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[OT] Black Friday - WTF is it?
It has just angered me enough to send this email to 8 suppliers, many of
which I do regular business with: ##### Oi, you lot! Black Friday - never heard of it before. All I know is I have been deluged with SPAM about the bloody thing for the last few days. Can you all please remove me from your mailing lists. I use "throwaway" email addresses for each vendor I deal with so you are looking for any email address ending in: redact personal stuff Seriously - if I get any more SPAM, particularly in the levels I have been experiencing I will cease doing business with the offenders. This would be a shame in the specific case of Ocado, Lampspecs and Porretta as they all are good businesses. But I've had enough with wading through marketing cr*p. Thank you, |
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It has just angered me enough to send this email to 8 suppliers, many of which I do regular business with: ##### Oi, you lot! Black Friday - never heard of it before. All I know is I have been deluged with SPAM about the bloody thing for the last few days. Can you all please remove me from your mailing lists. I use "throwaway" email addresses for each vendor I deal with so you are looking for any email address ending in: redact personal stuff Seriously - if I get any more SPAM, particularly in the levels I have been experiencing I will cease doing business with the offenders. This would be a shame in the specific case of Ocado, Lampspecs and Porretta as they all are good businesses. But I've had enough with wading through marketing cr*p. Thank you, Maybe the "Black" in Black Friday refers to your mood? ;-) |
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On 28/11/2014 11:37, Tim Watts wrote:
It has just angered me enough to send this email to 8 suppliers, many of which I do regular business with: Just think yourself lucky we don't have thanksgiving yet! BTW its black eye friday, well it is in asda and tesco.. |
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On 28/11/2014 11:37, Tim Watts wrote:
It has just angered me enough to send this email to 8 suppliers, many of which I do regular business with: ##### Oi, you lot! Black Friday - never heard of it before. How did you manage to avoid it? It is a pre-emptive January sale imported from the US where they celebrate Thanksgiving Day with vast amounts of overcooked turkey and overdose on sickly sweet pumpkin pie. Are retailers obliged to pay for the extra policing that their marketing frenzy has provoked in deranged bargain hunters? But I've had enough with wading through marketing cr*p. Thank you, I expect it will get even worse when we become the 51st US state. -- Regards, Martin Brown |
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On Friday, November 28, 2014 12:39:01 PM UTC, Tim Watts wrote:
It has just angered me enough to send this email to 8 suppliers, many of which I do regular business with: ##### Oi, you lot! Black Friday - never heard of it before. All I know is I have been deluged with SPAM about the bloody thing for the last few days. Can you all please remove me from your mailing lists. I use "throwaway" email addresses for each vendor I deal with so you are looking for any email address ending in: redact personal stuff Seriously - if I get any more SPAM, particularly in the levels I have been experiencing I will cease doing business with the offenders. This would be a shame in the specific case of Ocado, Lampspecs and Porretta as they all are good businesses. But I've had enough with wading through marketing cr*p. Thank you, Given that it's more guff from the US, I'm surprised they're not calling it "Friday of Color". |
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In message , Tim Watts
writes It has just angered me enough to send this email to 8 suppliers, many of which I do regular business with: ##### Oi, you lot! Black Friday - never heard of it before. All I know is I have been deluged with SPAM about the bloody thing for the last few days. Can you all please remove me from your mailing lists. I use "throwaway" email addresses for each vendor I deal with so you are looking for any email address ending in: redact personal stuff Seriously - if I get any more SPAM, particularly in the levels I have been experiencing I will cease doing business with the offenders. This would be a shame in the specific case of Ocado, Lampspecs and Porretta as they all are good businesses. I try to make sure I'm never signed up for marketing emails, so I've had very few emails regarding it. Bit annoying though when I wanted to go on a website and I can't because it's been overloaded -- Chris French |
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On 28/11/14 12:48, Scion wrote:
