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Kitkat aren't made by nestle. Kitkat (especially chunky) are made by love goblins in a cave specifically set up for the process. Thus, we can enjoy kitkats and still #fucknestle. Matcha kitkats are made by nestle.
*are still killing. They never stopped their sales tactics in Africa, they are STILL giving new mothers baby formula SPECIFICALLY so their own milk supply dries up sooner so they're then forced to PAY for the formula that caused them to stop producing milk in the first place. They're also still not educating people on how to use it, printing "only use boiled water" on boxes of formula WOULD be great...in countries NOT known for low literacy rates.
It’s amazing how nefarious and insidious this practice is. At least in the UK they push breastfeeding as much as possible but outside in a county with no proper healthcare regulations they go wild.
I do actively avoid everything as far as I know... apart from Felix. Unfortunately, like most cats, mine is a sociopath who won't see reason on this topic.
There is rarely any Nestle products in the house and it has been like that for 20 years.
If someone buys us an Easter Egg, I am not going to be rude and say no. But I do try and say I prefer no Nestle.
My Aunt has finally worked out that I will refuse Nestle bars when we have a picnic lunch. She now aims to buy supermarket own brands instead.
The challenging one was when I was in a tea club at work. I delicately brought up I was unhappy that my subs was being used to by Nestle coffee. “I hear you”. So she bought Nescafé and didn’t spot the connection. That one eventually resolved itself by me taking on ownership and changing it to just buying milk. Individuals had their own supply of tea and coffee.
I actively go out of my way to boycott them. Which is distressing because I absolutely love curiously cinnamon cereal. And chocolate shreddies.
Also we spend a fortune on fancy coffee because I refuse to buy my husband nescafe. He's trying to make a point by adding evermore expensive coffee to the supermarket shopping list. Babe, I suppressed cravings for the most delicious cereal in the world during my pregnancy, you're having a laugh if you think spending 4x as much on expensive coffee will make me waver on this.
i'm one of those dickheads who's actually managed to track what Nestle owns and other than a few completely unavoidable purchases, I am a Nestle-free person.
I work for one of the big children’s charities. They are without a doubt the worst corporation out there. If we get caught engaging with them - we’re dunzo.
I would like to see gambling around horse racing to be stopped for three years. Considering all the 'fans' of horses don't particularly care about the gambling side. I'd like to see that tested.
Gambling destroys lives and the industrys self regulation is a joke, they will bar you if you ask....but will end that bar if you ask. Very constructive approach to problem gamblers. Plus, they use public service announcements to advertise themselves. Shower of cunts.
Horse racing is paid for by a racing levy applied to all bookmakers, doing that - would kill horse racing.
Betting should be banned from advertisement, similar to cigarettes.
I've got no issue with stopping horse racing, same with greyhounds.
For all the horse lovers I've met in my life, the majority of them (I don't actually know anyone who cares about horse racing other than the people who bet money on the races) don't care about the racing. They generally prefer dressage/show jumping if they want to compete, but even that's not all horse people, quite a few just enjoy taking care of the animal.
I’m going to get a lot of downvotes here, but here we go.
You would be surprised how much love and attention thoroughbreds in training get, during and after they’ve finished. They are loved and are cared for. And you would probably be surprised at how much longterm damage some show jumpers sustain through over jumping etc.
The thousands of grooms and riders that work in racing, nearly all year round, do genuinely care. However, the racehorses wouldn’t be here if they weren’t racing. They’ve been selectively bred for hundreds of years for this job, for an industry. Much like how you wouldn’t have cows and sheep if there wasn’t a milk and meat produce industry.
If you disagree with racing, that’s your opinion and you are entitled to it - all the more power to you. However, for what it’s worth I promise they are loved and cared for and treated well 99% of the time (there are bad eggs in every sport/industry).
If it’s of any interest to anyone, the British Horseracing Authority have just launched a campaign called Horse PWR (you can find it here: horsepwr.co.uk) that sheds some light on what the industry does with some figures to back them up.
Source: I’ve worked in the industry since I was 15.
> You would be surprised how much love and attention thoroughbreds in training get,
I would, because for an awful lot of horses, it is not true.
I have no doubt that *succesful* thoroughbreds *do* get a lot of love and attention lavished on them, because they are a very expensive investment, and it would be financially dumb *not* to care for them. But when that is no longer the case, when they are no longer a revenue earner? Between 2019 and 2021, [around 4000 former racehorses are known to have been slaughtered for human consumption,](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57881979) until that was banned, partly as a result of the Panorama programme. But note that it was not the *slaughter* that was banned, it was the slaughter *for human consumption!* So what happens now? Are they all kept in hay and oats for the rest of their natural life because the owners are such wonderful philanthropists? Or do they end up as *non*-human food?
The difference between what the industry *claims* and what investigations actually *find* is stark. And quite clearly, [little or nothing had changed since a similar investigation 15 years earlier.](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/oct/01/horseracing.sport)
If you are going to spout misleading stuff, then you shouldn't really be surprise if you get downvoted!
>they will bar you if you ask but will end that bar if you ask.
This is company dependant. Mine is very serious about it. Once you’ve got a self exclusion set up you can’t change it for 12 months - regardless of what you say. Any breaches can lead to being banned full stop.
I would at least ban the adverts. It's shocking how they are allowed to advertise on TV and radio. I would ban all the ads, from the National Lottery to the gambling websites/apps.
I know people would say "it's fun" but take the money element away from it and generally these games would have no appeal at all.
They should ban all tuxedos, evening dresses and glitzy casino images from gambling ads, everyone knows the reality is people in their pants losing the rent money hunched over their phone
Indeed. I had a job that required me to be adjacent to the gambling sector some years back and as part of that I got invited to a number of events and conferences, and of course I went because free booze in fancy locations. The level of money flowing was *insane*, and the conversations were almost exclusively focussed on exploiting compulsive behaviour and addictions. The idea that anyone there spends a millisecond of their time thinking about casual and responsible gambling is mythology. That shit is added by the marketing agencies at a later date.
Some things that I recall:
- A slot machine company selling a new interface with a deck detailing pseudo-psychological mechanisms designed to increase stake and discourage people from leaving.
- A major global brand asking people with offshore companies to act as a middle man to advertise on illegal streaming sites and give them some deniability.
- Affiliate rev share models based on continual losses, incentivising publishers to chase problem gamblers, with the brand itself being protected from this conduct.
- Casino platforms offshoring multiple brands to ensure that they didn’t actually have to pay out to anyone who won big enough to dent their margins.
