>http://youtu.be/TtlIEnyIkvQ McDonald's has books instead of toys in its Happy Meals for a couple weeks this month. Customers are outraged. How do you feel, /lit/?

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Anonymous Sat Oct 12 12:42:32 2013 No.4177548 [Reply] [Original]

>http://youtu.be/TtlIEnyIkvQ

McDonald's has books instead of toys in its Happy Meals for a couple weeks this month. Customers are outraged. How do you feel, /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 12 20:02:08 2013 No.4178461 >>4177548 Little kids are fucking stupid? Wow, color me surprised.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 12 20:04:09 2013 No.4178468 >>4177548 what kind of books?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 12 20:04:09 2013 No.4178470 >>4177548 Wow that is a very annoying child.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 12 20:05:08 2013 No.4178473 >I'll just go to Wendy's and Burger King >Wendy's serves cardboard puzzles >Burger King serves shit. McD's confirmed for top tier restaurant.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 12 20:05:09 2013 No.4178472 Holy shit I expected that to dissolve into some sort of psychedelic nightmare; what's wrong with the perspective on their camera?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 12 21:08:30 2013 No.4178623 File: 11 KB, 264x274, 1363447926038.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4177548

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 00:39:55 2013 No.4179146 >>4177548 That bitch didn't pay for the meal. Costumer is her adult.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 00:48:55 2013 No.4179176 I guess I'm gonna go get a happy meal now, need something new to read anyway. Hell, maybe they will give me extra books because all the little demon children didn't want to read. McDicks confirmed for based fast food chain.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 00:50:54 2013 No.4179179 >>4177548 ¡Hasta La Victoria Siempre!

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 00:50:54 2013 No.4179180 >>4177548 >Raising your kid on McDonalds >2013 If my kid ever espoused those kind of consumerist ideals I'd slap the shit out of them.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 01:05:54 2013 No.4179199 After a good dicking and reading Lolita she will change her mind.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 01:13:54 2013 No.4179214 >>4179199 Why do bitches love Lolita so much?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 01:15:54 2013 No.4179219 >>4179214 because they're too young to understand the concept of an unreliable narrator.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 01:24:54 2013 No.4179231 >>4179214 because they're too young to understand the concept of an unreliable narrator

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 01:40:55 2013 No.4179270 You can take the hosre to the water but you can't make it drink, Unless you have a gun.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 01:42:08 2013 No.4179276 >>4179270 >hosre

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 01:46:07 2013 No.4179284 >>4179219 Did Hum Hum lie to us? ;_;

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 01:46:07 2013 No.4179285 >>4179276 new meme :^) hosre

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 01:50:08 2013 No.4179297 >>4179270 I prefer Dorothy Parker's version: "You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think." Horses don't care if someone has a gun or not, by the way.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 02:45:57 2013 No.4179381 >Child is not interested in reading and wants a toy Wow society as we know it is finished.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 02:48:58 2013 No.4179383 >>4179381 yeah fucking plebs

Anonymous Sun Oct 13 12:59:54 2013 No.4180225

serious question- do you remember being too young to appreciate books? i remember loving going to the library even before i could read. i was all about the books with monsters in them. i can't imagine having the same kind of response as this girl at her age.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 13:03:55 2013 No.4180230 Happy meal toys are shit anyway. I always got the cookies instead.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 13:04:55 2013 No.4180233 >>4180225 I fucking hated reading fiction. I preferred going outside and looking for insects in my pocket guide. I didn't have a total aversion to books but I'm sure if I had the internet at that time I would have found them redundant.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 13:05:55 2013 No.4180235 > Caring about what a shitty kid in redneck country thinks

Anonymous Sun Oct 13 13:05:55 2013 No.4180238

Well, you know it's kind of sad, really, because what kind of life is this girl going to have? The sort of person who eats fast food all the time and who hates books - you know, it's the world we've made that has made her this way, and that world fucking sucks.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 13:11:54 2013 No.4180244 >>4180238 She's like fucking eight years old. No kid has the time to read books and any kid who is an avid reader around that time is a fucking nerd.

Anonymous Sun Oct 13 13:12:55 2013 No.4180246

Pre-internet this wouldn't be a thing.
They'd still react this way, but we wouldn't be asked to react to it.
>little kids like toys.
no shit.
Besides, the types of books Mcdonalds is likely passing out are probably not of the highest quality, Spot and Dot or the littlest penguin, etc.
It's not exactly Moby Dick, Not even Narnia.
I can't blame the kid.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 13:13:55 2013 No.4180247 I would guess the kind of parent that takes their kid to McDonald's is not really interested in getting them to read a lot

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 13:14:55 2013 No.4180252 >>4180247 Piss off you stupid cunt. Any parent who takes their kid to McDonalds either wants a quick cheap break or wants to buy their kid a cheap treat.

