To ask: What do you boycott?

[Vagabond]

I boycott Starbucks (bad coffee, too ubiquitous), and any film with Scientologists in it. Tom Cruise, you're dead meat!

What do you boycott?

I've worked for Butlins....

I wouldn't EVER stay there even if you paid me.

Newspapers. All of them.

Recently had someone coming to the door asking if we'd subscribe to the local paper. I looked at him like he had two heads and said 'erm... we have the internet?' and he told me I was resonsible for the death of the published word.

Tosser.

Ohh

I boycott,

TV

Teetotalers

Non-smokers

Utter bollocks

People who call troll

My mother

Wanky shitting fuck pants

Charity - other than those I don't support

Crawls inside head

Actually, you probably are.
(Speaks as a former sub-editor)

Orange, McDonalds, Barclays, Starbucks, Subway, Lloyds, Happy Eggs, etc.

Dontcallmepeanut, everyday I catch a Chris Brown article/music video, I feel like an idiot for not 'getting' why the heck he's still popular. Really, reall annoys me.

And when all the 'luvvies' stuck up for Polanski last year(?) when he was under house arrest..grrrrh!
DH thinks I'm weird for 'banning' Mel Gibson films from the house, glad to know there is someone else out there who chooses not to watch films with people like him in, didn't know about Tom Sizemore though...he's going to be at the London Movie Expo next month, might consider popping down & having a word or two!

Who ..Moseley (sic) the weirdy..?

Grand national...hate it!!!!
Happy Eggs...just found out about this so have crushed the box in my fridge :(
Halal meat...only buy free range/ organic for family but I'm a veggie!
Any shop that sell fur
Primark...always found myself tidying up if I ever went in..how sad am I!!!
Newspapers...can't believe anything they print!

Sake! My reply was intended for JarethTheGoblinKing. But I'm not at all bitter about the way that perfectly good newspapers have now turned into poorly printed tabloid rags packed full of "user-generated" news and out of focus pictures taken on mobile phones. Not at all bitter.

All the Mosleys, reelingintheyears.

Most of them are dead pandemoniaa.

Awomancalledhorse he trends so regularly on twitter that it infuriates me. Gets a few sarcastic tweets every time. I have no time for women beaters or misogynists.

LOL, i don't want to say too much because we've not been to court yet but hoseasons are suing me for cancelling a holiday after they made my home address and date of said holiday available to god knows who on the internet, and let me view someone else's details. i may as well hang a 'please burgle me' sign on the door when we go away

thursday.... blimey..does not sound good..

Good luck.

I'm not responsible for anything Pandemonia having never actually bought a newspaper

I used to read the Sunday Times when my Dad bought it, but personally I've never seen the point in spending money every day on something that can be accessed for free, and is also a huge waste of natural resources (so ner)

However, most people I know read the Guardian, live their lives by the Guide and wouldn't be without it (they are londoners though, so I'll forgive them)

thanks, i was angry enough that we're now not getting a holiday this year, and that they ignored all requests of mine to have my deposit returned as they forced me to cancel and didn't keep my details secure, so to have court papers land on the mat last week was unbelievably rude. i have the uber rage!

Giraffe, after they sent me an email ad entitled PIMP YOUR PIZZA and refused to understand why I found their use of the word "Pimp" deeply offensive (and factually incorrect, as they weren't expecting me to put the pizza out on the streets for money). Their PR woman in her response basically told me I was old-fashioned and had no sense of humour. Maybe I am/don't, but those buggers don't get my money any more.

Israeli fruit

Battery eggs (adds Happy Eggs to the list, this thread is v. informative)

Seaworld/Dolphin type parks

Budweiser - they own Seaworld

Nestle

Halal/Kosher meat

Crepe Affair in Spitalfields Market - possibly the worst, most indifferent and downright RUDE customer service I have EVER had in my life.

Shell Petrol (because of Ken Saro-Wiwa)

I knew there was something wrong with happy eggs! I could tell by the smell of them (while pregnant - bloodhound nose) that they were just as bad as barn eggs. grrr. they make me ill too

Oh, Republic, because their staff are just evil and look at me like I'm scum

I know that most of the Mosleys are dead reelingintheyears but they were all abominable fascists supported by a fascist newspaper. Also I have a very long memory. Even for things that aren't in my living memory.

I boycott a local family zoo/play park called Noahs Ark because its run by creationists with posters everywhere saying how evolution is wrong. But I am a hypocrite because I took the kids when they were too little to read, because it was handy

John Lewis - crap customer service (online and telephone) - they just try to fob you off.

Pandemoniaa....how long does one keep these things going.

RBC - you'll have stirred up the John Lewis Appreciation Society with that comment

(p.s. I love them and have always found them amazing)

Very little because I think it's extremely difficult to be consistent, and I like to be fair

I tend not to buy certain products (e.g. battery eggs, intensively reared meat) but I don't boycott any companies or countries.

Without wanting to be overly combative, I think the Nestle boycott is slightly ridiculous since the people that boycott Nestle don't boycott other companies whose activities arguably cause more problems than those of Nestle.