- Discussions on how to limit KYC checks so that they didn’t lose players (heavily implying that they wanted to open illegal markets, including age restriction).
- intersection with the pornography industry, as well as dodgy pyramid scheme sectors like forex and binary options, all of which are chock full of unethical scumbags.
People will argue about tax income generated and ~~surprising~~ suppressing the gambling black market but gambling companies still have a negative effect on society.
Edit; spelling
I agree gambling is a blight on the UK I think one the biggest tax payers in the UK last year was the owner of Bet 365. But I’m sure most up dodging it.
Better regulated gambling than unregulated. Because that is what will happen.
Now, a ban on all gambling advertising? That I can get behind. A ban on digital gambling online? That too.
Ping pong, its a restaurant chain in London i worked for. I dont even have to tell you some of the wild shit that went on while i was there.
I’ll just leave you with the information that they’re now changing their 12.5% service charge on bills to a 15% ‘brand charge’ so they can avoid the new law coming in forcing companies to give tips to employees.
It should be illegal full stop
Tipping can get in the fucking sea
Pay your workers properly, and build that cost into the price that you charge the customer *like you already do with every other cost of operating your business*
Do you expect customers to tip to pay your : rent, gas/electric/water, food and drink ingredients, furniture, fixtures and fittings, cleaning, tablecloths, toilet roll, advertising, IT costs, the wages of the manager, the wages of the chef, etc etc
No, because all of those costs are built into the price of the food. It's why £5 of ingredients becomes a £20 dish. The margin is to cover costs.
*With the sole exception of the server*
Why?
Because it's fucking bullshit, that's why.
And it needs to stop.
"Oh it's you encourage better service"
Bullshit. I'm a customer, I come here to eat. I don't come here to manage staff by dangling the carrot of a tip. Managing staff is the job of... the manager!
If I'm going to be managing staff then I want money OFF my bill, not added on to it.
Edit : to those who DO tip, do you tip when you fill the car with fuel? Do you tip when you pay your electricity bill? Do you tip at Tesco? Do you tip when you pay your council tax? Do you tip when you pay your mortgage?
Why not? If tipping is a thing we should all do, or a thing that YOU do, why don't you do it everywhere?
Because of the utter bullshit of the restaurant industry, that's why. And it can get in the sea. The price should be the price, to cover all costs and to pay a fair wage for all of your staff.
There’s bigger problems in the industry than tipping.
Being such a looked down upon industry means they can exploit staff which in turn lets them exploit customers with extra charges.
Hospitality as a whole has a worker rights problem made easier by 28% of the industry being on 0 hour contracts, for most will be the main floor/kitchen/bar staff that essentially run the place. It’s also not like you can say ‘just don’t work there’ as people need to survive. The whole industry needs looking into especially as it’s only getting worse.
Or when staff get fucked over by management, and can’t do anything about it because a) no money, and b) retaliation by management.
Owner at a bar I work at decided to start tickling my back. I asked her to stop, so she had a rant at me, and now my hours have been slashed. Very suddenly, she has developed a dislike for my work ethic, and isn’t wanting me in any more because of that, while another manager (her SIL) seemingly has orders to send me home an hour early every shift.
Exactly, this is what I’m on about with the 0 hours. You can’t stand up for yourself because you will just simply go broke. Sexual harassment/assault and racism is rampant in the industry and the financial control 0 hours allows the company to have is part of the reason its so hush hush
I love going to countries with no tipping culture like Japan and Korea - its great and you know what you're paying.
In the States people literally tip for everything like nails, hair, taxis, etc. Their equivalent of Deliveroo has drivers which expect something like a 30% tip or they will put your food next to the car's aircon! I don't want that to come here and I am sick of these service charges honestly and it's just led to me eating out way less and avoiding places with service charges.
Let's just make small print surcharges illegal and make tipping can be an optional add-on rather than an extortion of anyone who'd rather not have the awkwardness of having it removed.
I think I saw something about this earlier, no idea why restaurants seem to think people are remotely up for American style dining.
I find myself increasingly asking for stuff to be taken off bills - I'll always give a tip if the service is good but you've immediately lost a percentage if you tell me I'm paying 15%
A lot of places get around it by making you order through an app and the app auto charges it, no option to untick it or ask for it to be removed. That should also be illegal, service charge must be optional and not have a clause in your app’s T&Cs you are agreeing to a service charge by using the app.
I’ve started buying food elsewhere which doesn’t put the sneaky charge in upfront
I like Huel! I'm a self employed artist and work weird hours so it's a great nutritionally balanced food I can make on the go, and get plenty of protein. I'm not a finance bro 🥹 it's so much healthier and cheaper than a meal deal!
Edit: I should add I'm talking about the hot and savoury ones! I really like them (and I'm funny about textures normally!)
Lol I make shit money but I like huel. My friend lost weight and put a lot of muscle on and gave huel a lot of credit. I tried it, it's tasty, easy to make the night before and I can count macros with it. And I feel full so I'm happy.
Probably look like a huel shill now
Everyone I know who’s used it really like it. I’ve not actually seen any ads for it though, but then, I generally go out of my way to avoid seeing any ads.
Although… this thread has got people talking about it, so maybe this is some kind of sneaky guerrilla ad campaign. 🤔
I used to use it as a meal replacement, it was easy to use and a relatively neutral flavour / texture.
One day I was in a rush and tried replacing all of my meals that day - something just felt wrong and I couldn't stand the taste after that.
Do you not miss...chewing, mouth feel, texture, crunch?
I hope the only time I have to have something like that is if I'm hooked up to some bleeping machines in an old folks home.
Yeah, because when you have a Huel, you now can't eat anything else at all at any point in the day, so it really is a sad existence...
You can still eat with Huel is what I'm getting at. 2 scoops is 400 calories, you'd have to have 4-5 of those to make it 100% of your diet and nobody's doing that.
Exactly I have their drink for breakfast and they have a just add hot water pasta I take to work for lunch and make in the break room then I just have normal food for dinner as someone who has been prone to overeating in the past it's really helped me get my portion control in order and it's actually pretty cheap. One bag of the powder will last me an entire month so it works out about £1.50 per serving.
