Black Friday c/d?

Does anyone partake in this nutjob ritual.

Never done it don't care too. You can have your 75% off.

No way in hell I'd do it in person, but I'm hoping to strike a few online deals Friday between naps.

I eat as many beans as I can possibly hold down at 5 a.m. for breakfast and then go to the most crowded store I can find a couple hours later, just stand there in the middle of the action fartin like mad

longstanding tradition in my family about which I'm a little embarrassed but hey traditions are important

hahahahahahaha

I don't think you could pay me to go shopping on that day but I pretty much hate shopping anyway so this is kind of my worst nightmare.

what really annoys me, I mean beyond the obvious, is that black friday deals generally are okay but not particularly amazing! if everything in america were half price that'd be one thing, but instead people are getting trampled to death for 10% discounts

if you do get trampled to death you save an almost incalculable amount of money in the long run

lol otm

my family does this every year

I remember two years ago, waking up and discovering that my mom had bought a "napster mp3 player" at best buy 2 hours before

Has some great lines but it's not my favourite track on Katy Lied.

http://www.billrotelladrumbeatings.com/rimshot.gif

Waking up at 4am Friday so I can get to work at 6am.

At least I don't have to work midnight to noon, I guess.

Worked Wal-Mart one year and it sucked getting there at 4am and having this huge line of fat fucking idiots waiting to get in and buy discounted shit. It was more or less pre-internet and I was cashier and basically i didnt have a break in my line the entire morning. Think I made holiday money but not 100% sure. Never doing this myself. Don't really care for Xmas, tbh. I love seeing friends & fam but everything else, please take it.

And if he came back, Jesus would declare a War on Christmas!

i know people who really enjoy this stuff, like they make all kinds of plans with mapped out strategies and are way to into it. there is no way i would be anywhere near a dept store on this day.

i cant even bother to shop online never mind get to a store. Besides as any good man can attest, we do all our holiday shopping a day or two before christmas anyways.

I kind of want to go to the outlets this year. This is the first time in a long time that we could actually AFFORD to be really stupid re: spending money on Christmas gifts and I feel like I should seize the opportunity.

IT'S A TRAP

http://a.onionstatic.com/images/articles/article/48228/tolerability-Index-4647.jpg

I like the transparent ugliness of it, how it resists any kind of romanticizing, unlike something like Halloween or bullfighting. (or more appropriately, Thanksgiving)
I would like to believe that this transparency will make it self-regulating over time.

Black Friday is like catnip for working people who crave the "good things" of a consumer society but who make less than $15/hr. This is a very large segment of the population. BF is now another big holiday, iow.

how it resists any kind of romanticizing

ha - I think the lesson of the 21st century is "given enough battering, people will romanticize even the most reprehensible garbage in the world"

I basically hate everything about this whole idea.

The "first 200 customers throught the door" promotions make for a combination of the Lottery and MMA brawling == premier 21st century entertainment value.

Some of my co-workers are mad crazy for this shizznit. You could not make me get up that early to save money. World is a better place that early in the morning without me in it. And fuck being in a crowded store. Online thing is cool, would do that but I always forget to check it out...and I don't have the patience to go digging for bargains.

I went to K-Mart with my mother one year and didn't last five minutes before I begged to go home. What's so different about Black Friday than any other holiday sale? They all have gimmicky catches such as "Buy 5 game titles on Black Friday to get 50% an X-Box 360 with a free year subscription to Netflix Streaming!". People climb over each other for this crap, it's unbelievable.

This is one of those things that makes me ashamed to be American.

Maybe u were never really proud to be American if something like this makes u ashamed so easily. #reallymakesyouthink

i'm like kinda in the market for some nice audio equipment that will increase my aural pleasure listening to music. i'm open to anything really as long as it's reasonably priced. does anyone know about any audio/hifi equipment that might be really cheap come black friday - bookcase speakers? preamp? bluetooth something something that will make spotify on my iphone or my mp3/flacs on my computer sound good? plz help me find good deals!?!

i don't really do the brick-and-mortar black friday thing, but i just went in on an indie record store's 15% off online sale. i bought the reissue of this album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns2nvj-VJqQ

I'd happily pay full price for what i want, rather than spend my time with people like this...
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=15a_1385698992

is anyone getting anything worth mentioning?

Getting trampled?

if i didn't like the entirety of october becoming 'spooky season' i really hate the second half (at least) of november becoming 'black friday'

Gonna strike all the big red words from my little black book