andrewducker: (Chewing dear thing)
andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2009-08-14 08:21 pm

Five minutes, one shot

Robert Carlysle advertises Johnnie Walker whisky

Very nicely done - elegantly simple.

[identity profile] henriksdal.livejournal.com 2009-08-15 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
Brilliant, especially as Diageo - the international megacorp who own most of Scotland's distilleries - are shutting down the Kilmarnock plant, breaking Johnny Walker's 150-odd year link with the town, at a cost of 900 jobs vital to the local area.

Which is pretty typical of Diageo, who are famed in the Whisky trade for not giving a flying f*ck about history or culture of individual whisky distilleries or names, not when there is profit to be made. Many fantastic whisky distillers have been lost forever because they didn't make enough profit for Diageo. Oops, capitalism.

[identity profile] rhythmaning.livejournal.com 2009-08-15 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Damn! I should have used this icon...