I may have raised this point before, but can anyone explain why Harley make studded leather saddle bags and studded leather toilet seats…?
Of all the alternative markets they could have opened up to sell their branded products into…toilet seats…
I reckon there was a misprint years back when the Harley Davidson Toilet company started…The company motto was “Need a dump? Then ride a Harley Bog!” and some jack ass hit the H, which is incidentally, just above the B on a standard keyboard whilst typesetting the ad campaign. “Need a dump? Then ride a Harley Hog!”. The board caught the mistake in time, but the trend for motorcycles tempted them to try and leap on the bandwagon. Their R & D department developed their latest Flush-o-matic 1000cc toilet bowl by sticking two fat tyres on it, and voila, the Yanks have been riding toilet bikes ever since.
Mind you the yanks have been obsessed with logos ( and now they’ve passed that obsession on to us )
SO you logo your lifestyle anywhere and everywhere - not stopping to think that a toilet seat may be the wrong place to put your ‘lifestyle obsession’ logo on…???
However, i bet you didn’t know that in terms of brand value (even though the company itself isn’t that big) Harley Davidson is up there with the Cokes of this world. It is also the only product brand name that people will willingly (and indelibly) tatto on their bodies.
Can’t argue with that kind of reputation and loyal fans really. Much as I love my Gixer I wouldn’t get a tattoo for it.
“It is also the only product brand name that people will willingly (and indelibly) tatto on their bodies.”
Not strictly true me old mucker, for reasons best known to themselves, a lot of guys seem to feel the need to tattoo themselves with name of the deodorant MUM
Sorry, i have to throw a a large metal, nut-unfastening device of the steel variety into this discussion. Just cos they’re rich, that means they should be forgiven for turning out trash…? Lousy logic!
Let’s make this one with extra chrome, the shinier it is, the less likely people are to ask themselves “Why have I bought this hunk of third rate, US-made, but imported steel, that you spend more time cleaning then riding, and that makes me look like I’m driving a crapper around cos its got the same leather tassles and studs as my toilet seat!”
No. Stupidity should not be encouraged. And the money argument just cuts NO mustard here. A million wide boys in the city drive BMW’s amd we know what a seletion of nobbers they are.
Thousands and thousands and thousands of people love Robbie Williams…does that make them right? Hell no.
And honestly the crazy frog made the company owner a multi millinonaire, but would you kill him to spare the world anything else from his depraved, twisted inamgination… of course you would. Having a successful company IN NO WAY WHATSOEVER equates to having a good product, it only reminds us that most people shouldn’t be allowed opinoins or spending power.
Unfortunately my attempts to have opinons licenced haven’t really come to much so far…I wonder why,
Beats me to buggery.
