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Post by rick1776 on Apr 27, 2003 19:27:39 GMT -5
possible way left to "saturate advertise" they find another way of doing it. My son was playing a new PC game today. Have no idea what it is. He came into the study excited and wanted to tell me all about it. It involves blah blah blah and then he says..and then you have to collect different cans of COKE as in the registered trade mark, not the other type of coke. You then sell the cans for other things.
This is about as off as you can get in my opinion. Saturation advertising aimed at minors. Wonder how much COKE paid the software owners for that little bit of advertising?? Now coke is banned in our house as is all cola based drinks containing caffine. The kids seem to be taking it rather well considering the peer group pressure to drink the stuff. Any company that puts phosphoric acid into their drink and then says its to enhance the flavour has got to be joking.
I mean I use the stuff to dissolve rust and clean up old garden tools etc. There is no f'en way Id let my kids drink the stuff.
Whats wrong with corporate entities???
cheers rick1776
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Post by greg99 on May 8, 2003 15:04:20 GMT -5
I am sorry that you are banning Coca-Cola from your home but that's your choice and I respect it. I have never heard of anyone dying from Coca-Cola, even if the components are questionnable. I also use citric acid to clean calcium build up in my bathroom and it dissolves everything. I drink lemonade. Are you banning lemons too? The list is endless I have to ask you : how many other stuff are you banning? Is it the company Coca-Cola represents or just this one product? It's just out of interest. This is a bit off topic but I'm interested. My opinion is that if tastes good and it's not making you sick, then enjoy it. I'd rather drink a gallon of Coca-Cola straight than smell the fumes of the cars and other pollution - but I still go out on the streets and endure it. I'm still alive and kicking. (this text mentions Coke 4 times - that is advertising - I'm sending my bill to the C-C Company... )
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Post by RacerX on May 8, 2003 23:05:26 GMT -5
Rick, Kudos for sticking to your guns. I banned myself from patronising McDonalds well over 15, or so, years ago. I REFUSE to spend money with them, and I haven't.
As for the Coca-Cola...it's also great for washing battery acid corrosion off the old battery cables and terminals! Just pour it on & let the coke do the rest! No scrubbing, no hassles, just pour and go! Great stuff...LOL!
greg99, I think I've mentioned Coca-Cola twice in this post & promoted them for a good service...will you bill them for my kind words of advertising too?
Thanks, RacerX
P.S. I also boycott Nike shoes...LOL. Kind of a silly reason, but I was the first kid in GRADE school to dawn a wild colored pair of Nikes! I was in 5th grade, and no-one at my school had ever seen such a weirder pair of shoes. The color combination was so ugly!
People laughed at them, but sure enough they go away for Summer & when they returned, I'd bet 30% of the kids were wearing Nike shoes! By the end of the year, it was almost 80%!!!!
I wore them all the way through grade school, wore their T-shirts advertising them, wore multiple pairs for football (US football)...had a pair for practice & a seperate pair for games ONLY...LOL.
I even wore them through college & fortunately for me (so I thought) the college football team was getting paid to have their players wear them! Then one day I woke up and thought wait a minute. Shouldn't these BASTARDS be paying ME to wear and advertise their freaking product?
I haven't bought a pair since, and that's been well over 15 years ago too. I loved Nike, but I just seem to have woken up about paying their exhorbant prices for a freaking shoe. I don't buy Reebok either...Never did (I was nationalistic...LOL, go figure.)
G'nite all!
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Post by CFF on May 9, 2003 0:17:05 GMT -5
errrr .... so Rx ..... what kind of sneakers do you now wear then ??
CFF
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Post by Wycco on May 9, 2003 7:41:37 GMT -5
LOL...
RacerX,
I won't wear ANY clothing that advertises the maker... its one thing I've NEVER done- for the same reason as you. I feel like they should be paying me for buying it!
I remember when I was in High School- "Duck Head" T-shirts were the big thing... all the kids had a giant Duck Head on their T-shirt with the words "Duck Head" written above the corporate logo.
Sucked for one girl on her Year-Book picture though- her shirt was creased in such a way that it read "Dick Head" LOL! ;D
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Post by CFF on May 9, 2003 10:34:09 GMT -5
Sucked for one girl on her Year-Book picture though- her shirt was creased in such a way that it read "Dick Head" LOL! ;D *LOL* ... That kinda reminds me of the younger Schumacher, and at least one picture I've seen of him wearing a T-shirt with "Ralf" emblazened across the shoulders. Trouble was, the angle the photo was taken, and perhaps a bit of scrunched shirt across his back, the "R" appears to look much more like an "H" .... hence the nickname "Half" CFF
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Post by Ruby2 on May 9, 2003 11:04:19 GMT -5
*LOL* ... That kinda reminds me of the younger Schumacher, and at least one picture I've seen of him wearing a T-shirt with "Ralf" emblazened across the shoulders. Trouble was, the angle the photo was taken, and perhaps a bit of scrunched shirt across his back, the "R" appears to look much more like an "H" .... hence the nickname "Half" CFF LOL!!! And there was I thinking Ralf got called half because he was only half as good as his brother!!!
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Post by daSilva on May 9, 2003 11:18:50 GMT -5
I thought it was because his chin is half the size of Schumel's.
;D
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Post by Wycco on May 9, 2003 11:19:44 GMT -5
I thought it was because his chin is half the size of Schumel's. ;D His chin??? I thought... Oh never mind!
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Post by pabs on May 9, 2003 11:50:57 GMT -5
On all that corporate stuff...I wear Nike, I wear Reebok, I drink coke, and I eat at Mickey D's probably once a month when I'm too lazy to cook.
