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Any brands you don't buy on principle?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭BengaLover


    Tesco Value aka Yellow Pack
    Abercrombie


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    My Dolmio day is never !

    (simply because their ads annoy the shyte out of me)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 825 ✭✭✭Dwellingdweller


    Pfizer


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 152 ✭✭Feckfox


    Apple
    Abercrombie

    That's it I think.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Any eggs that aren't free range, and even then free range aren't great. If you can get locally produced from a farm you are much better off, looking forward to getting my own hens again. Battery farms are disgusting.

    As someone said Tesco, I have shopped there recently but I have been thinking of how powerful they have gotten and it's too much

    I don't buy Budweiser cos it's shite


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 588 ✭✭✭littlehedgehog


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    pragmatic1 wrote: »
    You drinking.
    :o
    I hate bank holidays and Sundays!
    We get the day off work but nobody likes them. They're sooooooo crap. Why can't we replace them with taking the Friday and Thursday off instead in our own time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Ferrari, Porsche, Armani and Rolex

    If only for my principles.... and total lack of money.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    fontanalis wrote: »
    In fairness, something like that takes a bit of research.

    Whereas jumping on a bandwagon without any reasearch is easy, as has been shown in this very thread.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Apple, hate them with a passion.
    Will never buy a French car, they are a little bit better now but electrically a nightmare.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,215 ✭✭✭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, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭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, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭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, Registered Users 2 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, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭laros




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭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, Registered Users 2 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, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭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, Registered Users 2 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, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,529 ✭✭✭✭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, Registered Users 2 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, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭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!!


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


    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.


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


    There is a general GroupThink about RyanAir too. I have used about 20 different Airlines in my time, and RyanAir is the one which hasn't let me down. Its also the reason why travel in Europe is cheap.


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


    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.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVygqjyS4CA


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭laugh


    sam34 wrote: »
    indeed, and they continue to support him and stand by him.

    if he was in my family i would disown him.

    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?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭Joe10000


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Really?

    Based on 11 men kicking a ball up and down a field?

    Seriously?
    Yes seriously.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,305 ✭✭✭Chuchoter


    American Apparel, I find their marketing really, really offensive and exploitative.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    Gort musical instruments
    Ryanair
    Nestle
    anything with meat in it


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


    Joe10000 wrote: »
    Yes seriously.

    :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    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?
    One less nonce in the world then.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Abercrombie and American Apparel based on the deep-seated principle of not being a cunt.



    Also far too old.


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