Another go woke go broke - McCains

[Birdsweepsin]

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Who the hell in adland thinks insulting or mocking the people who buy your products is a winning strategy?

Yep. Oatly, Innocent Smoothies and Method cleaning products are three I used to buy and just don't now. McCains as well now
Method? Wtf did they do?
Yes to the rest, I doubt my previous buying habits will bankrupt oatly or innocent or McCain's, being as I rarely bought any but damn I can hold a grudge. Plus of course the many many similar items I can buy but from a different company.

Or perhaps we could be spared drag being used to sell us stuff, because we're sick of it? Just a thought for the advertisers

I really think more people have stopped seeing it as a bit of fun in the English comic tradition and see it as old fashioned casual misogyny that they are fed up with, along with the ubiquitous trans stuff, whatever brands think.

“We help our clients reach the right people in a strategic, relevant and effective way.”

I think “We are Social” need to change their website. They’ve scored an own goal with the the Mcains advert.

My local dry cleaner has a drag in a sparkly gown on their window poster. Sooooo overdone and passed its sell by date.

@Terfydactyl
Method? WTF did they do?!
I already answered that a couple of posts before yours

I really want a chip butty now (I’m not well so I can eat rubbish). Wonder if I can get ds to nip to the chippy?

GoodJanetBadJanet

That reminds me, I made this earlier in honour of your post, and then forgot to post it!

Approved by Asterix the Gaul. Corroborated by Getafix. Obelix couldn't be reached for comment.

Obelix was busy cleaning up with this.

How did their chant use to go?

We don't want to fight but by Toutatis if we do,
We've got the stones, we've got the men, we've got the druid too!

I loved those books!

Method is more expensive and no better than generic equivalent and the nonstandard bottle shapes makes them awkward to store. Oddly, it did see off the ants in my living room?

Love Asterix.

Those pesky transphobic ants!

For the avoidance of doubt, re. my previous post:

I am a big fan of Asterix. I wasn't signing off, 'love Asterix'.

Suppose you were Asterix, though..
What kind of AIBUs would Asterix post?

To not let Obelix even taste the magic potion, thought I think he got a drop in Egypt. Making Cacophonix and unwilling participant in BDSM? Not liberating all my country from the Roman? I've got to go out but I'll have a proper think.

Is Unhygienix a CF saying you can't make a box of Findus fishfingers last a whole week?

I'm not sure he was an AIBU kind of person.... more grab the magic potion and go ballistic kind of person. Pile of groaning Romans left behind.

If anyone's watching the series of Britannia its kind of a grown up version of all this, still involving piles of groaning Romans. Although being adult (despite being wonderfully ott and silly) there is also much throwing around of heads.

😂

Unhygienix was absolutely clear that they should have been cutted up rather than cut up.

Had they been cutted up, they would easily have lasted the week.

While watching the heavy-handed press of the sandwich, did anyone have a throwback to the squishing of Stephan Gates' bum sandwich?

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@RogersOrganismicProcess I thought it might be borax, I feel such a fool now, it was clearly the transphobia. I'm going to whisper-hiss "twaw" at the ones in the garden and see what happens.

😂

Bum sandwiches. Marginalised ants. Asterix on Mumsnet.

Happy sigh

Obelix should LTB!

I now know why Asterix prefers Method cleaning products, thanks to IcakethereforeIam. It's actually the nonstandard bottle shapes! After a lifetime of acccompanying extremely nonstandard Obelix everywhere, including to the tailors, Asterix feels more at home with exaggerated variation in shapes.

The Romans will naturally demand uniformity of bottle shape from the purveyors of cleaning supplies to the Legions.

Is it coincidence that the ads I'm seeing on MN now are for a clothing company called Roman. Makes a welcome change from Bond shoes, their colour scheme and font kept giving me 'the Family Sex Show' flashbacks....shudder!