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Birdster said:
Well. Asda are offering this bargain.
I saw that earlier & not a single accompanying fist fight - Black Friday my arse 
. More than usual quota of the rubbish and bad loitering around anywhere though.Anyone who works for a supermarket and has a tiny bit of Fight Club about them really ought to offer a full slab of Stella for a fiver next year. Will make the current crap look like a family fun day.
Earlier tonight, around 11pm, i drove past the Asda store that recently opened in my local chav infested housing estate.
Waiting outside for the Black Saturday offers which are available from 8am were around 300 people all standing under umbrellas as it was pissing down with rain.
I mean why FFS?
Oh yeah. Because Asda are selling 32" inch HD Ready TV's for £89 as well as cheap tablets for £39 as well ad other assorted cheap tat.
How do I know that?
Because I read the advert on tinternet thingy.
The mind boggles. Another reason why I avoid Asda like the plague.
Waiting outside for the Black Saturday offers which are available from 8am were around 300 people all standing under umbrellas as it was pissing down with rain.
I mean why FFS?
Oh yeah. Because Asda are selling 32" inch HD Ready TV's for £89 as well as cheap tablets for £39 as well ad other assorted cheap tat.
How do I know that?
Because I read the advert on tinternet thingy.
The mind boggles. Another reason why I avoid Asda like the plague.
It seems to me that, this year, ALL the retailers have formed a cartel. That they will ALL advertise heavily using the Black Friday meme. How the f
k did they all co-ordinate that successfully, eh? This isn't something I recall from previous years.
Black Friday I know about - I lived in the States - but what on earth is it doing here. We don't have the Thursday off. We're not making a long weekend of it. WTF?
I suspect that it is here to stay, though. It requires little in the way of imagination from the retail marketeers.
Maybe we'll find some poor, long dead saint we can hang the blame on...
k did they all co-ordinate that successfully, eh? This isn't something I recall from previous years.Black Friday I know about - I lived in the States - but what on earth is it doing here. We don't have the Thursday off. We're not making a long weekend of it. WTF?
I suspect that it is here to stay, though. It requires little in the way of imagination from the retail marketeers.
Maybe we'll find some poor, long dead saint we can hang the blame on...
sparkyhx said:
a few years back our cleaner was upset having just had a bill for £30 for her washer.
TBH I didn't know how to handle it, I'd have gladly given her £30, but didn't want to make her feel bad. So we asked her to do a deep clean on the whole house so she could earn it. She was over the moon we offered her the extra work. I still wonder if I should have just bunged her the cash.
Had a similar thing recently. I was awaiting delivery of a new bicycle for my birthday present. I put my scruffy but useable old one in facebook as free to a good home. TBH I didn't know how to handle it, I'd have gladly given her £30, but didn't want to make her feel bad. So we asked her to do a deep clean on the whole house so she could earn it. She was over the moon we offered her the extra work. I still wonder if I should have just bunged her the cash.
Had a reply within minutes and a guy in the door step two hours later. He was so impressed with it, he said he would happily come back on pay day and buy it, but he was broke until then.
I told him it was free and it was his. I didn't want any money.
The next day I hear a bit of banging out front and the guy who bought my bike is knocking on my door and his crew of mates are unloading a ladder from a van.
It turns out the guy works as a window cleaner and noticed my sofit's needed a spruce up and had brought his mates around after work to give them all a quick clean up. I had 4 blokes running around cleaning them and 30 minutes later they were sparkling.
All that for a free bike. The world is great sometimes.
After the frankly shameful scenes of consumer greed and stupidity shown on the news yesterday, may I recommend a new 'Black Friday' anthem?
Said anthem to be played VERY loudly in shops as the moronic hordes fight their way through the doors...
Said anthem to be played VERY loudly in shops as the moronic hordes fight their way through the doors...
Neil Young said:
eltax91 said:
sparkyhx said:
a few years back our cleaner was upset having just had a bill for £30 for her washer.
TBH I didn't know how to handle it, I'd have gladly given her £30, but didn't want to make her feel bad. So we asked her to do a deep clean on the whole house so she could earn it. She was over the moon we offered her the extra work. I still wonder if I should have just bunged her the cash.
Had a similar thing recently. I was awaiting delivery of a new bicycle for my birthday present. I put my scruffy but useable old one in facebook as free to a good home. TBH I didn't know how to handle it, I'd have gladly given her £30, but didn't want to make her feel bad. So we asked her to do a deep clean on the whole house so she could earn it. She was over the moon we offered her the extra work. I still wonder if I should have just bunged her the cash.
Had a reply within minutes and a guy in the door step two hours later. He was so impressed with it, he said he would happily come back on pay day and buy it, but he was broke until then.
I told him it was free and it was his. I didn't want any money.
The next day I hear a bit of banging out front and the guy who bought my bike is knocking on my door and his crew of mates are unloading a ladder from a van.
It turns out the guy works as a window cleaner and noticed my sofit's needed a spruce up and had brought his mates around after work to give them all a quick clean up. I had 4 blokes running around cleaning them and 30 minutes later they were sparkling.
All that for a free bike. The world is great sometimes.
I'd have to save a massive amount to be worth the time lost waiting outside the shop. Dunno if anyone else thinks about time and money but everything you do is worth money, even if doing nothing. Say £10/hour nominal. Wait outside a shop for 4 hours and you have to save £40 just to break even. Then the fact you're breathing the same air as these fuctards and I'd not bother for less than £200 saved. Who wants a bargain that much that they'd risk getting hurt or a criminal record?
Another triumph of Yankee crap being brought into the UK. About time we grew up and stopping importing their worst stuff and had some of their good ideas instead.
Another triumph of Yankee crap being brought into the UK. About time we grew up and stopping importing their worst stuff and had some of their good ideas instead.
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