http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/mcdonalds-ad-made-a-meal-of-driving-safety/2007/12/01/1196394682307.html

but if anyone knows of a copy online I would really appreciate a link

but does anyone know of any online video or discussion of the relatively recent mcdonald’s advertisements that captured ’special’ macca’s moments? For example, one was a young bloke who had just got his driver’s license and he takes his mates down to macca’s for a feed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

http://theseniortimes.com/article/2008/06/vegging-out-fast-food-experience.html

Gotta watch your salt-intake tho. It takes a Murdoch media et al to remind us of that…lol. And don’t forget, as the History channel reminds us w/ its DOOMSDAY shows about how the world will survive w/out us (post 2012 I imagine going by the media & blog beat-up…Mayan calendar anyone?….YAWN)…if you don’t know how to munch on meat then you might get eaten…or somethin’ like that…SCARRYYYY. I wonder if the Fox people wear boogeyman masks on their time off?

The more you FEAR, the more ANXIOUS you get…the more they HOPE you will be hooked into their shows & faux debates. And the more money they make from ads. Murdoch is the ringMASTER of this kind of SHOW.

“However, no continent is represented by any specific ring. Though colourful explanations about the symbolism of the coloured rings exist, the only connection between the rings and the continents is that the number five refers to the number of continents. In this scheme, the Americas are viewed as a single continent, and Antarctica is omitted.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_flag

However, no continent is represented by any specific ring. Though colourful explanations about the symbolism of the coloured rings exist, the only connection between the rings and the continents is that the number five refers to the number of continents. In this scheme, the Americas are viewed as a single continent, and Antarctica is omitted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_flag

Also, you must get over this myth that you have the best coffee in the world, it’s good and admire the fact that you have options at many different venues but to think you can’t get similar or better quality in New York, Austin or Paris is amusing.

No carry on trashing maccas, everyone enjoys that.

:0… Sam Clifford, i don’t fart heaps after eating lentils, and I eat heaps of them. Including:

Organic lentil, leek & chilli burgers w/ tomato, canadian or polish dill pickles, dijon mustard & tomato sauce/hot Nandos sauce in dark rye bread/rolls

…lentils in the potato, vege gravy, homegrown herbs & vege (carrots, leek or onion, carrots, peas, capsicum, brussles) bake w/ sliced tomatoes & pastry on top…add cheese under the pastry. I still haven’t kicked the luv for cheese, wish I could…we buy non-animal rennet stuff.

lentils in curry…& used in spaghetti sauce instead of mince…delicious.

We alternate…sometimes use chick peas & nuts…or mushroom…or when rushing buy vege burgers from the frozen section of the supermarket. Not too often tho. Worried about the fats…the heart ya see.

Strangely, I fart heaps after drinking too much wine…puts the balance in my gut out. Also puts heaps of weight on me. Since I lessened my drinking I’m losing much weight…and finding more motivation to walk & garden.

It’s good McDonalds are selling vege burgers…but it’s the history & other ongoing things that bother me. But heck, change happens on the inside too…the seeds of good things spread etc…

Helen…lol on the Poutine, reminds me of a Canadian animated show I enjoyed on the Comedy Channel a while back…Chilly Beach…ya know, I used to eat regularly at Harveys as a teenager. But was more a meat burger guy in those days.

How things change eh? After a teacher during the senior years showed us a video of the slaughterhouse I began to see things differently. Took some time to grow in my mind. Gradual shift & all that. Until I sicked up chook claws from a Chinese yum-cha oneday…about 1991…then my wife & I went vegetarian. I used to eat anything…including snails in garlic sauce at a German Canadian mates house. Sigh. I think it’s disgusting they don’t offer students choice & reality by showing such vids here.

Had Poutine a coupla times. Yikes. I luved the way Canadian restaurants often had water jugs on the table back then. And pictures of Bobby Orr, Bobby Hull & other hockey players…:) A game that seemed to become far more violent when the Philadelphia Flyers decided to win the Stanley Cup by using violence & skill…& didn’t the media play it up…:(

And Darlene, Andrew and Immannuel(?) have their shop on Anderson st, Yarraville. It’s between the railway line and Ballarat st, although I can’t remember the number.

The Food Protection Plan is itself a mix of lofty promises and suspect strategies. One element of the plan, for example, would allow the FDA to designate third parties, including private contractors, to inspect food on the FDA’s behalf. That is a pander to conservative anti-government orthodoxy; there is no evidence that outsourcing food inspection to private contractors would work better than an effectively managed and adequately funded government program, and there is plenty of reason to suspect that a private contractor would be more susceptible to corruption and less accountable to the public.

All of which suggests that the Bush administration wants to appear as if it is concerned about food safety, but doesn’t want government to do the hard work of actually protecting the food supply. To the extent that it does, it does so kicking and screaming in response to political pressure.

(Behind the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, By Isaiah J. Poole,
June 13th, 2008)

More here:

http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/behind-attack-killer-tomatoes

Thank goodness the Rudd govt. is taking this stuff seriously.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4138791.ece

(Get Osama Bin Laden before I leave office, orders George W Bush)

Wouldn’t it be hilarious if the audience spat the burger out & stated w/ calm & steely voice

“that tastes like bull sh*t to me”

I won’t go to McDonalds until they serve me an unwooded, locally made Chardonnay with my Organic Lentil Burger, the McFart.

I would’ve thought the Scientologists are the most whinged about company in the world. The thetans have ways of making you eat a Big Mac.

That’s for sure Darlene…dem genes, dem toxins in the pine and paint and carpets, dem damned asbestos thingies everywhere in Australia, dem pollutants, dem bad things are bein’ pumped out left right and centre…dey can even be found around & under poor returned vets from WW2 in cheecago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altgeld_Gardens%2C_Chicago

(Altgeld Gardens)

dat was when that poli fella on de TV was doin’ darn good things…he got a nice smile but some smelly friends…he need to do some summer cleanin’…w/ the help of dat Robert R. fella.