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McDonald's 'Make Burger History' Site Hijacked With Offensive Burger Ideas (stuff.co.nz)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Stuff.co.nz: McDonald's New Zealand has been left with egg on its face after a raft of bad-taste burger suggestions customers forced it to quickly take down its new design-your-own-burger website. The company launched its "Make Burger History" site this week, as part of a new promotion where customers can "build your own unique burger" and get free fries and a medium soft drink. "Just come in to a participating 'Create Your Taste' McDonald's and order your Creation at the self ordering kiosk," McDonald's promised. But its failure to consider what pranksters might dream up online has left the company red-faced, with the website overrun by racist, homophobic and otherwise offensive suggestions. The page now redirects to the McDonald's homepage. The burger concepts ranged from the mild, such as "Bag of Lettuce" (literally just a pile of lettuce leaves) and "The Carbonator" (seven burger buns, no filling), to X-rated, including "Girth" (a stack of seven undressed burger patties) and "Ron's Creamy Surprise" (a pile of mayonnaise, best left unexplained). But many went totally tasteless, creating burgers with names like "Mosque at Ground-Zero," "Rektal Prolapse" and "Toddler Body Bag," some of which ended up on the website's front page before it was shut down entirely overnight.
Sometimes I miss out on all of the fun.
How many times is this going to happen before corporations realise if you give people the chance to publish the names of something they'll come up with shit like "Hitler did nothing wrong" and "Fapple".
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
I revile hatred and bigotry. Yet I love the internet.
How can these both be true? Oh internet, you are a sweet sweet mystery.
...I would've just created a "Fullet'o'Fush" and "Chups".
It's one thing to run a promotion like this, but to post things for public consumption before they can be vetted is just idiotic. It's almost like they hired Tay to do their PR.
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
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Come on. Just like the other corporations that did this. Sure you're going to get names like "Granny Gusher" and "Hitler Did Nothing Wrong" but who cares? Great advertising and the face-planters and twits will forward it to all their friends. At the end of the day, you just say "The Internets" and "not our fault", wash your hands of the whole thing, and smile all the way to the bank.
"Ask the internet, and ye shall receive that which you did not expect"
It's why I almost want to vote for Trump even though he's a pompous vapid xenophobe who may get us all nuked.
As opposed to the corporate connected felon who will CERTAINLY get us nuked, and nuke a few countries of her own just to show she can?
After all, between Trump and Hillary, only Hillary has actually started any wars.
There is a third choice you know.
Unlike you, I'm not trolling, just informing people of seemingly forgotten history and options.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
How would anyone be able to tell? What can be more disgusting than a McDonalds hamburger and fries that looks the same after 6 years?
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
More like used for it's intended purpose.
Sounds like a good mop for the gene pool.
Not sure how long it would take us to recover from it (somebody make sure to keep a stack of bluray drive, optical archival disks of world technology bootstrap/research, and hardware to repair/reflash said drives in the event the firmware/mechanism has failed.
But cleaning up the overpopulation and hopefully ensuring a significant portion of the dumb people dying off sounds like an excellent overall idea to me. Especially if it is one of their people (Trump) who makes it happen. Sounds like an excellent parable for future generations to me. Hillary is a snake, and in many ways (esp technically) incompetent, but she's still above the average vote, which is part of how she's wormed her way through the government for... 30-40 years now? Trump on the other hand appears to be one of those 'lucky idiots' where somehow everything has managed to go his way despite his own actions. (Perhaps the 80s to early 90s Steve Jobs as a parallel example. Only Jobs learned his lesson well enough to become a nation-state actor, while Trump is somewhere between national actor, and international jester.)
On the plus side, none of these were more tasteless than the burgers themselves.
It has been a long time, but last I remember, the US MCDs had sausage, ham, and bacon for their breakfast biscuits and muffins, and sometimes the "McRib". Create a new sandwich with all four and you get the pork Grand Slam. Just cut back on the rib sauce, please.
A dingo ate my sig...
Or a screenshot?
I could do with a laugh this Friday morning.
Examples: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mcdonald-s-create-your-taste/photos
... sink them with a Confederate submarine. BOOM! Glug, glug, glug.
Oh well, I'm too lazy to make my ASCII flag anyway.
Furburgers?
"Toddler Body Bag"
That's my new band name.
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BMO
Is this story on the right side of the front page.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/06/07/21/0448225/president-bush-blocks-nsa-wireless-tapping-probe?sbsrc=thisday
Now it's New Zealand McDonalds scandals. Y'all are lying. It is still the bush deal going on.
