Black Friday - the day after Thanxgiving

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:43 pm

What a wonderful "tradition" -- I wonder how many people got trampled this year?

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:45 pm

Obviously not enough...

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 6:14 pm

TheEngineer wrote:Enough people got trampled to be the feature video on aol.com. Let me just say, Xbox 360 is not worth a trip to the emergency room, it's great, but not that great.

In the great Microsoft traidion of a quality product, thoroughly tested before release, I note that there are already reports of XBox 360 crashes and hangs.

MartyNeilan · Post by **MartyNeilan** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 7:18 pm

Is it any wonder that George Romero set his sequel to Night of the Living Dead in a ...MALL??

(and a picture from the recent remake)

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 9:20 pm

Chuck(G) wrote:In the great Microsoft traidion of a quality product, thoroughly tested before release, I note that there are already reports of XBox 360 crashes and hangs.

Could they actually market it as a Microsoft product if it didn't?

MartyNeilan wrote:Is it any wonder that George Romero set his sequel to Night of the Living Dead in a ...MALL??

(and a picture from the recent remake)

Yep, that's a loverly bunch o' "mallcontents" ya got there ...

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 9:24 pm

Yeah... I went shopping this morning awright! ... for vinyl siding and some trim to blend in a new door I installed in the shop. There was NO waiting and NO line at the building supply place at 9am.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 9:25 pm

Chuck(G) wrote:In the great Microsoft tradition of a quality product

MartyNeilan wrote:Night of the Living Dead

Daryl Fletcher · Post by **Daryl Fletcher** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 2:12 pm

It's hard for me to imagine anything in any store that would be worth getting trampled over.

I'm not really sure what to think of all this. Is it more the result of the downfall of society or the strength of the economy?

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 2:51 pm

Daryl Fletcher wrote:It's hard for me to imagine anything in any store that would be worth getting trampled over.

I'm not really sure what to think of all this. Is it more the result of the downfall of society or the strength of the economy?

The success of advertising, I'd think.

Joe Baker · Post by **Joe Baker** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 3:12 pm

Daryl Fletcher wrote: I'm not really sure what to think of all this. Is it more the result of the downfall of society or the strength of the economy?

The former.

Just take a look at who is getting trampled, and who is doing the trampling. I've noticed every time this happens there are older folks, who played by the rules and got there early to secure their place in line, trampled by younger folks, who apparently think they have a divine right to whatever it is they want and shouldn't have to play by the rules. Stores have offered "while supplies last" loss leaders for decades, but you never heard about people being trampled until the last 10 years or so.

This should be no surprise to anyone. Listen to the hedonism and ego-centrism, and the indifference to other people, in pop music -- especially rap -- and it's not hard to guess that large numbers of its adherents would be willing to trample an old woman to get what they want.

FWIW, I haven't set foot in a store the day after Thanksgiving since... well, maybe EVER, but certainly not in the last 20 years. Even without the recent addition of trampling into the mix, the crowds and the lines are just not worth the little bit of money I'd save.

I don't get enough vacation days to waste them that way. I'd rather take a walk and watch some football the day after Thanksgiving. Then sometime in mid-December I'll take an early lunch a couple of times and do my shopping at 11:00 AM on a weekday.

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Joe Baker, who knows quite a few young people who have not fallen prey to this tendency toward self-centeredness and coldness toward others -- and finds it interesting that none of them listen to any significant amount of rap. Coincidence? I think NOT

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 7:50 pm

bloke wrote:<img src="http://tinypic.com/hwzczt.jpg">

"#$@& apes!"

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 9:06 pm

In spite of the local fish wrapper running stories about how busy the stores were and how enthusiastic the crowds were (it's known as hype), the numbers just in say that the spending thus far has been rather lackluster.

So much for the hype and the apes.

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 10:24 pm

bloke wrote: Maybe (a few) folks are finally getting smarter and not loading up on mo' (Chinese-made) crap just 'cause its Xmas.

bloke "no flat-screens, ipods, laptops, hd's, X-boxes, digicams for me...thanks just the same "

Just for that, Joe, no USB slippers for you!

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 11:05 pm

Joe, we keep telling you, the concept is to have soomeone walk ON your back, not in it...

Paul S · Post by **Paul S** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:00 am

bloke wrote:
windshieldbug wrote:Joe, we keep telling you, the concept is to have soomeone walk ON your back, not in it...
in...on...What's the difference?

<img src="http://tinypic.com/hx5j78.jpg">

Joe, How did you get that photo of me at the beach?