Sundae, Bloody Sundae

CiarraiAbu2 · 02-11-2019 03:29PM #1

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 · 02-11-2019 03:35PM

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 · 02-11-2019 03:37PM

Free advertising.

Capt'n Midnight · 02-11-2019 03:51PM

'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 · 02-11-2019 04:03PM

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 · 02-11-2019 04:05PM

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

Del2005 · 02-11-2019 04:06PM

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 · 02-11-2019 04:09PM

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.

02-11-2019 04:11PM

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

Some people just want to be offended.

Febreeze · 02-11-2019 04:14PM

Snowflakes at it again

elperello · 02-11-2019 04:16PM

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 · 02-11-2019 04:19PM

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 · 02-11-2019 04:23PM

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.

02-11-2019 04:27PM

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 · 02-11-2019 04:30PM

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 · 02-11-2019 04:42PM

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 · 02-11-2019 04:45PM

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 · 02-11-2019 04:48PM

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 · 02-11-2019 05:03PM

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 · 02-11-2019 05:07PM

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 · 02-11-2019 05:08PM

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 · 02-11-2019 05:15PM

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 · 02-11-2019 05:53PM

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 · 02-11-2019 05:55PM

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 · 02-11-2019 06:19PM

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 · 02-11-2019 06:47PM

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 · 03-11-2019 01:51AM

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 · 03-11-2019 02:04AM

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 · 03-11-2019 02:05AM

I got a lol out of these two

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ILoveYourVibes · 03-11-2019 02:11AM

biko wrote: »

I got a lol out of these two

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

Raconteuse · 03-11-2019 02:50AM

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.

Sundae, Bloody Sundae

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