Gay McDonald's ad in France

[Joshua_me]

I'm just waiting for the new Burger King commercial where a guy is eating chicken fries, and telling his teenaged son: "Me and your mother are splitting up. Take care of your mother for me."

Then will come the Wendy's ad with Mother and son:

"You know, Timmy, if the corner drug store had been open late, you wouldn't be here right now... Finish your Frosty."

 

[FanofFiction]

I normally don't eat McDonald's but this commercial makes me want to eat there to show my appreciation.

 

[CumAlong]

I loved that commercial! He is so cute too. Even thought its a harsh reality, it is somehow...sweet, and I don't know why. I can totally relate though. Everytime I mention being with one of my friends thats a girl (or group of them) my dad always makes the comment, "so how many girl friends are you working on now? seems like you always got your choice of good looking girls!"

Sometimes I just wana say "well, girls are a gay mans best friend, and yea, I am the best" Somehow I don't think he would laugh...

 

[TomahawkEagle]

An ad like that will never be aired in Australia!! The conservatives will be jumping up and down about how Maccas should be a "family friendly" institution.

Oh and the guy's cute too!!

 

[MyReply]

I don't think the ad is saying "come out of the closet"; that would have nothing to do with selling hamburgers. I think it is just basically saying "everyone is welcome."

Did McDonalds suspect that gays felt as though they weren't welcomed to eat there prior to this commercial?

Sorry, but I think the "message" here is very shlocky and 'pandering.' If they wanted to show how inclusive they were, then they should have just done a commercial featuring two obvious boyfriends enjoying their food.

This is a better example of a commercial that is gay-inclusive without a hit-you-over-the-head socio-political "message."

 

[MyReply]

I don't think the ad is saying "come out of the closet"; that would have nothing to do with selling hamburgers. I think it is just basically saying "everyone is welcome."

Did McDonalds suspect that gays felt as though they weren't welcomed to eat there prior to this commercial?

Sorry, but I think the "message" here is very shlocky and 'pandering.' Ultimately, in an attempt to pander, what they did was distract from their product and instead churned out an After School Special. If they wanted to show how inclusive they were, then they should have just done a commercial featuring two obvious boyfriends enjoying their food.

This is a better example of a commercial that is gay-inclusive without a hit-you-over-the-head socio-political "message."


And that commercial is almost twenty years old.

 

[braex27]

They opened a location in the Louvre. You can munch a Big Mac while gawking at the Mona Lisa now.

There is no god.

Oh dear lord, they opened one in the Louvre?!

That's AWFUL!!

 

[Speeds]

Cute commercial...good luck seeing that air in America.

I heard they aired it on Fox News during O Reilly's show. But it was because he was trying to compare gays to Al Qaida.

But I get what you're saying lol. I doubt it'll be promoted here as a normal commercial.

 

[DualPurpose]

Is it still the silliest thing you've hear in a long time?

No. Your new post beats it by a mile.

They were speaking French in the ad. They weren't speaking French with any kind of accent. If anything, they may have been speaking French with a 'local dialect'. There is a huge difference.

English is a language in the US, but 'American' is not an accent. There are, however, many, many dialects which differ from region to region, just like any language in any country.

No accents. Only dialects.

American is indeed an accent. It does, of course have many dialects. Your logic is entirely flawed — almost amusing! To prove my point, here is a surprisingly long Wikipedia article on the American Accent. While it is entirely possible that the article is a mistake, and somehow no-one seemed to mention that the article's topic is actually something non-existant, it's very unlikely.

Accents are normally quite general, so I understand how you are confused. Often accents group people united by country, geographic location and even social status.

Dialects, on the other hand, then develop in accents. Normally, dialects in an accent have more similarities than differences. For instance, the dialect of the Irish accent in Belfast is still deemed part of the Irish accent just as the dialect of the accent in the southern most part of the country is. If the dialect in Belfast started to differ greatly, one may find that the term 'Northern Irish' accent would gain prominence.

So, yes they are speaking in the French accent, probably of the Parisian dialect. (If you hadn't figure it out yet, the Parisian dialect is a subset of the French accent, albeit a large one!)

Unfortunately, its not possible to speak in a dialect if you're not speaking in an accent. Many would argue that they are one and the same, but you can see from above that that's not entirely true.

DP.

 

[evanrick]

too bad its an all boys class? lol...what more could you want...i bet he could bag n tag everyone in that all boys class.

 

[MercuryJones]

It's a cute commercial. It's nice to see we're so broadly accepted in some areas that our inclusion is expected to be perceived as marketable.

 

[just_mills]

I like it.

1,429,717 views. Not bad for 10 days..

 

[FanofFiction]

Wow! With that many views they just might start airing that type of commercial here in North America!!

 

[Kulindahr]

I heard they aired it on Fox News during O Reilly's show. But it was because he was trying to compare gays to Al Qaida.

In that context...

it's O'Reilly who corresponds to Al Qaeda.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

Bring on the spoofs!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcdB1jN8LCQ

Kool

ans

HA

 

[Kulindahr]

I didn't actually laugh at that till the end -- "Come as you are. Bitch."

 

[operafan]

I like the subtlety of the message. The IKEA commercial was nice but the McDonald's commercial is more subversive and will do a lot more to get people to watch. I think it is too easy to dismiss the IKEA commercial as bleeding heart.

 

[bike10]

Very clever ad for McDonalds. Waiting to hear from Pat Robertson, James Dobson rest of religious right to call for boycott of McDonalds.

Does give new meaning to the Big Mack!

 

[Kulindahr]

Very clever ad for McDonalds. Waiting to hear from Pat Robertson, James Dobson rest of religious right to call for boycott of McDonalds.

Does give new meaning to the Big Mack!

I hadn't even thought of that. But then I try to not think about the Neanderthals of the Christian world.

If they do, I suppose I ought to patronize the Arches. Trouble is... do they serve food?

 

[doetim]

I love this ad.



That is the silliest thing I have heard in a long time. Don't bother correcting someone if the end result doesn't make even a small bit of sense.

There is such a thing as a French accent, just as their is an American accent. Just because the language happens to be spoken with this accent doesn't mean they suddenly merge into one. It is possible to speak English in a French accent, you know.

In England and Ireland, we both speak English but in England, they speak it in an English accent. (And, if you hadn't got it yet, it's both a language and an accent!) In Ireland, they speak it in an Irish accent.

Hope this clears it up for you, despite the continuation of your condescending tone.

DP.

I don't think the "corrector" was being condescending at all and in fact I was going to correct him too. Is it not ok to correct someone without being a prick about it? There wasn't anything in his reply that says condescending to me. It's a common mistake that I see people make all the time too and it's rather nice that someone corrects someone so they don't make that mistake again. You are correct that there is such a thing as a French accent but the person who brought it up first didn't use it in the same context you were thinking of. He was referring to it as a language. Now if he said something like "I live in Montreal and I think the French accent is so sexy" then we would know that he's talking about the French accent as opposed to the French Canadian accent but that wasn't his comment. He should be glad that someone pointed that out to him or else he would go through life always making that mistake.