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

Bickiepegs have been about since I was teething in the early 70s, and a quick Google shows they first went on sale in 1925. So not innocentsmoothieisation I'm afraid.

proto-smoothie, then

And doidy cups were around 50 years ago (at least); I had them as a toddler. It might not have been their official name, but that's what we called them. Back then they had a lid with a small spout: probably terribly bad for infant teeth.

The first time I saw an adult in London drinking a takeaway coffee through a sipper-lid (25 years ago? 30?), I thought "Ugh, Doidy Cup."

a doidy cup, iirc, is specifically designed to avoid the spout and it's potential damaging effects on tooth development. they're built with a slant to allow infants to learn to drink with potentially less spills, thus avoiding the need for a lid.

ime they don't work very well like, but still

deeply fucking irritating?

... I saw one of these in Glasgow too.

I recently bought some Bickiepegs online (don't stock them in our Boots). To be honest, the packaging looks reassuringly uncutesy and it's a relief they haven't been rebranded as Peggybickies.

https://i.imgur.com/UgqRnZW.png

y'all realize he does not want to go to back to the uk right?
(directed not at uk ilxors but at FIXR)

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is the animated MS paperclip an example of proto-Innocent aesthetic?

Kind of maybe but as i remember it didn't use the same ingratiating chummy slang that's the heart of Innocent speak

it's the only thing i can think of that remotely qualifies as "carefully crafted experiences that honor our Office heritage"

Yeah, i don't think that's an example of pure Innocent either, tho it's definitely Innocent-adjacent. It's more like hipster-artisanal.

The office paper clip bears culpability for the IA

Blood on his hands, if he had any, can't remember. Dickhead paperclip.

his name is clippy, show some respect

clippy is a very Innocent-adjacent name

It’s been a decade and I still haven’t looked up what an Innocent Smoothie is

I see your Bickipegs (above) and raise you
TOOFYPEGS

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/375/cpsprodpb/B5EC/production/_106127564_mediaitem106127563.jpg

I regularly walk over a bridge with a blue plaque for Hull-born Venn and fortunately it doesn't look like that

Apparently that one has recently been installed next to Drypool Bridge.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-47638682

The alternative plaques are really catholic and fun and i keep meaning to Instagram more of them

is the animated MS paperclip an example of proto-Innocent aesthetic?

wow, good call.

FFS

I’ve seen some #wackaging in my time, but this infantilising eye-rot takes the biscuit. pic.twitter.com/kLtmXnRDir

— Max Tundra (@MaxTundra) March 26, 2019

Fucking hell

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzexDmSW0AAunYW.jpg

Fuck right off

This shit seems so par for the course in the USA, for some reason I find it so depressing that it's infected England too.

it's not a uniquely british thing, but if you think it's par for the course in the US then i think you're thinking of something else.

ugggghhhhhh
at that fudge thing
actually made me nauseous

that oat milk thing is a shop, right?

sincere question

there's def a specific gentler and more chummy british tone you don't see in american marketing. the american version of this leans toward "uh yeah! so that's a thing!" variety of obnoxious you see in marvel movies.

Related to the most recent post, so not sure if this belongs here, but this is what Lays are now writing on their crisp packets apparently.

Inspired by hip hop music pic.twitter.com/tABFbR9m1K

— Steph Davidson (@stephcd) April 23, 2019

looool

Have we mentioned app release notes on here before? It's a shame the aesthetic had infected Argos in this area when it steers week clear of it elsewhere in its corporate comms. Maybe I'll report the developers.

https://i.imgur.com/OH9qoGI.jpg

This just appeared in my timeline as a promoted tweet.

The person who does the social media for @innocent is a hero who deserves a pay rise #blue #innocent https://t.co/DacvEJgYYV

— MattJBolam (@Matt_Bolam) April 20, 2019

should be a thread for promoted tweets from mundane non-entities

that's fucking green

a cloyingly twee drinks company owned by coca-cola insisting green is blue is a metaphor for... something

xp that's their game, they want people to argue about the colour, we can only win if we accept it's blue and move on

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tr5EvZDjUFY/hqdefault.jpg

If I were MattJBowlam I would change my display name to something shockingly rude and disgusting about innocent smoothies, but he's probably their mate or something

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fspaceninja.com%2Fcontent%2Fimages%2F2015%2F07%2Fthere-are-4-lights.png&f=1

so matt bolam is definitely innocent's social media manager right?

also that's NOT HOW A VENN DIAGRAM WORKS JESUS CHRIST THEY HAVE PUSHED ME OVER THE EDGE

how not?

A whale in double denim isn't everything that is blue except a delicious Bolt From the Blue™ Innocent Smoothie. Likewise Office Gossip isn't everything that is juicy.

but of the given set, and who knows what the criteria were for choosing those 3 items, all are correctly placed.

Ah I see so you don't need to list all the elements of the sets - I stand corrected!