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Any brands you don't buy on principle?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭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?


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


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    Gort musical instruments
    Ryanair
    Nestle
    anything with meat in it

    Thats just wrong


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭PinkFly


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭SadieSue


    I refuse to buy Starbucks coffee.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    SadieSue wrote: »
    I refuse to buy Starbucks coffee.

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


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


    SadieSue wrote: »
    I refuse to buy Starbucks coffee.

    You a skinny, soy, hemp frapaccino gal?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,556 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 644 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,027 ✭✭✭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.


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


    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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭El Horseboxo


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭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.


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,772 ✭✭✭jameshayes


    aerlingus


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,073 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,827 ✭✭✭Donny5


    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.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 122 ✭✭Grass between the tracks


    Dolphin friendly tuna.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    I avoid all "Fairtrade" brands.
    :confused:What the hell for?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,081 ✭✭✭sheesh


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

    you don't have a mobile phone??


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,041 ✭✭✭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]

    What's the reason for being reasonable?

    Is that an unreasonable question?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


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


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Coke.
    (The mineral)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    McDonalds Hamburgers. I have a phobia of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,333 ✭✭✭tampopo


    coca cola
    the Sun newspaper


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,100 ✭✭✭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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    Coca-cola

    Rimmel, because I would only be supporting Kate Moss.

    Can I ask why so many boycott Aer Lingus?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭Sonnenblumen


    Ryanair
    KFC
    Sky
    American Beers (Coors, Millar etc)


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


    Can I ask why so many boycott Aer Lingus?
    Cause it is Ryanair Lite.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    i boycott anything from israel


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭recyclebin


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


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


  • Registered Users Posts: 562 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭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!

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭gerryo777


    Dell, because their products are sh1te.


  • Registered Users Posts: 52 ✭✭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....


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


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