"Black Friday deals are going on now!"

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• Klinotaxis

  2016-11-23 20:15:06

  kill living beings
  

  I heard a radio ad talking about last minute gifts yesterday. ???
• Anonus

  2016-11-23 20:15:47

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  Black Friday is so fucking weird and dystopian
• Anonus

  2016-11-23 20:16:06

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  Klinotaxis said:

  I heard a radio ad talking about last minute gifts yesterday. ???

  Don'tcha know

  
  

  You need to get people their Thanksgiving presents!
• Tre

  2016-11-23 20:17:06

  
  

  see also: outright use of "Black Friday" as a term for the sales in general in lieu of synonyms, i.e. "After Thanksgiving Sale" or "Holiday Sale" or what have you
  
  like, it's pretty clearly interpretable as a pejorative term for the day but retail seems to have embraced it more and more as time has gone by
• Tatterhood

  2016-11-23 20:21:21 edited 2016-11-23 20:21:47

  Are Americans only now getting this? Up here, Boxing Day became Boxing Week at least a decade ago. (Though at the very least, folks do actually call them Boxing Week sales.)
  
  I did notice that multi-day Black Friday sales seem to be much more common this year than in the past, but I assumed that was mostly just because Black Friday period has only really been a thing in Canada for a couple years and that Americans had surely seen all possible permutations of the concept by now.
  
• eriophora zia

  2016-11-23 20:34:14

  I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god

  A week of sales is nicer for all involved, in my opinion? People literally get trampled to death on black friday waiting in lines. If some can go on wednesday instead, that's all to the good. Yeah, yeah, corporate holiday stuff, but still. 
• Tatterhood

  2016-11-23 20:39:50

  Yeah in general I am okay with this kind of thing because I've never in my life done anything on the day I meant to.
  
• Section42L

  2016-11-23 20:41:11

  We can do anything if we do it together.

  Tatterhood said:

  Yeah in general I am okay with this kind of thing because I've never in my life done anything on the day I meant to.
  

  
  
• Odradek

  2016-11-23 20:43:59

  My dreams exceed my real life

  In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should enjoy unprecedented savings on all their favorite brands. This was the first Black Friday and took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria. All went to their own towns to find their discounts. Joseph also went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he had his eye on a new laptop. He went to be registered at Target with Mary, to whom he was engaged and who was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in the latest styles from Old Navy, and laid him in a shopping cart, because they were waiting in line to get into Walmart.
• Princess Alice

  2016-11-23 22:03:26

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  Another thing I've never understood: stores opening at 5 or 6 PM on Thanksgiving night.

  
  

  Are they solely going for people who don't celebrate the holiday in any meaningful way? Because if any member of our family decided to leave the Thanksgiving dinner to go shopping, they'd never hear the end of it.
• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-11-23 22:16:10

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Odradek said:

  In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should enjoy unprecedented savings on all their favorite brands. This was the first Black Friday and took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria. All went to their own towns to find their discounts. Joseph also went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he had his eye on a new laptop. He went to be registered at Target with Mary, to whom he was engaged and who was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in the latest styles from Old Navy, and laid him in a shopping cart, because they were waiting in line to get into Walmart.

  This is very Donald Barthelme.
  
  I forgot about Donald Barthelme. I am a bad bibliophile. u~u
  
  Mad respect, Don B, wherever you are.
  
• Imipolex G

  2016-11-24 01:44:45

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  Donald Barthelme was pretty badass.
  
  Black Friday is not.
  
  My capitalist exploitation chain isn't doing the Thanksgiving evening thing this year. I guess it wasn't profitable enough.