Brands you (unreasonably) dislike?

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I was thinking about this tonight as I parked next to a Renault SUV. It’s completely unreasonable but I’ve never liked the brand since someone I know once said ‘it’s like driving a bin on wheels’. Even though I’m sure the brand is perfectly fine (and very popular) it’s stuck in my head. Apologies to all Renault drivers!

I’ve got other brands I unreasonably dislike too but do you have any?

Oh, and Dubai Chocolate.

The Swiss still eat plenty of it though.

Years ago some fool gave me a WH Smith gift voucher, I couldn’t find anything I wanted to buy so I decided to get my dad tobacco to use the stupid thing up. Cue a load of snash at the checkout claiming the voucher couldn’t be used for cigs or baccy. This simply wasn’t true and wasn’t anywhere in the terms and conditions, just staff being awkward. I stood my ground until they caved in. Dad liked the baccy, God rest his soul 😎

And what's this all about, its fucking chocolate, why oh why ,

Boden and Joules.

Never heard of either of them outside of MN.

They just make me think of the people who ‘clutch their pearls’ and shop in Waitrose.

Burberry and Tag Heur. More the association with particular individuals than the actual products.

Calvin Klein fragrances, reminds me of some unpleasant people I knew in the 90s.

It targets dull, middle class women with no discernible personality who optimistically hope that wearing technicolour dungarees will somehow magically make them interesting.

They don't.

The clothing brand, Napapijiri (or whatever it is). The coat designs are ugly and the branding logo is ugly.

Anything with a great big logo on like sportswear. Don't people realise they're advertising the brand by doing that and since when was a logo attractive really? Do people wear branded clothing to make a statement that they can afford expensive clothing?

Domino's pizza. Nice pizza but the advertisements are fucking annoying.

Oh yea and stone island. Always a certain type ex-convict wwearing that brand round here.

Molton Brown. I always get it confused with Bayliss & Harding (ie the soap that's always on special offer in Sainsburys).

I loooove Seasalt.

Oh yes, I'm partial to a Twirl myself!

Hollister, reminds me of unpleasant teenagers that made DD’s life a misery at high school in the 2010s.

I rate Rockfish wellies for actual use around animals/mud/muck. I find I wear the soles smooth before anything happens to the integrity of the welly.

My irrational dislike is White Fox. Where did it come from? All the same basic hoodie with ‘archive 3.0’ or ‘chapter 6’ written on as though the company has been around long enough for archives???

JoJoMamanBebe - sorry if misspelled, I don't like French language since childhood (and I don't have kids).
It just looks so stupid written down.

Avon - never had anything from them that I felt was good quality or actually lasted, make up never stayed on and perfume faded very quickly

Burberry - horrible tartan with the colour palette of a 1980's NHS hearing aid and all the chavvy neds with the backwards baseball caps.

Pandora bracelets. I do not understand the love for those. How does anybody think they are a thing of beauty?

In Manchester Piccadilly store there's a woman on the checkout. I can't remember her name but she loves to chat to her colleagues and this makes her very slow in scanning the items. She's also not overly polite really.

😊😊😊 I mourn them still...

Unpopular opinion I’m sure but Pandora charm bracelets. I know they are very sentimental & so make perfect gifts for all members of the family. But thats my irrational dislike for them! I dislike how they monopolised gifts & that people became brainwashed into buying them for every single event in anyone’s life & how boring and homogeneous it all is. I think I dislike the way they tapped into that some people don’t feel like they’ve been properly gifted unless the other party has spent a certain amount on them, by which the charm simply says someone spent x on me, I must be worth it. Even though it’s not that much. I think I just dislike everything about them. Which I know is weird & makes me sound misanthropic!

The girl on the self checkout in my local store just sits on her phone and ignores all the red lights on the self checkout. I hate going in there

I really don't like that combo on children.

I call it British-Scandi.

I think its supposed to look as though they "throw it all together" anything-goes style in the blink of an eye because they cannot wait to be out doing bark etchings or tree hugging or painting a post-modernist artwork.

I am sure in fact it took hours of wrestling them into while mum dejectedly gave up on the Bircher muesli breakfast because of the whinging and hauled out the leftover McDonalds cheeseburgers from the fridge.

And the look is always accessorised with a runny nose.

ETA and you forgot to mention the gaily coloured footwear: crocs or multi-coloured wellies (for the supermarket) that have them almost tripping over every third step.

Proctor and gamble, the likes of fairy liquid, Ecover used to be ok, I still mainly to Bio D, cheaper uk, and effective, no need for colour and cheap in cleaning stuff.
Ecover doesn’t work well in very hard water, now owned by Johnson and Johnson who also own method