Parents Think Shrek McDonalds Toy is Vulgar

[Ian David]

Parents Think Shrek McDonalds Toy is Vulgar

A Texas parent thinks that the grunts and the recorded phrases on the Three Little Pigs toy is inappropriate and would like to see the toys pulled.

More:
http://nuttynewswire.com/story/25245.shtml

Also:

McDonald's SHREK FOREVER AFTER Happy Meal Toy Review # 8 "The Three Little Pigs"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9fjuI59RJo


See also:

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Topic started by timeforarevolution on Oct-14-08 12:23 PM (20 replies)
Last modified by IAmJacksSmirkingReve on Oct-15-08 10:55 AM
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[hobbit709]

1. I think going to McDonald's is vulgar

But I don't have a cow if other people go there.

[Flubadubya]

2. Squawk Yaah!!

Sounds like the little kid has a dirty mind, lol!

[marmar]

3. There is a virulent strain of puritanical insanity in this country......

nt

[depakid]

4. At least the don't seem to be ridled with lead paint....

[Jamastiene]

5. Lol, so THOSE are our choices?

:rofl:

[Stevenmarc]

8. Well the toys might not be ridled with lead paint, the parents seem to have had their fair share.

[FormerDittoHead]

14. Funny how the same crowd complains about "political correctness" if they can't use the "N" word...nt

[blondeatlast]

35. Amazing, isn't it? nt

[rug]

6. Audio here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gzq9lDwIfY

[Barack_America]

7. "Oh. Oh. Ya!"

:rofl:

I think they stole the audio from a German porn film.

[undeterred]

9. Maybe its really an adult toy.

They could give it away with "happy meals" for adults. :shrug:

[SunnySong]

10. Between these loons and the Center for Science in the Public Interest taliban...

I'm afraid happy meal toys may go the way of Jarts or the The Fourth Amendment.

[depakid]

11. That would be an excellent development

It is ironic though that anyone would equate science in the public interest with Taliban. Actually- more like irony impairment.

[SunnySong]

15. When you decide to ban toys from children you have earned your Taliban stripes.

Honestly leaving aside the obvious problem that the Center is simply claiming that parents should not able to decide how to raise their own kids; There campaign to eliminate these toys strikes me as a mean spirited Grinch like puritan streak. (Water only for children at school.)


A treat for a child should be the parents decision not the decision of a narrowly focused special interest group in Washington.


Let parents raise kids they way they see fit.

[depakid]

18. Not that you would care- but these "toys" are marketing devices designed to addict kids to junk food

and get them to scream and whine until their parents take them in to get it.

The junk food corporations spend billions on child psychologists for this sort of thing- and they can generally rely on the simple minded libertarian sorts to buy into and defend their insidious practices- no matter how what consequences are.

[SunnySong]

19. Yes because parents can't be trusted with such complicated tasks such as feeding thier own kids.

They must submit to THOSE THAT KNOW BETTER


And this is different that a religious fundy how?


And I highly doubt McDonalds spends billions on child psychologists. The toys are designed to be movie tie-in usually and are part of an overall marketing campaign.

Not part of some billion dollar secret scheme to enslave our children.

What is next banning candy at the checkout counter (Great I just gave the nutrition fascists another idea)

[depakid]

21. More shallow liberatarian hyperbole- and failure to grasp the science on top of it

Defenders of these corporate practices always sound the same hollow retorts.

Fact is that anything we can do to prevent marketing unhealthy habits to kids (in the middle of an epidemic of obesity and unheard of rates of type 2 diabetes and osteoporosis in adolescents) we can and should be doing.

That includes taking their ads off TV during kids programming hours and eliminating the tie ins and other psychological reinforcements with so called happy meals.

[SunnySong]

23. Why is it when we decide choice is good some folks narrow it down to only choices I agree with.

Saying people should be able to live their own lives as they see fit is a liberal value not exclusively a libertarian one.


They had plenty of fast food (and lets be blunt here much worse home cooked meals) in the seventies and yet there was no obesity epidemic at the time. Perhaps a scientist may want to investigate what changed over that time (hint it wasn't toys in food)


Perhaps just letting your kids run around outside without fear of Alien Abduction, Child Molesters and CPS calls would do more good then trying to regulate everything they see and do and eat.

[depakid]

27. Responsible public health regulations that counteract corporate influence ARE liberal policies

Your spiel on this thread is just the run of the mill libertarian apologetics for all the harm they cause- and costs that they externalize onto all the rest of us.

ps: there's TONS of science directly linking junk food and obesity, diabetes and osteoporosis in KIDS.

And those consequences seem to be just fine with you....

[SunnySong]

29. You can ban anything you want with the externalize the costs canard

Motorcycles, tobacco, alcohol, hiking, skiing, boating, going to the beach (the sun is radioactive oh noes)


Let kids be kids let parents be parents and let them have the freedom to live their own lives.


Are tier parents that are too stupid or lazy to feed their kids properly. Yes

Is their any proof that banning toys will make them less stupid and lazy... I don't think so.

[depakid]

30. More claptrap- this is a readily identifiable problem with a simple and unintrusive solution

that doesn't yours or anyone else's "freedom."

Does impact your ideology, though. As well as the lives of millions of American kids that you apparently could care less about.

[SunnySong]

33. Giving a toy to a child is not a problem. As long as the toy itself is safe.

You complain (I might add rightly) about the food. So ban the food. No children can eat at McDonalds must be over 18 to enter the joint.

Get rid of the playgrounds and the clown ect... Don't be disingenuous. If you take the toy out of a happy meal and replace it with some PETA Chick Track about the life of a cow the meal is still just as bad.

I find the campaign disingenuous and mean spirited.

If you want to ban the food so parents don't make bad choices then do so.

[Forkboy]

12. You should taste their "food".

[a la izquierda]

13. Totally off topic, but i love buffalax LMFAO!

[kestrel91316]

16. Funny, I didn't know parents were being forced to buy McDonalds

"food" for their kids or give them the toys that come in a "Happy Meal".....

[SunnySong]

20. According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest parents are useless drones

that can't be trusted to raise children.


http://www.cspinet.org/new/201006221.html


Quote from their press release.

“McDonald’s is the stranger in the playground handing out candy to children,” said CSPI litigation director Stephen Gardner. “McDonald’s use of toys undercuts parental authority and exploits young children’s developmental immaturity—all this to induce children to prefer foods that may harm their health. It’s a creepy and predatory practice that warrants an injunction.”

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[SunnySong]

25. No I don't work for the evil fast food industry.

Or the PR industry that compares fast food merchants to child molesters for that matter.

[depakid]

28. The PR industry!

:rofl:

Irony impairment is epidemic in America these days, too- right alongside obesity, especially among "conservatives" and libertarians.

[The Straight Story]

24. Does not matter, plenty will tell you it is for the kids, for society in general, etc. Choice is

a bad thing. I never thought I would hear that from liberals, but I am hearing it more and more.

[SunnySong]

26. Choice is de evil... didn't you hear... we's to stupid to parent oh tells us what to do nt

[kestrel91316]

38. I didn't say choice was a bad thing. I just think parents are fools if

they complain about a Shrek toy like it's being forced down their throats. If they don't like it, they are free to NOT buy it for their precious little ones.

[The Straight Story]

39. You did't say choice was bad, but some I have seen here have - time and time again

IMHO those wanting to limit choice in these areas are no better than those who want to limit choice in other areas.

Sadly, some are all for choice on abortion but not on anything else.

Either you are for people making their own choices or you are not.

[peekaloo]

17. Change the name to "Happy Ending Meal".

There, crisis diverted.

[Horse with no Name]

31. Exercise restraint

and don't buy it!
Geez...how HARD is that?

[SunnySong]

32. apparently it is impossible for some people. That is why the government needs to step in

and ban toys.

[Ron Green]

36. It's harder than you think for lots of people.

It's easy and glib to say "caveat emptor" about every mass-marketed temptation. It's much harder to develop reasonable public policy that counterbalances the corporate propaganda machinery.

And then on a "progressive" message board we've got people yelling "Nanny state!"

Sheesh.

[Bucky]

34. It sounds like those toys are saying "I buried Paul"

Hey, where else do you think that kid could have learned that obscenity? That dad seems like a naive, unnecessarily nice guy. But I've worked in day care and summer camps for little kids. They pick up potty language from each other all the time.

[Odin2005]

37. These must be the same idiots that think records played backward have satanic messages.

[KonaKane]

40. I think one actually says "smoke marijuana" backwards.

But then again, I'd smoked a few before hearing it so I wouldnt rely totally on my observation.