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05 Nov 2009, 5:55 pm

I've never participated in one (like a real one where I'm waiting infront of a store at 5am) but it is something I may consider trying someday just to see if I can handle it. Cold weather and living with overprotective parents is what's keeping me from trying this yet.

Also...the Walmart worker that get killed last year trying to save a pregnant woman from getting trampled. :? Damn.



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05 Nov 2009, 8:37 pm

No because I don't need more stuff so why go?


But I could go just to watch people steal from other carts and run into each other and shove. But I hate getting up early just to see it. My parents don't like Black Friday either so they have always avoided it.



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05 Nov 2009, 9:39 pm

I rarely buy gifts at stores. I do that sort of shopping online, black Friday included.


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05 Nov 2009, 9:40 pm

Too much chaos.


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05 Nov 2009, 10:53 pm

Flying pigs will ice skate in hell before that happens.

Or I'll go if threatened by aliens.

Anyone remember the poor wal mart (I think it was wal-mart) guy that got trampled to death by frenzied shoppers last year? They kept on shipping if I remember correctly.


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05 Nov 2009, 11:05 pm

That sounds like a nightmare I don't even wish to imagine.
I abhor crowds.



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05 Nov 2009, 11:14 pm

NO WAY! I worked in a mall once on Black Friday... never again!!



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06 Nov 2009, 3:58 am

Hell no! I've worked in retail on that day in the past, and from what I saw, it's not worth the stress. A couple of years ago, the police had to break up a fight over a parking space in front of the local Circuit City. If I do any shopping at all, it's online.


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06 Nov 2009, 5:13 am

EnglishInvader wrote:
Only America would have something this tacky! :lol:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)


Having never heard of it before now, I can't say for sure that it's tacky, but as a gut reaction I imagine that it is. :eew: No doubt the UK thought police are working on an imported version......everything else that's nasty about the USA seems to get copied over here eventually.

It beats me why anybody ever takes up these calls to conformity. If everybody were like me, the people who start these things would all be redundant, and then they'd have to find something useful to do with their time.



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06 Nov 2009, 5:20 am

No...We don't have Black Friday in Canada....us Canadians have this tendancy to not trample each other...If the line up is long, we bee line it to the nearest Tim Hortons for a double double with timbits and stand in line with our coffee and donuts.


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06 Nov 2009, 6:18 am

I kinda already did my shopping, so no. I just need to get cards now.

and Chanukah wrapping paper....got plenty of Christmas already.....



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06 Nov 2009, 9:24 am

ToughDiamond wrote:
EnglishInvader wrote:
Only America would have something this tacky! :lol:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)


Having never heard of it before now, I can't say for sure that it's tacky, but as a gut reaction I imagine that it is. :eew: No doubt the UK thought police are working on an imported version......everything else that's nasty about the USA seems to get copied over here eventually.

It beats me why anybody ever takes up these calls to conformity. If everybody were like me, the people who start these things would all be redundant, and then they'd have to find something useful to do with their time.


I am a regular customer on eBay and Amazon. Both of these are American innovations (not to mention Wrong Planet) so the US isn't all bad. I have a lifelong dream to go to New York to see the Ghostbusters firestation, but I wouldn't want to live in the States.



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06 Nov 2009, 9:48 am

EnglishInvader wrote:
I am a regular customer on eBay and Amazon. Both of these are American innovations (not to mention Wrong Planet) so the US isn't all bad.

Sure.....some of the good things get here too.



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06 Nov 2009, 10:00 am

What's Black Friday? :?



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06 Nov 2009, 10:04 am

Lene wrote:
What's Black Friday? :?


See the following link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)



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06 Nov 2009, 10:19 am

EnglishInvader wrote:
Lene wrote:
What's Black Friday? :?


See the following link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)


Oops, should have done that in the first place... Weird, I've never even heard of such a thing... sounds a bit stupid to be honest.