I used to, but it's been too insane the past few years. why stand in line for over a day to save (maybe) $200? we all know retail is fucked, there will be sales all month.At least people can look to save that much on Black Friday. In Canada we only have Boxing Day. The deals aren't remotely as good (you'll be lucky to find 10% off things), yet dumbfucks still line up just the same.
I was at Wal-Mart here getting oreos tonight and there were people lined up through the store waiting for the deals tomorrow. What morons. It's. Fucking. WalMart.
Deals lead to stampedes, but I think Americans just love lines. Midnight game releases, movie openings, sales, any excuse is a good excuse for Americans to form a line. And the best is if you happen to appear in some newscast, or a photo of the line. It's a cultural thing.
Deals lead to stampedes, but I think Americans just love lines. Midnight game releases, movie openings, sales, any excuse is a good excuse for Americans to form a line. And the best is if you happen to appear in some newscast, or a photo of the line. It's a cultural thing.This is my favourite part of things like this. Sitting back and watching the herds of people trample each other on YouTube.
I wish there was a police task force that was given carte blanche in regards to how they could deal with store stampedes. You could just take out your taser or nightstick and start zapping and wopping out of line soccer moms.
If I was a store owner, I'd coat the floor in vaseline. Then, when everyone starts slipping and falling over each other, I'd spray everyone with liquidated rotten fish. and then tell them how much I hate them. then lock the doors and tell them they can't leave until they lick the fish guts off each other.
If I was a store owner, I'd coat the floor in vaseline. Then, when everyone starts slipping and falling over each other, I'd spray everyone with liquidated rotten fish. and then tell them how much I hate them. then lock the doors and tell them they can't leave until they lick the fish guts off each other.
America Burps and Goes Shopping
Sentence of the day, from Whiskey Fire: (http://whiskeyfire.typepad.com/whiskey_fire/2009/11/aborted-logos.html)Quote"...for a world-historical triumphant ideological titan, capitalism sure seems to need a shitload of silly propaganda to keep people believing in it."
In particular, "Black Friday" and "Cyber Monday,"Quote...transparent attempts to create out of thin air holidays that are nakedly about nothing but celebrating consumer consumption at its rawest, most primal. Or, greedy. I observe in this regard that all local media in the NYC area yesterday sent reporters to the Valley Stream WalMart where raw consumer consumption last Black Friday got someone trampled to death. This year you will be relieved to know, as every goddamn local TV and radio station reported, nobody got killed on their way to enjoying the bargains they need in order to correctly celebrate the holiday that Fox News informs us is properly understood as a celebration of Christ, as opposed to something not Christian, but perhaps pagan, or maybe pro-big government and anti-free-market.
And people bitch about Kwanzaa being "phony." Maybe they should call it Cyber-Kwanzaa Wednesday and give everyone 15% off tube socks and Wiis. Legitimacy at last!
The Baltimore TV stations likewise dispatched perky reporterettes to the nearby malls to interview shoppers who had camped out for hours to take advantage of "doorbuster" sales and were wheeling their loaded shopping carts to the parking lot, to feed the cargo space in their minivans and SUVs. It was all treated as wholesome, grinny, American ritual fun. But as I've said before and will say again, because it's my blog: None of these shopping mall parking-lot TV correspondents ever interview the floor employees and managers of these stores, who have to cut their holiday short to stock and get ready for ever more nightowlish openings (Kohl's, for example, opened its doors at 4 AM), or inquired about the additional security guards needed to ensure a riot doesn't break out once the flat-screen TVs or $199 laptops are sold out. Local station managers won't run the risk of ticking off local and national merchants, especially given the importance of all those "doorbuster" ad sales. So each year the time-window closes tighter on Thanksgiving day, shrinking to a few hours for food and football before the retail dinosaur opens its jaws. This year in Maryland more convenience stores and small businesses seemed to be open on Thanksgiving, as if they couldn't afford to let their cash registers have even one day's rest in this rundown economy. Thanksgiving is evolving into a hazy hybrid holiday that resembles a higher calorie President's' Day with autumnal coloring.
Today's PA touched me.Ha, the last panel is actually funny because it's so true. I've done that on multiple occasions.
(http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/723758158_koamt-L.jpg)
Black Friday wasn't that bad for us this year, surprisingly. I spent the majority of the day making people laugh, reminding idiots that can't read "LINE STARTS HERE LOL" signs, and wishing I had a Rock It Launcher for the MW2 360 bundles.
There's a sex joke to be made here but I'm not clever enough to pull one off.I have enough in the front?