It's about 2 of your daily allowance of needless additional packaging as well.
otm - that "best eaten with one of these" guff is particularly galling. So it's not better eaten with your own washable, non-disposable metal fork rather than their throw away wooden spork then? Wankers.
― Bill A, Monday, 12 October 2009 13:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Wooden spork imparts the correct experience, do not backtalk their aesthetic engineers
― mh, Monday, 12 October 2009 14:05 (fourteen years ago) link
So hateful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RBSy34mCLM
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 4 March 2010 10:08 (fourteen years ago) link
it probably would if their smoothies weren't actually head and shoulders above the competition.
no
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 4 March 2010 10:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I was thinking "hey that's not so hateful" but then he said "baby photo wall" and I was RARARARARARAA-HULK-SMASH-HATE-RAGE!!!
― might seem normal but is actually (snoball), Thursday, 4 March 2010 12:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Hi there -
Our records indicate that you recently cancelled your BE Broadband service. This makes us very sad.
We want to know what we can do to improve our service so that others don't leave for the same reasons and so that one day...one day...you might come back.
We would really appreciate it if you could take fewer than 5 minutes to answer a couple questions about your experience and why you left. We would appreciate it so much that we will enter you in a prize draw to win £50 worth of Amazon vouchers!
This survey will be open until the end of the day Friday (5pm) - please take a minute to help us out:
http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22A6GL3RN5X
Thank you so much!
All the best -
Everyone @ BE
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 25 March 2010 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
it makes me sad too
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 25 March 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Guess which company has this as their email signature disclaimer?
Hello [:-) It's the small print! Oh yes - first, this email is confidential and legally privileged, so if it's landed in your inbox by mistake please delete it - think "Men In Black" pen zapper thingy. Please also let me know I've been a Muppet and sent it to the wrong person so I can stop sending you erudite but actually irrelevant communiques. Secondly, this isn't a contract. No way. Not a chance. So don't pretend it is or tell your friends the deal's done - it isn't. If you're reading this you're probably either: (a) a lawyer, in which case I can count on you to do the right and professional thing; or (b) bored out of your mind and reading anything just to pass the time, in which case I'm sorry this disclaimer's not longer and thank you for your attention to detail. Loving your work; have a smashing day!
― niminy-piminy cricket (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 25 March 2010 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
BE's support staff responses were littered with mistakes - they seem to have hired a load of young Bulgarians on the cheap and it was surprising to see such a trade-off wrt poor written English from a major company.
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 25 March 2010 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
did you seriously change broadband providers because of spelling mistakes
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 25 March 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
omg u racist
― DarraghmacKwacz (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 March 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
he did it bcs of bulgarian workers there DO YOU SEE
they seem to have hired a load of young Bulgarians on the cheap
do you read the internet? you don't have to go to bulgaria to find really shitty written english
― goole, Thursday, 25 March 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
duh, course u don't but it's cheaper
― DarraghmacKwacz (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 March 2010 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
England is a place where you can find really shitty written English.
― black jeans stained by (snoball), Thursday, 25 March 2010 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
england for the shittily written english, that's what i say
― DarraghmacKwacz (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 March 2010 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
no! i was moving house
i just saw the badly-written english and thought 'wow, how unprofessional'. i've not noticed it on anywhere near that level from any other corporate correspondance.
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 25 March 2010 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
"totes unaceptable" i told them. those were my sentimonies to be sure.
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 25 March 2010 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
"DEAR BE: U MAD"
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 25 March 2010 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
― niminy-piminy cricket (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 25 March 2010 17:43
my god that's repulsive, what company is it so i can vow to never use them?
― NI, Saturday, 27 March 2010 12:40 (fourteen years ago) link
am gonna guess innocent
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Saturday, 27 March 2010 12:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Would put money on both of you having used this company already this morning.
― niminy-piminy cricket (Upt0eleven), Saturday, 27 March 2010 12:58 (fourteen years ago) link
oh shit it's not charmin is it
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Saturday, 27 March 2010 13:00 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cToziPN-6d4
KILL
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Monday, 12 April 2010 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
― gucci magnet (acoleuthic), Monday, 12 April 2010 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link
let me show you how it's done
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80v5Wueed10
― fuck in rainbows, ☔ (dyao), Monday, 12 April 2010 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
oh no, an advert
― Big Fate (as Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner) (history mayne), Monday, 12 April 2010 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
what is that song, it is fucking disgusting!
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Monday, 12 April 2010 15:51 (fourteen years ago) link
the bud one i mean
Shit beer commercials are a fact of life.
― Convenience Fish (snoball), Monday, 12 April 2010 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
The song from the Budweiser ad is "All Together Now" by The Beatles. I think it was used for another commercial years ago but I can't remember for what.
― Convenience Fish (snoball), Monday, 12 April 2010 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
hello
We like our orange juice because it tastes very, very good.
But there's no need to bang on about it, so here's a picture of an annoyed owl dressed as a tree to help pass the time.
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
― niminy-piminy cricket (Upt0eleven), Saturday, 27 March 2010 12:58 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark
still wanna know who this is
― pretty girl, filking a clown (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Google btw
― niminy-piminy cricket (Upt0eleven), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
that figures
― pretty girl, filking a clown (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Huh, was expecting this to have been bumped for this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8619028.stm
― if, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
funny you say that, i bought the dragonfruit one of those at the weekend, and it had some bullshit on the side like "rosie is at glastonbury. justin's tent got stuck in the mud. vitamin water won't help with this, but it might help you win an arm wrestling contest with your gran :)"
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
"vitamin water won't help with this, but it might help to murder thousands of children"
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
:)
― conrad, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i believe this is covered upthread, complete with painstakingly typed-out blurbs
― pretty girl, filking a clown (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:09 (fourteen years ago) link
"here at innocent we are busy knitting wooly hats for genocidal soldiers in rwanda. for every baby that's killed, we'll hand pick you an orange! ps: david hasselhoff!"
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
this whole schtick actually makes people distrust human kindness and enthusiasm.
^^^yep
― ljubljana, Thursday, 15 April 2010 01:15 (fourteen years ago) link
That innocent video posted a month ago... It's like The Office but everyone's David Brent. horrible.
Personally can't think of any company trying to do the OTT nice approach, except for banks and petroleum companies, so it's not really as irritating when they are so obviously fucking people over at every turn.
― spare the powder, spoil the finger (S-), Thursday, 15 April 2010 01:28 (fourteen years ago) link
There's that creepy thing Westpac are doing where they have those giant banners on the window saying HI I AM FRANK SMITH, BRANCH MANAGER and father of two and snowboard enthusiast and superman and bla bla bla and I'm here to help!"
If I was a bank manager and had to have that shit plastered outside my workplace I think I'd find a new job.
― Gay nineties icecream party (Trayce), Thursday, 15 April 2010 02:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Identity Theft
― Jarlrmai, Thursday, 15 April 2010 08:44 (fourteen years ago) link
http://innocentdrinks.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451ba8c69e201347fd83c1c970c-popup
FUCK OFF
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 15 April 2010 09:12 (fourteen years ago) link
http://imgur.com/53Myi.jpg
Ugh, this.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 15 April 2010 09:13 (fourteen years ago) link
"human kindness and enthusiasm" is a myth devised to sell you crap products.
― Check this, in fact. How exciting. He literally cuts the mustard. (snoball), Thursday, 15 April 2010 11:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Those British Vitamin Water blurbs are so British. Flatmates, snogged, trainers, Glastonbury, prawn cocktail crisps.
― HOOS zing-steen (jaymc), Thursday, 15 April 2010 13:34 (fourteen years ago) link