It's okay to everybody out there. you just get too fat have a heart attack and die while you can't pay for a funeral and you end up getting covered by dirt in a hole while we stand there and say "we told you so".
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if someone doesn't want to eat meat they don't have to. i myself only eat chicken and fish. i am trying to become a vegitarian. and animals only eat each other because they don't have a burger king or a wal mart to go get food. they kill to survive, not for fun. sure, some people eat meat because they think they can't live without it but as far as fast food is concerned, they all pretty much order their meats from a company farm that literally tortures animals to death. and in my book, that's animal cruelty and is punishable by law.
i'm going to try to get all of the cards. i didn't get much of the original diamond and pearl cards...i got the 3 starters and prinplup from the original set so i'm ganna try for the bk cards, as well as that actualy toys/card holders because i just can't help myself XD
i went to bk today and i was going to buy 1 of each of the toys/cards from them but my bk only has the dialga case and the pachirisu and piplup holders right now. so, i got them and i got the happiny, prinplup, and turtwig cards. i'm glad my friend was there with me. she had gotten 2 happiny and i had gotten 2 primplups so we just traded and have one of each now. only 9 more cards and toys left to go DX
i went to bk today and i was going to buy 1 of each of the toys/cards from them but my bk only has the dialga case and the pachirisu and piplup holders right now. so, i got them and i got the happiny, prinplup, and turtwig cards. i'm glad my friend was there with me. she had gotten 2 happiny and i had gotten 2 primplups so we just traded and have one of each now. only 9 more cards and toys left to go DX
I agree with you. To defend the food and say there's nothing wrong with it is going too far, but seriously FAST FOOD IS BAD FOR YOU? WHAT?? NEXT YOU'RE GOING TO SAY SMOKING IS BAD.airconditioning said:I love Burger King, and I'm surprised nobody else here is defending it. And everyone complaining about health is either a wuss or has a ridiculously frail immune system.
Also, the whole 'DURR HURR I'M INDEPENDENT BECAUSE I DON'T BUY INTO FAST FOOD AND CAPITALISM JUST LIKE ALL THE OTHER KOOL KIDZ' attitude in this thread is really annoying. :/
I'd say Burger King is one of the better tasting fast-foods. No I would not yell at people for not going there, but I'd hope people would work with the mindset that it's already culturally known to not be good for you so I don't see the point of raging against the machine.
It's so PUSA sees the resistance and sides with "healthier" places in the future. Duh!
Fast food.... RIP. Why don't you just ask for the cards and pay the price of a happy meal or whatever for just the cards? It's not worth eating the food to get them. D:
You can always throw away the food, too. =p That way you don't seem weird (Assuming you're not 11), walking into the BK and ask for the cards only.
But BK truly is not good at all, although I can't say I don't eat fast food.
But BK truly is not good at all, although I can't say I don't eat fast food.
well, i went in today and asked for them without the kids meal, and i'm 17. although, the person at the register was kind of a friend so it didn't really bother me. i got food anyway. not a kids meal, just a chicken sandwich because it was 12:30 and i was hungry.
i don't go out to eat too much. i literally get sick from it. it doesn't matter if it's fast food or a fancy resturant, i get sick about and hour after i eat out. but BK isn't that bad of a fast food place...it's better then some others around here. but then again, BK isn't all that great either because there are other places around here that are a lot better.
For the record, I eat at McDonald's, Burger King, Subway, Quizno's, and most other chains you've heard of, and I'm deeply familiar with the menus of all of the most major fast food chains. (Yes, I consider Subway and all other deli sandwich places as fast food chains, as they make food and make it quickly, and their food is portable and can be eaten without utensils.) Obviously, I don't just constantly gorge on everything, but I do visit these places frequently enough to remain up-to-date on what's popular and what isn't. Oh yeah, and I enjoy both Whoppers and Veggie Delites, just to bring up that these foods aren't totally dichotomous in terms of what people eat.
I was really surprised at the amount of negativity toward Burger King though. I didn't think PokéBeach had such a health-conscious population. Unless this is simply a vocal minority. Most everyone I've known in real life really don't mind the occasional fast food.
Yes, a 6-inch tuna sub would have fewer calories than a Whopper. The six-inch has less volume than a Whopper, however. (By the way, the large quantities of fat from the tuna sandwich come from the mayonnaise. It's too bad their tuna salad is already pre-mixed, as I don't like mayonnaise and I prefer tuna sandwiches with small or no amounts of it.)
I haven't checked with my local Burger King restaurants yet to see if they have them, but considering I've yet to see them promote the Pokémon toys on their windows, they either don't have them yet or are too ashamed of being associated with Pokémon to have them. I've encountered GameStops that refuse to sell Pokémon Battle Revolution, for instance, so I know the stigma is real.
Subway does these things too. So does Nintendo. You can try to escape capitalism all you want, but it's the dominant way this world works: Through cutthroat competition and "survival of the fittest." It's a fact of human nature in that people will push others down to benefit themselves, even if the loss toward others dwarf the benefits of the ones in question. It's always happened for as long as history has existed, and it will continue to happen far into the future.
