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Offline Colwyn

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Corporate Illiteracy
« on: November 14, 2013, 13:37:50 PM »
I have, in previous posts, railed against the dunderheads at Tesco telling me that one queue is reserved for "Six items or less". They have, with very bad grace corrected this, but not simply by changing the offending word to "fewer", instead they cravenly inform the customer that it is "No more than six items".


However, I've had my say on that and today my fury is directed at the Knorr company. I am making a blackberry sauce to go go with our duck breasts (also great with venison steaks). The recipe requires beef stock and I have no home-made stock suitable for this. So I am going to use shop-bought - Knorr. It tells me to put a stock cube in a jug and add boiling water. What the hell do they mean stock cube? It is nothing like a cube; not even close. OXO does cubes; Knorr does cuboids - and pretty flat ones at that (look at the photo below). They could get away with calling them tablets. But cubes? They are blithering idiots.



Why do they do this? Are they too stupid to know better? Do they think we are too stupid to know better? Do they suppose that calling the thing a "cube" is better for marketing? Whatever the reason it is wrong and they should stop doing it. I'm sure there are hundreds of examples of this sort of stuff. Can you nominate some?


OK, I feel better now, back to the sauce. Where's my balsamic vinegar?

« Last Edit: November 14, 2013, 13:59:13 PM by Colwyn »



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Re: Corporate Illiteracy
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2013, 20:53:45 PM »
i bet you feel better after that  :)

Offline GordonA

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Re: Corporate Illiteracy
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2013, 00:31:38 AM »
My favourite one was a sign in an opticians window which, instead of reading; "No appointments necessary " read ;" Have your eyes tested while you wait ".  ???

No thanks , I,m too busy to wait, I,ll collect my eyes later, if that's alright !!  : :)

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Re: Corporate Illiteracy
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2013, 07:34:01 AM »
Don't get him started on punctuation Gordy!

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Re: Corporate Illiteracy
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2013, 14:16:53 PM »
OOOOOOPS !! Just goes over my head now, Stoop old chap !!   ;) : :)

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Re: Corporate Illiteracy
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2013, 16:12:49 PM »
I'm just off to patent the name "Stock Block" and sell it to Knorr.

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Re: Corporate Illiteracy
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2013, 19:53:40 PM »
Professor Rubik is not going to be happy about this.....Not one bit.

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Re: Corporate Illiteracy
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2013, 20:43:07 PM »
WOW! Colwyn!

I thought I was a pedant. I can only but dream of ever achieving your level of anality (sic).


Offline Colwyn

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Re: Corporate Illiteracy
« Reply #8 on: November 16, 2013, 09:39:39 AM »
Did you leave out an initial "b" from that word?

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« Reply #9 on: November 16, 2013, 19:51:10 PM »
More apt if the word is as she had intended ;D




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