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Want or Need?

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Today is Saturday.

Yes, I have just checked my little task-bar thing and my watch and it is very definitely Saturday.

So why are they still sending me fucking Black Friday messages?

That Black Friday yoke is the greatest fucking irritation the Mercans ever invented and of course we have to import it to Ireland.  It even knocks “Trick or Treat” into second place.  We all know that Mercans are intrinsically stupid and will rush off to buy shit simply because they are told to do so, but I thought the Irish had more sense.

Apparently not.

On the news last night they showed people who had just been conned out of their cash an there was only one chap who displayed an iota of common sense.  This chap explained that he needed a new suit and this seemed like a good time to buy one.  The key word here, of course is needed.

There is a world of difference between wanting something and needing it.  I want a new super duper laptop but I don’t need it because the one I have still has some mileage left [I hope].  Therefore to go out and buy one would just be a waste of cash.  So we have these flaming advertisements demanding that we buy sofas for a mere thousand because they will be two thousand at some undefined point in the future.  Of course people will rush out, pay their thousand and will end up with two sofas and a major hole in the bank account.

So they can all fuck off with their wide screen televisions [I don’t need one] and their half price perfume [I certainly don’t need any] and every other tacky item that they want to clear out of their storerooms because I don’t need any of it.  If I do need something I will probably find it and at a far better price than some fucking Black Friday deal.

While I’m on the subject, I really must make out my wish-list for next month!

 

Comments

Want or Need? — 14 Comments

  1. The other advantage of not buying techie stuff you don’t need is that when it comes to the time that you DO need it it will probably be better or cheaper or both.

    Also the stuff that they cannot shift in the Friday Of Color frenzy will be even cheaper in the January sales.

    • They say that driving a new car out of the showroom halves its value.  They don’t tell you that buying anything electronic will instantly make it obsolete…..

      • Especially if you drive it out through a window. And most electronic gadgets are already obsolete before they put them on display.

  4. So – something I’ve always wanted to know – why is it black? Why not just Friday? What’s the colour got to do with flogging cheap tat? how can you colour any day?

    • stupid accounting term, if you are in the red you are in debt but in the black you are making coin….but none of my bloody coin I can assure you of that, won’t step into a big box store till Feb. it’s safer that way.

      • Ah.  I thought it was something else.  I thought it was something to do with people fighting over wide screen televisions in Walmart or something.

  5. When something is advertised we are told it is WORTH so much,it is usually a total load
    of overpriced crap.The correct word(s) should ‘priced at’ or ‘costs’.
    Similar to what you said about ‘want’ and ‘need’.
    Lets see how many other examples like this we can think of.

    • By my logic, if something is advertised at 50% off the normal price then that reflects its value and the “normal” price is grossly inflated to double the true value.

      In other words the discounted price is the true worth of the item, unless of course they are selling everything at below cost, which is hardly good business sense?

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