McDonalds advertised on MN

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McDonalds get this going on AIBU

I am a real old fashioned leftie, which is why I have more respect for the people of this site than seemingly those who feel the need to protect them from the big evil McDonalds.
Lefties joined the real world a long time ago.

It is galling to have someone lecture everyone else, like they're bringing the very idea of ethics to the great unwashed...yet their chosen platform is AIBU And their way of protesting is to boycott the site namechange!

Yeah, you show em!

i suggested earlier that they should advertise mcds on aibu -

I agree with those who have real misgivings about advertising McD's here.

Apart from the money why would you advertise it? It smells of greed.

I'm with you Nicky.

I am a major leftie!

But not providing any arguments, or any evidence AT ALL of why I should be boycotting McDonald's isn't going to make me.

That's not what being a leftie is about. They're not wrong just because they're a big company. I need evidence that their practices are damaging. And the most I've been given is really old cases.

It's not enough.

I think what I object to most strongly is how patronising it is to tell me which adverts I can and cannot look at on a website. Like I am unable to decide for myself whether I should use McDonalds, and thus clearly need to have my hand held at all times.

i find the dick and dom ad effing annoying too

weasel they give children the taste for crap salty food from a young age. quite apart from anything else

huh tiz? mn is asking the question now, we're just saying why we feel it inappropriate and you're having your say

sea - been to MaccyDs recently? I was ever so disappointed with the lack of salt of their fries. Where has it gone? The salty fries wer the best bot. Went recently - we call there on way to friend's house down south as best of the bunch for a quickie tea en route - and there was no salt on the fries :(

BTW MaccyDs won't make your child fat if they have it once in a whie. Obviosuly eat it all the time and it will, but then will food from many places.

I meant, souteastastra, that people who don't want the ads imply that I and others (but oddly never themselves) have no control over ourselves (or whatever) and so they should decide what we are exposed to.

If you look at the happy meal nutritional break down it is really not that bad. Miles better than a shop bought sandwich in salt content terms alone.

So, from what I can gather, those with the most major problems with MDs advertising here is because of their practises from more than 10-20 years ago. They have acknowledged they have improved and continue to improve in the past 10 years. Does this mean nothing then?

Speak from someone, btw, who really doesn't care one way or the other re the advertising. I have been to MDs in the past. Will go again in the future. I quite like the odd fillet o'fish and fries.

everything in there is salty and cheap

yes i have been in there

it doesn't matter if you're left or right. The world is now run by corporate business.
It has been for years.
OP never answered my question as to whether she uses supermarkets, fuel, modern technology etc.
Much as I don't agree with it, it's going to take a hell of a bigger movement than banning Macdonalds from mn to make a change.

you can have fun with this checking the nutrition of different meal combinations

lordy - a ten year old won't eat a happy meal will they?

and children tend to 'hang around' in mcds - we don't provide any spaces for kids to hang around do we - so no surprise they just spend their time stuffing their faces - they get a taste for it.

the ethical thing is another matter but i hate the way we let mcdonalds and places like tesco tell us how to live our lives and we accept it

Ohh, what's Adblocker? It sounds ace!

I don't really see the ads except the bu@@£rs that open new windows when you click on them by mistake. REally hate the ones that make a noise.

You know mcDonalds won't make your kids fat through the adverts. You'd actually have to go and buy them stuff. And unless you are without the ability to say no, or your car drives itself into the drive-thru, you can actually prevent them from having any!

I have an ad blocker (sorry MN)

• the lack of space to 'hang aorund' does really annoy me. Just moved but old local city 'improved' it's centre by building two shipping centre's with no benches and then took all of the benches out of the old public spaces.

Incredibly stupid... but nothing to do with the McD's! Which is usually stuffed with families with small children eating cheaply and international students.

did you read my post? your child will one day grow up into a teenager and will go to macdonalds !
argh

(my post was to buzz)

There are far worse foods out there which claim to be healthy - have you read the back of those probiotic drinks or the average kids cereal?

At least with McDonalds you know they aren't very good for you and they don't claim to be.

There are good food choices there too - you can have oj, carrot sticks, salads, porridge etc. But you aren't supposed to eat them every day.

Would there be outrage if say, Thorntons wanted to adveertise? Or Alton Towers? It's a treat and you can decide if it's for you or not - we're not idiots, we don't need to be policed because our poor feeble brains are too addled to know when something isn't healthy.

shipping! Meant shopping obviously.

yes they will be a teenager. And because there was once an ad on MN that they never saw, they will do nought but eat Big Macs and grow instantly enormous!