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Any brands you don't buy on principle?

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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭laugh


    Not buying Ballymaloe because of Tim Allen is about the most nonsensical thing I've ever heard, punishing an entire (extended) family because of the sexual deviancy of one man, clap . clap . clap. His mother, his wife and his daughter in law, were and are the driving forces behind Ballymaloe.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    **** principles, KFC and Coca a Cola taste too good .
    If i like it, i'll eat / drink it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    I dont limit myself at all. I buy whatever product I like.

    "Tesco because they are too powerful"? Are people for real?


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,208 ✭✭✭shamrock55


    the s*n newspaper im a liverpool fan and would never touch that rag after their headlines after hillsborough and refusal to appologise for such blatent lies scum:mad:


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,713 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    apple

    I don't buy their stuff, not on principle, but because it either doesn't work as well as the alternatives or where it does, it costs too much.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    I'd like to boycot Nestlé, but they make Fruit Gums, Nespresso and Aero, and I quite like them.

    I boycott anything owned by Rupert Murdoch's empire, but that's easy because they produce little of any worth.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,713 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    JDxtra wrote: »
    TV3

    Give me back my ITV2, 3 & 4!!!!!:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    galwayrush wrote: »
    **** principles, KFC and Coca a Cola taste too good.

    KFC is not food.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,466 ✭✭✭Snakeblood


    laugh wrote: »
    Not buying Ballymaloe because of Tim Allen is about the most nonsensical thing I've ever heard, punishing an entire (extended) family because of the sexual deviancy of one man, clap . clap . clap. His mother, his wife and his daughter in law, were and are the driving forces behind Ballymaloe.

    And he was great in Toy Story. :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭fontanalis


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


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  • Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭cazwhatever


    Jean wrote: »
    Yorkie bars.

    Because they're 'not for girls'.
    Grand then, I'll never buy them again.

    Oh wait, your company thinks I, as a female of the species, is so dumb that I'll think 'They're not for girls?! OMG, SCREW YOU, I'm gonna eat then regardless?!'

    Eh, no.

    I was just going to write that!! The only brand I absolutely avoid! :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 865 ✭✭✭laros




  • Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    laros wrote: »

    Yes but you see their products taste good. Check and mate.

    Why single out Coca Cola?Or do you boycott everyone and anything that hurts people in any way? I assume not seeing as you've probably travelled abroad and most liekly eat food.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,476 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    Snakeblood wrote: »
    And he was great in Toy Story. :mad:
    Also a drug dealer.
    http://www.jonhs.com/mugshots/allen.htm


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    I boycotted MCD for about a year, during the whole thing.
    Was tough in a way, because I go to a lot of concerts, and skipped a few I would have liked to have seen, but it was actually a weaker year for acts than most, as it happened.

    I won't fly Ryanair anymore, not through any moralistic principle, but I'm a nervous flyer, 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 prices can be phenomenal, and if people are comfortable in the plane, that's great. I guess I just can't handle it. :(

    I would boycott KFC on ethical grounds, but I don't really need to, because I think the taste and texture of the chicken are horrible and greasy, so I wouldn't eat it anyway.


  • Registered Users Posts: 865 ✭✭✭laros


    Yes but you see their products taste good. Check and mate.

    Honestly... do yourself a favour and read the book...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DarkJager


    Dell.

    Made me redundant and drove half of Limerick on to the dole because they decided to get workers for €3 p/h elsewhere. Wouldn't give them the steam off my piss let alone any of my cash.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    Reebok,i dont want to be walking around with a union jack on my runners.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭fontanalis


    Reebok,i dont want to be walking around with a union jack on my runners.


    Probably clash with the Liverpool jersey too!


  • Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    laros wrote: »
    Honestly... do yourself a favour and read the book...

    Does it taste better than Coke and/or Fanta?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,431 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Crinklewood


    Russell.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    fontanalis wrote: »
    Probably clash with the Liverpool jersey too!

    I dont wear British football jerseys.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    It'd take a lot to get me to buy another Sony product again after their response to the PS3 jailbreak.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭fontanalis


    I dont wear British football jerseys.

    Damn you. Would you, just to justify my post?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    fontanalis wrote: »
    Damn you. Would you, just to justify my post?

    No thanks,i watch football but i dont support any team in particular :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,073 ✭✭✭sam34


    laugh wrote: »
    Not buying Ballymaloe because of Tim Allen is about the most nonsensical thing I've ever heard, punishing an entire (extended) family because of the sexual deviancy of one man, clap . clap . clap. His mother, his wife and his daughter in law, were and are the driving forces behind Ballymaloe.

    indeed, and they continue to support him and stand by him.

    if he was in my family i would disown him.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭Yahew


    I dont do microsoft. Becuase of proprietary issues, and it's vicious monopolisitic practices, and its substandard software.

    I try and avoid google too, however I use the search for now.


  • Registered Users Posts: 29,294 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Apple (the iTouch i won but rarely use it)
    The Sun


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,016 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    I avoid all "Fairtrade" brands.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 7 martha jones


    Goodfellas, Subway, not sure if it should be here, but Ryanair!!


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