What pretentious businesses have you come across?
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On my commute to work, I go past a furniture shop in Clapham which purports to sell "Inspirational Outdoor Furniture".
OK, I get what outdoor furniture is, and it's made pretty bloody obvious by the sun loungers and patio tables in the window, but how the hell is a piece of furniture supposed to be inspirational???
Am I supposed to look through the window and think "Yeah, that's my dream! I want to be a deckchair!"??
Is seeing an eye-wateringly expensive parasol supposed to inspire me to become a FTSE 100 CEO?
Maybe it's supposed to inspire me to move to a climate where I can spend more than a couple of weeks a year actually using outdoor furniture?
Whatever their thinking, it just struck me as completely pretentious. Anyone else seen anything similar around them?
OK, I get what outdoor furniture is, and it's made pretty bloody obvious by the sun loungers and patio tables in the window, but how the hell is a piece of furniture supposed to be inspirational???
Am I supposed to look through the window and think "Yeah, that's my dream! I want to be a deckchair!"??
Is seeing an eye-wateringly expensive parasol supposed to inspire me to become a FTSE 100 CEO?
Maybe it's supposed to inspire me to move to a climate where I can spend more than a couple of weeks a year actually using outdoor furniture?
Whatever their thinking, it just struck me as completely pretentious. Anyone else seen anything similar around them?
HappyMidget said:
Greg66 said:
Kermit power said:
On my commute to work, I go past a furniture shop in Clapham* which purports to sell "Inspirational Outdoor Furniture".
<cough> Balham <cough>Look at you, trying to glam-up your commuting route!
It's in a dip. One side of the dip it's definitely Balham, and the other is definitely Clapham, but I've no idea where the dividing line is.
zb said:
I quite like the idea of that, but I bet they charge similar prices to alcoholic drinks, despite not having to pay the duty. 
Why, though, would they bother with alcohol free lager?
Surely nobody actually drinks lager for the flavour, given that they all basically taste the same?Trabi601 said:
Kermit power said:
I quite like the idea of that, but I bet they charge similar prices to alcoholic drinks, despite not having to pay the duty.
Why, though, would they bother with alcohol free lager? Surely nobody actually drinks lager for the flavour, given that they all basically taste the same?
I see your problem there. You're drinking crappy InBev brews.Why, though, would they bother with alcohol free lager?
Surely nobody actually drinks lager for the flavour, given that they all basically taste the same?If you drink quality lagers, especially European pilsners, there is a whole world of diverse flavours out there.
J4CKO said:
I love lager and make no apologies, Bitter I generally find a bit insipid, I have made an effort, I just prefer lager but especially the IPA type beers, sometimes enjoy a pint of bitter, Holts MPA in our local is nice.
I've read that sentence a number of times, but whichever way I read it, you're saying you love lagers but especially like IPA, which is a heavily hopped ale, not a lager?
I'm a great fan of a nice IPA too, but none I've tasted have ever been anything like a lager, starting with not being anything like as gassy.
romeogolf said:
An estate agent local to us. Just read the bio of their "CEO"...
http://www.saxecoburg.eu/meet-the-team/
I don't think you need to go as far as the CEO to find pretension! Who the fhttp://www.saxecoburg.eu/meet-the-team/
k calls an Estate Agent "Saxe Coburg" in the first place??? 
Maybe I could set one up and call it Plantagenet Properties?
Davey S2 said:
Not a business but the description of this London house on Rightmove
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...
'The ground floor contains the kitchen and dining room, with the concrete frontage forming a window seat. The larger of the glazed panels slides open – this area of the city is very quiet at weekends, and the intention is that the street can be inhabited as an external room .
So it doesn't matter if the dining room is too small. You just get your guests to sit in the street and you can pass them some spag bol (or more likely quinoa and pomegranate salad) through the window. You don't need to worry as there is very little traffic.
Here's a pic of the stunning 'external room'
But.... It's only £1.25m.... and it has an inspection pit in the dining room!!! http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...
'The ground floor contains the kitchen and dining room, with the concrete frontage forming a window seat. The larger of the glazed panels slides open – this area of the city is very quiet at weekends, and the intention is that the street can be inhabited as an external room .
So it doesn't matter if the dining room is too small. You just get your guests to sit in the street and you can pass them some spag bol (or more likely quinoa and pomegranate salad) through the window. You don't need to worry as there is very little traffic.
Here's a pic of the stunning 'external room'
PurpleTurtle said:
Budflicker said:
Actual LOL. I'd like to see take 2, where they reflect the actual life of a PH-er, where he just wakes up from that dream and deals with the associated boner in the tradtional manner of a man living alone! 
I like the blonde though, very easy on the eye, tremendous orbs!
I keep finding my thoughts drifting back to that Senturion bracelet thing...
Would anyone, no matter how sickeningly wealthy they are, really pay upwards of £40k just to seemingly put the function of their car key into a bracelet???
I could begin to imagine someone paying a small fraction of that to have the functionality built in to a really nice smart watch, but as it is, does it serve any purpose other than to say "I've got so much money that I can afford to spend more than the national average wage on something utterly pointless"??
When was the last time that anyone with an even half decent, half modern car actually had to press a button on anything to get the doors to unlock anyway?
Would anyone, no matter how sickeningly wealthy they are, really pay upwards of £40k just to seemingly put the function of their car key into a bracelet???
I could begin to imagine someone paying a small fraction of that to have the functionality built in to a really nice smart watch, but as it is, does it serve any purpose other than to say "I've got so much money that I can afford to spend more than the national average wage on something utterly pointless"??
When was the last time that anyone with an even half decent, half modern car actually had to press a button on anything to get the doors to unlock anyway?
bunglesprout said:
https://mahabis.com
The slipper. Reinvented.
FFS.
I just want to draw a little bunny face on the front of them.
Anyone want to take a guess at what I'm now seeing as the advertised company on the P&P forum listing page? The slipper. Reinvented.
FFS.
I just want to draw a little bunny face on the front of them.
wildone63 said:
Any business which only employs one person but uses the words 'our','we',and 'us' in their advertising.
Annoying, yes, but they're not really being pretentious, are they? More a case of trying to give a sense of comfort that you're not dealing with a single person who might decide to head off and do something completely different on a whim.Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff