[Guinness]

Got myself a nice Black Friday deal today..saved £200 on the RRP. Thing is...Amazon kindly sent me an email telling me that an item on my watch list was 40% discounted for the next hour..logged on..ordered it..arrives wednesday..job done!

Can't for the life of me understand the muppets who queue up for hours waiting for midnight when the local superstore opens, so that they can squeeze and fight through sweaty bodies to buy something that probably has less discount than they could get online???

I realise that Black Friday has been hyped by our media scrabbling for new human interest stories, regaling us with previous deathrace battles in Walmart stores throughout the Bible belt of the USA, hoping that here on Airstrip One the rabble will blindly follow, thus creating the next days headlines..obviously some of us so sheeplike that we fall for this hype judging from the coverage on the news today.

Do people do this so that they can tell their grandchildren 'I was there at the battle of Tesco in 2014'...do they imagine that in 2114 will there be a memorial service for those who failed to get their discounted Blurays, home cinema systems or mock Hope diamonds?

The frightening thing is that these susceptible muppets are the ones who sit on juries and vote in elections.