Anti-Bullying PSA from BK
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KrustyKruser
El Chingon
Yeah that was a great commercial. Thanks for posting
While I kind of agree with the anti-bullying message it is kind of not an apples to apples comparison.
If someone at a restaurant jacks up your food you can complain and it gets resolved because business.
If you try to step into an argument or bullying situation between kids in a public place as an adult you are asking for trouble. First off if the bully doesn't back down and takes a swing at you what do you do? You can't hit them back like you would another adult. If you lay a hand on them in public it can be construed as child abuse by someone, you can't even discipline your own kid in public let alone someone else's these days. That is not even starting to talk about the possibilities of a lawsuit from a parent in our very litigious society for laying a hand on their precious little snowflake that has never hurt anyone or done anything bad a day in their precious little life.
That is a shitty thing to say about the issue but it is a sad fact of life today.
If someone at a restaurant jacks up your food you can complain and it gets resolved because business.
If you try to step into an argument or bullying situation between kids in a public place as an adult you are asking for trouble. First off if the bully doesn't back down and takes a swing at you what do you do? You can't hit them back like you would another adult. If you lay a hand on them in public it can be construed as child abuse by someone, you can't even discipline your own kid in public let alone someone else's these days. That is not even starting to talk about the possibilities of a lawsuit from a parent in our very litigious society for laying a hand on their precious little snowflake that has never hurt anyone or done anything bad a day in their precious little life.
That is a shitty thing to say about the issue but it is a sad fact of life today.
HappyHighwayman
Warning: Do Not Engage
If a patron bothered me in a restaurant I would let them handle it.
easter bunny
Amateur Hour
Some kid in Texas just got shot because he stood up for a kid getting picked on. The bully tracked him down to his house and shot him. They said that's why kids pull out their cell phones rather than step in. Get video evidence and let the law handle it.
Gixxergirl1000
AFM #731
I have, and will continue to, step in when I see a kid getting bullied. So not OK with that!
I've told off bullies, and then their parents.
It hasn't backfired on me yet, but I suppose it helps that I learned how to be mean on the internetz here on BARF, and it's stood me in good stead... :laughing
I've told off bullies, and then their parents.
It hasn't backfired on me yet, but I suppose it helps that I learned how to be mean on the internetz here on BARF, and it's stood me in good stead... :laughing
MysterYvil
Mr. Bad Example
I'm the idiot that steps in and speaks up. I would rather risk it than see bullying normalized.
If it kills me I'll at least know I did the right thing.
I'he never needed to fight, my words do all the work. Some of my local 7-11 staff still call me (affectionately) "stupid little man" because I talked down a very upset, very large Iraq vet with PTSD and gave him the ride he needed to defuse the situation. It was talk, or see people get hurt and him go to jail. I talked. Everyone came out ahead for a few words and a few minutes of my time. The math worked.
Thanks for sharing, OP.
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If it kills me I'll at least know I did the right thing.
I'he never needed to fight, my words do all the work. Some of my local 7-11 staff still call me (affectionately) "stupid little man" because I talked down a very upset, very large Iraq vet with PTSD and gave him the ride he needed to defuse the situation. It was talk, or see people get hurt and him go to jail. I talked. Everyone came out ahead for a few words and a few minutes of my time. The math worked.
Thanks for sharing, OP.
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SM610
Well-known member
Never bullied a sammich, but i give the bathroom a beatdown regularly. It's pretty brutal, and the wife will speak up once in a while in its defense.
I was beaten daily as a kid, no one ever said a word. One day near senior graduation a football player knocked all my books out of my hands and they went everywhere. Having never stood up for myself before, i snapped and broke the dudes nose and did a ground and pound. Just as his football pals grabbed me and were about to kill my skinny ass, the principal fished me out of the circle and dragged me to the office. He said " Ive been waiting for you to do that for 2 years, good job! Two days detention...handshake/attaboy"
The guy graduated with a purple face and a crooked nose...:laughing
I was beaten daily as a kid, no one ever said a word. One day near senior graduation a football player knocked all my books out of my hands and they went everywhere. Having never stood up for myself before, i snapped and broke the dudes nose and did a ground and pound. Just as his football pals grabbed me and were about to kill my skinny ass, the principal fished me out of the circle and dragged me to the office. He said " Ive been waiting for you to do that for 2 years, good job! Two days detention...handshake/attaboy"
The guy graduated with a purple face and a crooked nose...:laughing
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HappyHighwayman
Warning: Do Not Engage
https://abc13.com/5915588/
You're right
That is not normal though.