Anonymous Sun Oct 13 13:16:54 2013 No.4180256

>>4180244
Yeah yeah whatever.

>>4180247
And then when she wants alternatives to McDonald's, it's Wendy's. It's sad. I mean, it's not really their fault, again, it's the world that we live in that has led to this, and it's a logical and even an inevitable choice from their position. That's the way we've decided things should be. But it's kind of shitty that it has to be that way, you know? But that's America.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 13:17:54 2013 No.4180258 USA USA USA

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 13:25:54 2013 No.4180272 >>4180252 >>4180256 Bloated, big-bellied apologists.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 13:26:54 2013 No.4180274 >>4180256 >when she wants alternatives to McDonald's, it's Wendy's. It's cooking your own fucking food at home, retard.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 13:30:54 2013 No.4180283 >>4180274 >>4180274 Obviously I agree with you. It's not my alternative, it's the kid in the video's. That's what she sees as the alternative - she says that she's going to Wendy's and Burger King to get revenge on McDonald's.

Anonymous Sun Oct 13 13:36:33 2013 No.4180298

>>4180225
I just wanted good stories in whatever form

I made a little book stapled together with that soft paper with huge lines to practice writing ABCs in kindergarten about Yoshi's Island because I thought that was a masterpiece and needed to be adapted.

Then ironically I was put off reading because every grandma thought it was cute I liked to read and gave me boring book after boring book and I gave up on books after awhile.

Ok that's my life thank s for reading

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 13:40:33 2013 No.4180306 >>4180247 Wow, someone's parents never took them on McDonald Sundays to get that breakfast combo before going to the playpen and throw ballpit balls at other kids

Anonymous Sun Oct 13 13:43:33 2013 No.4180311

>>4180306
I don't mind McDolan's generally because it's cheap and easy.
But I fucking hate the breakfast they sell there, you can make the same shit that they make for much much cheaper and it doesn't even come with a free toy.

The brownies there are fucking awful as well.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 13:47:34 2013 No.4180322 >>4180311 >you can make the same shit that they make for much much cheaper this can be said about almost any food at almost any restaurant, you pay for the convenience of not having to make your own food

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 15:20:01 2013 No.4180539 >>4180244 >no kid has the time to read books But that's wrong you fucking retard.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 15:25:00 2013 No.4180556 >>4180322 >this can be said about almost any food It really can't. The point he's making is that McD's breakfast food is of such low quality that it's not worth buying even for convenience sake.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 15:26:00 2013 No.4180561 >>4180244 you didn't read books at 8? did you ride the short bus? it's ok if you did. my mom works with the developmentally disabled. they're usually very kind people.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 15:28:00 2013 No.4180571 File: 12 KB, 300x300, obese.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] ITT: People don't realize the poison that is fast food and high fructose corn syrup. You all probably look like pic related.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 15:33:00 2013 No.4180582 nice. now that her ignorance and naivete is secured it will make it easier to get her in my van

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 15:34:01 2013 No.4180585 >>4178472 didn't read the instruction manual.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 15:36:01 2013 No.4180596 >>4179214 same reason they like FSoG. they all secretly like rape

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 15:38:01 2013 No.4180602 >>4180244 >No kid has the time to read books What, are all kids working three jobs at eight? >kid who is an avid reader around that time is a fucking nerd oh. 4/10

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 15:41:00 2013 No.4180610 Just lol at the delusional fucks ITT. No one has ever wanted books in their Happy Meals.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 15:44:00 2013 No.4180614 File: 4 KB, 100x100, photo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >There are cute grills browsing /lit/ RIGHT NOW

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 15:47:00 2013 No.4180627 >>4179219 Are you saying you didn't feel sad after you finished reading Lolita?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 15:52:00 2013 No.4180636 >>4180246 it wouldn't have happened pre-mcdonalds though. little kids would be sitting at their writing desks under the shadow of a abusive task master

>>	The Philosopher and Cultural C(...) Sun Oct 13 15:53:00 2013 No.4180637 >>4177548 The trick is probably in the books they're shipping with it. Expect marketing engineered stuff. Though if you think deep in it, most of the crap we ever get to read follows that same pattern.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 15:56:00 2013 No.4180644 >>4180614 Don't lie to us, cruel temptress

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 15:58:00 2013 No.4180649 >>4180637 yeah needs more children's laureate

Slovene Philosopher and Cultur(...) Sun Oct 13 16:02:01 2013 No.4180659

>>4180637
Ah, but you see, this marketing in fact would be a great work of art in this post-modernistic, capitalistic world, symbolising both the decline of the public opinion of marginal changes in opinions of their seed, but also seek kind of despair/redemtion restart to world, where the bourgeois drop their schackles, seeing their offspring in a turmoil never to be witnessed since or again.

