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Black Friday! Break out the champers Jeeves.

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Today is apparently black Friday, and the articles and posts about how terrible it all is were already well underway yesterday. These articles seem to originate from the worst of the champagne socialists, just consider this article in the Guardian lauding “Civilised Friday”. Where booksellers try to tempt people in with “butlers serving prosecco and free hand massages” presumably in the hope that people might also buy a book or two. This is apparently so much better than the “rampant consumerism” that drag “the sheep” out of bed to buy something they could buy anytime of the year. Obviously failing … Continue reading →

Are they related?

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Hot on the heals of forcing up the costs of DVD’s and all sorts of gadgets for the rest of us by closing a vat loophole. Private Eye proudly reports that the Quooker is a “quook of shite” thus getting egg on the face of many upmarket newspapers that advertised it (P11 Eye 1305). Sadly for reasons of space it would seem they didn’t have time to report that a certain well known satirical magazine has also been more than happy to take the advertisers shilling for the self same product (Eye passim). As the two scans above show (I … Continue reading →