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I have had a row with my boyfriend about this

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smashboxmashbox · 24/10/2014 18:48

He thinks it's funny.

I can't formulate an argument beyond "it's vile and horrid and not nice at all"

What do you all think?

www.rdfoodproduce.co.uk/400377721

You need to read the bit about "The Girls" Angry

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Zazzles007 · 24/10/2014 20:13

Smashbox, I have posted in other threads on FWR that I have studied psychology for a long, long time, so I hope that you don't mind my take on the situation, which might give you some insight as to why you feel the way you do, and why your boyfriend's reaction has touched you so deeply.

It is likely that you are so, so angry about this site because it has (rightly) touched a deeply held value that you have, that women are important, and of intrinsic value in themselves. They warrant a name, a position, a description, a life, a human-ness beyond the usual ones sanctioned by our male dominated society. That your boyfriend has found this website funny shows that his values are deeply at odds with your own - he is very comfortable with the male dominated way the world is, and he sanctions it himself by supporting the very sexist beliefs that offend you. If I were you, I would examine your beliefs about how you value women, compared to how he values women, as in the long term, these two differing values are likely to be at odds with each other.

HTH

BuckskinnedAstronaut · 24/10/2014 20:12

OP said that a friend of her boyfriend had forwarded it to him and he had shared it with her as being funny.

OP, it looks like a fake so leave it.

mummyofonesofar, viewings via direct clicking on a link (as opposed to from a Google search) will have no effect on their Google ranking unless they have a Google Analytics code in their page headers, which from the quality of the website I seriously doubt and it's almost certainly a fake anyway

goldface · 24/10/2014 20:11

This is why I love mumsnet. I love that people get why this sort of bollocks is so awful, take the piss out of it so well it makes me snort out loud and work out the most effective way of discrediting the twats responsible. All at the same time. I wonder if Bernard would be so effective...

sleepyhead · 24/10/2014 20:10

When you google this company (or its employees), this thread pops up right next to the website.

I'd let it die quietly. It's not clever enough to go viral. I'd suspect your dp's mate who sent him the link as being somehow involved.

SevenZarkSeven · 24/10/2014 20:06

How did you stumble across the website OP?

I was going to ask earlier but got sidetracked by imagining myself with a glamorous new career in cyber-espionage Grin

ElephantsNeverForgive · 24/10/2014 20:01

Looks very like the sort of practice Website I did for my web design course (except mine didn't have the sexist garbage).

Most likely some girlfriend less, IT student prattling about, than a
proper company.

DH would probably think it funny for 10 seconds before he got a clip round the ear.

merrymouse · 24/10/2014 20:01

Does he think it is funny in a "what a bunch of idiots" way or does he think its funny in a "wow they are so cool, I wish I worked there" way. If the latter I would dump him. Even without "the girls" it is pitiful.

HappyHalloweenMotherFucker · 24/10/2014 20:01

the more attention to it, the more airplay

HappyHalloweenMotherFucker · 24/10/2014 20:01

why bother ?

smashboxmashbox · 24/10/2014 20:00

or will I look like a twit if they are fake?

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smashboxmashbox · 24/10/2014 19:58

So how can we make them change it?

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mummyofonesofar · 24/10/2014 19:57

If everyone here keeps clicking their site viewings will go up and bump them up the Google ranking. Everyone stop doing them a favour

ElliotLovesGrub · 24/10/2014 19:54

Maybe it's someone trying to confuse people looking for the real rd foods that comes up on google.

smashboxmashbox · 24/10/2014 19:53

I have googled the phone number - no joy

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SevenZarkSeven · 24/10/2014 19:49

lol @ skillz

sleepyhead · 24/10/2014 19:48

None of the funny, funny guys are googleable with the details given. Not even Bernard, which seems unlikely given his amazing skillz.

PillForgettingIdiot · 24/10/2014 19:47

Fucking hell.

BlueberryWafer · 24/10/2014 19:44

I think someone was trying to be ironic, but has instead sounded moronic!

smashboxmashbox · 24/10/2014 19:41

If it's a small company it might not be limited.

Argh. Yuk.

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BuckskinnedAstronaut · 24/10/2014 19:35

There are no companies registered with that address at Companies House there are a few now-dissolved companies who had directors registered as living there, but none are Robert The Anything. And there is a company with a similar name, but it's in Leicestershire (I think it was Leicestershire, anyway certainly not in Scotland).

SevenZarkSeven · 24/10/2014 19:34

I wish I could hack things Sad

I'd just love to be able to do that. If I google and try and learn the police will come for me won't they Grin

HappyHalloweenMotherFucker · 24/10/2014 19:32

I couldn't be arsed trying to "take it down".

Just dump the nobhead and get on with your life is my advice.

sleepyhead · 24/10/2014 19:30

I looked up the address on Google maps - it's a farm, so if they are a real outfit then they're a very new and small one.

Looks like a fairly crappy spoof.

InfinitySeven · 24/10/2014 19:30

It matters because there is no point starting a social media campaign against a fake site.

It doesn't make the page any less offensive, but it does affect the best course of action.

I work in digital marketing, so could start a motion against if fairly easily, which would be more effective than hacking the site. But if it's fake, it doesn't matter. There isn't a business to respond.

smashboxmashbox · 24/10/2014 19:29

No. Not at all. His arse is dumped regardless.

But if it's real it needs to come down.

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