Tesco and 2 life size men with machine guns advertising Call of Duty at the entrance - 18

[atiredmum]

I think this is unreasonable, what do other mums think? To walk into the local supermarket and face two huge men with machine guns (on cardboard). Obviously they are adverts but you can't miss them and I know that young children will stop, stare and ask loads of questions. This stuff doesn't need to be in their young faces grrrrrr . Are they in other Tesco's right at the front where you can not avoid them????

Plus iirc from a different thread jcscot's husband is a hottie. :o Go him!

I do not love guns, though they are all over the place here (rural Minnesota),em and I know how to shoot if I want to. And as I said I don't let DS play games like that, etc.

But I think the military is necessary and staffed with mostly good and decent people, who are brave and have sacrificed.

I see men (and women) in combats, and Gurkhas in suits at my local Tesco all the time, but I suppose it is in a garrison town. Should I complain?

Oh, and the branch is actually named after the Garrison, surely that's not right?

I love the posters missing the point that a real soldier or someone doing their job (ie airport security) that involves guns is the same as a game which uses guns as pure entertainment.

As a child, I saw armed soldiers every time my Mum took us shopping in town. As did every other child who grew up in NI in the 70s and 80s. I haven't been scarred for life by it.

I was delighted to see the cut outs at my local sainsbury as it drew me to the fact that they had an excellent deal on the game. I bought it there and then.

they were cardboard, I thouht you meant real life men

yanby to some extent but this is the commercial world we live in, sucks eh

Does anybody who has a long child really have experience of them stopping, staring and asking loads of questions?

And if so what type of questions? 'Mum/Dad/Uncle Fred what's that?' 'Why little Johnny, it's an ADVERT...'

My 12 yo DS will want one of those cardboard cut-outs in his room.

Note to self: don't take DS to Tesco Extra or run the risk of the little bu**er trying to leg it with the COD soldier under his sweaty armpit.

YABU

They also have that pic on the front of the game itself, what if your DC see that? They have also advertised it on the TV, so you had better get rid of your telly. What if they see a packet of little plastic soldiers with guns on the toy aisle?

TBH the only question you are likely to be asked is "mummy can I have that game" as it is so fucking awesome

LordOfTheFlies Thu 10-Nov-11 09:20:29
"My 12 yo DS will want one of those cardboard cut-outs in his room."

so will mine!

As well as the game.

Apparently I'm not unreasonable not to let him play COD, just ^miserable6.

YANBU!

Complain!
They dot take any notice unless you do, and they won't know unless you do.
If I go there and see them I will complain, but I don't often go to that supermarket.

i saw this at out tesco today, except they were about 3ft 5 definitaly not life sized, though are you exceptionally small op?

Yes, had a look in ours and they are really small?! What's the op talking about?

"Plus iirc from a different thread jcscot's husband is a hottie. Go him!"

Well, I think so!

The one in Morrisons was taller than me and I'm 5 foot 8. Even worse- they had a 5 foot Batman Arkham City cutout too. Is a boycott in order?

Ah, another CoD game, another ridiculous moral panic on MN.

DS1's dad ordered him a a copy off Amazon and it arrived today. He's delighted, as is DH. There's much talk of prestiging previous games to get extra stuff going on round here. I'm pretending to be interested.

"Ah, another CoD game, another ridiculous moral panic on MN."

My 18 year old DS has been playing COD for years and has not turned into a violent hooligan and yes he does still have a social life apart from the first few days after new one comes out and then I don't see him for days

He probably still has a social life, as all his friends will be doing the same thing (and they'll all be playing together). DH is now playing with his friend who tried to persuade him to go to the midnight launch at game

I blame muller.

i am actually tempted to buy call of duty myself now, it sounds moreish