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MG Midget and Sprite General - Now this is how you shop on blackfriday ITS COMBAT

I just cant belive this....ive been really anti shopping these past few days....based solely on the the stupidity of this years black friday.....

But thank god, there is a hero to the cause....i like this lady....she had a fool proof VERY SPICY a plan that was every bit of insane as the new car dealerships having a BF sale starting at 5 am....meaning you got to get out bed at 3:30 am to spend 6 hours negotiating a car purchase at 5 am

I love this lady i really do... She is my new hero


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She should have come to the london riots. People were competing to nick the best they could, but I didn't read about anyone using pepper spays to get to the front. :)
Lawrence Slater

Why is it called Black Friday?

Locally, we have Black-eye Friday, but that is the last working Friday before Christmas. So called because everyone goes out "on the town" has a few and ends up in a fight.
Guy

Guy, it's to do with making money. When business gets to go into the black when the shoppers co on crazy spending spree.

Well that's the explanation I read recently anyway.

Lawrence Slater

Well all love jesus just so much w cant wait to purchase gifts to our friends and family to honor his birth 2000 years ago....we just cant contain our selfs and have to use gun fire in malls, trample people to death and max out credit cards just to prove our devotion to jesus

Heck even atheist want to celebrate the birth of jesus they become spend freaks also...

Hahaha...well thats one way to look at christmas shopping.LOL

Tbh...great question....im not sure why .its black friday...but its a recent event...maybe 10 years old...but even then it was nothing like yesterday....it was an example we as humans are not as evolved as we think we are

From cops going ape crap on innocent shoppers, to gun fire in the crowd or the ding bat with the pepper spray or cars being sold at 5 am... To people loosing the lives in a stampeed of human mass at the front doors...its just sad
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But why, in the middle of November?

At least Black-eye Friday had a reason. It was the day you got your last pay packet - (remember those little brown envelopes?) - so you could afford to go out and spend the children's Christmas present money on a few celebratory pints with your mates. And the worst that you got from a fight was a black eye to show off the next day. Gentler times!
Guy

According to the guys who host my web site - an American company - Black Friday is a day off like our Boxing Day and the traditional sales storm that hits the UK. The day after the great celebration, nothing to do etc etc. Thanksgiving Day is something we don't have here of course, it was a bit odd when the web support asked me if i was have a good Thanksgiving, and was surprised I was at work!

Seen as the start of the Holiday season (that's Christmas to us grumpies) and the shops go for big sales.
Max max-at-midgetmax-dot-com

8 hours on the back of a horse somewhere in north Cumbria does wonders for avoiding the stupid sales and working off the Christmas pud!!!!

Apparently I read that the woman did give herself in to the police ......stupid behaviour - over nothing worthwhile
rachmacb

Max..

Thats exactly correct....the day after thanks giving is the offical kick off to christmas...and your also correct i think its because there are 4 days off in cold weather surrounded by family you dont like so it becomes cabin fever.... So women started shopping on friday to get out of the house and get a jump on christmas ... Years later we have the mess of this past weekend


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