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This is a link post Oddbins takes on London 2012 sponsors
OK, this is just a PR stunt, but it's a good 'un. Oddbins is giving a 30% discount to anyone who enters its stores wearing Nike, carrying an iPhone, or having a receipt for a Pepsi bought at KFC.

(I had nothing to do with it...but wish I had.)

OaC
 (I helped save b3ta! Mr Mann I love pigs, best of all the animals, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 16:35, Reply)
This is a normal post Pay Wall

(I helped save b3ta! dysonology "You get an 'ology', you're a scientist!", Tue 24 Jul 2012, 16:37, Reply)
This is a normal post Sorry
Had no idea I had a subscription to bloody Retail Week
 (I helped save b3ta! Mr Mann I love pigs, best of all the animals, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 16:50, Reply)
This is a normal post 'subscriber only content'
oh how ironic.
 (hotpiss is very much liking your popping musics, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 16:37, Reply)
This is a normal post I dont care about there being sponsers
If we have to host world p.e day then this saves 700 million being taken away from places it's needed.
 (I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 16:50, Reply)
This is a normal post this^
i couldn't give a fuck which corporation is allowed or not allowed. the idea that pepsico (annual net revenues of $43.3 billion.) is some kind of plucky underdog is risible.
 (I helped save b3ta! tickle I was away, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 16:59, Reply)
This is a normal post Completely agree
But it's not the sponsors' rivals that I care about...it's the fact that the Games, which are supposed to be about the noblest of human endeavours* have been subsumed under a weight of corporatism and money where the performances are almost incidental. Of course, the Games need sponsors - nowt wrong with that.

But the humourless and heavy-handed approach to enforcing exclusivity, where LOCOG's Branding Gestapo sits ready to pounce on any small London business that so much as acknowledges / celebrates / references the Games...I find that offensive and crass TBH.

Even the person who brought sponsorship to the Games in the first place (surprisingly recently - 1980s) says that LOCOG has gone too far: www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/father-of-olympic-branding-my-rules-are-being-abused-7962593.html


* does this make me sound like a cunt?
 (I helped save b3ta! Mr Mann I love pigs, best of all the animals, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 17:21, Reply)
This is a normal post for sure. i read that article too. interesting.
yes it does make you sound like a cunt. but then again you're a cunt so all's well that ends well.*

*you're not a cunt really. unless you are but i wouldn't know anyway.
 (I helped save b3ta! tickle I was away, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 17:33, Reply)
This is a normal post Don't listen to him Mr. Mann
he may be a cunt*

*or may not
 (Ol' Ginger Bastard a role model for the children, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 18:42, Reply)
This is a normal post Someone call?

(I helped save b3ta! Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 19:39, Reply)
This is a normal post Alctivism...
alcotivism... oh fuck it I give up.

It's not about siding with Pepsi, but I despise marketing nazis and their continuing and increasing belief that they have the power to do what the fuck they like, to lay claim to things that belong to all like the colour purple, chips etc.

Fuck off, my chips you cunts.
 (I helped save b3ta! simbosan is too tired, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 17:18, Reply)