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What are ye Boycottin' today lads? - The Boycottening!

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  • #32
    SVI40
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 663 ✭✭✭SVI40


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122264425#Comment_122264425

    In 2013 the European Union banned the sale and importation of cosmetics products newly tested on animals - or that contain any ingredients that have been tested.

    Some exceptions are allowed, though - ingredients may still be tested on animals under certain circumstances, 



  • #33
    Goldengirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,050 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122264383#Comment_122264383

    Don't Abbot and Boston Scientific make them here in Ireland as well along with many other interesting life saving devices ?😁

    According to the spiel from Bioinnovate Group in Galway 80% of said devices are produced in Ireland now .



  • #34
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,679 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    If your worried about war in the middle east boycott oil. #turf

    🙈🙉🙊



  • #35
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,834 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122264477#Comment_122264477

    Your first post stated every single ingredient must be (and you stated must be) tested, which is quite a remove from the post you quoted there. Which is it?



  • #36
    MacDanger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,684 ✭✭✭MacDanger


    Toymaster - was looking for 2 beanbags for a santa present, went in ~3 weeks before Christmas and they said they'd have stock back in next week; strung me along for the next 3 weeks saying they'd be in in a couple of days. By the 22nd, had to go elsewhere to get them. Useless shower of c*nts



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  • #37
    SchrodingersCat
    Registered Users Posts: 886 ✭✭✭SchrodingersCat


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122264353#Comment_122264353

    If your not providing a good source, your post is more suited for here.



  • #38
    Potatoeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,335 ✭✭✭Potatoeman


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122264154#Comment_122264154

    You skipped the concentration camps.



  • #39
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,138 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Supermacs: Can't support that tight baxtard who pays min wage and takes lunch out of the wages even if you don't eat their food. You've to pay for the uniform and while everyone was locked down he was fannying about on holidays with his family and recording it for everyone to see. Could do for Galway hurling what JP has allegedly done for Limerick hurling, but he's too tight and just wants his brand on the jersey. This extends to any Circle-K that has a Smacs on it because he owns them too. I don't use hotels and don't own/rent property so covered there.

    The Beard Struggle: Previous douchey dudebro controversy aside, I do like the products. But their EU orders ship from the UK so until they get an EU based base, I no longer buy from them. On a side note, anyone recommend any decent beard products, preferably Irish produced!

    Google: A hard one, as Google are everywhere, but they're no longer a search engine, they're an ad engine. So my boycott is by saying I'll "search" something instead of "Googling" it.

    The nestle one is interesting. They own a lot so I reckon it's actually impossible to boycott them. I do like me a Lion bar, aside from shrinking they still taste the same as they always did, unlike most other bars which no longer do. Oh, yeah, let's add Tubs sweets to that mix, picked up a box of the chocolate white/pink mice. They're smooth, no grain like they used to, so they feel weird/waxy, and the taste is all wrong. Ate about 3 of each color and threw them away.

    My boycotts are smaller than most…



  • #40
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,602 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Nestle products…. They are a grim company who don’t treat people very well….also they don’t treat consumers very well, Aero chocolate now vs when it was manufactured by Rowentrees is a great example…. Shrank the bars and changed the ingredients, everything from texture to flavour is beyond substandard now….



  • #41
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,834 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Aero (and wispa) are genius bits of marketing. the whole point of them is they're selling you a bar that's half air.



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  • #42
    Dingaan
    Registered Users Posts: 347 ✭✭Dingaan


    Gillette because of that ad.



  • #43
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,418 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    AirBnb because they still host rentals of illegal settlements in the West Bank.

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



  • #44
    Downlinz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,547 ✭✭✭Downlinz


    McDonalds and Starbucks because of Israeli support.

    tbh it's not very difficult since there's a lot of fine local chippers and cafes on every street in every town anyway.



  • #45
    Cordell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭Cordell


    If you REALLY care about boycotting companies that directly or indirectly support Israel you should be boycotting all tech corporations, even get off the internet and stop using computers altogether.



  • #46
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,418 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    For anyone wondering about Coca Cola:

    https://youtu.be/DYo14B0ZBKg?si=bK2AQJ0XDb7Pjq_B

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



  • #47
    Cordell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭Cordell


    WTF is that a jihadi using click bait titles and alt right style youtube videos?! When I thought I saw them all…



  • #48
    foxsake
    Registered Users Posts: 730 ✭✭✭foxsake


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122264180#Comment_122264180

    seems like the statin meds are too I'm told. thankfully I've no need of any of them …. so I'm good.

    But on a more serious note - I'm not sure boycotting all Israeli goods is right more the ones that contribute to the war machine -as I said specifically

    but maybe I will .. . I'll need to consider..



  • #49
    Housefree
    Registered Users Posts: 685 ✭✭✭Housefree


    Everything on

    https://bdsmovement.net/get-involved/what-to-boycott

    &

    Starbucks. Also Costa is owned by CocaCola so I boycott them. Soda stream is owned by Pepsi so all Pepsi products. All US fast food franchises McD's/Burger King/KFC/Domino's etc.

    I will boycott anything & everything from Israel. The longer the US supports and arms the genocidal apartheid regime of Israel. The more US corporations I will boycott.

    I will never again support any of these companies, even after the genocide/apartheid stops



  • #50
    Cordell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭Cordell


    It will be only fair to boycott everything from Palestine as well, but the only thing they export don't have the range to come all the way here.

    I will boycott anything & everything from Israel.

    You won't. You need to stop using computers and internet if you're really committed, but just by posting that you created income for tech companies who directly and indirectly fund Israel.



  • #51
    foxsake
    Registered Users Posts: 730 ✭✭✭foxsake


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122269428#Comment_122269428

    i didn't know that about supermacs - i kinda suspected something about him



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  • #52
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,418 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    I'm going to add X.com to my boycott list. I mean, I was already hanging on by a thread due to how pretty sh1tty it is and how much Zionist wankery it kept pushing on my feed. Now, seeing Elon with his tough deep inside Cretinyahoo's hole, it's too much to take. I'm out. Fvck X and Elon.

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



  • #53
    highpitcheric
    Registered Users Posts: 378 ✭✭highpitcheric


    Centra.

    Sold me a non returny can.

    Their rival shop gets my business for 1 week.



  • #54
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,568 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    not boycotting but trying to ween myself off Youtube, its shyte

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #55
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,268 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122430181#Comment_122430181

    Have we hit peak content, we're so used to having so much stuff that channels can't keep up.



  • #56
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,568 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122430196#Comment_122430196

    on the one hand their ads are too long and boring , then on the other its like the "old cable channels" , I'd prefer to go back to listening to podcasts that dont get interrupted every 5min, pushing me to pay for ad free will just push me off totally and I may pay a fee somewhere else

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #57
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,418 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122430220#Comment_122430220

    Ad blockers protect my mental health.

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



  • #58
    standardg60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭standardg60


    Poor old Captain Boycott, if he only knew how infamous he'd become he'd have changed his ways 🙂



  • #59
    z80CPU
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 727 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth Randomer


    LEGO

    go into any LEGO store and receive a [u]scripted answer [ /u] on [u]anything you say to the staff.[/u]



  • #60
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,268 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122430220#Comment_122430220

    On the other hand they need ads to produce their shows on a long term basis, and I say that as someone who skips/fast forwards ads any chance I get (same as with podcasts).



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  • #61
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,418 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122430354#Comment_122430354

    Pro Tip: I watch most news/info vids on 1.5 to 2 x speed. I only watch music related vids at regular speed.

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



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