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Post by Joseph Bat on Nov 28, 2008 15:36:34 GMT -8
I assume Black Friday is similar to Boxing Day here. I have never seen such behavior. Ever.
Joe
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Post by Jon Broxton on Nov 28, 2008 16:29:38 GMT -8
Well, "Black Friday" is just the term that US retailers have given to "the day after Thanksgiving" because it's such a huge shopping day, it's the day that retailers get 'back in the black' (financially speaking).
Boxing Day in Britain (and I assume in Canada) is different in that it's actually part of the religious holiday of Christmas, although there are Boxing Day sales too.
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Post by Joseph Bat on Nov 28, 2008 16:33:30 GMT -8
Yeah, Boxing Day is considered a holiday here, unless of course you have to work at the retailers that day! Its a huge shopping day for Canada since that is when everything goes on sale for some great deals.
Joe
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Post by Jockolantern on Nov 29, 2008 2:26:30 GMT -8
I felt quite ill after just reading the headline of this story. What on earth are the kind of people who could do this to a man? Abject, lustfully consumerist monsters? He was the only one that died, but not the only person whom the crowd injured. Truly appalling.
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Post by Carlton the Barbarian on Nov 29, 2008 18:08:47 GMT -8
"Roughly 2,000 people gathered outside the Wal-Mart's doors in the predawn darkness. Chanting "push the doors in," the crowd pressed against the glass as the clock ticked down to the 5 a.m. opening. Sensing catastrophe, nervous employees formed a human chain inside the entrance to slow down the mass of shoppers. It didn't work. The mob barreled in and overwhelmed workers." I'm not much of an "off-line" shopper, but do stores have some way to prevent this from happening in the future? Having "Blitz Line Starts Here" posters aren't going to help much. Wal-Mart is trying to make it seem like they had extra security and that they took extra pre-cautions, but one would think they would have organized lines outside of the store... Anyway, I've never understood why some folks wait outside of stores, for hours, and why some stores open at Midnight on Black Friday. It's like Madness is breeding Madness. ;o I suppose that Wal-Mart doesn't have detailed footage of the Stampede... -CG
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Post by Hook on Nov 30, 2008 13:53:57 GMT -8
Pfft... doesn't this sort of stuff happen every year? Besides, you gotta give them a break. We are in an economic crisis after all. The worst since the Great Depression. How can you blame people for running to find essential supplies such as duct tape, flashlights, canned food, and combustible fuel to provide heat for their homes. Seriously, a couple of lives spared of uncertain doom ain't nothing compared to the scores of victims had they not had their Campbell's soup to feed them for months in the upcoming dark times. By the way, I've been having a blast reading about electric cars. Check it the Chevy Volt: Pretty sweet, eh? Wave of the future, right, guys? Don't let me ruin the surprise of where the electricity from your power outlet that is used to charge the car's lithium batteries comes from. . . . You burn coal. Tons of it.
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Post by christopher on Dec 1, 2008 20:28:42 GMT -8
Not to mention the awesome 40 miles you can travel between 8 hour charge-ups.
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Post by Hook on Dec 29, 2008 17:02:09 GMT -8
Do you know who this guy is? He's the dumb (expletive figuratively deleted) who founded the internet's trivia section, Wikipedia. He's now asking for money because, who would have guessed, providing free services people take for granted over the internet costs green, green nobody cares enough to give to him. And you know what? (expletive covered by this italic message) him. He's naive and stupid. Here, I can prove it: SEE? So, ok, I did that in Firebug because the article is protected at the moment, but my point still stands. That point? As it is: wikipaedians hurf turf woof (potentially offensive nonsense deleted) aarrrrgh barada nikto
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Post by Brendan Anderson on Feb 12, 2009 21:56:32 GMT -8
Wow.
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Post by Christian K on Feb 13, 2009 9:08:21 GMT -8
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Post by Armin on Feb 14, 2009 4:16:30 GMT -8
Just saw this. Without words.
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Post by greenaxer on Mar 11, 2009 20:04:56 GMT -8
You wake up in the morning and hear about a lunatic killing 10 people in Alabama, and then a kid murdering 15 people at his high school in Germany. It's just sickening.
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Post by cheno on Mar 11, 2009 20:57:11 GMT -8
But there's no such thing as gun violence in Europe!
/Michael Moore
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Post by Christian K on Mar 12, 2009 14:35:00 GMT -8
But there's no such thing as gun violence in Europe! /Michael Moore
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Post by Jon Broxton on Mar 12, 2009 15:14:06 GMT -8
But there's significantly less gun violence in Europe! And there's even more significantly less gun violence in Canada, especially considering the fact that the percentage of gun ownership is higher there than in the USA. /Michael Moore Fixed your post.
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