long after seeing the offending beer mat I came across another ad on a billboard which answers these questions.

From what I've gathered from this other ad, when it's raining, he just relaxes on his bench as his (notably non-Aryan) servant carries the beer to him in the lashings of rain whilst making sure that the beer doesn't get wet. Adding even more humiliation to this degrading task the servant gets pointed and laughed at by people taking shelter under the Brandenburg Gate:

Meanwhile the smug overlord is having a grand old time looking forward to his three pints without a care in the world, probably now sitting inside the Gate because it's raining, blocking other people from getting in with his bench.

What a bastard.