Sundae, Bloody Sundae

CiarraiAbu2

https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2019/1031/1087836-mcdonalds-sundae/


I'm no fan of McDonalds, bar the odd Bigmac, but do they really have to apologise for ad campaign in Portugal and Spain for a "bloody Sundae" during Halloween.

Seems to be because some singer on Twitter posts "Portugal is cancelled" it took off.

neris

the easily offended again. if it was mcdonalds uk fair enough but im sure the majority of Portuguese barely have a notion about about the troubles never mind bloody sunday

Allinall

Free advertising.

Capt'n Midnight

'Sunday Bloody Sunday'. What a great song. It really encapsulates the frustration of a Sunday, doesn't it? You wake up in the morning, you've got to read all the Sunday papers, the kids are running round, you've got to mow the lawn, wash the car, and you think "Sunday, bloody Sunday!".

- Alan Partridge

end of the road

they would have meant no harm, i doubt they even know much if anything about the murderous actions of that horific day in derry in 1972.
they have nothing to be sorry for tbh.

elperello

It was crass and thoughtless of them.
Somebody didn't do the research.
They have apologised and removed the promotion material.

Del2005

elperello wrote: »

It was crass and thoughtless of them.
Somebody didn't do the research.
They have apologised and removed the promotion material.

And got loads of coverage.

elperello

Del2005 wrote: »

And got loads of coverage.

Mostly negative, especially in Ireland.
A "family" restaurant chain with branches all over the place really doesn't want to score own goals like that.

Did they apologise for all of them? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday

Some people just want to be offended.

Febreeze

Snowflakes at it again

elperello

Deleted User wrote: »

Did they apologise for all of them? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday

Some people just want to be offended.

It's not so much the people taking offence they need to be concerned about but rather the actual customers.
Hardly the image you want in your mind when you take the kiddies for a treat. Families just like your own being massacred.

blade1

elperello wrote: »

It's not so much the people taking offence they need to be concerned about but rather the actual customers.
Hardly the image you want in your mind when you take the kiddies for a treat. Families just like your own being massacred.

Seriously?
It's Halloween FFS.

elperello

blade1 wrote: »

Seriously?
It's Halloween FFS.

Yes but the whole Halloween schtick only works if it's fantasy based.
The trouble with linking to a load of real massacres is that the mental images conjured up are of real bloody corpses.

neris

neris wrote: »

the easily offended again. if it was mcdonalds uk fair enough but im sure the majority of Portuguese barely have a notion about about the troubles never mind bloody sunday

I thought that was a play on U2 song rather than any killing?

blade1

elperello wrote: »

Yes but the whole Halloween schtick only works if it's fantasy based.
The trouble with linking to a load of real massacres is that the mental images conjured up are of real bloody corpses.

The only fantasy here is the outrage over it.

wakka12

Well I dont think anyone should go getting fired or anything, Im sure it was a simple misunderstanding. But they were right to remove it.

blade1

wakka12 wrote: »

Well I dont think anyone should go getting fired or anything, Im sure it was a simple misunderstanding. But they were right to remove it.

Careful there,under the circumstances you might upset someone using the word fired.

elperello

wakka12 wrote: »

Well I dont think anyone should go getting fired or anything, Im sure it was a simple misunderstanding. But they were right to remove it.

I wouldn't be a bit surprised if someone down the food chain did get in some bother.

We are talking a huge multi national here with over 37,000 restaurants world wide. They are quoted on the the New York Stock Exchange.

PR blunders are not expected.

Yamanoto

elperello wrote: »

It's not so much the people taking offence they need to be concerned about but rather the actual customers.
Hardly the image you want in your mind when you take the kiddies for a treat. Families just like your own being massacred.

You're in need of a happy meal.

Comes with a little toy, to throw outta the pram too.

