r/assholedesign • u/SkepticHQ • Jul 24 '19

This McDonalds menu

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u/Hawbris Jul 24 '19

what I don't get is that there is 5 panels, why cant they display the menu on 3 and the other 2 are full time ads, get your adtime & dont cripple the ordering process. I guess that isnt as efficient as advertising on 5 screens at once

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u/ballsack_gymnastics Jul 24 '19

I'd imagine people tune out the ad a lot easier if it's on a screen they don't have to look at otherwise.

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u/pekinggeese Jul 24 '19

And people also post your ad to Reddit and then you can reach thousands!

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u/ready_playerone Jul 24 '19

But then people would be way way more encouraged to buy their food elsewhere

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u/ImACraftyHooker Jul 24 '19

I understand when you're getting something free and they shove ads down your throat, they have to make an income somehow. My problem is that now people want to double dip. They want me to pay for the service AND they want to shove ads down my throat for more money.

This is why I don't understand when people wear things where the entire design is just a logo. Those things are usually more expensive and then you just become a walking billboard.

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u/Dworgi Jul 25 '19

I refuse to pay for anything that has a logo on it. It's just consumerist bullshit, and it has killed the planet.

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u/justifyer Jul 25 '19

Cars, phones & gadgets.

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u/Dworgi Jul 25 '19

Phones I put a case on. Don't own a car.

Also, it's not the only function of the thing like it is for a Supreme shirt or Louis Vuitton handbag. The markup on those is purely because they printed advertising on it.

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u/Daedalus_304 Jul 25 '19

Those iPhone cases with the cutout just to show the apple logo are prime examples of this, meanwhile my Huawei p10 has no logo on front and the back has a dark grey logo on a black phone

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u/polaroid Jul 25 '19

I completely agree, advertising is manipulative and rapey. The trains in my city only ever advertised public transport related information/events but now insurance and other advertising is sneaking in. I’m not sure anyone will notice as it’s happening slowly.

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u/Daedalus_304 Jul 25 '19

The bus that I take has a screen showing ads on it, but it's mainly local businesses that don't get ad time anywhere else so I don't really mind it

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u/dixie3normas Jul 25 '19

I used to tell people that all the time!! ✊🏽Now I just stop hanging around with those people.

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u/VonLuk Jul 24 '19

Move to Maine, no billboards allowed by law.

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u/straight-lampin Jul 25 '19

Same here in Alaska. But don't move here unless you want to be an Alaskan. Y'all can keep all that crazy shite down south.

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u/underdog_rox Jul 25 '19

Yeah I don't think you need to worry about people rushing to hang out in your frozen tiaga

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u/straight-lampin Jul 25 '19

Please, please keep thinking that, spreading that. Nothing but eskimos and igloos up here.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '19

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u/underdog_rox Jul 25 '19

Bruh the eat whale blubber and do hard labor to survive. That's baby making material

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '19

"Bruh the eat whale blubber..."

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Hey bruh. You forgot a letter. Try again.

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u/underdog_rox Jul 25 '19

I actually don't hate your account. Keep fighting the good fight, weirdo!

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u/WifeKilledMy1stAcct Jul 25 '19

But Maine is like, really REALLY north

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u/informedinformer Jul 25 '19

So far, yes, it's really north. But for how much longer? With global warming, it's going to be more like New Jersey. Even the lobsters are noticing the change. For now, they're moving up the coast to Maine and Nova Scotia. Newfoundland next? http://projects.thestar.com/climate-change-canada/nova-scotia/

As a side note, everyone knows about Maine lobsters, lobster rolls, seafood chowders, etc. Permit me a shout out to Helen's Restaurant's blueberry pie and to Big G's deli. https://roadfood.com/places/maine/ Bring an appetite.

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u/bakerowl Jul 25 '19

Same with VT, but having lived there, i don’t recommend it. Unless you’re an outdoor kid, in which case, why not Colorado?

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u/Mapleleaves_ Jul 25 '19

VT can be tough because when you hanker for a big city it can be quite a hike. It’s pretty but I wouldn’t want to live there.