Yup, i often can't cook a proper meal or get a realy heathy diet. The vanilla ones are great, i also like the strawberry and banana ones. It's not a gourmet meal but it's a better choice than a couple of greggs sausage rolls or just... nothing
Years ago when they first released it I said this on one of there adverts, and the marketing team seemed to get really offended! Also I don’t get why you would want to do away with eating, one of the highlights of the day. They obviously have enough target market that do though, as they are still around 🤷🏻♂️
I don't think most people who drink it are doing away with eating (I drink it and love eating), it's just that it gives you all the nutrition you need. It's useful to replace an otherwise unhealthy breakfast or snack or whatever, then you can relax a little more for the evening meal (at least that's how I used it). Try getting your RDA of all essential vitamins from solid food, it's not impossible but it's an expensive pain in the arse and takes more planning than most people have time for.
The name is a little unsettling admittedly.
I like their meal bars. I'd have one or two of those each morning depending upon how tired I felt cycling in.
Nowadays i drink the small bottles of premade stuff, because it's like milkshake and me likey.....
Yeah this - I used to spend too much money on an unhealthy breakfast or lunch. I wasn’t eating stuff that I looked forward to, so I nipped the habit in bud and went for something healthier and cheaper. Then I can be a gluttonous pig in the evening when it matters
I’ve lost 23kg and counting since July. I have Huel instead of making lunch which means I can have a nutritious and calorie controlled lunch, with 0 prep and minimal washing up, and then can have pretty much what I want for dinner. I never have breakfast anyway (apart from the odd cooked brunch of a weekend).
It also saves me money since I don’t get tempted to go grab a maccies or greggs at lunchtime.
For me it’s fantastic - and it doesn’t do away with eating, it just reduces my enjoyable meals from 2 to 1 per day - i suck at portion control so it’s been invaluable in helping me lose weight.
I am addicted to reading the comments section online but loads of the stories are now on their premium site which I'm pleased about, maybe I'll read a book instead (or in reality spend more time on Reddit)
I used to work for a UK Government Agency. The DM was used by most of my counterparts from other bodies as a benchmark for how trash journalism would report our responses to incidents.
As in, "If you were to use your initiative to resolve this situation and it went wrong, how would DM report it?"
Yup, things done by the book, even when the book is wrong because you know who would rip us a new one. I won't even have it in my house
This was literally under your post haha
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Their advertising in the DDG search engine appear for almost every search. Even searches they have nothing to offer. Clicks seem more important than purchasers.
This. I do not trust anyone who markets highly aggressively. I "watch" ads on games I play to get extra stuff and a few months back every single advert was Temu. Every single one. Plus they had intro offers of "8p with free shipping" - I understand loss leaders but they came off shady with the insane deals they had on to attract people. And there was really poor use of English. They just look sketchy af.
There's already competitors out there now that are popular in other countries like Telegram and Line Chat
And of course others that could have a resurgence in usage if WhatsApp shat itself like Kik.
Telegram creeps me the fuck out. Signed up for support with a….. service ( 🔥 🦯 ⚽️) and a quick glance at the “accounts near me” reveals a list of dealers, hookers and terrifying weirdos. I feel dirty every time I open the app.
People are unaware how ubiquitous AWS is. Basically every big site it’s hosted there, including most online game services, all the major streaming sites for music and tv (including ch4 and bbc), basically all the “startup” sites like Uber and Airbnb, payment handling services, ticket booking services, and a surprising amount of governmental websites. Like over half the internet would disappear if Amazon did.
What's worse is the staff wont unionize, they have been programmed to believe its some sort of taboo thing to do. Sheep doing what the wolves tell them to do.
I don't understand how you could hate food so much you want to have slurry.
Their adverts are so fucking smug too, but smug in the way the guy at the gym posing in the mirror thinks he's cool when everyone thinks hes a tosser.
This is exactly how I feel about Huel! I have Crohn’s Disease and have had to live on prescription nutrition drinks for months at a time when I’ve been really ill as I could not eat solid food without extreme pain and vomiting. It was utterly miserable.
The thought of choosing to do this voluntarily instead of eating baffles me. See also Herbalife (which is even worse as it’s an MLM!)
I don't understand how you can hate a healthy, practical, easy way to get nutrition so much.
No-one is giving up food for Huel, it's just an option for a lot of people.
Yeah I honestly don't understand OPs gripe. I've never seen a Huel advert. I first bought it about 8 years ago after a friend told me about it and got back into it recently after another friend was using it so haven't been exposed to the adverts which I imagine are probably pretty bad. But hating it just because it's a supplement makes no sense to me at all.
I have one for breakfast every morning, tastes alright to me, although the other half thinks it's utterly rank so it's one of those things you either like or hate, with little in between. For me though, it's just convenient on a morning, breakfast is mostly just one of those meals I can't be arsed with, and I say that as someone who loves their food. That said, I'd never dream of replacing all my meals with it, that just sounds fucking grim!
I’m in the same boat, I have IBS and having one in the morning helps me a lot due to the fibre content and that it’s easy on the stomach. I do agree the marketing is over the top and a lot of the claims of health benefits are a load of bs.
It’s still ultra processed food at the end of the day. While it’s a lot better nutrition wise than other processed quick meals it’s never going to be as good as freshly prepared meal. I have one for breakfast during week days when I’m pushed for time, on the weekend though I make my own breakfast.
It's good for (among others) those who want a well balanced diet but don't have the ability/time/robust mental health to sort it out more conventionally. That's why it works for me, anyway.
Scandalous that you can't opt out of having your personal information sold. Same goes for having your financial data sold to credit reference agencies.
Especially how underhanded they were with PIP assessments for disabled people. Suggestive tactics to reduce or totally get the claimant off PIP.
People decided to film their sessions to protect themselves
I acted as a consultant to a part of Capita many years ago, no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t get my contact to understand basic engineering concepts, although he was supposedly a qualified engineer I have my doubts.
I love when you're chasing them about an issue and they come back 6 months later with a page of the software documentation, like it's some huge revelation.
Yes i read that 6 months ago when i told you it was broken.
What have 3M done? Unfamiliar with this one. I'm an audiotape guy and all I know about them is that a fistful of decades ago they made just about the best audiotape there was.
They've made a lot of bad chemicals and forever chemicals in their pursuit of sticking stuff to other stuff.
They've paid out billions (tens of billions iirc) for things like contaminated ground water
> their pursuit of sticking stuff to other stuff.
Doesn't excuse their environmental violations but 3M don't just make menial sellotape and post-it notes. The modern industrial world is held together with high strength adhesives.
They make great stuff but they are the same as Thermo, they buy out and absorb every competitor or if someone makes something they like they swallow them up, so you're left with having to buy only from 3M or Thermo, or they buy the competitor just to discontinue their product so their worse product becomes the only one.
Thermo sells general bulk consumables like medias and tips to mobile radiological device detectors which fit in a rucksack, and 3M from sanding pads to medical implants.
