Pledge “BurgerKing”
"I will Boycott Burger King for life! but only if 100 other anti-PC people will do the same."
— Matt Davies, Anti-PC bloke from Woking!
Deadline to sign up by: 1st January 2006
123 people signed up (23 over target)
More details
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=19512...
THE fast-food chain, Burger King, is withdrawing its ice-cream cones after the lid of the dessert offended a Muslim.
The man claimed the design resembled the Arabic inscription for Allah, and branded it sacrilegious, threatening a "jihad".
The chain is being forced to spend thousands of pounds redesigning the lid with backing from The Muslim Council of Britain. It apologised and said: "The design simply represents a spinning ice-cream cone."
SO WHY ARE YOU WASTING ALL THAT MONEY ON WITHDRAWING IT! This is PC pandering at it's worst and I am sick of it. If like me you think Burnger King need to learn a lesson, then please sign my pledge never to use their services again!
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Matt Davies, the Pledge Creator, joined by:
- Alex
- Christina Marsland
- Andrew Parsons
- Ken Bennett
- Gwyn Parry
- Chris
- Douglas Ross
- David Salgado
- Tom Hart.
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- Katie Binks
- 8 people who did not want to give their names, 1 of whom has done the pledge
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Under investigation: Police probed Anne's light-hearted comments
One of Britain's most controversial police forces spent nearly £4,000 on an inquiry into "anti-Welsh" comments made by Anne Robinson, it has emerged.
Four senior officers from North Wales Police were called on to investigate the remarks made by the TV presenter on the BBC show Room 101.
During the programme, which asks celebrity guests to list their pet hates, she described the Welsh as "irritating and annoying", adding provocatively: "What are they for?"
4K of tax payers cash, for what? Unbelievable.
I liked BK but if 100 people are prepared to sign against PC degradation of human life and insult to intelligence, then it is Macdaniels all the way.
If the chap who instigated this jihad for icecream iconoclastism is reading, please think about what you are trying to do in life, and why you are being wrapped in cotton wool by others. Why not do something constructive for a change? And BK people. Get a backbone.
T Collier
Sorry.
I do object to any company waving the white flag any time some Muslim says the word, "Jihad".
So...if I threaten a 'jihad' I can get exactly what I want too?
The expression 'political correctness gone mad' is overused, but I think it's appropriate in this case.
British banks are banning piggy banks because they may offend some Muslims.
Halifax and NatWest banks have led the move to scrap the time-honoured symbol of saving from being given to children or used in their advertising, the Daily Express/Daily Star group reports here.
Boycott Natwest. Boycott Halifax. They don't deserve any business, for they are PC mongers of the worst kind.
I actually agree that this particular situation you describe is ridiculous pandering to PC, a picture of a spinning ice cream is hurting no-one, and besides if the people at Murder King have so much respect for minority groups and their sensitivities why don't they just go all the way and redesign their ice-creams and burgers to be vegan so anyone can eat them (vegan food is even acceptable for halal Muslims)?? Now that would actually make some sense.
I hope you will have noticed that most of this pc drivel does not emanate from Muslims themselves. We are not offended by piggy banks, xmas trees, carol singers etc. This is a country with a Christian majority and as such, it is no concern of ours what you do, so long as you don't force us to join in. What was this ignoramus doing eating in a Burger King restaurant anyway, since meat slaughtered by Christians is not permissible for us? Unfortunately, the Muslim world has more than its fair share of people who compensate for not practising their religion by making fatuous protests, supposedly in support of Islam.
I have nothing against moderate Muslims, who just want to adhere to their religion in peace. I do have a problem with anyone who wants to impose their ways on me.
That includes the fascist Neo-Labour party.
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Kid gets hit by car, wants ice from Burger King,
they charge him $1.04
News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:47AM
BST
Read Article Source: www2.townonline.com
odd-news, car, ice, charge, burger-king, hit, misers
Seeded by Ansab
John Michael Jasset staggered into the restaurant
about 5 pm last Thursday after being hit by a car.
He was thrown from his bike and also scraped his
knee, arms and hands, his mother, Cheryl Jasset,
said “But when he asked for some ice to put on his
ankle,he was told he had to pay for it”.
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This is going to cost your branches throughout the world a lot more, I for one will never enter one of your shops again, I hope you feel really proud, it is the most disgusting lack of care I have ever heard of.
So people moaning about a spinning ice cream should get a life and Burger King shouldn't encourage such intollerance.
By doing so they encourage backlash racism, which is why I started this pledge.