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All non-free range eggs.
You sir, truly are a martyr.
Oh yes. I forgot Ryanair for revelling in rude and atrocious "service".
And Addison Lee for that appalling anti-cycling rant.
Vodaphone, for ineptitude and tax dodging.
U2, for bad music and tax dodging.
Most of this I get. But struggling to see how the Guardian gets lumped in with the Hail and the Murdoch press.
Yes they have a flagrant bias towards basket weaving lentil munchers but what bad can come of it. The Hail on the other hand would have us all watching our backs in fear of the immigrant granny bashing peados, it does tend to stir up a bit more trouble.
Been boycotting planes for the last few years.
no plans to get back on them any time in the near future. would like to visit canada at some point, but other than that, I'm quite happy 'limiting' myself to stuff that is in car/train range 🙂
Dave
no one. I have been trying to think of something.
I suppose, even though I don't buy newspapers at all, I wouldn't ever buy the sun, mainly because pretty everyone I've ever met who reads the sun is a moron. So include the Daily Mail in that too.
Been boycotting planes for the last few years.
That as well, partly because it's nice not to rush everywhere but it isn't always possible
The company I boycotted last year was Amazon.
They plissed me about with a quite expensive order and couldn't be bothered to offer any decent customer service.
And that's after being a customer of theirs since 1998.
The current company at the top of our 5h'itlist is Monarch Airlines after bouncing us off a flight yesterday. Spent 9 hours waiting for the next available flight which was in to Birmingham, which is 150 miles away from us.
I only really Boycot Nestle - well I try to, as above there's always some random sauce/ingredient you buy and then later once you've got it home, you find that bloody bird on the back - and Asda.
But there are many shops I don't shop in because I just don't like being in them or what they sell, or they make me want to kill people - Starbucks, GAP, Dixons PC World etc...
I’d like to say I boycott Ebay on the basis they are based in Lichtenstein in fact anyone based in Lichtenstein should be boycotted but I cant. Ebay is ace for buying tat and my desire to buy tat overrides my ethical consumerism.
All non-free range eggs.You sir, truly are a martyr.
genuine lol at that... So do I for what it's worth, but since we have chickenses that an easy one...
Easyjet and Orange for their absolutely dreadful customer [i]service[/i].
I don't boycott the 'bay, but I just refuse to use it.
Liechtenstein is not a bad place. Quirky, and some seriously bling houses in places, but I'd go there again.
Eh? What's Bono got to do with Apple?scruff - Member
Apple. Im not giving Bono any money.
Starbucks, because their coffee is watery, flavourless pish, and Specalized, because they bought up the patent for the Horst Link system, then set about forcing other users to pay a licence fee for something they hadn't had a hand in developing, like Nikolai, who had helped design and develop it. An early patent troll, so screw 'em.
I am boycotting work
No More Page 3 are asking people to boycott Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrison’s and DFS from October 29 through November 4 as these as big 'family values' advertisers in the Sun.
If you boycott a firm that uses cheap labour in the production of it's clothes then they have falling profits and as a result will try to squeeze more out of their workers. Same with fairtrade foods.
So who wins from any of this?
It's something I am often confused by.
I tend to buy fairtrade and use ethical clothing as much as I can, but I'm no saint and by far my closet 5 supermarkets are all Tesco's - I can only buy local veg from the stand on the way home when it sells it - and they stop for 4 months of the year, so what the hell should I do then?
Oh, I am boycotting children though, bad for the environment, bad for additional strain on already limited resources and it means I never have to tell people about how little sleep I'm getting because of the little trolls.
Random chat over, time to go home - by bike (I boycott my own car as a commuter - it drinks way too much fuel!)
Tesco due to appalling customer service.
ASDA as they are owned by Walmart who have some horrible "Christian" practices.
J Wadsworth off licence, because the owner is a ****.
any human who breeds
RAC, as their membership cock-up left me to drive 200 miles with a broken front disk once.
Dave Hinde.
Edit - and square plates. I know it's a 'thing' and not a 'who' but I won't entertain any notion of a square dinner service.
Anything made in China. Within reason, obviously.
iDave
KFC - Crap water filled battery meat, and bad ethics.
Burger King and MacD's - As above
Frankie and Bennys, La Tasca etc etc - Crap food.
French Cars - Crap.
Big shopping centres - Full of chavs
Sports Direct etc - as above
Cr@p water filled battery meat
There's meat?
Mine was like heavily spiced castrol GTX with good measure of Mobil1.
Which probably explains why it came out the same end it went in.
Tesco and sky. For the monopolization and scant regard for the consequences. Not one penny of my money will go through a tescos till. They have to have a finger in every pie, in areas that they know nothing about ie tyres.
I don't boycott much. Ryanair jump to mind, purely because of O'Leary. And there's a local taxi firm here which I've boycotted because their drivers all drive with total disregard for anyone else on the road.
