Stephanie Gilmore, under fire for partnering with Woolworths.
Stephanie Gilmore, under fire for spruiking controversial Australian supermarket giant Woolworths.

Surfing legend Stephanie Gilmore slammed by fans over supermarket sponsorship

“Really sad, Step…”

The world’s greatest-ever female surfer Stephanie Gilmore has come under fire after an innocuous post of the eight-time champ eating an apple on Instagram whipped surf fans into a righteous fury.

The post, a paid partnership with Australian supermarket giant Woolworths, was bought to push healthy eating and exercise habits on the country’s flaccid and chubby and altogether unappealing children, brittle spines bent over their telephones, dirty fingers stabbing away at the virtual buttons.

A fine initiative, whoever is pushing the buttons.

As Stephanie Gilmore writes,

“I’ve partnered with the @woolworths_au team to help Aussie groms learn how to pick the best waves and the best fuel to keep them surfing all day! Head to the Woolworths Pick Fresh Play Fresh hub and through fun games & activities you can learn and go into the draw to win great prizes, including 1-1 time with me!”

 

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A harmless enough post and on-game for the wholesome champ who counts Sanitarium, a company owned by a strict Protestant group called The Seventh Day Adventists whose central belief is that the Second Coming is just around the corner, as a long-time sponsor.

Surf fans, however, were unimpressed.

You are a brilliant role model Steph and I love the intent here – but are Woolworths a good values match?

Great achievement in Surfing, but please lose Woolworths. Absolute bandits when it comes to supporting our farmers, and they couldn’t even have Aus flags for Australia Day.

Steph FYI East, big grocery stores, including Woolworths just destroying the farmers and the government. It’s also unfair know you need to honey, but not with Woolworths bad news! Wish you All the Best!

Whoa! Siri sure did mess up that! Naughty All major big grocery stores like Woolies treating the farmers with No respect!

Love you as a sportswoman, but Woolworths are ripping off everyone including the farmers. Really sad Steph

You are better than helping those grubs out

Lost me on this one.woolies are thieves.

Stephanie Gilmore is a good role model and athlete. Probably not a good partner choice. I don’t think there monopolizing ways align with her own morals. Similar to when you get to your naturopath early and bump into them smoking outside!

Give them the flick Steph, they insult Australians with their greed

And on and on it goes.

The supermarket giant Woolworths, which runs the food biz in Australia alongside Coles, came under fire during those heady days post-COVID when grocery prizes skyrocketed, accused of price gouging and so on.

The company has also been accused of shafting farmers and suppliers and, lately, being “woke” after dumping its Australia Day merchandise.

 

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No Feelings

No supermarket = food desert
Supermarket selling ultraprocressed shit = evil
Supermarket promoting healthy food = anti-farmer
Surfer trying to avoid being dumped by failing corporate surfwear brand and losing her house = sellout

Purity spirals don’t end well.

Happy Camper

Interpret?
read what he said. you’re reading into something more than what he said.
but let’s forget about your inability to read.

as an expert in “international politics”, what do you suggest?
what should Israel do? what should the Gazan’s do?

you don’t like Jareds suggestion, what would you do to resolve this situation?

Cuntry Singer

It’s clear this is the Spike Jonze touch. Anything he smashes, touches or films gets paid.

In the age of patriarchy it’s super fucked and disappointing how them/they cant become multi multi millionaires.

Imagine being at your end of your career, not really winning events like you used to, girl, I mean them/thiz 1/3 your age do turns an airs you never have, but they do them in heats, and you can make more then 90% of men’s tour combined.

Who would have such an asinine thought.

The patriarchy needs to stop.

Happy Camper

not surprisingly you are taking Kushner’s staments out of context and flat out lying.
He said: ‘”I would just bulldoze something in the Negev (in Israel), I would try to move people in there. I think that’s a better option, so you can go in and finish the job. (get rid of Hamas)”
““I do think right now opening up the Negev (in Israel), creating a secure area there, moving the civilians out, and then going in and finishing the job would be the right move.”
“Israel should move the people out and clean it up,”
“Gaza’s waterfront property could be very valuable… if people would focus on building up livelihoods.”
Jared Kushner has praised the “very valuable” potential of Gaza’s “waterfront property” and suggested Israel should remove civilians while it “cleans up” the strip.
“Gaza’s waterfront property could be very valuable … if people would focus on building up livelihoods,”
Kushner also lamented “all the money that had gone into the territory’s tunnel network and munitions instead of education and innovation.”
Kushner also said he would work through diplomacy with Egypt to get civilians to safety there.

for the simpleton, Kushner is saying, Israel should bulldoze an area in Israel to create a safe place for Gazan’s to live, while they eradicate Hamas (the murderers and terrorists), then help to rebuild Gaza, especially the coastal area(s) to focus on people (Gazan’s) building up livelihoods through education and innovation instead of wasting money on tunnels, munitions and war.

I had not read Kushner’s statements prior to my comment, but it sounds like he’s saying what I was saying.

your brand of “international politics” just gets a lot of people dead.

Chief Hot stuff

On the plus side
They’d probly let queers and T people live there without threat of death!!

Independent Bald Bomber

I would like to hear Lucy Small’s thoughts on this matter, before I comment further.

Shredy Kruger

Fresh 1on1 with Steph! Show me the landing strip! Boyfriend can film….

