McDonald's and sheeple

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He's right though. What he's said has actually been backed up by scientific studies.

You have two burger vans at a festival. The one on the right is a headed up by a secret michellin star chef, the one on the left is using the cheapest lowest grade ingredients you can find cooked by a man who's never worked in a burger van before.
Then you get 50 actors to form a queue at the left hand side van.

Guess where people generally navigate towards.

People assume the masses know something they don't.

The day before lockdown the mcdonalds drive through near me had a queue of cars tailing back right round the shopping centre, back onto the main road and all the way down to the bypass roundabout. It was well over an hours queue, if not more. You see a few cars queue, then more, then more, it's because people love joining in. There will be some of those people waiting who don't really like mcdonalds, or certainly wasn't planning on having one.
And I guess you pair go against the grain, right? :D

I just found it amusing that iPhone users, Mcdonalds eaters and preppers were all being lumped in to the same category some how. Maybe it's aspergers.
 
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And I guess you pair go against the grain, right? :D

I just found it amusing that iPhone users, Mcdonalds eaters and preppers were all being lumped in to the same category some how. Maybe it's aspergers.

I'm not sure which category I fall into it then, an iphone user who doesn't like mcdonalds with an empty kitchen :D:D:D

I am partial to a doner kebab now and again though
 
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He's right though. What he's said has actually been backed up by scientific studies.

You have two burger vans at a festival. The one on the right is a headed up by a secret michellin star chef, the one on the left is using the cheapest lowest grade ingredients you can find cooked by a man who's never worked in a burger van before.
Then you get 50 actors to form a queue at the left hand side van.

Guess where people generally navigate towards.

People assume the masses know something they don't.

The day before lockdown the mcdonalds drive through near me had a queue of cars tailing back right round the shopping centre, back onto the main road and all the way down to the bypass roundabout. It was well over an hours queue, if not more. You see a few cars queue, then more, then more, it's because people love joining in. There will be some of those people waiting who don't really like mcdonalds, or certainly wasn't planning on having one.
I get it, so people are queuing at McDonald's because other people are !

No I don't think that's the case. Heh.
 
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Yeah I really would be. Everybody I know who's ever been to McDonald's ever went there for the food, not the queue.

Honestly, I used to work with someone very much like that. He was a lovely lad, but always struck me as having very low self esteem. He would do whatever anyone else did.

More often than not it involved food, so if someone in the office started eating something, he would have to eat as well. Now there was a lot of people in our office, and he was 26st at his heaviest weight. He's since joined slimming word, but what I'm saying is that there really are people out there who join in just beause.

It said on capital fm radio yesterday that some mcdonalds had queues going on for hours (not 1hr, hours!), and it was one of (if not the) hottest day. Now nobody likes mcdonalds that much they are willing to sit in a hot car for hours.

You know there are a lot of people who go to asdas just to socialise, not to actually buy any food. My nan is one such person. I'm not saying sitting in a car outside a mcdonalds is socialising, but they are at least doing something with other people, rather than sitting in their house in lockdown.
 
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I think it's a glowing review of the British public that once lockdowns are relaxed due to a global pandemic, the first thing they want to do is go queue for ** please full star out swearing ** food.
 
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I think it's a glowing review of the British public that once lockdowns are relaxed due to a global pandemic, the first thing they want to do is go queue for **** food.

as I said in another covid thread, they had a radio phone in asking people what they most missing during lockdown. Nearly everyone said mcdonalds, kfc and nandos.

In fact, sky news had a couple on saying they couldn't believe how much money they were saving since nandos had closed.

I honestly didn't realise just how much people loved those three restuarants.
 
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as I said in another covid thread, they had a radio phone in asking people what they most missing during lockdown. Nearly everyone said mcdonalds, kfc and nandos.

In fact, sky news had a couple on saying they couldn't believe how much money they were saving since nandos had closed.

I honestly didn't realise just how much people loved those three restuarants.

Love them or just find themselves too thick/lazy to prepare an actual decent meal?
 
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one of the reasons I stopped going on twittter and facebook was because I was getting a very negative perception of people in our country, so I'd go with the second :D
Social media is definitely an amplifier for stupid things.

When there's no one nearby that's likely to give them a slap people can get pretty vile it seems.

I remember before social media, people saying stupid things were just ignored. Now they can club together with thousands who think the same way. :/
 
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Yep! Pretty much sums up what I said above.

It really doesnt at all. You're inferring that the majority of people are going to McDonalds because other people are. They aren't! They just want burgers and fries :o. That's gonna happen when you're in lockdown for months - people are going to want something different, even if that's just a Big Mac.. It doesn't at all mean everybody's doing it because everybody else is. Did all those (questionably sane) people flock to the beaches yesterday because other people were or did they all just go for some sea, sun and sand?
 
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It really doesnt at all. You're inferring that the majority of people are going to McDonalds because other people are. They aren't! They just want burgers and fries :o. That's gonna happen when your in lockdown for months - people are going to want something different, even if that's just a Big Mac.. It doesn't at all mean everybody's doing it because everybody else is. Did all those (questionably sane) people flock to the beaches yesterday because other people were or did they all just go for some sea, sun and sand?

I said "There will be some of those people waiting who don't really like mcdonalds, or certainly wasn't planning on having one."

Now if you are correct in what you say, that's even worse :D
 
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