Any brands you don't buy on principle?

Kevin Duffy

fontanalis wrote: »

Warner Brothers; after blatent mis advertising on The Never Ending Story.

Will you boycott The Simpsons as penance, now that you've plagiarised a Lionel Hutz joke?

fontanalis

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

Will you boycott The Simpsons as penance, now that you've plagiarised a Lionel Hutz joke?

I think Lionel Hutz would approve; he's argued in front of many judges. Often as a lawyer.

orourkeda

sensibleken wrote: »

Gort musical instruments
Ryanair
Nestle
anything with meat in it

Thats just wrong

PinkFly

sure if we boycotted companies based on moral grounds we wud never buy a thing!!!

Sinfonia

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

Will you boycott The Simpsons as penance, now that you've plagiarised a Lionel Hutz joke?

It's a thorny legal issue all right. I'll need to refer to the case of Finders v. Keepers.

Kevin Duffy

Originally Posted by Kevin Duffy Will you boycott The Simpsons as penance, now that you've plagiarised a Lionel Hutz joke?

fontanalis wrote: »

I think Lionel Hutz would approve; he's argued in front of many judges. Often as a lawyer.

Where his stuff gets recognition, not passed off as someone else's work.

The precendent goes back to the Frank Wallbanger case.

Eric Cartman

Dell
Microsoft
Any clothing brand worn by anyone who attends trinity college or lives in most of south dublin
philips electronics
pretty much anything sold in brown thomas
aer lingus
anythig with 'fair trade' on it
anything that focuses on itself being 'green'
anything running android

SadieSue

I refuse to buy Starbucks coffee.

kfallon

SadieSue wrote: »

I refuse to buy Starbucks coffee.

I refuse to buy any coffee from one of those wankerish coffee shops!

fontanalis

SadieSue wrote: »

I refuse to buy Starbucks coffee.

You a skinny, soy, hemp frapaccino gal?

Eric Cartman

kfallon wrote: »

I refuse to buy any coffee from one of those wankerish coffee shops!

maxol or topaz is about as fancy as it should get

kowloon

Boycotting companies like Pfizer is nice and easy until you end up reliant on something that only they produce. It annoys me even more that the drug I use is one of the ones involved in the 2009 court settlement where they had to pay out over a billion for false claims about the drugs involved.

wolf moon

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Explanations people

as i was quoted by the poster above, i answer (the below represents only my opinion i am entitled to and may not reflect opinions of other users):

apple - i simply don't like it (and the crazy hype about it even increases my negative feelings towards this company), itunes drive me mad and its nothing else but life-complicating, useless "tool", ipod's sound quality totally sucks despite a couple hundred euro worth sennheiser headphones, iphone is an overpriced piece of crap, same rest of it's products. very simple, very dear, very crap quality - perfect choice for an average tool.

thomson - quality of everything of this brand i've seen in my life sucked - don't want it for free. just pure and utter sh1te - end of story.

philips - similar to thomson (but maybe not as bad), most of its designs are ugly, plastic and looks ****e to me, there are way better products for the same money out there.

peugeot - had one a few years ago: fool me once - shame on you, fool me twice - shame on me

St.Spodo

The Sun for propagating horrible lies about Liverpool supporters in the wake of the Hillsborough Disaster of '89, in which 96 supporters were killed.

Chris P. Bacon

Eric Cartman wrote: »

maxol or topaz is about as fancy as it should get

You wont buy coffee from Starbucks,but yet you will buy them from much bigger oil companies?

El Horseboxo

No specific brands but i won't buy or contribute towards anything Israeli.

opinion guy

Dell. Because their products are ****E.

I would say apple - but fact is I love their laptops, particularly after the aforementioned Dell ****e. Not interested in their phones or their ipads.

Dominoes. I mostly ardently boycott dominoes after one of their delivery guys gave me alot of abuse one time.

stovelid

St.Spodo wrote: »

The Sun for propagating horrible lies about Liverpool supporters in the wake of the Hillsborough Disaster of '89, in which 96 supporters were killed.