Maybe the "Black" in Black Friday refers to your mood? ;-) Pretty much ;- It's rare I actually "get stroppy" dirctly with a supplier, but I've found that when I have (and it's is well deserved - I will always be polite in the case of a genuine mistake) they tend to come back quite quickly. Like when I moaned at MINI because they wanted an all day booking to look at a knocking on SWMBO's Mini. All I wanted them to do was ramp it and tell me if a spring was broken. I did not expect it fixed on the spot. And the earliest they could look was in a week. As it happened, I discovered a "shocks and brakes and tyres" place called HiQ that I didn't know existed down the road. the owner (it's a franchise) was decent, helpful and very smart about various common car faults. He gave me a specific appointment the next day. 30 mins after rolling up, they'd verified the sprinsg were fine and isolated the fault to an anti roll bar bush which was not critical. However, they said "factors up the road have the part, if you wait 50 mins we can fix it". They did, and for £70 all in including the time they'd spent with 2 blokes on the ramp rocking it around to find the noise. They just made themselves a customer for 2 cars for all the stuff they do I would not have worried about a worn bush, but as I was out of there for less than Mini would have charged for a diagnostic, I was happy. |
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On 28/11/14 12:52, Dennis@home wrote:
On 28/11/2014 11:37, Tim Watts wrote: It has just angered me enough to send this email to 8 suppliers, many of which I do regular business with: Just think yourself lucky we don't have thanksgiving yet! So I can eat 2 turkeys? ******** to that... BTW its black eye friday, well it is in asda and tesco.. I can imagine. Poor moron consumers... |
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On 28/11/14 13:45, Martin Brown wrote:
On 28/11/2014 11:37, Tim Watts wrote: It has just angered me enough to send this email to 8 suppliers, many of which I do regular business with: ##### Oi, you lot! Black Friday - never heard of it before. How did you manage to avoid it? It is a pre-emptive January sale imported from the US where they celebrate Thanksgiving Day with vast amounts of overcooked turkey and overdose on sickly sweet pumpkin pie. Are retailers obliged to pay for the extra policing that their marketing frenzy has provoked in deranged bargain hunters? But I've had enough with wading through marketing cr*p. Thank you, I expect it will get even worse when we become the 51st US state. We aren't already? But that will **** off Jose Barrosso. |
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On 28/11/14 14:39, jake wrote:
But I've had enough with wading through marketing cr*p. Thank you, Given that it's more guff from the US, I'm surprised they're not calling it "Friday of Color". ha ha very good.. Yes another crap US import - like US'zed halloween. At least halloween can be fun in a well behaved village community where people knows what's expected of them (ie we do not bother people who don't have a pumpkin out). I enjoyed taking the kids out - going as either Dracula or the Grim Reaper or Charon next year Black Friday is just another bloody sale. I guess it gives something for DFS to pop in between "End of Summer Sale" and "Boxing Day". |
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On 28/11/14 14:39, Chris French wrote:
In message , Tim Watts writes It has just angered me enough to send this email to 8 suppliers, many of which I do regular business with: ##### Oi, you lot! Black Friday - never heard of it before. All I know is I have been deluged with SPAM about the bloody thing for the last few days. Can you all please remove me from your mailing lists. I use "throwaway" email addresses for each vendor I deal with so you are looking for any email address ending in: redact personal stuff Seriously - if I get any more SPAM, particularly in the levels I have been experiencing I will cease doing business with the offenders. This would be a shame in the specific case of Ocado, Lampspecs and Porretta as they all are good businesses. I try to make sure I'm never signed up for marketing emails, so I've had very few emails regarding it. Bit annoying though when I wanted to go on a website and I can't because it's been overloaded I always tick/untick the boxes as appropriate - hasn't stopped the *******s though. |
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On 28/11/2014 11:37, Tim Watts wrote:
It has just angered me enough to send this email to 8 suppliers, many of which I do regular business with: ##### Oi, you lot! Black Friday - never heard of it before. It's a US marketing scam that has come over to the UK Retail outlets sell goods at a "discount" on Black Friday. In reality the price they are charging is the same as it was last week, last month and higher than the price they will charge in January. I see that an item I purchased last week is now has a MASSIVE 30% off -- which matches exactly the price I paid with the previous "we pay the VAT and postage" offer. -- mailto: news {at} admac {dot] myzen {dot} co {dot} uk |