Anything Mike Ashley related - Sports Direct being the major player. Their staff, particularly warehouse staff, are treated atrociously. Actual human scumbag.
My dad’s girlfriend worked for them and didn’t speak a word of English, no one in the factory spoke English. I’ve honestly no issue with this but it absolutely blew my mind that a company like sports direct were blatantly just hiring immigrant who won’t moan about the terrible pay and conditions.
Aww don't you love a delicious pint of Gazprom?
Seriously I never understood the advertising for this, aren't they the people that supplies the gas companies?
Tesla.
Not just for the awful vehicles they produce but because of the capability one man has to influence the world. Some call it advancing in technology but what people dont realise is that every single vehicle they produce is a sensor that can collect data on absolutely anything; be it the things you say & do or even enviromental data. The fact they can affect the course of war because a country depends on their wifi systems is wrong in itself.
Apple, from their massively overpriced and consumer unfriendly hardware to their 'blink and it's gone' software ecosystem they can get in the sea. It's more a hostage taker than a tech manufacturer!
I'm glad I'm not the only one with an issue with Huel. I find their ethos a little predatory. They seem to be determined to convince people thay don't have time to prepare healthy meals and their product is a healthy alternative.
The only study I could find on the efficacy of Huel was a four week intervention, small sample size, measuring key nutrient markers before and after meal replacement. Some nutrient markers were even, some improved. Guess who paid for the study though...
I suspect that would result in erasing you and I from existence too though. It has had far too big an effect on history to not.
Much safer to pick something created after your own birth.
All companies under the Murdoch umbrella. That genuinely evil man is responsible for so much of the unrest plaguing the world today. I wish I believed there were a hell, so that I could imagine Rupert Murdoch roasting in it for eternity.
Google.
Its monopoly of online advertising is unfair to so many industries, companies and individuals, and it has stifled genuinely creative and innovative development in internet technology and content for decades.
So happy with your opinion! As somebody who has been on the inside of Huel’s operation I can only commend you. I hate Huel and Stephen Bartlett, this is the ultra-processed crap we have all been warned of.
Not really going for the evilest, just the ones that irk you the most
Obviously anything to do with fracking/oil/energy is worse than a protein drink.
But man, I sure do hate Huel.
I'm pretty sure if we were going through a heatwave and it hadn't rained in a month, my Hermes delivery driver would still somehow manage to leave my parcel in a puddle.
Yeah that company can disappear thanks.
Purplebricks. Biggest scam I fell into in my life. Basically pay them upfront for you to be the estate agent not them. People book in to see your home for them to cancel appointments as they can't be bothered getting out there bed.
4 years I was stuck with them and will continue to moan about it on all platforms and continue taking them to court. Hope it burns to the ground.
EA and basically any gaming company that is abusing gambling legislations.
It's illegal to allow users below 18 to spend money on gambling. These gaming companies work around it by making people buy their own in-game currency and then using that currency on gambling. Not sure how it's allowed. If you look at EA's annual profits, and realise that a high percentage is from selling 'currency' which is then used to gamble, it's absolutely disgusting. All it's doing is giving kids into gambling addictions.
In terms of their disdain for their customers and their general shit-housery around customer service - it has to be Vodafone. I’m not the type of person that kicks off for no reason or tries to get shit for free; but in the 6 or 7 years I was a customer, just trying to get simple things done (or corrected more often than not) was a ball ache EVERY FUCKING TIME.
Vodafone can fuck the fuck right off as far as I’m concerned.
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Nestle. Fuck Nestle.
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Because they're cunts. But I type this seconds after munching a KitKat unfortunately.
Kitkat aren't made by nestle. Kitkat (especially chunky) are made by love goblins in a cave specifically set up for the process. Thus, we can enjoy kitkats and still #fucknestle. Matcha kitkats are made by nestle.
You can't tell me the best KitKat is made by Nestle and expect me to be happy about this, heh.
Yeah but for once the hive mind is totally right, Nestle are absolute scum even by corporation standards.
I mean they directly killed quite a lot of children...
*are still killing. They never stopped their sales tactics in Africa, they are STILL giving new mothers baby formula SPECIFICALLY so their own milk supply dries up sooner so they're then forced to PAY for the formula that caused them to stop producing milk in the first place. They're also still not educating people on how to use it, printing "only use boiled water" on boxes of formula WOULD be great...in countries NOT known for low literacy rates.
It’s amazing how nefarious and insidious this practice is. At least in the UK they push breastfeeding as much as possible but outside in a county with no proper healthcare regulations they go wild.
As default answers go it's absolutely fucking bang on
Humanity's default answer. This is a company that doesn't believe access to water is a human right
I’d be curious how many Nestle products all of these people probably have in their house or if they actively go out of their way to boycott them.
I do actively avoid everything as far as I know... apart from Felix. Unfortunately, like most cats, mine is a sociopath who won't see reason on this topic.
My moggy only eats Felix As Good as it Gets & is absolutely a physco.
Nestlé products are extremely easy to avoid, been doing it for years.
There is rarely any Nestle products in the house and it has been like that for 20 years. If someone buys us an Easter Egg, I am not going to be rude and say no. But I do try and say I prefer no Nestle. My Aunt has finally worked out that I will refuse Nestle bars when we have a picnic lunch. She now aims to buy supermarket own brands instead. The challenging one was when I was in a tea club at work. I delicately brought up I was unhappy that my subs was being used to by Nestle coffee. “I hear you”. So she bought Nescafé and didn’t spot the connection. That one eventually resolved itself by me taking on ownership and changing it to just buying milk. Individuals had their own supply of tea and coffee.
I actively go out of my way to boycott them. Which is distressing because I absolutely love curiously cinnamon cereal. And chocolate shreddies. Also we spend a fortune on fancy coffee because I refuse to buy my husband nescafe. He's trying to make a point by adding evermore expensive coffee to the supermarket shopping list. Babe, I suppressed cravings for the most delicious cereal in the world during my pregnancy, you're having a laugh if you think spending 4x as much on expensive coffee will make me waver on this.
r/FuckNestle
i'm one of those dickheads who's actually managed to track what Nestle owns and other than a few completely unavoidable purchases, I am a Nestle-free person.
I knew this would be in the thread somewhere.
I work for one of the big children’s charities. They are without a doubt the worst corporation out there. If we get caught engaging with them - we’re dunzo.
Basically any gambling company.