Do you also boycott other Murdoch companies like Sky Sports?

cgarrad

laugh wrote: »

So what's the end game for someone like him? You would only be happy if his wife divorced him and his entire family disowned him? He should be completely ostracised from society? Would it not be better if he got some form of treatment with the support of his family, if he had nothing left to live for he might be more likely to act on his deviant desires?

Maybe he should just kill himself?

<snip>
Speculation not welcome.

jameshayes

aerlingus

sam34

laugh wrote: »

So what's the end game for someone like him? You would only be happy if his wife divorced him and his entire family disowned him? He should be completely ostracised from society? Would it not be better if he got some form of treatment with the support of his family, if he had nothing left to live for he might be more likely to act on his deviant desires?

Maybe he should just kill himself?

i simply dont want to support him, which i would be doing by buying ballymaloe products.

Donny5

CreepingDeath wrote: »

I avoid all "Fairtrade" brands.

Why's that? I'd understand if you didn't look for Fairtrade stuff - I don't - but is there some reason to avoid them on principle?

Yahew wrote: »

I do have to laugh at the kind of muppets who hate Apple's "closed" system and have an xBox or Wp7, or love Google's "open source" but use MS not Linux, or think Apple users are sheep while using the majority monopolistic OS.

You are the sheep. Nothing worse that a group-thinker who thinks he is radical.

Well, that's not true at all. I'm a software dev, and I hate the Apple closed system on iOS. I don't like being forced to use a specific toolchain or release Apps through a controlled, licensed, approval-pending single route to end user.

You can say what you want about the MS OSes, but they aren't closed platforms. They are closed source, sure, but anyone can write Windows code in any toolchain you want using any libraries you like and distribute in any way you want. MS don't vet the code you can run on your computer, which Apple do with iOS. WP7 is definitely more tightly locked down, more or less like iOS. Android is open source, but most users prefer the fact it's an open platform that can run any app you want without Google's authorisation than the fact that the source is available.

I do prefer *nix and FOSS, but the userbase for most software is running MS OSes and I much prefer writing software for Windows or OSX than iOS.

Grass between the tracks

Dolphin friendly tuna.

Johro

The-Rigger wrote: »

Any with a non branded alternative that is as good or better.

Or another branded that's as good or better. Kenco instant is much nicer than Nescafe.:p

Johro

CreepingDeath wrote: »

I avoid all "Fairtrade" brands.

What the hell for?

sheesh

El Horseboxo wrote: »

No specific brands but i won't buy or contribute towards anything Israeli.

you don't have a mobile phone??

SadieSue

fontanalis wrote: »

You a skinny, soy, hemp frapaccino gal?

Mmmm hemp coffee sounds delish :pac::pac:(not!)

Nope I just don't want to spend close to $6-7 for a lukewarm coffee.

stevejr

Hugo Boss because they were heavily involved in the Nazi war effort, they made the uniforms that the SS wore.

[URL="http:///en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Boss"]http:///en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Boss[/URL]

Johro

St.Spodo wrote: »

The Sun for propagating horrible lies about Liverpool supporters in the wake of the Hillsborough Disaster of '89, in which 96 supporters were killed.

The Sun, I would agree, but just for it being sh!te or made up sh!te.
Add to that the News of the World, the Mirror, the Herald, the Daily Mail aw the list is too long.

Kold

MCD as much as I can. I think they ruin the live music industry in Ireland.

Biggins

Coke.
(The mineral)

westendgirlie

McDonalds Hamburgers. I have a phobia of them.

tampopo

coca cola
the Sun newspaper

strobe

stevejr wrote: »

Hugo Boss because they were heavily involved in the Nazi war effort, they made the uniforms that the SS wore.

[URL="http:///en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Boss"]http:///en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Boss[/URL]

That's why the Nazis always looked so cool.

KnifeWRENCH

Evian, ever since that terrifying "creepy babies on rollerskates" ad.
THEY MUST DIE.

tommyhaas

stovelid wrote: »

Do you also boycott other Murdoch companies like Sky Sports?

