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Thursday is a very special day for Americans.

Started by The Good Reverend Roger, November 20, 2012, 05:13:19 PM

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Suu

I'm still tickled that 10 years ago, we called it Black Friday out of contempt while working in the industry. Now it's capitalist vernacular, and I have Steely Dan stuck in my head all day.
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Quote from: Elder Iptuous on November 21, 2012, 04:12:15 PM
i have noticed a trend this year, that i haven't seen heretofore where advertisements announce that so-and-so company is 'celebrating' black friday.  so far, i've heard adds for three separate stores using these terms.  anybody else noticed this?

that's an interesting twist, making it a holiday in its own right....

I have noticed that. I think that's why I've been more inclined to stab someone in the eye each time I hear one.
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Bruno

I'll probably go to Walmart early early early Friday morning to buy a potato or something.

That always fucks with them.
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Sita

The store was insane this past weekend when we went for groceries. I sure as hell am not going out on Friday. Wouldn't make it back alive.
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I'm always broke on holidays anyway, people spend their money on holiday crap, not calling me.
It wasn't any different when I worked retail, they'd cut our hours in the weeks leading up to the time they got busy so everything would average out. The last place I worked retail was a supermarket. Motherfuckers wouldn't even give us a fucking turkey.

I wouldn't participate if I had the money to burn, but the bank holidays holding up my direct deposits, general scarcity and people asking "What are you doing for thanksgiving?" and "How was your Christmas" are annoying as fuck.
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Freeky

I went to Michael's today, and found out they're open tomorrow.  That fucking sucks.  National holiday, and more and more stores are too obsessed with money to even give their employees time off for actual family crap (if they want to do that kind of thing). 

Also, what the fuck are people so desperate for at Michael's on Thanksgiving?



ETA: Oh wait. Davis Monthan.  Military without families nearby.  Okay, sort of legit for any business to be open.  But still shitty.

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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on November 21, 2012, 12:53:21 PM
Thanksgiving was the one holiday everyone in my family liked.  Dad would get a whole bunch of different people to come over, from SoHo artists to Korean physicists, and we'd all sit around, get drunk, eat amazing food, and talk.  It's what I imagined one of the old salons would have been like. 

To me it's not about family.  No, that's not quite right.  For me, it's about family, because those are the people who are meaningful to me.  It's also about my closest friends, because they're also meaningful to me.  If you don't like your family, then abandon them, and go find the people who make your life FUN and worth living, and have Thanksgiving with them. 

This year, I'm going to cook for my mom, Mrs LMNO, and three of my closest friends.  We're going to have brisket, spiced winter squash with pomagranite, and a kale and brussels sprout salad.  There will be NO shopping on Friday.

I used to host Thanksgiving for all my orphaned friends, until my divorce. I could not fucking handle it that year, and I didn't even have the kids, and Mr. Vintage invited me to his legendary Thanksgiving dinner. That night, I got wasted and fell asleep curled up on the coat pile. I have gone there every year since; Mr. Vintage's Thanksgiving has seen me through three heartbreaks and one divorce. In some way that house is more "home" to me than my own house.

I really enjoy Thanksgiving now, because all I have to do is make a big dish of rutabagas and drive out to the Vintage home in St. Johns, where my every whim will be pandered to and I am treated like a god for my ability to make decent gravy. It's curious that after all these years the only time I have gone with a partner was the year I was dating Space Cowboy, who is also there every year.

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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Suu on November 21, 2012, 04:26:55 PM
I'm still tickled that 10 years ago, we called it Black Friday out of contempt while working in the industry. Now it's capitalist vernacular, and I have Steely Dan stuck in my head all day.

Yeah, I think it dates back to the sixties in the derogatory sense. I'm not sure when it got co-opted by the corporations and re-framed as a GOOD thing.  :lol:
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."