See, I buy whatever I think looks good on me. But I could care less if it is Nike or some unknown brand. But I don't think I should restrict myself of things I like because it happens to be made by a corporation.
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Post by rick1776 on May 16, 2003 19:11:05 GMT -5
Greg99 "I have to ask you : how many other stuff are you banning? Is it the company Coca-Cola represents or just this one product? It's just out of interest." I have nothing against coke persay. I do have a problem with large corporations that are not good citizens however! BHP shit all over the local population in PNG over a mine spillage and then advertised heavily in Australia, saying how they were really the good guys and that the spillage in PNG wasnt that bad really. Shit me who were they trying to convince?? The spillage basically wiped out communites. Had it happened in Australia where the laws on such action are harsh there would have been a billion dollar cleanup. Instaed they spent probably a million or two on advertising that they werent the bad guys. I have a problem with that concept, but I digress. I will not allow my children to drink any caffiene (they are 5 and 7) based drink. What gets me is that the companies say it is to enhance the flavour. Well shit me, you cant TASTE caffiene, so why is it they put it into kids drinks? You dont have to be too smart to figure it out. Thats what erks me about such companies. In Australia these companies pushed to have caffiene placed in ALL drinks, just to enhance the flavour. Well shit me, just to enhance the flavour? At present only cola based drinks and certain "sports" drinks are allowed to have caffiene. Luckily the authorites didnt allow this to happen. Just a tit bit, Coke concentrate (prior to adding water) can only be transported in stainless steel tankers that are accredited dangerous goods transporters. The trucks must display dangerous goods placards with phone numbers displayed of the local authorities in case of spillage. I have no problem in you drinking the stuff if you so wish. I dare say you would not go down to your local hardware store buy a can of phosphoric acid and drink it, yet if properly advertised and packaged, then no problem I suppose. I have no problem in drinking ascorbic acid as its benefits are well noted. Vitamin C if Im not mistaken. As a female you are more prone to bone related diseases after menopause than are males. Coke is known to leach calcium out of your system. Your call. cheers rick1776
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Post by Senninha on May 19, 2003 9:28:46 GMT -5
I've always lived by the rule, you do what you like as long as no one else gets hurt by it. Ok, I have always eaten and drunk whatever I wanted - coke included. Interesting that you ban you kids from drinking the stuff - I;m not sure about your kids, but a thought here. My parents never banned me from doing/eating/drinking anything (except the silly stuff that only gets you into trouble! Obviously!! For which I learnt the lessons quickly!!) but being the rebellious type, if they ever had have done when I was say, 7, by the time I was 16 I would have gone way out of my way to do it. To an extent I always felt my parents knew best for me, but once you get into your teens, you learn so much about yourslef that you never knew, you say well, maybe sometimes I know best for myself. Regarding food, yeah sure, I'm overweight and unfit. But the last time I was ill was when I had chicken pox when I was about 7 or 8. I accept that some day I'm gonna die, maybe my eating habits will bring that day forward - but it doesn't bother me. I would be more unhappy sitting watching waiting and worrying about everythign I did than I would if I didn't and died early. This is probably where you come in and question my naiveity and youth, and maybe I am wrong, and you're entitled to treat your kids as you see fit (I don't want to change that and respect that you are trying to give them the best start in life as any parent would - for all I say, I would do the same - I would be restrictive with their food, but not let them know about it!!!!!!) but the way I see it is, as Greg put it, you're as likely to breathe in the same sorts of junk every day... Nike - I wear Nike trainers, cos they fit me nicely and they're comfortable and look nice, but I did think about boycotting cos they sponsored a certain German... I drink coke, but prefer Pepsi (which tastes like it should kill you!! Seems more deadly than coke!) About the Calcium thing rick - does that cancel out if you drink heaps of milk too (full fat!! hehe!!)...
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Post by Topcontender on May 19, 2003 11:08:54 GMT -5
NO french stuff for me. Any french stuff i see i avoid. That includes, no wine, champagne, chocolate. Call it bullheaded, but i am right wing
As for logos, if the shirt has a small logo on the front i will buy it. IF they have a huge logo on the front i won't. It is one thing to put a name on the product, but it is another to make yourself look like a billboard.
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Post by RacerX on May 19, 2003 19:20:42 GMT -5
TC...LOL, I was just mentally bitching to myself about that very thing...big logo's on shirts. Wuff, I just received a "Speed Channel" T-shirt in the mail, compliments of a nice e-mail...LOL, and it has a nice small logo on the front crest (chest are, near the heart). It's very tasteful, and I think it looks great...until...
...I turn it over and there's this massive hunk of a plastic logo all the way across the back. I laughed & thought, what the heck, it's free and will make a great work-out shiort.
I tried it on, and my fears confirmed, when i started to sweat, the giant plastic logo on back acted like a body magnet and stuck to my skin. Yuk. (Am I a pussy, or what??...LOL)
Anyway, I know I shouldn't bitch about a free tT-shirt, but I'm thinking this one will end up at the bottom of my drawer, or get sent to Goodwill like several shirts before.
LOL, giant logos...wuff.
rofl, RacerX
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Post by RacerX on May 19, 2003 19:23:34 GMT -5
Opps...Oh yeah, hey CFF...I get the $14.95 sneakers at Wal-mart! Like hell if I'm paying $100 bucks for similar stuff with a swoosh, or four stripes, or whatever else gets massive mark-ups for commercial purposes...LOL, cheap bastard aren't I?
But wait, there's more...
LOL, my wife doesn't seem to care about my personal boycotts, and she buys the kids Nike, or Reebok...LOL, whatever they find comfortable. Wuff, then she always picks herself up a pair too. Oh well...as long as THEY'RE happy...
LOL, RacerX
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