Politics

[Mounts Kipper]

1 hour ago, jules_darby said:

 

M&S menswear offer is beyond wank, it’s like clothes for the care home, whoever heads up that department wants sacking, and it’s been like that for years now. 

[Mounts Kipper]

10 hours ago, miamiwhite said:

Not exactly rocket science what the Edinburgh Uni economics professor says

 

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1381084/nicola-sturgeon-news-eu-scotland-independence-referendum-membership-greece-spt/amp?__twitter_impression=true

Interesting to note in the last couple of paragraphs that Brussels & juncker were courting Scotland in the early stages of Brexit talks solely to create political discourse within the U.K. there’s a shock, negotiating in good faith, I think not. 

[Guest]

30 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

M&S menswear offer is beyond wank, it’s like clothes for the care home, whoever heads up that department wants sacking, and it’s been like that for years now. 

They should buy Mantaray off Debenhams administrators

[Sweep]

13 minutes ago, boltondiver said:

They should buy Mantaray off Debenhams administrators

Mantaray is like a poor mans Superdry, it screams "I'm a middle aged man who has given up on life, but I am still a bit trendy"

[Casino]

5 minutes ago, Sweep said:

Mantaray is like a poor mans Superdry, it screams "I'm a middle aged man who has given up on life, but I am still a bit trendy"

whats your go to mantaray outfit?

[Mounts Kipper]

5 minutes ago, Sweep said:

Mantaray is like a poor mans Superdry, it screams "I'm a middle aged man who has given up on life, but I am still a bit trendy"

But that’s still a million miles better than the care home range from M&S. 50 somethings still want to dress like 30 somethings, that fact has passed M&S by. 

[Winchester White]

I don't get the hate against Superdry? My lad bought a really nice winter jacket from there just before Christmas. I don't own anything Superdry simply because I am a tight cunt and wont pay their prices.

[Sweep]

14 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

But that’s still a million miles better than the care home range from M&S. 50 somethings still want to dress like 30 somethings, that fact has passed M&S by. 

true, M&S clothing really is pretty grim, well made I'm sure, but definitely designed for folk who choose to go on cruises for their holidays

[Sweep]

14 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

I don't get the hate against Superdry? My lad bought a really nice winter jacket from there just before Christmas. I don't own anything Superdry simply because I am a tight cunt and wont pay their prices.

I'm sure that @jules_darbywould agree with you, as he has loads of Superdry stuff. I've no problem with kids wearing it, it's not really for grown adults though is it?

[Sweep]

18 minutes ago, Casino said:

whats your go to mantaray outfit?

very good

[jules_darby]

5 minutes ago, Sweep said:

I'm sure that @jules_darbywould agree with you, as he has loads of Superdry stuff. I've no problem with kids wearing it, it's not really for grown adults though is it?

 

Don't get me started

[Youri McAnespie]

44 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

But that’s still a million miles better than the care home range from M&S. 50 somethings still want to dress like 30 somethings, that fact has passed M&S by. 

They have to walk a tightrope - the (usually) rude old buggers who do their weekly food shop there have to be appeased throughout the store...

They might venture upstairs for a new pair of slacks or blouson jacket, maybe a cap or gloves once a year (prior to their cruise) - but they spend the national debt of a small Caribbean country every week in the 'quality'* food hall.

They can't afford to alienate them - even though they're a dying breed that ain't being replaced. They'll go tits up within a decade or so if they don't change.

One campaign to get 'down wit da yoof' was fronted by Twiggy ffs. That said to most of their clientele Twiggy is a young whippersnapper.

 

* I know for a fact loads of M&S food is created in the same factories as food for pleb supermarkets - often with not a lot of notching up of standards.

Edited January 8, 2021 by Youri McAnespie

[Escobarp]

M and s food is a massive step up on supermarket food excl waitrose. Fact 

[Mounts Kipper]

12 minutes ago, Youri McAnespie said:

They have to walk a tightrope - the (usually) rude old buggers who do their weekly food shop there have to be appeased throughout the store...

They might venture upstairs for a new pair of slacks or blouson jacket, maybe a cap or gloves once a year (prior to their cruise) - but they spend the national debt of a small Caribbean country every week in the 'quality'* food hall.

They can't afford to alienate them - even though they're a dying breed that ain't being replaced. They'll go tits up within a decade or so if they don't change.

One campaign to get 'down wit da yoof' was fronted by Twiggy ffs. That said to most of their clientele Twiggy is a young whippersnapper.

 

* I know for a fact loads of M&S food is created in the same factories as food for pleb supermarkets - often with not a lot of notching up of standards.

If I was M&S I’d reduce the own brand ranges and invite designer brands to design bespoke stuff and turn over floor space to them, M&S have consistently shown they’ve not got a clue on menswear. 

