T-Mobile "event" - were you one of the 18,000 sad fucks singing along to Vernon Kaye?

[dodgepot]

I got the invite by text. it didn't mention consent specifically but was an invite to come along and be part of their next ad, along the lines of "remember that ad with a load of people dancing in the station? now you can be one of the mugs in our next ad!!!!"

well whoopteedoo.

the invitation annoyed me. call me a kill joy if you will but my immediate response was a grizzle about how its peachy for people to gather en-masse for commercial exploitation by a huge company but its not ok to gather for peaceful protest.

did they offer any sort of fee or anything for being in the ad if you chose to do so, or was being in the ad supposed to be reward enough in itself?

 

[il_bastardo]

did they offer any sort of fee or anything for being in the ad if you chose to do so, or was being in the ad supposed to be reward enough in itself?

no. jolly japes and potential ad fame were the implied payoff.

 

[DRINK?]

I'd have gone just to oggle Pink....I fall more and more in love with her everyday

 

[dodgepot]

no. jolly japes and potential ad fame were the implied payoff.

now that *does* surprise me...

 

[editor]

"Is This The Way to Amarillo"

in public

18,000 of them

the invitation annoyed me. call me a kill joy if you will but my immediate response was a grizzle about how its peachy for people to gather en-masse for commercial exploitation by a huge company but its not ok to gather for peaceful protest.

Aye, there's the rub. It's jus' dandy for some product-shifting wacky corporate advertising event but as soon as someone wants to stage a peaceful protest about something that might actually matter, it becomes strictly verboten.

 

[Kanda]

Too sunny a day to get all heated up about other people having fun doing something you disapprove of.

Happens all the time

 

[STFC]

I've been with T-Mobile for years, but I think I'm going to change network when my current contract expires. The company is beginning to seriously annoy me.

 

[editor]

Too sunny a day to get all heated up about other people having fun doing something you disapprove of.

Happens all the time

iCool it, Mr Rolleyes. Disapproving is the new going out.

 

[Kanda]

iCool it, Mr Rolleyes. Disapproving is the new going out.

You'd never leave your iHouse

 

[editor]

You'd never leave your iHouse

Mobile technology is a disapprover's friend.

I'll see if I can get Vernon Kaye's autograph for you.

 

[Santino]

People in iHouses shouldn't throw moans.

 

[Kanda]

People in iHouses shouldn't throw moans.

 

[editor]

People in iHouses shouldn't throw moans.

That's definitely better than Kanda's efforts.

 

[editor]

Looks like T-Mobile UK should have spent more time with their customers than paying twats like Vernon Kaye:

While T-Mobile UK is busy organising singalongs in central London, it seems the company is under serious threat of being forced to merge or - worse still for customers - being sold off.

The operator, described as "under performing", is suffering from such losses that parent company Deutsche Telekom's two main shareholders, the German government and Blackstone, are pressing for a quick decision on a sale.

With no clues as to what might happen to existing customers, T-Mobile's UK division may merge with a rival (with next along the food chain 3 mooted as a good option by commentators) or even sell off its assets if it can't recover from losses, its CFO said at a shareholders meeting.

The Financial Times insider source states that the German government and Blackstone want "a quick decision [from executives] about fixing the UK", so expect more news very soon.

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/new...e-parent-company-under-pressure-to-sell.phtml

 

[George & Bill]

Looks like T-Mobile UK should have spent more time with their customers than paying twats like Vernon Kaye:

Would be good for me if it meant I got out of my shitty hidden-extra-ridden contract early...

 

[Stoat Boy]

I am inviting several mobile phone service providers to tender for my company contract this year. T-mobile will be excluded because of this 'event'.

 

[George & Bill]

I am inviting several mobile phone service providers to tender for my company contract this year. T-mobile will be excluded because of this 'event'.

Plus the fact that they have more hidden extra costs than any other network IME

 

[oicur0t]

I don't mind lots of people turning up and singing for t-mobile. I hope they have fun. What I would like though is anyone else who wants to turn up and have fun to be able to do so as well.

Karaoke is very popular, not my bag, but hey ho. I like techno though. I suppose I am waiting for their techno rave thing to happen then I might go along.

 

[editor]

I can see ample scope for the next 'spontaneous' T-Mobile event to be thoroughly hijacked for fun and japes. Which might be entertaining.

 

[TylerD]

Then I thought that way lies a future of angry local paper letter writing so didn't.

You're missing out on one of life's little pleasures.

 

[oicur0t]

I can see ample scope for the next 'spontaneous' T-Mobile event to be thoroughly hijacked for fun and japes. Which might be entertaining.

Yes, I quite like the idea of someone else doing a different event at the same time 'purely by accident guv'nor!'

 

[editor]

Yes, I quite like the idea of someone else doing a different event at the same time 'purely by accident guv'nor!'

Even better if it's right in the middle of their own camera-laden event. I can't see how they could stop it either if it's happening on public space.

*rubs chin

 

[brasicritique]

Now that is the best idea anyone on urban has had for a long time!

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I got the invite by text. it didn't mention consent specifically but was an invite to come along and be part of their next ad, along the lines of "remember that ad with a load of people dancing in the station? now you can be one of the mugs in our next ad!!!!"

well whoopteedoo.

the invitation annoyed me. call me a kill joy if you will but my immediate response was a grizzle about how its peachy for people to gather en-masse for commercial exploitation by a huge company but its not ok to gather for peaceful protest.

Well quite. I'm so glad I don't have a mobile. My work wanted me to get one, but I said No, never, and they were so surprised they didn't ask me again.

 

[DotCommunist]

commercial 'spontaneous' events involving voluntary tools are just about the epitome of what is wrong with modern society imo.

For christs sake do something meaningful and relevant rather than join in with pointless toss. Fuck it do both if you so choose but please stop feeling so satisfied by participation in 'guerilla' marketing.

I'm vomiting, no not a 'little bit of sick in my mouth' you twats. Actual projectile vomit into your city-wise wanker faces.

 

[pk]

I can't think of anything more sad.

For starters - they're about 4 or 5 years late - flash mobs are not cool anymore, they're a good protest tactic, but certainly not for T-Mobile and their stupidly expensive tariff adverts.

It's cheap marketing dressed up as "wevolutionary" and "I was there!" fucking Fame Academy bollocks.

And yes, I would think it is a lot of fun to find yourself in Trafalgar Square singing "Is This The Way To Amarillo" - when you're fucking seventeen years old and pissed up on cider.

But as a grown adult, get a grip, you were in a shit advert and you didn't even get paid or fed, and it meant nothing other than to promote a phone company that paid squillions of pounds in 2000 for a GM phone licence that WE the TAXPAYER owned in the first fucking place, only to have them sell the airtime back to us.

Fuck off. When I was seventeen we had raves, and they were not sponsored and organised by some shit phone firm or anyone, and they did not stop until the following day, or day after.

Flash mobs? I shit 'em.

 

[isitme]

I can't seem to get that annoyed for some reason lol

Mass karakoke = fair dos, not my cup of tea.....

the fact that it is a corporate event is just the way it is nowadays. if you want to sneer at T-Mobile and the people who go along fair dos but a lot of stuff you believe in is just as easy to sneer at (oh lets go and stand in the street all day cos there are some prime ministers meeting somewhere in the city, that'll learn em)