BOYCOTT BIG KILOWATTS - Really Show Those Liberal Networks

[Billthedrill]

Nw 'm bcttng vwls.

[Interesting Times]

If boycotts are ineffective, why do you care whether we do them?

After all, what could be more pointless than obsessing over a meaningless activity?

[discostu]

Tater tots are good, gotta be careful with those explodey ones though, throw them too fast and they disintigrate in mid-air. That pervesion of the tater tot the Long John Silver's hush puppie works well too, but if they're over cooked they're potentially lethal.

Interesting how most of the best projectile food doesn't taste good.

[Socratic]

Anybody know what a "cott" is?

I don't know, but I've never heard of a girlcott.

[discostu]

There was some bean we used to put in those oversized milkshake straws and shoot 'em like blowdarts, probably lucky we didn't put anybody's eye out.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Who said I actually cared whether this boycott happens or not? I'm simply saying that the number of boycotts over the picayune is silly. I've lost track of how many networks and publications have been declared in need of punitive boycott over the last few years, practically none of which are effective. The notable one is Disney/ABC.

[Warren_Piece]

Good Lord it pains me to agree with you! I watch the Wonderful World of Disney. I don't watch NYPD Blue. I go to Disney World. I don't watch Petah Jennings (whatever he's aboot). Discernment - there's a whole chapter of the Bible about it!

[Interesting Times]

Who said I actually cared whether this boycott happens or not?

Of course you don't care... that's why you posted this thread, and why you rail endlessly against every boycott thread you can find, right?

And you do this because you believe boycotts are ineffective. Gotcha.

[Willie Green]

Nw 'm bcttng vwls.

Ímpørtëd vøwëls årë flöõdìng øûr bòrdérs.

Vänná Whîtê mïght bæ ôütsøûrcèd tò Çhîñå.

[Billthedrill]

N kddng?

[IncPen]

More relevance from the King of "Look at Me" ... the keywords were pretty funny before they were sanitized

[honeygrl]

hah!

[honeygrl]

What would you suggest in place of boycotts when people are upset with a company?

[honeygrl]

First, you decide you don't like the Terri thread people, now it's any those who want to boycott companies for whatever reasons... what group on the forum are you going against next?

[Chancellor Palpatine]

No question about it - values driven investment. The lefties have been playing with it for 10-15 years now, and it has started to pan out for them. They've gotten some policies related to gays, benefits, minorities, the environment and charitable direction put in place at many major companies, all while cranking out a generally satisfactory return on capital investment. These funds don't invest in tobacco, weapons, liquor, etc., and churn out a steady supply of lefty, business savvy folks to plant around.

Corporate directors take that more seriously than a boycott - because if the ownership chunk is large enough, the people expecting the action are sharing in the risk.

[IncPen]

Don't believe the reply you got. Unless the 'lefty' shareholders have a majority postition, they can't control the content or the discussion in the boardroom. Also, some of the largest holders of stocks (especially media and CPG (consumer packaged goods)) are mutual funds, and fund managers are agnostic, interested only in performance, not politics

Networks are run by sniveling paranoids whose corner office and expense account are balancing on the tip of a pin whose sharpness is determined by two things: ratings and sponsor dollars. Both of those are directly tied to viewer response.

Any risk, perceived or real, to either of those two realms, results in rolling heads. I saw it with my own eyes.

The poster of this thread doesn't know what the cluck he's talking about.

Again.

[Sam Spade]

So, are you going to sue us anytime soon or threaten to sue or just say something stupid?

[Clinging Bitterly]

I am quite fond of liver myself. Chicken livers rolled in seasoned flour and fried with onions, very good stuff. Beef liver, like to parboil first then do like I do the chicken livers. Brussels sprouts is an entirely acceptable side dish with either sort of liver. I hated Brussels sprouts as a kid, but I have grown to like them. Always did like liver though.

The brown butter something about which I've never heard. If somebody can tell me what it is, I might try some with my next batch of liver & Brussels sprouts (or maybe not).

My wife made a batch of black beans & rice one time, and she used some green butter in it. I thought the beans & rice was very good and I ate quite a lot of it. She didn't tell me about the butter though. It was very special butter, and I was feeling pretty "special" for most of the next day.

She fooled me with a batch of toll house cookies that way once too. Understand that I normally don't mess with that sort of thing, I don't and never did, tolerate it all that well. My old teenage friends used to say I was a "lightweight". They are all dead now. Guess I showed them. But I digress.

We seem to be speaking about food tonight. Today happens to be our 10th anniversary, and we had dinner at the local Outback Steak House. I had what I usually have, a dish called "Drover's Platter". I don't exactly know what a "drover" is, but the dish is a combo of a boneless chicken breast and small rack of ribs, both drizzled with some fairly spicy barbecue sauce, served on top of a heap of plain old french fries with lots of salt. On the side you get a dish of some more of that barbecue sauce for dipping the fries, and a dish of carmeled baked apple, and I also ordered a Ceasar salad. Their Ceasar dressing is like almost everything else at Outback - spicy.

The wife had a sort of fettucini alfredo dish with shrimp and crawdads (they call them crawfish) on it, and a bowl of cream of broccoli soup. I sampled both of those things, and they were also quite good.

And of course we also had one of those "bloomin' onion" things, with that tangy creamy tomato dipping sause they give you with it. Good stuff. A couple other places around town make them, but they are better at Outback. Most of the others get real greasy after the first few bites - sort of like the calamari rings at McGrath's get when you don't eat them fast enough (well, just about anything at McGrath's, really).

A word on boycotts, which seems to be a side topic here.
I have participated in boycotts before, and I, like everyone else, have my own ideas about how best to go about it. You can't just go along with the crowd and not buy, for istance, Dell computers. What you need to do is personally contact Dell (or whomever) and tell them you did not buy from them, what you did not buy from them, why you did not buy it from them, and what you bought instead. If you don't buy, say, Michelin tires because they are crappy rags (the reason I don't buy them), that's one thing, a normal market sort of thing. But if somebody's got something good out there (and most of them that do know it), and you're staying away from it because activities unrelated to their product displease you, you have to get personally involved with them and tell them about it. I do that sort of thing sometimes, but I don't waste anybody's time pretending to boycott something I wouldn't normally buy anyway. To me that's dishonest - the sort of thing one might expect of a Democrat - and a trait I'd be ashamed to have one attribute to me.