I don't think you can say you've settled into the country until you've spent at least one hour on hold to BT.

I think you have to feed pet food to pets to test it properly.

I think he just hates it conceptually.

they'll probably become infected with it soon enough. :borg:

Google maps doesn't give me a little red arrow, but I do get a nifty shot of the town. The maps button shows my street, but not me. Guess I don't exist yet.

I also don't show up on Google maps. If you do a regular Google search of my phone number, you get my name and address. If you do a search of my name and town, you get my phone number and street address. But I don't show up on their map. Interesting. They must have separate databases.

HATE!
SBC
Yum coproration
Pepsico
starbucks
Sisco (the food distributer)
Bank of america (well... banks in general.. )
Haliburton (and all subsidiaries)
Westar Energy
Sunflower Broadband (local.. greedy and the owner is a dick)
Nike
Baseball...
budwiser and coors
ver-fucking-izon

Love
Target
Deals (any dollar store variation)
Williams Entertainment (mmm.... pinball)
Sony
subway

love to hate
walmart
microsoft

Can't we all just get along? :lol:

Love:
Peet's Coffee - Just. Plain. Awesome. best coffee ever made
Costco - Affordable American Crap!
Apple - more tech companies should be run by designers instead of engineers.
Ikea - Affordable Swedish Crap!

Hate:
I'm having a hard time filling this category. I'm sort of just indifferent to most companies.

Hate:
Walmart
Starbucks
Microsoft
Comcast
Fox
Pharmaceutical industry
Clearchannel
RIAA
MPAA (eh, really more neutral, because I don't watch movies)
Hewlett-Packard (for killing off their line of rpn calculators)
Disney


Love:
Google
PBS/NPR
Wegmans
Mozilla Foundation
Wikipedia
Apple
BBC
Restoration Hardware
Sears Kenmore
Newegg.com
Penzey's Spices
Land's End (though they've slipped since they were acquired)
Thinkgeek.com

...I'll add more later. When I think of 'em.

ohhh BBC! Forgot that one on the love list. If they dare touch my radio 4 they'll have Tumbridge Wells in Downing st with pitchforks and firebrands. (this is an english only joke really)

They own our ubiquitous horizon dominating ASDA chain. Ah, once upon a hilltop I looked upon a beach, and firs, and conifers; now, bright green luminous lettering stuns my vision declaring in subtle acronym: Anything Shit-cheap Dead or Amoral! Still my seething heart for there are some companies to warm you:

Love...

WCRS (ad agency in London - the most creative and best company benefits ever)
Innocent
Borders
Virgin
Boeing

But hate even more than Asda....

Nestle
Coca Cola
McDonalds/Burger King/KFC/Pizza Hut
Any supermarket
Blockbuster
Channel Five
Sky
NTL
AOL
Disney
GSK
Proctor & Gamble
Danone
Post-Its (an obscene waste of paper)
Any house builders
Any oil/deep sea drilling companies
The American government
Hi tech useless Japanese toy companies
Butlins
ITV
Associated Newpapers
Emap

Hate: Best Buy, Wallmart, Nike, Danier, Monsanto, All cigarette companies, Ratheon and the whole lot of military contractors.

Love:Love is a big word.

Innocent! Their 1L juice bottles @ ~3ish quid each are my most decadent regular purchase. Bananas, pineapple and coconuts.......

Borders opened across the road from Foyles. Noone fucks with Foyles bookstore, the only acceptable response to fucking with Foyles is razing to the ground and dowing the soil with salt.

Never heard of it. If it's smaller and less profitable than Borders, minus Starbucks and with the same freedom to browse and read without hovering salesmen, I may switch loyalty.