Stuck on Repeats

[Fugee]

Originally Posted by J. Fred Muggs

NC is fairly backwater. Apparently every county that has a college in it voted in favor of providing fundamental civil rights to the evil homosexuals, but the many counties without voted against. Note that I base this entirely on my review of a cartoon map that someone posted on Facebook, so it may or may not be true but it's interesting.

Linky link to said map.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Totally agree on that score. OTOH, it's very frustrating to work at a large organization where someone junior in a public-facing role somewhere does something stupid, and all of a sudden the internet is mobilizing with pitchforks to tell each other how much you suck, even though you're comfortable that it's a minor screw-up that should and will be fixed.

Or so I might imagine.

Have they been fired? If not, it is ratification, and Diageo sucks.

LessinTelAviv

[Fugee]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Totally agree on that score. OTOH, it's very frustrating to work at a large organization where someone junior in a public-facing role somewhere does something stupid, and all of a sudden the internet is mobilizing with pitchforks to tell each other how much you suck, even though you're comfortable that it's a minor screw-up that should and will be fixed.

Or so I might imagine.

And as often as not, someone senior in the large organization orders the stuipd thing to be done and makes the junior person in the public-facing role carry it out. Then when the shit hits the fan, blame gets deflected elsewhere.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Fugee

And as often as not, someone senior in the large organization orders the stuipd thing to be done and makes the junior person in the public-facing role carry it out. Then when the shit hits the fan, blame gets deflected elsewhere.

It makes me uncomfortable when you curse.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

It makes me uncomfortable when you curse.

you? imagine how baby Jesus feels.

Originally Posted by LessinSF

Have they been fired? If not, it is ratification, and Diageo sucks.

LessinTelAviv

Some quotes from the discussion thread on this topic over on the Celtic board, where this has been A Hot Topic for days ...

The staff in the Glasgow Brewdog pub are a bunch of hipster wankers, and looking at that statement it's easy to see where theyre getting their attitude. It's almost enough to make me side with Diageo, who are obviously in the wrong

Whilst Diageo have had a 'mare here, Brewdog's self-importance and arrogance does my box in. They fair instil it in their staff, too.
They do a couple of good beers and it's a nice concept but they're so up themselves that they make me look humble.

Think their beer is crap, well the ones I have tasted and they sound like tossers, talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, they could just stated the facts and left it at that.

Don't think Brewdog will see it that way - the publicity they have gained from this has been incredible. There will be a whole lot of new people who had never heard of Brewdog now interested to try their beers on the back of this. Priceless advertising. Of all the people for Diageo to try this stunt with, Brewdog would have to be the worst - they are hardly shrinking violets. Coupled with that they have a massive and loyal social media following and they had this trending worldwide at one point yesterday afternoon.

And so we see how this particular teacup tempest ends up here ...

#LessOnTwitter

[Gattigap]

Originally Posted by J. Fred Muggs

NC is fairly backwater. Apparently every county that has a college in it voted in favor of providing fundamental civil rights to the evil homosexuals, but the many counties without voted against. Note that I base this entirely on my review of a cartoon map that someone posted on Facebook, so it may or may not be true but it's interesting.

It's a correlation, but you could also say that it correlates with, say, population centers voting against. Folks digging into the data are concluding that it's pretty complicated.

Big swaths of NC are pretty sparsely populated, and you and I both know the types who live there once you get off I-85 or I-40. I figured that the blend of ignorance about the bill, victimology and the generic well-protecting-marriage-is-a-good-thing-of-course would end up with the damn thing getting passed. I'm from North Carolina originally, and the whole episode saddens me.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

you? imagine how baby Jesus feels.

That's why I'm uncomfortable.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Gattigap

It's a correlation, but you could also say that it correlates with, say, population centers voting against. Folks digging into the data are concluding that it's pretty complicated.

Big swaths of NC are pretty sparsely populated, and you and I both know the types who live there once you get off I-85 or I-40. I figured that the blend of ignorance about the bill, victimology and the generic well-protecting-marriage-is-a-good-thing-of-course would end up with the damn thing getting passed. I'm from North Carolina originally, and the whole episode saddens me.

Whatever. This is just the first step towards city-folk wantin' to marry animals.

[Gattigap]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

Whatever. This is just the first step towards city-folk wantin' to marry animals.

Either that, or Tad.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Gattigap

It's a correlation, but you could also say that it correlates with, say, population centers voting against. Folks digging into the data are concluding that it's pretty complicated.

Big swaths of NC are pretty sparsely populated, and you and I both know the types who live there once you get off I-85 or I-40. I figured that the blend of ignorance about the bill, victimology and the generic well-protecting-marriage-is-a-good-thing-of-course would end up with the damn thing getting passed. I'm from North Carolina originally, and the whole episode saddens me.

I broke down the Michigan vote and how Detroit went, I think in 2004. Anyone who doesn't have me on ignore knows everything Gatti just said was told to you several years ago.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Fugee

And as often as not, someone senior in the large organization orders the stuipd thing to be done and makes the junior person in the public-facing role carry it out. Then when the shit hits the fan, blame gets deflected elsewhere.

Maybe that happens in other organizations, but that's not what's going on in the one I'm most familiar with.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

Whatever. This is just the first step towards city-folk wantin' to marry animals.

Yes please. Anything that get s the gov out of the field. And, when I marry my kegerator, it will be for life. Y'all will not have to pay for divorce and family court expense.

LessinTelAviv

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Maybe that happens in other organizations, but that's not what's going on in the one I'm most familiar with.

My homeschooling relatives are Johnny-on-the-spot on Facebook with a news link every fucking time some tinpot martinet in a public school thousands of miles away from you, me and them does something stupid like expelling an honors student for calling the principal a poopyhead on Twitter. And every time the tagline is "One more reason to homeschool." Only my love of family cohesion keeps me from posting all the unpublished Court of Appeal decisions in CPS cases about the dads who keep their kids home from school in order better to rape them, because that is just as relevant to the issue.

We see the best in what we love and the worst in what we hate.

Diageo sucks because they make Pimm's, and that shit is foul.

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

Diageo sucks because they make Pimm's, and that shit is foul.

This churlish slur will not stand, sir.