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Two full months of black friday

  • 21-11-2019 08:41PM
    #1
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,371 ✭✭✭


    That's how it seems to have gone now. Last year there were "late black friday" deals the whole way into January almost and they have been harping on about it since halloween.

    Any chance we can round up a posse to hunt down the fat ugly moguls, magnates and mongers who started this codology and fill their arses with lead?


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  • #2
    dreamers75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭dreamers75


    Yeah sure.........right after I get the kids xmas presents tho


  • #3
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,671 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    You are going the wrong way about it OP.

    We should be demanding Thanksgiving as a national holiday to boost economic activity as then we can properly avail of Black Friday offers.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #4
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,980 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    I think we should just enjoy thanksgiving and forgot all this commercial nonsense!


  • #5
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,752 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    tuxy wrote: »
    I think we should just enjoy thanksgiving and forgot all this commercial nonsense!

    What’s “thanks giving”?


  • #6
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Shefwedfan wrote: »
    What’s “thanks giving”?

    Something about massacring Native Americans.


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  • #7
    BDI
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,005 ✭✭✭BDI


    If you don’t pretend to be into it people won’t like your post on instasomething.



    Disclaimer: they probably won’t anyway.


  • #8
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,980 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    Shefwedfan wrote: »
    What’s “thanks giving”?

    It's in between the middle of black Friday and cyber Monday. Pure American nonsense at its worst, good thing we are safe from it here in Ireland.


  • #9
    beejee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭beejee


    Why would I want to follow you around, presumably with a mobile smelting vat, to watch you fill a strangers anal cavity with a transitional metal?

    If you remove it afterwards, would you be plumbing a bum?

    You have my attention


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    tuxy wrote: »
    It's in between the middle of black Friday and cyber Monday. Pure American nonsense at its worst, good thing we are safe from it here in Ireland.

    Ah, it's actually the Thursday before black Friday..


  • #11
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Sounds like something the social justice warriors should be complaining about.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I think we should just start assigning colours to other days too though..


  • #13
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,980 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Ah, it's actually the Thursday before black Friday..

    Yeah I don't get these American holidays or why they have three of them this close to Christmas.

    The 8th is traditionally the big shopping day in Ireland, can't wait!


  • #14
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,671 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    tuxy wrote: »
    Yeah I don't get these American holidays or why they have three of them at the end of November this close to Christmas.

    You cant say the C word just like that.

    There is kwanzaa and hanukkah too so it is the holiday season.

    Happy holidays!

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #15
    scamalert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,732 ✭✭✭scamalert


    i dont mind it but early deals seems crap, basically what youd get shopping around a bit, and comparing prices.


    actual black friday still sucks- most discounts either on stuff that have new version coming out or random deals, that last few hours and are long gone before someone mentions one :pac:


  • #16
    bfa1509
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭bfa1509


    Ubbquittious wrote: »
    That's how it seems to have gone now. Last year there were "late black friday" deals the whole way into January almost and they have been harping on about it since halloween.

    Any chance we can round up a posse to hunt down the fat ugly moguls, magnates and mongers who started this codology and fill their arses with lead?

    Was it not Jesus no?


  • #17
    bfa1509
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭bfa1509


    beejee wrote: »
    Why would I want to follow you around, presumably with a mobile smelting vat, to watch you fill a strangers anal cavity with a transitional metal?

    If you remove it afterwards, would you be plumbing a bum?

    You have my attention

    I'd love to read the thread that this was intended for


  • #18
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,671 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    bfa1509 wrote: »
    Was it not Jesus no?

    Sol mithras got there first.
    Or maybe Saturnalia.

    What did the Romans ever do for us, eh?

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #19
    eyerer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭eyerer


    Is it because people are sheep.. Now people talk about Christmas in early November like it's normal. It wasn't like that when I was growing up. The shops and media really do tell us what is ok.. which is whatever makes them the most money.
    We weren't allowed to even mention it as kids until December. It's gone mad, I don't want Christmas to last for 2 months. It's **** as an adult anyway :pac:


  • #20
    20Wheel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭20Wheel


    OP I sympathise.

