Hello, Mods. Welcome to last week.

...and handing out apples at the movie theatres?

Please!

If they want to win me over they can give me free McGriddles.

TheSniperZero You have me in tears....you have confirmed McDonalds has brainwashed you.
Serious McGriddles have to be one of the worst engineered foods ever. - serious injecting syrup into the bun...c'mon

Stompn_Tom

It's not a bun. It's more like a Pancake. You obviously haven't had a McGriddle.

Otherwise, you would be under its spell.

/Yum!

A pancake???
You mean it is like one of those hotcakes and sausage meals on a bun.
I love adding the pancake syrup onto the sausage as well...hmmmm (thought it was an english muffin)
aaahhh crap.

McGriddles.

Of course, you can't eat these 30 days in a row.

McDonald's Australia CEO Guy Russo describes the documentary as being "about a person that decides to overeat."


Hence the farking name SUPERSIZE???

damnit, this is just what the film makers wanted... publicity for their stupid documentary....

/rtfa

I saw "Supersize Me" and right afterwards, I bought a double quarter-pounder (half-pounder?) with supersized fries and a coke. That'll show 'em.

Kudos for McDonalds on this. About time they point out what an asshat this guy is.

My dad wants to see this. I think this guy is an asshat and falls into the general "evil megacorporations are bad! personal responsibility is bad! go vegan!"-type artist category.

I got into a discussion about it with him. Conversation went like so:

"It shows that McDonalds doesn't care!"
"Why should they care? I know the food is bad for me. It's blindlingly obvious that it is."
"But look at what it does to you!"
"Yes, and if you eat brocolli for 30 days you'll probably pick up scurvy. This guy went to set out to prove what I figured out since I was about 10, you eat fast food, you get fat, and have all the related health problems"

He still wants to see it, I want this guy to run out his 15 minute clock.

(And just to prove that I'm 100% evil, I also support cigarette companies)

/Overweight, dieting [real dieting, none of this yo-yo stuff] and exercising for 5 months, havent had McDonalds et al. in 6.

Is this documentary really that interesting? Basically it's a guy eating and getting to be unhealthy as a result, right?

Saw Dodgeball tonight. Now that's comedy.

"If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball."

ThePashaPook wrote -
"I saw "Supersize Me" and right afterwards, I bought a double quarter-pounder (half-pounder?) with supersized fries and a coke. That'll show 'em.

Yes, it will show everyone you are an enormous fat ass. Welcome to America, What a country!

TF

I saw the movie, and I thought the point of the movie was not to show that eating McDonalds for 30 days will nearly kill you, but simply to show in 30 days what eating frequently at McDonalds will do to you over a matter of years. The movie was made in response to the lawsuits against the fast-food chains claiming that they were "made" obese.

The movie had a lot more to do with personal responsibility than how evil McDonalds is.

I gotta admit, having see the new Ads (I live in Australia - I get to work in a kangaroos pouch and my boss is the Tasmanian Devil) my urge to kill doesn't rise like it did with those farking "I'm lovin' it" commercials. Those Ads brought many questions to the forefront of my mind - Who exactly is lovin' it? Minority groups? Raver bunnies? People who have epileptic fits on public transport? And do they have oil burns on their crotches? Was Macdonalds planning on bringing out a Mcfurburger? Is furburger unhealthy? Or just redheaded Scottish lasses? Is Ronald Macdonald Scottish? Is he a racist stereotype? does he have burnt genitals too? Does hamburgler now steal the virginity of young redheaded scottish lasses with burnt genitals? Can I help without burning my own genitals? Does redheaded Mcfurburger smell bad?

My head hurts now.

He doesn't really fall into that category, and if you saw the movie, you'd see that it's not so much about "corporations are bad", as much as "the food is bad". It may be obvious, but then there are really stupid people out there...

Nobody talks about the good side of being overweight. You can drink more without getting drunk.

And the Southern words of wisdom: You can't drive a railroad spike with a tack hammer.

Old and Busted = Jesus
New Hotness = McGriddles

Seriously though, I just can't see myself accepting an apple from McDonalds. If I wanted health food I would buy a damn carrot. Just give me my double cheeseburger, dammit!

/Surprisingly not a fat bastard.

TheOmni

I think the point of this guy's movie is that McDonald's food is not particularly good for you, and they also encourage you to overeat with their oversized portions.

TwistedFark,
That was a pretty farked-up thing to say, now apologize, or I'll smother you with my folds.

memphomaniac: Nobody talks about the good side of being overweight. You can drink more without getting drunk.

-How is that exactly a good thing? I have to spend a whole freaking load of cash to get lit at a bar, while the middleweight drinkers can get soused for much less. I have to pregame with a good half of a fifth just to keep from blowing fifty bucks in short order. It's not fair, I tells ya.

Ernest

You are a strange strange man. But cool wish a dash of funny. Plus Australia is cool. And though I have never been there, the fancy traveling brochures and people talking to me through the Tv say its nice. Someday. Perth though, does its get lonely? And what does that have to do with McDonalds and burnt crotches?