[Sweep]

6 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

M and s food is a massive step up on supermarket food excl waitrose. Fact 

We quite buy a lot of our food from M&S, it's generally pretty decent I find, plus I can generally get in and out of our local one a lot quicker than I can in somewhere like Asda or Sainsbury

[Sweep]

Just now, Mounts Kipper said:

If I was M&S I’d reduce the own brand ranges and invite designer brands to design bespoke stuff and turn over floor space to them, M&S have consistently shown they’ve not got a clue on menswear. 

I agree, and you would think some brands would love the exposure they'd get. A decent "win win" situation you would have thought

[Escobarp]

Just now, Sweep said:

We quite buy a lot of our food from M&S, it's generally pretty decent I find, plus I can generally get in and out of our local one a lot quicker than I can in somewhere like Asda or Sainsbury

 My missus would shop there and waitrose only if I let her. It is amazing how many old people shop in both though. And I mean pension age old 

[Escobarp]

1 minute ago, Sweep said:

I agree, and you would think some brands would love the exposure they'd get. A decent "win win" situation you would have thought

Superdry/M&S collaboration? You would be all over that 

[Spider]

I bet some of you wear Weird Fish clothing on your holidays.

You know who you are....

[Youri McAnespie]

@Escobarp

Yup, they stop production at plants like Park Cakes - swap the workforce and raw ingredients around for a better class of both when the lines get turned over to M&S - I've an amusing story regarding mince pies one year (not just any mince pies...)

Another lad I know worked at a big veg processing plant - the difference between carrots, parsnips, sprouts etc. bound for say, Morrisons, and those for M&S?

A team of about twenty agency smackheads armed with trimming knives on a line.

Many of whom, in early withdrawal, would be nosedripping and coughing/spluttering on the 'not just...' produce.

These plants hoodwink M&S when they visit, the moment their cars exit the car parks it's back to business usual...

Edited January 8, 2021 by Youri McAnespie

[Sweep]

Just now, Spider said:

I bet some of you wear Weird Fish clothing on your holidays.

You know who you are....

A similar brand to the shit that is FatFace stuff - there is a FatFace shop near to me, the clothes in the window give the sort of air of surf dudes in flipflops and vest tops, then you see some stumpy little 50 year old, with a beard, waddle out with a bag full of stuff, and the illusion is gone. They always seem to have an "up to 50% off" sale on as well. I'm not sure who or what they're targeting to be honest

[Escobarp]

2 minutes ago, Youri McAnespie said:

@Escobarp

Yup, they stop production at plants like Park Cakes - swap the workforce and raw ingredients around for a better class of both when the lines get turned over to M&S - I've an amusing story regarding mince pies one year (not just any mince pies...)

Another lad I know worked at a big veg processing plant - the difference between carrots, parsnips, sprouts etc. bound for say, Morrisons, and those for M&S?

A team of about twenty agency smackheads armed with trimming knives on a line.

Many of whom, in early withdrawal, would be nosedripping and coughing/spluttering on the 'not just...' produce.

These plants hoodwink M&S when they visit, the moment their cars exit the car parks it's back to business usual...

I wasn’t talking about buying vegetables etc but I get your point 

[Sweep]

2 minutes ago, Youri McAnespie said:

@Escobarp

Yup, they stop production at plants like Park Cakes - swap the workforce and raw ingredients around for a better class of both when the lines get turned over to M&S - I've an amusing story regarding mince pies one year (not just any mince pies...)

Another lad I know worked at a big veg processing plant - the difference between carrots, parsnips, sprouts etc. bound for say, Morrisons, and those for M&S?

A team of about twenty agency smackheads armed with trimming knives on a line.

Many of whom, in early withdrawal, would be nosedripping and coughing/spluttering on the 'not just...' produce.

These plants hoodwink M&S when they visit, the moment their cars exit the car parks it's back to business usual...

You definitely need to do some memoirs, I reckon they'd make great reading

[Sweep]

Just now, Escobarp said:

I wasn’t talking about buying vegetables etc but I get your point 

local farm shop for veg 👍

[Youri McAnespie]

Both my parents never made it to true old gipperhood but despite being from mill/pit stock and working class themselves on retirement they started shopping at M&S...They probably think 'fuck it' (old folk) - the fucking central heating was on constant 30c an' all.

When we were kids we didn't even have any - I was in a box room over the (freezing) kitchen. I'd regularly waken to ice on the fucking inside of my plate glass window this time of year. My school shirt was stuck frozen to a metal computer chair one frozzen morning.

They clear their mortgage then later on turn 60 and 65 and it's spend, spend, spend...