Any brands you don't buy on principle?

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RTE

K-9

stovelid wrote: »

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.

Unfortunately some still believe the lies because the Sun said it. Yep, people like that should be ignored but it's hurtful to the family members but there have been high profile examples, an American DJ just last year.

Remember the inquiry cleared Liverpool fans and couldn't find anything to back it up, despite their best efforts. The judge commended Liverpool fans on their reaction while officialdom was failing all around them. Some very brave police officers and emergency service personnel stood up and whistle blowed too.

Eric Cartman

Chris P. Bacon wrote: »

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

i love oil companies, i hate greenpeace and fair trade and isreal ,

starbucks - overpriced, tastes crap, fair trade sympathy wankery, the people who go there are knobs , pro isreal

oil companies - provides me the liquid to heat my gaf, run my jeep, plastics and other such, piss off hippys and petrol stations arent known places for hipster scum to hang out all day - unknown stance on isreal

fontanalis

Eric Cartman wrote: »

i love oil companies, i hate greenpeace and fair trade and isreal ,

starbucks - overpriced, tastes crap, fair trade sympathy wankery, the people who go there are knobs , pro isreal

oil companies - provides me the liquid to heat my gaf, run my jeep, plastics and other such, piss off hippys and petrol stations arent known places for hipster scum to hang out all day - unknown stance on isreal

is(this)real?

Zebra3

I actually enjoy mentioning to people who support Liverpool but have never gone to Anfield that I buy The Sun (even though I don't-or any tabloids) and then listen to them rant on.

Loads of brands/services I don't buy. Too many to mention but honourable mention must go to kips like McDonalds/Burger King/Starbuck's.

Do people want our cities all to end up with the same crap on sale?

Cop the fuck on will youse? :rolleyes:

Crimbouser

Anyone stay away from cosmetic companies that are known to test on animals like l'oreal? Testing for medical research i understand, but silly using it for cosmetics when in vitro testing is available.

Jeanious

HARVEY fuckface NORMAN!!!!

Irish Guitarist

Nike. It's because of their sweatshops but as an added bonus I get to avoid looking like an idiot with a brand name brandished across my chest. I think it was Will Self that said something like "If I'm going to walk around with a logo I should be paid for advertising your products". He put it better than that but I forget the exact words he used.

bnt

Another Sony boycotter here. I was already annoyed at their pricing, and their tendency to introduce new media formats instead of going along with the standards, and/or try to control media format. Sometimes it backfires on them e.g. Betamax was around for years before VHS, and was a good format, but Sony's proprietary attitude meant that they lost that race. MiniDisc? Bleh. Memory Stick? Got lost between Compact Flash and SD - unless you bought a Sony product that needed it.

Sometimes they win a format war: Blu-Ray is a Sony format, and they get royalties from every disc and player sold. (As if I needed another reason to not go HD?). But the last straw, for me, was when they put a rootkit virus on some audio CDs, silently hacking your PC as soon as you put the disc in the drive, and all in the name of copyright protection. That was it: I had never bought a Sony product, and now I never will. :mad:

Steyr

Sinfonia wrote: »

I won't fly Ryanair anymore, not through any moralistic principle, but I'm a nervous flyer

Thats fair enough

Sinfonia wrote: »

and after becoming pretty comfortable with flying with Aer Lingus for a while, I then took a Ryanair flight and spent two hours panicking. Just felt really unsafe up there, like the walls were paper thin or something. Again, not necessarily disparaging the airline

The walls on any Airliner regardless of who Operates them are pretty much of the same thickness. Ryanair operate the Boeing 737-800 one of the most widely used/successful/ and safest Aircraft around, AerLingus also operate safe Aircraft ( Airbus A330/A320 etc ) and have Operated Boeing Aircraft in the past.

