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Ma’am, Your Burger Has Been Paid For

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Re: Ma’am, Your Burger Has Been Paid For

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Post by bsenftner »

drcode wrote: post #49
bsenftner wrote: post #45

I suspect a carefully coordinated PR campaign for Chick-fil-A, as I've noticed uncharacteristically, frequent positive references to them in unrelated news items lately. I consume a lot of news, and noticing "fake" planted positive references in tangentially related articles is par for the course for any company that stepped in deep shit like they did. I suspect at least one of these positive comments here to be a pl…

Probably true, except for the part about chicfila staff trolling HN.

I would have thought so too, until meeting some recent college graduates who did exactly that for a LA based PR firm. HR specifically was one of their 'influence sites' they made sure to hit.

Re: Ma’am, Your Burger Has Been Paid For

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Post by desas »

johnyello wrote: post #43
jbrooksuk wrote: post #25

Similar story here in the UK. I was paying for my McDonalds at the drive-thru when for whatever reason I looked in my mirror and saw a young girl sat crying in her car looking deeply depressed. I asked if I could pay whatever her meal, did so, picked mine up and looking in the mirror I could see a genuine smile appear. I hope that if I cheered her up for even 2 seconds, she can see whatever happened to make her cry i…

Perhaps she was crying because she was about to have to eat a McDonald's? Seriously, why the fuck would someone education enough to be on HN be eating that fast food crap? If you really want a burger in the UK, go to Byrons.

> someone education enough Brilliant.

Re: Ma’am, Your Burger Has Been Paid For

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Post by renang »

And what is the point exactly?

What good does to pay a meal for a person that could very much be paying their own meal? They can pay hundreds of dollars for a car, tens of dollars for a full tank of gasoline, yet they can't pay for a 4 dollars Big Mac?

If I had no money the last place for spending it would be on a fast-food place. There is much more you can do with 4 dollars. You can get better and healthier food.

So, instead why not help people who actually can't afford a Big Mac?

Re: Ma’am, Your Burger Has Been Paid For

#55

Post by 001sky »

cstejerean wrote: post #44
001sky wrote: post #41

The expression was popularized by the best-selling novel “Pay It Forward” ... The protagonist does three good deeds and asks the beneficiaries to do three good deeds and so on. The origins of this term are somewhat different, and worth noting. The normal mode of reciporocity is to 'pay it back'. However, there are certain times when this would be physically impossible. This is the origin of 'pay it forward'. It resul…

"While confusing in the context of paying for the car behind you in a drive-through, “pay it forward” means to repay a kindness by being kind to someone else rather than the person who was kind to you." The article didn't claim it had anything to do with 3x. That was simply explaining the version in the movie, which did in fact popularize the term.

A proper definition of any term should not be consistent with its mis-use. The term from the movie is a ~mis-use, and yet the term as elsewhwere defined (by your quote) is consistent with the mis-use. Its not technically 'false', but it suffers from an 'error of omission', for not having the correct level of granularity (to avoid confusion).

Re: Ma’am, Your Burger Has Been Paid For

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Post by VLM »

csel wrote: post #10

"Perhaps the largest outbreak of drive-through generosity occurred last December at a Tim Hortons in Winnipeg, Manitoba, when 228 consecutive cars paid it forward." Damn you socialist Canada. You did it with your healthcare and now you are doing it with your fast food too? :)

Its the maple syrup high

Re: Ma’am, Your Burger Has Been Paid For

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Post by nicholassmith »

johnyello wrote: post #43
jbrooksuk wrote: post #25

Similar story here in the UK. I was paying for my McDonalds at the drive-thru when for whatever reason I looked in my mirror and saw a young girl sat crying in her car looking deeply depressed. I asked if I could pay whatever her meal, did so, picked mine up and looking in the mirror I could see a genuine smile appear. I hope that if I cheered her up for even 2 seconds, she can see whatever happened to make her cry i…

Perhaps she was crying because she was about to have to eat a McDonald's? Seriously, why the fuck would someone education enough to be on HN be eating that fast food crap? If you really want a burger in the UK, go to Byrons.

That'd be great if all the people in the UK actually lived in the predominately Southern areas Byron has stores.

Re: Ma’am, Your Burger Has Been Paid For

#58

Post by xux »

bsenftner wrote: post #51
drcode wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably true, except for the part about chicfila staff trolling HN.

I would have thought so too, until meeting some recent college graduates who did exactly that for a LA based PR firm. HR specifically was one of their 'influence sites' they made sure to hit.

Don't be so cynical. They're just hacking the press.

Re: Ma’am, Your Burger Has Been Paid For

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Post by janesvilleseo »

bsenftner wrote: post #45

I suspect a carefully coordinated PR campaign for Chick-fil-A, as I've noticed uncharacteristically, frequent positive references to them in unrelated news items lately. I consume a lot of news, and noticing "fake" planted positive references in tangentially related articles is par for the course for any company that stepped in deep shit like they did. I suspect at least one of these positive comments here to be a pl…

I agree with you, based on personal experience this happens, a lot. In the organizations I have been with, not everyone in the company even know it was a planted piece.

Re: Ma’am, Your Burger Has Been Paid For

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Post by babuskov »

johnyello wrote: post #43
jbrooksuk wrote: post #25

Similar story here in the UK. I was paying for my McDonalds at the drive-thru when for whatever reason I looked in my mirror and saw a young girl sat crying in her car looking deeply depressed. I asked if I could pay whatever her meal, did so, picked mine up and looking in the mirror I could see a genuine smile appear. I hope that if I cheered her up for even 2 seconds, she can see whatever happened to make her cry i…

Perhaps she was crying because she was about to have to eat a McDonald's? Seriously, why the fuck would someone education enough to be on HN be eating that fast food crap? If you really want a burger in the UK, go to Byrons.

You don't need an education to be on HN. Just Internet connection and some free time.
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