Comments on: british parties

By: sirshannon

sirshannon — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:31:14 +0000

I just wanted to let you know that the blogcards I ordered surpassed expectations in every category, from the paper stock to the quantity.

By: campester

campester — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 02:15:19 +0000

with my crowd for some time now it hasn’t been booze we bring to the party — it’s been a nice, bulging, aromatic bag of freshly roasted arabian mocha sanani beans. and after a few steaming volcanic press-pots full, everybody rants all night long, eyes bulging out, until the wee hours. kind of like the coffeehouses in which the american revolution was fomented, or the situationists in 68.
alcohol slurs speech, so if you’re in the words business, it’s not a “social lubricant” so much as it’s like putting salad oil under your car tires. people i work with closely use it to kill the pain or as a sleeping aid. sometimes when you’re in the field you can sterilize medical instruments with it.
but i’m happy to let the older guys drink as much as they want. it makes it easier to cosh them in the alley for their wallets.
what’s the worst thing that can happen if you trade being a caffeine freak for being a booze hound? you can perhaps say too much. we therefore do a lot of editing.

By: basil

basil — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:48:45 +0000

what amazes me is how advertising which is the front line of “efficient” cut throat capitalism
is so full of these slobs and parasites
but then is’nt that what capatalism is all about :capitalising off other peoples efforts to further one’s own gains.
and let’s be honest that is the only thing that motivates people to scale the treacherous corporate hierarchy is
to partake in management’s perogative of being cocksuckers and unaccountable slackers feeding off subordinates hard work
love your work hugh
truly an insight into a repulsive industry
also if it’s an advertising party the booze
is throw on free by breweries hoping
to drive down their last design fee
in fact why don’t those breweries
rather send in burn out over the hill creative directors designers and copywriters
to regale the bar patrons of the great old time’s they had being alchoholics
for some honest brand insight
after years of experience
haha

By: bmo

bmo — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 00:47:20 +0000

In Canada, the beer business was built by beer reps. Guys — usually former athletes — who went into bars paid for rounds and told stories of their glory days. In the 80s beer was huge. Then followed the budgets and the ads. There was a spike and then boom. Flatness. The beer companies hired the T-totallers to run their business. The decline. Beer companies cannot sell their beer today. No wonder.
So yeah, take the ad budgets, hire fifty beer reps and get them back out there into the bars telling stories.
Metaphorically.
It’s the plight of business really. Not just advertising. Communications companies being run by the uncommunicative. Pro sports leagues being run by non fans of the game. It’s the universal flaw in the coming demise (and regeneration) of business.

By: Barry Dorrans

Barry Dorrans — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 00:26:55 +0000

But if it’s an advertising party, then no-one brings booze, it’s funny white powder.
Ahem.
Cough.
I’ll get me coat.