The grumpy thread

[cort16]

I was listening to the 1475th black Friday advert on the radio today and it occurred to me that they've spun a negative term that was invented to describe people people standing on grannies heads in Asda to get £10 off a shit telly into a retail event. It's like the the local indian advertising 10% of Pakora on Botulism Friday to commemorate that time all those people went to an Indian restaurant and ended up in hospital with unstoppable bum gravy.

[Louise2cv]

Yes, and like (the highly commercialised big event version of)Halloween and "poppy day" we are being treated like this Black Friday thing is a long held British tradition.

 

As far as I can remember Black Friday was not "a thing" here 5 or 10 years ago, it's something to do with sales around Thanksgiving in America. Black Friday here used to be what Matt's colleagues called the last Friday before Christmas when everyone had their works do and town was full of merry* people.

 

Black Friday Sales are a horrible notion and it's disappointing how quickly it's been adopted.

[tooSavvy]

I blame FB......

 

'Black' because retail trade goes from 'red ink', in the ledger, to (in profit) ' black ink' at the end of the trading year. *

 

*allegedly

 

 

TS

[jakebullet]

It's only going to get worse. Been in morrisons today and it's black 5 days. How long before it becomes black November?

[Cavcraft]

Black Friday used to be that day just before Christmas where people were rushing home for the break, as the accident figures were usually really high.

 

The stupid 'commercial/Yank inspired' Black Friday is bollocks. If any greedy bastard goes to buy a telly because they're thick enough think they're goi g to get a bargain price for something they don't actually need then they deserve to get hurt in the melee

[cort1977]

There's worse to come, over here they have now got 'Small Business Saturday' and 'Cyber Monday' to add to the pain.

[daveb47]

Well my week is fully booked as following

Shitty saturday

soggy sunday

miserable monday

trash tuesday

wanky wednesday

Terrible thursday

Fuckup friday

 

so no time for anything else.

[Craig the Princess]

I believe this is the third year that Black Friday has imported to make life slightly shitter.

[DVee8]

A mate bought a Fiesta st last black friday and saved a few £££££.

 

Blackeye friday the friday before christmas.

[Parky]

I quite enjoy the news footage of people punching each other to buy a TV that nobody has ever heard of. Especially knowing that when the victor proudly arrives home they find it was fucked in the melee.

 

I had a grump tonight as some dick in a Smart car accelerated into a gap I was indicating into and committed to which nearly forced me into some cones. Wanker. However you can imagine my delight when later on someone else refused to let him in and the balance of the universe was restored. For extra karma points, Mr Smart then accelerated around the car that wouldn't let him in and massively clouted a kerb in the process. I heard the crump from two cars back. Hopefully a fucked alloy and tyre justified the willy waving and the gain of two car lengths in the queue.

[fairkens]

People on mway slip roads who won't hoof it to get in front of a truck but dither and nearly cause a massive accident - not impressed with you right now

 

Chucking it down and the truck had nowhere to go, good job there was a hard shoulder is all I can say, will be a lot more accidents if they keep phasing them out

[DodgeRover]

Can we start a SNAFU day?

Situation Normal All Fucked Up

 

I saw a chart bring presented to high level management with PIFU period marked on it, PIFU = Post Implementation Fuck Up....

[EssDeeWon]

Black Friday grumps.

 

Business is Business right?  Tell the great unwashed that something was once £500 and now its £400 even though its only ever worth £400 in the first place and bingo. The idiots will queue up fight to hand over the dosh.

[scaryoldcortina]

Rolling thunder, Driving rain?

 

Storm Angus is getting on my tits now.

[M'coli]

Rolling thunder, Driving rain?

 

Storm Angus is getting on my tits now.

 

"Do not go gentle into that good night..."

 

I'll miss you and your music, Angus.

[Bren]

Black Friday - twatting somebody for a polaroid telly.

[Louise2cv]

Why is it called Storm Angus? I thought we'd got to G or something already?

