BattleMonkey
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rayner said:
Or just order the healthier food options they offer instead of getting fries and sodas. A happy meal is also not going to make your kids fat and unhealthy unless you are buying it for the kids multiple times a week.
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Mom to Sue McDonald's in Happy Meal Battle
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Or just order the healthier food options they offer instead of getting fries and sodas. A happy meal is also not going to make your kids fat and unhealthy unless you are buying it for the kids multiple times a week.
Retrofluxed
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Sarah Palin said:
Palin said something smart and something I agree with? ......... *nose bleed*
Jeramii said:
And there's another problem...women like these have caused a lot of the playgrounds to be eliminated. Some kids would get hurt and shitty parents would be all "it's McDonalds fault for providing slides" so McD's would get rid of them. There was nothing better on a hot summer day than going out on that playground....that's why I liked McD's. It wasn't the food or the shitty toy. Now, at best, you get a pit of plastic balls and padded walls indoors. One of the local McD's here still has the barren space outside that used to house the playground, a vacant reminder of past good times kids today won't get to experience because of overprotective parents forcing the entirety of society to be responsible for their child's well being.
adamsappel
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I don't understand where all the anti-government rhetoric is coming from. This has nothing to do with the government, it's a lawsuit brought by a parent and a consumer organization.
The apple slices in Happy Meals come with a little tub of caramel dipping sauce, so it's hardly as healthy as folks are claiming, though at least you can throw it away uneaten.
I think the toys can be purchased separately for a dollar.
With Dragona no longer a mod, it appears to be open season to call women we disagree with bitches and cunts. Interesting.
It usually does take a lawsuit to influence any huge corporation. I'm sure hundreds of thousands of people burned their mouths and cursed McDonald's for their near-boiling coffee, but it took an old lady to be horrifically burned and sue for them to change (and it's sad that this is lumped in with "frivolous lawsuits").
The apple slices in Happy Meals come with a little tub of caramel dipping sauce, so it's hardly as healthy as folks are claiming, though at least you can throw it away uneaten.
I think the toys can be purchased separately for a dollar.
With Dragona no longer a mod, it appears to be open season to call women we disagree with bitches and cunts. Interesting.
Blackace said:
It usually does take a lawsuit to influence any huge corporation. I'm sure hundreds of thousands of people burned their mouths and cursed McDonald's for their near-boiling coffee, but it took an old lady to be horrifically burned and sue for them to change (and it's sad that this is lumped in with "frivolous lawsuits").
One of your cornerstones is using the courts as solution for grievance, rather than legislation. It's fine to judge the merits of a lawsuit in commentary, but you seem like you'd be a pretty bad juror. Then again, I wouldn't be surprised if you expended great energy in avoiding jury duty.JayDubya said:
Broken Arrow
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adamsappel said:
Sorry, but at least for me this has nothing to do with sexism. That woman completely retarded, she is a bitch.
If it were the father I'll call him completely retarded and an asshole.
fatty
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rayner said:
BattleMonkey said:
Or just a parent telling your kid 'no'.
adamsappel said:
I'm guessing this topic is still in the back of a lot of our minds.
BattleMonkey
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adamsappel said:
Well it's still not as bad as fries and soda, and you can just take the sauce away or tell them you don't want it. But again Happy Meals are not making kids fat unless parents are buying it for their kids all the time. Every once in a while is not going to do any harm. And looking at what kids get fed in school cafeterias, they are not being fed anything more healhty than what is that happy meal, and in some cases the school food is possibly worse. And really I would have no doubt that these kids are not getting fed any better at home either. Parents seem to constantly get more and more lazy, with them just using quick food options like frozen processed foods, and other junk. And the kids are being couch potatoes at home? Whose fault is that? No McDonalds has no fault in any of this, it's the parents own lazyiness and lack of discipline that is making our kids fat.
Gamecocks625
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BattleMonkey said:
Exactly. If I gave my daughter a happy meal or chick-fil-a every single day, and then wonder why they are getting fat or scream at the "big corporations" as to why they are brainwashing my children...I would be an idiot.
Guess what. Sometimes your role as a parent involves teaching your children that you can't eat crap all day every day. The times when she just flat out refuses to eat something we make, I don't run to McDonalds. I put together a plate of deli meat, cheese, grapes, goldfish or a healthier cracker and she nails that stuff. Was it the plate of veggies I wanted her to eat? No, but it sure is healthier than 40g of fat she would intake with a burger.
Man this junk gets on my nerves.
Shogmaster said:
No one said it's easy.
