Windrush Square used by We Train commercial personal trainer company
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sealion
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
The Bovril sign hasn't just "crept in" has it. Nor is it doing fucking sit ups on a pavement.
discobastard
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Great minds. I was thinking about the Bovril sign ten minutes ago in a taxi.
That's free advertising for a product that is made by chopping up and boiling cows.
ETA: I was thinking about the Bovril sign without having read the thread properly. Maggot beat me to it!
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discobastard
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It is. If the square was covered in them and you couldn't make use of the space as it was originally intended then it would be something worth making a lot of noise about.
And actually, those night markets they have (six quid for a burger without chips) and all the other expensive street food stalls pisses me off sometimes. And all the loud music.
That really is an invasion of public space. And it's just the same kind of independent businesses.
discobastard
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sealion
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
Im sure Bovril sales in Brixton are rocketing from that very old advert.
discobastard
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Subliminal innitIm sure Bovril sales in Brixton are rocketing from that very old advert.
Sales don't need to rocket, they just need to sustain the current higher than the national average levels.
Same with O X O on the South Bank. You don't need to do any other advertising round there, it's a steady revenue stream.
A 'cash cow' you might say
Boom boom [emoji1360]
sealion
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
If you say so.
discobastard
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I think we're probably both coming at this from different angles. Which is fine [emoji6]
discobastard
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What's a bus wanker?
I dunno, maybe you need to read the original post again. It wan't that noisy.
discobastard
Well-Known Member
You may one of the lucky ones that is immune to the power of beef..Must have seen that sign thousands of times over 40 odd years and all i did was ignore it and buy weed instead.
Im worried my Subliminal side isn't working.
sealion
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
Stop it, now i want more weed.
#Beefmeansweed
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discobastard
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Original post doesn't mention noise. Though if We Train were pumping out loud music rather than just taking up a small amount of space then I'd be annoyed.
That's if I've understood your post correctly.
I really don't like noise pollution. Much worse imo.
sealion
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
Mind you there was plenty of oxo cube and liquorice sold on Coldharbour lane in the 80s and 90s.So you might be right.
discobastard
Well-Known Member
You can't go wrong with a nice joint of beef [emoji4]Mind you there was plenty of oxo cube and liquorice sold on Coldharbour lane in the 80s and 90s.So you might be right.
sealion
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
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hiraethified
Neither is it in a public square. It was there before Windrush Square even existed.
discobastard
Well-Known Member
Wasn't saying it was.
But it is free and rather prominent advertising on behalf of the multinational commercial brand owning organisation Unilever.
We should campaign to have it covered up, as well as banning small enterprises from the square. And those bloody burger vans.
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hiraethified
The advert is not in a public square and is not owned by the council, so it has nothing to do with the debate.
If you wish to start a discussion about the covering up of historic painted signs on private property, feel free to do so.
fredfelt
Mostly unknown member
Commercialisation of public space is something to give a fuck about. You pay your mortgage to get private space. Find your next contract and fulfil it in commercial space. Public space is a shared community resource - a resource for family, friends and neighbourhood. We need to be wary of commerce co-opting community resources, especially when it's uninvited.
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
But that is my point, advertising isn't creeping into public squares, it has been there a long time. Just look at Piccadilly Circus.
If the Bovril sign isn't in Windrush Gardens, where is it?
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Plenty of advertising in Victorian England would be banned now. London was completely plastered in the stuff—signs, sandwich boards, flyposters, the huge painted ads that remain as "ghost signs" now. I don't think we actually want to go back to that.
editor
hiraethified
This thread is about businesses hogging space in public squares and parks for their own commercial activities, in this case without payment or permission.But that is my point, advertising isn't creeping into public squares, it has been there a long time. Just look at Piccadilly Circus.
If the Bovril sign isn't in Windrush Gardens, where is it?
I'm not sure why you think the existence of an historic painted sign on private property overlooking Windrush Square is relevant to this discussion. It doesn't take up any space used by the public, neither is it on public land.
bi0boy
Power User
That's one way of looking at it. But these participants are not employees of the company concerned performing commercial activities, rather they are members of the public who have paid the company to assist them to utilise the public space.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
The people who put up the advertising are definitely company employees though, and knew precisely what they were doing.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
I'd like to live in a world in which all tescos ads are for a ghost company
bi0boy
Power User
I thought we'd agreed advertising wasn't the main issue here.
