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With all these big companies supposedly “going green” why am I being choked on the exhaust of a pack of advertising bikes, constantly driving the city? Put it on a bus for God sakes! All the extra polltion from these bikes is truely thoughtless and needless.
— gassed whlie they pass
This article appears in Aug 6-12, 2009.
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Profit trumps air. Didn’t your mother ever teach you that??
Nothing will satisfy these eco-nazis until we’re back in caves. Oh wait, then they’ll bitch about the smoke from the cooking fires.
Yup…the more aware people get the more judgmental they get too.
However, driving ads around town does seem like a waste to me too. I also doubt the ads are for “green companies” so the OP’s implication of hypocrisy isn’t really valid. It’d be really funny though to drive around an ad for a wind turbine.
i can’t stand those fucking Aliant ads on motorbikes… nobody’s impressed by motorized mobile billboards, they’re just annoying.
It’s not about impressing, it’s all about exposure, good or bad. After all, we’re all now talking about Bell Aliant, aren’t we?
Buses are just nasty. The huge clouds of black that plume out of them. Same with the semi trucks and garbage trucks. I have to drive with the vents closed in my car so as not to be fumigated to death.
The fact that this damn mobility provider had the nerve to parade their billboards around the waterfront IN THE HARBOUR during tall ships festival has guaranteed that I for one will never ever become their customer. Thanks for ruining the atmosphere the festival aims to create just to sell a couple more phones, assholes.
i don’t need to be reminded just how bad Bell Aliant’s overpriced and underwhelming products & services SUCK while i’m taking a stroll down Skin Garden.
besides, all that ugly advertising sullies the streetscape, even the drivers look embarrassed to be whoring themselves like that, hauling those ridiculous mobile billboards up/down the strip.
like i said, we’re not amused… so fuck off Aliant, you’re only pissing people off – not *earning* customer satisfaction. maybe put some of that advertising money into improving your crappy (not-so) high-speed internet service, b/c the competition blows your lame asses out of the ethersphere.
(ps – sorry for the re-post, i mistakenly posted this under another bitch also)
these enviro posts are getting old
FUCK the enviorment
Fuck the environment, Jane? Really? Okay then, if you don’t mind not breathing the air or drinking the water. Oh, and don’t eat any food either, because we rely on ‘the environment’ for that as well. While you’re at it, don’t go outdoors at all, but don’t go in your house either, because ‘the environment’ is where those building materials come from. In fact, if you could just stop existing, then you would have nothing to do with the environment at all. Wanna give it a try?
Just be thankful that none of them are smoking cigarettes while putting around town ! Just think of how terrible that would be with all that second hand smoke being spread over us as we walk around. {well not me…I’ll be driving my truck 😉 }
expatriot – was that post serious? seriously?
I am SICK and TIRED of this environmental shit!
I do my part I use public trans, use my own bags at the superstore, recycle etc
SO STOP SHOVING IT DOWN MY THROAT!
p.s bunches of hippies tehe