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As a self professed coffee arsehole, I do love me a good hipster cafe. Manchester was full of them and almost all served a cracking brew in lovely surroundings. Yes you have to deal with the Tarquins and the Florences but it's more than worth it for a decent place to hole up for an hour or so with a book and/or Macbook (NO WINDOWS LAPTOPS ALLOWED).

Tafdolphin wrote:As a self professed coffee arsehole, I do love me a good hipster cafe. Manchester was full of them and almost all served a cracking brew in lovely surroundings. Yes you have to deal with the Tarquins and the Florences but it's more than worth it for a decent place to hole up for an hour or so with a book and/or Macbook (NO WINDOWS LAPTOPS ALLOWED).

I'm surprised hipster cafés would be your thing, Taf.

I once* had a moustache that was regularly waxed and twirled so...

Yeah.

*for 6 months.

EDIT: Actually, was that sarcasm? Cheeky strawberry floater.

I spotted a branch of one of the most notorious hipster cafes when i went to Camden Market last year; Cereal Killer.

Speaking of McDonald's I can end that stupid 'Is it still a Big Mac?' advert/campaign right now as I tried one the other day.

It's still a Big Mac. Why? Because you can't actually taste the bacon there's so little of it compared to everything else that makes up the sandwich.

Blue Eyes wrote:Those strawberry floating McDonalds McCafe adverts boil my piss. Creating a false image of independent coffee shops as smug and superior in order to sell their shitty coffee to banana splits. Sure, coffee is expensive in some of these hipster cafes. But don't give me this gooseberry fool about them scoffing that someone doesn't know what a flat white is or that they will try to bore you with science. It's just so Brexit. All McDonalds adverts are disgusting, which is appropriate considering the absolute dreck they sell.

For a while the feel of McDonald's and its marketing has felt in line with the likes of The Sun in peddling a kind of mass ignorance.

If it isn't scoffing at pretentious independent coffee shops when real people just them want to get on with it using some fast food franchise brew, it's rolling their eyes at parents concerned about the quality of the cheap food in their kids' Happy Meals.

"Here we go, fake news about 'freak beef' and McNuggets made of offcuts, what will they worry about next?!" as if there isn't at least a truth to these in the history of McDonald's as a global company.

Vermilion wrote:I spotted a branch of one of the most notorious hipster cafes when i went to Camden Market last year; Cereal Killer.

Urgh, strawberry float that place. The Manchester equivalent, Black Milk, realised almost instantly that the whole premise was ridiculous and shifted to making insanely decadent milkshakes instead.

I didn't know Oral B made a too-THP-aste

Die

aayl1 wrote:I didn't know Oral B made a too-THP-aste

Die

In the same vein, the electric toothbrush ones.

Get the toothbrush that's inspiiiired~ by dentists.

As opposed to who? Your local landscape strawberry floating gardener??

Chocolate-Milk wrote:

aayl1 wrote:I didn't know Oral B made a too-THP-aste

Die

In the same vein, the electric toothbrush ones.

Get the toothbrush that's inspiiiired~ by dentists.

As opposed to who? Your local landscape strawberry floating gardener??

I actually worked for a marketing company and ran a campaign for Oral B at one point (so I'm allowed to find their ads strawberry floating awful).

A lot of legal discussions went on about the word "inspired". You can't say "designed" by dentists, because their was technically noone on the design team that was qualified, so you end up having to use a word ofcom won't get funny about.

Toothbrush ads are also some of the ones most guilty of another annoying advertising trend - the terrible dub.

So many of these ads were clearly recorded in another language and then dubbed over in English with no attempt to cover up the fact!

speaking of teeth adverts what about all the ad's which have the obvious dubbed voice in them to promote like teeth whitening toothpaste etc

Jenuall i was about to post the same thing, you beat me to it with that subject

The Malteasers ad with the two deaf women.

Mafro wrote:The Malteasers ad with the two deaf women.

All the Malteasers ads. They're patronising to all in said ads.

IT'S DA POOST COOD LOT REEEEEEE

I CANNAE BELIEVE I WON £40,000!!! THANKS FOR FILMING ME AND PUT IT ON TV. NOW ALL SO CALLED WANKERS WILL CALL ME UP LMAO.

Dangerblade wrote:IT'S DA POOST COOD LOT REEEEEEE

"Someone’s knocking at your door, somebody’s ringing the bell"

Who else is fed up of hearing that on the TV & Radio? I am

floydfreak wrote:

Dangerblade wrote:IT'S DA POOST COOD LOT REEEEEEE

"Someone’s knocking at your door, somebody’s ringing the bell"

Who else is fed up of hearing that on the TV & Radio? I am

"Do me a favour, open the door, tell 'em to strawberry float off"

I wish i was able to alter my doorbell so that instead of it ringing, it tells whoever is stood outside to sod off.