Why exactly did you panic?

tommyhaas

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

Nike. It's because of their sweatshops but as an added bonus I get to avoid looking like an idiot with a brand name brandished across my chest. I think it was Will Self that said something like "If I'm going to walk around with a logo I should be paid for advertising your products". He put it better than that but I forget the exact words he used.

Get off the high horse ffs, if people like a brand,there's nothing wrong with them walking around with it plastered all over them

keithc83

PC World. Not a particular brand but i will not buy anything ever again in there.

Ghandee

11 pages in, and no one has mentioned o2 Ireland yet?

Crap upgrade policies
New customers get better offers than loyal for years ones
Changed their contract details recently in a stealth move
charge Paddy way more than UK customers from better bundled deals
Used to offer free roaming when in UK, subsequently pulled this offer because they could!
Charge waaaay too much for crap Inc mins/text deals
Don't offer prepay customers data addons
General fückpots all round!



I could go on all day, but they really are a shower of goalpost moving, money grabbing whores!

OPENROAD

Ghandee wrote: »

11 pages in, and no one has mentioned o2 Ireland yet?

Crap upgrade policies
New customers get better offers than loyal for years ones
Changed their contract details recently in a stealth move
charge Paddy way more than UK customers from better bundled deals
Used to offer free roaming when in UK, subsequently pulled this offer because they could!
Charge waaaay too much for crap Inc mins/text deals
Don't offer prepay customers data addons
General fückpots all round!



I could go on all day, but they really are a shower of goalpost moving, money grabbing whores!

Do you think that might have anything to do with the cost of doing business in this country?

For Forks Sake

OPENROAD wrote: »

Do you think that might have anything to do with the cost of doing business in this country?

of course not. rabble rabble rabble!!!!

Ghandee

OPENROAD wrote: »

Do you think that might have anything to do with the cost of doing business in this country?

Nope, I think its because they're a crowd of money grabbing whores!
Just like I said in my post!

Doh !

newbee22

Maccy ds and starbucks

landsleaving

Eric Cartman wrote: »

i love oil companies, i hate greenpeace and fair trade and isreal ,

starbucks - overpriced, tastes crap, fair trade sympathy wankery, the people who go there are knobs , pro isreal

oil companies - provides me the liquid to heat my gaf, run my jeep, plastics and other such, piss off hippys and petrol stations arent known places for hipster scum to hang out all day - unknown stance on isreal

Spat coke everywhere reading that. Fine work as usual!

thunderthing

Brennan's Bread, just because I hate the guy in their ads so much.

OPENROAD

Ghandee wrote: »

Nope, I think its because they're a crowd of money grabbing whores!
Just like I said in my post!

Doh !

Sometimes I really don't like AH

windowgobo

If i boycotted every unethical company i would have an empty fridge, so i focus my energy on crimes against humanity... Monsanto.

OPENROAD

thundercunt wrote: »

Brennan's Bread, just because I hate the guy in their ads so much.

Pat the Baker :(:(:(:(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OydvSCGxt0

K-9

Zebra3 wrote: »

I actually enjoy mentioning to people who support Liverpool but have never gone to Anfield that I buy The Sun (even though I don't-or any tabloids) and then listen to them rant on.

Aren't you quite the attention seeker.

tommyhaas

thundercunt wrote: »

Brennan's Bread, just because I hate the guy in their ads so much.

OPENROAD wrote: »

Pat the Baker :(:(:(:(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OydvSCGxt0

So fcuking annoying its famous...

ShooterSF

I don't "boycott" any brand. If I like it and they provide it cheap I'll take it. I don't care if Hitler squeezes my orange juice and Josef Fritzl pours it in to the carton, if it's a cent cheaper than Tropico and tastes nicer they have my business. I buy products based on the product itself not it's manufacturers's back story.

OPENROAD

tommyhaas wrote: »

So fcuking annoying its famous...

