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Black Friday

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  • #62
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    BoJack Horseman wrote: »
    So, you will only consider the purchase of a bargain based on an odd xenophobic hostility?

    What if I told you that January sales were also an american creation?

    If you really think this is about being against sales and bargains, and not the promotion of dangerous hysteria and complete irrespsonsilibilty of the stores involved, then you clearly have no understanding of the idea.

    It's like the moment you try to sell something, you are longer have to be accountable for anyone or anything and you no longer have to worry about the inconveienice of obeying the law.

    If it ever gets to the point where the police are called out to control the New Year's Sales, I'd feel the same way.

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



  • #63
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,251 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Let's remember the real story of Black Friday, when Jesus stormed the temple and punched an old man in the face for 20% off a Nespresso


  • #64
    Arbiter of Good Taste
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,200 ✭✭✭Arbiter of Good Taste


    lazybones32 wrote: »
    I find the name offensive...it's just another negative connotation by whitey, to associate unruly behaviour with black people.

    Presumably this is a joke/sarcasm? :(


  • #65
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/11/28/2390DDC000000578-2852585-image-2_1417166434656.jpg

    Police were called to dozens of stores in the UK as fights broke out.

    I managed to get a decent tablet for €59.99 from the comfort of my home,that's enough Black Friday for me.


  • #66
    Cantona's Collars
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,709 ✭✭✭✭Cantona's Collars


    I'd reckon Black Friday in Ferguson is pretty sh1t seeing as the locals looted & burned most of the shops.


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  • #67
    Streetwalker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭Streetwalker


    Will be going out of my way not to spend a single cent today


  • #68
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I've spent all my gambling money. :(


  • #69
    smoking_kills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 488 ✭✭smoking_kills


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I've spent all my gambling money. :(


    Bet you a tenner you didnt.


  • #70
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    smoking_kills wrote: »
    Bet you a tenner you didnt.

    You're on!

    Oh wait. . .


  • #71
    smoking_kills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 488 ✭✭smoking_kills


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    You're on!

    Oh wait. . .


    LOL :)


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  • #72
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Popped into Debenhams at lunch there, nothing special pretty much another copy of their Blue X events under a different banner.


  • #73
    supersean1999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,465 ✭✭✭supersean1999


    Its all a load of sh1*


  • #74
    Hachiko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭Hachiko


    despite doing my best to get killed, i saved 20quid on a coffee machine and 70quid on a useless outdated hd telly, well worth taking a day off work for.

    I win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    *these idiots who do this mad shopping are brain dead.


  • #75
    Venus In Furs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,028 ✭✭✭Venus In Furs


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    Seems bit hypocritical to denounce Americans as ignorant, hyper-capitalists and then to camp outside an electrical store for a cheap TV in Blacnh or Liffe Valley!
    I'm not sure it's the same people doing both?

    Isn't Black Friday mostly derived from internet bargains anyway, on Amazon, Apple et al?


  • #76
    pharmaton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭pharmaton


    I traipsed around the shops with the mother today, most of the department stores had clearly displayed sale items and quite a few black friday tags alongside, mostly running somewhere between 10 and 30% reductions. sounds good but not too many bargains to be had considering original prices, hardly stampede territory and certainly nothing worth getting shot over thankfully. I bought bedsheets :)


  • #77
    Frank O. Pinion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭Frank O. Pinion


    Venus In Furs wrote: »
    Isn't Black Friday mostly derived from internet bargains anyway, on Amazon, Apple et al?
    "Black Friday" has been around since the 60s...


  • #78
    ABajaninCork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,411 ✭✭✭ABajaninCork


    NotCominBack wrote: »
    Tom Berners Lee will be turning in his grave


    Last I looked, Sir Tim Berners-Lee was very much alive and kicking! :pac:


  • #79
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Is there any more tediously student denunciation than Americanized for anything that involves European instances of consumerism or popular culture?

    That said, some of the ones fighting in supermarkets need to be euthanized.


  • #80
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,102 ✭✭✭✭lertsnim


    zerks wrote: »
    http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/11/28/2390DDC000000578-2852585-image-2_1417166434656.jpg

    Police were called to dozens of stores in the UK as fights broke out.

    Acting like animals over a ****ing Polaroid television. Polaroid!!!! If they acted like that over a good brand you'd roll your eyes but Polaroid. LOL


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