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I've been meaning to post this for years

GrazGraz
edited April 2010 in Sinclair Miscellaneous
GAMESTAGE. Yep, you know 'em.

Okay, so they're weird - but why...

why...

why...

Is their logo ripped from a Lidl's cereal packet?


Gamestagecerial.jpg

http://www.gamestage.net/

Any other such strange, Speccy related rip-offs - Or have Gamestage clinched it again?
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  • psj3809psj3809
    edited March 2010
    I love the awards hes won...

    http://www.gamestage.net/english/awards.html

    'Candle Comfort award' ??!

    So basically someone who has done a candle site and somehow reviewed Gamestage and said how great it was, clicking on the candle comfort award takes you to..

    http://www.candlecomfort.com/ - So are they the new company to review sites ??!

    Some of the other links are totally dead, not like www.bbc.co.uk have given him a good rating. A few dead links and a (probably his mates) candle site ?!?

    Bizarre
  • GrazGraz
    edited March 2010
    Candle Comfort? :lol: Won in 2002 :lol: That's the best accolade it gets?!
    :lol: :lol:

    Worth posting the bee pic just to see that! :)
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited March 2010
    Click on the graphics of the awards, its quite funny..

    http://members.atlantic.net/~bdarl

    The behemoth of Web Awards above doesnt even exist.

    These lot dish out web awards ?!?!?....

    http://diehlawards.tripod.com/index2.html

    If the awards site looks like that then i think everyone will get one.

    Its like saying my website gets a ton of traffic and i include all the spammers who email me etc.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited March 2010
    This is just bizarre.

    Hey Graz maybe you should use the Lidl Bee on the cover for Bee Keeper Manager ;)
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  • BloodBazBloodBaz
    edited March 2010
    Ouch! That frame set is sooo year 2000! Page longer fits with modern browsers. Scrollbars kick in to add insult into injury. It shouldn't take much to sort out a bit of W3C on this site (bless!).

    Those award links are comical!

    Did you notice the "credits" flash window in the header? Need to right click Zoom to view the links!
  • GrazGraz
    edited March 2010
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    This is just bizarre.

    Hey Graz maybe you should use the Lidl Bee on the cover for Bee Keeper Manager ;)

    Haha! It had crossed my mind :)
    For BKM, I'm utilizing the bees I drew for the un-used Quantum Gardening cover. All my own work! :) - ps: did a bit more to it a couple of weeks ago. Getting there. ;)
  • VincentACVincentAC
    edited March 2010
    Graz wrote: »
    GAMESTAGE. Yep, you know 'em.

    Okay, so they're weird - but why...

    why...

    why...

    Is their logo ripped from a Lidl's cereal packet?




    http://www.gamestage.net/

    Any other such strange, Speccy related rip-offs - Or have Gamestage clinched it again?

    Quick! Someone mail the cereal company and get Gamestage sued :lol:
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    I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
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  • GrazGraz
    edited March 2010
    VincentAC wrote: »
    Quick! Someone mail the cereal company and get Gamestage sued :lol:

    Oooh, thin ice :D... Lidl may get too shirty with it - and denience all their breakfast stuff!
  • RalfRalf
    edited March 2010
    Maybe Gamestage was the artist who created the bees for Lidl ? :)

    And he liked them so much that he placed them on the site.

    I can't imagine any other reason why somebody would place bees from cereal box on his site about Zx Spectrum :)
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited March 2010
    Ralf wrote: »
    I can't imagine any other reason why somebody would place bees from cereal box on his site about Zx Spectrum :)

    (quickly takes down the pictures of Honey Monster from my speccy site).
  • GrazGraz
    edited March 2010
    :lol:
  • MrCheeseMrCheese
    edited March 2010
    Maybe his site is the place to bee?
  • chaosmongerschaosmongers
    edited March 2010
    On a different but slightly related subject,
    I saw in Aldi a breakfast cereal called 'Benefit Flakes'.


    Why would anyone want to eat the flakey bits from someone in the dole office?
  • XTM of TMGXTM of TMG
    edited March 2010
    MrCheese wrote: »
    Maybe his site is the place to bee?
    Possible, but he shouldn't be so stingy and revamp the layout ;)

    Maybe the bees aren't from Lidl to begin with and, like Gamestage, they just nicked it off the web or something.

    It is hilarious though. But since when did you have that bee design on the cereals, is it recent or has it been like that in ages? I mean, as far as I remember Gamestage has had those bees for a few years.

    lol, I just noticed that there is german text on that cereal package in the bottom left. In the UK wtf?
    chaosmongers wrote: »
    On a different but slightly related subject, I saw in Aldi a breakfast cereal called 'Benefit Flakes'. Why would anyone want to eat the flakey bits from someone in the dole office?

