BrewDog: yet another hip company using 'rebel' language to sell its stuff

[Proper Tidy]

Shebu? Get tae France

I do say 'High and I' to mean Highbury and Islington tho

Should be Hi&Is really

 

[discobastard]

SheBu and WeNo is the wankiest thing i've ever heard

Ever?!

 

[Proper Tidy]

Ever?!

Ever. Worse than people who sign off emails with 'best'

 

[editor]

I'd still like to know what happened to the tree outside their shitty pub in Brixton, mind.

 

[8ball]

I'd still like to know what happened to the tree outside their shitty pub in Brixton, mind.

Could pop in and ask.
Or get someone to prop the door open while you yell your questions through a loudhailer.

Extra points for phrases like "WHY DID YOU MURDER THIS INNOCENT TREE??!"

 

[editor]

Could pop in and ask.
Or get someone to prop the door open while you yell your questions through a loudhailer.

Extra points for phrases like "WHY DID YOU MURDER THIS INNOCENT TREE??!"

I've no idea why you think I'd use such ridiculous language or think that the bar staff are likely to have any idea why the tree was removed without notice. But if that's how you like to operate, get yourself down there. Maybe grab a rip off beer in the glow of the edgy neon while you're there?

 

[friedaweed]

Pfftt. Lidl and Aldi have been colonised by the chattering classes. I shop at Iceland.

Yeah me too along with the drug addicts and the pimps.

 

[friedaweed]

Even if they weren't directly responsible, their presence would have probably made the tree want to die.

 

[8ball]

I've no idea why you think I'd use such ridiculous language or think that the bar staff are likely to have any idea why the tree was removed without notice. But if that's how you like to operate, get yourself down there. Maybe grab a rip off beer in the glow of the edgy neon while you're there?

The flaw in your thinking is that I wasn’t terribly interested about the tree.

 

[editor]

The flaw in your thinking is that I wasn’t terribly interested about the tree.

But clearly interested enough to write out a post about it

 

[friedaweed]

I think the roots of that tree may have been interfering with the services under the pavement.

 

[8ball]

But clearly interested enough to write out a post about it

You seemed to feel there was a link between the presence of the bar and the tree being cut down ‘without explanation’.

Just trying to help square that circle for you, guv, and apologies if I mis-stated your baseline level of histrionics.

On which point, did I overshoot or undershoot?

 

[8ball]

I think the roots of that tree may have been interfering with the services under the pavement.

Finally, a boffin appears!

10 posts too late is better than never.

 

[editor]

Just trying to help square that circle for you, guv, and apologies if I mis-stated your baseline level of histrionics.

On which point, did I overshoot or undershoot?

You're just plain boring and unfunny. Give it a rest, eh?

 

[friedaweed]

Finally, a boffin appears!

10 posts too late is better than never.

Sorry mate. It's only just come down the grapevine which, coincidentally, is being cut down next week the make way for the new Coldharbour Lane Pandora shop.

 

[8ball]

You're just plain boring and unfunny. Give it a rest, eh?

But you’re so funny when you talk about Brewdog. It’s hard not to want to join in the fun.

What else *really* boils your piss about Brewdog? Do you like the plain wooden floors (I am not trying to relate them to the tree thing by the way).

 

[editor]

But you’re so funny when you talk about Brewdog. It’s hard not to want to join in the fun.

What else *really* boils your piss about Brewdog? Do you like the plain wooden floors (I am not trying to relate them to the tree thing by the way).

See post #1484

 

[8ball]

See post #1484

Those neon tubes probably suck up a good bit of power, too.

As the rainforests burn...

 

[T & P]

 

[discobastard]

ToHam could be Tottenham or Tower Hamlets, whole system is fucked

It's only permitted where a name contains two words that work together - Tottenham doesn't qualify, ToHam is OK (but doesn't sound great). WeNo works because 'we know' what's great about West Norwood (and therefore feel smug). SheBu sounds like the name of a large dog.

Tulse Hill = TuHi, but that doesn't work because it's a bit of a nothing (like ToHam).

Fulham Broadway = FuBr, which does work because it is almost FUBAR.

Them's the rules.

Interestingly, BrewDog the name has nothing to do with canines, and is a conflation of 'Brewer's Dogma' whereby the attitude to brewing beer is aggressively fixed and committed (the 'punk' ethos).

 

[discobastard]

Ever. Worse than people who sign off emails with 'best'

I hear you...

I'm being 'looped in' to quite a lot of emails at the moment.

 

[8ball]

I hear you...

I'm being 'looped in' to quite a lot of emails at the moment.

I used to sign emails off with ‘regards’ but changed it after I had a bit of a rant at management and it turns out the G on a keyboard is really close to the T.

 

[Pickman's model]

I used to sign emails off with ‘regards’ but changed it after I had a bit of a rant at management and it turns out the G on a keyboard is really close to the T.

If you get an email with regards it always means no regard. I always put best wishes

 

[8ball]

If you get an email with regards it always means no regard. I always put best wishes

I always type ‘Best regards’ (well, actually I just type ‘breg’ and AHK does the rest), is that considered passive-aggressive these days? (I mean the ‘best regards’ thing, not the AHK thing)

Not something I’ve really thought about in a while.

 

[Pickman's model]

I always type ‘Best regards’ (well, actually I just type ‘breg’ and AHK does the rest), is that considered passive-aggressive these days? (I mean the ‘best regards’ thing, not the AHK thing)

Not something I’ve really thought about in a while.

Best regards means minimal interest in the recipient but an appreciation they're alive

 

[8ball]

Best regards means minimal interest in the recipient but an appreciation they're alive

Cheers - seems I hit on exactly what I was aiming for.

 

[equationgirl]

I tend to finish emails with Many thanks or Best wishes.

 

[8ball]

I tend to finish emails with Many thanks or Best wishes.

I find Many Thanks to be a bit too Terry Tibbs for my liking, and best wishes seems more suited to a get-well-soon card.

 

[Proper Tidy]

I do many thanks and sometimes best wishes or all the best. When I don't like the person I don't reply for ages then when I do I just use my name, no fluff before.

Hi dickhead

Yes

Proper Tidy

 

[equationgirl]

I do many thanks and sometimes best wishes or all the best. When I don't like the person I don't reply for ages then when I do I just use my name, no fluff before.

Hi dickhead

Yes

Proper Tidy

I have been known to add a Kind Regards to an icily polite email that makes it clear I mean nothing of the kind.