Pointless But It Does My Head In

[Slothrop]

See also, people who claim that privilege doesn't matter because with semi-infinite levels of determination, resourcefulness etc it's theoretically possible to work past it,,,

 

[baboon2004]

yep, definitely....also, while we're on this, people who claim that what someone says, however odious, doesn't really matter, because they're just 'being funny'. Which seems typically British, and makes me want to leave the country. Before Boris Johnson becomes PM.

in other news:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2013/feb/15/sun-oscar-pistorius

saw that this morning and had to do a double take. surely they...oh yes, they have.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Oh Christ, I saw that earlier and assumed it was some tit-based non-story that they just happened to run next to a headline about a grisly murder, but no...

Remember a couple of years ago there was that British woman who was murdered on her honeymoon, also in South Africa I think? The Sun had a photo of her on the front page and it caught my eye because she was (had been) undeniably extremely hot. Then after a couple of seconds I realized I was ogling a dead woman. Um.

 

[zhao]

People who allege that class doesn't exist, while benefitting from the existing power structures.

those are the only people who ever make these claims, and nearly all of them always do, in one way or another.

 

[baboon2004]

true - the uninterrogated sense of entitlement is quite incredible sometimes

 

[BareBones]

TV adverts that try to get you to "participate". The ones that invite you to their website or facebook page or whatever to vote in some stupid poll or watch more fucking adverts. There's so many of them around nowadays and god, they annoys the piss out of me.
"To find out what happens next in this inane little narrative designed solely to sell you a car, go to www.whatthefuckiswrongwithyou.com"

There was a particularly bad one a year or two ago, i think it was for kingsmill, which tried to get people onto their website to make a "confession" about bread. A confession about bread! The actual advert was something unbearably cloying and pathetic like "tee hee, I ate my wife's sandwich while she was out of the room, naughty naughty! What's your bread confession?" I always hoped that the website got trolled to fuck by people making up stories like "I discovered my boyfriend was cheating on me so I staved his skull in with a frozen loaf" or something.

The trend has reached a new nadir lately with andrex (i think) inviting you to their website to tell them how you wipe your arse

i can't live in this world any longer

 

[Mr. Tea]

There was a particularly bad one a year or two ago, i think it was for kingsmill, which tried to get people onto their website to make a "confession" about bread. A confession about bread! The actual advert was something unbearably cloying and pathetic like "tee hee, I ate my wife's sandwich while she was out of the room, naughty naughty! What's your bread confession?" I always hoped that the website got trolled to fuck by people making up stories like "I discovered my boyfriend was cheating on me so I staved his skull in with a frozen loaf" or something.

Wonder if they'd like "I sometimes throw away half a sandwich in full knowledge that millions of children die every year of malnutrition-related diseases".

There was a good piece in Vice about the horrors of the new Andrex ad...

 

[Leo]

the whole notion of "liking" a consumer products brand on facebook is silly. do people actually care what heinz beans said today on its fb status update? the funny thing is heinz (or whoever) is paying good money to a social media agency and/or in-house social media staff to come up with ideas and "generate content" for their status updates, bean tweets, pins, etc. what a stupid world we live in.

 

[Martin D]

British industry and its inability to give you a fucking quote without sending an email.

 

[Mr. Tea]

the whole notion of "liking" a consumer products brand on facebook is silly. do people actually care what heinz beans said today on its fb status update? the funny thing is heinz (or whoever) is paying good money to a social media agency and/or in-house social media staff to come up with ideas and "generate content" for their status updates, bean tweets, pins, etc. what a stupid world we live in.

I can kiiiind of see the point if it's some brand that an identifiable subculture or 'lifestyle' revolves around, you know like Harley Davidson or whatever, or a particular fashion phenomenon like the way Clarks shoes have this cult status in Jamaica, something like that. I mean, it's not for me, but I can see how some people might be into it. But yeah, when it comes to baked beans or fucking bog roll, it's just mystifying.

 

[BareBones]

I do like the way Neil Hamburger trolls brands like Pepsi on twitter though:

Neil Hamburger ‏@NeilHamburger
A massive dumpsite of case after case of unsalable PepsiNEXT. @PepsiNEXT: What’s the most unbelievable collection you’ve ever seen?