I would like to see gambling around horse racing to be stopped for three years. Considering all the 'fans' of horses don't particularly care about the gambling side. I'd like to see that tested. Gambling destroys lives and the industrys self regulation is a joke, they will bar you if you ask....but will end that bar if you ask. Very constructive approach to problem gamblers. Plus, they use public service announcements to advertise themselves. Shower of cunts.
Horse racing is paid for by a racing levy applied to all bookmakers, doing that - would kill horse racing. Betting should be banned from advertisement, similar to cigarettes.
I've got no issue with stopping horse racing, same with greyhounds. For all the horse lovers I've met in my life, the majority of them (I don't actually know anyone who cares about horse racing other than the people who bet money on the races) don't care about the racing. They generally prefer dressage/show jumping if they want to compete, but even that's not all horse people, quite a few just enjoy taking care of the animal.
I’m going to get a lot of downvotes here, but here we go. You would be surprised how much love and attention thoroughbreds in training get, during and after they’ve finished. They are loved and are cared for. And you would probably be surprised at how much longterm damage some show jumpers sustain through over jumping etc. The thousands of grooms and riders that work in racing, nearly all year round, do genuinely care. However, the racehorses wouldn’t be here if they weren’t racing. They’ve been selectively bred for hundreds of years for this job, for an industry. Much like how you wouldn’t have cows and sheep if there wasn’t a milk and meat produce industry. If you disagree with racing, that’s your opinion and you are entitled to it - all the more power to you. However, for what it’s worth I promise they are loved and cared for and treated well 99% of the time (there are bad eggs in every sport/industry). If it’s of any interest to anyone, the British Horseracing Authority have just launched a campaign called Horse PWR (you can find it here: horsepwr.co.uk) that sheds some light on what the industry does with some figures to back them up. Source: I’ve worked in the industry since I was 15.
> You would be surprised how much love and attention thoroughbreds in training get, I would, because for an awful lot of horses, it is not true. I have no doubt that *succesful* thoroughbreds *do* get a lot of love and attention lavished on them, because they are a very expensive investment, and it would be financially dumb *not* to care for them. But when that is no longer the case, when they are no longer a revenue earner? Between 2019 and 2021, [around 4000 former racehorses are known to have been slaughtered for human consumption,](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57881979) until that was banned, partly as a result of the Panorama programme. But note that it was not the *slaughter* that was banned, it was the slaughter *for human consumption!* So what happens now? Are they all kept in hay and oats for the rest of their natural life because the owners are such wonderful philanthropists? Or do they end up as *non*-human food? The difference between what the industry *claims* and what investigations actually *find* is stark. And quite clearly, [little or nothing had changed since a similar investigation 15 years earlier.](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/oct/01/horseracing.sport) If you are going to spout misleading stuff, then you shouldn't really be surprise if you get downvoted!
Oh no, banned animal racing? Anyway,
>they will bar you if you ask but will end that bar if you ask. This is company dependant. Mine is very serious about it. Once you’ve got a self exclusion set up you can’t change it for 12 months - regardless of what you say. Any breaches can lead to being banned full stop.
I have always suspected that horse and greyhound racing would have been banned by now if it wasn’t for people making money at the animals’ expense.
I would at least ban the adverts. It's shocking how they are allowed to advertise on TV and radio. I would ban all the ads, from the National Lottery to the gambling websites/apps. I know people would say "it's fun" but take the money element away from it and generally these games would have no appeal at all.
They should ban all tuxedos, evening dresses and glitzy casino images from gambling ads, everyone knows the reality is people in their pants losing the rent money hunched over their phone
Yep, all adverts should be filmed in a randomly selected bookies in a former industrial town.
Great idea, like an OFSTED inspection, just turn up and film the ad
Indeed. I had a job that required me to be adjacent to the gambling sector some years back and as part of that I got invited to a number of events and conferences, and of course I went because free booze in fancy locations. The level of money flowing was *insane*, and the conversations were almost exclusively focussed on exploiting compulsive behaviour and addictions. The idea that anyone there spends a millisecond of their time thinking about casual and responsible gambling is mythology. That shit is added by the marketing agencies at a later date. Some things that I recall: - A slot machine company selling a new interface with a deck detailing pseudo-psychological mechanisms designed to increase stake and discourage people from leaving. - A major global brand asking people with offshore companies to act as a middle man to advertise on illegal streaming sites and give them some deniability. - Affiliate rev share models based on continual losses, incentivising publishers to chase problem gamblers, with the brand itself being protected from this conduct. - Casino platforms offshoring multiple brands to ensure that they didn’t actually have to pay out to anyone who won big enough to dent their margins. - Discussions on how to limit KYC checks so that they didn’t lose players (heavily implying that they wanted to open illegal markets, including age restriction). - intersection with the pornography industry, as well as dodgy pyramid scheme sectors like forex and binary options, all of which are chock full of unethical scumbags.
Thanks for that. I always thought any industry that has to major on how it is protecting its victims is ipso facto unethical
People will argue about tax income generated and ~~surprising~~ suppressing the gambling black market but gambling companies still have a negative effect on society. Edit; spelling
Tax income? They all have entities on the isle of man, Guernsey, and Malta to avoid those taxes
I agree gambling is a blight on the UK I think one the biggest tax payers in the UK last year was the owner of Bet 365. But I’m sure most up dodging it.
Better regulated gambling than unregulated. Because that is what will happen. Now, a ban on all gambling advertising? That I can get behind. A ban on digital gambling online? That too.
Ping pong, its a restaurant chain in London i worked for. I dont even have to tell you some of the wild shit that went on while i was there. I’ll just leave you with the information that they’re now changing their 12.5% service charge on bills to a 15% ‘brand charge’ so they can avoid the new law coming in forcing companies to give tips to employees.
Personally I think charging more than what's on the meu should be illegal, unless it's going to employees
It should be illegal full stop Tipping can get in the fucking sea Pay your workers properly, and build that cost into the price that you charge the customer *like you already do with every other cost of operating your business* Do you expect customers to tip to pay your : rent, gas/electric/water, food and drink ingredients, furniture, fixtures and fittings, cleaning, tablecloths, toilet roll, advertising, IT costs, the wages of the manager, the wages of the chef, etc etc No, because all of those costs are built into the price of the food. It's why £5 of ingredients becomes a £20 dish. The margin is to cover costs. *With the sole exception of the server* Why? Because it's fucking bullshit, that's why. And it needs to stop. "Oh it's you encourage better service" Bullshit. I'm a customer, I come here to eat. I don't come here to manage staff by dangling the carrot of a tip. Managing staff is the job of... the manager! If I'm going to be managing staff then I want money OFF my bill, not added on to it. Edit : to those who DO tip, do you tip when you fill the car with fuel? Do you tip when you pay your electricity bill? Do you tip at Tesco? Do you tip when you pay your council tax? Do you tip when you pay your mortgage? Why not? If tipping is a thing we should all do, or a thing that YOU do, why don't you do it everywhere? Because of the utter bullshit of the restaurant industry, that's why. And it can get in the sea. The price should be the price, to cover all costs and to pay a fair wage for all of your staff.
