Products / celebrities / organisations that you have rejected out of loyalty

[Pinchy]

You should try a good argie steak and a drop of Malbec, exceptional

Absolutely right. Most Malbecs on the supermarket shelves are from the Mendoza region and are excellent. However, I would recommend those from San Juan. In particular, Graffigna Centenario is outstanding. It's available at Sainsbury's for £10 or less and easily as good as wines costing ten times as much and more. If you try a glass, you'll buy a bottle for sure. Las Moras is also very good indeed.

 

[Houston_Blade]

Plusnet. Isn't it run by a Wendy? Never in a thousand years.

Anytime Arctic Monkeys come on the radio, the channel is changed.

My Pulp records have gone to the charity shop now Jarvis has nailed his colours to the pork.

For a while I was trying to get my son to name a certain day of the week 'Bladesday'.

Any others?

Plusnet is owned by BT, Strafford sold it a few years ago and now has nothing to do with it. It's basically BT broadband but with a different name, no difference in performance but they badge it as a "value" brand.

 

[Houston_Blade]

I intend to take a mortgage with the co-op and some point then I'm going to tell them I don't want to pay it back. If they kick off I'll tell them that if the pigs could default on £16m my default is a drop in the ocean.

 

[Pinchy]

How do you know if you've never tried the argie stuff

I've tried both on occasions too many to count. There is only one winner. I suspect our contributor's judgement is based on extraneous and irrelevant matters, not the quality of the fruit of the vine...

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Know a decent spot in Leeds for both if anyone needs a recommendation?

Anyone?

Hello?

(Sigh)

Where are you thinking of Rodley

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

What day was that then?

Bin day - what other day would it have been?

 

[robbiez666]

I refuse to work on Wednesdays....

 

[ashsufc1889]

Nah! Won't have a blue car on principal. Can't support a team playing in blue and white (sorry Killie) under any circumstances, try not to wear blue if attending important events (bad luck and all that).

I've got to agree with that. I turned down an amazing deal on a Bike because it was blue and white. I don't even consider blue cars

 

[Muttley]

I refused to buy ORA phone accessories back when the Dingles were giving it large in the Premiership.
Never had a Chupa Chup since they were splattered on the pig shirts.

 

[Alfreton14Blade]

Just a shame they didn't call it Massive Bacon Classic. Would have been full house.

 

[Basing Blade]

Quote fron Jarvis Cocker in The Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2...man-max-richter-daft-punk-sheffield-wednesday


If you had told me six months ago that I would be including something football-related in my list of cultural highlights I would have laughed in your face – but things have changed. I went to pay my last respects to my father recently and one of the few things he responded to in his enfeebled state was when I mentioned Sheffield Wednesday. And when I showed him a picture of my son sporting the full Wednesday kit he looked proud enough to burst (I guess that, in his confusion, he may have believed my son was actually playing for them). Something as simple as a football team provided a link across three generations of a family. And realising that made me re-evaluate my attitude to the game.

I guess football has always been a barometer of the times: the takeover of Manchester United was a perfect manifestation of the unacceptable face of modern capitalism, for instance – but this has been a good year, hasn’t it? Leicester proved that it doesn’t all just come down to money in the end and, closer to home, the final findings of the Hillsborough inquiry have proved that you can’t hide the truth for ever. Object lessons from a game involving 22 men kicking a bag of leather around a field – who’d have thought it? Up the Owls.

 

[penthouseblade]

How do you know if you've never tried the argie stuff

Argentinian wine doesn't exist in my world, just like anything else from the place, it is all completely ignored. Therefore, Chilean Malbec is the best.

 

[penthouseblade]

I've tried both on occasions too many to count. There is only one winner. I suspect our contributor's judgement is based on extraneous and irrelevant matters, not the quality of the fruit of the vine...

Irrelevant to you maybe. If it hails from Argentina then I do not buy it, it's that simple.

 

[Dnblade]

Definately John West Tuna..err how about Tango Orange,Orchard Square from when it had that junk shop eyesore,and broke the no pig fans in town rule,Penistone Road where it starts to smell,have to look away,Co-Op Bank..I own up though,I did own a couple of blue Cars in the past,but now drive a red one..never had,or never will have a Chuppa Chup.

 

[Peakblades]

I couldn't bring myself to acknowledge Chris Waddle after he held a door open for me if that counts....

 

[Pinchy]

Irrelevant to you maybe. If it hails from Argentina then I do not buy it, it's that simple.

Why not?

 

[S5Blade]

Why not?

 

[The Crab]

I stopped using Mercury Taxis when they started openly professing their allegiance to those bastards.

City Taxis (and previously RCA) on the other hand have always been quite supportive of United.

If I drink a full bottle of Jack Daniels, get someone to blindfold me and spin me round a few times, I will still have a better sense of direction than Mercury drivers (in my experience anyway).

