Response to Laurie

I have no seen an increase in the speed of my "fast-food."  I feel I have actually seen a decrease (when I go to a fast food provider).  I have had many times where I have sat 10+ minutes to receive a burger or two.  One time, I placed an order, got to the window, received half my order and was told to pull forward because the other half was not ready yet.  However, the people behind me, their order was ready.  FIFO (first in first out), this is something I learned in retail, and the fast food industry says they comply with this, but I feel they don't go along with anything they say.  They say real beef, but it's all knockoff and corn fed beef.  The pace of the food is slow, even though it says fast, and some of the conditions of the stores are not anything close to clean.  I rarely go to eat at wendys, mcds, or bk but when I do, I always seem to find something wrong.  I feel that fast food is just another way of saying "food for the lazy people."  No one seems to want to cook anymore, I love the home cooked meal, even though it's 'slow-food,' to me, its still "better-food."

Do you feel the fast food industry takes it's self serious, or just does what it has to to get by?

Logos/Trademarks/etc

It's weird to think how our culture perceives certain images for certain brands.

When I was younger, there was a brand of skateboard called, "Hook-Ups."  The pictures on the board were images of slutty girls, in skimpy outfits doing something either resembling sex or drugs or both.  When looking at skate catalogs all of my friends would always say how they wanted this board or that board depending on how hot the girls image was.  Even though they are cartoons it never stopped my friends.  I'll admit, I enjoyed them too, but never felt the urge to get obsessed over the board like others.  I always felt, it's a skateboard and it'll end up scratched and destroyed (where the picture is) from all the skating I do.  This company has since dropped off the market.  I feel that there trademark "sex/drug skategirls" did not really help in sales because of the need for parental consent to order offline, or even have the money to buy the board.
I feel many mothers would have reacted like mine in saying, "that is just wrong, why would you want that board."
I feel now that these boards are perverted and that hook ups needed/needs to find a new way to sell without the "sex sells" mentality.

Do you think that too much sex (for the mentality sex sells) can end up being a bad thing?