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Hi All,
All ads on TV seem to spouting 'Black Friday Sale' (which lasts a week?) but was this a common thing in the years pre-Amazon. It has only become a thing since Amazon named it black Friday.
According to uncle Google & Wiki-wotsit it was the first day that shops in the US ran on a consistant profit rather than in the red. So why are we now celebrating it?
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The lure of filthy lucre, I'm afraid. 
It's another excuse to unload a pile of unsold tat on unsuspecting customers by offering loss leaders that run out quickly and hoping you pick up a pile of junk at the same time, I think. Certainly the Amazon ads I've been getting emailed to me for a week or so would bear that out.
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Just had another one: "Dash buttons". You stick them on the wall, or washing machine and when you run out of something you press the button, it connects to your WiFi and emails you to remind you to buy it.
Or, if you have kids, it gets pressed a million times a day just to annoy you.
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Well, pre-Amazon I remember pre-Christmas sales, just not being called Black Friday...
Also thos dash buttons I didn't really pay much attention to but presumed it added the item to your Amazon order, always seemed a bad idea with Kids (or my Friends)...
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I'm sure Amazon would love it if they did - but how quickly would they get hacked? 
This IoT stuff is getting stupider and stupider...
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Just had another one: "Dash buttons". You stick them on the wall, or washing machine and when you run out of something you press the button, it connects to your WiFi and emails you to remind you to buy it.
Or, if you have kids, it gets pressed a million times a day just to annoy you.
Sounds like the dumbest idea ever. Who comes up with this kind of tat?
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OriginalGriff wrote: if you have kids, it gets pressed a million times a day just to annoy you.
I don't think they would survive with my kids.. I wouldn't even give the "dash button" a week before its broken.
hmm maybe I should offer my kids to amazon as durability testers
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I'd never heard of it until recent times but there was obviously a yawning chasm for an extra commercialised day between the increasingly commercialised Halloween and the perennially commercialised Christmas.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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And why haven't Hallmark caught on to this? Where are the "Happy Black Friday!" cards?
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Don't suggest it, oh you have!
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Well, they try and cover every other possible event. Some idiot even sent us a "Happy Easter" card last year ...
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And next year you'll feel you have to send one back, and then the market has doubled, and soon enough we'll all be sending them out of guilt because we've received one!
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I'd rather send a cat turd! 
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That's you off my Easter Card list!
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Thank fork for that! 
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No I hadn't...until the big river named a sale after it...
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glennPattonInThePubAGAIN wrote: So why are we now celebrating it?
A good question that I can't answer.
But it is not only UK related. Germany has been infected too.
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Quote: Germany has been infected too.
I find that worrying...
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American commercialism is slowly taking over the world. If you can't conquer with force, conquer with subversion
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glennPattonInThePubAGAIN wrote: It has only become a thing since Amazon named it black Friday.
And coca-cola invented Santa Claus, didn't they?
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They certainly had a big influence on his look but it's an urban legend that they were the first to dress him in red.
That said, it can't be long until Christmas gets renamed to "Christmas Sponsored by Coca Cola."
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Not really. They just took the character and dressed it up in company colors for advertising.
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... And he had been pictured wearing either red or black for centuries.
Black Friday is well over a century old, too.
... But amazon.com ain't.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: And he had been pictured wearing either red or black for centuries.
The protestants of course had a problem with him being a saint, so they reinvented him in a less catholic way. The communists could not completely get rid of him, so they reinvented him in a less religious way. The list is long. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I don't know and I don't care, but if Valve puts out Fallout 4 at a serious discount I'll be buying it before even acknowledging it.
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