A bit of a PR disaster really

Plissken · **Posted:** Thu May 28, 2009 12:40

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/e ... d-remedies

Quackery shop invites questions. Car crash ensues.

Dr Lave · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5979

It is brilliant isn't it?
Fills you with hope.
I was giggling about it all day yesterday.

Oh and if you start to feel sorry for them remember they were caught selling homepathic cure for malaria. And their wrists were slapped and were asked to stop selling it, you know rather than being chucked in jail.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu May 28, 2009 12:46

Quote:

Years ago my cat had an ulcer on its eye and over the course of a few months I took it to a few different vets and paid for a few different remedies, none of which worked. Then eventually I contacted a homeopath, who without charging anything suggested dripping cucumber juice in they eye. Guess what - the ulcer was gone within a couple of weeks. Done without any scientific proof, but the cat appreciated it all the same.

*chortle*

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Plissken wrote:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/ethicallivingblog/2009/may/26/you-ask-neals-yard-remedies

Quackery shop invites questions. Car crash ensues.

The Popbitch lot piled in yesterday. Not as hilarious as when they troll the comments sections on obscure local newspapers.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49252

Shame. They do an astonishingly good selection of cheese.

myp · **Posted:** Thu May 28, 2009 13:04

My favourite comment so far:

Quote:

my bus has crashed - I've got a compound fracture in my right leg, the bone is sticking out from under the skin and is wedged into the 'Used Tickets' receptacle, my skull has had a good old thump against the seat in front and is impersonating a boiled egg after the first thump with the teaspoon, and my ribs have been broken into bits like a packet of smokey bacon crisps someone has stood on.

What herbs and aromatic oils would you recommend?

That had me laughing like a loon.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Thu May 28, 2009 13:30

I saw this yesterday after Dr Lave tweeted the link to it.

Supoib. Here's hoping that The Guardian gets sufficiently annoyed with the cowardice of the company and does some sort of expose on their quackery.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49252

Curiosity wrote:

Here's hoping that The Guardian gets sufficiently annoyed with the cowardice of the company and does some sort of expose on their quackery.

But not their cheese!

Also, points and laughs at the pedant who tried to say it should be 'Neil's Yard' Remedies. The fact that the company was started on a street in London called 'Neals Yard' is obviously wrong, then, is it?

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Plissken wrote:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/ethicallivingblog/2009/may/26/you-ask-neals-yard-remedies

Quackery shop invites questions. Car crash ensues.

The Popbitch lot piled in yesterday. Not as hilarious as when they troll the comments sections on obscure local newspapers.

We need a new one of those. The custard story was lolsome, even more so when Metro covered the pisstake the following day, with more column inches (on page 3, no less) than the original story got in the local paper.

kalmar · **Posted:** Thu May 28, 2009 13:38

Heh, the Guardian comments are usually fairly annoying, but just occasionally...

myp · **Posted:** Thu May 28, 2009 13:43

AdamVaughan wrote:

@ all

have just had a chat with NYR.

Unfortunately, despite previous assurances that they would be participating in this blog post, I've now been told they 'will not be taking part in the debate'.

So yes, as several people have pointed out, this has become something of 'You Ask', rather than a 'You Ask, They Answer'. I'm still hoping NYR will reconsider.

Shock.

Sir Taxalot · **Joined:** 5th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 4875

Riles wrote:

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Plissken wrote:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/ethicallivingblog/2009/may/26/you-ask-neals-yard-remedies

Quackery shop invites questions. Car crash ensues.

The Popbitch lot piled in yesterday. Not as hilarious as when they troll the comments sections on obscure local newspapers.

We need a new one of those. The custard story was lolsome, even more so when Metro covered the pisstake the following day, with more column inches (on page 3, no less) than the original story got in the local paper.

I missed all that but sounds like it could be fun, infact I have never been to popbitch but enjoy seeing the bits chinny posts on here sometimes.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Sir Taxalot wrote:

I have never been to popbitch but enjoy seeing the bits chinny posts on here sometimes.

It's like this place, except with more bumming and no threads. More like twitter meets a forum.

http://www.popbitch.com/board.html

Not worth paying the joining fee to post. Just lurk.

kalmar · **Posted:** Thu May 28, 2009 13:56

chinnyhill10 wrote:

Sir Taxalot wrote:

I have never been to popbitch but enjoy seeing the bits chinny posts on here sometimes.

It's like this place, except with more bumming and no threads. More like twitter meets a forum.

http://www.popbitch.com/board.html

Not worth paying the joining fee to post. Just lurk.

more bumming?

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49252

That's a lot of bumming.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

kalmar wrote:

more bumming?

And they have their own radio staton. With a rocking otter that looks like a penis.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Could that be a more horrifically unusable interface?

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Mr Chris wrote:

Could that be a more horrifically unusable interface?

It's been basically the same since the dawn of time. No idea why. You become used to it.

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A bit of a PR disaster really
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