What the hell kind of rule is that.
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A rule to screw the little business out of making money, luring the spectators into McDonalds. Just like in the South Africa world cup where street vendors with real skills were making crafts Fifa ruled that it infringes copy right and only 'official merchandise can be purchased, which was made in China BTW.Originally posted by speedlolita View Post
These big events get more draconian each time and each time we do nothing. Anyone reading this stay out of McDonalds for 1 week, if you don't go in anyway then cool but if your a regular customer stay out for a week, tell your friends and family to do the same. I would love to see people united and stay out of that place for just 1 week. It will send a message to say ' Don't be power hungry dicks, operate ethically like your adverts suggest or we will end you!
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I haven't been in McDonalds for a long time. Trying to lose weight!Comment
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What but McDonalds chips are not even chips they are sticks of tasteless salty cardboard. Someone should just do a half a fish finger with it (a basics/value one) like the 50p for 12 jobs and just do it as a workaround, utter corporate tosh funny how it's a sports contest full of superfit athletes then look at the sponsors McDonald's, Coke and Bud healthy eh
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The olympics has nothing to do with sport at all, it's all about selling **** with a union jack on it so brainless sheep can buy it & think they are been patriotic as it's your given duty to be as it's OMG TEH OLIMPEKZ!!
It hasn't brought anyone together like the propaganda has anyone believe, it has just made everyone a thousand times more ruthless & greedy, nearly every product & service is trying their damndest to tie themselves into the olympics it's rather pathetic. I truly feel sorry for the poor buggers living in London having that **** on their doorstep.
Hope it pisses it down every single day it's on, & the UK wins 0 medals LOLComment
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Don't forget Cadbury, the "Official Treat Provider"
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It goes beyond irk, for some reason it really makes me seeth with rage the whole lot of it. Been boycotting the worst product offenders it makes me feel better.Comment
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Had to wait for three full buses to pass by before I could stand on one to get home from work in the West End yesterday, at 21:00. Will be working until 22:00 every Saturday for the next two months too. Tourists are everywhere. I've had to turn away so many underage kids trying to buy GTA, et al for the last couple of days. Can't wait until the Olympics are over and they haven't even started yet...Originally posted by importaku View PostComment
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This whole chip thing has gone away according to this: http://www.brandchannel.com/home/pos...sh-071512.aspxComment
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Watched a DVD with the family last night. The sheer amount of adverts before the movie was incredible. For that amount of adverts, we should really be getting the movie for free. Then they had the cheek to show the 'You wouldn't steal a car' thing.
Similar complaint regarding last week too when I went to see Prometheus. The damn cheek to show nearly a full hour of adverts after I'd already paid nearly a tenner to see the damn film. Must remember to turn up at least 30 minutes late in future.Comment
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Brand Channel did not read the original story they linked too from the Guardian. Only Olympic workers can buy chips and it appears to be only during the opening and closing ceremonies.Originally posted by charlesr View Post
The great London 2012 Olympic chip embargo has cracked. No longer will hungry workers at the games be denied pie and chips, chicken and chips or even just chips because of a monopoly enforced by McDonald's, a major sponsor.
On Wednesday, the London Organising Committee responded to plaintive cries of caterers who had grown tired of receiving "grief" from chip-hungry staff working on the opening and closing ceremonies and allowed chips to be served outside branches of the fast food chain McDonald's.
It all results from one of the stranger twists of Olympic planning. McDonald's sponsorship deal included the exclusive right to sell chips in and around Olympic venues. Other caterers had negotiated special rights to serve chips with fish ? but not chips on their own, or with anything else.
Cue frustrated scenes at the lunch counter in the ceremonies catering area where staff were toiling over the staging for Danny Boyle's 27 July opening extravaganza. "Please understand this is not the decision of the staff who are serving up your meals who, given the choice, would gladly give it to you, however they are not allowed to," read a notice pinned up by staff. "Please do not give the staff grief, this will only lead to us removing fish and chips completely."It's sorted," said a spokesman for Locog. "We have spoken to McDonald's about it."
But the embargo will hold in other areas. That means no chips with anything other than fish anywhere else in the park unless spectators dine at McDonald's. On Wednesday catering staff in the media centre were taking no risks. There were hash browns and dauphinoise, but no chips. A server explained why: "Because McDonald's own the rights, so we're not allowed to".Comment
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The whole of the olympics stinks to high heaven. I'm boycotting the entire event.
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I love watching the Olympics on telly, well track and field and stuff anyway. No idea why football and other similar events are in it. The relay should be the limit of team sports. Unfortunately it wouldn't happen without coporate backing from the usual suspects (coke, mcdonalds, cadburys - all "anti"-health companies). This makes the whole thing unbelievably twisted.Comment
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Those vendors should sell chips with invisible fish - how could anyone prove they aren't there. "Must have dropped it mate"Comment
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They could have paid you the ?300K for a more aesthetically accurate logo like the one above thenOriginally posted by FSW View PostComment
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