The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod [Help Me Grow!]

You might offer to do work for projects you believe in for free, but you’re not commercially na�ve. Not while George is around. 🙂

Great post and another reminder that there are more than just CEO’s to blame for a companies misbehavior.

Thanks folks … I know I’m not the greatest businessman in the World, but I’m not completely hopeless. Well, not while George is around, ha!

Peggy – if you’re not careful, you’re going to releave Dodds of his ‘Evil’ title – something he has spent years nurturing. I don’t know whether you will appreciate that potential accolade, but it’s meant as a compliment, ha!

I know the commercial pressures of big companies – the need to keep the cash flow flowing – however embarking on activities like the Mugabe campaign when you have so many people being paid vast amounts for nothing more than being paper shufflers, means your actions are undefensable and worthy of all the derision they get.

[Banks please take note. Actually, sod the ‘please’, just take note]

What these organisations don’t understand is that more and more companies are choosing partners based on shared values, not just shared financial opportunities – which is why WPP had to spend a fortune to get Google to do anything with them whereas we had Google come to us.

Sure it’s on a totally different scale and the investment was/is minute in comparison to many of their other experiments/ventures, but the fact of the matter is we got the opportunity of a lifetime because of who we are, not what we were paying – and in commercial value – that could turn out to be a better return on investment than a global Unilever advertising contract.

[‘COULD’ being the operative but-not-that-very-likely word, haha]

Right, off to watch a documentary on bread … the kind you eat, not the kind you used to be able to spend before the financial industry ruined it for so many people 🙂

a jingle? it needed us to be off our fucking faces.

i know your heart is in the right place campbell and you grew up on the streets of nottingham but youre more billy no mates than malcolm fucking x

and for anyone reading this shit please note auntie george might be the financially responsible one but im why people come. that or they want to meet the campbell hippy freak show

well done on the naming and fucking shaming campbell now get back to doing the little bit of fucking work we dont trust you with but give you so you can feel a bit more important than you deserve 🙂

wanking can make you blind too campbell and you’re the only one with shit eyesight around here so what does that say eh? eh?

i hate to say it rob, but this is old news (even i heard of it late last year!) and i think mr m is right in saying that the agency has been ditched as a result of ‘pressure’. note: not conscience.

having said that, loads of people i know still laud the SS ‘labour isn’t working’ campaign for thatcher – a dictator who was responsible for the misery of millions, right? 🙂

I know it’s old news – I talked about it when it happened – but there was loads of denials going on and yet they actually made an ad … an ad that is the sort of properganda Goebals would have deemed impressive.

As for Thatcher … she was a nightmare, but her first term was relatively successful given the country she inhereted. [Hence the acclaim given to the ‘Labour Isn’t Working’ ad]

Unfortunately for England, she went the way of the usual dictator/meglomaniac and destroyed families and society … something John Howard aspired to and was celebrated for by too many people for too many terms.

I love you Lauren and put that Curator onto me [or Andy] because upsetting you is like upsetting our family and that just won’t do.

[Do I sound tough? Do I?]

Thanks … I’ll go put on my Mummy’s knitted jumper again then 😉

Don’t let my Mum hear you say that … you know how she hates that Italian stereotype. 🙂

Damn you clever clogs 🙂