Rant of the Day v2.

[OFSO]

Two days later, another e-mail that the "leak of water alert" is finished/stood down. Nothing I've done. Bullsh*t.

[OFSO]

A month ago I had in quick succession "electronic brake not functioning" followed by "hill start not available" on the Mondeo. Being a Ford it self-repaired 24 hours later. In for a mini service and ITV, the mandatory government check, next Thursday.

[OFSO]

Home from the gym. Turned into my road, steep uphill corner, nearly hit a Belgian prat coming t'other way on wrong side of road. Not a wave of apology, turned out and was gone. Got home, same Belgian prat had just forced a UPS van into our front wall. Miniscule damage to wall but trim off UPS van. Covid too good for some races!

[OFSO]

God created Belgians to make the French look good. One of His rare failures.

[CharlieOneSix]

A month ago I had in quick succession "electronic brake not functioning" followed by "hill start not available" on the Mondeo. Being a Ford it self-repaired 24 hours later......

During the first lockdown on my A6 I had "stop start not available" followed by some other warning, I forget what it was. Those warnings also cleared of their own accord. It seems it was due to a low battery as the car was rarely used and internal systems in the car eventually part drained the battery whilst the car was parked in the garage.

[llondel]

The reason the Earth has been shunned for so long is also due to a language problem. On Earth, Belgium refers to a small country. Throughout the rest of the galaxy, Belgium is the most unspeakably rude word there is.

Douglas Adams

[PHXPhlyer]

Black Friday

The day after Thanksgiving (The fourth Thursday of November) here is one of the busiest shopping days leading up to Christmas.
Many stores have huge sales that start as early as Thanksgiving night or some unGodly hour on Friday.
Typically they feature loss-leader items which the fine print says that a limited number of those items are available at each store, yet people line up in the hundreds before the stores open and storm into the stores to sometimes fight over said items.
All of the news about pan(ic)demic induced shortages caused by supply chain issues has not caused the retailers to limit their ads about the sales.
I think there will be a lot of disappointed shoppers this season.

PP

Added:
Black Friday gets its name from the concept that the big shopping day is when the retailers turn a profit (Get into the black).
Most retailers have been advertising that their Black Friday sales started a week or more ago.

[OFSO]

Nothing as huge as Black Friday in Spain. Advertised for weeks in advance.

[Pontius Navigator]

PP, missing a trick there, our Black Friday started 3 weeks ago. They hope to turn a trick selling crap by hyping the event. In reality they depress discretionary purchases on October against the probability of a big discount in November.

[Rwy in Sight]

Vodafone here has a program where you can give them an older smartphone or tablet for a discount voucher on a new one. I checked the price of mine and with the Black Friday discount a new tablet seemed like a good idea. The lady in the store did try to find the model on the company platform for the promotion but the model wasn't here. The national vodafone site was down and she didn't bother to further investigate the issue - why my model wasn't available or take a note and see when the site would be up again. Few minutes later I was away from the store and the site was working but I couldn't get on with the exchange.

[Woody]

Other discoveries include, finding that the Pope’s Catholic and what bears do in the woods

More than 90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper in the six months before the sales event last year, a Which? investigation has found.
The consumer association told shoppers to make sure the discounts were "truly genuine" ahead of this year's sales.
It said 184 out of 201 items from six retailers, which included Amazon and John Lewis, were priced the same or cheaper before Black Friday in 2020.
Trading standards warned a deal "may not be what it's all cracked up to be".
Katherine Hart, lead officer at the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, added the "prospect of scams rears its ugly head" during the sales event, which takes place on Friday.
"It seems that the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales events get bigger every year, and many bargains can be found; however, we all must remain vigilant and practise shopping safety," she added.
"Sometimes sellers raise their prices before a sales period to make it look like a great deal is on offer during the sale."
Which? said popular items it found to be the same price or less before Black Friday last year included washing machines, soundbars and TVs.

[Pontius Navigator]

The Corollary is don't buy in the weeks before Black Friday. A relative bought two DNA kits last month discounted to £79.95. For Black Friday they have been discounted to £49.95. Another heritage company is offering them at £39.95.

[G-CPTN]

It was ever thus.

[Pontius Navigator]

It was ever thus.

Crew Clothing are notorious for offering successive discount sales - 25, 30, 40%. True that the availability drops to with popular sizes and colours selling early.

However I bought some clothes that dropped in price the following week. I returned them for a refund and then bought them back!

[Woody]

How can it be a booster injection if you don’t get the same vaccine that you got originally?

[Pontius Navigator]

Boosts immunisation.

[Boac]

..........and, of course, it greatly boosts Pfizer's profits - and possibly the Tory odd Minister's bank balance...............

[Woody]

..........and, of course, it greatly boosts Pfizer's profits - and possibly the Tory odd Minister's bank balance...............

I got the Moderna jab this time, never heard of it

[ribrash]

Will the booster jab fade away to be useless like the first 2 jabs,meaning you'll have to get a booster booster after 6 months and every 6 months thereafter ?

[Mrs Ex-Ascot]

Will the booster jab fade away to be useless like the first 2 jabs,meaning you'll have to get a booster booster after 6 months and every 6 months thereafter ?

Maybe not in the UK as all this booster jab frenzy is based on data collected from people who had the Pfitzer jab; https://news.sky.com/story/astrazenecas ... r-12475935

We had the AstraZeneca jab and don't have a chance of a booster jab seeing as just under half the adult population has yet to get a first jab, Which means that when the northern hemisphere insists on full vaccination and a booster jab we won't be able to visit Greece for yet another year.