n/m
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Friday, 18 July 2008 12:59 (4 years ago) Permalink
Possibly cf with the ILM Noah and the Whale thread, actually.
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:00 (4 years ago) Permalink
it probably would if their smoothies weren't actually head and shoulders above the competition.
― G00blar, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
Not really. Although I suppose as part of (precursor to?) the whole twee countryside picnic Waitrose type adverts with some warbling accoustic number in the background I can see how it could grate a bit.
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
oh xp, 'cos yes their xmoothies are (mostly) very good.
I used to have to deal with their marketing department on a regular basis, and they were uber-cynical cunts of the highest order, even by marketing department standards.
― Matt DC, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
xpost huh also i think every supermarket now has a generic smoothie line with the damn-near exact same packaging aesthetic.
― G00blar, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
Snakes On A Plane!
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
The aesthetic is repellent and the drinks are insanely over-priced bollocks so yes just a bit.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
― G00blar, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
^^^somerfield
xp Not going to their picnic then?
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
― G00blar, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:08 (4 years ago) Permalink
This Water (tm) is full of the lovingly squeezed juice of forty-eight cranberries OK WE GET IT I DO NOT WANT TO SPEND 2 QUID ON A SMALL BOTTLE OF FRUIT
― Just got offed, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:08 (4 years ago) Permalink
Earl Okins playing...
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
...at the picnic that is.
yes wtf with this water
― G00blar, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
This is what happens when you let Belle and Sebastian fans into the food and drink industry.
― Matt DC, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:10 (4 years ago) Permalink
They invented it and then everyone else ripped it off. I didn't mind it when they did it.
But when everything you buy these days has got a section in their packaging saying "Hello you, welcome to the side of the packet! My name is Tad Fadley's new urban wenge and did you know that I am made out of 100% pure organic smugness. The scrummy goo inside me was personally farted out through the buttocks of a lovely young homosexual called Jason - MmmmmMMM! Oh it's delicious, drink me drink me! I'd really like to know what you think of me so drop me a letter, fax or even a tattooed baby (LOL! JKS!) of what you think. If you have a phone you can actually speak to Jason himself while he shits into a vat of pure untreated fairtrade effluent." it gets rather annoying, yeah.
― the next grozart, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
I couldn't tell whether this was a musical subgenre or a category of porn.
― jaymc, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
"The people at Innocent deal with the fruit-based products, and This Water with the water-based ones." - actual comment on bottle of This Water I once regrettably bought
(both Innocent and This Water deal with fruit-and-water-based products)
lol DL
― Just got offed, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
I just get annoyed by so much other stuff, this is pretty far down the list.
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
dude i used to work with tried to jump ship to their marketing department AND FAILED HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
― DG, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
Tad Fadley's new urban wenge
Oh for the days etc
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
Soft drinks as I know and understand them.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
who gives a fuck about this
― blueski, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
No, this is the real shit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thxAqdxGSPU
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
I inadvertently found myself at their picnic a few years ago. Ruined my afternoon in the park. Fuckers.
― Upt0eleven, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
And they're charging for it this year. Double fuckers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5F23TxSpZk
I would drink all this orange pop
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
i had a smoothie phase, but after deciding to cut down on sugar i am back on the cherry coke
― blueski, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
Cresta: The blackcurrent beverage that induces strokes.
― Upt0eleven, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
^ Xpost! LOLZ. Lolz at phrase 'warbling acoustic number'. Yeah Innocent Smoothies....I'm just waiting for the Ribena (notsotoothkind) style scandal to happen. "Hello you, welcome to the side of the packet! My name is Tad Fadley's new urban wenge and did you know that I am made out of 100% pure organic smugness. The scrummy goo inside me was personally farted out through the buttocks of a lovely young homosexual called Jason - MmmmmMMM! Oh it's delicious, drink me drink me! I'd really like to know what you think of me so drop me a letter, fax or even a tattooed baby (LOL! JKS!) of what you think. If you have a phone you can actually speak to Jason himself while he shits into a vat of pure untreated fairtrade effluent." it gets rather annoying, yeahHahaha But like Ned says, this is irritating but not as much as many other things.
― VeronaInTheClub, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
I miss the 70s and I want to go back there right now. This century fucking sucks.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
When did adverts stop trying to be hip? Those Noodle ones are grebt
― Upt0eleven, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
I am an unashamed Innocent fan.
― Scik Mouthy, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
"It's frothy at the mouth, man!"
― Mark G, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
xpost now I have the Billy Joel song in my head!
Yeah, back to the seventies with its needless foreign wars and epidemics of knife crime in our streets.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
I was going to poll every flavour of Rubicon earlier this week and never got round to it.
― Matt DC, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
matt dc - do it!
― the next grozart, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
100% pure organic smugness.
