I Pose Another Question

[ecnarf]

McDonald's annual advertising budget is 1.5 billion dollars

 

The Canadian Air Force's annual budget is 2 billion dollars.

 

Would a McDonald's advertising campaign be able to beat the RCAF?

 

Discuss.

[HoboFactory]

Well... who wouldn't be able to beat the RCAF...??

[Crusader]

Don't encourage our government to invest even more money into an army we don't use.

[redragon]

or waste the use of.

[ecnarf]

Don't encourage our government to invest even more money into an army we don't use.

One woudl have to assume that the many troops stationed in the Balkans don't exist for that statement to be true.

[Ravenous megin-sane]

McDonald's annual advertising budget is 1.5 billion dollars

that's enough money to treat everyone in the world with HIV or AIDS for a year.

[Kyle86]

i'm lovin it.

[ecnarf]

I'm loving making short, vague, meaningless, pseudo-political posts.

[Computer]

I'm loving making short, vague, meaningless, pseudo-political posts.

Clearly because your original post is pointless to debate.

Edited May 19, 2006 by Computer

[ecnarf]

It's not pointless. It's comparing two unrelated entities and asking who would win in a fight.

[glo]

It's fully McD's

 

 

Edit: Victory that is

Edited May 19, 2006 by glo

[HoboFactory]

It's not really a question of just how big the budgets are anyways, but rather how effectively the budget is used. Someone can have relatively little and accomplish a lot with it, and someone with massive resources can be wasteful and ineffective and just screw everything up. That said, McDonald's would probably take the cake.

[Guest apsham]

Pfft, obviously the military. They have scissors and things to knock over ads.

[ecnarf]

There is a reason, however, that "Hurry up and wait" has been the unofficial motto of any armed force that ever existed anywhere.

[Moonlight_Graham]

McDonalds could use their big billboards as shields so i say McDonalds

[Sparq]

We don't use it because lack of funs renders it impotent...

 

Using the budget for ANY purpose, probably. 1.5 billion dollars is more than enough to hire and supply mercenary sappers to destroy the airforce's weapons on the ground, if they're fast, secretive, and coordinated enough. MAYBE even get enough merc pilots and aircraft for a direct attack. Mobile AA weapons, a few...depending on how modern we're talking.

 

But applying the budgets as they are, no. You can't stop a bomb or cannon round with an ad campaign. And McDonalds corporate offices are unlikely to be hardened against air strikes, or defended by any kind of anti-aircraft installation.

 

Then again, there are so many McDonalds locations and so much infrastructure that it would be prohibitively expensive to physically wipe the company off the face of the earth. Politically dangerous, too, especially since that would involve so many surgical strikes in so many foreign countries. Probably destruction of local Canadian offices and seizure of stores is about as far as it would go.

Edited June 1, 2006 by Sparq

[jtb]

I totally agree. with you sparq.

 

the only thing that would maybe would survive the attack would be the food.. god only knows what that shit will survive through

[Prometheon]

Why is it so 'hip' to hate McDonald's now?

 

I swear to god, everytime I've gone there with friends, all we talk about is how shitty and terrible it is....and yet there we are. I dunno, I find it kind of weird how they're like, the official scapegoat of the fast food industry.

 

Not that they aren't disgusting, I'm just sayin`

[jtb]

it's something in the "meat"

 

LoL.. something that makes you think all of a sudden i want some Mc'Dicks

[supercanuk]

I have an inkling that this happened in the 80

[Computer]

Seeing super-size me made me hungry. Does that make me insane?

[Ruettiger]

It made me hungry too. McDonalds icecream is oil-based and thus flammable.

[Kyle86]

I'm loving making short, vague, meaningless, pseudo-political posts.

i was suggesting mcdonalds would win.

[ecnarf]

You can't stop a bomb or cannon round with an ad campaign.

Spoilsport.

[jtb]

I have an inkling that this happened in the 80