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« on: November 28, 2019, 11:24:16 PM »
Heard the first Christmas song of the year today, (Jonah Lewie's "Stop the Cavalry"), in a cafe in Surrey. So grumpy anti-Christmas mode has officially been activated.

I'm also beginning to shout at the adverts on the radio in my garage-
Grab our Black Friday deal now, Hurry down to our Black Friday event, Best Black Friday prices ever
-Black Friday is American.
It's the equivalent of our Boxing Day sales.
It's the day after Thanks Giving.
We do not celebrate Thanks Giving.
It is not a thing here.
Greedy retailers have been trying to make it a thing here in Britain for the last couple of years since they managed to persuade the gullible hordes that shopping is a leisure activity.
I'm sick of hearing about bloody Black Friday.

And while I'm at it, Christmas does not start in November.
I'm now switching off the radio until after the January sales & have bought an external speaker for my phone so I can listen to my own playlist instead. Luckily I was able to buy one half price in the Black Friday sale Sad
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« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2019, 03:04:54 AM »
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« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2019, 10:37:43 AM »
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« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2019, 08:10:33 PM »
When they couldn't make Black Friday last any longer by talking about Black Friday WEEK they gave us Cyber Monday (what?) and now it's Cyber WEEK.

People fall for this stuff, it amazes me!  They out the prices up so they can slash them, or they cut the prices on stuff that's not selling. 
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« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2019, 08:31:16 AM »
Holiday adverts are on the TV already..they used to wait until boxing day?  I picked up my tablets from the local phamacia yesterday and was given them in a pretty (PLASTIC 😱) bag with happy Christmas written on it...which is as festive as ive seen so far
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« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2019, 07:11:02 PM »
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« Reply #6 on: December 06, 2019, 07:48:47 PM »
Is it really any different than the boxing Day sales of generations past? only in magnitude, and thank the WWW for that! the World turns folks but little changes other than scope Shocked Shocked...Morrag
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