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

609 replies

JustineMumsnet · 01/03/2011 16:22

Good day MNetters,
We've been asked if we'd host ads for McDonalds, so we thought we'd ask what you think. Would you object to banner ads (ie like the one at the top of the page) on Mumsnet?
Let us know.

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JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 03/03/2011 16:40

Wouldn't bother me in the slightest.

FWIW I was hugely proud that ds loved my home made burgers so. And horribly smug that he repeated the "they have to put a toy in there because the food is so horrible" line.

Fastforward 8 years as ds demolishes a quarter pounder with cheese at our most recent McDonalds visit: "Mum, just how do they make these do delicious?".

Meh.

Eleison · 03/03/2011 16:47
Grin

Mine were the other way around. They loved the place when they were small; but by about eight they had got past it.

GretchenWiener · 03/03/2011 16:47

i have no opinion

ValiumSingleton · 03/03/2011 16:49

I found this one quite sexist but a tiny bit funny Blush

ValiumSingleton · 03/03/2011 16:50

it's very sexist actually

reelingintheyears · 03/03/2011 16:52

I don't pay any attention to the ads but it would look to me as if MN were endorsing McDonalds and anything else it allows to advertise on it's site.

It doesn't really sit well with me.

ChickensHaveNoEyebrows · 03/03/2011 16:53

Completely unbothered. I never notice the ads, and always MN with the sound switched off.

ValiumSingleton · 03/03/2011 16:56

on this site?? never noticed them. maybe i have different ads

theyCallMeHer · 03/03/2011 16:57

freshmint are you for real or some ill constructed parody?

bethpiper · 03/03/2011 16:58

Im ok with it, although my tummy isnt!

Eleison · 03/03/2011 17:00

But is McD really any worse than Tesco which has advertised here? Certainly Tesco is rapacious. It undermines small retailers and town centres, it flogs cheap throwaway clothing in an environmentally unsustainable way; it underpays farmers, etc. Mumsnet is part of the advertising industry. It is a billboard. It is the talk community it hosts that is different from that. So best to put all the emphasis on keeping advertisers out of the talkspace e.g by clearly signalling which webchats are paid for and by general vigilance about what kind of admittance is given in connection with, e.g., their buy-in to the Let Girls be Girls stuff..

TheCrackFox · 03/03/2011 17:05

Doesn't bother me.

southeastastra · 03/03/2011 17:06

nah - don't if you don't have to

Hassled · 03/03/2011 17:12

I think it would bother me. My kids have eaten MacDonalds - I'm not a complete snob about them (only a partial one) - but I don't like them.

I don't like their litigious nature, I don't like their food and I don't like their contribution to the destruction of rainforests. You don't think Macdonalds and then think "ethical", do you?

I think if I was a newbie who discovered MN and the first thing I saw was a MacDonalds ad, I'd move on pronto. It doesn't portray MN in the best of lights.

glastocat · 03/03/2011 17:14

Sorry, I am old enough to still hate them for the McLibel case, so I'd be a bit disappointed in Mumsnet really. I haven't boycotted Sausage and Egg crackmuffins for ten years for nothing you know! Smile

PfftTheMagicDragon · 03/03/2011 17:22

How can anyone say that they haven't done anything unethical?

It hasn't been that long since McLibel has it?

glastocat · 03/03/2011 17:25

I just looked up McLibel, the case was closed in 2005 after a 20 year legal battle.

And I'm not saying that anyone can say they haven't done anything unethical, but I didn't like the way the conducted themselves at all over that case.

theyCallMeHer · 03/03/2011 17:32

Way I see it is this. When I lived in London as a freeholder within a block with a community run management we decided that we would allow a billboard on the side of our building. Once we'd agreed that, it didn't matter what was being advertised, nor did we get any say. By selling a bit of our space we had given up the right to dictate.

I am puzzled what mnhq are seeking by canvassing opinion like this, will it actually matter what we think?

PlasticLentilWeaver · 03/03/2011 17:36

Go ahead. It won't encourage me to start going there.
I haven't a clue who else advertises on here either Blush

Eleison · 03/03/2011 17:39

Actually, I agree that in respect of McLibel McD is worse than other advertisers on here. But in all other respects, it is just one more of the same.

JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 03/03/2011 17:40

I remember it too, glasto. My 15 (or indeed 25) yo self wouldn't be terribly impressed with my McDonalds patronage.

Besides, as Hecate says, an advert is a plea, not a command. Within reason I couldn't give a stuff what MN advertises.

JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 03/03/2011 17:41

Do ASDA advertise here? Wal-Mart is pretty dreadful, iirc.

HuwEdwards · 03/03/2011 17:46

Fine by me, it's not crack cocaine

HuwEdwards · 03/03/2011 17:49

oh yes, good point, one condition - no clowns

they give me the willies

fifi25 · 03/03/2011 17:51

they do employ a shit load of youngsters and times are hard Smile