In the news

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30241459

Whatever happened to the good old days of tutting in queues?

I hate the world

The concept of 'Black Friday' started to annoy me the first moment I heard about it.

Racist.

I hate the world

Did you miss the best deals? Tescos were offering 3 for 2 on Alphabetti Spaghetti, and half price Pork'n'Beans.

Srsly though - Black Friday. In Tesco? Whut?

I can beat that. Black Friday spam email from Mr Clutch Autocentre - yes, I've been waiting all year to have my clutch repaired just on the off chance I could get a discount today. Chancers

Most importantly of all.

Dani Foffa • 12 hours ago
For those interested we at urban bikes brand Foffa are also having a 33% OFF sale on all our bikes until Sunday using voucher code 'blackfriday'. Prices starting from £241.

Wonderful wee story this - guy in Hungary watching Stuart Little with his daughter, recognises a painting in the background is an avant garde masterpiece lost since the 1920s:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/27/stuart-little-art-historian-long-lost-hungarian-masterpiece

Stuart Little, arthouse classic.

yay for non-Eu migrants (for once) !

Those out of control vans are at it again in Islington.

They really should learn some self control

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/woman-pedestrian-seriously-injured-after-van-wipes-out-traffic-lights-in-islington-9889266.html

Finally...

http://metro.co.uk/2014/11/28/the-world-will-end-within-seven-years-christian-group-predicts-4965947/

black friday should also be known as national chav day

oh the humanity out there today

I had an e-mail from Rapha about Black Friday, which was very confusing, because you'd at least expect it to be 'Black with a white arm stripe Friday'.

or maybe national consumerism day

They say it's not a UKIP account--easy to miss in the article:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/ukip-disowns-east-london-branch-twitter-account-after-homophobic-comments-9891265.html

Could the last UKIP member 'disowned' by their own party please turn out of the lights.

To be fair to UKIP it must be a parody account...

The account today accused Ukip of "pandering to a cultural marxist agenda".

Many people were buried under the chavalanche.

Image of the day;

ukip voters all on the coast protecting our borders
must be something in the sea water

Why are the Welsh voting UKIP?

Immigrants don't vote UKIP... who would have guessed? they get along so well.

Immigrants don't vote UKIP... who would have guessed? they get along so well.

I don't think all those voters in the non-UKIP areas are "immigrants". With an average of 13% of residents being foreign-born spread throughout the country, and out of those only a proportion eligible to vote in the first place, it'd be a bit difficult for them to have that effect on their own.

It works better as an illustration of the mostly-natural inclination of large groups of people to hate and fear what they don't already know and understand, IMO.

That aside I am enjoying the irony of a bunch of forrins voting UKIP. The irony is magnificent.