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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Shockwave on April 14, 2010, 02:42:21 PM
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Are people just retarded? Really? I cant believe theyre are people pissed off at a BK ad because they think it makes fun of people with mental health issues.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100414/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1615 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100414/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1615)
The ad in question features BK's trademark king running frantically through an office building, apparently as an escaped mental patient, pursued by a man dressed in a white lab coat who yells, "Stop that King, he's crazy!"
The runaway King proceeds to run through the glass window of a break room to hand a burger over to a woman standing next to a microwave. Then two bow-tied men materialize and subdue him — the clear implication being that they are attendants from a mental hospital. They tell the shocked woman holding the burger that "this King's insane" for giving away "so much beef for $3.99." Smitten with the low price, she replies to one of the attendants, "you're the one who's nuts." You can watch the spot here:
Once the ad aired, it drew outraged protests from mental health advocates. Michael Fitzpatrick, the executive director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness, told the Washington Post that he found the ad "blatantly offensive," saying that he was "absolutely stunned and appalled" when he saw it.
Some have pointed out that the ad — which recently ended its scheduled run — was reminiscent of the old "Crazy Eddie" discount electronics store ads that ran in the Northeast for a number of years. The real Crazy Eddie, a man by the name of Eddie Antar, spent a number of years in prison on fraud-related charges. The cheap-burger-slinging King remains on the right side of the law, so far as we know.
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Some people just need to walk into traffic. Getting all antsy about a commercial all the while there are rapos walking the streets, wars going on... endless cycles of terrible shit, and Burger King is their main issue.
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In America political correctness has gotten totally out of control. It can't possibly get any more PC and pussified.
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Some people just need to walk into traffic. Getting all antsy about a commercial all the while there are rapos walking the streets, wars going on... endless cycles of terrible shit, and Burger King is their main issue.
That's the point. This kind of thing makes the public pay attention to all the wrong places. Just what the government(s) want(s).
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In America political correctness has gotten totally out of control. It can't possibly get any more PC and pussified.
Its really funny when people from other countries come to America and they can't believe how PC everyone is, but behind closed doors no one is PC. This country is ridiculous
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And this, my friends, is exactly why I say America lacks the balls it once had.
Sometimes I wonder, if WWII were to happen today, would we have what it takes to win anymore?
*brutal editing my post for proper grammar*
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And this, my friends, is exactly why I say America lacks the balls it once had.
Sometimes I wonder, if WWII were to happen today, if we would have what it takes to win anymore.
In one word - NO
Were so afraid of the bleeding hearts getting their feeling hurt over the brutality of war