Also, looking at my university's culture, a lot of people ARE anticapitalist because they see other people doing it. It's a form of joining the bandwagon, a way to gain acceptance by one's peers, and an easy way of making oneself feel more important than they really are.
Seriously, are you ever going to get over creating wild exaggerations and stating them as fact? People will do what they want to do, and you won't be able to change them.
Also, that association with fatness and poverty makes no sense. If anything, fatness implies wealthiness--most cultures without a strong western influence or organize themselves to repel western influence find fatness to be sexually desirable; fat people show signs of being able to spend in excess and actually of good health. Inversely, skinny people are seen as sickly, frail, and poor. Traditionally, fat children in China are better respected than skinny children because a skinny child means that child's family is low in the social class and thus cannot afford to fatten themselves up.
So basically, fat people are more likely to be able to pay for a funeral than skinny people.
Actually, studies have been found that carnivorous (and some omnivorous) animals DO sometimes kill for fun if they are able to have the leisure time and energy to do so. Cats and dogs do this all the time, and you can observe this practically anywhere. Crows often flock together and harass other animals, sometimes lethally. Put big fish in the same tank as little fish, and the big fish will bully the little fish to death. Besides, most kills done by humans are either towards other humans or by negligence/collateral damage. Do you feel sorry for every ant you've inadvertently stepped on on the sidewalk?
Slaughterhouses, contrary to what you might think, usually use the most humane way possible to kill animals; they use ways that end them as quickly as possible and produce little to no pain. Torture by definition would be physically and/or psychologically taxing, of which these methods are neither.
I think Subway DID have a few Manaphy toys a while back, as well as some Mario ones even further back. I don't ever recall them getting so much attention. Doctors Associates is the #6 fast food chain in the world (according to "The Top 10 of Everything" written and compiled by Russell Ash), so it can certainly afford to buy licenses for huge companies. The thing is that Subway's kids meals have never been popular, nor have they ever been advertised extensively. Subway probably already knows this. Like Quizno's, it advertises mainly to adults, the kids meals being used only as a way to keep kids walking into the store from eating food from another restaurant, effectively bringing those $5 to Subway and away from its competition. (In fact, as a child, I frequently ate Happy Meals and BK Kids Club meals in locally-owned restaurants my parents went to...if they didn't kick us out first.)
Also, Burger King is the chain that invented the kids meal and thus found out some traits about children's eating habits. Burger King was a minor and comparatively local hamburger chain until it created the BK Kids' Club meal, which is the reason they were able to explode and take the industry by storm. It was evident that kids tend to dislike deli sandwiches that Subway and Quizno's serves and that they would much much rather prefer hamburgers, french fries, and tacos. I mean...those Apple Dippers at McDonald's haven't even seem to have caught on with children, for instance; they seem to be marketed at adults now. (I like those Apple Dippers, by the way.) Happy Meals are still predominantly a burger, fries, and a soda.
So rather, I think that Subway simply doesn't really care too much about the licenses its kids meals have, as getting kids to eat their kids meals would be an uphill battle. To a kid, deli sandwiches = vegetables.
I was really surprised at the amount of negativity toward Burger King though. I didn't think PokéBeach had such a health-conscious population. Unless this is simply a vocal minority. Most everyone I've known in real life really don't mind the occasional fast food.
Loyal Lucario said:I go to subway... but I only eat half of the tuna sub... soo does that have less calories than a whopper? anyways, I went to BK and they still don't have themI asked and they said they didn't know when they would arrive
Yes, a 6-inch tuna sub would have fewer calories than a Whopper. The six-inch has less volume than a Whopper, however. (By the way, the large quantities of fat from the tuna sandwich come from the mayonnaise. It's too bad their tuna salad is already pre-mixed, as I don't like mayonnaise and I prefer tuna sandwiches with small or no amounts of it.)
I haven't checked with my local Burger King restaurants yet to see if they have them, but considering I've yet to see them promote the Pokémon toys on their windows, they either don't have them yet or are too ashamed of being associated with Pokémon to have them. I've encountered GameStops that refuse to sell Pokémon Battle Revolution, for instance, so I know the stigma is real.
ZZZAPDOS said:
Subway does these things too. So does Nintendo. You can try to escape capitalism all you want, but it's the dominant way this world works: Through cutthroat competition and "survival of the fittest." It's a fact of human nature in that people will push others down to benefit themselves, even if the loss toward others dwarf the benefits of the ones in question. It's always happened for as long as history has existed, and it will continue to happen far into the future.
Also, looking at my university's culture, a lot of people ARE anticapitalist because they see other people doing it. It's a form of joining the bandwagon, a way to gain acceptance by one's peers, and an easy way of making oneself feel more important than they really are.
pikachu1246 said:
Seriously, are you ever going to get over creating wild exaggerations and stating them as fact? People will do what they want to do, and you won't be able to change them.
Also, that association with fatness and poverty makes no sense. If anything, fatness implies wealthiness--most cultures without a strong western influence or organize themselves to repel western influence find fatness to be sexually desirable; fat people show signs of being able to spend in excess and actually of good health. Inversely, skinny people are seen as sickly, frail, and poor. Traditionally, fat children in China are better respected than skinny children because a skinny child means that child's family is low in the social class and thus cannot afford to fatten themselves up.
