Does the entire Innocent Smoothies aesthetic strike you as deeply fucking irritating?

http://i40.tinypic.com/5x3peb.png

ooky pooky poo! blee blee blee

http://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/07/11/innocent-drinks-tweet-sparks-social-media-pet-o2-tango-and-betfair

saw a postman yesterday. he was wearing an official post office t-shirt that said 'Postie' on the front.

This shit makes me feel like Peter Hitchens

jesus - just "jesus" is all i can think.

Fuck these guys for ruining pictures of dogs.

http://www.thedrum.com/stuff/2013/07/11/tesco-mobile-takes-o2-twitter-rap-battle

ah ffs

these people are the most evil members of society who aren't actually committing violent crimes or working in positions of power.

https://twitter.com/tescomobile/status/377401111029612545

Whole twitter feed seems to be basically 'twee joke'- 'reply: someone saying Tesco mobile is fucking shit'-'earnest enquiries if it's anything they can help with'

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/tescomobile";>@tescomobile</a> Yeah, I can watch porn on it 24/7.</p>— CuЯtis (@CurtisFatteh) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisFatteh/statuses/378477359810093056";>September 13, 2013</a></blockquote>
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Whole twitter feed seems to be basically 'twee joke'- 'reply: someone saying Tesco mobile is fucking shit'-'earnest enquiries if it's anything they can help with'

i work for a big digital powerhouse and i pity the social media guys in a way. ours don't really do quite as wacky as that, tho still wacky as fuck. it's like this optimistic little chirping bird popping up with a "happy friday!" and all these hordes of broken-by-life illiterates ripping its feathers off and eating its guts and shouting.

broken hordes otm

otm, really.

was going to propose a new board description

Approved.

i feel it functions as a mission statement as well as a description

a proud day for me

it's definitely a good'un.

did that thing where it made me feel amgry and sad at its otmness.

Starting to think ukip might have a point about this lot tbh:

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr06/2013/9/4/11/enhanced-buzz-13313-1378307221-0.jpg

http://www.buzzfeed.com/copyranter/brilliant-award-winning-romania-tourism-campaign

I quite like the Romania adverts tbh, though not necessarily the one pictured. Seems a fairly effective way to fight back against a tidal wave of negative propaganda.

idg that one
Kate Moss? Middleton? What's the Romania connection? Why would I care what the women look like? what?
Shit punctuation too.

'Come to [name of country] - the women are really pretty and the beer is cheap!' is a standard first-wave new Europe tourism message, followed about a year later by 'come to [name of country] by all means but please stop getting drunk and harassing the women'.

Arrests of British nationals in Romania on trumped up spying charges, followed by string of terrorist atrocities in cities throughout UK wd be the baller response to xenophobic propaganda imo

'Come to [name of country] - the women are really pretty and the beer is cheap!' is a standard first-wave new Europe tourism message, followed about a year later by 'come to [name of country] by all means but please stop getting drunk and harassing the women'.

otmfm

http://www.gatwickairport.com/static/images/gatwick-airport-logo.svg

THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN SPEAKING

We've had to 404 that request of yours.

Unfortunately we couldn't find the page you were looking for. But don't worry, we've notified Air Traffic Control and they're getting right on to it.

Why not try the site search (top right of this page), or go back to the homepage?

Google Cloud came back with "Oh noes! There is no preview available" today.

you're asking for that, keeping your files on a cloud

Gah, T-Mobile:

404 - Page Not Found
"MUNCH. BUUUURP."

Sorry about this but the page you were after
has obviously been gobbled up by our greedy Android Bot.

Off topic but I still laugh every time rte.ie's 404 page comes back accompanied by a picture of Shergar.

just got an email from our ceo outlining 600 job losses, and at the end of it all he said, referencing the company mascot, this fucking puppet thing that appears on hr, emails, let's call him "pink":

"pink's structure will remain unchanged" beside a little jpg of the puppet.

like... wtf.

Send that to Private Eye.

I'll have to do a grab of the page. But I definitely will.

They changed it before I could grab.

There's a sort of denial going on with this stuff. Ooky pook, we're just sending the A-team in to have a little look at your tumour and see if it's a grower-bigger or a stay-the-samer ...

It might be a bit of a stretch but I think whimsy is genuinely warm and comforting, or at least harmless, if it's on a birthday card you are drawing for your aunty when you are seven, or a cartoon of 'pirate paul' you draw on an envelope and leave at your workmate's desk (he is also called paul) - if it's within a close relationship with a specific person.

What they're doing is taking that warmth and applying it to things that are abstract and technical (404 messages) or transactional (business' twitter accounts and adverts). Trying to steal the warmth and silliness, clothe themselves in it, whilst simultaneously invading that whimsical, even infantile, close personal space far more efficiently than e.g. the Dolmio pasta puppet family are able to.

It's even a step on from the phenomena of Nike employing cool-hunters to go to squats in Berlin and cream off the aesthetic, or raves with corporate sponsors - appropriating people's dangerous, edgy adolescent things is a step behind appropriating people's silly, childish things

This morning, bought a bottle of this water to get some change for the bus:

http://i.imgur.com/n90pQsF.jpg

haha the most offensive part is all sneaking off to one side. I SAW YOU

xp smdh at your CEO, Garda

it obv caused a massive outcry. it's prob written for him by someone else, who is prob paid really well to do this. just defies belief.

THE TYRRELLS ALTERNATIVE FIVE-A-DAY

Steamed broccoli, herbal tea, sit-ups: nothing terribly wrong with any of those (in moderation). But there is such a thing as taking it too far, you know.

Which is why we came up with our own lifestyle guide, an alternative five-a-day. It's a simple list of things to keep your spirits up. Well, it works for us!

A portion of chips in newspaper
A swig of squash
A fairground ride on the pier
A stick of rock
A big bowl of proper English crisps

[picture of old lady holding up placard which reads as follows:]

NOTHING ARTIFICIAL
No funny stuff whatsoever.

GLUTEN FREE
Just in case you were wondering.

VEGAN FRIENDLY
Free from animals.

my local shop for unpopular/discontinued brands is selling Glacéau vitamin water for 39p a bottle at the moment. good work everyone

http://www.businessinsider.com/tesco-mobiles-twitter-account-is-genius-2013-10?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+(Business+Insider)

Tesco Mobile taking off the kid gloves.

that's kinda funny tbh

is Richard Feloni made up like the two "trolls" in this bullshit?

sarah it'd be funny if the mystery tweeters weren't mysteriously aping slogans from Tesco mobile's current ad campaign.

oh well, it sucks then

digging into those two Twitters makes me less sure they're socks, but more confused as to who gives 1 fuck what mobile phone network people use