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"Nike"

That’s what you do here. The more money you have, the better a person you are. If you're rich, you can go and buy £200 Nike trainers that prove to the world that you are rich and thus a good person. You're so rich that you can advertise a company that uses child labor so it's shareholders and executives can live in big houses and drink the best wine and eat fine food, when their 'employees' do not even have the facilities to live.

Yes, advertise. See that little tick on your trainer? That’s advertising, and for some reason you have paid an extra £40 upwards to advertise a company. Surely that isn't right…if someone wants me to advertise them, they pay me. You say its stylish? Well, I bet those wonderful people at Nike can't wait for Channel 4s owners to be 'stylish' and pay Nike a couple of million so that they can have that little trademark tick in the bottom right hand corner of every program. Or on every page of your beloved Hello magazine.

I wouldn't mind if it was a band you liked, or a charity you wanted to support, or a philosophical principle. Come to think of it, maybe it is a philosophical principle for most of you - 'I support the theory that child slavery is OK, gluttony at the expense of the needy is fine, and you don't mind being one of the mindless masses doing exactly as Nike say'.

If I was spotted coming out of a charity shop by one of you morons, you would call me 'cheap', or the most loathsome of you would call me a 'pikey'. You would think that I was unbearably uncool, supporting a company that does its utmost to help people. This would probably be thought whilst wearing Nike trainers, proving to the whole world that you support a company that doesn't really care about making easy money at the expense of the same people that the charity is trying to help. Apparently, caring about other people isn't cool.

'Will we ever get to the point that we realize we will be more secure when the rest of the world isn't living in poverty so we can have nice running shoes?' - Michael Moore.

®eynolds wrote:
> i wear nike clothes im pretty rich

*checks stats*

Damn, this guy has won a GAD. Doesn't seem fair, considering how long it took YH to win his first.

i wear nike clothes im pretty rich

SHEEPY wrote:
> Wookiee Jokes I've heard: Numer of times I've laughed

Not my fault you have no sense of humour! :-)

WòókieeMøn§†€® wrote:
> I thought you were supposed to keep plastic bags away from children?
> :-)

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Wookiee Jokes I've heard: Numer of times I've laughed

+100: 2

I laughed there... good yes... indeed.

I thought you were supposed to keep plastic bags away from children? :-)

If you're all so worried about child labour, I suggest you stop using plasitc bags that you get from shops.

They're produced using child labour. There was a thing in the local paper ages ago in Leicester because the Leicester company had to shut down as it was cheaper to make the bags in Hong Kong or somewhere and ship them over here.

So now you know that, you should all carry your shopping home without a bag.

I do own a pair of Nike Air trainers. I also own several Nike football shirts, simply because they currently make the Arsenal kit. Before that it was adidas.

I buy stuff I like the look of. I don't care where it was made, who by, or what label is on it. Simple as that.

In my experience only townie mother-fudgers who think they look 'cool' or 'hard' wear stuff like Nike, Kappa and Adidas. That's mainly* why i don't.


*Other reasons include child labour, and the fact that i like to be 'alternative'.

i dont know what you are all banging on about i cant afford nike anyway.
problem solved.

Mouldy Cheese wrote:
> Surely that isn't right…if someone
> wants me to advertise them, they pay me.

Are you saying you do not wear brand name clothing?