Another magnificent progressive ad. Burgers = Heroin.

[Atreus21]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P-4bzj9sdI

I suppose as in the last thread I made about an outrageous ad (where global-warming deniers were killed), I shouldn't be so sensitive.

Equating eating a hamburger to shooting heroin is a blatant lie. Period.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

I'll have fries with that.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I can haz cheeseburger?

 

[GoPackGo]

It was a Banner Year in the Bender Household!

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

You know why these threads don't work when they're about liberal kooks? The kooks on the left are looked at as kooks by everyone. As opposed to the kooks on the right who are running their show.

But after watching the commercial, as kooky and exaggerated as it is, the underlying message is true. Junk food kills more folks than heroin.

 

[GoPackGo]

You know why these threads don't work when they're about liberal kooks? The kooks on the left are looked at as kooks by everyone. As opposed to the kooks on the right who are running their show.

But after watching the commercial, as kooky and exaggerated as it is, the underlying message is true. Junk food kills more folks than heroin.

Do you consider all meat "junk food" or just that one buger?

How do we know that burger didn't come from the organic burger stand?

 

[bamacre]

Junk food kills more folks than heroin.

BFD. Let people eat what they want to eat.

 

[bamacre]

How do we know that burger didn't come from the organic burger stand?

Duh, it's a Republican cheeseburger.

 

[bl4ckfl4g]

Do you consider all meat "junk food" or just that one buger?

How do we know that burger didn't come from the organic burger stand?

That's kind of a stupid question. I think they are trying to get accross the point about burgers most people eat. Most people don't eat organic burgers. They eat Mcdonalds/fast food, or ammonia soaked ground beef from the store.

Whenever I want burgers, I give the butcher at the grocery store a roast and have them put it through the grinder. It tastes better and it comes from the yummy pieces of 1 cow instead of hundreds.

 

[theeedude]

There is no reason to feed your kids burgers. None what so ever.

 

[woolfe9999]

BFD. Let people eat what they want to eat.

That sentiment may well be valid, but then it also applies to what drugs people want to put in their bodies. And that's fine as it is a consistent libertarian stance. However, Gonad's point was that the analogy was a reasonable one: both kill. And since the ad is not a law banning cheeseburgers, but rather a public service announcement, what is the issue here?

Edit: In&Out Burger>McDonalds.

- Wolf

 

[bamacre]

And since the ad is not a law banning cheeseburgers, but rather a public service announcement, what is the issue here?

If it was paid for by a private organization, then nothing. But if taxpayers footed the bill, then everything.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

If it was paid for by a private organization, then nothing. But if taxpayers footed the bill, then everything.

Why? Tax payers foot the bill of fatasses eating themselves to death.

 

[bamacre]

There is no reason to feed your kids burgers. None what so ever.

I ate some burgers when I was a kid. I suppose you think I had bad parents. :whiste:

 

[bamacre]

Why? Tax payers foot the bill of fatasses eating themselves to death.

I don't support doing that, either.

 

[theeedude]

I ate some burgers when I was a kid. I suppose you think I had bad parents. :whiste:

Yes.

 

[Ns1]

That sentiment may well be valid, but then it also applies to what drugs people want to put in their bodies. And that's fine as it is a consistent libertarian stance. However, Gonad's point was that the analogy was a reasonable one: both kill. And since the ad is not a law banning cheeseburgers, but rather a public service announcement, what is the issue here?

Edit: In&Out Burger>McDonalds.

- Wolf

:thumbsup:

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

There is no reason to feed your kids burgers. None what so ever.

There's no reason for you to exist, yet here you are. Given the choice between the two, the burger is the better choice.

 

[theeedude]

There's no reason for you to exist, yet here you are. Given the choice between the two, the burger is the better choice.

You are entitled to your opinion.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

That sentiment may well be valid, but then it also applies to what drugs people want to put in their bodies. And that's fine as it is a consistent libertarian stance. However, Gonad's point was that the analogy was a reasonable one: both kill. And since the ad is not a law banning cheeseburgers, but rather a public service announcement, what is the issue here?

Edit: In&Out Burger>McDonalds.

- Wolf

I have people coming to buy for syringes for heroin. NY state allows this. There were a few times when there was a distinct possibility that I'd have to prevent them from jumping the counter to steal them. Across the street is a McDonalds and to my knowledge no one has ever come in with burger withdrawal.

The ad draws a poor analogy at best.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

I have people coming to buy for syringes for heroin. NY state allows this. There were a few times when there was a distinct possibility that I'd have to prevent them from jumping the counter to steal them. Across the street is a McDonalds and to my knowledge no one has ever come in with burger withdrawal.

The ad draws a poor analogy at best.

It is a poor analogy, 66% of the population isn't killing themselves on heroin.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

You are entitled to your opinion.

As are you, and my opinion is that we enjoy a good burger now and again and that alone is justification. You will be hard pressed to find that to be a major health threat. The key with most things is moderation and when exercised allows the enjoyment of many things. Addiction on the other hand is in opposition to moderation, and while many crimes have been committed to gain access to drugs, few have been done because of the craving for a big mac. Eating poorly on a chronic basis is foolish too. That's not what most advocate.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

It is a poor analogy, 66% of the population isn't killing themselves on heroin.

66% of the population isn't going to die because they ate a burger.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

66% of the population isn't going to die because they ate a burger.

They are eating a lot more than one.

 

[bamacre]

Yes.

Then you really are the moron everyone says you are.