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  • Exactly who is breaking the law?

    "... Another asylum seeker, Samim Bigzad, was illegally deported back to Afghanistan in 2017 after the British government defied a court order not to send him...."

    https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/uk-government-rejected-more-32000-afghan-asylum-seekers/

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I know I complain about it every year but I really hate the phrasings used by marketing departments around the Black Friday sales. It's either on Friday or it's not a Black Friday sale. Sending me emails on a Sunday saying 'Black Friday ends tomorrow' just makes your company look stupid.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    I know I complain about it every year but I really hate the phrasings used by marketing departments around the Black Friday sales. It's either on Friday or it's not a Black Friday sale. Sending me emails on a Sunday saying 'Black Friday ends tomorrow' just makes your company look stupid.
    I delete all emails that say 'black friday' anywhere in the subject line. The whole wretched gimmick makes me very grumpy
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I had some emails saying shops were opening at midnight on Friday so shoppers could get an early start on buying Black Friday stuff. I just feel sorry for the staff though. Are people that impatient that they can't wait for next day delivery now?
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I know I complain about it every year but I really hate the phrasings used by marketing departments around the Black Friday sales. It's either on Friday or it's not a Black Friday sale. Sending me emails on a Sunday saying 'Black Friday ends tomorrow' just makes your company look stupid.

    It's a bit like advertising "Happy Hour from 6 -10 pm" except I never complain about that misuse of a term. :D:D
  • KT53 said:
    If migrants were aware that we would act to remove them they wouldn't be so keen to make their way in by illegal means. 
    The thing is, if the migrants had a true picture of what it is like to live in the UK, they wouldn't be as desperate to get here, not enough to risk their lives yet again, having already risked so much getting as far as France. The people smugglers are exploiting them - the truth is not part of their sales pitch. 

    People are dying needlessly while Boris is being an idiot and Macron is also behaving badly. Makes me want to bang their hubristic heads together
    Listen to this … https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-59443569 
    😭 

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  • I know I complain about it every year but I really hate the phrasings used by marketing departments around the Black Friday sales. It's either on Friday or it's not a Black Friday sale. Sending me emails on a Sunday saying 'Black Friday ends tomorrow' just makes your company look stupid.
    They are probably getting you ready for Cyber Monday - whatever the hell that is  ;)
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    There's an advert here on French radio for "Black Venerdi"   It's an Italian sofa company.

    Even, the French do Black Friday rather than Vendredi Noir but this year it seems to be Black Friday Week.   Not doing it. 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I know I complain about it every year but I really hate the phrasings used by marketing departments around the Black Friday sales. It's either on Friday or it's not a Black Friday sale. Sending me emails on a Sunday saying 'Black Friday ends tomorrow' just makes your company look stupid.
    They are probably getting you ready for Cyber Monday - whatever the hell that is  ;)
    just another horrible american import to suck money out of gullible consumers.
    Devon.
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