[OT] Black Friday - WTF is it?

[Adrian]

It's a big TV. It's in the sale. It MUST be a good deal!

[cd]

Most of the people fighting over "stuff" were black. I think that's where the name comes from. You know, Footlocker and whatnot. It's a cultural thing.

[Big Les Wade]

"Dave Plowman (News)" posted

The whole thing is fiction, a stunt promoted by the retailers. All those people you see fighting over goods are being paid to do so, while the TV people obligingly film them because it's a cheap way of producing news footage. Everybody benefits.

One of the rioters in those reports was a PR guy I know who works for John Lewis. He got paid double time for the job.

[stuart noble]

Just as well nobody reads usenet. Could go viral on Twitter I imagine

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Well, I know at least one person who went to one of these sales to buy something. And wasn't paid to do so.

Right. I'll match your one to my one.

[Big Les Wade]

"Dave Plowman (News)" posted

Did he riot though?

Just to clarify, I *was* being ironic in that second paragraph.

[whisky-dave]

I really wouldn;t want to be in a shop with those consumers.... they acted like animals (untrained animals) my cat behaves better.

[stuart noble]

[Tim Watts]

Cats eat your food and would then happily claw your head off and **** down your windpipe as soon as look at you...

[Tim Streater]

No, if handled properly as kittens they crave attention and act as excellent lap warmers. Ours mostly want to be where we are.