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

Tim otm. Even the words pop-up make my skin crawl, but the combination of that with something which is clearly an ongoing endeavour is particularly loathsome.

Actually, Brewdog bars are maybe the Venn diagram crossover of this.

the bottle shop is as much a shop as it is a bar

i guess that place we went to in milan might have had an even better selection, but it's close

what is the appeal of "pop-up" as an adjective besides when it precedes "pirate"?

Yeah I really try not to succumb to wewantplates/Grumpy Old Men mindset but my reaction to the popup phenomenon is one of honest confusion and distrust. People pay extra to eat in a car park?

is it just that it sounds spontaneous and dynamic

beer discourse seems to oscillate between hubris and loathing but is consistently wretched ime

I think it's supposed to convey guerilla consumerism, sticking it to The Man who would never let us open such a shop or The Bankers who wouldn't lend us the money. So we got our parents to give us the money instead because we learned all about ancient Melanisian cuisine at uni and travelling during our gap year(s) and the West is really missing out because they just know so much about living in harmony with nature, yeah?

Or it could just be getting your excuses in in advance for when it fails. "Yeah, it was never meant to be a permanent thing. Only a pop-up."

/grumpyoldman

thinking about it, I know someone who had a pop-up restaurant, which was making good use of an otherwise empty place that probably couldn't prosper long term. it's the desire to dub already existent things like regular social events "pop-up" which is more unsettling

AIUI the Bottle Shop is a specialist beer wholesaler who open up a bit of their warehouse for on and off-sales (nothing edgier than vertically integrating yr supply chain, after all). I can imagine using the shop - I very much enjoyed visiting a warehousey beer store in Ghent the other week, but I am fully done drinking in places that look like this, at least while there is still a pub left in London.
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2316/8401/files/Bermondsey_Large_dd6e3632-6a39-45b4-978c-823419c03985.jpg

(I am sure all concerned are excellent human beings and so on, I am just finished with uncomfy, cold, echoey, weird-smelling warehousey premises; I prefer comfy, overly-warm, weird-smelling pubby vibes every time.)

Brewdog's Nanny State is among the best of the non-alcohol/almost no alcohol beers I've come across. There isn't a huge amount of competition in the supermarkets I use however.

yes in the sector i worked in until recently -- basically people with small often home-run craft business making things in glass, china, textiles, metalwork and so on -- pop-ups are handy bcz it's only useful/economic for such traders to have an actual stall or a shopfront for maybe a couple of weeks a year

councils offer good deals on short-term rental of spaces they own especially when a commercial reach is on the downturn and has lots of empty real estate: it helps it look cheerful and busy and up-and-coming

I had Becks Blue last week as I was driving. Tasted foul, like they had tried replacing the alcohol with bleach, got through 3 sips and abandoned it.

Nanny State is the only drinkable alcohol-free beer I've found. I can put up with Brewdog's lame names not being a fit with my personal brand. I draw the line at Innocent Smoothies, though, except when they're in the Boots Meal Deal.

There's some brass neck on that ad campaign seeing as literally no one in the history of the world has been "interested in an oat drink" before. I don't even know what one would be like.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, January 31, 2018 2:19 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

toxic scotophobia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atholl_brose

https://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2018_06/1317170/pepsi_bubly_inline_c99bf8beab881b3e8c5d6ccffb09c39b.today-inline-large2x.png

Launched Thursday, Bubly will be lining up on store shelves by the end of this month. Also available onAmazon, the water line comes in eight flavors (lime, grapefruit, strawberry, lemon, orange, apple, mango, and cherry), none of which have sweeteners, artificial flavors, or calories. The drink will be available in packs of 12-ounce cans, as well as 20-ounce single-serve bottles.

Before you take a sip, pop the tab and check out each can's tiny, friendly greeting, such as “Hey u,” “hiii,” and “yo.” The brightly-colored cans also contain cheeky messages (“I feel like I can be open around you,” “hold cans with me,” and “love at first phssst”).

