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Is McDonald's so popular simply for the fact it is cheap? Is it as simple as that? Does anyone actually like McDonald's food? You go in West Orchards' food court and there, there is a fish and chip place and a Subway and a KFC and an Indian and an Italan and more too, but McDonald's always has...

Smalling really seems to have upped his game and developed substantially I would have said, over the past year or so. I used to wonder how he ever got near the England team, but now he seems a much more accomplished defender.

Which is absolutely fine of course. I did say all along that maybe it is me. I just wanted to know if anyone else fel the same way.

Right, didn't know that. I wasn't intending to overreact Rob. It was just the way I felt in that instant it happened. I even surprised myself by it. There was no deep thought process involved, it was just a feeling. You know when you get a feeling about something and it doesn't quite feel...

I am always busy. Never in a rush. Well organised, Nick. ;)

Because that is the way they are. They live their lives for everyone to see. It was lazy for me. I am a very active person. I would rather walk somewhere than drive if it's feasible. I also love social interaction. I had a much, much better experience going into McDonald's and talking to my...

Ahh, you need to be like mydaughter and her friend then. They hunt an employee down and ask for a balloon!!

And I actualy said it seemed lazy to me. Was trying to get my head round it. I wanted to know the reasons why people use them, as I had never ever done so before. I've been in a rush before but always gone into places to pick up the food. All I wanted to know is how other people felt and what...

Yep. Even though my girl is 11, you can still bribe her with the offer of a free balloon.

Not hot air at all. I honestly, actually felt uncomfortable with the experience. I was shaking my head as I went through the drive thru experience. And I hve never said people who don't go inside are lazy, I asked if they were. Completely different thing.

Yes, totally agree. I think all the bribes are because the food is so distinctly average. Would you kid rather have the better burger, or the cheaper one with the balloon and the gift and the go on the tablets?

Busy people? Or just those staring at YouTube videos and sending nonsensical Instagram messages about what they just ate for lunch?:whistle:

Have you got youngish kids, NW? My daughter and her friend are both 11. They wanted to go on the tablets and I couldn't get them off. They started playing the logo game and then I was roped in and I got hooked on it and then my wife too. We all ended up playing the logo game in McDonald's for...

Not exactly. I don't like the anti-social aspect of phones, but do loads of online shopping and really embrace an awful lot of modern technology. It's phones I have the biggest problem with, but only through people going into bubbles and nto interacting and being rather ant-social as a result.

But it's kids I am talking about. Both my daughter and her friend wanted and got balloons. Both were really keen to go on the tablets (I couldn't get them off) and my daughter's friend specifically wanted a Happy Meal beacuse she wanted the gift. There's the fun.

I see this is going to drag on and on. :D I had an experience that I found rather uncomfortable and impersonal. Was surprised myself when I had the feeling I had, but when I came home I said to my wife that the experience didn't sit comfortably at all with me. The whole point of the thread...

Is it? I thought you talked of being knackered and not having much time.

Your loss.

Are they? That's what I am asking. I'm very much a McDonald's virgin, but isn't it very much about the experience for the kids? Don't they get balloons and a go on the tablets and free gifts in their Happy Meals?

Which, if you read what I'm saying Nick, I totally don't have a problem with at all.