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Seller X may lose $10, but seller Y gets no sale. Or seller Y has to lose $15 in order to get the sale.
How low will you go?
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Programmers and discounts:
Wife tells her programmer husband:
-Go and buy a pack of bacon and if they have eggs, get two dozen.
He comes back with 24 packs of bacon.
-Why did you get that much bacon?
-They DID have eggs!
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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If the alternative is not getting it sold, I guess the salesman prefers to sell it at 60%.
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Cyber Monday is upon us!!!
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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What's that, then? Special offers on pron sites?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's better than that. I've been seeing advertisements for "Cyber Monday Week".
I think Amazon is trying to kill us all.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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The article would have been funny... If they'd made it even remotely funny.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It would've been better had there been any actual stampede. But by all accounts, with very few exceptions, this year was such a non-event the article doesn't makes sense.
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That's not an American picture, but Dutch, I recognize the vans and the style of the houses, did not know Black Friday was that big over here 
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If you have Amazon, you either have it or will get it soon. It has only become a thing in the UK since Amazon did a sale and practically every other company/business in the UK did the same. Creeping Americanisation??
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Didn't you know? Bakker Bluemink is huge in America 
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In Norway, Black Friday has been big for maybe two or three years. Some stores overdo it, making it "Black Week". Of those who still call it "Black Friday", a large fraction extend the sales to last through Saturday, and Sunday if they are open then.
The last two to four weeks before Black Friday, the newspapers monitor the prices of products expecting to go on sale, reporting when the price are raised to allow the stores to claim artificially high "Was: xxx NOK". (I believe that the the claimed "Was" price must have been effective for at least four weeks for the claim to be legal.)
There was a big discussion this year: One electrical appliances chain store had a lot of signs like "Black Friday - Only 499 NOK", for a lot of products in the store. They didn't claim that the price was reduced, and it wasn't. Of course most people thought it was a special offer, with "Black Friday" and the price stated on the same sign. Is that deceiving (hence illegal), or is it perfectly OK?
Most of the products on sale are those that people didn't want to buy earlier, so the only way to have them sold is to reduce the price. If I didn't need it or want it before, I don't need it any more on a Black Friday. So I didn't waste any money on Black Friday.
(Sidetrack: In Norwegian, "blakk" is a slang term for "out of money". So one newspaper warned: Don't let Black Friday give you a 'blakk' Saturday ... Is "blakk", or something similar, used as a term for "out of money" in any other languages? I suspect that it originates in colored people traditionally often being poor, but I have found no real evidence for this.)
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It would have been funnier if the White House response had been "Fake News! Sears and JC Penny are bankrupt!" They should have included Radio Shack too.
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...my homing pigeon on EBay!
Again. 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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and who said, "the Horn of Plenty is a myth?"
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[Michael Caine]
Now, that's just what every bloke wants: a bird that keeps on giving.[/Michael Caine]
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Good thing it wasn't a stool pigeon!
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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Mike Hankey wrote: Good thing it wasn't a stool pigeon!
Is that a pigeon that nests in the crack of your ass?
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The very same!
And there's even a bus to haul it off. Stool Bus[^]
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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What is your returns policy?
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I just deleted a comment in QA, but on reflection I thought maybe it was worth saying. So I clicked the edit icon, pressed submit, and voila! my comment is restored.
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Hallelujah again (decided not to delete that after replying to the wrong post, luckily it's a pretty generic reply)
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I've just checked (a manual approximation and with an accurate tool) and my finding are: exactly as cool as my monitor.
Please note: my monitor does not wear a baseball cap backwards, or sunglasses indoors, nor does it wear it's trousers round it's knees.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I would have measured it myself but we are all out of cucumbers.
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