Make Poverty History -- Make Burger History. Apologies for posting the obvious. We Germans had a taste of this a few years ago when chocolate manufacturer Ritter Sport asked its customers to invent new flavors of its square shaped product. Try "Ritter Sport Gorgonzola" as a search term to get a peek at some not-so-tasty submissions.
I've eaten a Rektal Prolapse before, and there's nothing nice about it, but I'd take it over a big mac any day. As for screen caps, check this out: http://www.dorkly.com/post/79724/mcdonalds-let-the-internet-create-their-own-burgers-and-guess-what-happened
Gotta love the Bernie Socialist Feast and Atheists Delight lol.
That's why we can't have nice things.
"Hey let's give the public the opportunity to write whatever they want, and then show random entries on our frontpage without vetting any of it !"
How could that ever backfire?
I'm sure whoever suggested that idea is now being reassigned somewhere else in the corp.. as a burger flipper.
people are assholes
At least you got first post little faggot.
Not only does he have first post, but that little faggot got his own jet airplane.
That little faggot he's a millionaire.
He has also said that he would never take options off the table and wouldn't telegraph our reactions and responses.
Which means he's an idiot negotiator if he's never willing to do those things. Sometimes it's useful to hint what our reactions might be. Sometimes it's useful to reassure people that you aren't going to cause Armageddon. People tend to be touchy about their continued existence if they perceive you as a threat to it. Pretty stupid position from someone who styles themselves a genius deal maker.
So of course he wouldn't rule anything out because doing so would be ignoring that self imposed principle.
He wouldn't rule anything out because the man is an imbecile as is anyone who seriously thinks he is fit for public office. His only talent is self promotion and aggrandizement. (and no that is not an endorsement of Hillary either)
Unlike that apostrophe.
Yes, he must be an idiot
Yes he is. You could have stopped there. The man is a menace who appeals to the stupid, the bigoted, and the deluded. The fact that he is the chosen candidate of the republican party pretty much says everything you need to know about that party. The man attracts lunatics like shit attracts flies. The rest of your screed is just unrelated nonsense.
Trump scares me as president but Hillary does even more so.
Then you haven't been paying enough attention to the stupid shit coming out of Trump's pie hole.
That being said, I think your inability to understand the line of reasoning makes you more of an idiot than you think trump is.
Back atcha.
When I see things like this, I get a chuckle, or maybe a good belly laugh, at some of the burger names.
When I see some of the things people come up with to disparage something like McDonalds, I actually get a glimmer of hope for humanity.
We play the game with the bravery of being out of range
Bet you didn't see that one coming.
What an awful display of the the putrid underbelly of the human condition. When people are anonymous, they show their true selves, and you realize how thin the veneer of civilization really is.
How could you even say, even ironically, that Chiyo is best girl. Christ.
At least it follows their logic. Obama is single single handedly responsible for: Muslim terror, the "gay agenda", immigrants taking your job and raising taxes to fund Muslims and terrorists. Is any of this true or his fault? Nope, but he's Black so it's easier to blame him. Same with Hillary, IT'S ALL HER FAULT!
Now, there is a bit of an incongruity because Trump has done far far worse (unless you're a rape supporter) but all of those facts just get filed under "Liberal media conspiracy". Hope I've given you insight into the mind of a Con.
someone will draw a penis on it.
Hillary Clinton and John Kerry both held their noses and voted for Gulf War II because they were running for president and not doing so would have caused insurmountable flak from the right. Both knew it was a disaster waiting to happen and said so, pretty much, from Day 1. And they were right (keep that in mind).
So, they took a stand they didn't like to preserve political viability, that's all. Just like so many GOPers claim to be anti-choice and pro-gun when they really aren't, but not to say so would invalidate them in the GOP.
I didn't like it then and I don't like it now, but that's politics for ya.
Just remember this: politics is like shit; it stinks and is messy, but you can't live without it. Politics is a bare-knuckles fight for power and money, and you must keep your eye on who is gouging whom and why. Truth is often the first casualty, so learn to find data and make your own conclusions.
But I simply have to ask.
How did the Quarter Pounder® get out the door?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons."
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002
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Seems she was arguing for the war, not sure what quotes you have to offer up, but you didn't offer any, so I am not sure if they exist.
Remember, all quotes must be from before the war started for her to have been speaking out against the war.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?