Black Friday

[frannyan]

The Christmas spirit will never be alive in the way that it was first intended as long as human greed compells people to trample down their fellow human being to try and get cheep shit on the biggest shopping day of the year.

How SAD must your life be that you antisipate a stores opening so that you can push and shove and fight to get something that'll break a few days or months after you get it? How pathetic are we as a culture where this shit is expected to the point of having a NAME?

Christmass =/= greed, people.


More shit from the 'MUST GET CHEEP STUFF!' mentality of our country. Do countries not in the US have this insane crap? Cause it's not like you'd have the day after THanksgiving when that;s a US holiday and all. ^^

Comments

[angryhamster.livejournal.com]

december 8th in ireland is a bank holiday, and is generally referred to as "culchie day" (culchie being a word for a country person) as because they all have the day off from work but the shops are open (because they'd never close this close to christmas), they swam the capital en masse trying to get better value from the big city shops than they would from smaller ones down home.

dec 8th is a day to avoid going into town. :D however, there seems to be bigger sales/events in the US than here, and you don't really get the same "massive discount" offers that drive people into complete insanity here. i've seen some photos of what's happened in various places in the US, though... it's terribly creepy.