It was the S*n that published the lies and the S*n that subsequently refused to apologise for the disgusting and offensive headlines

The point about the Murdoch empire can be argued, but diluting the boycott, like it or not, makes it far more difficult to enforce

There are hundreds of Murdoch controlled publications and broadcasters. To boycott them all would be near impossible. By maintaining the boycott of the S*n, it maintains a stronger message

Campaigns for justice for the 96 who died are still on going. Hillsborough is a highly emotive topic for many. I don't know are you attempting to belittle the boycott or what your agenda is, however I personally feel the extent to which the boycott has been maintained demonstrates the level of the feeling behind it.

There's others on here, notably Kess73 and Dub13 who are far more knowledgeable on the topic, and in touch with the campaigns then myself, and who could probably explain this better having more personal connections to the City

kelle

Coca-cola

Rimmel, because I would only be supporting Kate Moss.

Can I ask why so many boycott Aer Lingus?

recyclebin

Nokia - cause everyone else had one and they seemed to break easily.
Dell laptops - they just look so cheaply made. Not value for money.
Sky TV - I prefer to watch the same stuff on other satellites for a quarter of the price.
Apple Iphone - they look good but apple are sneaky and also theydont support flash.
Carlsberg - Liverpool associations and cause I prefer Bulmers.
Lynx - stupid advertisements and used mainly by spotty teenagers.

Sonnenblumen

Ryanair
KFC
Sky
American Beers (Coors, Millar etc)

Our man in Havana

Can I ask why so many boycott Aer Lingus?

Cause it is Ryanair Lite.

fontanalis

recyclebin wrote: »

Nokia - cause everyone else had one and they seemed to break easily.
Dell laptops - they just look so cheaply made. Not value for money.
Sky TV - I prefer to watch the same stuff on other satellites for a quarter of the price.
Apple Iphone - they look good but apple are sneaky and also theydont support flash.
Carlsberg - Liverpool associations and cause I prefer Bulmers.
Lynx - stupid advertisements and used mainly by spotty teenagers.

Hillsborough aswell?

Ardennes1944

i boycott anything from israel

recyclebin

Add the fontanalis brand to my list cause I never mentioned anything about hillsborough and he is trolling

Oranage2

Not really a brand but i dont eat Cod because its an endangered species

lcrcboy

When in the states I tend to boycott Wall-mart because of their treatment to foreign workers in factories outside the US, but to be honest there are a lot of brands and makes these days that outsource in 3rd world countries where the factories treat their workers like ****, but what can you do really it seems their nearly all doing it.

fontanalis

recyclebin wrote: »

Add the fontanalis brand to my list cause I never mentioned anything about hillsborough and he is trolling

Why do you boycott carlsberg, because they sponsor Liverpool?

K-9

stovelid wrote: »

Do you also boycott other Murdoch companies like Sky Sports?

Yeah, that's taking it to extremes for me, or the Sunday Times or News of the World.

The difference I think is the Star eg, published something similar but quickly retracted the statements and apologised. The Sun wouldn't, took about 7/8 years IIRC and it was very mealy mouthed.

We had this debate recently on the Liverpool thread on the Soccer forum about the Irish Sun. It's still the Sun and I wouldn't bring it to Anfield as it's disrespectful to a huge section section of support and victims of the disaster and family members.

Sky is hard to avoid unfortunately, in every fecking pub it seems so people should really boycott pubs showing it!

gerryo777

Dell, because their products are sh1te.

jumpymunky

Sky.

I find I throw out at least two paper sky tv ads per week, this from a company that runs a campaign about saving an endangered species and its natural habitat i.e the rainforest.

Also, they charge ROI subs more than UK even though the UK customers get free broadband....of all the companies that should know we get to see UK ads....

stovelid

K-9 wrote: »

Yeah, that's taking it to extremes for me, or the Sunday Times or News of the World.

The difference I think is the Star eg, published something similar but quickly retracted the statements and apologised. The Sun wouldn't, took about 7/8 years IIRC and it was very mealy mouthed.

We had this debate recently on the Liverpool thread on the Soccer forum about the Irish Sun. It's still the Sun and I wouldn't bring it to Anfield as it's disrespectful to a huge section section of support and victims of the disaster and family members.

Sky is hard to avoid unfortunately, in every fecking pub it seems so people should really boycott pubs showing it!

Murdoch actually refused to sack McKenzie after the incident and gave him full support IIRC.

Not that I don't hate the Sun and their part in Hillsborough of course.