It's football sponsorship gone mad...

These ppl are good practice for lying in other areas of life I think, attendant guilt is not a problem so you can really get your eye in and find out what might work / what you're comfortable with.

attendant guilt is when you pretend not to have any change in american bathrooms

Btw someone on the street wouldn't even get eye contact with me. It's v v rare for anyone whatsoever to call at my door like this so I prob had my guard down.

anyhoo to come back to where we were - football clubs not really being baddies here in protecting their legal obligations to paying sponsors?

i mean fuck sponsorship and filthy lucre in general obv but if Stonewall wanted an effective anti-homophobia campaign they shd have thought about whose coat-tails they were riding, imo

cos y'know damn well this is the kind of thing marketing brains come up with to stealth spam their products in the teeth of rival marketing brains

which makes me think maybe the key players in PR shd all align themselves to a hooligan firm and sort this out proper old school, like

agree with that to an extent, but in an uncharacteristic burst of decency i'm leaning towards 'you'da thunk that they might have handwaved such concerns for the sake of a high-level one-off campaign for a good cause'

I have no bother at all getting rid of people, somehow I seem to naturally back them into a space where they've nowhere to go. No idea how I'm afraid. Cold callers are hanging up on me within thirty seconds; I thank them a lot and I don't want to waste their time, and off they go. Even Jehovah's Witnesses don't hang around ("Have you ever thought about X?" "Yes!").

Those street students are more difficult, but I worked out a technique - I get so I'm passing at a slight incline, then with two paces between us I suddenly lurch in their direction. They naturally take a pace back, then when they've recovered I've got half-a-yard and I've lost them.

lovely move by klata there, he's left him standing

old-manned him

dad used to invite the jhvhs in and discuss the shite out of them

they called to me a year or two back, there was a 12.30 kick off, i said sorry lads there's a match started and i got a v smug 'i think this is a little more important than that don't you' and i went to flat-eyed radge and a blunt 'no' immediately, and that worked too

i used to chat to JWs but i realized they weren't "interested" in what i had to say except as they'd learned to refute it, and i didn't really want to convert them to a life of sin cos i'd probably feel bad, so i quit the whole exercize and now i politely tell them and the Mormons that we'll agree to disagree and goodbye now

that reminds me of another stray train of thought about people who really wanna talk about issues but don't really wanna think about their own thoughts or change their mind or anything, jeez i shd get my own thread

i once had a super narky chugger man give it the "oh look at you in your smart clothes while the world starves", v unsavoury quarrel

i thought i looked pukka in that orphan-skin suit as well

was he dressed in cardboard or

i had a massive argument with anti-fur people outside a vintage shop before. i tore the guy to shreds, he was left with nothing. they were basically abusing anyone shopping there because it sold second-hand fur.

back on topic tho, isn't paddy power a pretty good partner for this campaign? i mean given their influence in the circles of bantz?

Nah. They're a brand for whom foreigners marry donkeys or are otherwise backwards, chavs should be tranquilized, and the Irish are uncivilized (like an Irish kid beating up other Irish kids at a British school or something). Their marketing is in the Ryanair O'Leary school of envelope-pushing, and they shouldn't really be let near a campaign like this. Football vs. Homophobia probably otm.

My bad. I knew they'd done controversial ads but didn't realise they'd been so offensive, my only connection with them now is via Twitter (others RTing, I don't follow them) where it seems to just be football gags.

fvh definitely otm, totally self-serving and patronising if not even broadly counter-productive campaign

It's interesting that pp take this "tolerant" tack. They also sponsor an amputees' football tournament, and seeing as they, iirc, have an ad where blind ppl playing football is mined for comedy, they prob sponsor that in some form too.

it's like carbon-offsetting but for bantz

footbal schmarming

Joey Barton is an odd choice to front this new Paddy Power promotion anti-homophobia campaign, given his previous for calling a fellow professional a ladyboy and asking if he was "pre op or post op"

I was watching Barton being interviewed by Clare Balding the other night. She read out his rap sheet to him, except she did that thing where football offences are treated as equivalent to irl ones, so you had 'arguing with referee' being accorded equal weight to 'stubbing cigar out in guy's eye, detaching his retina'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl_fq6TEij0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E94_sxPbTps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn-MxQJ3Aj4

ALL the Management and staff at Imagine Cruising are very excited to be all aboard with Swindon Town Football Club for the new season.

We feel the momentum is really starting to build and as the new Mainline Sponsors we really cannot wait until the big Kick-Off. We have already been busy in the build up to the season opener and over the past couple of weeks had the pleasure to spend some time with Nathan and Louis Thompson, as they swapped the grass of football pitches to the decks of a cruise ship.

The time spent with them both was fun and we hope our sponsorship will continue to be fun, interactive and rewarding. Following our time on the ship, we are challenging you as fans to come on board and to enter our joint competition. You could win a signed ball which will be personally presented by Nathan and Louis as well as two VIP tickets for a selected 2014/15 home league fixture.

All we ask is that you log on via YouTube each day to watch Nathan and Louis. The clips will hopefully capture your imagination. You will very much see the fun side of football before the action starts and it gets serious!

So, do not forget to follow the YouTube clips each day. Start day one by clicking on the below link. Please be patient and enjoy the build-up to further instruction on how to enter from both players on Friday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INuXgTILnBc

O__O

"we're into Progressive Insurance stoppage time"

fuck off

https://twitter.com/paddypower/status/571976724424085504

do you think they've hired the Islams and disableds for the day?