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Alright...
I don't know if I'm the only one that notices this, but MacDonalds has taken a dive for the worse with their new advertising scheme. I'll gree that it is appealing to the eye, pretty much no matter who you are, the filmography is very modern, and well done... but the simple fact is that they, a company that has been selling to children for years, alomst since they were created. Have started to sell to an older demographic... I'd say people from 16 to 25.
Though this may not be a bad thing, in fact I'm all for changing demographics, but what I don't understand is how one can go from Ronald MacDonald, to having the camera fixed on an attractive woman's breasts. They use the sayings on the shirts as an excuse to focus on their breasts but you konw they're trying to tell young impressionable minds that if you eat our new salads, and use our crappy Pedometer... that we renamed and called a stepometer because we're cool... *cough*losers*cough* Then you will be skinny, and have perky breasts and be attractive.... somehow I don't think that eating at MacNasties is going to help you achive that goal.
I don't know... Maybe i'm overlooking something, but somehow macdonalds is using sex to sell salads... and crappy sawdust burgers and shoestring fries. I think that whoever the conceptual artist for macdonalds should probably be working for a clothing company or something, they'd be much better suited for it. But that's just my opinion.
Alright...
I don't know if I'm the only one that notices this, but MacDonalds has taken a dive for the worse with their new advertising scheme. I'll gree that it is appealing to the eye, pretty much no matter who you are, the filmography is very modern, and well done... but the simple fact is that they, a company that has been selling to children for years, alomst since they were created. Have started to sell to an older demographic... I'd say people from 16 to 25.
Though this may not be a bad thing, in fact I'm all for changing demographics, but what I don't understand is how one can go from Ronald MacDonald, to having the camera fixed on an attractive woman's breasts. They use the sayings on the shirts as an excuse to focus on their breasts but you konw they're trying to tell young impressionable minds that if you eat our new salads, and use our crappy Pedometer... that we renamed and called a stepometer because we're cool... *cough*losers*cough* Then you will be skinny, and have perky breasts and be attractive.... somehow I don't think that eating at MacNasties is going to help you achive that goal.
I don't know... Maybe i'm overlooking something, but somehow macdonalds is using sex to sell salads... and crappy sawdust burgers and shoestring fries. I think that whoever the conceptual artist for macdonalds should probably be working for a clothing company or something, they'd be much better suited for it. But that's just my opinion.
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Posted:
Can't say I've seen those ads yet. We've got terrible ads at the moment selling the new salads and they make me cringe everytime I see them. Makes me hate McDonalds even more...
Can't say I've seen those ads yet. We've got terrible ads at the moment selling the new salads and they make me cringe everytime I see them. Makes me hate McDonalds even more...
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Yeah, well, unfortunately I see the same thing happening all over the place. The models they use to advertise a thing don't really look much like the actual market, but they look like what the market wants to look like.
So, for example, when I am at the drug store and I see the boxes for glucose meters for diabetics, I see it showing attractive, healthy-looking older people checking their blood sugar. In reality, the majority of type-2 diabetics are overweight or obese and generally in poor health.
The same is true of drug ads. I went to the website for some of the antipsychotic drugs. It shows happy, attractive, productive people wearing business suits. Again, it's possible, but it's not what we see.
From Senior Cruises to fast food, marketers are going to use sex to sell things and they are going to try to inspire the market by implying that if you go to McDonald's, you are part of the same market as this model.
Yeah, well, unfortunately I see the same thing happening all over the place. The models they use to advertise a thing don't really look much like the actual market, but they look like what the market wants to look like.
So, for example, when I am at the drug store and I see the boxes for glucose meters for diabetics, I see it showing attractive, healthy-looking older people checking their blood sugar. In reality, the majority of type-2 diabetics are overweight or obese and generally in poor health.
The same is true of drug ads. I went to the website for some of the antipsychotic drugs. It shows happy, attractive, productive people wearing business suits. Again, it's possible, but it's not what we see.
From Senior Cruises to fast food, marketers are going to use sex to sell things and they are going to try to inspire the market by implying that if you go to McDonald's, you are part of the same market as this model.
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the new mcdonalds ads are particularly vomit inducing
very VERY sychophantic (sp?)
its just another reason not to go there and another reason to throw the tv out the window.
those ads are bad though . they make me angry . they actually are so .....niceniceniceynice that they make me want to be violent
the new mcdonalds ads are particularly vomit inducing
very VERY sychophantic (sp?)
its just another reason not to go there and another reason to throw the tv out the window.
those ads are bad though . they make me angry . they actually are so .....niceniceniceynice that they make me want to be violent
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All english ads suck. Mc D's and BK especially. Happy meals? God... They make me want to throw up...
All english ads suck. Mc D's and BK especially. Happy meals? God... They make me want to throw up...
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Hey lets just ignore them and maybe they'll go away...Macdonalds I mean not just the adverts
Hey lets just ignore them and maybe they'll go away...Macdonalds I mean not just the adverts
Let's relight this forum 
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Good idea, hey, if we get enuff people to not go to mc ds and mk, mayb there buisness will dry up and there will be no more annoying adverts! Horray!
Good idea, hey, if we get enuff people to not go to mc ds and mk, mayb there buisness will dry up and there will be no more annoying adverts! Horray!
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i saw one of their ads here the other day and it said 'chicken McNuggets now made with chicken brest' makes me ponder what i was actually eating when i ordered nuggets as a kid?!?!?!?
i saw one of their ads here the other day and it said 'chicken McNuggets now made with chicken brest' makes me ponder what i was actually eating when i ordered nuggets as a kid?!?!?!?
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To borrow a line from "The Great Outdoors"
"Lips and @$$høles!"
To borrow a line from "The Great Outdoors"
"Lips and @$$høles!"
-Mike
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i thought that was just sausages
i thought that was just sausages
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Hmm... If only eh... they're too much like microsoft
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Good idea, hey, if we get enuff people to not go to mc ds and mk, mayb there buisness will dry up and there will be no more annoying adverts! Horray!
Hmm... If only eh... they're too much like microsoft
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what! you're telling me that if i eat maccas salads i wont look like barbie?! oh no! what am i going to do now!!!!
i think i will have to drink coke 24/7 so i can be a cool surfer and get all the chicks...i mean..wait....i dont want to pick up chicks...hmm....maybe advertising is nuts....
what! you're telling me that if i eat maccas salads i wont look like barbie?! oh no! what am i going to do now!!!!
i think i will have to drink coke 24/7 so i can be a cool surfer and get all the chicks...i mean..wait....i dont want to pick up chicks...hmm....maybe advertising is nuts....
i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey
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Rouge, I think the secret is to drink beer and smoke Marlboro Lights.
Rouge, I think the secret is to drink beer and smoke Marlboro Lights.
-Mike
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A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
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Location: Greece-Samos-Athens
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Posted:
yes I would like fries with my sex and make it double
mostly all the adnertisements get us thinking defferently but when we eat at macdonalds be sure that we are going to have large breasts.Cows breasts.(MUTATION)
just press that little button on t.v. the one that says power or just skip channel Do not look at advertisements(any kind of them) they are the devils 
yes I would like fries with my sex and make it double
mostly all the adnertisements get us thinking defferently but when we eat at macdonalds be sure that we are going to have large breasts.Cows breasts.(MUTATION)
just press that little button on t.v. the one that says power or just skip channel
Do not look at advertisements(any kind of them) they are the devils "For once there was an unknown land, full of strange flowers and subtle perfumes,
a land of which it is joy of all joys to dream, a land where all things are perfect and poisonous."
"Put out the torches! Hide the moon! Hide the stars!"
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