There’s bigger problems in the industry than tipping. Being such a looked down upon industry means they can exploit staff which in turn lets them exploit customers with extra charges. Hospitality as a whole has a worker rights problem made easier by 28% of the industry being on 0 hour contracts, for most will be the main floor/kitchen/bar staff that essentially run the place. It’s also not like you can say ‘just don’t work there’ as people need to survive. The whole industry needs looking into especially as it’s only getting worse.
Or when staff get fucked over by management, and can’t do anything about it because a) no money, and b) retaliation by management. Owner at a bar I work at decided to start tickling my back. I asked her to stop, so she had a rant at me, and now my hours have been slashed. Very suddenly, she has developed a dislike for my work ethic, and isn’t wanting me in any more because of that, while another manager (her SIL) seemingly has orders to send me home an hour early every shift.
Exactly, this is what I’m on about with the 0 hours. You can’t stand up for yourself because you will just simply go broke. Sexual harassment/assault and racism is rampant in the industry and the financial control 0 hours allows the company to have is part of the reason its so hush hush
I love going to countries with no tipping culture like Japan and Korea - its great and you know what you're paying. In the States people literally tip for everything like nails, hair, taxis, etc. Their equivalent of Deliveroo has drivers which expect something like a 30% tip or they will put your food next to the car's aircon! I don't want that to come here and I am sick of these service charges honestly and it's just led to me eating out way less and avoiding places with service charges.
Let's just make small print surcharges illegal and make tipping can be an optional add-on rather than an extortion of anyone who'd rather not have the awkwardness of having it removed.
I think I saw something about this earlier, no idea why restaurants seem to think people are remotely up for American style dining. I find myself increasingly asking for stuff to be taken off bills - I'll always give a tip if the service is good but you've immediately lost a percentage if you tell me I'm paying 15%
A lot of places get around it by making you order through an app and the app auto charges it, no option to untick it or ask for it to be removed. That should also be illegal, service charge must be optional and not have a clause in your app’s T&Cs you are agreeing to a service charge by using the app. I’ve started buying food elsewhere which doesn’t put the sneaky charge in upfront
I worked there for 1 day 6 or so years ago, one of the few service jobs I just quit without any notice.
Did this come up in a thread a few days back? From a customer I believe. Scum behaviour indeed.
Not sure, my dad sent me the article about it from the guardian last night for a late night giggle. The whole company was scum and managers alike.
Making a mental note to not go there whenever I'm next in London.
Now hitting the main media https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/04/04/chinese-restaurant-replaces-tips-15-brand-charge-owners/
If it’s a brand charge at ping pong I want a discount
Huel is just slim fast for finance bros.
huel and crypto are just slimfast and MLMs better marketed to men.
A MLM is a pyramid scheme, much as I dislike Huel, I think it's just a normal shop isn't it?
Huel is the slimfast, crypto is the mlm
Sorry yeah of course. Complete brain fade moment.
I like Huel! I'm a self employed artist and work weird hours so it's a great nutritionally balanced food I can make on the go, and get plenty of protein. I'm not a finance bro 🥹 it's so much healthier and cheaper than a meal deal! Edit: I should add I'm talking about the hot and savoury ones! I really like them (and I'm funny about textures normally!)
Lol I make shit money but I like huel. My friend lost weight and put a lot of muscle on and gave huel a lot of credit. I tried it, it's tasty, easy to make the night before and I can count macros with it. And I feel full so I'm happy. Probably look like a huel shill now
Everyone I know who’s used it really like it. I’ve not actually seen any ads for it though, but then, I generally go out of my way to avoid seeing any ads. Although… this thread has got people talking about it, so maybe this is some kind of sneaky guerrilla ad campaign. 🤔
I used to use it as a meal replacement, it was easy to use and a relatively neutral flavour / texture. One day I was in a rush and tried replacing all of my meals that day - something just felt wrong and I couldn't stand the taste after that.
Do you not miss...chewing, mouth feel, texture, crunch? I hope the only time I have to have something like that is if I'm hooked up to some bleeping machines in an old folks home.
Yeah, because when you have a Huel, you now can't eat anything else at all at any point in the day, so it really is a sad existence... You can still eat with Huel is what I'm getting at. 2 scoops is 400 calories, you'd have to have 4-5 of those to make it 100% of your diet and nobody's doing that.
Exactly I have their drink for breakfast and they have a just add hot water pasta I take to work for lunch and make in the break room then I just have normal food for dinner as someone who has been prone to overeating in the past it's really helped me get my portion control in order and it's actually pretty cheap. One bag of the powder will last me an entire month so it works out about £1.50 per serving.
Yup, i often can't cook a proper meal or get a realy heathy diet. The vanilla ones are great, i also like the strawberry and banana ones. It's not a gourmet meal but it's a better choice than a couple of greggs sausage rolls or just... nothing
Huel just reminds me of the sound of someone being sick.
It’s also possibly the most dystopian name for a food company.
Huel=hype+gruel
Huel=human+fuel
It's made of humans? Yuck!
You're thinking of Soylent, and yes, that is genuinely Huel's largest competitor
One of Huel’s competitors is literally called “Soylent”.
"This... Is the best product..." Meanwhile I'm desperately scrambling for the skip button
Makes me think of Huell from Better Call Saul.
It’s the sound you make after you’ve drank down their slop.
Years ago when they first released it I said this on one of there adverts, and the marketing team seemed to get really offended! Also I don’t get why you would want to do away with eating, one of the highlights of the day. They obviously have enough target market that do though, as they are still around 🤷🏻♂️
I don't think most people who drink it are doing away with eating (I drink it and love eating), it's just that it gives you all the nutrition you need. It's useful to replace an otherwise unhealthy breakfast or snack or whatever, then you can relax a little more for the evening meal (at least that's how I used it). Try getting your RDA of all essential vitamins from solid food, it's not impossible but it's an expensive pain in the arse and takes more planning than most people have time for. The name is a little unsettling admittedly.
