Black Friday - Vile Consumerism?

[dave2010]

I know it's all sad and disgusting really, but ...

I noticed that officially Amazon have finished there BF event - only to be followed by BF Reloaded!

OTOH, just noticed an email from Zavvi (remember them?) in my inbox, and it looks as though they have quite a number of Blu Ray box sets at good prices - which might do as Christmas presents for some family members.

http://www.zavvi.com/home.dept

Also Now TV have some Sky passes at 25% of the normal prices - http://www.nowtv.com/home/new?referr...Fekp0wodx04MSA

You don't have to participate if you don't want to.

[Joe]

Black Friday's not something I give much thought to, really, apart from the plethora of emails alerting me to bargains I must not miss, and forums threads like this telling me how awful the lower classes are and how they should be prevented from breeding, which seems a bit of an over-reaction to a bit of squabbling over bargain TVs. There used to be similar scenes at our local jumble sales when I was a nipper.

[Macca]

Whilst I agree with your general thrust regarding eugenic solutions, I must say that I can't recall ever seeing anything exciting happen at a jumble sale, summer fete, or indeed at any of the Victorian social relics that masqueraded as 'something to do' back in our youth.

[Joe]

Whilst I agree with your general thrust regarding eugenic solutions, I must say that I can't recall ever seeing anything exciting happen at a jumble sale, summer fete, or indeed at any of the Victorian social relics that masqueraded as 'something to do' back in our youth.

That's because you never had to act as 'Norman the Doorman' at the Sacred Heart RC church/school jumble sales in the mid '60s. As soon as the doors were opened, the hordes of Catholic mothers (and probably a few Prod intruders) burst in, shoving each other aside for a not-to-be-missed pair of cast-off curtains or some such. I remember my mother coming home once, battered but victorious, clutching an absolutely hideous pair of vases that my father hid in the cupboard under the stairs for years. There was nowhere else to put them, as they were too big for any of our mantelpieces, but too small to be floorstanding. I sometimes wonder what happened to them (the vases, not the parents).

In the early '70s. me and my brother got beaten up by a gang of skinheads at the church garden fete.

I also got nearly trampled underfoot on the opening day of a Harrods' sale in the late '70s, and actually did get pushed into a couple of posh old ladies who thought I was the one desperate to get to the bargains. I made my escape without buying anything, and have never been back there since.

[Macca]

That's because you never had to act as 'Norman the Doorman' at the Sacred Heart RC church/school jumble sales in the mid '60s. As soon as the doors were opened, the hordes of Catholic mothers (and probably a few Prod intruders) burst in, shoving each other aside for a not-to-be-missed pair of cast-off curtains or some such. I remember my mother coming home once, battered but victorious, clutching an absolutely hideous pair of vases that my father hid in the cupboard under the stairs for years. There was nowhere else to put them, as they were too big for any of our mantelpieces, but too small to be floorstanding. I sometimes wonder what happened to them (the vases, not the parents).

In the early '70s. me and my brother got beaten up by a gang of skinheads at the church garden fete.

I also got nearly trampled underfoot on the opening day of a Harrods' sale in the late '70s, and actually did get pushed into a couple of posh old ladies who thought I was the one desperate to get to the bargains. I made my escape without buying anything, and have never been back there since.

I guess by my time all those dreadnought-class old ladies were dead and the skins had grown their hair and got proper jobs.

[Marco]

...and forums threads like this telling me how awful the lower classes are and how they should be prevented from breeding.

What makes you assume that those fighting over Black Friday 'bargains' were from the lower classes? Some of the biggest 'bargain hunters' I know are toffs - and many of those don't improve the gene pool either!

I also got nearly trampled underfoot on the opening day of a Harrods' sale in the late '70s, and actually did get pushed into a couple of posh old ladies who thought I was the one desperate to get to the bargains.

I rest my case

Marco.

[Ninanina]

I think it's a chance for retailers to get rid of their unwanted, outdated and/or poor selling stock

[Joe]

What makes you assume that those fighting over Black Friday 'bargains' were from the lower classes? Some of the biggest 'bargain hunters' I know are toffs - and many of those don't improve the gene pool either!

Perhaps I read more into your 'mongrels breeding mongrels' remark than was intended. After all, we are all mongrels, myself and yourself included.