Its the fat bloke delivering the bread that puts me off

CarMuppet

Skoda (aka VW) and Delta.

tommyhaas

Zebra3 wrote: »

I actually enjoy mentioning to people who support Liverpool but have never gone to Anfield that I buy The Sun (even though I don't-or any tabloids) and then listen to them rant on.

Would you wind up people about 9/11? Relative to the size of the cities, they were on the same scale

OPENROAD wrote: »

Its the fat bloke delivering the bread that puts me off

Ah its the song for me. I'm not really like them in the video, I'm not in the habit of breaking in to song's about bread spontaneously

ceegee

Joe10000 wrote: »

Sharp, vodafone, AIG, Aon, Umbro and any other brand associated with that club.

The average Irish person boycotting AIG and Aon is kinda like giving up selection boxes for lent.

rainbow kirby

The Irish Independent, because they continue to give David Quinn a mouthpiece at least once a week.

MissMoppet

Not really a brand but I cross the road to avoid any Health Food Shops or any of that Altenative Medicene ****e..Also stupid Faith healers..

And Burger King..Cause the 'King' guy is beyond freaky.
:mad:

Eric Cartman

landsleaving wrote: »

Spat coke everywhere reading that. Fine work as usual!

i aim to please :pac:

admiralofthefleet

not brand as such but i buy as much irish produce as i can

Aishae

ive never gone near American Apparel - since reading an article about a girl who worked there. she had lost an arm from the elbow so she wore a prosthetic. their staff 'uniform' at the time was black slacks and shortsleeve white top. they wouldnt let her show the elbow or something like that - as it didnt fit in with their all american wholesome image. this was prob a decade ago. so ive never gone in there because of the attitude.

i avoid ryanair for the usual reasons - and theyre also very iffy about helping people with wheelchairs and who need assistance (from their FAQ) - maybe its different in practice. but remember that time they tried to introduce the wheelchair levy? a good a reason as any for me to give them the swerve (mums in a chair)

i dont boycott any other brands though... i wont be going near 3 again after my experiences but i dont think its a boycott unless they have something you want (but may or may not get elsewhere)

squod

Jacobs. That new add is sickening. Cadburys, americans can't make anything right. That now includes chocolate.

Paparazzo

Liverpool fans, are you actually saying you would but the sun if it wasn't for hillsborough?
I'd avoid abercrombie because I believe its a wanker company that makes clothes for ****.

Eric Cartman wrote: »

anything that focuses on itself being 'green'

+1

tommyhaas

Paparazzo wrote: »

Liverpool fans, are you actually saying you would but the sun if it wasn't for hillsborough?

Circulation of the paper in Liverpool has apparently dropped by 200,000 copies to just 12,000 copies daily in Liverpool. Its not just Liverpool fans either, none of my Evertonian mates would buy it. That would seem to suggest that yea they would

Personally, I only buy a paper a few times a week. I'm not particularly fussy about what I buy, I like the Star for the sports crossword, the herald for the Dublin stuff, maybe if the Sun hadent told the lies that they did, I would have bought that from time to time

Eric Cartman

ive never looked into it , but just to say even if the sun were lying, fair balls on them to go and announce the negative side of something , im sick of the media taking 1 side and forgiving all when things happen eg. micheal jackson died - no mention of kiddy fiddling in the reports, gerry ryan died - nobody mentioned cocaine for a week , jade goody - nobody mentioned how much of a looper or racist she is , the sun may have lied but atleast they didnt just lay down and give the 'everyones innocent this is terrible' attitude

Standman

Eric Cartman wrote: »

ive never looked into it , but just to say even if the sun were lying, fair balls on them to go and announce the negative side of something , im sick of the media taking 1 side and forgiving all when things happen eg. micheal jackson died - no mention of kiddy fiddling in the reports, gerry ryan died - nobody mentioned cocaine for a week , jade goody - nobody mentioned how much of a looper or racist she is , the sun may have lied but atleast they didnt just lay down and give the 'everyones innocent this is terrible' attitude

The Sun is a rag for morons, end of.

