What pointless one woman/man boycott are you staging?

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Here's my one woman boycotts.

I have boycotted Wadebridge because they elected a total wanker to the town council who said that disabled children should be culled to save money. I rarely visit Wadebridge anyway.

I have also boycotted Dartington Hall Estate for unreasonable parking fines. I park outside the grounds. Nobody cares.

And lego minifigures as DS2 always ends up with a frigging princess or mermaid or something and we have to deal with the tears. I'm sure their sales figures are unaffected.

None of my boycotts will make any difference whatsoever. I realise this.

So what are your pointless boycotts?

I also boycotted Laurence Fishburne for years. He played such a convincing role in What's Love Got To Do With It, I hated him and refused to watch anything with him in it.
This was a bit of a problem when he was in CSI, because I love that programme so I ended that boycott on the basis he couldn't really be a bastard if he was the new Grissom. And mightily relieved about it he was too or so I imagine

I must be going soft in my old age, I've got hardly any boycotts going at the moment.

My latest boycott is my local bike shop after the assistant was really patronising to me. This saddens me because the regular manager is really fit and the only alternative is halfords which obviously I'm boycotting because they putting small independents out of business. Well except when they're giving stuff away on O2 Priorty Moments

Also boycottingThe Sun (Hillsborough related) and Murdoch. But that's entirely reasonable.

When my sis goes into Hollister with my niece she goes round unrolling the all the rolled up sleeves and folds all the tshirts up into tidy piles in a one woman protest against the darkness.

I boycott Starbucks because I don't want to tell my them my name when I order a coffee as they will just spell it wrongly anyway.

cheminotte, that's why I give them a false name ;) (anarchist that I am!)

It all goes tits up though when I forget what name I gave them - which happens all too often these days. In spite of my apparent love of a good boycot though, I can't bring myself to boycot them yet as I love their cinnamon swirls. Woe betide them if they cross me however....

Car phone warehouse, I hated the adverts they had where they kicked the old phone in the road. I thought it was promoting bullying. I've boycotted them for more that 10 years I think. I don't think they are bothered.

Can we just take a moment to explore the boycott of 1973? I'm intrigued to know how you go about that exactly.

I'm thinking I may have subconsciously boycotted 1973 by never remembering to phone my brother who was born that year. I hadn't realised it was to do with big pennies though. I shall explain that the next time I speak to him by way of apology.

New money came in in 1971, not 1973. So in terms of pointless boycotts, that's the winner.

I banned our family from the local village shop when they abused us for not opposing plans for a new school in our village. Apart from the fact that she only opens March to end October to cater for the tourists.

things i think you would need to do to boycott a year:

• refuse to acknowledge newsworthy events (e.g. UK and Ireland joining EEC; princess anne marrying mark philips; second icelandic cod war)
• never play a tune released that year (slade's merry christmas everybody)
• never watch a film or tv show from that year (don't look now; on the buses)
• boycott british library (est. 1973)
• boycott pizza hut (est. 1973)
• boycott london bridge (opened 1973)

and far more besides. it's quite a commitment

(i didn't know all these things. i googled them)

I boycott Macedonia because DD1's father is from Macedonia and he's a shit. It is very easy to boycott Macedonia.

I also boycott our local Costa for removing our Percy Ingle. It isn't even an independent shop, it's just I don't like Costa but I love Percy Ingle.

I don't boycott Starbucks, but I do boycott their stupid words for the different sizes, and always ask for small, medium or large.

And we still need a list of 1971 things to actually boycott!

chapina is it pretty much just not voting for them in the eurovision song contest?

the only thing i would find difficult about boycotting macedonia is that my father is OBSESSED with alexander the great and you couldn't get away from that

someone else can look up 1971. it was rather a lot of effort

I boycott Jimmy Carr after he made a very offensive joke about people with epilepsy. When I wrote a complaint email to channel 4, they brushed it off basically saying that it wasn't a problem because so few people have epilepsy anyway

Pizza Hut. I DCs love their food but their service has been dreadful in 3 separate locations and now I just refuse to go. Do they still exist?

Oh! Oh! Donald Trump's golf courses. Mind you, I don't play golf anyway.

On a more serious note: our house is running a political boycott of Israeli goods thanks to DH and DSs. The one that hurts is having to give up my beloved sodastream - I only used it to fizz water but still I miss it!

Oh I also boycott KFC because while I love their food, last time we went with a gaggle of DCs:

• the toilets were locked (apparently due to druggie type activity )

• the food was only lukewarm.

I didn't realise I was quite so intolerant ...

Last one I promise.

I boycotted the local deli after the assistant was astonishingly rude about Italians. I am of Italian extraction and I pretty much look it.

We used to be quite chatty but I never went back.

I slightly couldn't believe she could be so rude about a "minority", given she was herself German. Unpick that how you like.

Anyway the deli has closed down now [dusts hands etc]

Lol ipswichwitch - I tried that but it rather confused the person I was with!

Belfast. All of it.

The Sun, because of Hillsborough and their attitude towards women, even though I've never in my life bought a copy of the rag.

Vujon Indian restaurant in Cambridge, for paying their staff £2.50 an hour. I'd eaten there once prior to knowing this. I don't think they've noticed my magnificent absence.

Jane Norman. I temped there when I was studying, met the owner's two daughters and found them horrible. I've never bought from JN since. They're unmoved.

I live in Cambridge - haven't heard of Vujon but shall find out where it is & join your boycott hooby.
I boycott the local paper shop near my xh because they have a giant advert for the sun as their shop front. My ds does it too (as he supports Liverpool) but dd & xh don't join in.

Petula, I'm impressed!

that's not me! i just googled