Clif Bar drops sponsored athletes for free-soloing?
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I like how Cedar basically call Clif Bar a whore: |
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Clif bar IS a corporate whore! Amen. |
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Sooner or later one of these popular solo/base/whatever athletes is going to die and when that happens the general public is going to notice. Cliff's largest consumer group is not climbers and their business could very well become jeopardized. Frankly I think TNF has a shit-ton of exposure with Honold and it will be interesting to see what happens on a corporate level if he is injured or dies soloing (certainly not hoping for his injury but statistics are not on his side). |
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Sooner or later we all are gonna die. Yet the corporate greed will always stay unquenchable as the frivolous lawyers are waiting for their piece of pie like hyenas. Screw Clif and Luna bar together. They taste like cardboard anyway. Hmm even homeless guys turn their noses away when they get those free clif barfs! Haha! |
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eyesonice2014 wrote:Clif bar IS a corporate whore! Amen.Hmm, I think a better analogy is that the athletes are/were the whores taking $; and Clif is the "john" paying for services. |
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They were living a dream not whoring. Clif bar should take them all back and sooner than later. All of them! |
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They still are living the dream. |
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eyesonice2014 wrote:They were living a dream not whoring. Clif bar should take them all back and sooner than later. All of them!Maybe they should pay for their own dream then. Cliff was buying a service but decided it not longer felt good about the service. Seams to me that is the sort of decision that makes a company socially conscious. |
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Ray Pinpillage wrote: Maybe they should pay for their own dream then. Cliff was buying a service but decided it not longer felt good about the service. Seams to me that is the sort of decision that makes a company socially conscious.+1 And compare Honnold quoted in today's New York Times: "The risk decision that Clif is making is the same kind of decision that we all make as athletes. I think its completely fair for them to draw a line. Its a very personal decision. If Clif thought about it and said that thats the line that they want to take, I cant begrudge that. Thats the same kind of line I draw with risk. |
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Ray Pinpillage wrote: Cliff was buying a service but decided it not longer felt good about the service. Seams to me that is the sort of decision that makes a company socially conscious.I'm pretty sure that was a reactive decision (holy shit! the main stream consumers can't stomach the film & are threatening to boycott the company) vs a proactive one (corporate watched a pre-release of the film & decided that doesn't represent the brand). Nothing socially conscious about it, it was all bottom line. |
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reboot wrote: I'm pretty sure that was a reactive decision (holy shit! the main stream consumers can't stomach the film & are threatening to boycott the company) vs a proactive one (corporate watched a pre-release of the film & decided that doesn't represent the brand). Nothing socially conscious about it, it was all bottom line.Was there a boycott or some other mainstream dust up? I really haven't been paying close attention so maybe I missed something. |
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Ebola? |
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Hardhat n Hexes wrote:I just cant believe how many people have such strong opinions about whether or not freesoloists, BASE jumpers and highliners get free clif bars. Who cares??? What about Ebola, global warming, Ukraine, the Middle East, GOP control of the house and senate? These are real problems, not who does or doesn't get free CLIF bars. ThxYou're welcome. There are plenty of people with strong opinions about Ebola and such. They rarely post those opinions on a climbing website though. Maybe you would be happier on Foxnews.com? |
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I'm trying to organize an Ebola ice bucket challenge. Any takers? Afterwards we can do the Harlem Shake. |
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LOL. Is Ebola the new apogee of Godwin's Law? |
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At what height does highball bouldering become free soloing? |
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SXL wrote:At what height does highball bouldering become free soloing?Anything over 30ft is free soloing. marty funkhouser wrote:I'm trying to organize an Ebola ice bucket challenge. Any takers? Afterwards we can do the Harlem Shake.I don't understand where the challenge from an ice bucket comes from. Lets go find a good easy 50ft route and start the free solo challenge. |
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They were all doing vodka bucket challenge...so I though. |
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If Clif bar actually did this for moral reasons, I could understand it. When they're trying to go back on their poorly-received decision by re-inviting the athletes they cut to join their sponsored team again, any moral claims ring hollow: mensjournal.com/adventure/r… |
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Abram Herman wrote:If Clif bar actually did this for moral reasons, I could understand it. When they're trying to go back on their poorly-received decision by re-inviting the athletes they cut to join their sponsored team again, any moral claims ring hollow: mensjournal.com/adventure/r… From the Cedar Wright interview: "Q: Is it true Clif Bar backtracked? A: Yeah, I got the official call re-inviting me back. I said no."Who cares |