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Thats what I had heard/read about it. I don't remember the pre-Christmas sales being called 'Black Friday' until Amazon introduced the term to the rest of the World about 3 years ago. In the UK we don't have a 'Thanksgiving' pre-chrimbo, as a nation pretty much everything shuts down (unless it DFS!, who the elephant needs a new dining table boxing day?)for two days...
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Yeah, that's an effort to get a Pavlovian response out of US consumers that associate Black Friday with big discounts. And that's all that is.
There are entirely too many people that, when offered a rotary toaster for $20 (retail price $99.95!), will perceive that as value, even if they have a perfectly good toaster and have never even heard of a rotary toaster.
I don't think the US is unique in this regard.
I so hope there's no such thing as a rotary toaster.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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If what I have seen holds, no, not a US thing. I remember sheeple camping(?!) outside of department stores to get a bargin...
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Leave it to us Americans to invent competitive shopping. The things some of these fools do to get a product that they think is 'a good deal'.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Quote: Leave it to us Americans I take it you have not seen footage of Boxing Day sales in the UK...
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Is it just as bad as it is here? Every year dozens of people are hospitalized from shopping related injuries.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Why throw away a perfectly good means of making more money? And it's a great way to start the consumerism holiday season!
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I was more interested in Why it was called called a 'Black Friday' sale, that went on for a weeks, I am pretty sure it came from Amazon...
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Ah. It's been called that for as long as I can remember in the US
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glennPattonInThePubAGAIN wrote: So why are we now celebrating it? Just an FYI... in the US nobody "celebrates" Black Friday. It's a shopping event pure and simple. Some people do it... most don't.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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glennPattonInThePubAGAIN wrote: So why are we now celebrating it? Because you're hoping, after Brexit, that we would consider you for statehood.
Unfortunately, as per a previous post[^], we've enough troubles of our own with respect to incorporated third-world territories.
So - for the present - you'll need to limit yourselves to worshipful imitation.
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If it was called "White Friday" we'd never hear the end of it...
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Quote: He's covered in blood again. Why is it he's always covered in blood?
Which movie?
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The Donor[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Winnie the Pooh: The bewitched Honey Pot
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Debbie Does Transylvania!!!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Beat me to it!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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The Period (2007) - IMDb[^]
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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El verdugo [The Executioner] (1963)[^]
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Tattoo nightmares : Blood cover ups
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Monthy Python's Life of Bloody Rian
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Virgin Diaries
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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When Harry Met Sally (the diner scene, specifically)
Software Zen: delete this;
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Close. It's more like "When Ginny met Harry".
Brent
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