“We created ‘bubly’ to provide consumers with a great-tasting, flavorful, unsweetened sparkling water in a fun, playful, and relevant manner that is unlike anything we've seen in the sparkling water category today," Todd Kaplan, vice president of PepsiCo's water portfolio, said in a release.

"Bubly is geared towards people that want a playful experience,” a PepsiCo spokesperson told TODAY Food. “In particular, millennials are at the core, but PepsiCo hopes that Bubly will also be attractive for consumers that have never tried sparkling water before."

drink sounds nice, marketing people are scum

Top Tip, to save money: just add a few drops of Rocks orange cordial to a bottle of own brand sparkling water, and then write something like Go Fuck Yourself on it with a green sharpie.

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— Stuart Heritage (@stuheritage) February 13, 2018

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No

think it's the current TSB ads - "some banks only contact you when they're trying to sell something". Good! You're not my fucking mates you arseholes

those oat milk ads have infested new york city now and stand in stark contrast to the other genre of new york city subway ads which is "your life in this city is a psychically exhausting trauma parade and this product might slightly help"

excuse me, it's oat drink

more brewdog:

https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/brewdog-pink-ipa-beer-for-girls-advertising-060318

“It’s time to throw a Molotov cocktail through the glass ceiling,”

jesus fucking christ

that'll end well

that metaphor sounds like it would results in some serious burns/lacerations

Pls do not throw a molotov cocktail at a ceiling

no it will go through the ceiling because it is glass and at that point the laws of gravity will be broken also

oh what a feeling
molotoving on the ceiling

what could be more punk
than a molotov dunk?

not gonna lie, i've always fancied having a go at lobbing a molotov cocktail

there's a brewdog pub five minutes' walk from where i am now, maybe i should use it for target practice when i nip out for lunch

beers not for girls, its not for guys- its for after work wankers who go round asking everyone of they have cocaine

Nuclear war = buy more pies

https://i.imgur.com/G83jkm3.jpg

pretty sure i saw charlie bigham's fish pie at the basingstoke festival a few years back?

https://www.britainrunsonrail.co.uk/fares?utm_source=nationalrail.co.uk&utm_medium=Carousel&utm_campaign=fares

https://i.imgur.com/b0YwwE0.jpg

ugh; I'd assume that's supposed to be ironic given recent circs of the company (or the ordinary) but perhaps not.

💦

I hate, hate, hate it the most when it's making a claim about what the company is like to work for. 'Cute and happy' does not fit in with the reality of what any job is like, even if the job is looking after the puppy in a shop that sells fairies and glitter. Imagine the mental stress involved in making 'cute and happy!' fit in with getting a bollocking off a boss for being below target and they're wrong but you need the money.

^ word. Know someone who briefly worked in a 'cat cafe' and they were cunts

not sure where to put this arsehole, maybe need a new thread idk

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/536cd1016e0758ddcb18d70c049239c11b6aed80/717_694_4619_2771/master/4619.jpg?width=1920&quality=85&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=3732ed123a70a6e941c06d595dc0ccbd

English Eccentrics that are complete cunts thread.

yeah something like that, a non-commercial equivalent of this thread basically

we've got this tiresome old bigot called Jake Mangel Wurzel, he has a bath mounted on top of his car, a dog called Manhole, wears wellington/pyjama combos. I always say ignore a vulgar attention seeker and they will get bored, but this fucker never gets bored.

i always say everybody needs some attention but not this way, not this way

I have a lot of time for autism spectrum mavericks, but anyone who could be bothered with such a maintained charade of "eccentricity" could only be a 100% neurotypical imo.

https://preview.ibb.co/jOjfZz/20180919_001421.jpg

Ha, I was just watching Limmy's Dee Dee sketch where he's in the kitchen and imagining the inner life of his t-shirt, this one sounds a bit less aggressive though.

I'm gonnae gi' its face a wee dunt wi' the iron. Show it who's boss.