Dunkin' Donuts attacks bike commuters
07-11-05 | 12:12 PM
#26
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Originally Posted by phillybill
Wish we had Tim's in the states
Unless Detroit has went back to the English, French or Spanish, we do have them.
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07-11-05 | 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by jamesdenver
also send an e-mail to these names: the format should be correct
It will be obvious to the recipients that the writer is a clueless, oversensitive yokel without a sense of humor who apparantly reviews commercial/advertisement for "insensitivity" to every dang fool on the block.
Either that or a trial lawyer dreaming up a new business scheme.
07-11-05 | 12:18 PM
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Originally Posted by zero_emissions
https://www.dunkindonuts.com/aboutus...ck.aspx?type=5
Dunkin' Donuts Consumer Care
130 Royall Street
Canton, MA 02021
Tel: 800-859-5339
and by the way, since when is getting bowled over by pedestrians who have cartoon-like superpowers an overwhelming problem in this crazy world we live in....LOL
You're probably the kind of shrill ninny who doesn't think he is killing off the planet by existing and consuming just because he pedals a bike.
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07-11-05 | 02:07 PM
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Originally Posted by kb0tnv
A dunkin donuts customer can't ride a bike very far and needs the bus anyhow.
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07-11-05 | 02:09 PM
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Originally Posted by kuan
Why does the fact that it's a cyclist have anything to do with it? It's plain rude behavior, bordering on assault.
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07-11-05 | 02:32 PM
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I'm guessing the guy threw something at the guy on the bicycle and he crashed but sense he has his coffee, he's fine. Reminds me of those "Are you gellin?" commercials. Now, if he was in a car, and crashed, and wasn't using a bike, would you still care so much about it?
07-11-05 | 02:45 PM
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Nah, it's clearly meant as fantasy:
Aside from bkrownd, how many of DD's regular customers could run fast enough to catch a bike?
Aside from bkrownd, how many of DD's regular customers could run fast enough to catch a bike?
07-11-05 | 04:30 PM
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Originally Posted by zero_emissions
Just got home from commute from coffee shop (had to close again tonight). Fortunately, no aggressive motorist tonight. However, I was watching TV while changing and noticed a Dunkin' Donuts commercial. Goes like this: guy walks out of store with NEW TURBO COLD "coffee drink" and misses the bus. So instead of waiting, the guy jumps of the curb into the bike lane and proceed to chase down the bus. In his pursuit of public transportation, he DELIBERATELY shoves a bike commuter out of the bike lane towards the curb. The guy then sits down a the next stop, enjoys his "coffee," then boards the bus.
Although Dunkin' Donuts does not show the bike commuter crashing, the ad displays an obvious and deliberate assult on a cyclist, by a PEDESTRIAN.
As Monty Python would say:
Here is the address/e-mail/phone number to complain to:
https://www.dunkindonuts.com/aboutus...ck.aspx?type=5
Dunkin' Donuts Consumer Care
130 Royall Street
Canton, MA 02021
Tel: 800-859-5339
Although Dunkin' Donuts does not show the bike commuter crashing, the ad displays an obvious and deliberate assult on a cyclist, by a PEDESTRIAN.
As Monty Python would say:
Here is the address/e-mail/phone number to complain to:
https://www.dunkindonuts.com/aboutus...ck.aspx?type=5
Dunkin' Donuts Consumer Care
130 Royall Street
Canton, MA 02021
Tel: 800-859-5339
But at least it was not as bad as the right gaurd powerstripe commercial.
07-11-05 | 04:32 PM
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what about that commercial of the SUV dodging the wrecked mountain bike and then driving off with the smashed bike in the foreground? That isn't really offensive though, just lame. I think some of you guys are too uptight about it, if anyone is stupid enough and an ******* enough to watch a dunkin donuts commercial and then push a bicyclist over because of it he probably would've done it eventually anyway, commercial or not.
07-11-05 | 06:13 PM
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KK==Donut*Mart. Support your LDS! (local donut shop)
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07-11-05 | 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by bkrownd
KK==Donut*Mart. Support your LDS! (local donut shop)
YAY! A new abbreviation! I gotta vote for Chuck's Donuts in Renton. Great place, WAY better service then the big, national, mail-order shops, even though they are a little more expensive the nation-wide mail-order doughnut shop prices.
07-12-05 | 06:21 AM
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Originally Posted by bostontrevor
I just want to point out, by the way, that Tim Horton's is a DD property for you north-of-the-border types who are scared of US hegemony.
Tim Hortons recently came to the MA area when they bought the Bess Eaton chain of donut shops.
To keep on the subject though I found DD's latest ad humorous. Maybe we should go after Dairy Queen for their inhumane treatment of killer bees next.
07-12-05 | 07:22 AM
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Originally Posted by webist
The DD in our town secumbed to an assault by KK. They're gone.
07-12-05 | 07:26 AM
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Originally Posted by slvoid
Why would the DD be assulted by Klan members in your area? And why is it a good thing they're gone? I don't get it.
(KK means Krispy Kreme, by the way.)
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07-12-05 | 07:48 AM
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Originally Posted by P_Saint
Tim Horton's merged with Wendys International in '95 and Dunkin Donuts is a part of U.K.-based Allied Domecq PLC.
I like the KK, but midway through the 3rd donut is when all that sugar really just hits me and I start to get a bit sick.
07-12-05 | 11:28 AM
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Originally Posted by P_Saint
To keep on the subject though I found DD's latest ad humorous. Maybe we should go after Dairy Queen for their inhumane treatment of killer bees next.
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07-12-05 | 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by bostontrevor
I'll be damned, correct you are. I don't know where I got the idea that Horton's was a DD brand.
I like the KK, but midway through the 3rd donut is when all that sugar really just hits me and I start to get a bit sick.
I like the KK, but midway through the 3rd donut is when all that sugar really just hits me and I start to get a bit sick.
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