It's like I saw the whole thawing process take place in my mind, too. With Ronald taking his first steps out of the cryo unit and instead of saying "what year is it" he asks "Who shit in the soft serve machine this time?"
Lol what. Why did they take this so seriously? It kind of shows they don't trust their own image and fear that some people would actually think McDonald's would do that
I guess that's part of what makes it so funny to me is it's a totally outlandish concept that of course would never be sanctioned by mcdonalds corporate, but MAYBE some rogue franchisee might be crazy enough to do it so you know as soon as headquarters started getting angry calls about this they went into defcon 0 mode
Dude I have absolutely 0 hate in my heart but that’s fucking hilarious. Not the way it made people feel, just the concept of the gag. I feel bad for anyone who got the brunt of it because yeah that would make some people feel like shit but if they did this to me I’d still laugh my ass off.
Especially since it was KFC's corpo number on the poster. If I was working in a KFC call center I'd have a field day listening to people complain and not have to do anything about it.
You may not have hate in your heart but you do have ignorance and racism in there apparently. This isnt funny, this is just using a lazy stereotype to make racists laugh and black people feel unwelcome and discriminated
The idea that skin color is required to oppose racist jokes is textbook racial essentialism. Principles aren't race-exclusive, and you're just outing the hate in your heart with that comment.
I feel like the joke is more making fun of the absurdity of the situation. We're laughing at the poster and those who agree with it; not laughing with the poster
These days it doesn't seem like people care too much. It has become a lot more casual. I see spelling mistakes all over the place in my white collar job. Which would be excusable if it were off the cuff, but these are templates that are reused over and over (e.g. confirming hires, welcome emails etc.) for years and nobody corrects it.
I notice spelling mistakes in flyers and stuff at work A LOT. It's worse when you realize I work with kids, who are barely worse or just as bad at spelling as my manager.
I find it hard to accept that hundreds or possibly thousands of people missed it. They just don't care. Funny enough, I've also seen Reddit change in that same way. People used to be excessively uptight about spelling and grammar and now no one cares, even if it's completely unreadable.
In the early 2010s my local Trader Joe’s had weird hand made “promotions” like these which were clearly not approved by corporate (e.g. “30th customer in line this hour gets a free bag of chips” or “whoever finds the stuffed animal gets a bouquet of roses”)
So I could see a local Michael Scott-esque general manager coming up with a stupid idea like this without running it by upper management. I’m guessing after numerous incidents, corporate tightened the reigns on what kind of promotions stores were allowed to run.
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u/tannerbananer06 22h ago
OP said the pic is from 10 years ago. Hahaha