Mumsnet and McDonalds

[tattychicken]

DH popped into a Mcdonalds yesterday to (ahem) use the facilities. Did his usual trick of taking his iPhone with him, and later let me know that when he was connecting to the Internet, the free wifi for McDonalds users popped up 'in conjunction with Mumsnet'!!! The blurb on mumsnet still says they don't allow advertising from mcdonalds, but when we googled it, it turns out this ban was lifted last May, and 'Mumsnet is proud to be associated with the family friendly restaurant'. .

WTF? You might be, MNHQ, but I'm not.

Of course advertising does not work on the ABC1's or Guardian readers. Adverts in the Guardian can on television are just public information anouncemnets, paid for by shiny squeaky clean corporations and the ones for prestige German car marques are purely to let the plebs see what they will be able to buy third hand in a few years time. :)

that sort of does a mild, half-hearted shrug

That is the default attitude of the vast majority of regular MN posters.

was about to say i am pretty sure lequeen can read, so therefore can read the 'nestle' logo on the kitkat packet.

is currently eating a nestle crunch bar (i am bad but i really like them!)

You know it's really MN that needs the advertising off the back of McDonalds

I doubt there's a person in the entire Western World who hasn't heard of McDonalds....MumsNet however are a slightly smaller affair

Therefore, every time someone takes a shit in McDonald's bogs and logs (pardon the pun!) onto the internet...they're seeing the MumsNet name.

I wonder how many people complained to McDonalds that it put them off their crap?

ooh a shrug emoticon - isn't that why we have a biscuit? [so don't know me emoticons emoticon]

There was a boycott coca cola protest when I was at uni. We ended up with pepsi instead. I hate pepsi

Me too moomin
(not addicted in the slightest to diet coke and all its evils)

Does anyone remember that bizarre thread where someone wanted us all to boycott Muller Light yoghurts because a lorry nearly hit her DH's car on a motorway?

Despite the fact he clearly pulled out in front of it?

OOh, there's an ad on at the moment on the telly for cheese strings. That's new.
Excuse me while I pop out to buy some.

moominsarescary i hate pepsi as well! but moomins arent scary i loved them as a kid

Yes, shrug,shrug,shrug.

I want one, lets start a thang

we got a pombear ffs

I remember that worra

oh is that the one with the cool car covered in cheese strings ladybeagle i saw that, it didnt make me buy cheese strings tho...

I remember that Worra

The nestle th ng started in the 70's and it doesn't appear to be hurting them one bit. But I wonder how many boycotters love a nice bottle of San Peligrino on their breakfast table for after the morning coffee

So MN shouldn't advertise McDonalds to protect all us thick WC plebs then?

Is that the gist?

So all the MC posters can be all smug and say we saved your poor children from the evil that is the Big Mac?

Yup, Usual, that is indeed the gist.