Black Friday Anyone?

[Spectre]

So for the people hear that celebrate the Psychotic shopping sprees of the day after thanksgivings, how did it go? Anyone get some good deals or have any interesting stories? I myself stayed indoors working on my Research papers for college and watched as people on the news freeze themselves at 4 in the morning to buy stupid shit. I was gonna get Left 4 Dead 2 since for some reason its the only new game that had its price cut in half. To the guys on the other side of the ocean, how was your friday?

P.S: Does the UK have any crazy shopping days?

[Smacktalks]

I've seen a few websites with deals on today, but our "Black Friday" / Big Sale Day is usually just "Boxing Day".

[jitz]

I must have been living unde a rock for the past 10 years or something, because I have never heard "Black Friday" used in respect to shopping. I honetsly thought maybe there was some terrible fire tragedy in a shopping complex trapping hundreds inside that burnt to their horrible deaths, in respect to them, there's a nationwide sale. No, apparently not. I think they should retroactively adopt my story though, because it's far more interesting and...sense making then the real story. Yeah I had to wikipedia "Black Friday", it comes up with heaps of choices, the one I'M FAMILIAR WITH, and the lame shopping one.

Everywhere else in the world has weeks of sales starting from Boxing Day, you know, so we don't all have to rush to the shops on the same day. Ingenius idea...

[Big Bizang]

I too have never heard of this phrase until this year. Why give it such a dramatic name when it's just one day of sales? Is it really only one day? Because if it is I shall have to support Jitz on this matter, that's stoopid and dangerous.

[Smacktalks]

"Black Friday" in the North East is usually a term used for "Good Friday" at Easter, as it tends to be one of the nights renound for fights breaking out in pubs.

[Fozy]

Isn't black friday when its friday the 13th?

[Aero]

1st i heard of black friday was when i watched zakk and miri make a porno

[Smacktalks]

That film turned out to be pretty rubbish, Elizabeth Banks was the best thing about it.

[Aero]

ah i dunno, theres some comedy gold in it... mostly "dutch rudders" and "I'm a guy. You give me a two popsicle sticks and a rubber band and I'll find a way to fuck it like a filthy MacGyver! "

[Chillalex]

stupid shit

my friday was great

found out my pay rise, successfully did my milestone work, relaxed.

WIN GET

[Subrick]

I too have never heard of this phrase until this year. Why give it such a dramatic name when it's just one day of sales? Is it really only one day? Because if it is I shall have to support Jitz on this matter, that's stoopid and dangerous.

It's got such a name because the stores cut every price by at least 30% and people go nuts over them. It really is only one day; the Friday after Thanksgiving. People (mainly women), camp out either outside or in the stores (mainly Wal-Mart) and when the stores open at 4 in the morning, people run in and go fucking insane. People have actually died doing this.

For example:

http://voices.kansascity.com/node/2929

This was last year.

[Spectre]

The Fool should have known never to open the doors. Its interesting that you guys in the UK rarely hear of it, when i was originally posting this i was going to tie it into thanksgiving but realized no one outside the U.S celebrates it. What exactly is Boxing Day, outside of the fact its a shopping day/week?

[RingMaster2001]

I too have never heard of Black Friday, but today I have read it on 3 different websites and was still clueless about it.

What exactly is Boxing Day, outside of the fact its a shopping day/week?

Boxing Day is the day after Xmas, 26th Dec, also called St Stephen's Day, it is a Bank Holiday, and I do believe only the Commonwealth celebrate it. Boxing Day in the UK is officially when the January sales start and therefore prices are slashed. Noones ever died though.

Generally over here, especially with married couples, they spend Christmas Day with one set of parents/grandparents and then Boxing Day with the other side of the family. I love it as it means having 2 Christmas dinners in as many days. It is exactly like another Christmas Day with my family.

[Spectre]

Sound like a good deal but after christmas is odd people seem to buy more before it. Also Your married?

[jitz]

He's as old as the Mayan civilisation, if not more, odds were in his favour that he'd managed to trick a girl into marriage at some point over 1700 years.

Yeah we get the holiday for Boxing Day, and the start of sales that comes with it, but I've never seen or even heard of it used as a second Christmas. Just like how we get days off the celebrate the Queen's Birthday on a day that is actually months from her real birthday. A running of a horse race. The celebration of the labour movement. It's all just an excuse to get drunk.

[Big Bizang]

Been meaning to take you up on this one Chris: Are you friggers ever at work over there in Australia or do you just claim to be then run as fast as you can the nearest beach/billabong/bar/hovel every day? My new job entails talking to a lot of Australian law offices and it's just one reason after another every damn day why none of them are at work. Do you have a holiday 300 days of the year?

And if you are at work you run like fuck bang on 5pm don't you? I'm three hours behind here in Hong Kong so as soon as it hits 2pm (and I mean on the button - I have once, no joke, had a legal secretary put the phone down on me as soon as it hit 5) I have to find something else to do. I'm torn between being irritated and saluting you you work-shy magnificent bastards.

Last year I was working in retail so there was no such thing as a Boxing Day holiday for us. Sales started that day so we had to be in early and fend off the masses. I managed to wrangle my way out of working on the 26th so in exchange they made me run the shop on New Year's Eve and Day. Wouldn't have been so bad except me and my girlfriend broke up two days beforehand. I was a fucking nightmare to work for those two days.

[jitz]

I'm out the door at 4:30pm, so I get it even better. Maybe twice in a year you'll see me there at 4:45pm, but that's only because we were at the pub at lunch and weren't watching the clock.

We enjoy our days off, especially the day before the day off, then you defintely won't find us at work at 5, we're down the pub. We're very social though, we drink with work mates, so technically, we're still at work...right?

[Spectre]

dude except for Australia's crap rating system for games(we all know it) it seems like a chill place to be.

EDIT: yup out the blue after reading wikipedia ive decided when i retire im moving to melbourne.

[Big Bizang]

The Australian dollar is very strong at the moment. Makes the cost of living quite high and it always been quite high to begin with or so I am told. Except Friday I'm in the office until 6 every day. Bastard.

[RingMaster2001]

Aussies get the Queen's Birthday off? Why the hell don't we?

[jitz]

It's a grand celebration indeed, complete with booze, and if the night goes well enough, naked chicks. Ask any Australian how old she is though and wait for the blank expression.

[Smacktalks]

I feel we've been robbed of a public holiday.

[Spectre]

Ask any Australian how old she is though and wait for the blank expression.

Haha i was totally gonna make a joke about how old the queen is, but i hear people in the UK get uptight about disrespecting the queen. But damn she is like 100 right? been alive for ever.

[RingMaster2001]

I feel we've been robbed of a public holiday.

Me too

[Big Bizang]

Ask any Australian how old she is though and wait for the blank expression.

Haha i was totally gonna make a joke about how old the queen is, but i hear people in the UK get uptight about disrespecting the queen. But damn she is like 100 right? been alive for ever.

She's about 85 I think and do we fuck! Most of us (and I'm certainly in that camp) feel the royal family are useless wastes of space. I'd quite happily force them to abdicate but I wouldn't what to do with them all afterwards.

I think judging by our stand-ups/comedy shows etc nobody mocks the Queen as much as the UK.