It seems that this country is populated by a goodly number of sub-humans, having seen the TV shots of people actually fighting for bargains in stores which are discounting "stuff" today.
I would rather stick pins in my eyes than be caught up in such a demeaning and mortifying spectacle.
I speak as a well known skinflint, always anxious for a deal, but I could not scuffle to save a few bob.
YUK!
Last edited by: Roger on Fri 29 Nov 13 at 20:31
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I know I find it mindboggling those that seem to take seem strange pleasure in shopping especially when it's rammed and people are forcing their way into places before the doors open. I'm convinced most of it is bought simply because it's on offer, I'd bet most of the have no need for what they are buying.
I think the term is american is it not? I saw a few shops out there when I was out there at this time of year. Crazy people with tents outside, they were prepping shops inside with extra long till lanes such was the expended demand in one walmart i went to.
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>> I could not scuffle to save a few bob.
>> YUK!
It isn't meant for people like you Rastaman.
Personally I would love to wrestle on the pavement with a few big fat mommas over some worthless electronic tat for only £399.99, but alas, I fear I am too old and feeble.
Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Fri 29 Nov 13 at 20:54
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I' m sure you're not AC and I would personally pay good money to watch.
Perhaps a free for all restricted to forum members for a set of discounted winter tyres could be incorporated in the proceedings.
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If there was even a remote chance of a half price year old Boxster S my sleeping bag would be outside the store in a flash. But for a TV?
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I just give up!
The number of people who claim to have got a bargain because it was x% discount.
Leave the idiots to it.
I heard an interview on R4 Today's program (IIRC) about payday loans. "The benefit payments aren't enough, you have to borrow money to get enough".
Welcome to Golgafrincham!
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Is that near Warlingham?
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>> Welcome to Golgafrincham!
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Or the tone of surprise when people call in to Jeremy Vine to complain that their mortgage application was rejected because they recently used a pay-day loan...
Last edited by: VxFan on Sat 30 Nov 13 at 17:27
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Forty-five years ago, our genetics lecturer was expounding his theory that the population would be getting more stupid in this country, basically because the less intelligent tend to produce more offspring. At the time, I thought he was being over-Hitlerian but I can now see that he was right all along.
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Is there anything here that's not gone in in January sales since the yr dot?
Only thing that's new is Black Friday being imported from the USofA.
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I must be wired up differently. I really can't think of much that I'd be so desperate to buy that I'd be prepared to queue up for, and then have to push and shove to get to.
Same with pubs and clubs even when younger. If there was queue to get in and or a thug in an overcoat on the door with the power to decide if I was suitable to come in and spend my money I'd just not bother and go somewhere else. On the odd occasion I've been coereced into it by companions the end result is almost certainly finding yourself ten feet from the bar with a seething mass of drunken idiots between you and the opportunity to buy a drink. Never been good at being pushed around and forced into close proximity with others.
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>> Same with pubs and clubs even when younger. If there was queue to get in
>> and or a thug in an overcoat on the door with the power to decide
>> if I was suitable to come in and spend my money I'd just not bother
>> and go somewhere else. On the odd occasion I've been coereced into it by companions
>> the end result is almost certainly finding yourself ten feet from the bar with a
>> seething mass of drunken idiots between you and the opportunity to buy a drink. Never
>> been good at being pushed around and forced into close proximity with others.
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Exactly how I used to view it.
And who the hell would queue all night outside Currys to get a PS4 that they could just stroll in and pick up in a few minutes two days later?
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Even some of the nicest people I have met, Orcadians, can submit to this kind of madness. We were staying in Kirkwall when the Co-op closed down, giving way to Tesco. There were similar scenes during the closing-down sale, although not with the same injuries.
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"I really can't think of much that I'd be so desperate to buy that I'd be prepared to queue up for, and then have to push and shove to get to."
Me neither Humph. My wife was born under communism and in police state. One day in the very early 80s she arrived home from school and the flat was empty. Her father had disappeared with his lover and taken everything. Everything. Right down to the fridge. You couldn't buy a new sofa or phone, you had to queue up for it and it took two or three years. While her mother was working, wifey went every day, queued up, signed her name. If you missed a day, you lost your position. That's what I'd call a queue. On the way back, she'd blag a food parcel from the local church.
Listening to her life-stories gave me a completely different perspective on life and appreciate the cheaper spectrum. When I was married to the ex-wife, living in a cottage in Hampstead, everything she wanted was 'Designers Guild' linen, curtains and sofas, Yves Saint Laurent make-up, weekly shopping in Selfridges and Harvey Nics. Big mortgage. I don't want to know what she spent on her work suits. That life-style was crucifying me. Now if you saw my (stunning) wife, people might laugh at her wardrobe full of Primark and Tesco and the kids wearing her sister's kids' hand-me-downs. My sister visits us in our home every year and sniggers 'it looks like we're in IKEA etc. etc. etc. Me, I couldn't give a absolute rat's chuff. Laugh if you like. Got me boots, jeans and t-shirt, no debts, everything's paid for, and nothing to queue for at all.
A lot of fun and laughs these days, just can't remember ever doing that with my ex...
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It is amazing how well dressed you can be from Charity Shops on off peak time... Mind you a charity shop in Wilmslow is a bit different from one in a run down area of Manchester :-)
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I do hope your present wife sees this. She will be delighted, I am sure.
May we know what police state it was?
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Come to think of it, your ex as well, though I doubt she will be pleased.
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>> My wife was born under communism and in police state. One day
>> in the very early 80s she arrived home from school and the flat was empty.
>> Her father had disappeared with his lover and taken everything. Everything. Right down to the
>> fridge. You couldn't buy a new sofa or phone, you had to queue up for
>> it and it took two or three years. While her mother was working, wifey went
>> every day, queued up, signed her name. If you missed a day, you lost your
>> position. That's what I'd call a queue. On the way back, she'd blag a food
>> parcel from the local church.
There's quite a few in this country could do with listening to/reading stories like that.
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I expected BBD's punch-line but there wasn't one. Honest truth often doesn't...we don't know how lucky we are and have been.
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"May we know what police state it was?"
My bet is firmly on Poland 1945 - 1989.
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>> expected BBD's punch-line but there wasn't one. Honest truth often doesn't...
Yes, BBD is cool and makes very honest posts sometimes. Naturally like anyone still with a bit of the old whassername he puts out a bit of bs about fancying elderly milfs, not fancying his mother-in-law, holding regular orgies with piles of coke and multiple hookers, etc. No doubt there's a grain of truth in all that too... but we all like to project the idea that we are old rips despite our present eminence and churchgoing respectability.
There are a lot of people here I would be happy to drink with, and he's near the top of the list.
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Me to, but I wouldn't bring the wife :)
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Likewise.
I wouldn't even bring the ex!
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Herself wouldn't dream of coming even if I begged her to. Not that BBD would faze her (or anyone else's missus for that matter, I'm sure). But even if he or say Rattle (for the sake of argument) brought hookers and coke she wouldn't be fazed. She's seen as bad and worse in her day. She just, you know, wouldn't find it interesting.
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Black Friday. - sooty123
