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| Acmlm's Board - I2 Archive - General Chat - LOL, "Outrage: The McDonalds Toys Teaching Kids How To Gamble!" (Neopets) |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get.  Level: 73  Posts: 458/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Shock, Horror! "And next, the family outrage at McDonald's promotion, encouraging children to gamble" Lately, McDonalds have been having Neopets toys in Happy Meals in Australia. Now it shows up on the news today (or rather, the crappy sensationalist current affairs program after the news) the "horrifying" story of the "McDonalds" product teaching kids how to gamble -- complete with screenshots of the chance games on Neopets. (mmm... jub jub blackjack...) Basically, a bunch of Helen Lovejoy types are in outrage over the way McDonalds are corrupting their children (they don't seem to really get that Neopets is a seperate entity to McDonalds either...) OMG, they're all going to become addicted to gambling!! OMG, what ARE McDonalds teaching the children... the poor children.. won't SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!? There's a child psychiatrist that says that this is a surefire way to turn kids into gambling addicts. He says this is sanitising, normalising and glamorising gambling. And they're saying it's worse because it's coming from a "family friendly company like McDonalds." Now McDoanlds are talking about shutting down the gambling components of the website.... They kept displaying a McDonalds version of the website at points, so I wonder if it's a "special" Neopets website that will have the gambling shut down... or have there been changes to the canon Neopets site? Heh... |
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Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 5378/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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| You know, there is people addicted to neopets. I'm not one of them, hell it was long time ago I played neopetd regulary now. >.> ...that's not related to Mcdonalds at all. And thoose "gambling", i'm never lucky on thoose anyway. And they are quite boring so... I think kids get more addicted of neopets than gambling.  I should check out neopets later today, I always have been ignored the sponsored parts for being honest thought.  |
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Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143  Posts: 4242/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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| I as addicted to it aswell but that only lasted a few months maybe... Now, I (edited by Millennium Neko on 10-13-04 08:40 AM) |
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Havoks Red Koopa Level: 19  Posts: 87/121 EXP: 32533 For next: 3244 Since: 03-15-04 From: Toronto Canada Since last post: 27 days Last activity: 26 days |
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| im winning around 10 bucks a day playing cards at school, how can it be wrong? (edited by Havoks on 10-13-04 08:04 AM) |
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Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143 Posts: 4244/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 5379/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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| And if anyone wonders exactly which games that causes outrage in Australia. >.> ...Neopets have a gambling part too. But I honestly think that thoose parents finds evil in everything. |
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snipy_chipy Silver axe Level: 33 Posts: 352/427 EXP: 215300 For next: 13879 Since: 03-17-04 Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 1 day |
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Originally posted by Kitten Yiffer I dont think that link is appropriate for this board. Poor McDonalds, they have to put up with so much crap. |
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Colleen Administrator Level: 136 Posts: 4570/11302 EXP: 29369328 For next: 727587 Since: 03-15-04 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Hm... shut down the "gambling" portion of an American site due to complaints in Australia. Riiiiiight. Doubt that's gonna fly. The problem is that those games aren't teaching kids to gamble - one, they're using fake money; two, they've probably played those games for fun with other friends/family before. |
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Raistlin the Red Robed Paragoomba Level: 15  Posts: 69/76 EXP: 14064 For next: 2320 Since: 08-08-04 From: Fort Hood, Texas Since last post: 362 days Last activity: 318 days |
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| I wish I still had the link to this article that said Pokemon was Satan's gateway game or something. Some guy seriously took a Pikachu plushie, impaled it, and allowed his kids to dismember it's body. The arguement was it was commanding the children (Gotta Catch them all) and making them use Demons to combat each other |
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Prier Archangel Administrative Priestess. NUCLEAR SUB WEEEOOOO Level: 119  Posts: 3593/8392 EXP: 18790939 For next: 138352 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima Dist. - Tokyo, Japan Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 1 day |
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| Remember when video games were going to turn some of us into cold-blooded killers if we played too many shooters? Yea, that's this here...just in a different aspect. Yea...and teaching a first-grader how to spell 'gun' is going to turn him into a serial killer too. See there's things we don't know that these people are bound and determined to tell us...they have nothing better to do at least. |
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MathOnNapkins Math n' Hacks Level: 67  Posts: 631/2189 EXP: 2495887 For next: 96985 Since: 03-18-04 From: Base Tourian Since last post: 1 hour Last activity: 32 min. |
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| Most people suck at gambling, they ought to be teaching people how to gamble at earlier ages so they can actually make money off of it. | |||
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 463/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Originally posted by MathOnNapkins Heh, well they should at least be teaching Blackjack, to reduce the number of sheer idiots at the table that mess up the whole thing....  |
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Jarukoth  IRRATIONAL EXUBERENCE!!1! Level: 79  Posts: 1938/3194 EXP: 4402011 For next: 177456 Since: 03-17-04 From: New Jersey, U.S.A. Shoes: Yes. Since last post: 8 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| I said it before, and I'll say it again: Just another case of idiots who have know idea what they are talking about. All these people that make these kinds of assumptions are glorified n00bs. |
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NSNick Laidback Admin Level: 85  Posts: 1223/3875 EXP: 5895841 For next: 2699 Since: 03-15-04 From: North Side School: OSU Since last post: 9 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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Originally posted by ChibiTarynMeh, those idiots make the casino money, which means it'll be able to pay me.Originally posted by MathOnNapkins |
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neotransotaku Baby Mario 戻れたら、 誰も気が付く Level: 87 Posts: 1472/4016 EXP: 6220548 For next: 172226 Since: 03-15-04 From: Outside of Time/Space Since last post: 11 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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Just when we think people can't make a fuss out of something anymore...they manage to find something else...  |
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Valcion YOU WA SHOCK Level: 50  Posts: 589/1139 EXP: 939607 For next: 7710 Since: 03-15-04 From: internets. Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Yay for overprotective Christian psychotic soccer moms! | |||
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Colleen Administrator Level: 136 Posts: 4572/11302 EXP: 29369328 For next: 727587 Since: 03-15-04 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| That's the last thing we need - morons at the blackjack table. "19." "Hit me." "20." "Hit me." "21." "Hit me." "22." "...D'oh!" |
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Shady Milkman Shyguy Level: 17  Posts: 32/98 EXP: 22717 For next: 2026 Since: 05-03-04 Since last post: 58 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| wow.... thats is just over protection of a child. what the hell is next to take out of a child that brings out satin? pokemon cards "dont like pokemon just using it as a example" because pikachu looks like a demon? damn soccer moms tried also to take down The Best Page In The Universe but lost that battle. We need stop these fruitless lawsuits for the most dumbest things and not let docters or what a chart say how to raise a child. | |||
Bella Ludwig Von Koopa You're Gonna Love Me Level: 76  Posts: 1241/2962 EXP: 3891483 For next: 114577 Since: 03-29-04 From: Groovy Way Since last post: 8 min. Last activity: 6 min. |
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| Blackjack is cool! I gamble all the time! Too bad I'm still broke.. Playing blackjack that way you're not using or losing "real" money anyway. People suck. (edited by Bella on 10-14-04 01:12 AM) |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 1734/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Of course the idea is ridiculous but in this case I'm for it. Shut down Neopets, Runescape, etc. People need those library computers for real work, you know. If nothing else at least make them games you have to be an admin to install, so people will have to actually play them on their own computers. |
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