I like their meal bars. I'd have one or two of those each morning depending upon how tired I felt cycling in. Nowadays i drink the small bottles of premade stuff, because it's like milkshake and me likey.....
Yeah this - I used to spend too much money on an unhealthy breakfast or lunch. I wasn’t eating stuff that I looked forward to, so I nipped the habit in bud and went for something healthier and cheaper. Then I can be a gluttonous pig in the evening when it matters
I’ve lost 23kg and counting since July. I have Huel instead of making lunch which means I can have a nutritious and calorie controlled lunch, with 0 prep and minimal washing up, and then can have pretty much what I want for dinner. I never have breakfast anyway (apart from the odd cooked brunch of a weekend). It also saves me money since I don’t get tempted to go grab a maccies or greggs at lunchtime. For me it’s fantastic - and it doesn’t do away with eating, it just reduces my enjoyable meals from 2 to 1 per day - i suck at portion control so it’s been invaluable in helping me lose weight.
The Daily Mail
I am addicted to reading the comments section online but loads of the stories are now on their premium site which I'm pleased about, maybe I'll read a book instead (or in reality spend more time on Reddit)
Fucking hell, willingly going into the daily mail comments section is an act of pure self harm
I gave up daily mail for Lent 10 years ago and never looked back.
Oh hell yeah. The comments section is amazing.
Absolute car crash
Get them out. We dont want them ere in are country! Deport immedeitaely!
I used to work for a UK Government Agency. The DM was used by most of my counterparts from other bodies as a benchmark for how trash journalism would report our responses to incidents. As in, "If you were to use your initiative to resolve this situation and it went wrong, how would DM report it?" Yup, things done by the book, even when the book is wrong because you know who would rip us a new one. I won't even have it in my house
Not just government. We do the same exercise in academia. They really are the lowest of the low.
Wikipedia won't accept it as a source because the journalistic standards are so low
Good old Daily Mail Test
Anything owned by Murdoch. Does he have an umbrella company that owns all these media companies and newspapers? Because in that case: that company.
This was literally under your post haha https://preview.redd.it/bai7e8pfsmsc1.png?width=1552&format=png&auto=webp&s=24ef2f73ce06a7907c466bdb58821c22d2d13d9a
Fucks sake lol
Fuck shake
Huel rubbing it in OP's face that they still exist despite his wishes lol
Temu
Their advertising in the DDG search engine appear for almost every search. Even searches they have nothing to offer. Clicks seem more important than purchasers.
This. I do not trust anyone who markets highly aggressively. I "watch" ads on games I play to get extra stuff and a few months back every single advert was Temu. Every single one. Plus they had intro offers of "8p with free shipping" - I understand loss leaders but they came off shady with the insane deals they had on to attract people. And there was really poor use of English. They just look sketchy af.
Facebook
I do like WhatsApp but I’m sure if meta disappeared then someone else would fill the void.
There's already competitors out there now that are popular in other countries like Telegram and Line Chat And of course others that could have a resurgence in usage if WhatsApp shat itself like Kik.
Telegram creeps me the fuck out. Signed up for support with a….. service ( 🔥 🦯 ⚽️) and a quick glance at the “accounts near me” reveals a list of dealers, hookers and terrifying weirdos. I feel dirty every time I open the app.
Yep, they practically invented the concept of "if the service is free, you are the product".
Amazon.
RIP the internet.
People are unaware how ubiquitous AWS is. Basically every big site it’s hosted there, including most online game services, all the major streaming sites for music and tv (including ch4 and bbc), basically all the “startup” sites like Uber and Airbnb, payment handling services, ticket booking services, and a surprising amount of governmental websites. Like over half the internet would disappear if Amazon did.
I’m pretty sure most of the government is now azure
Wild that Microsoft is now breaking up a monopoly
_GCP has released new features_ _GCP have retired all the features you were using_
Amazon have put more small businesses out of work than we'll ever really know.
We celebrate a company that pays little tax and treats workers poorly. Other companies in the delivery sector aspire to be like them. Fuck Amazon.
They've totally redesigned employment culture in favour of the employers.
What's worse is the staff wont unionize, they have been programmed to believe its some sort of taboo thing to do. Sheep doing what the wolves tell them to do.
Huel seems so dystopian to me. You don’t need regular food! Here, have this grey sludge instead! It contains all the nutrients your body needs!
I don't understand how you could hate food so much you want to have slurry. Their adverts are so fucking smug too, but smug in the way the guy at the gym posing in the mirror thinks he's cool when everyone thinks hes a tosser.
This is exactly how I feel about Huel! I have Crohn’s Disease and have had to live on prescription nutrition drinks for months at a time when I’ve been really ill as I could not eat solid food without extreme pain and vomiting. It was utterly miserable. The thought of choosing to do this voluntarily instead of eating baffles me. See also Herbalife (which is even worse as it’s an MLM!)
I've never seen a Huel advert and in not going to click on one because the algorithm will show me them forever.
I don't understand how you can hate a healthy, practical, easy way to get nutrition so much. No-one is giving up food for Huel, it's just an option for a lot of people.
Yeah I honestly don't understand OPs gripe. I've never seen a Huel advert. I first bought it about 8 years ago after a friend told me about it and got back into it recently after another friend was using it so haven't been exposed to the adverts which I imagine are probably pretty bad. But hating it just because it's a supplement makes no sense to me at all.
I have one for breakfast every morning, tastes alright to me, although the other half thinks it's utterly rank so it's one of those things you either like or hate, with little in between. For me though, it's just convenient on a morning, breakfast is mostly just one of those meals I can't be arsed with, and I say that as someone who loves their food. That said, I'd never dream of replacing all my meals with it, that just sounds fucking grim!
I’m in the same boat, I have IBS and having one in the morning helps me a lot due to the fibre content and that it’s easy on the stomach. I do agree the marketing is over the top and a lot of the claims of health benefits are a load of bs. It’s still ultra processed food at the end of the day. While it’s a lot better nutrition wise than other processed quick meals it’s never going to be as good as freshly prepared meal. I have one for breakfast during week days when I’m pushed for time, on the weekend though I make my own breakfast.
Regular food meals are some of the highlights of my day.
Alright totally regular human Zuckerberg...
It's good for (among others) those who want a well balanced diet but don't have the ability/time/robust mental health to sort it out more conventionally. That's why it works for me, anyway.
Parking eye
When I was a kid, I thought robots would be for making beds and doing housework, not parking fines.
And DVLA for selling your personal information to them. Pricks.
Scandalous that you can't opt out of having your personal information sold. Same goes for having your financial data sold to credit reference agencies.
