Breaking News! Mcdonald's advert takes dig at Hipster couriers!

happytramp

I've just seen a new McDonalds advert which depicts a group of santa clad cyclists going for a burger, much to the disdain of the ironic handlebar moustash sporting couriers lounging around outside a boutique bicycle shop. Perhaps the final nail in the coffin of the image of the bicycle messenger as some sort of uber cool urban road knight, you know it's time to hang up your oversize delivery bag and cycling cap when McDonald's thinks your lame!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwqGKggCWNQ

Chartsengrafs

I feel a bit queasy when this ad comes on. McDonalds trying to piggy-back on the current wave of cycling popularity. Though the queasiness could also be explained by induced memories of eating there...

(Not a junk food snob btw. I consider the Colonel to be a good friend )

Lumen

happytramp wrote: »

I've just seen a new McDonalds advert which depicts a group of santa clad cyclists going for a burger, much to the disdain of the ironic handlebar moustash sporting couriers lounging around outside a boutique bicycle shop. Perhaps the final nail in the coffin of the image of the bicycle messenger as some sort of uber cool urban road knight, you know it's time to hang up your oversize delivery bag and cycling cap when McDonald's thinks your lame!

Those Santas look pretty dorky. And they eat at Macdonalds.

So I think I'm on the side of the stylish moustachioed chaps.

PCPhoto

Just to be pedantic.....one of the two

moustash sporting couriers

has a tash... the other doesn't and to be fair ....it would get the same response from any profession, if a group of santa dressed idiots went passed.

I rolly-eyes every time I see a photographer with a long lens in a tvshow/movie trying to take pics of someone who is a couple of inches away from the lens....or when I see a group of tv paps and the cameras/lenses are cheap as chips.

Slideshowbob

hardly breaking news come on!!

i just thought of ad as cycling being another form of transport

Now where's the trains forum here as I saw an ad with a train in it

didnt even notice the hipsters - u have a "fix(ie)"ation with them?

dubmess

For the record, the 2 'messenger looking hipsters' are actually long time London messengers, and a lot of the Santa people are also messengers.

They took their £600 for the days work and couldn't give a **** what you think of the ad

niceonetom

So, what you're saying is that what I thought was a grotesque caricature of courieriness was actually just what couriers actually look like.

This is like meeting a real Frenchman wearing a stripy jumper and a string of onions.

dubmess

niceonetom wrote: »

So, what you're saying is that what I thought was a grotesque caricature of courieriness was actually just what couriers actually look like.

This is like meeting a real Frenchman wearing a stripy jumper and a string of onions.

What's the grotesque caricature? Having a bicycle? Wearing a courier bag? Wearing a cycling cap? One of them having facial hair? If so, then, yeah ok, feel reaffirmed.

jimjimjimmy

They use bicycles in their ad but won't let you cycle through the drive-thru, hypocrisy!

Morgan

dubmess wrote: »

What's the grotesque caricature? Having a bicycle? Wearing a courier bag? Wearing a cycling cap? One of them having facial hair? If so, then, yeah ok, feel reaffirmed.

That's all well and good, but why do they hate Christmas?

dubmess

Morgan wrote: »

That's all well and good, but why do they hate Christmas?

Huh? I have no idea what you're talking about. Are you watching a different ad?

What I see are some cyclists who happen to be couriers looking on, in what I assume is meant to be bemusement, at a large group of cyclists dressed as Santa.

Couriers love Christmas btw. Busiest time of the year.

I think you're projecting.

RobFowl

My 2 cents

Anything that promotes cycling is good...
I think the mustachioed guy looks quite cool....
McDonalds like anything is good in moderation....

Happy Friday Christmas everyone

Lusk Doyle

Maybe they misunderstood the memo and their outfit was the courier style :rolleyes: