"Get Me a Whopper!"

[kidchameleon]

I just finished a Bacon Double Homestyle Melt with fries. Yuuuuuummmmy.

[Rube_E.Tewesday]

@kidchameleon

I just finished a Bacon Double Homestyle Melt with fries. Yuuuuuummmmy.

Better than your Mom could make?

BTW, does anybody have a mom who makes “melts”?

[cowgirl]

@Rube E. Tewesday

Better than your Mom could make?

BTW, does anybody have a mom who makes “melts”?

Watch it buddy … my mom makes the best tuna melt you’ve ever tasted.

mmm. Melty.

[Darwin_s_Finch]

@you with the face

The people who think this ad is not working…look inside your soul and tell me you’re not craving a Whopper, not even a teensy bit. I dare you.

While I’m not of the opinion that the ad doesn’t work (I have no opinion on that fact, actually), I can honestly say that I am not craving a Whopper. I’ve eaten at Burger King many times, and actually prefer it over other fast-food burger joints, but I have yet to actually eat a Whopper. Never really cared to, either. Same goes for a Big Mac, actually. I usually get a chicken-related product, so it wouldn’t matter to me in the least if BK stopped serving Whoppers.

[Weirddave]

A Monkey With A Gun nailed it in post #94. See Otto, here’s the thing. Suppose you come across a legitimate instance of homophobia, or gay bashing or discrimination based upon sexual preference, or something, one that calls out for some response (I don’t know what, letters need to be written, products need to be boycotted, whatever). You start a thread on it called “Help me fight this homophobia”. You know what? I’m most likely going to see that thread and think to myself “Oh, Christ, Otto’s being a drama queen again” and pass on by to the next thread. The reason I’m going to do that is because you have a long history here of getting your panties in a knot over utterly trivial “offenses” like this one. You are the boy who cried wolf WRT homophobia, and that’s not a good thing because when you do have a legitimate point to make, it gets obscured by all the petty bullshit.

[levdrakon]

@A Monkey With a Gun

Because when somebody is vocally offended by something so small that was probably misconstrued anyway, it demeans the whole issue. Think about it.

Let me tell you a story about Amelia Rideau. She was the black junior English Major at the University of Wisconsin who complained to the faculty board after her professor used the word “niggardly” when teaching Chaucer. She famously said, “It’s not up to the rest of the class to decide whether my feelings are valid”. Kinda sounds like your point, doesn’t it? Her complaints had the opposite effect as she intended. Not only was the word not banned, It was embraced. The school scraped all proposed academic speech codes (including some prohibiting hate speech) in favor of academic freedom, a firestorm of sophomoric jokes took over the late night shows, and any national dialog about race relations was hopeless mired in this stupid, stupid controversy.

The more ridiculous the complaint, the farther the mainstream is going to walk away from the issue. I know there is discrimination against gays in this country, but when you complain about shit like “Burger Queen” being homophobic, people stop listening to you. You become your cause’s equivalent to PETA, who make this animal lover want to throw on a fur coat and napalm the rain forest.

It’s important to us, because we don’t like seeing anybody endanger a worthy cause by crying wolf, and you remember how that story turned out.

How homophobic does something have to be to not be “crying wolf” to you? I can run around saying niggardly all day. It’s fun. Pisses off the coloreds. But hey, it’s a safe word so I can amuse myself saying niggardly, niggardly, niggardly all day.

That would make me an asshole. It’s like a little kid learning “bitch” is a valid word for female dog and amuses himself finding ways to work “bitch” into every sentence he can think of. It’s juvenile dude, and no one’s fooled as to what you’re up to.

Yeah, niggardly and bitch and queen and gay and fag are all valid words. You know damn well when you’re abusing them.

[Gala_Matrix_Fire]

@you with the face

The people who think this ad is not working…look inside your soul and tell me you’re not craving a Whopper, not even a teensy bit. I dare you.

Not even slightly. Burger King is my least favorite of all the hamburger-oriented fast food chains. Way too much slop on their burgers. Ugh.

[armedmonkey]

@levdrakon

You know damn well when you’re abusing them.

So “queen” is corporate fast food keeping the gay man down?

Let’s go protest the Dairy Queen!

They never give me enough oreo chips, anyway.

[levdrakon]

@A Monkey With a Gun

So “queen” is corporate fast food keeping the gay man down?

Let’s go protest the Dairy Queen!

They never give me enough oreo chips, anyway.

::checks forum::

What a dumb ass you are. If you honestly think Dairy Queen was so named as an insult to gays you’re a bigger fucking moron than I’m already pretty sure you are.

[armedmonkey]

And if you honestly think that Burger King meant it as a slur then I have one question.

Can you see your house from up there on your cross?

[levdrakon]

@A Monkey With a Gun

And if you honestly think that Burger King meant it as a slur then I have one question.

Can you see your house from up there on your cross?

If you think (I’m being generous) that changing King to “queen” wasn’t a slur then what do you think it was?

[armedmonkey]

It was sexist, not homophobic.

Haven’t we been over this?

[levdrakon]

@A Monkey With a Gun

It was sexist, not homophobic.

Haven’t we been over this?

If they changed it to Burger Princess I’d buy that. As advertisers, they know what popular connotations queen has.

[armedmonkey]

Do we need to change the English language to suit you, levdrakon? You’re coming across as somebody who wants to appropriate words for your own personal definitions. When did the word “queen” become copywrited by gay males? Is every sexist joke homophobic?

Y’all already have “Mary”. Ain’t that enough?

At this point, yes, I am mocking you.

[levdrakon]

@A Monkey With a Gun

Do we need to change the English language to suit you, levdrakon? You’re coming across as somebody who wants to appropriate words for your own personal definitions. When did the word “queen” become copywrited by gay males? Is every sexist joke homophobic?

Y’all already have “Mary”. Ain’t that enough?

At this point, yes, I am mocking you.

If you ever develop the ability to mock then by all means come back and mock me. For now, I’m not feeling particularly mocked.

[armedmonkey]

Good for you, then.

[Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical]

@saoirse

Actually, that’s just not true, as the makers of HeadOn can attest. Perhaps that’s no way to market products to you, but that’s the price they pay for marketing them to millions of other people. The dotcom ads from the Super Bowls in the late 90s are almost universally remembered as intelligent and enjoyable to watch, but they generated no sales.

The people who do that are describing ads that worked. Ads that don’t work get pulled.

Former ad person here.
The Head-on ad works despite itself because it’s a one of a kind product that purports to meet a real need. Negative publicity does not equal good sales, generally speaking.

[gigi]

@Otto

The fucking dimwit customers who react to not being able to get a meat patty of a particular size

It’s not just the patty size, it’s everything that goes into a Whopper. I don’t get them anymore because I know I would fall into a sniveling ball from the wave of nostalgia for my sixth and seventh grade days, but it is a unique product, not just a bigger hamburger.

[kaylasdad99]

I wonder if people were able to get the Whopper Junior on that day?

[TroubleAgain]

@Otto

Oh my god, I hate those fucking commercials. In no particular order, I pit:

The fucking dimwit customers who react to not being able to get a meat patty of a particular size by throwing screaming fits and demanding to see the manager and shit. You’re pathetic losers, even more so because presumably you had to sign some sort of release for your dribbling idiocy to be included in the ad to be inflicted on an innocent nation;

The specific fucktard whose big comedy line is “If Burger King stops selling the Whopper they might as well change their name to Burger Queen.” Fuck you, you sexist homophobic cuntnugget;

The manager of the Burger King where these were filmed. For every two-second snippet of a customer going apeshit that made it into an ad there was a two-minute or longer rant from the same customer aimed square at some poor minimum wage slave who undoubtedly had no say at being the target of the raging of the Whopperless jackholes, not to mention the abuse they had heaped on them by customers whose tantrums didn’t make the cut. Good looking out for your employees, twatwaffle;

Everyone at Burger King and their ad agency who thought that presenting Burger King customers as beligerent raving lunatics was a good marketing strategy. How could they possibly think that anyone would want to identify themselves with the gibbering boneheads they’re presenting as representative of Burger King customers? Fucking morons. Who knew they could come up with an ad campaign more horrifyingly awful than using that fucking creepy life-size bobble-head King?

Thank you, Otto, for beating me to pitting these asinine and really annoying commercials.