Black Friday

A queue just to get on Tesco's website. Fancied a laptop and a TV for the bedroom, seems Barclays down aswell, probably not a coincidence.

Ive heard the big Argos in Sheffield town centre has opened at 1am this morning

£46 on e-bay

Can't access Argos site. Too busy was the cry.

All the websites have gone down ffs.

Tesco, Game, Argos. Fckin joke. You cant blame people though. I mean, PC World are selling a £500 42 inch LG smart TV for £279! Crazy discount.

Tv prices crash as soon as the new model is out (like 90% of goods). You can get excellent Sony and Samsung 42' tvs for sub £300 year round

Anyone who visits a hectic shopping centre today is a mug

have betfair got any offers on ?

live from a Tescos branch

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5XwWRqzNno

Was buying one of these for my son and it was £30.00 when I looked on Tuesday.

Google Chromecast HDMI Streaming Media Player

Just bought it for £18.00 and free delivery.

Police have been called to more than 10 UK supermarkets amid crowd surges as people hunt for "Black Friday" offers.

Greater Manchester Police appealed for calm after attending five Tesco stores, making "at least two" arrests, and a Trafford store was closed shortly after the sale began at 00:01 GMT on Friday.

Police went to three Tescos and an Asda in London, and South Wales Police were called to a number of Tesco stores.

Originating in the US, Black Friday is becoming a major UK shopping day.

Police in Manchester tweeted: "At least two people arrested at #BlackFriday sales events already this morning. Keep calm people!"

In London, police were called by both Tesco staff and queuing shoppers as people gathered at the Glover Drive store in Edmonton.

Officers also attended Tesco stores in Willesden and Surrey Quays and an Asda in Edgware at around midnight.

The Metropolitan Police said officers worked with staff to "ensure that sale-goers were able to enter and exit the stores safely", and said no-one had been injured "as a result of the overcrowding".

In South Wales, police said they were called by concerned staff at a number of Tesco stores.

A spokesman said officers were twice called to Tesco in Excelsior Road, Cardiff, just after midnight, when concerns were raised about customer conduct inside the shop. No arrests were made.


All going well...send more money

Always cyber monday !

Maybe if the tyson fury and chisora fight was for a reduced price tv and not the British and European titles it would be a more entertaining fight?

The u tube clips are going to be great
People are nuts
For **** led tv

Are the Sony Panasonic TV in the sale NO

The police approve of you buying it on the internet

Black Friday Sgt Paul Marshall, Kingston Police tweets: "Even on #BlackFriday shoving people to the floor so you can get £20 off a Coffee Maker is still an assault.

I think it might be wise to come back later for a HDMI cable and some batteries for the remote control.

I've got to go to the village post office later for some string and I'm bricking it.

racist fred

Question for fozwald:

Can you watch the telly on a Hisense 32 inch tv for £109?

Subsidiary question for fozwald:

Can you make a good cup of coffee with a Dolce Gusto Mini Me for £29?

'Black' Friday, I think it's good that those people have a day for themselves so they can buy the things cheap that  we don't want.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL62rMSd0HM

fozwald 28 Nov 14 09:49
Yes and yes.

What's your point?

Good. I am delighted that people with limited income can watch the telly and that people with limited taste buds can drink coffee... win/win.

The day of the peasants.

Anyone familiar with the work of Dickens will be reminded of the scene in which the peasants rush to consume wine that had been spilled on the street:

All the people within reach had suspended their business, or their idleness, to run to the spot and drink the wine. The rough, irregular stones of the street, pointing every way, and designed, one might have thought, expressly to lame all living creatures that approached them, had dammed it into little pools; these were surrounded, each by its own jostling group or crowd, according to its size. Some men kneeled down, made scoops of their two hands joined, and sipped, or tried to help women, who bent over their shoulders, to sip, before the wine had all run out between their fingers. Others, men and women, dipped in the puddles with little mugs of mutilated earthenware, or even with handkerchiefs from women’s heads, which were squeezed dry into infants’ mouths; others made small mud-embankments, to stem the wine as it ran; others, directed by lookers-on up at high windows, darted here and there, to cut off little streams of wine that started away in new directions; others devoted themselves to the sodden and lee-dyed pieces of the cask, licking, and even champing the moister wine-rotted fragments with eager relish. There was no drainage to carry off the wine, and not only did it all get taken up, but so much mud got taken up along with it, that there might have been a scavenger in the street, if anybody acquainted with it could have believed in such a miraculous presence.

Let them eat cake.

