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

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to clarify, the san pellegrino drinks are from their fruit-drink range, not the pure sparkling water one

there's also shandy and beer but workplace ethics etc ;_;

Super Cool Family Roots SEV-AAHN (country matters), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 13:27 (fifteen years ago) link

when i buy bottled water it's mostly for the bottle, to refill with tap water and carry it around until it gets gross - can't go anywhere without a bottle of water, i get thirsty easily.

lex pretend, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 13:31 (fifteen years ago) link

Those San Pellegrino cans you can get in Eat are in serious danger of turning me into some kind of ultra-ponce who refuses to drink from any can that doesn't come with a bit of foil across the top.

Matt DC, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 13:38 (fifteen years ago) link

I love San Pellegrino water. I do refill plenty tho as buying water is PRICEY.

I also drink Innocent Smoothies but I don't think it's wanky/wrong to really hate that marketing aesthetic. It is seriously horrible.

Local Garda, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 13:41 (fifteen years ago) link

when i buy bottled water it's mostly for the bottle, to refill with tap water and carry it around until it gets gross - can't go anywhere without a bottle of water, i get thirsty easily

^ Yes, absolutely.

a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 13:47 (fifteen years ago) link

bottled water is immoral.

Jarlrmai, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 13:49 (fifteen years ago) link

sex before marriage is immoral

Local Garda, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 13:50 (fifteen years ago) link

more fun though tbh

Jarlrmai, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 14:00 (fifteen years ago) link

they'll be selling us sex in a bottle before long

However, the year 2005 Curicó Unido had his revenge (country matters), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 14:01 (fifteen years ago) link

i would buy it, but only to refill it after

Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 14:02 (fifteen years ago) link

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Mark G, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 14:02 (fifteen years ago) link

MarriageWater - Hen-pecked? Left to do all the housework? We've devised something for those special occasions of monogamous cohabitation when you simply must find instant liquid refreshment!

However, the year 2005 Curicó Unido had his revenge (country matters), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link

they'll be selling us sex in a bottle before long

Sausage in a bottle - best song Sting ever wrote.

Dom Cry For Me, Passantino (NickB), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link

Those San Pellegrino cans you can get in Eat are in serious danger of turning me into some kind of ultra-ponce who refuses to drink from any can that doesn't come with a bit of foil across the top.

^^^this. they also have them at italian delis near me.

mmmm space tang (stevie), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 14:26 (fifteen years ago) link

san pellegrino, now THERE'S a nestle owned company you can NESTLE up to

Local Garda, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 14:27 (fifteen years ago) link

Abolish money?
What a stupid thing to say, they haven't thought that through have they.

not_goodwin, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link

"Pheromone sex scent. Women cannot resist this powerful love
smell. Scientifically distilled from mystical African orchids."
Wow! Oh look, it's medically proven. "This stuff attracts women
like you would not believe -- Karachi Medical Gazette.
Available at all good sex shops." This is it Eddie -- Girl City
here we come! What do you think old chum?

snoball, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 14:32 (fifteen years ago) link

Unfortunately, Eddie is the name of his dog.

Mark G, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link

Yep, Innocent Smoothie bottles can and will explode if you leave them lying around. Left a barely-sipped one on my desk at the end of a day at work and arrived back the next day to a frightening scene of strawberry carnage. Was all over the desk, my papers, between the keys of my keyboard and, impressively, on the (really rather high) ceiling.

I believe the strawberry splatters are there to this day. It delights me that at least I made some kind of mark in that job. Ho ho.

I don't drink them anymore, though. Too sickly.

Zoe Espera, Wednesday, 8 April 2009 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link

six months pass...

Indefensible

Matt DC, Monday, 12 October 2009 10:21 (fourteen years ago) link

Holy Mother of God. End days.

GamalielRatsey, Monday, 12 October 2009 10:39 (fourteen years ago) link

And even more sinister than the original, which sort of implied a single monstrous grandmother to all those wretches, because presumably for several of the people in this reunion there really isn't anyone like grandma, because she's dead.

GamalielRatsey, Monday, 12 October 2009 10:49 (fourteen years ago) link

Matt since you seem to be our resident expert here, what is the difference between San Pellegrino Aranciata (ORANGE label) and San Pellegrino La Rossa (RED label)? They both appear to be the exact same drink yet both options appear in my local poncerie.

Tracer Hand, Monday, 12 October 2009 10:58 (fourteen years ago) link

La Rossa - blood oranges?

Obscured by clowns (NickB), Monday, 12 October 2009 11:07 (fourteen years ago) link

Presumably the La Rossa is blood orange related? I've never seen it, but I'd imagine it would therefore taste very similar to the original orange one?

Matt DC, Monday, 12 October 2009 11:08 (fourteen years ago) link

I had San Pelligrino Aranciata Amara last time I was in Italy and it was lovely - think it might have been blood oranges, it was quite bitter. I had it with my lunch pretty much every day. I've been looking for it here ever since without success. This news of 'La Rossa' is a promising development.

Ismael Klata, Monday, 12 October 2009 11:24 (fourteen years ago) link

http://www.innocentdrinks.co.uk/images/vegpots/img_vegpots1.jpg

Saw an advert for these yesterday. I seethed with rage.

Lovely and tender, like velvet. (Upt0eleven), Monday, 12 October 2009 12:26 (fourteen years ago) link

Yeah, I saw some yesterday.

Dunno, might be nice, forget how much they cost.

Mark G, Monday, 12 October 2009 12:43 (fourteen years ago) link

It's about 2 of your daily allowance of needless additional packaging as well.

Tracer Hand, Monday, 12 October 2009 12:59 (fourteen years ago) link

The Thai Curry one is revolting.

I thought I could make it work because you look a bit like a man (aldo), Monday, 12 October 2009 13:10 (fourteen years ago) link

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

four months pass...

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

three weeks pass...

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

DarraghmacKwacz (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 March 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link

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

did you seriously change broadband providers because of spelling mistakes

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

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 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


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