Rocks local

Steph is divine, so by definition whatever she does must be good and holy. Fuck off, whiners.

Chuck Dukowski

Woollies Scan&Go… Backpackers new favourite app.

7dollarsurfboard

Farmers having another whinge! Surely those cunts have used up their whinge credits by now.

Sellme fitzgobbins

No wonder she went into hiding, fugenhell stef now your down in sally’s league

Tom

Those flaccid and chubby kiddies – steph can whip into shape

Pauly Matt War-Shore

I steal so much stuff from Woolworths, you should too.

Tomas' silky smooth arms

My kleptomania is in remission

Stick man

I’d like to think my karma balance is even all these years later…

Mine is nowhere near like it used to be, but I’ll only go to Woolies/Coles now if it’s for some heavy thieving.

Stick man

“Hey, alright, if I get by…
it’s a mine! Mine ‘o mine! Lets go!”

Mochillupo

The green apple seems a bit patriachial, should of gone with a lesbian adjacent pink lady.
Fck it, I’m off team Blueprint.

Stick man

You think she’ll eat all those bananas same day?

Reece spoon

She must coz there completly brown and soggy by day 2

Happy Camper

fuck off Australia.
be glad you have anything to eat in your drought ridden, can’t be bothered to work, cowardly covid compliant, dole bludging country.
you’re lucky China bails your asses out.

you don’t like those apples? stop your fucking complaining, and grow your own apples.

deeks

Aw fair go shagga

Pauly Matt War-Shore

Can’t be bothered to work? Too fucken right. Work is a hoax. Break your back under late stage capitalism if you want, but leave us alone.

Stick man

Work in the west
Work up north
Work down south
Work, Work
Rumors of a work

Chief Hot stuff

How ya gunna pay for your new tits?

Pimp your whore mother out.

Chief Hot stuff

And then?

Pump all the jizz out of her and sell it to a sperm bank.

Chief Hot stuff

Great but it sounds like work and she said shes not paying for some weirdos boob job.

Reece spoon

Jeez u really have a soft spot for apples, wat about cabbage

Truth

Steph’s curl deal has made her the smartest current pro in Australia. Keep stacking the cash whilst it’s there

notsurfingtoday

Better off stacking cash than stacking shelves

Reece spoon

Bet she dont eat that crap she’s flogging, coudnt be that dumb

mike m

“win great prizes, including 1-1 time with me!”
What Woolworths wool’s worth?

Dogsnuts

Fiddy bucks!
Xox

Com Turren

Wait though, the Aussies actually figured out agriculture?

deeks

Through our indigenous brothers and sisters
Oh, and the gun

Brutus

yeah Monsanto taught us!

Stick man

They just Rounded everybody up!

Hippy

Money

So they say

Is the root of all evil tooooday.

Hippy

Jared Kushner is frothing over redeveloping Gaza once those miscreants relocate.

In broad daylight.

Tone deafest and zero social muffler. Creep of the highest order.

Derek Hynd's Missing Fins

Zionist.

Happy Camper

where did you read this?
I’d like to see that article.

imagine if the Gazan’s took those billions of dollars of aide they receive and dumped it into development to benefit it’s people. even Israel give them aide and provide 10’s of thousands of jobs to the Gazan’s

gaza is a beautiful seaport territory that could be the height of Mideast travel and tourism, fishing and industry.
instead they dump hundreds of millions of dollars into weapons and war, claiming “the river to the sea” and being a proxy for Iran.
Seriously, WTF are they trying to accomplish? what are they actually fighting for? why are they killing, why are they dying? do they think they will be able to annihilate all the jews and take over all of Israel?
what an absolute fucking waste of life.

“Palestinians” should become good neighbors, stop fucking with Israel and instead work with them to develop an economically strong and prosperous Gaza. fuck this ancient Ishmael and Isaac war.

Brutus

yeah and don’t forget the wavepool close to gaza beach near the 6 star Hamas Hospital…those trumps are genius’s!

Happy Camper

agreed, and you should stamp out evil by working for free.
money is inanimate. it has no feelings , no goals, no agenda.
it’s like a gun.
I’ve never seen money walking down the street looking to do evil, just like I’ve never seen a gun walking down the street looking to kill someone.

Rocks local

you should get out to the mainland more. Guns lounging on street corners everywhere you look in some places.

Dogsnuts

Y’all might want to check out the Clean Fifteen and the Dirty Dozen, some foods are drenched in and retain heaps of fucken chemicals, namely apples. Just checked and my newly discovered and loved nectarines are on there! Fucken cunts!
Xox

Happy Camper

Nectarines have always been cunts.
they think they are so cool because they’re hairless unlike their furry peachy cousins.
It’s like Brazilian gals compared to Portuguese women.

Dogsnuts

Lovely things if you can get a reputable batch!!
Xox

Black Rubber

Let’s be honest, a hairless nectarine is always better whether slightly contaminated or not. Hair was not meant to be eaten. Brazilian beats Portuguese every time.

QuikRustyBongRip

My girlfriend just got her nectarine lasered.

Happy Camper

I love nectarines

Tom

strawberries are fucked i was led believe – will check list !!
they pick most unripe and ripen with chems the cunts

Dogsnuts

True!! Cunts!
Xox

Reece spoon

But arnt some chemicals good for ya..

Dogsnuts

I doubt there are any pesticides that are heaps beneficial hah.
Xox


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