So basically, fat people are more likely to be able to pay for a funeral than skinny people.
InuMimi said:
Actually, studies have been found that carnivorous (and some omnivorous) animals DO sometimes kill for fun if they are able to have the leisure time and energy to do so. Cats and dogs do this all the time, and you can observe this practically anywhere. Crows often flock together and harass other animals, sometimes lethally. Put big fish in the same tank as little fish, and the big fish will bully the little fish to death. Besides, most kills done by humans are either towards other humans or by negligence/collateral damage. Do you feel sorry for every ant you've inadvertently stepped on on the sidewalk?
Slaughterhouses, contrary to what you might think, usually use the most humane way possible to kill animals; they use ways that end them as quickly as possible and produce little to no pain. Torture by definition would be physically and/or psychologically taxing, of which these methods are neither.
Porygon said:
I think Subway DID have a few Manaphy toys a while back, as well as some Mario ones even further back. I don't ever recall them getting so much attention. Doctors Associates is the #6 fast food chain in the world (according to "The Top 10 of Everything" written and compiled by Russell Ash), so it can certainly afford to buy licenses for huge companies. The thing is that Subway's kids meals have never been popular, nor have they ever been advertised extensively. Subway probably already knows this. Like Quizno's, it advertises mainly to adults, the kids meals being used only as a way to keep kids walking into the store from eating food from another restaurant, effectively bringing those $5 to Subway and away from its competition. (In fact, as a child, I frequently ate Happy Meals and BK Kids Club meals in locally-owned restaurants my parents went to...if they didn't kick us out first.)
Also, Burger King is the chain that invented the kids meal and thus found out some traits about children's eating habits. Burger King was a minor and comparatively local hamburger chain until it created the BK Kids' Club meal, which is the reason they were able to explode and take the industry by storm. It was evident that kids tend to dislike deli sandwiches that Subway and Quizno's serves and that they would much much rather prefer hamburgers, french fries, and tacos. I mean...those Apple Dippers at McDonald's haven't even seem to have caught on with children, for instance; they seem to be marketed at adults now. (I like those Apple Dippers, by the way.) Happy Meals are still predominantly a burger, fries, and a soda.
So rather, I think that Subway simply doesn't really care too much about the licenses its kids meals have, as getting kids to eat their kids meals would be an uphill battle. To a kid, deli sandwiches = vegetables.
Burger King + Pokemon...Are they trying to poison the youth of America now? First lead in toys, tainted toothpaste and dog food, and now this? What's the world coming to? But it's good to see Pokemon is still getting the attention it deserves after all these years.
they know... they know I would do anything for pokemon even though I don't eat fast food. their trying to lure me in because I want that lucario card so badly... P.S. ophie do you maybe WORK at burger king. your the only one really defending it.
Just because Ophie is more intelligent then you when he's posting doesn't mean he's working at burger king. That's not a reason to be speaking your mind, and if actually read it he didn't really defend it, pointed out what the others had said were wrong or clarified it.
How can you compare toys with a kids meal to that? You are way off. Fast food doesn't mean death. When has a kid died because of a burger wasn't heath food? Everyone is acting like this stuff will kill you in one bite. Unless you eat this all the time and don't try to become healthy, then you have a problem. But don't blame it on the food, it's the people's decision to eat and be barley active. Plus, there are a lot of sources that give you all the facts about the food. I'm obese, and I don't whine about the food making me fat. I was the one who chose to eat it. I go out, play basketball, walk or jog, and even do chores for my grandparents, to become more active. You don't see me wanting to sue others just cause I'm lazy. I actually try to make myself more fit, not finding other ways to make myself feel better and ways to make money.
Flaming Zak said:
How can you compare toys with a kids meal to that? You are way off. Fast food doesn't mean death. When has a kid died because of a burger wasn't heath food? Everyone is acting like this stuff will kill you in one bite. Unless you eat this all the time and don't try to become healthy, then you have a problem. But don't blame it on the food, it's the people's decision to eat and be barley active. Plus, there are a lot of sources that give you all the facts about the food. I'm obese, and I don't whine about the food making me fat. I was the one who chose to eat it. I go out, play basketball, walk or jog, and even do chores for my grandparents, to become more active. You don't see me wanting to sue others just cause I'm lazy. I actually try to make myself more fit, not finding other ways to make myself feel better and ways to make money.
Just for the record, my original post about feeling like I had to throw up had to do with how disgustingly cheap the ingredients are and the quality of the food. Anytime I eat fast food, it's usually Jack in the Box, so the food is better quality. It's like downgrading to go to BK.
It's like downgrading to go to BK.Jack in the Box, are you serious? I've heard bad things about that chain. There was some kind of food poisoning... :x
Edit: Yeah, they had a major case of E. coli in 1993, but they have strict regulations now.
Edit: Yeah, they had a major case of E. coli in 1993, but they have strict regulations now.
I just eat their chicken strips and occasionally their ultimate cheeseburger (which I can't even finish).
