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my wife's really into this george clarke programme where "unfortunate"(?) people with ugly and/or badly designed houses get them revamped by an architect. it should be called "cleanshirt gets an extension" because that's basically what it is.

anyway, they almost always get some edgy facade or cladding put on the front of the house and sometimes they do little voxpops with boomer neighbours about how this MODERN building fits within the existing estate or village or whatever.

i always think a much more interesting programme would focus on these petty planning grievances and the time rich, cash rich, perspective poor people who live for them. "not in keeping with the character of the area with george clarke"

A kind of ‘Why Complain (It’ll Get Planning Anyway)’ shot in the style of the bailiffs-are-coming programmes?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-46855232

Celebrity Special with Robert Plant and Robbie Williams?

I'm sure I heard one about some moneyed up boomers that had spunked their pension payout on a campervan only for it to fail the mot two or three years later (!) and they wanted the original owners to pay for the repairs.

ha! i was listening to that as well.

"if i'd have known the commission for XXXX was 50%, i wouldn't have gotten involved!"

so none of the other obvious red flags had you stroking your chin quizzically? fuck 'em indeed.

the most annoying part of that programme is his over-usage of the word "space" to describe what you and i would refer to as a "room".

grotty little show.

lovin' the hate, boys!

This has been a staple of R4 consumer programmes for years.
You would think these grasping venal witless, entitled chump boomer gammon cunts would have learnt something by now but no.
Its always "oh I feel such a fool - you hear about this sort of thing and it really shouldn't happen to me "

I did take a small amount of pleasure thinking about the sort of twats that would have been hoodwinked by Kevin McCloud’s dodgy bonds.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/sep/10/grand-designs-presenter-faces-crisis-over-bond-investment

I think Kevin McCloud's Dodgy Bonds opened for Carter USM at the George Robey in 1990.

I hate fucking conspiratorially toned emails from companies I've never spent a single penny with trying to make it seem like they're personally inviting me to a black friday sale preview because they love me so much.

F U C K O F F

my annual unsubscribathon of any company that sent me an email with the words black friday in the subject is going to be a long one this year.

I couldn't agree more. BF is the pits for so many reasons.

The email my brand will be sending out attached. Maybe too punchy but we feel very strongly about it. And we'll substantiate our stance with an explainer page.

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You'd better proof it before you hit send.

Kinda like a Debenhams Blue Cross Sale for millennials, really.

Haha. fair

Here in China, we don't have black friday because it is a filthy capitalist festival of consumerism. Instead we have Double 11, which used to be a one day discount day on 11 November (historically known as singles day cos 11 11 looks like lonely people standing by themselves) but now lasts for about two weeks, during which time every single fucking store you have ever even browsed on taobao will text you (you have to link your taobao account to your phone number (which is linked to your passport, lolz)) about their AMAZING DEALS. Heaven forbid you buy something because then you will be texted into oblivion as the store begs you to leave them a good review, sometimes offering you a "free gift" in return, which of course you will also be texted to remind you to review.
And when it's over, we have 12.12, which is a totally made up festival but involves MORE horrific banner ads on taobao and MORE nagging text messages.
On the plus side, no one in China uses email so at least I don't get any emails about it.

We do double 11 and Black Friday flowing into 12 12 then Christmas. It’s a never ending minor discount on stuff which is out of stock anyway.

Do you have all the different valentines days too?

Anyone over the age of 15 using the words rad, sick or dope.

Yeah, and mothers days, its totally rad.

my annual unsubscribathon of any company that sent me an email with the words black friday in the subject is going to be a long one this year.

This

BF is definitely awful, but I scored a sick Instant Pot for 55 notes. Rad to the max!

Hey, I grew up with "rad" and "sick" (dope has a more useful meaning) so how about anyone under the age of 30 using those >>>

Sick bro!

ok boomer