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Any brands you don't buy on principle?

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    #572
    Sonnenblumen
    Registered Users Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭Sonnenblumen


    Just reminds me, I wonder how many are buying Bord Bia 'Irish' eggs from Northern Irl?


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    #573
    Corsendonk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Corsendonk


    Sonnenblumen wrote: »
    Just reminds me, I wonder how many are buying Bord Bia 'Irish' eggs from Northern Irl?

    We import very few actually in ROI, its the chickens that are more confusing. You have to check that the Bord Bia symbol has a tricolour or not. If its just plain green its NI Chicken, if a Tricolour its ROI. Just check out the Tesco adds in the paper with Chickens.


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    #574
    DrHLecter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭DrHLecter


    reply to original q.

    anything from harvey norman on account of their ads.
    dell computers cause they relocated and im just kind of like that.


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    #575
    Gerty
    Registered Users Posts: 460 ✭✭Gerty


    I enjoyed this thread until the last ten pages or so. Some idiot banging on about the sun boycott being wrong and some ****e about Chelsea being dragged into it. And this apple one isn't much better.

    One brand i boycott is Primark/ Penneys. They have supposedly started to clean up their act i believe.

    Reasons - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7824291.stm
    http://www.indymedia.ie/article/80564

    Side not - When i type in 'Penneys', the autocorrect aptly gives me the option to change it to 'Penis'. They are a pack of penises.


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    #576
    Maldjd23
    Registered Users Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭Maldjd23


    The Sun..As a liverpool fan i cannot stand that rag.
    Renault..Can't stand Bill Cullen..I don't care about scrappage...You will never see one penny of my money.


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    #577
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 24,010 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    KeithAFC wrote: »
    I remember when the Green sauce was up here, i didn't buy it.

    It was supposed to be brown, but it was six years beyond its sell-by date when it was sent up north.


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    #578
    robbie_998
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,222 ✭✭✭robbie_998


    BMW
    Merc
    Nissan

    great cars and all but just dont want them :P

    Mc Donalds ! i actually dont like their food :cool:

    Tesco value crap also !


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    #579
    BBFlowerPotMen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭BBFlowerPotMen


    Sony - Due to the whole geohot legal thing, i seen what they were trully like!
    Alienware - Absolute rip off.
    Dell - Gay
    Apple - Gay
    Microsoft - Too big etc.. but i just don't buy from them, i still like and use thier products.
    Domino's Pizza - ****ty cheap ingredients
    Jamie Olliver Foodstuffs - Mega gay crybaby!


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    #580
    Dionysus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    SeaFields wrote: »
    Indo and Sindo.

    This multiplied by infinity squared. Horrendous tabloid rags.


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    #581
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users Posts: 11,531 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    BBFlowerPotMen wrote: »
    Alienware - Absolute rip off.
    Dell - Gay

    Same company


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    #582
    BBFlowerPotMen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭BBFlowerPotMen


    For Forks Sake wrote: »
    Same company


    I actually forgot that, that said they were always a rip, well before Dell bought them out.


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    #583
    Dionysus
    Registered Users Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Dionysus


    Patchy~ wrote: »
    KFC, self-explanatory. I have a Sony laptop but I'd never buy another - the keys are falling off and my "one year warranty" covers accidental damage only (yeah I purposely ripped my fúcking keys off) and damage to the hard drive. In other words, accidental damage to the hard drive, which is next to impossible. They'd fix it for a few hundred euro. :mad:

    Couldn't agree more. I'll never buy another Sony product. A while ago they said they would charge me €180 just to collect my laptop. The repair cost would be additional to that. I asked could I drop the laptop into them and they said that wasn't possible.

    I have a lot of years of laptop buying left in me, and they won't be getting any of it and I'll tell as many people as possible about this cowboy rip-off on the part of Sony Ireland.


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    #584
    holystungun9
    Registered Users Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    BBFlowerPotMen wrote: »
    Sony - Due to the whole geohot legal thing, i seen what they were trully like!
    Alienware - Absolute rip off.
    Dell - Gay
    Apple - Gay
    Microsoft - Too big etc.. but i just don't buy from them, i still like and use thier products.
    Domino's Pizza - ****ty cheap ingredients
    Jamie Olliver Foodstuffs - Mega gay crybaby!

    Welcome to boards, lots of silliness is tolerated, crappy jokes etc. But are you honestly using the word 'gay' to a describe a brand you don't like / think is crap? Some clarification would be helpful. Mods? Anyone?


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    #585
    landsleaving
    Registered Users Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    BBFlowerPotMen wrote: »
    Dell - Gay
    Apple - Gay

    I'd consider homosexuality a positive when I buy a product. Very progressive altogether.


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    #586
    BBFlowerPotMen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭BBFlowerPotMen


    landsleaving wrote: »
    I'd consider homosexuality a positive when I buy a product. Very progressive altogether.


    I don't mean it in the sense of homosexuality, defenitly as a negative describing the whole idea of the company.


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    #587
    landsleaving
    Registered Users Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    BBFlowerPotMen wrote: »
    I don't mean it in the sense of homosexuality, defenitly as a negative describing the whole idea of the company.

    It was a bad idea to make gay products? I don't know, untapped market potential there :pac:


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    #588
    Galway K9
    Registered Users Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Galway K9


    Gay! Ha ha. It's simpsons, he's gay, gay, so gay etc


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    #589
    BBFlowerPotMen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭BBFlowerPotMen


    Galway K9 wrote: »
    Gay! Ha ha. It's simpsons, he's gay, gay, so gay etc

    I think you mean Southpark.. i never heard them say gay in The Simpsons.


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    #590
    landsleaving
    Registered Users Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    BBFlowerPotMen wrote: »
    I think you mean Southpark.. i never heard them say gay in The Simpsons.

    It was when Nelson and Lisa went out. Jimbo Jones said it.

    'You kissed a girl, that's so gay!'


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    #591
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icIwKaci3MI


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    #592
    BBFlowerPotMen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭BBFlowerPotMen


    efb wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icIwKaci3MI

    cool


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    #593
    Orando Broom
    Registered Users Posts: 3,351 ✭✭✭Orando Broom


    O-Deazy wrote: »
    Great post! So how did the thesaurus taste? :p

    Nice. Good. Yum.


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    #594
    amjon.
    Registered Users Posts: 403 ✭✭amjon.


    Won't even walk into a Boots chemist.


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    #595
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    Lenovo


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    #596
    Corsendonk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Corsendonk


    Budweiser and Budlite - a disgrace to beer.


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    #597
    grenache
    Registered Users Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭grenache


    amjon. wrote: »
    Won't even walk into a Boots chemist.
    Nottingham's third greatest export after Raleigh and Forest :)


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    #598
    dudara
    Registered Users Posts: 33,519 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    There's only one brand I won't buy - Ballymaloe.

    I was sickened by the way the family managed to brush the entire affair away in case it would destroy their business. Anecdotally, what was reported in the press about Tim Allen is not the full story.


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    #599
    landsleaving
    Registered Users Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    I have a new product I'll now never buy, as of about 2 hours ago.

    I took a sip from a bottle of Kerry Spring water, it tasted like the flu, for want of a better description - sort of dry and sickening.

    I now feel like crap, bad headache, sore throat general unease.

    I probably have mad cow disease or soemthing.

    So Kerry Spring can go f*ck themselves.


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    #600
    Violafy
    Registered Users Posts: 369 ✭✭Violafy


    Any fashion designers/labels/shops that use real fur for their clothes.


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    #601
    alie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,780 ✭✭✭alie


    Rachael Allen products


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