Boycott Everything

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Pepsi Max - because of the mental health mocking ad from a few years back. (Although the ASA didn't agree with me, I've not pepmax since)

Brew Dog. Owners are massive pricks, I'm surprised no one has said it yet.

This thread.
Because 'Murica!

Morrisons - they told me off for shoplifting a few years ago. Scum.

Edit: no idea how I accidentally tagged RangerRussell, sorry!
Edit Pt.II: it's because I was about to back up the Brew Dog boycott but realised that as somebody who drinks at Wetherspoons every once in a while I'm a huge hypocrite.

I think you’re good, they used to test teas on animals but stopped a few years back.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/pg-tips-maker-agrees-to-halt-animal-tests-on-its-tea-2202615.html

those chimps were never quite the same once pg tips had finished with them

It’s the taste

Quinoa. It came from nowhere, it can fuck off back there.

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What's the BrewDog thing?

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/mar/24/the-aggressive-outrageous-infuriating-and-ingenious-rise-of-brewdog

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Just saw this.

Its the truth.

Also 'Gokarn'

Please can @kl make sure that Pigface - The Horse You Rode In On is linked in the OP.

https://youtu.be/3foVZZtd670

Outrage against one taxidermy squirrel is kind of balanced against the use of very few animal products in the beers, something that can't be said for most breweries... Mmmm swim bladders

Almost all decent ales these days are vegan, no?

i'm pretty sure oliver says it's tricky finding a beer that doesn't have animal products in

What's the BrewDog thing?

They are successful and that’s not a good look these days. Only with suffering comes dignity or some bollocks.

If some of these controversies were thrust upon BrewDog – who cannily took full advantage – others turned out to be rather more cynical. A few months after the spat over the high alcohol content in BrewDog’s Tokyo Imperial stout, it emerged that just one complaint from the public had led to the Portman Group ordering retailers to cease stocking the beer. It had been lodged by a Mr James Watt.

The sort of deceitfulness I'd expect from Trump. Nothing they have ever done was sincere, it's all calculated marketing bollocks.

Beer's horrid anyway, hoppier-than-thou piss

Trump? What the fuck.

Peak lfgss handwringing bullshit may just have been reached.

There's also the ad they ran in 2015 mocking trans people and sex workers, their pink "beer for girls", their laughable "equity for punks" scheme..

Trump

Why not? Same "evil establishment hates us (but actually we are the establishment)" veneer plastered on top of a core of arsehole.

Why would you buy beer made by prejudiced manipulative knobheads when you can buy nicer beer from >1000 other brewers who are probably not knobheads?

@KatBalou'sPhone summed it up quite well in the vegan thread

They have a history of mocking the homeless and sex workers in their equity for punks campaign. They bought out a Pink IPA for girls. They lost a court battle after they sacked an employee for going blind. They sued a small bar who tried to call themselves Lone Wolf as it's the name of their distilling arm, the bar had to relaunch and spend thousands on rebranding. Brewdog offered them a box of their gin as an apology. They tried to trademark the word punk. They
used branding for their Punk AF alcohol free beer launch they were pitched and rejected. They are also atrocious at paying their bills.

Fine line between pricks and trying to get the brand in the public eye.

I agree with you but two sides and that.

EDIT: Believe KatBaloo, I am am wrong they are worse than pricks.

They have a history of mocking the homeless and sex workers in their equity for punks campaign.

They made one - yea, rather distasteful - video right? Or is there more to the history?

They bought out a Pink IPA for girls.

Which apparently they sold at an 18% discount to Women to reflect the inequality pay gap. Misjudged I guess.

They lost a court battle after they sacked an employee for going blind.

Now this one is on the face of it is shit, yes. Seems to come down to them no being able / willing to make the adjustments to the workplace needed to accommodate him, so they offered another position instead on a computer (on which assistive technology is readily available and easy to procure), that he declined. Fuck knows why they didn't do a proper job here - I'm putting it down to incompetence as opposed to evil.

They sued a small bar who tried to call themselves Lone Wolf as it's the name of their distilling arm, the bar had to relaunch and spend thousands on rebranding. Brewdog offered them a box of their gin as an apology.

They wrote them a letter saying don't use the name. The bar agreed to use another name. BrewDog then agreed to let them use the name. The bar declined.

They tried to trademark the word punk.

They didn't try, they actually own the trademark for Punk in reference to beer, because they make a beer called Punk. If you sell it under a name, you pretty much have to trademark the name, and then you have to defend it. Yeah it sounds shit, but hate the game, not the player.

They used branding for their Punk AF alcohol free beer launch they were pitched and rejected.

Kinda debatable. The 'pitch' was on made on Retainer, it wasn't previously uncontracted / engaged agency providing spec work. Apparently.

They are also atrocious at paying their bills.

Dunno, never had the misfortune of having to send them an invoice.

Kinda feel this is probably down to small company becomes mid-sized makes dumb fuck ups along the way rather than an indicator of the level of actual unpleasantness that deserve a boycott, but I guess we all have our standards.