BrewDog: yet another hip company using 'rebel' language to sell its stuff
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Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
That's the definition I just found but I think we're about to get another.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
We can get on to that but I thought we could start with looking at the language and imagery these capitalists are using to sell their stuff, because that's what this thread actually started off being about.
They are quite blatantly using the anarchist "A" symbol here for example (along with a load of other stuff).
I did double check that they are not some kind of workers' co-op or anything like that. They seem to be a private company with directors.
So, the question is whether it's OK for capitalists to adopt things like the anarchist symbol to help them make profit for themselves and exploit wage labourers.
All those who remain silent on the question can be assumed to be defending the capitalists.
It certainly would make me think twice about buying their product.
JimW
支那暗杀团
The colour palette looks quite BrewDog too; perhaps the market will rescue us by destroying the arch-fiend's bottom line under a mountain of cheap knock-offs.
ElizabethofYork
Old Crone
I wondered that too.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
I had a stand next to them at a craft beer festival and they certainly dress like punks and have a lot of punk tattoos. Definitely old punks. Nice crew of people. But yes, capitalipunx now.
Irrelevantly 
in any thread about breweries and beers, Anarchy make some damned fine beer too!! 
I've never really seen their marketing (before now!) either ....
in any thread about breweries and beers, Anarchy make some damned fine beer too!! I've never really seen their marketing (before now!) either ....
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
What was your stand?
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
I'll DM you a link to our website. If I put it up here it will make me instantly identifiable to any tom, dick or harry.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Don't tell him, Pike.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I trust you will be boycotting them from now on?Irrelevantly
I've never really seen their marketing (before now!) either ....
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Gaslighting comes from the film Gaslight. It's a great film, which I thoroughly recommend. You'll know what it means at the end of it.
ElizabethofYork
Old Crone
I've seen it - the original black and white one. The husband attempts to make the wife think she's going insane.
I was a bit confused by the term gaslighting on this thread - I haven't seen anyone trying to make anyone else think they're going mad.
So I wondered if my understanding of gaslighting was incorrect.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I could gaslight you and say that no, that's not what the film is about...
But yeah, sounds like you know what it means.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Again, this.thread
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Nobody's posted on it for 6 hours but you felt it deserved a bump with a worthless post, right?
Some sort of halfway-sane reason to do so, might not go amiss!
[ETA : Above relates to Alchemy Brewery/earlier posts about it -- but to be unusually fair
, there appear to be a number of different breweries of that name or similar 
. I was thinking about the Newcastle-upon-Tyne one, or possibly (?) the Edinburgh one -- website not especially clear, when you're in a pre-coffee morning rush! 
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krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Nobody's posted on it for 6 hours but you felt it deserved a bump with a worthless post, right?
What's the acceptable time limit for worthy posts like yours?
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
You're just miffed because you didn't know what gaslighting meant!
Do you?
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
I do now. I looked it up. Nothing like that going on here. You just said it out of ignorance and a couple of folks jumped on the bandwagon.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
What are you on about?
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Astrophysics.
dessiato
🇪🇸 españa te quiero
Well it's not rocket surgery, is it?
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
A gas giant, perhaps
teuchter
je suis teuchter
The one I was talking about is the Anarchy Brewery, this one:Some sort of halfway-sane reason to do so, might not go amiss!
[ETA : Above relates to Alchemy Brewery/earlier posts about it -- but to be unusually fair
ABOUT US -
All you need to know about our brewery; from launching in 2012, to our Newcastle move in 2018, and what the future holds!
anarchybrewco.com
Which is not only Brewdog inspired but is using anarchist imagery to market its capitalist, exploitative business.
It matches exactly the thread title: "yet another hip company using rebel language to sell its stuff".
John Lydon of the Sex Pistols made a career out of being an angry rebel. He grew rich out of it. He probably started out as the real thing but in time it bacame just an act, part of his public image, as he bought into the establishment.
His attempts to backtrack on his God Save the Queen lyrics were most unconvincing, clearly demonstrating a person who had become conformist yet desperate to pretend otherwise.
The final public sell out of course was when he popped up in TV commecials advertising Utterly Butterly Margarine, lol.
His attempts to backtrack on his God Save the Queen lyrics were most unconvincing, clearly demonstrating a person who had become conformist yet desperate to pretend otherwise.
The final public sell out of course was when he popped up in TV commecials advertising Utterly Butterly Margarine, lol.
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