If they called it Donkey would that be them connecting Donkey to mental health?
BrewDog: yet another hip company using 'rebel' language to sell its stuff
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If they called it Donkey would that be them connecting Donkey to mental health?
equationgirl
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8ball
Decolonise colons!
This tends to be the way with self-generated reviews. People don't get fired up to say something is kind of ok.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
I do like it though. Daphne was spot-on with the 2 minutes hate thing.
If BD spent all of their profits curing cancer and rehoming orphans, you lot would still want them crucified!
not-bono-ever
meh
The least they could do is produce a beer that reduces the urge to razz in the shower the next morning. Pint for pint, it has the worst hangover collateral I have come across
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
You read the bit about Sad AF being released as part of a campaign on mental health, right?
BrewDog partners on mental health campaign 7 months after ‘toxic’ workplace claims
Seven months after claims of fostering a ‘toxic’ workplace culture, and a week before BBC One airs a one-hour special into the scandal, BrewDog has partnered with the online movement #IAmWhole in a bid to spark conversations around mental health issues.
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hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
Yeah, god knows there are plenty of criticisms to be made of both unions in general and Unite in particular, but ultimately a) the experience of being in a union will differ massively from branch to branch, so there's no guarantee the things leading to your good or bad experience will be mirrored elsewhere, and b) if aren't satisfied with how your local branch is doing, you can get involved in the branch committee and try to push it in a different direction. Or you could leave a bad review on trustpilot, I suppose?
editor
hiraethified
Ah, here's the company shareholder, keen to close down all discussion.
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hiraethified
I just asked 4 people what they thought SAD AF meant. Every one said 'Sad as fuck.'You read the bit about Sad AF being released as part of a campaign on mental health, right?
BrewDog partners on mental health campaign 7 months after ‘toxic’ workplace claims
Seven months after claims of fostering a ‘toxic’ workplace culture, and a week before BBC One airs a one-hour special into the scandal, BrewDog has partnered with the online movement #IAmWhole in a bid to spark conversations around mental health issues.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
They do a stout, Dog J, with an alcohol content of over 14%, which I'm reliably informed gives you a hangover for about 3 days.
You read the bit about Sad AF being released as part of a campaign on mental health, right?
BrewDog partners on mental health campaign 7 months after ‘toxic’ workplace claims
Seven months after claims of fostering a ‘toxic’ workplace culture, and a week before BBC One airs a one-hour special into the scandal, BrewDog has partnered with the online movement #IAmWhole in a bid to spark conversations around mental health issues.
Yes.
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hiraethified
Notwithstanding their own appalling record of the mental health problems they caused their own staff - and the current gaslighting of staff who complained - you don't see a problem with them launching a beer to to support a mental health charity that most/many people will think is called Sad As Fuck?
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danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
So it’s not just completely random that it’s called Sad AF.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
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equationgirl
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That's ok, dess, you love them enough for all of us.
Even though it's not at all clear why you do love such a company quite so much
equationgirl
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Shocked, I tell you, shocked.
Are you reading my posts?
equationgirl
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If they were curing cancer and rehoming orphans using misogynistic marketing, yes I would.
equationgirl
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Are you reading anyone else's?
The SAD AF is poking fun at it being alcohol free. That it’s somehow slagging mentally Ill people is something being made up on this thread by posters here.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Thank you for mansplaining what I pointed out two days ago.
But Brewdog have a long history of using things with double meaning precisely to poke fun at people and Sad AF is no different, and they know it.
There isn’t a double meaning which includes it being a pejorative to the mentally ill. Could you point to sources that dispute this?
And can you stop with this ‘mansplaining’ bollocks? I have to explain my self to make my posts make sense there’s nothing sexist about me trying to make myself clearer.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Brew Dog have been calling their alcohol free versions AF for years, I think it's only Nanny State that goes without it. And of course it's an edgelord thing. Whether the charity they are working with approached them or vice versa (and there are certainly charities that would be only to happy to do so, cos some of them are crap too) is pretty irrelevant, imo.
It's all just more (whatever the appropriate colour for charities is)washing, trying to move the conversation on and still being edgelords. You might think that after being repeatedly hauled over the coals for misogyny they might think about not just targeting a campaign at their male clientele. But I guess they're misogynists, so that thought doesn't even occur to them.
It's all just more (whatever the appropriate colour for charities is)washing, trying to move the conversation on and still being edgelords. You might think that after being repeatedly hauled over the coals for misogyny they might think about not just targeting a campaign at their male clientele. But I guess they're misogynists, so that thought doesn't even occur to them.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Of course it isn't poking fun at mentally ill people. The suggestion is ridiculous.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
He's not really a shareholder. He just has a piece of paper that pretends it's a Share, but doesn't give any of the rights inherent with the normal meaning of that word, no voting right and it's price isn't related in any way to the value of the company. It's a Fan Club membership and nowt else.
steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
This is all Brewdog fanboyz have left- tone-trolling. Pathetic, frankly.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Equity punk, if you don't mind.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
This is really weak cobblers. There may be some posters that hate BrewDog but for most it is about the horrible work/advertising practices of the company. Practices that you seen to want to ignore - hence the pretence about "haters" rather addressing the substantive matters like the sexism pointed out by EG and others.
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