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Y'know our Boxing Day sales? Digest the turkey by queueing up for ****
you don't want or need? It's that. But a month early. |
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writes On 28/11/14 14:39, Chris French wrote: In message , Tim Watts writes It has just angered me enough to send this email to 8 suppliers, many of which I do regular business with: ##### Oi, you lot! Black Friday - never heard of it before. All I know is I have been deluged with SPAM about the bloody thing for the last few days. Can you all please remove me from your mailing lists. I use "throwaway" email addresses for each vendor I deal with so you are looking for any email address ending in: redact personal stuff Seriously - if I get any more SPAM, particularly in the levels I have been experiencing I will cease doing business with the offenders. This would be a shame in the specific case of Ocado, Lampspecs and Porretta as they all are good businesses. I try to make sure I'm never signed up for marketing emails, so I've had very few emails regarding it. Bit annoying though when I wanted to go on a website and I can't because it's been overloaded I always tick/untick the boxes as appropriate - hasn't stopped the *******s though. Ah, that would be annoying. I've not had any unexpected ones, including not Ocado. Maybe they think I'm to much of a skinflint. :-) -- Chris French |
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On 28/11/14 17:08, Chris French wrote:
I've not had any unexpected ones, including not Ocado. Maybe they think I'm to much of a skinflint. :-) Yes - Ocado. Sometimes they send me a Voucher for 1p. I kid you not! |
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On 28/11/2014 18:47, Brian Gaff wrote:
Well I am fed up with it and the way the UK public seem to have bought into it this year. Its just a made up date thats all. It used to be the january sales, then it all started on Boxing Day, now the US has imported its day after Thanksgiving bun fight, and its not amusing at all. We don't celebrate Thanksgiving, so it might as well be any old day they want to get shot of stock they cannot shift. Brian I bought a new mitre saw stand in the sale. Saved me a few quid. I am wondering how the wife will wrap it now its out of the box. |
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On 28/11/14 18:47, Brian Gaff wrote:
Well I am fed up with it and the way the UK public seem to have bought into it this year. Its just a made up date thats all. It used to be the january sales, then it all started on Boxing Day, now the US has imported its day after Thanksgiving bun fight, and its not amusing at all. We don't celebrate Thanksgiving, so it might as well be any old day they want to get shot of stock they cannot shift. Brian +1 mate... For you I guess it's worse having to let your PC plod through a voice synth on each bloody spam email. Probably like me listening to a voicemail: 1) Please type your PIN. 2) You have 1 message. 3) First message: "Silence... Oh hello, I sent you an email and/or a text about something K THX BYE" 4) Message deleted. 3 minutes of my life gone... And I'd already seen the text and the email! |
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alan_m writes: On 28/11/2014 11:37, Tim Watts wrote: It has just angered me enough to send this email to 8 suppliers, many of which I do regular business with: ##### Oi, you lot! Black Friday - never heard of it before. It's a US marketing scam that has come over to the UK Retail outlets sell goods at a "discount" on Black Friday. In reality the price they are charging is the same as it was last week, last month and higher than the price they will charge in January. I see that an item I purchased last week is now has a MASSIVE 30% off -- which matches exactly the price I paid with the previous "we pay the VAT and postage" offer. Several people on my ISP's IRC channel were intending to buy things today from technology companies (such as SSDs), only they found they're more expensive than they were yesterday! I had an SMS from Vodafone with a URL to check for their Black Friday special offers. I think they forgot to enable it - the URL just gives "Forbidden". What a cock-up! -- Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup] |
