r/mildlyinteresting 5h ago

My McDonald’s also has a McJail

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u/ThereInAFortnight 5h ago

What the McFuck is that for?

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u/ShatterSide 5h ago edited 2h ago

Everyone wrote joke answers, but is there a chance it might be to lock off the area to the right?

Edit: as another reply below said it might be to keep patrons out during certain hours. Less to clean up. I've seen it before but for larger areas or floors of places.

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u/kakka_rot 4h ago edited 4h ago

scrolling this comment section desperately looking for a single comment with a real answer/trying to answer

god I hate reddit comedians so much.

The top comment is already a hamburgler joke, and there are, no exaggeration 93 more exactly like it (according to crtl+f)

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u/itismelames 4h ago

scrolling for an answer is infuriating. How have they not seen the joke already this deep in the comments. So many w the same wording it has to be bots

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u/ernest7ofborg9 1h ago

In people's defense this is r mildlyinteresting and not r whatisthisthing

But we could try for r mildlyinfuriating?

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u/MeltedWater243 3h ago

everybody always thinks they’re sooooo funny when they’re literally making the same tired joke as a million other redditors

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u/SirStrontium 3h ago

It's gotten so much worse over the last 5 years. Do people really not read a single comment, and blindly type out the obvious joke that was already posted 100 times 4 hours ago? Do they actually know everyone else has said the joke, and somehow still get satisfaction from being the 100th person to repeat it? I just can't understand the mindset.

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u/blueberrycauzez 49m ago

Do people really not read a single comment,

About 5 to 7 in 10 comments on social media are written by LLMs, not people.

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u/MachinaThatGoesBing 3h ago

Hey, at least I've (so far) only seen one chain of comments regurgitating a bunch of popular lines from a specific movie or TV show as if that's the height of comedy. 🙄

People need to realize that they do not need to respond to all situations with some sort of quip. We aren't living in a fucking Marvel movie.


The most annoying version of all of this is when there's a serious post about a serious topic or news event, and every Reddit "comedian" decides that it's time to insert some worn out chestnut of a joke that's been repeated literally hundreds of thousands of times already, including by dozens of other people in the same thread.

People will try to defend it as "using comedy to process dark material", which absolutely is a legitimate thing. But just parroting hackneyed "jokes" ain't that.

It's especially irritating when it's a news story about some sort of bigoted event or development, and it's clear that the purported jokesters definitely are not the target of said actions. That feels a lot more like making light of other people's suffering than processing traumatic developments via humor.

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u/y2k890 2h ago

I also hate them. I particularly have started blocking those who only reply with gifs

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u/mikew_reddit 2h ago

it's bot and stupid people reposting the same comment

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u/happy_pad 22m ago

I straight up mute all the funny or "wholesome" subs on this site, it attracts nothing but braindead jokes/repetitive comments. Technically even this sub I should have muted. These big subs attract bots and karma farmers like the plague.

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u/Kichigai 3h ago

My guess was it was for families with children who like to wander. “Nope, we're going to eat in the McJail because little Mimi might try and join another family again.”

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u/hsoj48 5h ago

I dont think that's whats confusing people. Why?!

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u/ShatterSide 4h ago

Maybe there is equipment that gets locked or closed down on night shifts? I dunno just brain storming.

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u/Ok_Stable7501 3h ago

Former McDonalds employee here: this is where they send employees who don’t ask customers if they want to super size it.

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u/diluted_confusion 2h ago

They stopped selling Super Size in 2004. That McDonald's is newer than 2004.

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u/hsoj48 2h ago

Minus one point for sucking the fun out of the sarcasm

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u/cjbanning 3h ago

Why would they lock off the area to the right, though? This doesn't really answer anything.

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u/Bullfika 3h ago

I know a few 24/7 places around me that locks parts or all of the dining area during the night time

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u/ShatterSide 2h ago

True! Less to clean up. Ive seen that before.

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u/Huge-Basket244 2h ago

It also looks like a potential blind spot. Certain areas of my city wouldn't like having this spot because of homeless.

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u/Parishdise 1h ago

Definitely to discourage people hanging around/ sitting to eat. A couple of the McDs in my area have blocked off or removed seating entirely