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The police approve of you buying it on the internet Laugh

Black Friday Sgt Paul Marshall, Kingston Police tweets: "Even on #BlackFriday shoving people to the floor so you can get £20 off a Coffee Maker is still an assault.

day of the peasants

let the mugs empty the stock that was heading back to retailers , to then be punted as ex catalogue stock , do you get guarantees on all these 32 inch tvs at £100 , if so when they break down in a few month youl need to swap for a fkcing kettle

Christmas shopping .. Be warned..

Warning about eBay

Be careful what you buy on eBay.

If you buy stuff on line, check out the seller carefully.

A friend has just spent £295 plus VAT on a penis enlarger.

The bastards sent him a magnifying glass.

The only instructions were "Do not use in sunlight."

^^^ i heard of someone who bought an up to date joke book on ebay. He should have read the small print because the date was 1876!

When we were born with no possession,
the love received was our concession,
no worries, no fears, no troubles, no fuss.
In mother's arms we put our trust.

But as we grew, we looked and craved,
and all too soon became enslaved.
The more we saw, the more we wanted.
Our quest for more became undaunted.

Our thirst for more could not be quenched.
The more we grasped, the tighter we clenched.
We scampered and gathered and gathered to hoard,
possessions became our master and lord.

And when we're old with our treasures all heaped,
a sad example of what greed has reaped.
Our fists still clenched in a grasping motion,
till at our death, when our hands are opened.

look at the images on sky news , tvs are just body surfing , whos actually getting them

heard ipads have 30 quid off or so , apple will be releasing a new one soon then and you will need to upgrade to stay up with the kl kids

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I've got to go to the village post office later for some string and I'm bricking it.

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It's all the stuff they can't shift that's in the sale.

us scots aint daft

iPad mini for £149 on jl but sold out in no time.

There are only 3 shoppers, everyone else is either a photographer or cameraman filming the crush, see here:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/shoppers-scramble-over-each-other-in-crush-for-black-friday-tv-deal-at-wembley-asda-9889542.html

Pathetic.

sold out or stuck back in stock room , then they roll out ipad shuffles

ken who got the tv you reckon

when you see the footage on news , boxes look awful light

Wandsworth MPS retweeted
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John Sutherland @policecommander

Somewhere out there today, a police officer will wonder if people have got anything better to do than fight over stuff in shops #BlackFriday

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3hlglKCAAAnNJk.jpg:large

This picture speaks volumes about the world we live in. That's a TV, not emergency water or food. #BlackFriday

hahahaha check this out

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3hk2y9IEAE32Pk.jpg:large

about 10 camera men , 1 gitl , 1 guy in a pink jacket and 1 polaroid TV

As sad a reflection on modern society as you'll get.
Why do we have to bring this American nonsense to the UK?

As the mile they disappear
See land begin to clear
Free from the filth and the scum
This American satellite won

All this on the news while Russian Warships mass on the South Coast. I for one welcome our Russian overlords.

Which Argos is this Barry ? how much % off

great day for a chevy chor chas

am nipping out for some milk ,taking a crash helmet and a baseball bat

I've read about what happened in Berlin. I'm off to that London to see if I can get a cossack hat in the sales.

I hope they all get their TV's set-up in time to watch Citizen Khan tonight

Edinburgh Evening News
Police called to Tesco Musselburgh on Black Friday amid fears shoppers would become unruly when they discovered there were more iPad display boxes than actual iPads for sale.


CAAAAAAAARNNNNNAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THEY WILL HAVE A VHS RECORDER FOR CITIZEN KHAN

Asda gave me a nice welcome :
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In London, police were called by both Tesco staff and queuing shoppers as people gathered at the Glover Drive store in Edmonton.

what do they expect if they only employ two members of staff?

is this really today , are cans on sale ? might nip in for a few cans and slip one a finger

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/black-friday-chaos-10-vine-4711437?ICID...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30241459

look at all the pictures , now i know hy its called black friday

haha crisp in your link old wifey with walking stick but carrying a telly

10. Some people are even diving head first into sales items





this is comedy fcking gold

I'm blowing the whistle here. That last bloke going in head first has joined a maul from the side.

exactly HH, and the tv wasn't out of the scrum when he grabbed it.

Number 10 is far the best

true

Nov 28, 2014 -- 8:11AM, doantwin2easy wrote:

exactly HH, and the tv wasn't out of the scrum when he grabbed it.

That doesn't apply. It wasn't the Rugby branch.

It's great that the ASDA girls loop like that. Sick of having to rewind these things.

Crisp & FFS

don't think i'd realised the full extent of how ****** our society had become before I saw these scenes

Black Friday through the ages.
The army fires on crowds as Mrs Molly's Pie Shop offers two pies for a penny, 1781.

number 10 knows exactly what hes going for ,youd think he stashed it there a few days back

if security is low, why not just walk out with a tv and not pay those inflated prices for sh1t tvs

What happened to Ed's 'cost of living crisis'?

just watched a store on sky news, i could not see the white man .

are those videos actually from the uk ?