And now the bully ruined his own life. Good choices.
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Good story... I was protective of the kids in high school that were bullied.
A moto accident in my sophomore year left me in the Special Education PE class. Taught me a lot actually. Not sure I told that story here before or not.
Since I was heavy into martial arts and already broke a black belt kid's arm in a 50 yard challenge match... I was pretty much left alone and the bullies backed down every time.
I like the commercial and the 12% that stood up for him.
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SuperMike
unsexy
That's fuckin' beautiful.
cheez
Master Of The Darkside
12%, folks. 12%.
We, as a society, have to drag that number upwards.
It's the best, isn't it? Mine was 6th grade basketball, where I spent the entire season being bullied by one kid before finally snapping and giving him a beatdown. Had to have his jaw wired shut, and he changed schools after it. Coach pulled us both out of the locker room, sent the other kid to the nurse's, and gave me the old "I know he earned it, but I've still got to suspend you for three days" talking to.
We, as a society, have to drag that number upwards.
It's the best, isn't it? Mine was 6th grade basketball, where I spent the entire season being bullied by one kid before finally snapping and giving him a beatdown. Had to have his jaw wired shut, and he changed schools after it. Coach pulled us both out of the locker room, sent the other kid to the nurse's, and gave me the old "I know he earned it, but I've still got to suspend you for three days" talking to.
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Eldritch
is insensitive
I think that encouraging adults to get involved in things kids they don't know are doing is a very dangerous conversation.
Mike95060
Work In Progress
I’m the idiot that jumps in too. I just can’t stand innocent people being picked on. The woman with short hair who steps up and asks the back kid if he’s ok is my hero. She didn’t confront the bully’s. She took care of the person in need of help. Fucking beautiful. I get So angry when I see that type of thing that I want to crush the bully. Wrong. Help the person in need. Show empathy to them and if you have to ignore an asshole so be it. No one being picked on wants a bigger shit show or spectacle made out of the situation. They will always remember a person who showed them some kindness though.
So I guess this is some sort of fast food commercial. I guess it worked. We're talking about Burger King. :laughing
The whole premise was a lame comparison. People are going to complain about, and return, fucked up food served like that. It's not about a propensity to report "bullied food" over a bullied kid. Apples and oranges.
I kinda wonder if maybe, just maybe, they weren't all that great actors. I mean, did that REALLY look like a REAL bullying scene? I don't know, but I suspect maybe not. I would step in if someone was being victimized. Maybe not if I thought things were a little "off", if you get my meaning.
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Nice story! :thumbup
I was in summer camp for a week as a kid and counselors noticed this one dude had decided to make me his bully target, really for no reason. Why they didn't step in, I'm not sure. What I do know is that on the very last day, after the kid knocked the candy out of my hands, I had enough. I gave him a good punch in the face. Counselors saw it. They understand why I punched him and I didn't get in trouble for it. Well, they did inform my parents, but still didn't get into trouble. Supposedly he was some "troubled youth" or some crap.
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cfives
Well-known member
I liked how the actress diffused the bullying in the advertisement, but did not like how BK bullied the, "customers". Setting up a situation to publicly humiliate, "customers" who did not respond to the choreographed teen bullying, but did respond to receiving a mangled/bullied burger, strikes me as virtue signaling that bullying is bad, while obviously engaging in the same/similar bullying activity.
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cfives
Well-known member
No, I assume that everyone in that advertisement was a paid actor/actress. The ones labeled as actual customers, were probably paid more to purchase an item in a closed set advertisement at an existing BK. If not, does throwing enough money to have people consent to public humiliation somehow not count as a form of bullying?
Edit: You saw a PSA, I saw a poorly executed advertisement.
Edit: You saw a PSA, I saw a poorly executed advertisement.
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Yeah, I agree. I doubt BK is completely lying. I assume they really were real customers. I was also thinking they probably compensated the customers, in some form, after the fact to encourage them to consent to be in the commercial.
It would be really shady if the whole thing was fake. I guess I really wouldn't be surprised though.
I see this as nothing more than BK exploiting a current social interest in anti bullying and trying to profit from it.
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