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What pointless one woman/man boycott are you staging?

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nevergoogle · 25/09/2014 15:28

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?

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hesterton · 26/09/2014 07:20

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nevergoogle · 26/09/2014 07:52

a boycott of 1973? Grin wow!

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LineRunner · 26/09/2014 08:12

I was boycotting Strictly because of pretty much everything Bruce Forsythe said and did, but apparently he's been carted off now and I'll have have to boycott something else instead.

hugoagogo · 26/09/2014 08:21

The Tower bank arms!! A blast from the past Smile I stayed in a cottage near there about 20 years ago, it was lovely with those settles and a real fire and yummy veggie dinners { wistful}

PastorOfMuppets · 26/09/2014 08:24

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Bolshybookworm · 26/09/2014 08:26

Yorkie bars because of their "not for girls" advertising campaign. Fine then, I'll take my girly money elsewhere!

TiggyD · 26/09/2014 08:31

"1973 for getting rid of nice big round 1d pennies."

Problem is that I was born in 1973. Afraid it would be physically impossible for me to support that.

I will fully back the Wadebridge boycott though. Death to Wadebridge!!!!

Friends. I still have not seen an entire episode of that show due to the revolting music. Sickly sweet 'let's all be there for each other' overly sentimental crap!

BalloonSlayer · 26/09/2014 09:31

An Estate agent told us that no one else was interested in the house we had just viewed and wanted to put an offer in on. Turned out that this was a lie. An understandable lie, as neither us or the other people had a complete chain, so neither offer was accepted, and it is the EA's job to get as many offers in as possible. The other people's chain completed before ours and they got the house. I was FUMING that I'd allowed my pregnant self to get all excited about the house, imagining us living there etc, which I would never have done if I had known there was anyone else after it.

We had been getting details sent through for weeks for another house. Both by the above Estate Agent and another one. Eventually we went to see it, but I made sure we booked to view it through the Other Estate Agent. Of course we fell in love with it and bought it, through the Other Estate Agent who got all the commission etc. I enjoyed bringing the first EA's details of the house with me to the viewing as well as the Other EA's stuff. Ha!

0898 · 26/09/2014 09:32

AuntieMaggie are you in Bristol by any chance? If so I fucking hate that café and with our two woman boycott we will bring their smug hipster arses down

AuntieMaggie · 26/09/2014 09:53

0898 yes I am... such a shame because when they had a pop up shop they seemed lovely and friendly so we were really shocked when they got permanent premises!

NotCitrus · 26/09/2014 10:01

Carphone Warehouse, for incompetently losing my phone number I'd had for 10 years, when I was 9 months pregnant and unable to walk. Eventually they admitted it and decided I was entitled to £12 compensation. Which they sent to the wrong address. Five times.

Columbus travel insurance, for taking 2 years to decide not to pay up for a stolen passport. I get free insurance now via MrNC's work.

And McDonald's for turning me down for a job in 1990, hiring my friend but making her use a chip basket that led to burnt arms. Though I already refused to eat there because the food is crap and the McLibel trial .

BigglesFliesUndone · 26/09/2014 10:41

Decimal currency came in in 1971 didn't it? I remember have a sixpence pocket money (old)

SeattleGraceMercyDeath · 26/09/2014 10:46

Browell Smith & Co solicitors. They offered me a job and then offered it to someone else when they found out I was pregnant . Didn't even have the decency to tell me.

When I hear their jingle on the radio I always substitute the word Co with cunt.

That'll learn em.

ShelaghTurner · 26/09/2014 16:19

I also boycott Neil Morrissey because he had a lovely girlfriend (who I didn't know from Adam, obviously but seemed lovely!) but he cheated on her with Rachel Weisz. If I knew who Rachel Weisz was I'd boycott her too. This was in the nineties sometime I think...

Labrat72 · 26/09/2014 17:14

Neil Morrissey nearly ran me over in London once. He was driving a big maroon Jag & I'm sure he aimed at me. So I'll join you in that boycott shelagh

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nevergoogle · 26/09/2014 17:18

Neil Morrisey had a thing with Rachel Weisz? That guy must have some good pheromones or something. I don't get it, perhaps you need to smell him.

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CalamitouslyWrong · 26/09/2014 17:49

We're also boycotting Milton Keynes. We had this misfortune of living there for a few years and don't ever want to go back. I also boycott Dundee because I hated living there (possibly more than I hated Milton Keynes).

I boycott Leicester forest east services because it's shit. It's in the perfect breaking up the journey position when driving down to see the PILs but we avoid it anyway.

PetulaGordino · 26/09/2014 17:53

i boycott suffolk.

i'm from norfolk, nuff said. except, sometimes i have to go through suffolk to get to norfolk. or people invite me to parties in suffolk. i get around this by holding my breath a lot so as to inhale as little as possible of that dirty suffolk air

PetulaGordino · 26/09/2014 17:55

going by this thread plus this week's news i think the tesco boycott is more than just one woman Grin

FaFoutis · 26/09/2014 18:04

I boycott the sport that comes on after the news. I boycott Suffolk because my stepmother likes it.
I also boycott a holiday cottage company because the owner of the company was an absolute cunt to us.

Neil Morrisey once bought me a drink and he was perfectly nice, I have changed my mind about him now though but not quite at boycotting stage.

ipswichwitch · 26/09/2014 18:12

thenightsky, no it's not Ipswich busses, but I shall boycot them too, since they employed my Uncle Knobhead, and I can't stand him, and therefore their company. Even though I live nowhere near Ipswich anymore.

I successfully boycotted 1973 by being born 4 years later Grin

ShelaghTurner · 26/09/2014 18:14

It makes watching reruns of Men Behaving Badly very tricky because I have to only look at Martin Clunes.

CalamitouslyWrong · 26/09/2014 18:17

I boycotted 1973 too. In fact, I boycotted the whole of the 70s.

Idontseeanysontarans · 26/09/2014 18:32

I've managed to boycott one shop in Manchester so successfully I can't actually remember which one it is Blush
I think it's Hollister. It's that painfully trendy one in the Arndale with no obvious way in. I boycott it because it's too bloody dark in there, the clothes are too expensive and I have read stories about staff being chosen on looks alone.

TheXxed · 26/09/2014 19:07

I am boycotting Hollister too! And yes they do hire based on looks and with Zero hour contracts.