To think the world has gone mad

[Diamondsandstones]

According to reports in my local media people are fighting in my local Aldi, actual scuffles for a soft toy carrot.

Wtf

'Why on earth anyone wants a giant £20 carrot though I have no idea!'

It's TWENTY whole pounds?!!
What?!

I disagree with the fighting etc in store but there's nothing wrong with people buying what they want! Just because it's not your thing doesn't mean it's any less valid.

How would a child know about this? Why would they want one? I just showed a picture to my 7 year old who definitely wasn’t interested in having one!

Times like this I think bring on the zombie apocalypse , does anyone who’s queuing & fighting over a £20 large carrot ever ask themselves why?

Black Friday scares me.

Fear of missing out over a carrot, wow!

YANBU.
The world has gone mad and not just because of the fuckwits fighting over Kevin the carrot.

God, some people are ridiculous!

Honest to god, what are people on.

It’s a carrot, a stuffed carrot, the likes of which you’d usually see sitting in grabber machines on Morecambe seafront.

More than that, it’s an ALDI stuffed carrot, which means it’s probably a ‘dupe’ of a M&S stuffed carrot.

FOMOC

I kind of like Kevin. Don't think I'd fight for him though. Sorry Kevin.

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We have Kevin and Katie from last year (not bought by me, I might add). If I list them for a grand, do you think anyone would actually buy them and we could actually afford Christmas this year?

Didn’t quite realise how big he was

Omg it’s horrible! The limbs! Carrots shouldn’t have weird pale floppy limbs surely.

I can't even imagine that most children would want one of those. None of the kids at school have mentioned them at all. I don't think this is down to pester power. It's just consumerism gone mad.

Genuinely baffled..a giant cuddly carrot!

A fool and their money .....

I feel like some variation of this happens every year, whatever the ‘it’ toy is that Christmas seems to bring out the worst in people!
But I think the media do blow it up, it’s normally only a handful of highly strung people who take it too far - most people manage their shopping without violence!

My ds who never usually looks at leaflets saw the cuddly toys in the aldi one and immediately put Kevin on his Christmas list. We got him a little one today. It's just a bit of fun isn't it! Last year my dh drew eyes on a real carrot and put it on top of the tree. It took about a week for the dc to notice!

You could say any toy/teddy/book
Are pointless
You only need one pair of shoes, clothes:basic food and just water, eating outs a waste. jewellery is pointless, art is pointless and frivolous

Everyone owns pointless crap, mines just carrot shaped

And there was no fighting or queuing, there was a big box full

If he's an Aldi carrot he'll be a limp fucker by the day after tomorrow.

Oh, I quite like the angry parsnip in the photo in the DM article. I’m not going to buy it though. I’d never heard of Kevin the Carrot until I just read this. Haven’t even seen the TV ads. Must live under a stone.

I feel like some variation of this happens every year

Yep - it's like a toy version of the annual "Winter Wonderland", where you pay £20 for a "magical festive experience" and get a painted broken shed, a few fairy lights and some knackered "elves"in a muddy field

I'm just waiting for this year's reports about those ...