America is conquering us by the back door - what's next halloween?

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http://thechive.com/2014/11/28/a-few-morsels-of-information-you-should-know-about-black-friday-28-photos/

funny thing is zorro this Friday thing is actually losing it's appeal in the states

I prefer white saturday

There was an item on BBC television news pages yesterday morning, but I  can't recall where it was and it's gone now. 

Plod stopped a van that was full of televisions in boxes.

Apparently the driver and his mate had been knocking them out cheap in a car park somewhere.

They were all empty cabinets with no workings inside

the behaviour shows how far this country has sunk in recent years

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just watched a store on sky news, i could not see the white man .


white friday soon?


off to tesco for tinnies they better not have taken all the stella and holstens the feckers

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There was an item on BBC television news pages yesterday morning, but I  can't recall where it was and it's gone now.

Plod stopped a van that was full of televisions in boxes.

Apparently the driver and his mate had been knocking them out cheap in a car park somewhere.

They were all empty cabinets with no workings inside LaughLaugh


when i was younger my mate bougth a pc out asda as his hard drive packed in , so he took out the insides and took it back for a refund

There should be a ticketing system. Or, tell you what, let the queue in in batches of 5 with 30 second internals between them and nobody can buy more than 1 of each item type or 3 items in total, until everyone has been let in. What they are currently doing is a recipe for carnage.

I seen a clip where it appeared some scared looking middle aged black guy on the floor had some shellsuited chav trying to pull his TV off him. If someone just grabs a the other end of the box, who is to say who had it first?

just checking my friendly local asian shop keeper had this paln back in my school days . only 2-3 kids allowed in at a time

but these mugs cant even do it in 21st century

they wanted rid off as much junk as possible

I seen a clip where it appeared some scared looking middle aged black guy on the floor had some shellsuited chav trying to pull his TV off him. If someone just grabs a the other end of the box, who is to say who had it first?

I saw that clip. Feckin madness, fighting over cwap albeit cheap cwap.
Was in a café/bustro this afternoon and a guy was goin mental to the waitress who he seemed to know. Hadn't got what he was looking for, not sure what it was, bought something he didn't really want(A feckin stupid coffee machine he described it as) but saved £60 then got back to his car to find a £40 parking ticket on it. I had to bite my hand.

pictures from bbc just look like looting. also noticed jose getting involved in 3rd photo down.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30241459

Maybe we can have a white wednesday where people stroll around john lewis and not buy anything

im starting to think some of it was staged, look at this picture

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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/black-friday-frenzy-britain-us-photos-shoppers-fighting-tvs-1477074#slideshow/1412101

unless they had all just bought a cheap camera

it all looks a bit like Ethiopia in the 80's

Looking at them pictures you would think the Border Agency could set up a shop next year and made a dent in the illegal immigrants numbers. One half price coffee maker should account for a dozen of them.

Saw on sky news website earlier, some woman had been queuing  for 5.5 hours to get a carpy tv. Shop wasn't opening for another 30 mins when she was being interviewed. She was mightly proud though that she was 2nd in the queue.

I thought if she had worked for those 6 hours, instead of waiting in the freezing cold then she could have bought herself a decent tv.

Retailers luv all this stuff, they get rid of all the rubbish they haven't been able to sell over the year. Also get rid of stock just before the new models come out.

And the queue did look very multicultural, apart from no white people in it.

bizarre how people would waste hours queueing but if they worked those hours they would be able to get a top class product.

Never been a shopper myself, im sure its a adrenalin buzz for some especially the females. i would rather pay the right price and sit at home.

Nov 28, 2014 -- 7:47AM, TheChaser wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30241459look at all the pictures , now i know hy its called black friday

I'm actually quite pleased. Planned on getting a Sony Blu-ray player for my brother for Xmas and the one I wanted was £84 earlier this week but I thought I'd wait in case it was reduced today and sure enough, down to £54. That was online though, if I had to go down to the shops today for it my brother would have been getting a hug for Xmas

Nov 28, 2014 -- 2:29PM, morpteh mackem wrote:

pictures from bbc just look like looting. also noticed jose getting involved in 3rd photo down.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30241459

I popped to Asda earlier .. not any cheap hot dog rolls .. it's all a con

It's the biggest load of Bollax since Valentines was invented.Total marketing day of selling off all the crap they couldn't sell at full price.
And all the sheep flock in in their droves to buy tat

Just Checking
28 Nov 14 18:51   
I seen a clip where it appeared some scared looking middle aged black guy on the floor had some shellsuited chav trying to pull his TV off him. If someone just grabs a the other end of the box, who is to say who had it first?

I sincerely hope this was reported as attempted racist television theft.