I'm all for eating fresh stuff, but this kind of twee bollocks just makes me want to smoke a carton of R0thmans, drink six Red Bulls, and eat a kebab containing Alsatian meat cooked rare.
― snoball, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
er...
― CharlieNo4, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
It must be good for you, it's got cherries in it.
― snoball, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
Diet Coke = no sugar Smoothies = a whole shitload of sugar
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
Diet Coke = no meaning in the universe
― blueski, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
^OTM
― Ed, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
People who don't like Diet Coke should just kill themselves, imo
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
Don't tell me, I only drink any of that shit as a mixer.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
Srsly shit ALL TASTES THE SAME
Was it a twee bottle of vitamin water that tried to be matey with you? Normal vitamin water is fine.
"Hey, what's up man, hi bro"
"If you don't like my song, you don't have to listen, Britta, alright? I'm an artist, and I write what I feel. And I feel that you suck."
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 January 2013 20:09 (4 months ago) Permalink
i just bought my first ever innocent product :(
their juices are half price in sainsbury :(
never hated myself for buying something this much :(
― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 January 2013 20:20 (4 months ago) Permalink
> How many fucking tiny bobble hats do you need in one square foot of space?
that's a thing though, isn't it. once a year all the bottles come with tiny bobble hats and some money goes to some charity, somehow.
― koogs, Thursday, 17 January 2013 20:22 (4 months ago) Permalink
p much impossible to spend money at a supermarket without contributing to corporate dickheadery, self-forgiveness is the path of least resistance
― imago, Thursday, 17 January 2013 20:23 (4 months ago) Permalink
I visited the Rackspace offices last year and they've got bizarre grassy bits and fake parks and stuff inside the building.
This mini has been converted to a four person meeting room
Swings
The reception area is lifted straight out of a Mirror's Edge level
― Stop Gerrying Me! (onimo), Friday, 18 January 2013 11:40 (4 months ago) Permalink
preschool or workplace, who can guess
― just sayin, Friday, 18 January 2013 11:46 (4 months ago) Permalink
― AlanSmithee, Friday, 18 January 2013 11:51 (4 months ago) Permalink
i'm having my ape hour
― imago, Friday, 18 January 2013 12:09 (4 months ago) Permalink
Fuck those barefoot people.
― Walter Galt, Friday, 18 January 2013 23:59 (4 months ago) Permalink
oh god, for a gigantic buzzsaw to fly along at head height here
― Sgt. Biscuits, Saturday, 19 January 2013 00:14 (4 months ago) Permalink
that one guy in solitary confinement in the little cabin
― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Saturday, 19 January 2013 00:26 (4 months ago) Permalink
actually that would probably be my chosen seat if i worked there
― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Saturday, 19 January 2013 00:27 (4 months ago) Permalink
fuck off out of my cabin chuckleheads
― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Saturday, 19 January 2013 00:28 (4 months ago) Permalink
i wd be down for being barefoot at work tbh. also having my own cabin.
― non-elitist melted poo (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 January 2013 09:42 (4 months ago) Permalink
turns out the french aren't immune to the exact same twee copy style:
http://www.micheletaugustin.com/indexflash.htm
― jonathan livingston seapunk (c sharp major), Thursday, 4 April 2013 21:30 (1 month ago) Permalink
Is that site actually aimed at French people, or just English speaking people who want to buy twee food labelled in French?
― Will you see a political publicity stunt? (snoball), Thursday, 4 April 2013 21:38 (1 month ago) Permalink
(my French isn't actually good enough to tell the difference)
french people! this stuff isn't sold in the uk (in fact the packet is very proud that some of their biscuits could be found in, specifically, the dean and deluca on broadway in new york city, in 2010)
― jonathan livingston seapunk (c sharp major), Thursday, 4 April 2013 23:00 (1 month ago) Permalink
oh god michel et augustin... i have a few friends who worked or interned there and they made it sound just as twee as you'd think. bt it's changed a bit the past couple of years and now supposedly either michel or augustin is a major pain in the ass. i have to hand it to them though, some of their biscuits are really tasty. quite expensive too though.
― Jibe, Friday, 5 April 2013 12:29 (1 month ago) Permalink
according to local estate agent, W12 has been renamed 'Chez Bu'...
― koogs, Friday, 5 April 2013 18:48 (1 month ago) Permalink
L___ G___ shared Innocent drinks's photo.If you are running in the London Marathon today, we salute you. And if you're not doing anything active today, we salute you too. It's Sunday after all.
― RIP Muppet Fat Chef (onimo), Sunday, 21 April 2013 11:57 (1 month ago) Permalink
bye bye our pieminister piewe're really going to miss youand that is no lieit's just those good ol' boysare waiting with theirmash on the side singingthis is the day we'll eat piethis is the day we'll eat pie
Printed on the side of their takeaway bags. Have these people even ever heard the fucking song? Half the lines don't fit ffs.
