Current Affairs Crazy Cultist Leftie Boycotting

[davek]

It's maddening how much we agree on things, and yet I can't stand you most of the time.

I still love you though.

Ha Ha.

 

[cronullasharks]

Peppers are the big offenders.

Is that a bank?

 

[Shevin Keedy]

Is that a bank?

It is a nightclub in Walton.

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

Genuinely, I have no idea what I’d buy which is actually Israeli.

Gene Simmons was born in Israel, you could boycott Kiss concerts if you wanted although i have no idea of his poltical stance and you'd miss the crazy, crazy nights.

It's a good point though. Are there any other countries we should boycott that we don't actually buy anything from? We could have been getting credit for being an anti Israeli apartheid activist for ages apparently.

 

[Shevin Keedy]

I think olives come from Israel but I do not buy olives.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Weren't people smashing their YETI coolers because YETI came out in favor of some very mild gun control issue?

It wasn't even that. All they did was end a discount program for NRA members (along with discounts for a whole host of other organizations). The NRA then sent their members a letter and things got out of hand quickly.

Social media has set up an instant gratification echo chamber for mankind's worst impulses. It was bad enough when the media's newsworthiness filter encouraged people to push boundaries in order to draw attention to something, but now we've wedded that to rewarding people emotionally for successfully appealing to the visceral reactions of others.

 

[cronullasharks]

I think olives come from Israel but I do not buy olives.

They come from a nightclub in Walton

 

[dead_soft]

@Catfish Blues ended my point 13 posts in...



I do swerve buying Nivea like lol

But, and this is the real point...

I admit that it's daft - I'd say other Everton fans who do the same are daft. I wouldn't deflect daft behaviour and immediately spring into "BUT KOPITES WONT DRINK CHANG OR BET WITH SPORT PESA"

When replying to this thread, you could either buzz off the melons boycotting a brand because a Tory said he used it, or you could go into partisan mode, see a dig at 'Leftie' and because you identify as a leftie go on the attack against "the others" and in doing so, indirectly defend nobheads being nobheads.

OR, a few people made some OTT suggestions online that they think people won't buy Yorkshire Tea because it's the tea of Tories (most of these tweets seem to say 'well they're screwed' rather than 'burn the Tory Tea scum') and then some other people make a thread on a forum about it. Presumably the person on the forum isn't worked up about it, as that'd be silly, so maybe the tweeters aren't either.
However, if you feel that, as a left leaning person, there's quite a lot in the media - Toby Young, Lawrence Fox, for example - that makes it out like you're some sort of rabid cancelling mob, when there's actually minimal evidence to that, it may seem like it's worth firing back against it

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

OR, a few people made some OTT suggestions online that they think people won't buy Yorkshire Tea because it's the tea of Tories (most of these tweets seem to say 'well they're screwed' rather than 'burn the Tory Tea scum') and then some other people make a thread on a forum about it. Presumably the person on the forum isn't worked up about it, as that'd be silly, so maybe the tweeters aren't either.
However, if you feel that, as a left leaning person, there's quite a lot in the media - Toby Young, Lawrence Fox, for example - that makes it out like you're some sort of rabid cancelling mob, when there's actually minimal evidence to that, it may seem like it's worth firing back against it

Tell us what hot beverage to put in our mugs oh @dead_soft

 

[Walken]

Have put @GrandOldTeam on ignore to boycott these threads

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

Have put @GrandOldTeam on ignore to boycott these threads

That's a mistake, you find out some good information whatever your political stance.

Thrown my Israeli teabags rah in the bin now.

 

[dead_soft]

Tell us what hot beverage to put in our mugs oh @dead_soft

Well, can't be Lapsang, as we all know proper tea is theft

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

Well, can't be Lapsang, as we all know proper tea is theft

You soud just like my manager when the box of PG tips was moved out of the break room for safekeeping and was just resting in my rucksack.

Is Earl Grey ok? Surely that is the drink of the comman person.

 

[dead_soft]

You soud just like my manager when the box of PG tips was moved out of the break room for safekeeping and was just resting in my rucksack.

Is Earl Grey ok? Surely that is the drink of the comman person.

It's a thrice used bag from the union holdall or you're a scab, pal.

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

It's a thrice used bag from the union holdall or you're a scab, pal.

Your branch uses torybags?

Tealeaves are the answer brother.