 

[Tyler Durden]

If I drink a full bottle of Jack Daniels, get someone to blindfold me and spin me round a few times, I will still have a better sense of direction than Mercury drivers (in my experience anyway).

Every time:

"Left or right here pal?" Left mate.

"Straight down here" No mate, second right

"This one here?" No, the second one i.e the one after the first.

"Up here now?" Tell you what, move over and I'll fucking drive myself there.

 

[The Crab]

Every time:

"Left or right here pal?" Left mate.

"Straight down here" No mate, second right

"This one here?" No, the second one i.e the one after the first.

"Up here now?" Tell you what, move over and I'll fucking drive myself there.

My crowning turd in the water tank actually happened to Ms Crab.

At the time, she worked at the head office of Little Chef, based at Jessops Riverside near Meadowhall. Anyway, we'd booked the weekend in Blackpool and had booked seats on a train. As we were a bit tight for time, Ms Crab had booked a taxi from work to the train station. All well and good, except the fucking numpty taxi driver turned up at the Jessops Hospital site in town instead.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Every time:

"Left or right here pal?" Left mate.

"Straight down here" No mate, second right

"This one here?" No, the second one i.e the one after the first.

"Up here now?" Tell you what, move over and I'll fucking drive myself there.

Went to pieces when one of the original partners - a big Blade who lets say was attached to the more boisterous side of our support - left the firm.

 

[BusheyBlade]

Well, personally, I think that's a bit daft.

What, the difference between "affect" and "effect"? Blimey, that's harsh! What did they ever do to you?

 

[Sean Thornton]

What, the difference between "affect" and "effect"? Blimey, that's harsh! What did they ever do to you?

Took the piss?

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Argentinian wine doesn't exist in my world, just like anything else from the place, it is all completely ignored. Therefore, Chilean Malbec is the best.

A bit of a disappointment for the French vineyards, what with the Exocet missiles.

 

[penthouseblade]

Why not?

World Cup 1966 (well before my time but I've seen the footage!)
The Falklands War
World Cup 1986
Footage of Argy fans spitting on England fans in the stands (possibly Japan/Korea WC?)
There's four reasons for a kick off!

 

[super_pig]

heh.. back in the day the Plusnet setup was far superior to what BT had at the time. the family are giving it 'let's switch to plusnet' but i wouldn't have it.. sorry he's a pig
i won't buy chuppa chupps and i walked out of reverend and the makers before they came on once i found out who they were
Jarvis isn't really into football but if journo's push him then it is Wendesday
Russ (guitarist) is a mad blade. ST holder last time i saw him

 

[JohnDenver]

A bit of a disappointment for the French vineyards, what with the Exocet missiles.

The Malbec grape variety was originally from France wasn't it? Presume the Argies got them as a job lot along with the Exocets...

 

[ken shabby]

I refuse to eat any wotsits due to Megson and Worthington

I started flattening the curls in me hair with a balaclava once i saw that cunt currran.

....and as for that Bananas in Pajamas malarky, well, the kids get a short kick oop the arse if that`s flicked on telly

 

[Pinchy]

World Cup 1966 (well before my time but I've seen the footage!)
The Falklands War
World Cup 1986
Footage of Argy fans spitting on England fans in the stands (possibly Japan/Korea WC?)
There's four reasons for a kick off!

Four very flimsy reasons aren't they? I'm quite sure the winemakers of Mendoza and San Juan were not responsible for any of those things.

Poor old England fans, eh? Those shaven-headed, tattooed, drunken, foul-mouthed xenophobes are such innocent angels. Presumably you boycott goods from Liverpool as a result of the Heysel killings?

Still, you don't need any reason, not even a silly and juvenile one, to deprive yourself of excellent food and drink. It's your choice just as it is mine to buy several extra bottles of Graffigna Centenario with which to drink a toast to you and the young men on the Belgrano murdered by Thatcher. I shall do just that.

Cheers!

 

[penthouseblade]

Four very flimsy reasons aren't they? I'm quite sure the winemakers of Mendoza and San Juan were not responsible for any of those things.

Poor old England fans, eh? Those shaven-headed, tattooed, drunken, foul-mouthed xenophobes are such innocent angels. Presumably you boycott goods from Liverpool as a result of the Heysel killings?

Still, you don't need any reason, not even a silly and juvenile one, to deprive yourself of excellent food and drink. It's your choice just as it is mine to buy several extra bottles of Graffigna Centenario with which to drink a toast to you and the young men on the Belgrano murdered by Thatcher. I shall do just that.

Cheers!

Flimsy to you old cock, legitimate to me.

The servicemen/women on the Belgrano were 'murdered' by the Argy military. In case you were not aware, Argentina invaded our land and we went down there to kick them out.

You have stated a very stereotypical view of England fans. Poor effort. We're not all like that you know?

And no I don't buy anything from Liverpool; shell suits, curly hair, off the back of a lorry goods, NOTHING......

Cheers!