    Does it have a feature advertised on the package, like "Free ASBO inside"?
  • Lee_dCLee_dC
    edited March 2010
    XTM of TMG wrote: »
    Maybe the bees aren't from Lidl to begin with and, like Gamestage, they just nicked it off the web or something.

    i'd have thought it would be a stock image from some graphics library. it'd be a bad idea for any business to steal graphics from the web
  • GrazGraz
    edited March 2010
    XTM of TMG wrote: »

    It is hilarious though. But since when did you have that bee design on the cereals, is it recent or has it been like that in ages? I mean, as far as I remember Gamestage has had those bees for a few years.

    lol, I just noticed that there is german text on that cereal package in the bottom left. In the UK wtf?

    Lidl is a German shop, selling in UK. They've had the Bee on the cereal 15 years or more.
  • chaosmongerschaosmongers
    edited March 2010
    I like Lidl.

    They had some edible "Minges" on sale last year. I've got a photo of them somewhere.
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited March 2010
    I suppose it could have been worse, he could have chosen the big brown turd from the box to its left. :D

    Brown on brown??!!?? Not very spectrum is it?
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  • GrazGraz
    edited March 2010
    chaosmongers wrote: »
    I like Lidl.

    They had some edible "Minges" on sale last year. I've got a photo of them somewhere.

    Oh yeah, I saw them! I see now that they've been taken away from our local store :D
    ...And these lispy-foreign folks ask us to change the names of our brands! :lol:
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    I suppose it could have been worse, he could have chosen the big brown turd from the box to its left. :D

    Haha, I see that some web-sabotage is required here. The brown turn would sum that site up quite well!
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited March 2010
    I should take the SD card out of my old phone and transfer the pics onto the computer, as I've taken quite few photos of comedy stuff I've found on the shelves at work (and other shops).

    There's a store near me that's pretty crap tbh and it had several types of "potatoe" salad in it's cooler.

    At my work they had "Homo Milk" on sale I got a photo of the sign because I couldn't believe it. Obviously it was short for homogenized, but they actually put a sign up saying homo milk $2.99 or something like that. I've also found tags "cheese muff" "hot coc mix", and "orange pee" to name a few.

    Also just a few names of actual brands they have these little toffee sweet things called nips, and they have apple juice and sauce called Motts which always makes me think of fannies :lol:
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  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited March 2010
    You know what I saw at the weekend I almost too a picture of then, damn I almost brought a couple. Wish I had now.

    At the car boot sale this bloke was sellning a rack of ex promotional T-Shirts for a pound each.

    The T-Shirts were white but had in big writing yellow and blue writing on the front JOFFA. Then underneath in small writing, "We help professionals".

    :lol:
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited March 2010
    You just know that you missed a once in a lifetime opportunity there Scottie.

    Best T-Shirt I got like that was an Initial T-Shirt, not that special really but I used to wear it for comedy value since Initial make toilet parts :D
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  • chaosmongerschaosmongers
    edited April 2010
    About 5 years ago, I put a vinyl record called "STRAP ON" by US punk band on EBAY.

    Full EBAY title:

    Diesel Boy - Strap on 7" - vinyl


    this is the picture from it:

    535.jpg?1155006792


    Anyway - I kept getting strange questions like "is it clean?" and "has it been used?" and "is it washable?"

    Well... I answered - it's fairly clean for it's age, and yes it's been played. I wouldn't advise washing it though...


    An American bloke bought it, and sent the money. A few hours later, he said he'd just realised that he'd bought the wrong thing, and said I could keep the money, and there was no need to send the record out.

    Whatever could he have thought he'd bought?
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited April 2010
    chaosmongers wrote: »
    About 5 years ago, I put a vinyl record called "STRAP ON" by US punk band on EBAY.

    Full EBAY title:

    Diesel Boy - Strap on 7" - vinyl


    this is the picture from it:

    535.jpg?1155006792


    Anyway - I kept getting strange questions like "is it clean?" and "has it been used?" and "is it washable?"

    Well... I answered - it's fairly clean for it's age, and yes it's been played. I wouldn't advise washing it though...


    An American bloke bought it, and sent the money. A few hours later, he said he'd just realised that he'd bought the wrong thing, and said I could keep the money, and there was no need to send the record out.

    Whatever could he have thought he'd bought?


    Hahahaha! That's made my day! :lol:

    .....a day earlier and I wouldn't have believed a word of it ;)
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  • XTM of TMGXTM of TMG
    edited April 2010
    Lol, I don't know why but it reminds me of the Harry Potter Vibrating Broomstick. Yeah I know, it's old. Read the quoted Amazon reviews. Hilarious.
  • deadpan666deadpan666
    edited April 2010
    Graz wrote: »
    GAMESTAGE. Yep, you know 'em.

    Okay, so they're weird - but why...

    why...

    why...

    Is their logo ripped from a Lidl's cereal packet?


    Gamestagecerial.jpg

    http://www.gamestage.net/

    Any other such strange, Speccy related rip-offs - Or have Gamestage clinched it again?


    The "Vitafriends" bit is basically the logo for Google Chrome too! :lol:
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