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http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/ny-limart1129,0,167903.story

Seriously, it seems that the attraction of Black Friday is not as much the deals rather ten the opportunity to act like total ing dicks to each other. A man died and a woman miscarried because some hambeast needed to save $10 on a package deal involving bacon and a plasma tv. Supposedly, even when the EMTs came, people just rushed around the dying guy and the pregnant woman who was trampled.

What's worse is I have to go out and get some more groceries today.

Ehm....are we sure that all those customers were....human.

Just a thought...

I could make a lame joke about the ''credit crunch'' here but in light of the story I'll pass.

This is why 90% of my Xmas shopping will be via the internet.

I never get why a holiday about good will makes people monsters

warpcrafter wrote:This is why 90% of my Xmas shopping will be via the internet.

qft

sexiest_hero wrote:I never get why a holiday about good will makes people monsters

It doesn't MAKE them monsters; they're already monsters, hidden under a thin veneer of societal boundaries and behavioral acceptability. People will talk about "peace on earth, goodwill to man", but when it comes down to it, they're out for themselves and their own and no-one else's life even matters to them.

It gets even worse:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27957714/

- Bob

We do share 98% of our DNA with chimps, and they're nasty little critters. Some researchers did an experiment with rats a few years ago, where they let them breed in a closed system until they ran out of room, and they had their own mini-apopcalypse that left few rats still alive. I wonder how close we are to our own bloody population-control event. (Maybe it's already started...)

yeah,
That's all a bit nuts... killing over toys!

On the side topic of Over population. From the H.R. Giger website check this out:

'THE BIRTH MACHINE IS H.R. GIGER's ARTISTIC MANIFESTATION OF
HIS STRONGLY HELD BELIEF THAT THE GREATEST THREAT TO OUR CIVILIZATION IS THE APPROACHING OVERPOPULATION OF THE PLANET.'

H.R. GIGER's THE BIRTH MACHINE




would you like to know more

PAnic...

yeah, Sorry double post... dakka sorta froze or something and I kept hitting post... my bad...PAnic...

Panic wrote:yeah,
That's all a bit nuts... killing over toys!

C'mon dude, did you think the east side Crips would ever let the bloods get a hold of a tickle me elmo?

There was no miscarriage, the woman and her baby came out fine.

And the shooting had nothing to do with toys or shopping, it was two rival "groups" that bumped into each other and came to blows and then guns.

I stand to my Zombie theory.

warpcrafter wrote:We do share 98% of our DNA with chimps

Ya but we also share 90+% with a banana

I only had to buy 1 present to buy at a store friday.. a lego star wars star destroyer for my nephew that of course I'll help him build. Just cuz it was a great deal. All my other gifts will be arriving this week thanks to Amazon

it's really sick they way people act over xmas shopping. :(

I occasionally have to travel down Oxford Street in London, the busiest pedestrian street in the world. I avoid it like the plague in December, it's like trying to walk through the front bit of a Metallica crowd or summat.

Greebynog wrote:I occasionally have to travel down Oxford Street in London, the busiest pedestrian street in the world. ... .

Is it really?

My office is two minutes south of Oxford Street, so I am often walking there at lunchtime and early evening. I think it's probably worse at weekends.

I should have thought some of the main streets in Tokyo were more crowded -- the Shibuya crossing, and the area around Shinjuku Station.

I already bought all of my christmas presents

RapidKiller wrote:

warpcrafter wrote:We do share 98% of our DNA with chimps

Ya but we also share 90+% with a banana

You laugh now, but it’s only because you’ve never been at an after-Christmas sale and gotten attacked by a banana.

Waaargh! seems like the best description I have found so far to describe this trajedy.

What is this Black Friday then ? Is it just a randomly picked day for a sale or is there a specific reason for it having said title ?

Day after Thanksgiving. Traditional start of the Christmas shopping season-although retailers were putting Christmas junk out prior to Halloween (which so annoyed me). Typically retailers will put some specials out at that time, especially if the economy is not so hot.

*Christmas lights good
*Christmas songs good
*Christmas materiality fostered by retailers not good.

Frazzled wrote:Day after Thanksgiving. Traditional start of the Christmas shopping season-although retailers were putting Christmas junk out prior to Halloween (which so annoyed me). Typically retailers will put some specials out at that time, especially if the economy is not so hot.

*Christmas lights good
*Christmas songs good
*Christmas materiality fostered by retailers not good.

I see, ta.

.... with regards to Christmas songs do you guys get the same songs endlessly played eveywhere that we do ? Apparently the most played UK christmas songs are

1. Last Christmas - Wham!
2. Do They Know It's Christmas? (original 1984 recording) - Band Aid
3. Fairytale of New York - The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl
4. All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey
5. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Bruce Springsteen
6. Stop The Cavalry - Jona Lewie
7. I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday - Wizzard
8. Merry Xmas Everybody - Slade
9. Lonely This Christmas - Mud
10. White Christmas - Bing Crosby

I get heartily sick of them all by mid December.

A bunch of them. But we have something called satellite and internet radio that has "oldies" and classical (I mean like Vienna Boys choir and pre 1800s). Now thats Old School!

Mmm. time to crank it up.

people are allready starting to blame the evil walmart for the death.

"Quick, blame them before somebady blames US!!!!"

Kilkrazy wrote:

Greebynog wrote:I occasionally have to travel down Oxford Street in London, the busiest pedestrian street in the world. ... .

Is it really?

My office is two minutes south of Oxford Street, so I am often walking there at lunchtime and early evening. I think it's probably worse at weekends.

I should have thought some of the main streets in Tokyo were more crowded -- the Shibuya crossing, and the area around Shinjuku Station.

I heard it on Brainiac, so take that for what you will as a source. I had a similar initial reaction, I thought it'd be somewhere in Tokyo too, perhaps it's the sheer length of Oxford Street that wins it the crown.

just read the one about the 2 gits in the toy store

good. 2 less idiots in the world now.

it is a shame that the anit gun wack jobs will come out the woodwork on this one though...

That's disgusting.
The whole fething crowd should have spent a couple of days in jail and gotten criminal records.
That's no way to behave.

The reason it's called Black Friday is that it always occurs the day after thanksgiving (which is always a thursday) AND it is the day most retailers start showing positive income on their books. (Red is negative black is positive in $ terms). Just has a creepy name due to technical terms.