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Anyone got any bargains then ?
Seems to have been fights and scuffles, people pinching things from other peoples’ trolleys in some of the bigger stores. I tried to get on the Argos site early this morning just to see what was on offer and had some sort of message saying their site was full and access was being restricted.
Next up we have Cyber Monday and no doubt a repeat of the above.
Is this country becoming too Americanised do you reckon ?
Anyone got any bargains then ?
Seems to have been fights and scuffles, people
pinching
things from other peoples’ trolleys in some of the bigger stores. I tried to get on the Argos site early this morning just to see what was on offer and had some sort of message saying their site was full and access was being restricted.
Next up we have Cyber Monday and no doubt a repeat of the above.
Is this country becoming too Americanised do you reckon ?
Is this pinching though if they have not yet paid for the goods? Taking maybe a better description.
I think on this matter, they should just leave them to it and kill each other. Then those who get away are then visited on Cyber Monday by Cybermen
It was all a deeply unedifying sight and somewhat nauseating
Last Saturday Marks & Spencer had a ‘20% off everything’ day and the Queen Bee said ‘let’s go and shop till we drop Drone’ ‘Your Highness’ I replied ‘much as I like M&S it would require at least a 90% discount to get me in there on a Saturday shortly before Christmas, and furthermore there may well be something there that I would
want
but there’s surely nothing that I
need
‘ She flew off alone with a buzz buzz and returned some hours later with a pfft pfft…
Black days indeed
It was chaos in our part of town, Drone – three people in the artisan bread shop at once. Eyebrows were very nearly raised as tensions escalated.
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Pretty hellish round here too GC. Cut price carrot cake led to a distinct jostling of cardigans at the counter of the local Reading Cafe. Fairtrade decaff cappuccino was defrothing all over the place
Are you still living in Sheffield? If so I feel sure it must be Cleggland. Only white-sliced available east of Crookes
I think there’s been a lot of hysteria surrounding this subject.
Quite frankly, things have come to a a pretty pass in this country if one can’t physically manhandle the elderly and disabled in order to get to a half-price Pioneer 40" television set.
I mean they are Full HD for heavens’ sake.
Mike
Pretty hellish round here too GC. Cut price carrot cake led to a distinct jostling of cardigans at the counter of the local Reading Cafe. Fairtrade decaff cappuccino was defrothing all over the place
Are you still living in Sheffield? If so I feel sure it must be Cleggland. Only white-sliced available east of Crookes
Returned to Sheffkins eighteen months ago, and please God I’m here for good this time. Then as now I’m in the Sheffield Central constituency, though this time only just; there are borders with both Sheffield Hallam and Sheffield Heeley literally across the road!
Central and Heeley had been keenly fought between Labour and the LibDems last time, but whilst each constituency should see the LibDems leak votes to the Greens in 2015 (mine included), I’m not sure they’ll do so in quite the number to return a Green MP.
Clegg is, unsurprisingly, regarded as a dead man walking politically speaking in Hallam, as his big majority over the Conservatives was largely predicated on trying – and succeeding – to win over the sizeable vote contained inside the student halls of residence in the likes of Crookes. The 2015 incumbents won’t fall for that in this £9,000 a year era.
Not that anyone here thinks he’ll be that bothered if he’s ousted from the Hallam constituency (by, in all likelihood, the Conservatives) – 1.01 a post-Government career in lecturing somewhere on the planet is already secured.
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Back in the ’60s when I was being dragged-up in the Heeley constituency, the MP was Frank Hooley – Hooley for Heeley was his obvious if jolly good slogan
I’m a lapsed Labour-then-Liberal who’s voted Green throughout this millennium. Our ward actually has a Green councillor: no surprise I’m
au fait
with artisan bread, carrot cake and reading cafes then
It would be nice to see another Green MP alongside Caroline Lucas but I doubt it and wouldn’t be too surprised if she lost her seat either
As for the forlorn Nick: it will take an on-the-face-of-it big swing to see him ousted, but as you say he – and his party – are the walking dead
It’ll be a most interesting election next May and I for one have little idea what the outcome will be. UKIP will, in my opinion, gather at least as many votes from Labour as they will from the Tories; the result being I reckon another minority or near-minority Conservative government. From a neutral position I don’t rate Miliband or Balls and neither, I think, do the electorate at large
What I’d actually like to see is votes haemorrhaging from tried-and-rusted LABLIBCON to both Green and UKIP: that would liven-up my declining years
Good to see you corresponding again Wordsmith
UKIP are evil and downright dangerous. Farage makes me vomit.
Please don’t interpret my references to UKIP as tacit support: nay, nay, thrice times nay. I find this shifting towards far-rightism that’s occurring all over Europe most disconcerting
I’m afraid that I’ve lived too long and bathed too many times in those mudbaths over there on the Left, Right and Centre. My skin should therefore be smooth and supple but is unfortunately just callused and grog-blossomed
So all I want from politics these days is interesting entertainment; hence my liking for a hypothetical shift eachway to Green and UKIP: a new order
Nigel Farage is a loquacious, populist rabble-rouser; good copy and superficially entertaining, but at least seems honest: an unpleasant man who makes me shrug
Boris Johnson is a loquacious, populist rabble-rouser; good copy and superficially entertaining, but is dishonest: a deeply unpleasant man who makes me vomit
Moe , you may have to be sick a lot !!! as Farage will be the guy with the balance of power to form the next Government
Interesting times for sure
I cannot imagine Milliband..forming any alliance with him , which leaves travel bug Dave ….therin lies the future ….a party going Jetsetter PM and a beer swilling right winger , OH Angela …arent you in for a hammering
From a neutral position I don’t rate Miliband or Balls and neither, I think, do the electorate at large
I had experience of Balls in my earliest professional incarnation of a public librarian in the late-1990s, shortly before his ascent within the Labour party. He’d be a regular attendee at some of the
Relay Europe
AGMs (where public library staff such as I who ran European Public Information Centres at our branches would meet European Commission staff), ostensibly in his capacity as a writer on Europe for
The Times
but in practice to tear the then-shadow Foreign Office a new backside on any indiscretion he could recall.
Very much a template for how he has conducted himself as a parliamentarian since then, alas. It’d be nice if he gave an interview once, ever, that wasn’t predicated entirely on the blaming of others, but the man cannot help himself.
Both he and those around him seem remarkably (foolishly?) assured about his longevity as an MP, even to the point of throwing his hat into the ring periodically as a future party leader – whilst all the while overlooking that the majority he held in his Morley seat shrunk over 8% to just 1,000 at the last election.
I don’t think Mr Clegg is necessarily the only high-profile operator set for a bit of an upset come May.
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
UKIP are evil and downright dangerous.
Oh, they’re not even as nice as that, Moe.
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Good to see you corresponding again Wordsmith
Available while stocks last, sweet Drone. A bit like goods on Black Friday. Ergo somethingorother
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
People are using Farage as a protest vote against politicians who are deceiteful, dishonest liars so they turn to someone who is more deceiteful and dishonest than the rest of them put together. And, on top of that plays the racist card for all it’s worth. I just don’t get it. The man in very, very clever
It really scares me. I may vote Conservative for the first time in my life as a way of keeping UKIP out [at least in my neck of the woods].People are turning to Farage because he claims to represent them. Conservatives represent a tiny minority of rich businessmen, labour represent class envy and ridiculous political correctness, liberals represent themselves. Who is left for the working class, middle class, just want to work hard, support the less fortunate in their community and get on in life?
It really scares me. I may vote Conservative for the first time in my life as a way of keeping UKIP out [at least in my neck of the woods].
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