AwayWithFaries

The Sun - Hillsborough
Apple - I generally find you can get a better/equal product for cheaper so why bother. I also dislike all the fanboy crap that Apple seems to draw.

mikemac

I don't shop in Supervalu
For taking a job and turning it into cheap labour.
The WPP was not meant for this
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q225/thebatoneffect/FAS/seva.jpg

Eric Cartman

Standman wrote: »

The Sun is a rag for morons, end of.

this is true, would just have been nice if the times or another paper had have carried the negative aspects and didnt pretend that everyone is innocent all the time

K-9

Eric Cartman wrote: »

ive never looked into it , but just to say even if the sun were lying, fair balls on them to go and announce the negative side of something , im sick of the media taking 1 side and forgiving all when things happen eg. micheal jackson died - no mention of kiddy fiddling in the reports, gerry ryan died - nobody mentioned cocaine for a week , jade goody - nobody mentioned how much of a looper or racist she is , the sun may have lied but atleast they didnt just lay down and give the 'everyones innocent this is terrible' attitude

They swallowed the police lies, not a brave decision at all, they just went with the official line.

So did the radio, BBC for example, they quickly copped what was happening. The Sun printed it while Liverpool was burying their dead and despite others retracting it, they stood behind it.

major bill

The evening Herald.....the paper is a rag and the so called ''journalists'' that write for it are walter mitty types that make up stories and invent ''sources'' to fill the article with more fiction.

major bill

Eric Cartman wrote: »

this is true, would just have been nice if the times or another paper had have carried the negative aspects and didnt pretend that everyone is innocent all the time

what Negative aspects? all that stuff the sun printed were lies...theres a reason why both liverpool and everton fans have boycotted the paper.

Violafy

The Sun. What an absolute abomination and rag of a "newspaper".

KFC - animal cruelty

McDonalds - animal cruelty, and it annoys me how they try to be so healthy nowadays with their McSalads and what not. :mad: You're a fatty fast food chain and nothing more; get over it.

Loreal (and quite a few other make up brands etc) - animal testing

Abercrombie - ridiculously overpriced, size zero clothes and seem to only employ conventionally pretty and size zero people.

Nestle -palm oil and baby scandal- easy for me, as their chocolate tastes cheap anyway.

Any eggs/mayonnaise etc which aren't free range.

tommyhaas

Eric Cartman wrote: »

ive never looked into it , but just to say even if the sun were lying, fair balls on them to go and announce the negative side of something , im sick of the media taking 1 side and forgiving all when things happen eg. micheal jackson died - no mention of kiddy fiddling in the reports, gerry ryan died - nobody mentioned cocaine for a week , jade goody - nobody mentioned how much of a looper or racist she is , the sun may have lied but atleast they didnt just lay down and give the 'everyones innocent this is terrible' attitude

96 fans were crushed to death in a football stadium. The Sun printed the following, all of which was subsequently found to be untrue:

“The Truth.
Some fans picked pockets of victims
Some fans urinated on the brave cops
Some fans beat up PC giving kiss of life.”

Four days after the tragedy, friends and family of the victims as well as survivors were confronted by this.

But fair balls to them you say? Thats a disgusting attitude IMO

Eric Cartman

major bill wrote: »

what Negative aspects? all that stuff the sun printed were lies...theres a reason why both liverpool and everton fans have boycotted the paper.

i havent really looked into this specific case, i know f*ck all about it, i was just complaining about how papers take the safe line and call everyone innocent in it, atleast the sun went with a line that pointed to the negative aspects of the victims reaction

although retracting it would have been a good idea when actually proved wrong

tommyhaas

Eric Cartman wrote: »

i havent really looked into this specific case, i know f*ck all about it,

Well then maybe you should keep your fcuking opinions to yourself

Guy:Incognito

CarMuppet wrote: »

Scoda (aka VW) and Delta.

Skoda will be relieved you still like them though.