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

Are you in London? There are a few homeless charities, for example, that put a real value on what you donate, like Shelter or Crisis, where it's more straightforward (e.g. "£22 goes towards a room for one family for a night, plus dinner, in a shelter") - it makes it feel less like your donation is going towards something more vague.

I give what I can, when I can, and feel guilty that I resent most street fundraising operations. I wonder if anyone has studied them as a thing - do they do more good in the long run, reminding people of charity in general, or can they risk turning some people *off* to the concept by making them feel badgered or made to feel guilty for not stopping?

I didn't know that about the illegality of soliciting cash - feel less opposed to the chugging technique now (n.b. it's the technique not the cause that's the problem)

The only time I ever signed up to one was when a housemate who was a chugger needed one more signup to hit his quota so I signed up for two weeks then needed to pay a gas bill ... in those days though I wasn't securely employed. Swapping stories with housemate chugger about chugging vs what I did which was work in a charity shop, it sounded like he had a lot more confrontations and bad vibes on a day to day basis whereas the worst of it I ever had to deal with was shoplifters. He was being paid though and I was volunteering

i just tweeted verizon customer service and in their DM reply they said 'awesome sauce' :-(

i would cancel on the spot out of sheer spite/principle

xp and ot but it's not illegal in england & wales (or any other part of the UK afaik) to take cash donations on the street, although depending on the local authority the rules governing it are often tighter than they are for chugging

every charity would p much rather u commit to less over a longer period than drop a larger lump sum whenever. partly cos of operational efficiency (esp with implementing long term projects) but also to develop ur emotional narrative commitment to its cause instead of just giving urself a carefree serotonin hit

that's the line anyway. they're also counting on u never having the balls to cancel a dd even though ur freely entitled to do so at any time

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yeah this is all otm. Interestingly the fee paid by the charity to the fundraising company per successful signup amounts to about a year's worth of monthly payments, so the charity essentially makes no money at all in the 1st year. The fact that they all gladly pay attests to the fact that chugging is the most effective way of getting long-term regular donations, but all the same I've signed up for all the charities I support online to save them having to pay this. Well, that and the buddy thing &c (I imagine most of these guys are the kind of cunts who say "can I get a squiggle" when asking for a signature, also)

http://fud.community.services.support.microsoft.com/Fud/FileDownloadHandler.ashx?fid=ba47bea6-c01b-43e3-8e8e-0fa2bfce1d68

that doesn't even make any sense.

time was a man built something real

I remember when you could kick a block of reinforced concrete in the street...

Not completely ISA, but jfc @ all Lapka product videos (will not link to the ad pairing Satie with completely lunatic nonsense pseudo-jony-ive voiceover and slow motion gadget porn visuals of overpriced radiation sensors for humanitarian reasons)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdH-qN40eYE

(still not entirely sure the whole thing is not a parody)

jfc no way

http://www.wired.com/reviews/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/130304_lapka_0044-660x440.jpg

does it detect bovine levels of stupidity?

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went to an odeon cinema for the first time in an age and the cute, matey announcements were v much of this thread. this tone is spreading

http://i68.tinypic.com/k4jo9l.png

Once went into this bar in Glasgow for food and had to run away again before I sought out the person who wrote the menu and gave them an ickle punch in their oochy-coochy wee face:

http://www.thebutterflyandthepig.com/menu/

lock thread

4 whole pounds and 25 pee for all our soup and bread too

mmmm, pee

lol they actually do that Simpsons bit later on

Hotmail, specifically when I go to the Drafts folder and it's empty. Then there's this message:

There are no messages
in the Drafts folder :-)

It's the smiley that does it. What if I did have Drafts in the Drafts folder and you've gone and lost them, Microsoft?

Google does this when you clear the spam folder

Hooray, no spam here!

Congratulations! You've won the game!

Don't patronise me, Spider Solitaire on Easy difficulty.

Once went into this bar in Glasgow for food and had to run away again before I sought out the person who wrote the menu and gave them an ickle punch in their oochy-coochy wee face:

I certainly do NOT want to eat "billy goat's cheese", thanks. That would be disgusting, and is possibly illegal.

on the way home tonight i got accosted by a chugger as i came out of my local Tesco Express. i do not live in a swanky area, feel like this was a major escalation of hostilities

on my way home tonight i drank an innocent smoothie, setting in train some complex karmatic play

I am dying with laughter at "billy goat's cheese"

Fish & chips

Tittys traditional fish and chips, battered to death haddock wi’ mushy peas (all veggies beware they have nasty ham through the peees) and a slice of lemon. (Please be careful there may be one or two bones in the fish they had to move about you know)

I am going to assume "Tittys" means something different in Glasgow; besides there's more than enough in the rest of the entry for me to roll my eyes at

pretty sure that menu is some teaser marketing for the next Belle and Sebastian album

Titty's means the same in Glasgow and I have never heard this name or nickname before.

Haha ah man, I worked there for a year. The menu related bantz you'd have with the customers. Great days...

Not ISA, but deeply fucking irritating nonetheless.

IN 2016
BRING ME THE HORIZON
WILL TOUR THE UNITED KINGDOM.
THIS IS NOT AN ANNOUNCEMENT.
THIS IS A WARNING.

Just came here to post what I see onimo mentioned 3 years ago about flickr and its 'herding pandas' schtick. Painful.

Boomf and their revoltingly twee marketing and aesthetic basically is this thread personified.

they also belong on one of the threads about charging idiots insane prices for tat over the internet

These videos: https://spc.gc.epsilon.com/optout/OptOut.aspx

opening sentence of a press release waiting for me at work this morning

Epic Awards 2016 ceremony took place at Cardiff Castle last night and crowned Pimp My Uke as Epic Awards 2016 winners for Wales and Black History Month as the runner up.

curse you and your whimsical web designing http://oneltd.co.uk/

http://www.buzzfeed.com/scottybryan/do-you-want-to-take-this-outside#.vfdw8w5nL

Behind the curtain

http://digiday.com/brands/burger-king-community-manager-job/

That old password thing, eh? Don't worry, happens to the best of us. Just click on this link and we'll sort it out for you.

Cheers old chum!

https://webappstatic.buzzfeed.com/static/2015-11/17/9/campaign_images/webdr01/get-the-buzzfeed-android-app-for-free-2-27075-1447769437-5_big.jpg

with bonus 'cheeky' contravention of the Google Play logo guidelines

been seeing these ads around for a while and i think the winking acknowledgment of dead-eyed grasping corporate greed is somehow even worse than the innocent smoothies aesthetic

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ckfk4ZQXIAAMANo.jpg

#refreshingstuff

does anyone choose to drink oasis?

i (not so secretly any more) thought that was quite an amusing poster. not sure it would convince me to buy Oasis, but still