Anonymous Sun Oct 13 16:03:01 2013 No.4180660

>>4180637

Are you implying that our thoughts and the resulting works are like Seagulls eating, and their crap?

By seagulls I mean, animals that feed on anything that is thrown upon them.

So, projected on ourselves, we absorb values and behaviors that surround us, contaminating this way our very thoughts and freedom?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 16:04:01 2013 No.4180664 >>4180235 I care about all the kids in the world, they're the future.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 16:04:01 2013 No.4180666 >>4180659 >never to be witnessed since or again be more intelligent and maybe you can write good satire

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 16:07:00 2013 No.4180671 >>4180664 that's why we need to teach them well and let them lead the way

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 16:07:00 2013 No.4180673 >>4180636 >little kids would be sitting at their writing desks under the shadow of a abusive task master Stop making me wish for the good ole' days

Anonymous Sun Oct 13 16:09:00 2013 No.4180679

>>4178461
>Little kids are fucking stupid? Wow, color me surprised.
They're not stupid, you know. They just lack knowledge and context. If you explain something to them, they'll fucking get it. If a kid get's sheltered by his retarded parents, the kid's going to be retarded too.

The Philosopher and Cultural C(...) Sun Oct 13 16:10:01 2013 No.4180681
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>>4180660

I think your statement is proof enough of it.

*Checks the first letters of your statement*

ABS > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-lock_braking_system

*And then thinks again and mutters*

All is lost... Or mabe not...

>>	The Philosopher and Cultural C(...) Sun Oct 13 16:13:00 2013 No.4180688 >>4180681 And in order to score a 11/10, let's change that ABS, for this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylonitrile_butadiene_styrene

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 16:15:01 2013 No.4180696 File: 6 KB, 159x317, abs.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4180688 you guys talking about ABS?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 16:19:01 2013 No.4180709 File: 25 KB, 500x375, 6pack.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4180696 They sure are.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 16:21:00 2013 No.4180718 No one goes to mcdonalds to read books, especially not children Nice idea but fucking retarded

The Philosopher and Cultural C(...) Sun Oct 13 16:27:01 2013 No.4180736
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>>4180718

If

>>4180637
>>4180660
>>4180681

Are right, then It would be a proper way of injecting cultural habits, and lecture specifically into children. If the books where written by pedagogues, philosophers and educators in general, maybe it could be an awesome way of raising infants, and a clear example of using the economic circuit against what it stands for actually.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 16:40:00 2013 No.4180780 >>4180718 implying this isn't a PR move.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 16:54:01 2013 No.4180820 >>4180225 Even as a young lad I liked reading. Dem Goosebumps books and some classics.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 21:55:18 2013 No.4181641 http://www.happymeal.com/en_US/swf3/sections/ebook/bookFiles/dk-books.pdf It's not so bad, it's silly little books, quick enough to read through while eating the kids meal

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 22:58:21 2013 No.4181750 >>4181641 ha I guess people working in the travel industry won't have any money problems after a few generations. Hoorrah for them.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 23:13:21 2013 No.4181772 >>4178468 War and Peace, generally, though some locations chose Anna Karenina.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 13 23:19:22 2013 No.4181780 >>4181772 >no gravity's rainbow or ulysses well, that's the last time I'LL be purchasing a mcplebald's happy meal, i can tell you that

Anonymous Sun Oct 13 23:23:21 2013 No.4181789

I'm glad /lit/ has a thread about this considering I was just thinking about it. I took my niece and nephew to McDonald's the other day on the way to my brother's house, and they both got books with their meals and both seemed to enjoy having something that didn't fall apart within 2 minutes. While waiting to order I noticed a display hosting examples of various books they carried and they all seemed like something children would read (Dr. Seuss, Where the Wild Things Are, Johnathan Franzen, etc). Kudos to McDonald's for going against their demographic entirely.

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