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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 19, 2014 14:17:58 GMT
Google "greggs" and click on the Greggs logo on the right
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Post by Stratmangler on Aug 19, 2014 14:25:54 GMT
I've just copied the image - someone has been having fun  That'll be going down about as well as a ham sandwich at a Bar Mitzvah! |
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Post by jammy on Aug 19, 2014 16:42:07 GMT
Greggs - “providing shit to scum for over 70 years".
Ace - missed the image though, Strat pop it up here........
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Post by Dave on Aug 19, 2014 17:07:33 GMT
The offending logo link
Greggs clever response: link |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2014 18:13:58 GMT
Perhaps Marco should employ the PR team at Gregg's if they can repel the truth around that quick they deserve a Rob Follis award for mastery in social media reverse spin.
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 19, 2014 19:55:12 GMT
I never saw why Mock the Week go for them so hard.
It's a bakers and a pie shop isn't it ?
Have to admire them if they are switched on to turn it around like that
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Post by Stratmangler on Aug 20, 2014 13:11:01 GMT
I wonder how many times a day somebody is going to be tasked with checking the Google entry each day?
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Post by danielquinn on Aug 20, 2014 13:26:09 GMT
Who ever hacked in to greggs site is a snob and and arse . The true affection Greggs holds in the British psyche is evidenced not by this muppets misdemeanor but the outrage Gideon's pasty tax was greeted with some 2 years ago .
Meat pie, sausage roll , come on oldham score a goal .
For the record , that is a genuine chant and i didnt make it up .
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Post by yomanze on Aug 20, 2014 15:35:46 GMT
Looks like it was a mistake from Google rather than someone hacking the photo. It was taken from the Wikia "Uncyclopedia": uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Greggs but the image has since been edited. |
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Post by danielquinn on Aug 20, 2014 17:22:48 GMT
Somebody is responsible for the original sentiment.
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Post by Stratmangler on Aug 21, 2014 0:25:41 GMT
Who ever hacked in to greggs site is a snob and and arse . The true affection Greggs holds in the British psyche is evidenced not by this muppets misdemeanor but the outrage Gideon's pasty tax was greeted with some 2 years ago . Meat pie, sausage roll , come on oldham score a goal . For the record , that is a genuine chant and i didnt make it up . Someone has had a sense of humour bypass! I use Greggs all the time, so I guess I must be one of the"scum" buying shit, and I thought it was fecking hilarious! |
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Post by danielquinn on Aug 21, 2014 7:32:18 GMT
It is part of a consistent anti working class culture narrative that seems to be currently prevelent which I find as lazy and offensive as sexist or racist humour. You finding it funny doers not negate this fact.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2014 8:04:07 GMT
It is part of a consistent anti working class culture narrative that seems to be currently prevelent which I find as lazy and offensive as sexist or racist humour. You finding it funny doers not negate this fact. It was funny. I occasionally shop in Greggs but their sausage rolls are terrible. Every time I buy one I regret it, they're greasy and bland and taste as though they've mechanically recovered the "meat" and added a whole load of fat and salt. A few years ago I went into a local Greggs in Scotland and asked if they had any Cornish pasties. The ignorant youf behind the counter replied "what's that?", it stopped me in my tracks. I wish all of these shops would stop putting so much salt in everything, not only is it very bad for your health, it spoils the taste. |
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Post by danielquinn on Aug 21, 2014 8:21:36 GMT
People find roy chubby brown funny . The point is all comedy as a target and a message . We all find some targets/messages to be acceptable and some to be unacceptable , it is why humour is personal .
We should all be free to offend through the medium of humour. It don't mean the joke was'nt lazy and served no purpose accept to engender a faux sense of superiority over the "archetypal greggs shopper" .
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2014 9:04:42 GMT
Indeed. In the same way that the underclass automatically assume that wealthy people or privately educated people are selfish, it's a stereotype based on prejudice.
It's been interesting at the Edinburgh Fringe this year to see how few "right-on" jokes are being attempted. I've seen a lot of comedy this year and almost all of it has, thankfully, been a-political. One attempt at a political joke was Lucy Porter (otherwise brilliant) having a go at George Osborne for selling off the Royal Mail too cheaply and in the process enriching his best man, or to be more accurate enriching a hedge fund that employed his best man. The joke fell dead because the audience was intelligent enough to realise that firstly, Vince Cable was responsible for the sale process and secondly, it was more cock-up than conspiracy. It's just lazy to assume that all successful people have evil intent as it is to assume that all working class people are somehow more moral.
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Post by danielquinn on Aug 21, 2014 9:09:20 GMT
It is difficult not to assume that Gideon is anything but a self interested shit but that is not the point . Gideon as power . It is essential for the powerful to have the piss taken out of them it is a civic service , taking the piss out the powerless , needs justifying .
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Post by Pinch on Aug 21, 2014 9:10:58 GMT
Off topic, but for (what I found) a good comedic take on the PO sell-off, look no further:
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 21, 2014 9:32:34 GMT
It is part of a consistent anti working class culture narrative that seems to be currently prevelent which I find as lazy and offensive as sexist or racist humour. You finding it funny doers not negate this fact. It was funny. I occasionally shop in Greggs but their sausage rolls are terrible. Every time I buy one I regret it, they're greasy and bland and taste as though they've mechanically recovered the "meat" and added a whole load of fat and salt. A few years ago I went into a local Greggs in Scotland and asked if they had any Cornish pasties. The ignorant youf behind the counter replied "what's that?", it stopped me in my tracks. I wish all of these shops would stop putting so much salt in everything, not only is it very bad for your health, it spoils the taste. There is a big push to bring salt down in food. Apparently responsible for many 100s or maybe even 1000s of deaths a year |
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 21, 2014 9:34:13 GMT
People find roy chubby brown funny . The point is all comedy as a target and a message . We all find some targets/messages to be acceptable and some to be unacceptable , it is why humour is personal . We should all be free to offend through the medium of humour. It don't mean the joke was'nt lazy and served no purpose accept to engender a faux sense of superiority over the "archetypal greggs shopper" . I accidentally watched a 'film' with him in. Awful, offensive, pathetic and not remotely funny |
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 21, 2014 9:37:05 GMT
Royal Mail ... Vince Cable was responsible for the sale process and secondly, it was more cock-up than conspiracy Ah, normality in so many situations |
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