Brands you wouldn't touch with a barge pole…

When it first came out I actually thought it was Japanese clothing ‘over here’ partly due to how it fits healthy, slim athletic people better than it does podgy Northerners

FTFY.

Apple. I can’t really explain why, except that I had an iPod back in the day (up to 2004), then moved on to better MP3 players. And now they’re not just ubiquitous, they’re some kind of awful club, and I wouldn’t go near them. Plus the stuff they get away with (the dreadful bloatware of itunes, some unreconstructed approaches to apps and the like) because they’re a ‘nice’ brand really bugs me.

They used to be a ‘nice’ brand.

That started changing probably about 2003 onwards as well for me.

I had 4 ipods in a row and they stated the batter failure was ‘my fault’ until I found out it was a faulty batch of batteries from China.

One brand I havent seen mentioned – who I totally hate, SONY.
Every single thing i’ve ever had from SONY has been an utter bag of shit (including the laptop im using right now)
If i had the money to buy another laptop (of another brand), i’d piss on this one and set it on fire.

Total shit.

Erm, I quite like Superdry stuff, the two jackets I have are nice. Logo’s are a bit played out now but its still good stuff.

I also like Audi’s, mine was fantastic before it was stolen (RS4) and the S3 was a nice motor too. I also had a Beemer and bar the runflats it was a much nicer place to be than the mondeo they gave me when I crashed it.

I’ve also got an Orange 5 which is the only bike I’ve ever sat on which felt spot on immediately, can’t see the problem there. It’s got hope wheels which are lovely but I wouldn’t touch their brakes if only because I’ve never got on with them.

Maybe I’m a sheep unlike the elite stylemongers on here but they’ve all suited my needs in the past.

BMW, Audi and Volkswagen – probably considered cool cars if you’re middle aged, bland, lack imagination, and work in marketing sales

FTFY.

flange – Member
Erm, I quite like Superdry stuff, the two jackets I have are nice. Logo’s are a bit played out now but its still good stuff.

I also like Audi’s, mine was fantastic before it was stolen (RS4) and the S3 was a nice motor too. I also had a Beemer and bar the runflats it was a much nicer place to be than the mondeo they gave me when I crashed it.

I’ve also got an Orange 5 which is the only bike I’ve ever sat on which felt spot on immediately, can’t see the problem there. It’s got hope wheels which are lovely but I wouldn’t touch their brakes if only because I’ve never got on with them.

Maybe I’m a sheep unlike the elite stylemongers on here but they’ve all suited my needs in the past.

The abridged version. 😉

These monkeys[/url] because thanks to all advertising on the van I know exactly which company the git that squeezed past me just so he could stop right in front of me on the road in Shrewsbury works for.

unlike the elite stylemongers on here

Well you like Superdry so that counts you out and away from being a stylemonger 😉

I think on the whole I’d rather think about the picnic I’m going to make than the brands that I can’t really summon up the energy to ‘hate’ 😕

you boys need to chill out, roll up your trouser legs and go and paddle in the fountain in the park. Life’s too short to worry about this sort of shit

brands of skis FFS 🙄

you boys need to chill out, roll up your trouser legs and go and paddle in the fountain in the park.

I wanted to do that yesterday, but I wasn’t attended by a suitable small child, so I wasn’t allowed to. 🙁

Seemed most unfair. I was deprived that which others enjoyed, just because I am old and childless. 😥

Besides, most of the paddling pools have bin closed down. Health and Safety, innit?

elfin, paddling pool, argos? (or is Argos one of the brands we have to hate?)

I don’t like lots of brands.

Canon – because it’s for girls.
Dell – It’s for cheapskate nerds
OnOne – Don’t know what it is but it sounds knaff, probably for the brothers of the above.
Osprey – Because it’s a bird and a knaff boat
Microsoft – Just Because it exists
Skoda – Because ugly people drive it.
Starboard – Because Ginger people windsurf on it.
Pride – Because they make Mobility Scooters
Pryde – Because they should make mobility scooters
Kawasaki – they’re too green and driven by nobs
Patels – Because they called me a mincer (Our corner shop)
Specialised – Because it sounds like it should be for something else
Trek – Because everyone rides it and they wear lycra with a stupid shop name on it.
Fatwaist – Because I haven’t
MacDonalds – Because they kill children
Benson & Hedges – Because they kill grown ups
Stella – Because people who drink it beat up their wives and anyone found with them.
Shell – Because they make too much money as do HSBC,Barclays, and pretty much every brand of bank
Goldman Sachs – because of that dick that was on here the other day.

This could go on a lot further but I’m getting bored with it now..

I think on the whole I’d rather think about the picnic I’m going to make than the brands that I can’t really summon up the energy to ‘hate’

I have one word, and that word is Bonio.

It may just be me, but I find being preached to about world poverty by a hypocritical, pompous, self important, tax dodging multimillionaire in a ludicrous cowboy hat brings out the irrational hatred quite nicely.

Andy

Yep them dog biscuits are right bastards.

Carlsberg
Haven Holidays
Oakley
Rover
Renault
Laser tools
Dyson
Sky
Man Utd
Apple

Mont Blanc pens.

I love using decent pens, but there’s nothing that screams look at me more than a bloke (always male) with that little white star (inevitably on a ballpoint, not even a fountain pen)waving around as he tries to think he’s important in a meeting.

Tesco – too powerful, screw locals and suppliers.
Asda = favour imports, screw locals
anything Israeli – obviously. the real terror state
Volvo – a bit irrational but so what.
Nike – sweat shops, too American, omnipresent.

Generally I favour British, local, independent, non air freighted etc

ratherbeintobago – Member

Excellent call there all round.

Any company thatn uses text speak in it’s name, for example Claims4U.

The North Face, if they want me to wear their logo so prominently they can pay me to wear their outdoor gear.

Hmmmm. People seem to want an explanation of my entry of Hope. So here goes:-

Hubs. They make a nice noise but are from cheap metals. I’ve had flanges (I do like that word) crack and deform. Axles bend. Freehubs deform.

I don’t get these issues (at least as often) with other brands.

Headsets. They’re expensive compared to a lot of competition and not any better.

Seat clamps. I’m heavy. Their clamps are seemingly not up to the job of keeping my seatpost in place.

Brakes. They fade like no others. Shimano XT are cheaper and better. Hayes are cheaper and just as good. I’ve had them repeatedly leak and the fittings deform when adjusted (and I’m quite delicate with spanners). Used to spend all my life fixing or bleeding the useless crap – haven’t used them for years now and have finally realised that hydraulic brakes can be fit n forget.

Perhaps if they stopped making things from cheese they’d be better.

Just because Hope charge a lot for their products does not mean they’re not cheap and nasty.

Used to spend all my life fixing or bleeding the useless crap – haven’t used them for years now and have finally realised that hydraulic brakes can be fit n forget.

To counter that, my X2s, while they’re noticeably less powerful than the Avids they replaced, have been fit & forget. The Avids needed bleeding on a fortnightly basis (the LBS reckons I was by no means alone in this) and howled whenever I braked.

Andy

Just thought of some more tedious brands:
Manchester United
Beckham
Reiss
D&G
Endura