Strumms

It’s a bit of a disaster that whoever came up with the idea, their colleagues, bosses etc none of them thought... “ohh yea I remember that video, a bit political wasn’t it, look let’s look into the background of that before we go ahead”.

Somebody might be walking the plank.

EDit

elperello wrote: »

I wouldn't be a bit surprised if someone down the food chain did get in some bother.

We are talking a huge multi national here with over 37,000 restaurants world wide. They are quoted on the the New York Stock Exchange.

PR blunders are not expected.

Seriously? I fully expect every Maccy-Ds in the country to be bursting at the seams this weekend like they are every other weekend. This episode won’t even register with the vast majority of people in the country. Even if it does, it won’t stop them getting their Big Mac meal!

major bill

EDit wrote: »

Seriously? I fully expect every Maccy-Ds in the country to be bursting at the seams this weekend like they are every other weekend. This episode won’t even register with the vast majority of people in the country. Even if it does, it won’t stop them getting their Big Mac meal!

Exactly soon to be yesterday’s news and the snowflakes will move on to their next outrage

elperello

Yamanoto wrote: »

You're in need of a happy meal.

Comes with a little toy, to throw outta the pram too.

Oh very good

I don't know how you came to that conclusion.

elperello

EDit wrote: »

Seriously? I fully expect every Maccy-Ds in the country to be bursting at the seams this weekend like they are every other weekend. This episode won’t even register with the vast majority of people in the country. Even if it does, it won’t stop them getting their Big Mac meal!

I wouldn't be surprised either but that was not the point of my post.

Edgware

I would safely say that they won't lose one customer over this, (apart from the gob****e who is going to post "I'll never go in to McDonads again")

He also wont
vote for FF FG Lab SF PPB Healys Rae again
buy the Indo Times R.TE. Guide again
watch R.T.E. again etc etc

Guy:Incognito

Deleted User wrote: »

Did they apologise for all of them? .

Pah, what are you on about, sure only our one matters. Who cares about foreigners.

BalcombeSt4

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Pah, what are you on about, sure only our one matters. Who cares about foreigners.

We have three of them from the 20th century, the one during the 1913 lockout when 2 strikers were killed, the one during the Tan War & the Bogside killings.

ILoveYourVibes

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

'Sunday Bloody Sunday'. What a great song. It really encapsulates the frustration of a Sunday, doesn't it? You wake up in the morning, you've got to read all the Sunday papers, the kids are running round, you've got to mow the lawn, wash the car, and you think "Sunday, bloody Sunday!".

- Alan Partridge

Well ..at least it gets people humming the tune. That is the first step.


This is from the Threepenny Opera ..

The narrator says before it begins.

"You are about to hear an opera for beggars. Since this opera was intended to be as splendid as only beggars can imagine, and yet cheap enough for beggars to be able to watch, it is called the Threepenny Opera'''

It has this really upbeat tune. But its about a horrible murder.

The play at a first glance seems to be about underworld characters.

But really its about MARXISM!

biko

I got a lol out of these two

ILoveYourVibes

biko wrote: »

I got a lol out of these two

On st PATTY'S day :rolleyes: ...they drink something called a car bomb..

Raconteuse

I'm very sympathetic to the nationalist community in Northern Ireland and don't see the issue here. It seems like it was inspired by the U2 song title. Google Bloody Sunday - it refers to loads of things, many before the 1972 atrocity. There's a film from the year before called Sunday Bloody Sunday too. Nothing to do with Northern Ireland.

Edit: Having said that though, I'm not a relative or friend of anyone who was murdered in the 1972 atrocity, and they're hardly "snowflakes".

But I must admit I think it's a pretty funny play on words.

ILoveYourVibes

Raconteuse wrote: »

I'm very sympathetic to the nationalist community in Northern Ireland and don't see the issue here. It seems like it was inspired by the U2 song title. Google Bloody Sunday - it refers to loads of things, many before the 1972 atrocity. There's a film from the year before called Sunday Bloody Sunday too. Nothing to do with Northern Ireland.

