why would the buy shiat from people they hate?

Its Pravda. They make up more stuff that weekly world news.

US companies' managers insist on the non-political explanation of the sales crisis in Europe.....stagnation of the European economy.....business-unfriendly factors as the increased tax on tobacco production in Europe nationwide, for example.

The decreasing popularity of American brands can be explained with growing anti-American sentiments in Europe, presumably caused with the US foreign policy. Jeans, Marlboro cigarettes and Coca-Cola...


Or it could just be that those products are overpriced and suck.

Perhaps we wouldn't ignore them if they were available here?

And in other news, nobody in America gives a fark.

Mission Accomplished.

Darn it, how can we give them the mind control drugs if they don't eat the Mickey D's?

Right, this must be why I always see Coke products all over the place wherever I go in Europe, and why Burger King and McDonald's have stores everywhere.

How many rubles did Pravda pay for these dumb links on Fark?

couldn't sift through the broken english and typos. Is there really a MsDonalds? Is it staffed by hot russian single women?

As an America, I avoid most famous US brands too. Im not anti-american, its just that most of the famous brands suck.

US consumers ignore most famous European brands.

Dumbass Germans.

GM is suffering $236 million of losses: it plans to fire 12,000 employees in Germany

Yep. Boycott the american products and put 12K of your friends out of work. HAHAHAHA. With logic like that it is no wonder they lost both wars.

Heil Dumbass.

...Marlboro, Coca-Cola, MsDonald's, Ford are...

MsDonalds?

Grrr, AmericaN. Even with the preview on... damn it.

It will be interesting, though, if any of this has any truth to it, to see the politicians in the pockets of companies losing market share duking it out with the politicians in the pockets of companies making money off the war and other Bush foreign policies. Who has the deeper pockets and more clout- Walmart/Coca Cola/Gap/etc or Haliburton/Lockheed Martin/Betchtel(sp?)/etc? Really, that's they only way politicians listen and change their tune anyhow, is when a big corporate player joins a side.

Yeah, like any brand of TOOTHPASTE and DEODORANT.
Fark those smelly Euro bastards and their inferior sense of hygiene.

"Jeans, Marlboro cigarettes and Coca-Cola used to symbolize the American dream"

Cigarettes, pants and soft drinks symbolize the American dream? Maybe to a Russian...

Last time I checked making your own ends was the American dream.

Also, Budweiser is the #1 beer all over the world. Euros may crap on it in public - but they drink a TON of it.

Yeeha!! Ain't karma a biatch?

That article is wrong in so many ways!

The sales figures of the new GM Astra are pretty great.
GM or Opel has to lay off workers mostly due to management failures of th last decade.
I am German and I ate my last Whopper two days ago and my last coke about 4 hours ago.
Damn the Russians pull some kind of freedom fries there.
Total bull!

2004-10-28 03:31:08 PM voxriot

Yeeha!! Ain't karma a biatch?

And yet, they keep sending us their comedians, eh? I wonder how many Canadian Nationals live in the US, eh?

/how long will it be 'til "eh?" isn't funny, eh?

In other Pravda news, Europe going crazy for Ivan Jeans, McGorky Restaraunts and Kiev Kola!

i especially like the link to the left...

"Pregnant Prostitutes all the rage in Russia's Ekaterinburgh...."

sweet

They may ignore our brands, but they can't ignore a cruise missile!

tukatz How could they be losing? They came out with a LOW CARB coke!?!?! You mean to tell me it isn't catching on?

Everywhere i go in Europe, Australasia etc there's US brands/culture everywhere. It pisses me off. This is why I want Bush back in - everyone hates the US under him and in another 4 years everyone will have got bored of US crap and forgotten about them. They'll be like the roman, french or british empires. Forgotton. Woohoo

What floored me was in London, with all their excellent beer
choices, the "imports" case in the stores were FULL of
Budweiser product. *sigh* I guess it's technically an
import, but c'mon... At least a friend's German family drinks
Corona when they want imported beer.

Good!

They may also be forgetting about Microsoft. Governments in Europe are slowly warming up to free and open Linux solutions as opposed to expensive and coercive Microsoft ones.

I don't think there is much room for growth for these corporations until we discover sentient consumers on another planet.

The potential for losses is always there.

Two words:

Glass. Parking lot.

(my conservative impression for the day)

2004-10-28 03:31:08 PM nothingyet

Also, Budweiser is the #1 beer all over the world. Euros may crap on it in public - but they drink a TON of it.

News flash: many Americans crap on Budweiser too.

/proud to be a beer snob

Theburner? boycott? they shut down the plants because no one is buying the cars, because they suck. why buy a shiatty gas guzzler when you can get a nice ass german engineered car for cheap.

just has to be what what
And yet, they keep sending us their comedians, eh? I wonder how many Canadian Nationals live in the US, eh?

/how long will it be 'til "eh?" isn't funny, eh?

And yet we'll keep recieveing your citizens YO!? I wonder how many American nationals will be living in Canada when the draft starts YO!? How long will it be till farked up ebonics talking douches invade our country YO!!?
Dumbass

In other news, aliens live underground, and Russian Military fought UFO's.

/Grain of salt not included

absolutelychecken


Two words:

Glass. Parking lot.

Yep. That about sums up the USA's diplomatic arsenal. We tried to make nice, but they didn't buy it. Nuke'em.

Cult American blah blah blah, particularly in Germany in France.

I guess that means France surrendered to itself?

I'm sure this article already made it into the latest issue of the Paris Business Review.

Hehe Pravda. You just can't make stuff like this up. Oh wait...

Also, Budweiser is the #1 beer all over the world.

Only because Guinness is considered a food instead of a beverage.

Anyone else notice the "Japanese sex engineers invent new vibrating condom" link on the side?

Bill O'Reilly surrenders.

Shoot, I don't buy American stuff (mostly) and neither does anyone else. Food is grown in Mexico, everything else is made in China except for autos, and I bought a Toyota 7 years ago so I won't need another car for another 7 years.

America doesn't manufacture anything anymore. It's part of how we're more secure.

sift

Have you ever priced a car in Germany?

Trust me its cheaper here (taxes, liscence fees, gas prices).

By the way it don't matter. Ford owns who in Europe? GM is owned by who in Europe?

voxriot

I was going to axe the same question YO.

Europeans used to love everything american and most still do. This is a simple case of over expansion by american companies, it gets harder and harder to turn a profit when you have so much overhead.

a friend of mine went to ireland recently, and told me when they visited an irish pub, everyone was drinking coors light. not my first choice, but still funny.