There's plenty of brands I don't use, or don't use often, but it's not really a boycott per sé. I rarely venture into McD's et al for instance, largely because it's not the most appealing of food vendors for a veggie. I don't buy newspapers, because I have an Internet connection. And so on.
Isn't the company supposed to be told that they're being boycotted? Seems like a pointless act otherwise, no?
For me, Starbucks because of the alleged brand bombing strategy to close out competition.
McDonalds and most popular fast food outlets like KFC, Burger King, etc.
I read Fast Food Nation 8 years ago. I've reluctantly wavered on 3 occasions since but I felt dirt straight afterwards!
I try to avoid Tesco's for the reasons stated above.
I also boycott people who don't smile much - the sort who would comlain that their arse was on fire rather than put it out... I can't be doing with people who whinge.
Whinge over...
Tesco's derelict my balls.
There's lots of places I never shop at and brands I never buy but I wouldn't say I'm actively boycotting them as such purely because of who they are.
There are places I'll never spend money again after very poor service though. But I dunno if that counts as a properly ethical boycott if it's for specific but isolated events where I personally have felt hard done by- rather than their corporate policy.
hora - Member
Tesco's derelict my balls
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Should it say Tesco's Deborah... ??
Edit - closer to Derek, I suppose
McDonalds - my own faeces is probably a healthier meal.
The Guardian - just because.
Wolverhampton - I went there once.
Vauxhall - every car of theirs I've driven since the Firenza has been a hateful pile of shite.
Cricket - no game should last 5 days.
Ikea - no comment necessary.
All non-free range eggs.
You sir, truly are a martyr.genuine lol at that... So do I for what it's worth, but since we have chickenses that an easy one...
To be honest I only eat free range eggs but free range is very different to free to roam. ALso I get free range eggs off a somebody at work £4.50 for 30 eggs; I mostly live on free to roam eggs.
The Daily Mail...awful,awful,awful.
Sky and all the other ancillaries that made Murdoch who he is today
HSBC -- just as bad as all the rest probably.
Halfords -- add your own comments
Tesco -- For crimes against your local small shop
CRC -- unless absolutely desperate.
what makes me chuckle is when you have a 'free range scotch egg' made with a free range egg, but the pork is battery meat and the breadcrumbs have non free range egg content to make them stick.
Ryan air, because I think Michael O'Leary is a total c___!
Renault, for being crap!
Cant think of anyone else that gets me too worked up.
Subway. Dont know why. Just the look / smell of the place.
Looks like a chav heaven. Eeeuuurgh.
And I wouldnt fly Rynair either. Not that I ever need to take cheap short haul flights, but that chap who owns it is a complete instigator of self pleasurement.
Oh yeah, Ryan Air. It's just too complicated to work out what you flight will end up costing.
Budweiser. That wassup advert was disgraceful. Not because of the advert itself, that was just marketing people who can't be held accountable for their fetid actions.
No, it was the copycats doing in in normal life that forced my hand.
And the fact that the stuff tastes like rancid piss.
Not much love lost on the poor old Chav on here tonight !
Don't really understand why tesco and Asda feature so strongly and no mention of sainsburys. They're just as bad.
I'll add Ryanair, for this reason alone
Normal airline;
Pilot "This plane isn't airworthy, I'm not taking off in it "
Airline "OK, your call, we'll arrange a replacement as soon as possible. Can you apologise to the passengers?"
Pilot "Sure, thanks"
Passengers, on hearing the apology, "Oh, OK. Fair enough. Glad the pilot has control of the situation and we're not in an unsafe plane. '
Ryanair
Pilot "This plane isn't airworthy, I'm not taking off in it "
Ryanair "Fine. Either take off, or we'll find a pilot who will, and you get your marching orders. Your call"
Passengers "Wonder why we're delayed?"
MacDonalds never let the kids eat there.
RyanAir, it's an air born cattle truck.
Lidll
Daily Express, Torygraph and Grauniad because they are just so obvious.
Meridian news because Fred Dineage is a cock.
Decathlon it's french and they rip small brands off.
Volvo because their drivers kill more m/cyclists
Salamon because they banned snowboarding from a mountain they owned then came back to cash in later.
Crundens the greengrocers because old woman Crunden tried to get my favourite trail dog put down.
Don't really understand why tesco and Asda feature so strongly and no mention of sainsburys. They're just as bad.
Because Sainsbury's isn't as popular with shoppers as Tesco and Asda. If it was, then Sainsbury's would be higher up the hate list.
STW has a tendency to dislike things which are popular/succesful. I think you'll find that it's a middle-class thing.
The Labour Party.
I know this won't win me many friends, but 100,000 dead Iraqis are reason enough, even before we get into their flirtation with Thatcherism and endless lies to the electorate.