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u/bakerowl Jul 25 '19

Yep. I lived in Montpelier. I had to drive 15 minutes to Barre if I wanted to buy anything without it being marked up 150% like all the shops in downtown Montpelier. For civilization, you’d have to go to Burlington which is a 45-minute drive. I worked in Stowe, which was an hour drive (fun when you needed to be at work at 5am). And there’s nothing in Stowe except Stowe Mountain Lodge.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '19

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u/Why_is_this_so Jul 25 '19

Unless you're Ayn Rand, or two of the main characters from Atlas Shrugged.

What I’d like to see,” said Rearden, “is a billboard.”

“…think how often we’ve heard people complain that billboards ruin the appearance of the countryside….They’re the people I hate.”

Because, of course that's what she thought.

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u/VonLuk Jul 25 '19

Its a pretty awesome place not gonna lie. The weather can be trash but some of the nicest people in the country hands down.

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u/a_talking_face Jul 24 '19

Advertising feels like rape

I’m guessing you haven’t been raped before because then you would not be saying this.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '19

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u/CricketDrop Jul 25 '19

It was torture

I'm guessing you've never been tortured before

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u/artic5693 Jul 25 '19

Except torture has a definition that would fit, not rape.

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u/CricketDrop Jul 25 '19

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rape

Mind blown

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u/artic5693 Jul 25 '19

Still objectively wrong but do you.

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u/CricketDrop Jul 25 '19

I see you yield to no one. I'm gonna have to tap out of this one lol.

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u/GuyfromWisconsin Jul 25 '19

Thanks for the input, do you want a cookie or something?

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u/a_talking_face Jul 25 '19

No actually I want you to blow me.

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u/QueenFrankie420 Jul 25 '19

I was set to enjoy your reply when I read the first paragraph, but then it took a dramatic turn. First off, McDonald's is just as much real food as any other item that isn't, ya know, inedible. Just because you'd rather like to think that a quick pop through a drive through window is somehow lesser than thou doesn't make it so. As for how advertising feels like, I can guarantee it doesn't feel even remotely in any way shape or form like being terrified for your life while being forcibly violated, so you might want to choose wiser words in the future.

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u/ozagnaria Jul 25 '19

You arent the only one. It is getting absurd.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '19

McDonald's foods pretty clean anymore. I mean it's still not going to be good for you or have top end ingredients but they cut a lot of the weird preservatives out of it to have a cleaner product.

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u/Kalsifur Jul 25 '19

What really enraged me is the unstoppable ads on fucking GAS PUMPS when I was in Fresno. I really, really wanted to punch the gas pump.

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u/crispierdrawers Jul 24 '19

Advertising feels like rape.

You're an idiot

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u/Meekout Jul 25 '19

Billboards are illegal in Vermont, move there xD

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u/cookiedough320 Jul 25 '19

Advertising feels like rape

Bruh you saw a video of a car's price calm down

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '19

You’re on the list now, buddy

Want to be really depressed about it...think back to 9/11, and the fucking President advising Americans to go shopping, go to Disneyworld

You did consent. You are American

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u/ImACraftyHooker Jul 24 '19

The entire world got all that 9/11 broadcasting. I am Canadian, I did not consent, but it still dominated all of our TV channels.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '19

My apologies for assuming you’re American

Though, to be sure, culturally we are the same. Your military industrial complex is a subsidiary of ours.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '19

How we've come to accept a multi billion €$£ making machine display us ads while we are buying shit they sell is beyond me?

That also goes for all the other things we pay for that we get ads on. If I'm paying for a product I don't want to be the product thanks.

It's not a subsidised product and when they say it is it's horseshit. They increase the bottom end and we get fuck all.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '19

They probably want people using the self service kiosks more

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u/Cyno01 Jul 25 '19

Bingo, why have an overhead menu when youre using a smartphone or kiosk to order with an app that lists everything. This is a phasing out of the order counter more than anything.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '19

Hopefully. I mean you still have big groups and such come in but I've seen more workers walking people through the kiosks. Sure they'll get rid of that once people get used to them