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On 28/11/2014 19:16, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article , alan_m writes: On 28/11/2014 11:37, Tim Watts wrote: It has just angered me enough to send this email to 8 suppliers, many of which I do regular business with: ##### Oi, you lot! Black Friday - never heard of it before. It's a US marketing scam that has come over to the UK Retail outlets sell goods at a "discount" on Black Friday. In reality the price they are charging is the same as it was last week, last month and higher than the price they will charge in January. I see that an item I purchased last week is now has a MASSIVE 30% off -- which matches exactly the price I paid with the previous "we pay the VAT and postage" offer. Several people on my ISP's IRC channel were intending to buy things today from technology companies (such as SSDs), only they found they're more expensive than they were yesterday! I had an SMS from Vodafone with a URL to check for their Black Friday special offers. I think they forgot to enable it - the URL just gives "Forbidden". What a cock-up! O for a universal camelcamelcamel-type history of retail prices. The original legal requirement for goods to have been on sale on Rockall for five minutes sometime in the last six years for personal callers only requirements have been so comprehensively worked around, we need something else. I suggest "retailers must show full price history of everything they sell and this must be as readily accessible as everything else on their websites" and even "and can be used by anyone else for any purpose they want". Hey - Gridwatch for retail! -- Rod |
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On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 19:14:07 +0000, "Dennis@home"
wrote: On 28/11/2014 18:47, Brian Gaff wrote: Well I am fed up with it and the way the UK public seem to have bought into it this year. Its just a made up date thats all. It used to be the january sales, then it all started on Boxing Day, now the US has imported its day after Thanksgiving bun fight, and its not amusing at all. We don't celebrate Thanksgiving, so it might as well be any old day they want to get shot of stock they cannot shift. Brian I bought a new mitre saw stand in the sale. Saved me a few quid. I am wondering how the wife will wrap it up now that it's out of its box. I'd imagine very carefully if it's got any sharp edges or corners. -- J B Good |
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On 29/11/2014 02:24, Johny B Good wrote:
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 19:14:07 +0000, "Dennis@home" wrote: On 28/11/2014 18:47, Brian Gaff wrote: Well I am fed up with it and the way the UK public seem to have bought into it this year. Its just a made up date thats all. It used to be the january sales, then it all started on Boxing Day, now the US has imported its day after Thanksgiving bun fight, and its not amusing at all. We don't celebrate Thanksgiving, so it might as well be any old day they want to get shot of stock they cannot shift. Brian I bought a new mitre saw stand in the sale. Saved me a few quid. I am wondering how the wife will wrap it up now that it's out of its box. I'd imagine very carefully if it's got any sharp edges or corners. Can't see any sharp bits. Its the Evolution one and it was cheaper than the evo_outlet are doing them (they are £50). They were in Screwfix for £50 too. |
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On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 20:56:27 +0000, polygonum wrote:
I suggest "retailers must show full price history of everything they sell and this must be as readily accessible as everything else on their websites" and even "and can be used by anyone else for any purpose they want". Hey - Gridwatch for retail! Quidwatch? -- Peter. The gods will stay away whilst religions hold sway |
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On 29/11/2014 08:25, PeterC wrote:
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 20:56:27 +0000, polygonum wrote: I suggest "retailers must show full price history of everything they sell and this must be as readily accessible as everything else on their websites" and even "and can be used by anyone else for any purpose they want". Hey - Gridwatch for retail! Quidwatch? Like it!! +1 -- Rod |
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On 28/11/2014 11:37, Tim Watts wrote:
It has just angered me enough to send this email to 8 suppliers, many of which I do regular business with: Well in simple terms its US crap finding its way into UK culture ... Black Friday is the start of Xmas in US as its the day after Thanksgiving holiday. Most of US has day off and go spend. We will probably start having Thanksgiving specials in UK soon |
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On 29/11/14 10:59, Huge wrote:
On 2014-11-29, rick wrote: On 28/11/2014 11:37, Tim Watts wrote: It has just angered me enough to send this email to 8 suppliers, many of which I do regular business with: Well in simple terms its US crap finding its way into UK culture ... Black Friday is the start of Xmas in US as its the day after Thanksgiving holiday. Most of US has day off and go spend. We will probably start having Thanksgiving specials in UK soon If we celebrated Thanksgiving in the UK, wouldn't it be on July 4th? :- |
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Like Tottenham Riots but without the fires.