    However, I see some good in this black Friday shyte.

    You see the Christmas malarkey has become so obnoxious with its endless commercialism that this same greed has started to seep out over a greater time span.

    Black Friday means the ridiculousness is being spread out more evenly over time, it may even take away from the now commonplace Christmas from 1st of November shyte.

    If black Friday can take enough of the spotlight off Christmas it may lead to a kind of perpetual sale from early October. Killing off some Christmas hype, in a sense.

    If there's a bunch of pointless hyper consumerism days then Christmas becomes just another run of the mill sale.

    Increasing the odds that we can get non-shopping related stuff done, and encounter fewer traffic jams in December.

    Let there be thanksgiving too, and cyber Monday, and January sales. And halloween sales.

    Let it all spread out nice and thin.

    Putin is a dictator. Putin should face justice at the Hague. All good Russians should work to depose Putin. Russias war in Ukraine is illegal and morally wrong.



  • #21
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    tuxy wrote: »
    The 8th is traditionally the big shopping day in Ireland, can't wait!
    Where are you from? Better not be Dublin.


    Dubliners will no longer be allowed to set foot inside a shop on the 8th of December as that would be cultural appropriation of rural shoppers' traditions.


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  • #22
    TheRiverman
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    eyerer wrote: »
    Is it because people are sheep.. Now people talk about Christmas in early November like it's normal. It wasn't like that when I was growing up. The shops and media really do tell us what is ok.. which is whatever makes them the most money.
    We weren't allowed to even mention it as kids until December. It's gone mad, I don't want Christmas to last for 2 months. It's **** as an adult anyway :pac:

    Excellent post.This Black Friday craze is a ridiculous
    American pest that has crept into our life.


  • #23
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,504 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Try working for an American online retailer..

    .. you know nothing Jon Snow's!


  • #24
    buried
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭buried


    I refuse to watch any TV until at least the 18th December. The constant stream of adverts, the hype of "BUY BUY THE MERCHANDISE NOW" since end of October is just pure total mindf**k.

    Then, the minute January 1st hits you get that constant TV advert stream of a woman drowning in her kitchen over money debts with its "WHY DID YOU SPEND SO MUCH MONEY?" message.

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



  • #25
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,371 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    beejee wrote: »
    Why would I want to follow you around, presumably with a mobile smelting vat, to watch you fill a strangers anal cavity with a transitional metal?

    If you remove it afterwards, would you be plumbing a bum?

    You have my attention




    I was going to use the solid stuff but if you want to "go the whole hog" and use the molten thats even better. I won't be the fella removing it anyway


  • #26
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,671 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    buried wrote: »
    I refuse to watch any TV until at least the 18th December. The constant stream of adverts, the hype of "BUY BUY THE MERCHANDISE NOW" since end of October is just pure total mindf**k

    Sounds like you need a new tv?

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #27
    Vita nova
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    tuxy wrote: »
    Yeah I don't get these American holidays or why they have three of them this close to Christmas.

    The 8th is traditionally the big shopping day in Ireland, can't wait!

    That used to be the case but the school holiday is gone, there are no longer any major sales and it's usually on a weekday. In terms of shopping footfall in Dublin city centre in December, it's not even in the top 10 days.


  • #28
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 99,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Two full months of black friday ?


    Wait till the OP finds about the DFS sale.


  • #29
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,752 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Two full months of black friday ?


    Wait till the OP finds about the DFS sale.


    Power City in Blanchardstown is having a Sale now going on 20 years at this stage......they have a huge sign outside advertising it since they opened it


  • #30
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Don’t see how the whole save the world thing can be a comfortable bedfellow of the buy more shît you don’t need thing.


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  • #31
    lab man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭lab man


    what is DFS


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