tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post5080552205595861367..comments2024-03-25T18:49:00.608+00:00Comments on The Pub Curmudgeon: Guerrilla marketingCurmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-45674443217506506832010-07-18T19:54:58.927+01:002010-07-18T19:54:58.927+01:00Naming and putting Rizla on the report is sheer st...Naming and putting Rizla on the report is sheer stupidity.<br /><br />Does Mr 'l'll have a joint' get out his tobacco and dope (illegal) and then think 'Hmmm, l wonder what to put it in? Ooooh look, Rizla papers ... what a good idea'Smoking Hothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04534745989363293923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-36863124874158828002010-07-18T19:45:11.247+01:002010-07-18T19:45:11.247+01:00In the 70s I lived in a country
where there was no...In the 70s I lived in a country<br />where there was no alcohol or tobacco advertising allowed,problem<br />was the state had to have a big wall,watch towers and barbed wire <br />to stop the inmates fleeing.<br />DDR (East Germany)<br />Whats that I hear from some <br />croaking toadies with STATE tatooed<br />on their limp wrists,"It cant happen here"<br />Its here ,without the wall as we <br />have a multitude of backstabbers to<br />ensure servitude and compliance<br /><br />Gutter Fighter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-4163986957461299722010-07-18T19:34:12.353+01:002010-07-18T19:34:12.353+01:00Just a moment
A product which I cannot advertise,
...Just a moment<br />A product which I cannot advertise,<br />I cannot promote,I cannot use in a<br />public lavatory,I cannot use on a raiway open air platform,I cannot use in a back street boozing den,<br />Nor in a fume filled hospital car park,nor in a diesel fume choked bus station,not even in a lung melting iron foundry.How can this<br />product from the bowels of hell<br />manifest itself on civilised society<br /><br />Easy,any decent supermarket(with a nice cut for the Government) will sell you as much as you want(Day and Night at Asda).<br />I must have misssed the plot<br />Another little puzzle,how come some MPs hate smoking yet seem<br />quite relaxed to bomb the shit out of women and children in Afghanistan.<br /><br />Worse still ,we still have some<br />"men"?? on the blogosphere who<br />snivvel their approval for the above statutes.<br /><br />Anti LevellerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-19998207408026264862010-07-18T18:33:28.290+01:002010-07-18T18:33:28.290+01:00Indeed, that is the problem with the tobacco ban, ...Indeed, that is the problem with the tobacco ban, not the ban of that particular group of products per se, but the worry is how much further such things will go.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11319272987951077205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-54930803330668387402010-07-18T15:25:44.037+01:002010-07-18T15:25:44.037+01:00Dare I suggest that by saying "I don't re...Dare I suggest that by saying "I don't really care about the fact that tobacco advertising is banned" you are falling into the "first they came for the Jews" trap?<br /><br />My view is that a ban (or severe restrictions) on alcohol advertising would very much play into the hands of established brands and big producers - see <a href="http://curmudgeoncolumns.blogspot.com/2009/11/november-2009.html" rel="nofollow">this article</a>.<br /><br />It would also make it very difficult for CAMRA to function effectively ;-)Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-21297298130842064982010-07-18T15:17:00.864+01:002010-07-18T15:17:00.864+01:00Although I don't really care about the fact th...Although I don't really care about the fact that tobacco advertising is banned, I do wonder what would happen if alcohol advertising was. We would certainly have to find ingenious ways of getting our message across.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11319272987951077205noreply@blogger.com