Unless, of course, you have the nanny state to help you out!
adamsappel said:
It's about the philosophy that someone else should step in and aid you in your parenting -- whether it's the government or McDonalds or whatever.
Kids eat junk. This is okay, as long as they don't eat junk all the time and go get exercise as much as possible.
MC Safety said:
It' not even about the nanny state or 'ease' it's about total abdication of responsibility to the courts.
And setting expectations needs to be wholistic. You can't pamper them all the time and expect the one time you say no to work smoothly.
When I was growing up, I knew the boundaries. I got upset when I was told no, but I accepted it. And on occasions my parents relented and let me have what I wanted, it was a 'treat'.
But the ground rules need to be set very early on. I suspect this particular parent just let her kids do whatever then wonder why she can't control them when they get older and the issues went from not wanting to do something trivial when they were toddlers, to battles over what to eat, what to buy etc.
It will only get worse.
I can sort of see where this woman is coming from, as a parent of 3 children.
We go to mcdonalds very rarely, maybe once a month if that so its not a problem for us.
Some of the comments in this thread are cringeworthy though, presumably from non parent Gaf.
Don't knock it till you've tried it.
We go to mcdonalds very rarely, maybe once a month if that so its not a problem for us.
Some of the comments in this thread are cringeworthy though, presumably from non parent Gaf.
Don't knock it till you've tried it.
BakedPigeon
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And people wonder why America gets so much flack for suing everything that walks, this is just fucking disgusting. No one is forcing you to buy your spoiled little alien shit head baby a happy meal, let alone take that little hideous creature to mcdonalds.
GoldenEye 007
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Try what? Saying no? Because even if they pout or bitch, you are still in control, no? You have the means to get them the meal or not. They don't. Therefore you are in total control and it is up to you whether or not you give in.CaramaC said:
I may not be a parent, but I was a kid once and that was how it worked.
adamsappel
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While I don't necessarily agree with the basis of her lawsuit, I'm not against the changes that might result even when it's rightfully thrown out. McDonald's doesn't always have their customer's best interest at heart (nor necessarily should they, but I don't mind a little consumer-based tempering of their excesses). Vegetarians were certainly surprised when they learned the fries were cooked with beef fat. I don't think there's even a non-meat entree besides salads, is there? It took a documentary to change their Supersize option. I do miss the deep-fried pies, though. They were heavenly, though, yes, unhealthy and served too damn hot!JayDubya said:
A jury trial for a speeding ticket isn't frivolous? :lol And now that I think of it, you're against speed limits?JayDubya said:b) I'd love to be on a jury, hopefully for something like a drug charge or a speeding ticket.Nullification FTW.
shoplifter
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I'm lucky that we don't really watch anything with our kids that isn't on our DVR so we can skip directly through the ads. That said, I can't always be with them to tell my soon to be 3-year-old, "Yeah, this is all bullshit. They want you to buy something and are doing it by telling that you if I loved you more, I would get it for you."
There's absolutely a level of parental responsibility involved here, but kids under a certain age flat-out don't get that they're being advertised to.
This doesn't seem that egregious, right?
\/\/\/ yeah, i'm disappointed that "wench" and "strumpet" haven't been used yet.
There's absolutely a level of parental responsibility involved here, but kids under a certain age flat-out don't get that they're being advertised to.
This doesn't seem that egregious, right?
The EU said:
\/\/\/ yeah, i'm disappointed that "wench" and "strumpet" haven't been used yet.
Shogmaster said:
No, not really. I -am- a parent, and my 3-year old--without fail--wants to get McDonalds any time he sees the arches, wether it's at Wal-Mart or driving past the restaurant. And most of the time, we say "No."
My son pretty much spends his mornings learning with PBS Kids shows, many of which are sponsored by McDonalds. So he's exposed to McDonalds' marketing on a daily basis. But guess what? My wife and I say no and never back down if he throws a fit over it. Which he usually doesn't--he might whine, but I don't recall any class-A meltdowns over it. We go home, we make dinner, and he eats it (or not).
This woman is blaming McDonalds for her lack of self-control. "CURSE YOU MCDONALDS FOR SELLING FOOD MY KIDS LIKE!" It would be like suing Valve for having awesome deals on Steam during the holidays.
BTW marketing to kids in general is not illegal (have you WATCHED Cartoon Network for more than 20 minutes?), but marketing controlled substances like tobacco and alcohol to kids is illegal (Joe Camel).
shoplifter
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Mudkips said:
Didn't you hear? Courts should be run by private companies!
TOM f'N CRUISE
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