― Elvis was a hero to most but he never her (ledge), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 13:47 (1 week ago) Permalink
forgot the crucial exclamation mark at the end
none of it fits. fuck pieminister.
― ... (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 13:54 (1 week ago) Permalink
fuck off and pie
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 13:56 (1 week ago) Permalink
would be a great name for a shop
i hate myself and i want a pie
― The Parvenu Fucktard (onimo), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 13:59 (1 week ago) Permalink
pie antwoord
― caek, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 14:22 (1 week ago) Permalink
i immediately regret that post, please don't turn this into one of those threads, i apologize
― caek, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 14:24 (1 week ago) Permalink
iirc the instructions printed on the card box Pieminister pies come in say "open the flaps and munch". MISTAH WRIGHT!
― warm leveret (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 14:34 (1 week ago) Permalink
I'd forgive the twee if the pies weren't terrible
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 16 May 2013 14:10 (6 days ago) Permalink
have never had a pie that i'd really say was "nice". is it even possible? they're just soakage as far as i can tell.
― ... (LocalGarda), Thursday, 16 May 2013 14:23 (6 days ago) Permalink
nice is maybe the wrong word but you can't whack a good pie
― the league against cool sports (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 May 2013 14:25 (6 days ago) Permalink
yeah that's my feeling. perhaps the ones i've tried just aren't formidable enough. like what's the quintessentially great british pie?
i speak as someone who fucking loves their pub counterpart, a scotch egg. actually saying that i'd have to say the best pies i've had are the cold ones where you get a big slice and maybe some mustard with it.
― ... (LocalGarda), Thursday, 16 May 2013 14:27 (6 days ago) Permalink
that's a terrible thing to print on a bag. i hate the song "american pie". why would satan want to destory rock and roll? it doesn't even make any sense.
― Treeship, Thursday, 16 May 2013 14:28 (6 days ago) Permalink
xp Steak & Kidney has to be up there. Steak & ale also.
― Neil S, Thursday, 16 May 2013 14:28 (6 days ago) Permalink
aye a good steak and kidney is the pinnacle for me, assuming i can't just say "my nan's meat and potato pie" which i haven't eaten in 30-odd years. a great Cornish pasty can hit the spot too. apart from pasties, pie on the go is never fully satisfactory in my experience. can't beat a plate, a pile of mash and mushy peas and plenty of decent gravy to set a pie in its best light.
― the league against cool sports (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 May 2013 14:33 (6 days ago) Permalink
my chicken + leek pie beats anything pieminister could come up with. As annoying as PM have since become, they were always a staple at music festivals, where they were a notch above nasty festival burgers.
― food and boardgames and minimal techno (NotEnough), Thursday, 16 May 2013 14:42 (6 days ago) Permalink
Chicken & leek pie a great way to use up half a roast chicken.
― Neil S, Thursday, 16 May 2013 14:46 (6 days ago) Permalink
Those old thin crust (and presumably BSE-ridden) fish-and-chip-shop steak and kidney pies - classic.
Nu-pies are always too dry.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 16 May 2013 14:50 (6 days ago) Permalink
I have no problem with Pieminister pies as food objects - proper pastry, decent ingredients, not too dry - but the ridiculous names stick in my craw. Only one stamp on my card before I get a free one though so I'll have to suck it up a bit longer.
― Elvis was a hero to most but he never her (ledge), Thursday, 16 May 2013 14:53 (6 days ago) Permalink
The pies are alright but the little boxes you get them in are never big enough and you have to dig the stupid wooden fork thing in at awkward angles and sort of hack at the crust.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 16 May 2013 15:21 (6 days ago) Permalink
"Vegetablists"
― Matt DC, Thursday, 16 May 2013 15:22 (6 days ago) Permalink
Is this the right place to post about the new coke marketing ploy which involves putting peoples names on the bottles and pretending like its your best friend?
Fucking stupid.
― beingcutesince1980 (captain rosie), Thursday, 16 May 2013 15:24 (6 days ago) Permalink
Argh, please fuck off with this shit, everyone. JUST STOP IT NOW.
― emil.y, Thursday, 16 May 2013 15:24 (6 days ago) Permalink
xp
― Neil S, Thursday, 16 May 2013 15:25 (6 days ago) Permalink
"get in fella" - ugh fuck off
― ... (LocalGarda), Thursday, 16 May 2013 16:07 (6 days ago) Permalink
Its confused mixture of tweeness and clunky laddism feels very 2013.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 16 May 2013 16:11 (6 days ago) Permalink
Ghost of Jamie Oliver.
― ... (LocalGarda), Thursday, 16 May 2013 16:13 (6 days ago) Permalink
Less dissing of delicious pies itt plsBut I was wondering when they would get a mention on this thread :(
― kinder, Thursday, 16 May 2013 16:39 (6 days ago) Permalink