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"Tim Watts" wrote in message ...
On 28/11/14 14:39, jake wrote: But I've had enough with wading through marketing cr*p. Thank you, Given that it's more guff from the US, I'm surprised they're not calling it "Friday of Color". ha ha very good.. Yes another crap US import - like US'zed halloween. At least halloween can be fun in a well behaved village community where people knows what's expected of them (ie we do not bother people who don't have a pumpkin out). I enjoyed taking the kids out - going as either Dracula or the Grim Reaper or Charon next year Black Friday is just another bloody sale. I guess it gives something for DFS to pop in between "End of Summer Sale" and "Boxing Day". Sorry. You forfeit the right to whine and whinge about Black Friday if you are a supporter of that other American travesty. |
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Richard wrote: At least halloween can be fun in a well behaved village community where people knows what's expected of them (ie we do not bother people who don't have a pumpkin out). I enjoyed taking the kids out - going as either Dracula or the Grim Reaper or Charon next year Black Friday is just another bloody sale. I guess it gives something for DFS to pop in between "End of Summer Sale" and "Boxing Day". Sorry. You forfeit the right to whine and whinge about Black Friday if you are a supporter of that other American travesty. Halloween - as you might guess by the name - was celebrated in Scotland before 'America' was discovered. It was mass immigration of the Scots to America in the 19th century which made it popular there. -- *Money isn‘t everything, but it sure keeps the kids in touch Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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On Friday, November 28, 2014 7:14:09 PM UTC, Dennis@home wrote:
I bought a new mitre saw stand in the sale. Saved me a few quid. I am wondering how the wife will wrap it now its out of the box. Hide it in a corner of the lounge with a cloth over it. Owain |
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On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 08:24:46 +0000, "Dennis@home"
wrote: On 29/11/2014 02:24, Johny B Good wrote: On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 19:14:07 +0000, "Dennis@home" wrote: On 28/11/2014 18:47, Brian Gaff wrote: Well I am fed up with it and the way the UK public seem to have bought into it this year. Its just a made up date thats all. It used to be the january sales, then it all started on Boxing Day, now the US has imported its day after Thanksgiving bun fight, and its not amusing at all. We don't celebrate Thanksgiving, so it might as well be any old day they want to get shot of stock they cannot shift. Brian I bought a new mitre saw stand in the sale. Saved me a few quid. I am wondering how the wife will wrap it up now that it's out of its box. I'd imagine very carefully if it's got any sharp edges or corners. Can't see any sharp bits. I neither knew nor cared, just offering my best guess at answering your question. :-) Now that you've revealed the lack of any sharp edges or corners, I'll amend my reply to "Very Nicely?" :-) Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. ;-) -- J B Good |
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On 11/29/2014 8:38 AM, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Richard wrote: At least halloween can be fun in a well behaved village community where people knows what's expected of them (ie we do not bother people who don't have a pumpkin out). I enjoyed taking the kids out - going as either Dracula or the Grim Reaper or Charon next year Black Friday is just another bloody sale. I guess it gives something for DFS to pop in between "End of Summer Sale" and "Boxing Day". Sorry. You forfeit the right to whine and whinge about Black Friday if you are a supporter of that other American travesty. Halloween - as you might guess by the name - was celebrated in Scotland before 'America' was discovered. It was mass immigration of the Scots to America in the 19th century which made it popular there. And pumpkins are much easier to carve than turnips, which were the original Hallowe'en lanterns. |
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S Viemeister wrote: Halloween - as you might guess by the name - was celebrated in Scotland before 'America' was discovered. It was mass immigration of the Scots to America in the 19th century which made it popular there. And pumpkins are much easier to carve than turnips, which were the original Hallowe'en lanterns. They last longer too. ;-) -- *Some people are only alive because it is illegal to kill. Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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On 29 Nov 2014 10:59:37 GMT, Huge wrote:
On 2014-11-29, rick wrote: On 28/11/2014 11:37, Tim Watts wrote: It has just angered me enough to send this email to 8 suppliers, many of which I do regular business with: Well in simple terms its US crap finding its way into UK culture ... Black Friday is the start of Xmas in US as its the day after Thanksgiving holiday. Most of US has day off and go spend. We will probably start having Thanksgiving specials in UK soon If we celebrated Thanksgiving in the UK, wouldn't it be on July 4th? Nah, a best guess for such celebrations would be the 6th of September according to the wikipedia article he http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower#Early_history -- J B Good |
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On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 11:37:47 +0000, Tim Watts
wrote: It has just angered me enough to send this email to 8 suppliers, many of which I do regular business with: ##### Oi, you lot! Black Friday - never heard of it before. All I know is I have been deluged with SPAM about the bloody thing for the last few days. Can you all please remove me from your mailing lists. OOI one of the firms I unsubscribed getting emails from had a survey box asking why I was doing so wich I duly filled in. Did any of the ones you deal with come up with anything similar? G.Harman |
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"Martin Brown" wrote in message ... On 28/11/2014 11:37, Tim Watts wrote: It has just angered me enough to send this email to 8 suppliers, many of which I do regular business with: ##### Oi, you lot! Black Friday - never heard of it before. How did you manage to avoid it? It is a pre-emptive January sale imported from the US Yeah, I think most of us got that the point is no-one has ever shoved this down out throat BEFORE this year tim |
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On 29/11/14 13:19, Richard wrote:
"Tim Watts" wrote in message ... Black Friday is just another bloody sale. I guess it gives something for DFS to pop in between "End of Summer Sale" and "Boxing Day". Sorry. You forfeit the right to whine and whinge about Black Friday if you are a supporter of that other American travesty. OK... Haloween looks like: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/...-revealed.html or http://alisonyin.com/blog_posts/09/1...eampunk-02.jpg depending on your angle. ie good fun, excuse to dress up, well, or badly(!) and generally have fun. The other looks like a bunch of derros fighting over the last Ginsters pie at a soup kitchen. http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image...24904339-1.jpg Sorry for not spotting the obvious similarity! ;- |
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[OT] Black Friday - WTF is it?
On Friday, 28 November 2014 14:44:40 UTC, Tim Watts wrote:
On 28/11/14 12:52, Dennis@home wrote: On 28/11/2014 11:37, Tim Watts wrote: It has just angered me enough to send this email to 8 suppliers, many of which I do regular business with: Just think yourself lucky we don't have thanksgiving yet! So I can eat 2 turkeys? ******** to that... BTW its black eye friday, well it is in asda and tesco.. I can imagine. Poor moron consumers... I really wouldn;t want to be in a shop with those consumers.... they acted like animals (untrained animals) my cat behaves better. |
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[OT] Black Friday - WTF is it?
On 01/12/2014 13:57, whisky-dave wrote:
On Friday, 28 November 2014 14:44:40 UTC, Tim Watts wrote: On 28/11/14 12:52, Dennis@home wrote: On 28/11/2014 11:37, Tim Watts wrote: It has just angered me enough to send this email to 8 suppliers, many of which I do regular business with: Just think yourself lucky we don't have thanksgiving yet! So I can eat 2 turkeys? ******** to that... BTW its black eye friday, well it is in asda and tesco.. I can imagine. Poor moron consumers... I really wouldn;t want to be in a shop with those consumers.... they acted like animals (untrained animals) my cat behaves better. Cats are class |
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[OT] Black Friday - WTF is it?
On 01/12/14 18:48, stuart noble wrote:
Cats are class Cats eat your food and would then happily claw your head off and **** down your windpipe as soon as look at you... |
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