Black Friday, for me, means ...
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Re:What is... (Score:5, Informative)
It's the day in the U.S. where the well conditioned crazed consumers all go out and create a scene suitable for an after the apocalypse movie. Occasionally they trample store clerks to death when the doors are unlocked.
Black Friday (Score:3, Informative)
I don't know what this shopping bullshit is, but Black Friday is:
Black Friday (1869), the Fisk-Gould Scandal, a financial crisis in the United States
Black Friday (1881), the Eyemouth disaster in which 189 fishermen died
Black Friday (1939), a day of devastating bushfires in Victoria, Australia, which killed 71 people
Black Friday (1945), an Allied air attack against German ships in Norway
Hollywood Black Friday (1945), a riot at the Warner Bros. studios
Black Friday (1978), a massacre of protesters in Iran
Black Friday (1987), a tornado in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Re:For Americans only? (Score:5, Informative)
free weenies for pop
As a non-American, this seems rather...uhh...I mean...it's just...you know what? I don't want to know.
I just don't.
Oh, don't be so homophobic. :-D
"hot dogs" used to be called "wieners" back in the day when it was also acceptable to call people named "Richard" "Dick".
But don't blame the Americans, the Brits have many more strange names for phalluses and phallus-shaped objects than the Yanks could muster. I submit a small sampling: Monty Python's Penis Song [youtube.com] (lyrics NSFW)
Re:What is... (Score:2, Informative)
Actually, that doesn't happen any more often on Black Friday than it does on other days. Most of the violence is unrelated to shopping (e.g. gang violence), and that one trampling incident happened because of how insanely neglectful the store was. The media just likes to put out bullshit stories on Black Friday crowds because it gets good ratings.
For Americans only? - Yep. (Score:5, Informative)
It is pretty much for Americans only. Black Friday is the friday after the American Thanksgiving* which many people have as a national holiday every year since Thanksgiving holiday is always a Thursday. As there are so many people with the day off, and Christmas is the next big holiday, stores usually have massive sales as people start to shop for gifts. It is famous for incredible loss leader sales such as TVs or computers for next to nothing. The $100 Touchpad type thing would be an example. However, most stores only have a few of whatever is on sale, so it leads to people camping out in front of the stores which tend to open earlier and earlier as people try to be the first in line to get what they want. It is also supposedly called 'Black Friday' because it is the day that most businesses go into the black for the year and is the beginning of the season that most make all their profits.
Frys electronics opened at midnight Friday morning for example. That's where I went (not at midnight) to pick up the RAM and hard drive I needed to upgrade my laptop. There were no sales I wanted, it just happened that it was the first chance I had to get the stuff and I had nothing else to do yesterday. Parking was insane as was the checkout line for a store that has acres of parking and 50 checkout counters. Once I got home, I spent the rest of the day eating Thanksgiving leftovers (mmm, pie as breakfast) and rebuilding my laptop.
*Not to be confused with the Canadian Thanksgiving, nor to infer that they aren't from the continent of North America either.
Re:Black Friday (Score:5, Informative)
The "shopping" black Friday is on the same list, moron.
I'd have made it blink too, but Slashdot won't let me.
Time to go skiing. (Score:3, Informative)
The slopes were empty. The snow was great. The sky was clear.
Boxing Day (Score:4, Informative)