Shrug. I wouldn't have an issue with it either. Its just a funny story. I wonder who objected...i can't imagine people here did.

NIMAN

I'm from Derry, and I wasn't offended.

Should I have been?

tawnyowl

Deleted User wrote: »

I thought that was a play on U2 song rather than any killing?

The song was written in reaction to the events of 1972 known as Bloody Sunday.

ILoveYourVibes

NIMAN wrote: »

I'm from Derry, and I wasn't offended.

Should I have been?

Dunno....is there a rule book for this sort of thing?

tawnyowl

wakka12 wrote: »

Well I dont think anyone should go getting fired or anything, Im sure it was a simple misunderstanding. But they were right to remove it.

You have a much more benign view of advertisers than I do.

BalcombeSt4

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

On st PATTY'S day :rolleyes: ...they drink something called a car bomb..

I think that's actually on Bloody Frieday. Don't worry, they'll send out a warning to their customers so they don't miss out & they can all get Jagerbombed out of it.

I'm a Bangor & Mash man myself so I don't care.

kowloon

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

'Sunday Bloody Sunday'. What a great song. It really encapsulates the frustration of a Sunday, doesn't it? You wake up in the morning, you've got to read all the Sunday papers, the kids are running round, you've got to mow the lawn, wash the car, and you think "Sunday, bloody Sunday!".

- Alan Partridge

Sexy Irishmen.

JupiterKid

The first Bloody Sunday in Ireland was during the War of Independence, when the Black and Tans opened fire into the crowd at a match in Croke Park from an armoured car.

There was UK film titled Sunday, Bloody Sunday with Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch and Murray Head released in 1971, a year before the Derry atrocity.

ILoveYourVibes

kowloon wrote: »

Sexy Irishmen.

are irish men really sexy though?

kowloon

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

are irish men really sexy though?

9/10 Irish Mothers wouldn't lie to us.

Bobblehats

kowloon wrote: »

9/10 Irish Mothers wouldn't lie to us.

Your mother thinks you’re sexy?!

Raconteuse

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

are irish men really sexy though?

Out of millions of men, there are bound to be some sexy ones.

Montage of Feck

elperello wrote: »

It was crass and thoughtless of them.
Somebody didn't do the research.
They have apologised and removed the promotion material.

Bloody hell, it is as none of those things.

Bobblehats

Raconteuse wrote: »

Out of millions of men, there are bound to be some sexy ones.

By way of sheer numbers. There’s more sexy africans than us too, ratio is probably off but then you’ve got to crack a few eggs

Harry Palmr

Why would anyone name an ice cream desert after a John Schlesinger film?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Bloody_Sunday_(film)

johnmcdnl

Strumms wrote: »

It’s a bit of a disaster that whoever came up with the idea, their colleagues, bosses etc none of them thought... “ohh yea I remember that video, a bit political wasn’t it, look let’s look into the background of that before we go ahead”.

Somebody might be walking the plank.

Nobody walks the plank for something like this, or else your workplace will become a toxic hell hole to work in which is massively counter productive. People make mistakes and lots of people seen this advert before it was released and it slipped through the cracks. You change your process to ensure any cultural references are checked and ensure that they aren't overtly political or insensitive in the future.

On a side note, isn't the music video just literally U2 performing a live gig. It most certainly isn't political asides from the few seconds in the middle where they have a white flag. It's in no way a video I would remember as being a political music video.

kowloon

Bobblehats wrote: »

Your mother thinks you’re sexy?!

No, your Mother.

Bobblehats

That’s ok I’m perfectly fine with that.

blade1

Bobblehats wrote: »

That’s ok I’m perfectly fine with that.

Have you seen the head up on him? :pac:

Bobblehats

blade1 wrote: »

Have you seen the head up on him? :pac:

That’s ok she’s ‘69’. I’ll set the pair of them up