[Closed] Show me your CTBM stickers ;>)

genghispod - Member

"I don't see the fun in it, so I don't see why anyone else should enjoy it, so they shouldn't."

His (or her, Reg) onion is worth just as much as anyone else's onion Elf.
And you know what they say about onions 😀

Completely wrong about Mint Sauce, though.
I never quite trust anyone who doesn't get Mint.

It's a forum... upon which we are all free to contribute and comment as long as we play by the rules and are not offensive to each other.

I was not being offensive. If I've offended your delicate sensibilities, oh whell. 😆

Run along now

No [i]you[/i] run along now.

I never quite trust anyone who doesn't get Mint.

You can't really, can you? Can't trust people who jolly well have not got a sensayuma.

Or even a clementine. 😯

[i]No, because you are like the general unthinking public - "I don't see the fun in it, so I don't see why anyone else should enjoy it, so they shouldn't.[/i]

I'm not suggesting that you can't have fun, I'm suggesting that from my point of view, the stickers are;

a) An obvious promotional campaign, using STW as an unpaid vehicle.

b) Puerile and immature, to the extent that I would be embarrassed to display them anywhere.

They are stickers; I got over this stuff in the 1970s when I got them from breakfast cereal.

I never quite trust anyone who doesn't get Mint

I'm completely untrustworthy so that explains a lot.

Elfin - you've questioned the validity of anothers opinion... yes my 'delicate sensbilities' consider that a little offensive... On the plus side though it comes from you... 😀

Uh oh, someone let the usual fun nazis out, I'm off, someone round em up please

This was going to be my sticker for a while before I was told not to:

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(a shiny shilling if anyone can tell me where I got the quote)

Urban dictionary?

No, that university club bloke...

An obvious promotional campaign, using STW as an unpaid vehicle.

I see it more like if you're watching a telly programme, and there's a bus or something goes past in the background with an advert for something on it. IE, incidental. Or like F1 or the TDF. Do the telly companies charge the advertisers because their brands appear on the screen?

If it had a detrimental effect on other companies that pay to advertise on STW, then maybe it would be a problem. Does it?

G.R.F ? he's my favourite on here (not sarcasm)

Luke from St Andrew's?

Though I'd rather have a sticker than a shilling...

underhill wins

Anyway, what about Hora?

If we're going to start seeing bans for stupidity, this could be a long process.
If brains were dynamite, I don't think some of us could blow our own hats off.

[i]If it had a detrimental effect on other companies that pay to advertise on STw, then maybe it would be a problem. Does it?[/i]

I neither know, nor care.

I think it's pretty clear though, that if every bike related company who has an association with the site started threads with such obvious self promotional intent, the forum would rapidly deteriorate into a spammy pile of poo...

..and FFS, the actual stickers themselves read like some 15 year old has got a Dymo machine.

maybe they should ban everyone. that would show us 😥

the actual stickers themselves read like some 15 year old has got a Dymo machine.

maybe, but it's a 15 year old that makes me smile and in this bag of cack that is life, a free smile is priceless

Sweet. At least one person is leaving this thread happy 🙂

For those who say you're too grown up for stickers you sure do sound like a bunch of kids arguing over marbles in the playground!

[i]but it's a 15 year old that makes me smile and in this bag of cack that is life[/i]

a) If your life is really cack, a sticker isn't really going to help.

b) If a sticker of the kind displayed above is helping, your life isn't really that cack.

If it had a detrimental effect on other companies that pay to advertise on STW, then maybe it would be a problem. Does it?

Yes. It pisses them off when they get invoiced by us for their ad campaigns and people like this get to create a marketing campaign and put it front of you lot for free.

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the actual stickers themselves read like some 15 year old has got a Dymo machine.

maybe, but it's a 15 year old that makes me smile and in this bag of cack that is life, a free smile is priceless [/url]

i de-stickered my Alpine a while back, but have since i toyed with the idea if having some stickers made for my bike.

"fähigkeiten statt federweg" and/or "spaß bringt leistung"

don't like having company names on my bicycle, though. mopre so when i've no connection to the shop. although each of my three helmets are plastered with stickers.... 😕

Yes. It pisses them off when they get invoiced by us for their ad campaigns and people like this get to create a marketing campaign and put it front of you lot for free.

So what about progressive, on one etc etc etc who do/did it all the time under your noses?

It's either one or the other isn't it?

I'll have a handful of those stickers Dogbert

i think http://www.charliethebikemonger.com/index.asp has had far more free advertising for getting banned than his stickers would of ever generated. what a great marketing ploy!

Frankie Goes to Hollywood vs Mike Read all over again. 😀

Yes. It pisses them off when they get invoiced by us for their ad campaigns and people like this get to create a marketing campaign and put it front of you lot for free.

Fair enough, but what about the fact that Charlie's posts generate forum traffic which in turn generates exposure for the advertisers' products?

I'm sure Chalie is not deliberately trying to crap on other companies, just bending the rules a bit to try to earn a living.

just bending the rules a bit to try to earn a living.

They are stickers; I got over this stuff in the 1970s when I got them from breakfast cereal.

I never did.

(Do I get a free sticker for that? Pleeeeeeease? 😉 )

He didn't bend the rules.. he broke them cleanly..

...or pay for advertising like everyone else.

your life isn't really that cack

ooooo get her

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when your dealing with serious health issues anything that makes you smile is a winner

more free advertising for getting banned than his stickers would of ever generated. what a great marketing ploy

that was my first reaction to all this..

Rusty Spanner - Member

Anyway, what about Hora?

If we're going to start seeing bans for stupidity, this could be a long process.
If brains were dynamite, I don't think some of us could blow our own hats off.

What about Hora? Lets get to the important stuff, Banning people for stupidity would not leave many left to play

Oh - and the stickers are truly awful. Naff tat

i wonder how the advertiser feel about p members being able to turn the advertising off 😐

yunki, i think we need to see pics of your dog? 😀

So what about progressive, on one etc etc etc who do/did it all the time under your noses?

I don't remember starting threads (maybe once?) about the stuff i sell?

Yeah but your login is the name of your business! 😆

Another side of this argument is; what about smaller companies what possibly can't afford advertising cos their profit margins are too small? How do they generate enough business to survive, without being somewhat 'parasitic'?

And small indy outfits like CBM can often get hold of stuff the larger chains don't stock, thus giving us, the consumers, greater choice. Isn't that important?

I have nothing to do with Yeti bikes. I think they're shit.

A lot of usernames do feature the names of bikes though.

well you ain't even a real elf!

Yeah well you don't ride a Tandem and you name's not Jeremy!

Oh....

And mine's the name of a fruit juice.
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But I'm not connected to them, your point?
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what about smaller companies what possibly can't afford advertising cos their profit margins are too small?

pro-capitalist neo-liberal anonymous forum anarchist consumers of the world unite!

It's a business not a charity, no?

Granted, but isn't there also a sense of 'community' within the bike industry? I mean, shouldn't companies and organisations try to work together for the benefit of all? And if that means the big guys do the little guys a favour now and then, isn't that a good thing?

Or should out and out dog eat dog capitalism reign?

El socialismo puede llegar solo en bicicleta

Granted, but isn't there also a sense of 'community' within the bike industry? I mean, shouldn't companies and organisations try to work together for the benefit of all? And if that means the big guys do the little guys a favour now and then, isn't that a good thing?

LOL at that.

Sticker ambivalent.