McDonalds Ads - tell us how do you feel about them folks?

I would like Mumsnet to boycott NewsCorp and Tesco to name just a couple, but I don't suppose they will.

Like AMumInScotland and others, I am very uneasy with the idea that Mumsnet represents a certain (very narrow) sector of society. There are people here of all ages and from all walks of life. It is too simplistic to assume that all Mumsnetters will object to advertising from McDonalds just because many of us elect not to respond to their marketing.

Please nooooooo - I'd hate to see a McDonalds in my local High St and I feel exactly the same about seeing it here.

Nutritionally toxic, insidious and exploitative. They get everywhere so it's important to keep them out of spaces if possible.

It will be like having DS mither me from the PC screen.

MDs is bloody everywhere. Is there no escape??????

I will try extra hard to kick off a MDs AIBU to match the banner .

I really don't get the fixation on objecting to this one company. When the Vodafone tax dodging story was in full swing MN not only had huge banner ads for Vodafone but were promoting their public relations charitable stuff on the MN campaigns page.

Take the McD ad and just give us users a [long spoon] emoticon for supping here.

the bbc can make children's tv and have the monopololy on it

maryz - they banned mcdonalds from citv hence cutting lots of original children's filmaking

and the screen when on mumsnet's advertising banners are big and kids can hardly ignore them

if i watched my mum sufring the internet, if it exsited in 1975, and i saw the banner for wimpy bar on there, i would accept it was a brand to trust

I have no objection.

Please, no. Of course I wouldn't leave but they are an ethically horrible company and the ethics of Mumsnet is one of its greatest strengths.

But MN isn't a children's website so not really comparing like for like.

I don't buy McDonalds for me or my children.

I still won't buy McDonalds if they advertise on here.

I don't understand the issue. As far as I am aware, this is not CBeebies .

they have for children's tv, i was so annoyed about it at the time but no-one else cared :(

But they haven't banned TV advertising of McDs .

to my mind it doesn't amuminscotland - but i do despair that they ban tv advertising for mcdonalds yet can do it here

I may be odd, but I'm actually more bothered by the idea that MNHQ have an "editorial stance" on their advertising which says that Boden is "us" and McD's isn't. I don't come here to be preached at from on high, or because I'm part of some imagined demographic, and I don't like the idea that MNHQ in any way "speaks for me" in what they do or don't do, or even in the campaigns that they get involved in. I haven't signed up to be a member of any particular protest group by coming on here to chat.

I have ishoos at times with the whole Boden/M&S/Waitrose vibe, but tell myself that isn't really what MN is about. But then things like this come along, and I wonder if I'm really in a place where I'm surrounded by snobs who look down on everything I do....

Wait till McDs run the ad for the special offer Happy Meal with Fruit Shoot

Can't you have Waitrose instead? So much...nicer.

Would i stop viewing mumsnet if you advertise mcd's? No.
Would I stop viewing mumsnet if you charged to join / post / view? Yes.

But isn't McD's rather netmums?

think mn were bored tonight and wanted to mix things up personally

That did amuse me quite alot Maryz :o

I'm still failing to see the big deal over this...But I also don't see the big deal over the Néstle boycott crap...

Yes, I would object because I think they and they're 'food' are crap. Are u telling me you can't get other advertisers to take the space or are they offering such an obscene amount to get at our kids thru their parents that u can't turn it down. Take the amount they're offering and use that as a new position to negotiate with other advertisers instead.

I don't care really..makes no difference to me who advertises

I would be absolutely disgusted if I inadvertently clicked on an ad for Mark Warner and saw a holiday that I and my family could never afford to go on

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