Neil Hamburger ‏@NeilHamburger
Great way to clear out dead stock just prior to discontinuing brand. @PepsiNEXT: Claim your free 2-liter bottle of #PepsiNEXT now

Neil Hamburger ‏@NeilHamburger
a kabob made of the roasted corpse of the fool who green-lit PepsiNEXT. @PepsiNEXT: What would make the perfect lunch today? Pepsi NEXT + ?

Neil Hamburger ‏@NeilHamburger
Not really--I lost my other hand (and arm) due to Snapple-induced diabetes. @Snapple: Your hand is on a Snapple. Things are going well.

Neil Hamburger ‏@NeilHamburger
Nihilistic suicide tweet from depressed pizza shill. @DiGiornoPizza: #HappiestMoment When the oven opens and we can finally be together.

 

[IdleRich]

Simon Hoggat used to get people to send this kind of thing in - I seem to remember a brand of artificial sweetener which you were given in an airline meal having an invitation on the packet to follow them on Twitter. I feel almost sorry for the people who have to run that and ask people to get involved. On the other hand it's probably exactly what they deserve.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Accepting friendship requests on facebook from people I haven't seen since school and would probably have gone the rest of my life without thinking about, on the basis that it seems churlish not to, and then being subjected to their screed of third-hand opinions that vary from beige-bland to offensively ill-informed. And in the case of one woman, rants at her husband (I think), which she for some reason types into facebook rather than vocalising to him. Bizarre.

 

[baboon2004]

That woman sounds worth having on your facebook feed. As for the rest, i might be particularly churlish, but i've always ignored requests from people i don't have reason to befriend. far too many people i've actually befriended on there, i've had to turn off their feed for sanity's sake, so random requests i just leave....

even more bizarre when people you didn't even like try to befriend you, of course.

 

[jorge]

the whole notion of "liking" a consumer products brand on facebook is silly. do people actually care what heinz beans said today on its fb status update? the funny thing is heinz (or whoever) is paying good money to a social media agency and/or in-house social media staff to come up with ideas and "generate content" for their status updates, bean tweets, pins, etc. what a stupid world we live in.

I met one of these people a few weeks ago, his entire job is posting on facebook and twitter for phillips and he seemed to be doing pretty well from it. My first question was 'why would anyone like phillips on facebook?' apparently enough people do to keep him busy. He said hes had to delete quite a few cock pictures that people have uploaded. Cant imagine why you would post it to phillips really, I guess theres men posting pictures of their penises everywhere these days

 

[Mr. Tea]

That woman sounds worth having on your facebook feed.

I dunno, it has the potential to be moderately amusing I suppose but generally is just a case of some posting things that are personal to her and meaningless to anyone else in a public place.[/QUOTE]

even more bizarre when people you didn't even like try to befriend you, of course.

It's weird, the guy I recently unfriended was genuinely a friend of mine when we were in primary school, but we really have nothing in common and didn't really encounter each other after the age of about 12 or so. If he hadn't sent me a friend request I doubt that I'd have thought about him ever again.

And that's not even the weirdest one - as you mention, I've had requests from people I wasn't even friends with in the first place, just shared a form group for a year when we were 14 or something like that. Facebook makes some people do strange things.

 

[Leo]

pardon me while i vent one more time about a client...

i just learned that one of my clients flew about 15 people from offices around the world in to SXSW for a six-days boondoggle...i mean, six days of meetings and attending the interactive conference. between international airfares, hotels, food/drink and SXSW registration, they've got to be spending $60-75,000.

and yes, this is the same client who nickel-and-dimes me on work and then takes up to 60 days to pay invoices. bastards.

thank you.

 

[zhao]

this has been on my mind for a long long time:

who ever designed mac 10.7.3 desktop behavior deserves a roman pulled-apart-by-4-horses style execution.

 

[NATO]

Reading a bunch of posts not logged in, logging in to write a post, then going round clicking on the read posts thinking they're new. Should just keep myself logged in.

 

[mistersloane]

this has been on my mind for a long long time:

who ever designed mac 10.7.3 desktop behavior deserves a roman pulled-apart-by-4-horses style execution.

yup. it's horrible.