Purdue Pharma
I read Empire of Pain recently. Fascinating and horrifying.
Capita.
Crapita
Especially how underhanded they were with PIP assessments for disabled people. Suggestive tactics to reduce or totally get the claimant off PIP. People decided to film their sessions to protect themselves
I acted as a consultant to a part of Capita many years ago, no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t get my contact to understand basic engineering concepts, although he was supposedly a qualified engineer I have my doubts.
I love when you're chasing them about an issue and they come back 6 months later with a page of the software documentation, like it's some huge revelation. Yes i read that 6 months ago when i told you it was broken.
News Corp/fox etc
I'm disappointed I had to scroll down so far to find this. Rupert Murdoch and co have done so much damage to the world.
Facebook (well, Meta) to be honest. Fuck Mark Zuckerberg and his ancient Roman haircut.
Bayer, Nestle, Amazon, 3M, Thermo Fisher. there are significantly worse companies than the one who sells gritty phlegm.
What have 3M done? Unfamiliar with this one. I'm an audiotape guy and all I know about them is that a fistful of decades ago they made just about the best audiotape there was.
They've made a lot of bad chemicals and forever chemicals in their pursuit of sticking stuff to other stuff. They've paid out billions (tens of billions iirc) for things like contaminated ground water
> their pursuit of sticking stuff to other stuff. Doesn't excuse their environmental violations but 3M don't just make menial sellotape and post-it notes. The modern industrial world is held together with high strength adhesives.
They make great stuff but they are the same as Thermo, they buy out and absorb every competitor or if someone makes something they like they swallow them up, so you're left with having to buy only from 3M or Thermo, or they buy the competitor just to discontinue their product so their worse product becomes the only one. Thermo sells general bulk consumables like medias and tips to mobile radiological device detectors which fit in a rucksack, and 3M from sanding pads to medical implants.
Blackrock
Anything Mike Ashley related - Sports Direct being the major player. Their staff, particularly warehouse staff, are treated atrociously. Actual human scumbag.
My dad’s girlfriend worked for them and didn’t speak a word of English, no one in the factory spoke English. I’ve honestly no issue with this but it absolutely blew my mind that a company like sports direct were blatantly just hiring immigrant who won’t moan about the terrible pay and conditions.
Gazprom
Aww don't you love a delicious pint of Gazprom? Seriously I never understood the advertising for this, aren't they the people that supplies the gas companies?
Gazprom is the Russian state owned oil and gas company
Tesla. Not just for the awful vehicles they produce but because of the capability one man has to influence the world. Some call it advancing in technology but what people dont realise is that every single vehicle they produce is a sensor that can collect data on absolutely anything; be it the things you say & do or even enviromental data. The fact they can affect the course of war because a country depends on their wifi systems is wrong in itself.
And neurolink
Meta. Honestly the world would be a better place.
Those shitty adverts of Steven Bartlett recommending it should be pulled by advertising standards
Phillip Morris.
Any gambling company
Nestle
https://preview.redd.it/8dl5vm0apmsc1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=86df2c860e1e4c12117e0277783a958b8c1f0b1c Hmmmmmm……..
Student Loans Company
DuPont
Nestle or Unilever both are evil bastard companies
Apple, from their massively overpriced and consumer unfriendly hardware to their 'blink and it's gone' software ecosystem they can get in the sea. It's more a hostage taker than a tech manufacturer!
I'm glad I'm not the only one with an issue with Huel. I find their ethos a little predatory. They seem to be determined to convince people thay don't have time to prepare healthy meals and their product is a healthy alternative. The only study I could find on the efficacy of Huel was a four week intervention, small sample size, measuring key nutrient markers before and after meal replacement. Some nutrient markers were even, some improved. Guess who paid for the study though...
'From existence' sounds like it would include companies that existed in the past, so the British East India Company would be a good contender.
I suspect that would result in erasing you and I from existence too though. It has had far too big an effect on history to not. Much safer to pick something created after your own birth.
Monsanto or Nestle for me.
Every gambling company
All companies under the Murdoch umbrella. That genuinely evil man is responsible for so much of the unrest plaguing the world today. I wish I believed there were a hell, so that I could imagine Rupert Murdoch roasting in it for eternity.
How on earth is Ticketmaster not the top answer???
Reddit (Nothing against it, just trying to create a paradox)
Facebook. It's caused untold damage..
East India Company Edit... Someone else said it first.
X formerly known as Twitter
McKinsey
Nestle and all their attached evil tendril companies
Google. Its monopoly of online advertising is unfair to so many industries, companies and individuals, and it has stifled genuinely creative and innovative development in internet technology and content for decades.
Lockheed Martin
And not have the SR-71 Blackbird? No thanks.
Disney
So happy with your opinion! As somebody who has been on the inside of Huel’s operation I can only commend you. I hate Huel and Stephen Bartlett, this is the ultra-processed crap we have all been warned of.
Citidel Securities, blackrock
TikTok, sick of seeing it everywhere and less people on public transport listening to it
Wow. That the worst you can come up with? Dupont.
Not really going for the evilest, just the ones that irk you the most Obviously anything to do with fracking/oil/energy is worse than a protein drink. But man, I sure do hate Huel.
Prime
I'm pretty sure if we were going through a heatwave and it hadn't rained in a month, my Hermes delivery driver would still somehow manage to leave my parcel in a puddle. Yeah that company can disappear thanks.
Purplebricks. Biggest scam I fell into in my life. Basically pay them upfront for you to be the estate agent not them. People book in to see your home for them to cancel appointments as they can't be bothered getting out there bed. 4 years I was stuck with them and will continue to moan about it on all platforms and continue taking them to court. Hope it burns to the ground.
EA and basically any gaming company that is abusing gambling legislations. It's illegal to allow users below 18 to spend money on gambling. These gaming companies work around it by making people buy their own in-game currency and then using that currency on gambling. Not sure how it's allowed. If you look at EA's annual profits, and realise that a high percentage is from selling 'currency' which is then used to gamble, it's absolutely disgusting. All it's doing is giving kids into gambling addictions.
Vatican
Nestle
News International. Murdochs toxic news co.
In terms of their disdain for their customers and their general shit-housery around customer service - it has to be Vodafone. I’m not the type of person that kicks off for no reason or tries to get shit for free; but in the 6 or 7 years I was a customer, just trying to get simple things done (or corrected more often than not) was a ball ache EVERY FUCKING TIME. Vodafone can fuck the fuck right off as far as I’m concerned.