Black Friday

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Black Friday
Topic Started: Nov 28 2014, 11:30 PM (323 Views)
Tytoalba	Nov 28 2014, 11:30 PM Post #1
Senior Member Posts: 7,586 Group: Members Member #36 Joined: Jun 29, 2014	Having watched the violence and discourtesy to each other by the shoppers as shown on the TV, I felt ashamed at the change in our once polite and orderly society. So much of the claims for the needs of immigration to boost our economy always ignores the cultural change in the 'British' people that has a consequence in the shown disorder. The news outlets are trying to blame the shops, when the Blame lies with the people who were shopping , or was it also shoplifting? My wife asked me why it was called Black Friday, but we both laughed when we thought it had something to do with the Racial identity of the majority of the shoppers shown.



Tigger	Nov 28 2014, 11:44 PM Post #2
Senior Member Posts: 20,106 Group: Members Member #18 Joined: Jun 27, 2014	Tytoalba Nov 28 2014, 11:30 PM Having watched the violence and discourtesy to each other by the shoppers as shown on the TV, I felt ashamed at the change in our once polite and orderly society. So much of the claims for the needs of immigration to boost our economy always ignores the cultural change in the 'British' people that has a consequence in the shown disorder. The news outlets are trying to blame the shops, when the Blame lies with the people who were shopping , or was it also shoplifting? My wife asked me why it was called Black Friday, but we both laughed when we thought it had something to do with the Racial identity of the majority of the shoppers shown.



Steve K	Nov 29 2014, 12:41 AM Post #3
Once and future cynic Posts: 33,990 Group: Admins Member #20 Joined: Jun 27, 2014	Maybe Black Friday is the day posters rush to open new threads when a perfectly good one already exists http://w11.zetaboards.com/UK_Debate_Mk_2/topic/10784073/



somersetli	Nov 29 2014, 11:22 AM Post #4
somersetli Posts: 626 Group: Members Member #12 Joined: Jun 27, 2014	It's a wonder the PC fanatics have allowed the term "Black" Friday to go unchallenged.



Curious Cdn	Nov 29 2014, 11:58 AM Post #5
Frozen Member Posts: 4,818 Group: Members Member #41 Joined: Jul 1, 2014	somersetli Nov 29 2014, 11:22 AM It's a wonder the PC fanatics have allowed the term "Black" Friday to go unchallenged. Oh, yes. Pardon. *"Friday of Colour"* Edited by Curious Cdn, Nov 29 2014, 11:58 AM.



Affa	Nov 29 2014, 12:06 PM Post #6
Senior Member Posts: 11,999 Group: Members Member #58 Joined: Jul 26, 2014	It's a day 'plebs' are offered a free-for-all scrap for a limited number of under priced but over valued products the upper class wouldn't want if given away - they just enjoy the spectacle.



Happy Hornet	Nov 29 2014, 12:12 PM Post #7
Senior Member Posts: 4,765 Group: Members Member #16 Joined: Jun 27, 2014	Ty, like a lot of older people I think you may be seeing the past through rose tinted spectacles. For starters, try googling about thieves, looters and black marketeers who flourished during the blitz and then come back and tell us how much nicer people were in the good old days.



Tigger	Nov 29 2014, 12:26 PM Post #8
Senior Member Posts: 20,106 Group: Members Member #18 Joined: Jun 27, 2014	Happy Hornet Nov 29 2014, 12:12 PM Ty, like a lot of older people I think you may be seeing the past through rose tinted spectacles. For starters, try googling about thieves, looters and black marketeers who flourished during the blitz and then come back and tell us how much nicer people were in the good old days. Perhaps he should read about "Mad" Frankie Fraser the recently deceased East End crook who was "gutted" when WW2 ended due to the fact that there was less opportunities for scamming and thuggery. He loved his mum though.



Happy Hornet	Nov 29 2014, 12:31 PM Post #9
Senior Member Posts: 4,765 Group: Members Member #16 Joined: Jun 27, 2014	Yeah, and the krays only killed their own and you could walk the streets at night. Not that you'd have wanted with people like them about!



Tytoalba	Nov 29 2014, 06:09 PM Post #10
Senior Member Posts: 7,586 Group: Members Member #36 Joined: Jun 29, 2014	Steve K Nov 29 2014, 12:41 AM Maybe Black Friday is the day posters rush to open new threads when a perfectly good one already exists http://w11.zetaboards.com/UK_Debate_Mk_2/topic/10784073/ Maybe a poster has been away, has a new computer with a different operating system, that needs to be understood, and has not been in a position to know what has been discussed, so started from scratch. Perhaps he should have read all the threads from beginning to end, but then who would?



jaguar	Nov 29 2014, 08:07 PM Post #11
Regular Member Posts: 980 Group: Members Member #26 Joined: Jun 28, 2014	In my day, Black Friday was a friend of Robinson Crusoe.



jaguar	Dec 1 2014, 03:21 PM Post #12
Regular Member Posts: 980 Group: Members Member #26 Joined: Jun 28, 2014	So nearly £500,000, yes half a million pounds per minute spent over the weekend. We were told last week by Labour that working people were starving and had to use food banks to feed the children. Where did these starving people get the cash to buy up to 3 40" TVs? I know some people are finding things difficult but the people in the pictures did not look like millionaires.



papasmurf	Dec 1 2014, 03:52 PM Post #13
Senior Member Posts: 17,280 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: Jun 27, 2014	jaguar Dec 1 2014, 03:21 PM So nearly £500,000, yes half a million pounds per minute spent over the weekend. We were told last week by Labour that working people were starving and had to use food banks to feed the children. Where did these starving people get the cash to buy up to 3 40" TVs? I know some people are finding things difficult but the people in the pictures did not look like millionaires. What idiot machinations of what passes for your brains made you conflate two entirely different sets of people. I expect you read the Daily Mail and vote Tory.



marybrown	Dec 1 2014, 03:53 PM Post #14
Senior Member Posts: 10,516 Group: Members Member #60 Joined: Jul 27, 2014	Bad news is..today has been declared ''cyber Monday'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Monday Is the US gonna enforce any more crap on us?



jaguar	Dec 1 2014, 06:20 PM Post #15
Regular Member Posts: 980 Group: Members Member #26 Joined: Jun 28, 2014	papasmurf Dec 1 2014, 03:52 PM jaguar Dec 1 2014, 03:21 PM So nearly £500,000, yes half a million pounds per minute spent over the weekend. We were told last week by Labour that working people were starving and had to use food banks to feed the children. Where did these starving people get the cash to buy up to 3 40" TVs? I know some people are finding things difficult but the people in the pictures did not look like millionaires. What idiot machinations of what passes for your brains made you conflate two entirely different sets of people. I expect you read the Daily Mail and vote Tory. Well they didn't look like millionaires, so what were the other set of people, and if they are not the working people Labour were claiming were starving, there's only benefit claimants left, surely not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO I don't read the Mail or any other of the national papers, I do however read our local papers, plus the free papers, and yes I will be voting Conservative this year to keep Labour out.



LillyBee	Dec 1 2014, 06:37 PM Post #16
Regular Member Posts: 688 Group: Members Member #94 Joined: Sep 30, 2014	marybrown Dec 1 2014, 03:53 PM Bad news is..today has been declared ''cyber Monday'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Monday Is the US gonna enforce any more crap on us? Yes Mary, just blame Obama



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