Ebert said it best:

Of course it is possible to eat responsibly at McDonald's, as spokesmen for the chain never tire of reminding us. Fast food is simply one element of a balanced nutritional plan. Of course it's the unbalanced element, unless you order the fish filet sandwich with no mayonnaise and one of those little salads with the lo-cal dressing; then you'll be fine, except for the refined white flour in the bun and the high intake of sodium. Eating responsibly at McDonald's is like going to a strip club for the iced tea.

I saw this movie too, and I didn't come out feeling like mcdonalds is evil. The movie is more about thinking before you eat because if you don't you'll get liver failure.

Sure, McDonalds isn't health food, but they are being shifty in one situation. Mighty Kids Meals. Seriously, that's plenty of food for a full grown adult. The only kids that would put away that many calories in a meal are in a word, fat.

Admittedly, it's more the fault of parents. That still doesn't mean McDonald's shouldn't get called out for their part of it too.

JESUS H. CHRIST! How old is that kid, 12? He'll be dead at 30.

TheSniperZERO,
well I found a pic of a mcgriddle that looked like it was a penicillin experiment but the server it is on is farked so instead i give all of you

gis for im loving it (new window possibly nsfw)

ThePasha,

I believe that is a girl.

Loving it!

God help us all.

/shuddering violently

McD's is shiat. We all know it. Anyone who says McD's "made" them fat is a farking idjit.

Does anyone really need to be told this?

(And yes, I do enjoy the occasional Big Mac or QP. I also run 20-30 miles a week.)

In regards to this nation's fat problem, I am reminded of one of Artie Langue's best quotes. When Howard Stern was describing what great shape he was in at 50, Artie says "Oh yeah? I'm 36 and I fell asleep while I was eating!"

Lisa: They can't seriously expect us to swallow that tripe.
Skinner: Now as a special treat courtesy of our friends at the Meat Council, please help yourself to this tripe. [Class cheers and runs to table loaded with tripe.]
Lisa: Stop it Stop IT! Don't you realize you've just been
brainwashed by corporate propaganda?
Janie: Hmmph, apparently my crazy friend here hasn't heard of the food chain.
Uter: Yeah, Lisa's a grade A moron!
Ralph: When I grow up, I'm going to go to Bovine University.

varezz,

i say to you,



"you go to hell, you go to hell and you die"

you can see the conclusion page from the guy who ate mcd's for 30 days and lost weight here:

http://www.truthinfitness.org/projects/mcDonalds/conclusion.html

DinoVomit

Nope, it's a boy....

Well, At least I thought it was until you said something. I'll get a ruling from a mod.

But until then, he'll have a black bar over his nips.

TheSniperZero,

It's Pat

I'm almost certain ive seen that pic somewhere else and it was a girl.

I saw the film, and I thought it was excellent.
Sure almost no one eats McDonald's for every meal, but a good portion of the population will have A bacon egg and cheese sandwich with a large (way too large) cup of coffee with a few sugars in it. Then they may have McDonald's for lunch, a soda in the afternoon, and then have an equally unhealthy dinner, followed by dessert. The calories consumed by Spurlock, and the amount of exercise he performed is rampant in the United States of Fatasses.

And yes, the movie was very interesting. it is not just him eating. He interviews scientists, psychologists, and people that run school lunch programs. It was also fascinating to see him quiz 5 year old kids. None of them could identify pictures of famous Americans, but they could all instantly identify Ronald McDonald. A family outside the White House could not recite the Pledge of Allegiance, but they all knew the "Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese" song.

If you haven't seen the film, it is definitely worth the price of admission.

TheSniperZero,

I'm trying to locate that pic, but as a warning:

DO NOT SEARCH FOR "FAT GIRL" IN A GIS.

Oh yes

I heard an interview with this guy on the radio, he was clearly trying to make McD's out to be some evil, murdering, conglomerate. His experiment had no scientific validity or controls. He not only ate McD's three meals a day, with sugary sodas, no diet..but he stopped excercising altogether....and limited himself to walking no more than a mile per day (from biking 5-10 miles every day).

This doesn't prove that McD's is evil or bad for you anymore than it proves Baskin-Robbins is evil or bad for you...should you sit inside their store and eat nothing but rocky road for a month.

At the end of the interview, he said that his last physical exam indicated that his body was beginning to adapt, and that he had begun to lose weight....he conveniently stopped the experiement at this point. Heaven forbid there be any evidence that didn't back up his attack on the big, rich, chain.

Not that I'm a fan of McD's, haven't eaten there in at least a decade, but this guy obviously had an agenda. McD's never claimed that they meant for their food to be gorged on exclusively, in lieu of other food or excercise.

Hell, some would even say that the extra weight was good for him, would help him survive the impending Ice Age (that is going to happen The Day After Tomorrow).

varezz

Now that is a 25-beer image.