[anonymous user]

Probably already going around again

[Lord Sterling]

Went up today for the second time to try and get the Merc ready as it's being picked up this week. Rain just wouldn't stop, chucking it down constantly, despute this I did manage to clear the Merc of all my personal effects.

 

Secondly, I tried to jump start the Merc but ended up frying my jump leads, I really don't know what made them decide to chuck in the towel but suffice to say I will NOT ever be buying anymore jump leads that have a plastic surround on the clamps. Merc was not started so the chap picking it up will have to.

 

'Twas a sad departing

[scaryoldcortina]

"Do not go gentle into that good night..."

 

I'll miss you and your music, Angus.

 

Damn, didn't realize he died! Sad now.

[Parky]

Fucking Hermes....

 

"We have successfully delivered your parcel"

 

Not to me you haven't!

 

"We left it securely in your porch"

 

I don't have a porch

 

"We left it somewhere else then although cannot confirm where"

 

No you haven't. It's not here. It's not anywhere

 

"Driver confirms White House half way up a hill"

 

Nope, not me. Best go get it and try again hadn't you?

[scaryoldcortina]

Your parcel is at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC.

[dave21478]

People on mway slip roads who won't hoof it to get in front of a truck but dither and nearly cause a massive accident - not impressed with you right now

 

Chucking it down and the truck had nowhere to go, good job there was a hard shoulder is all I can say, will be a lot more accidents if they keep phasing them out

 

Sliproad idiots, man.....Jesus fucking christ.

My new "favourites" are the rocket scientists who sit behind me along a slip road and swerve onto the carriageway as soon as they can, even if that means crossing the chevrons and then accelerating up beside me....where the fuck do they think I am going to go? could they seriously not wait? 

 

 

Not sure if self-entitled me-first cunts, or just completely fucking oblivious.

[AMC Rebel]

Black Friday grumps.

 

Business is Business right?  Tell the great unwashed that something was once £500 and now its £400 even though its only ever worth £400 20 in the first place and bingo. The idiots will queue up fight to hand over the dosh.

 Fixed that

[UltraWomble]

For the last 22 years that we have lived here there has been a sodium street lamp over the road - it illuminates the road, footpath on both sides and to some extent our garden too.

 

This week the council have changed it to a new fangled LED lamp which casts a pool of brilliance as intense as an exploding star in an area approximately 10 foot in diameter and then the rest of the street is dark until the next street lamp about 40 foot away.

 

What a time to be alive eh?

[Pillock]

Black Friday was ace last year, I got asked to help out in one of our stores so you advantage of the McBreakfast that had been bought in.... Prepared to open at 6am.... And let nobody in.

 

I hung around until about 1am and sacked it off home, it was "average Saturday" busy. Everyone buys online, anyone who says there were fights last year is bullshitting.

 

There was a queue in the retail park over the road, but only cos nobody had told the park management people to open the gates early. About a dozen cars.

 

So my advice remains, if you're going to buy anything electrical in November, just wait until the last week. If you weren't, then don't.

[Timewaster]

Street lights?Yep. They have done that to us too.

From a warm yellow glow, the street is now in darkness punctuated by brilliant white spots.

[Louise2cv]

Oooooooh Street lights...

 

Up here the council have cable tied two signs on every single street lamp and illuminated road sign: one an I.d. number and the other a contact number for reporting faults.

 

Seems like a pretty impressive waste of time and money to me.

[dome]

See, Facebook is entirely composed of your friends updates. If you're complaining that it's full of shit, just remove people from your friends list until it isn't.

 

Sent from my VIE-L09 using Tapatalk

 

This times about a million. If your Facebook feed is full of shit then delete/hide people as necessary.

 

Or get new friends.

 

You have control(mostly) over what you see on your feed.

 

If you don't like it, change it.

[anonymous user]

Oooooooh Street lights...

 

Up here the council have cable tied two signs on every single street lamp and illuminated road sign: one an I.d. number and the other a contact number for reporting faults.

 

Seems like a pretty impressive waste of time and money to me.

It's more likely that these signs replace the job of the person who used to come around to check if they were working, so on paper at least it will be a saving