[OT] Black Friday - WTF is it?

Nov 28, 2014 49 Replies

O for a universal camelcamelcamel-type history of retail prices.

The original legal requirement for goods to have been on sale on Rockall for five minutes sometime in the last six years for personal callers only requirements have been so comprehensively worked around, we need something else. I suggest "retailers must show full price history of everything they sell and this must be as readily accessible as everything else on their websites" and even "and can be used by anyone else for any purpose they want". Hey - Gridwatch for retail!

I'd imagine very carefully if it's got any sharp edges or corners.

Can't see any sharp bits. Its the Evolution one and it was cheaper than the evo_outlet are doing them (they are £50). They were in Screwfix for £50 too.

Well in simple terms its US crap finding its way into UK culture ... Black Friday is the start of Xmas in US as its the day after Thanksgiving holiday. Most of US has day off and go spend.

We will probably start having Thanksgiving specials in UK soon

If we celebrated Thanksgiving in the UK, wouldn't it be on July 4th?

Sorry. You forfeit the right to whine and whinge about Black Friday if you are a supporter of that other American travesty.

Halloween - as you might guess by the name - was celebrated in Scotland before 'America' was discovered. It was mass immigration of the Scots to America in the 19th century which made it popular there.

Hide it in a corner of the lounge with a cloth over it.

Owain

I neither knew nor cared, just offering my best guess at answering your question. :-)

Now that you've revealed the lack of any sharp edges or corners, I'll amend my reply to "Very Nicely?" :-)

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. ;-)

And pumpkins are much easier to carve than turnips, which were the original Hallowe'en lanterns.

They last longer too. ;-)

Seeing one of those 'sales' on TV, people were fighting over a large screen TV (40"+?) which was labelled HD ready on the box. So presumably not even last year's model - but older still?

Nah, a best guess for such celebrations would be the 6th of September according to the wikipedia article here:

OOI one of the firms I unsubscribed getting emails from had a survey box asking why I was doing so wich I duly filled in.

Did any of the ones you deal with come up with anything similar?

G.Harman

Yeah, I think most of us got that

the point is no-one has ever shoved this down out throat BEFORE this year

tim

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk:

Just greedy pigs taking whatever is in the trough. Would they understand a specification?

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