Well....the turkey hasn't had a chance to digest....

[W7XF]

:soapbox:

...And SqualorMart, TarJay, Kohls, JCDollars, SeerSuckers, KFart, WorstBuy, et.al. have fully staffed stores, albeit with more-than-likely hungry UNDERPAID employees (which, I am sure, are NOT being paid at least time and a half today in most states), who were denied family time, for the corparate pursuit of the almighty dollar. Add this to the blatant commercialisation of the end-of-year holiday season....and seeing Christmas shit in the stores since late summer...I say FUCK THEM ALL!!! I'm home right now, relaxing as my dinner settles, not dealing with the mad throngs of the sheeple being fooled into thinking they're saving money on all those fake doorbuster bargains. EPIC :fail:

RANT OVER. Thoughts, please.

[KG4CGC]

Even in years past, we avoided BF simply for the crowds. Now it's due to the absurdity of a nation.

[n6hcm]

there is no bf deal that has been worthy of my attention. i certainly have no intent of wading through crowds for stuff.

i don't want to deprive those who want to work on thanksgiving day (i used to do this myself back in the day). however, i wouldn't want to coerce anyone into working on thanksgiving.

[W2NAP]

I never have done any of this holiday crap. quite honestly the greed is killing this nation

[N2NH]

http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-78371137/

This goes on every year and I keep thinking it's the same thing, except that it wouldn't be America if we didn't shoot something.

In Romeoville, IL, at a Kohl's, a shoplifter was shot.

[kb2vxa]

"Turner's daughter Meghan said she was still planning on shopping elsewhere early this morning."
Who can blame her after THAT?

I always wondered how turkey became America's traditional Thanksgiving repast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NY7GCQE48c

[n6hcm]

a friend googled around ... so far this year:

2013 Teen returning home from Black Friday shopping fell asleep at wheel, killed in wreck 1 dead 4 injured
2013 Man Stabbed During Black Friday Event at Carlsbad Mall - 1 injured
2013 Newport, Arkansas Walmart employee injured during Black Friday sales - 1 injured
2013 NBPD confirm woman trampled at Wal-Mart - 1 injured
2013 Scenes of chaos during chain store's Black Friday sales in Ireland - 1 injured
2013 Several injured in Black Friday-related shooting outside Kohl's in Illinois - 2 injured
2013 Black Friday: Virginia Man Stabbed In Walmart Parking Lot Over Space - 1 injured
2013 Rialto Walmart brawl sends one police officer to hospital - 1 injured
2013 Shopper carrying TV home from Target shot in Las Vegas - 1 injured

[NA4BH]

I never have done any of this holiday crap. quite honestly the greed is killing this nation

Actually this greed fuels the nation, without it countless people would be unemployed.

[N2NH]

1) Whaddaya mean I can't buy 10 TVs at the Black Friday price??


A 29-year-old shopper was pepper sprayed and arrested Thursday in a New Jersey Walmart after arguing with a store manager about a TV and attacking an officer, police said.

Richard Ramos of Newark was charged with disorderly conduct, aggravated assault on a police officer and resisting arrest, according to Garfield police.

Police working at the store on the busy shopping day were dealing with a separate altercation, where a woman in the infant section spit on another woman's child. While issuing that suspect a summons, they heard a man nearby shouting obscenities.

When they tracked down the man, store security asked the officers to make the man to leave, police say. They tried to escort the man out, but he spun around and grabbed an officer's shirt. He continued to struggle as police tried to handcuff the suspect. According to the Star-Ledger, police eventually had to use pepper spray to subdue the man.

2)
A Wal-Mart worker died early Friday after an "out-of-control" mob of frenzied shoppers smashed through the Long Island store's front doors and trampled him, police said.

The Black Friday stampede plunged the Valley Stream outlet into chaos, knocking several employees to the ground and sending others scurrying atop vending machines to avoid the horde.

When the madness ended, 34-year-old Jdimytai Damour was dead and four shoppers, including a woman eight months pregnant, were injured.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/worker-dies-long-island-wal-mart-trampled-black-friday-stampede-article-1.334059#ixzz2m6bcjHcs


Well, if the guys playing "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" with their junk didn't get you into the spirit, this should be no help at all.

[NA4BH]

1) Whaddaya mean I can't buy 10 TVs at the Black Friday price??






2)

Well, if the guys playing "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" with their junk didn't get you into the spirit, this should be no help at all.

So it's the greed of the people?

[W2NAP]

Actually this greed fuels the nation, without it countless people would be unemployed.we got buy just fine before this crap. honestly since everything has become all about "me me me" I hope it all burns to the ground. maybe then people will think its not all about them.as for the unemployed statement, you know if we still made things in this country so many wouldn't be unemployed, and my city wouldn't have a 30-40% unemployment rate.

[N2NH]

So it's the greed of the people?

Only if you mean corporations are people. Then I'd say there's plenty to go around. I happen to like Walmart. Kohl's not so much.

After seeing my share of Christmas shopping fights - and I've seen plenty when I was a kid - Black Friday is now a day to recover from Thanksgiving. Do most of my shopping on the net anyway.

[N8YX]

After seeing my share of Christmas shopping fights - and I've seen plenty when I was a kid - Black Friday is now a day to recover from Thanksgiving. Do most of my shopping on the net anyway.
Bought 'DSG's stuff with just a few mouse clicks.

A good friend/known associate of mine collects Star Trek Christmas tree ornaments, and the one that was missing from her collection is now on its way via a couple minutes on eBay.

There is absolutely nothing which I cannot wait for and which would make me put up with the usual holiday brick-mortar store scene. I've moved far beyond the "cool kids gotta have it NOW!" scene, so let the dumbasses sit around in front of the store for days prior to opening...all the while hoping to score the newest game console...and if I really want one I'll wait until they start shipping the versions of such which actually work.

[KG4CGC]

Gee. I wonder who could have possibly made this ad?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-BsjnlaPW8

[W7XF]

Gee. I wonder who could have possibly made this ad?

hmmmm...could it be that huge spread somewhere around Bentonville, AR????

[K7SGJ]

hmmmm...could it be that huge spread somewhere around Bentonville, AR????

I use to know a girl that had one of those, but she didn't live in AR.