The Official 2013 Black Friday "What The Flying Fuck!?" Thread
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sad news is, we don't even need any this shit.
the best thing to do is just to sit back, build a fire, make an after thanksgiving sandwich (oh hell yes) and enjoy yourself.
In my country they started doing this shit one year ago, this year it was pretty big, but calm.
I can't help but think of this whenever I see people climbing over each other for cheap goods.
[video=youtube;gx8dD8-GPZw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx8dD8-GPZw[/video]
These issues are almost 100% WalMart related. I work as Asset Protection at Best Buy and it was very calm, controlled and everyone was really happy. Nothing bad.
Furniture Gallery had $900 Lazyboy recliners for $50.
This is Canada. Our stereotype lapsed for fifteen goddamn minutes.
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[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krn3q-iGblQ[/media][/QUOTE]
That first one, wow
[quote]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.
"They were jumping over the barricades and breaking down the door," said Pat Alexander, 53, of Crown Heights, Brooklyn. "Everyone was screaming. You just had to keep walking on your toes to keep from falling over."
After the throng toppled Damour, his fellow employees had to fight through the crowd to help him, police said.
Read more: [url]http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/worker-dies-long-island-wal-mart-trampled-black-friday-stampede-article-1.334059#ixzz2m6ekQOj2[/url][/quote]
People are fucked
You gotta wonder why they dont deploy a dozen or so Riot police beforehand
It wouldbe a great deterrant
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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.
"They were jumping over the barricades and breaking down the door," said Pat Alexander, 53, of Crown Heights, Brooklyn. "Everyone was screaming. You just had to keep walking on your toes to keep from falling over."
After the throng toppled Damour, his fellow employees had to fight through the crowd to help him, police said.
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this is so fucking pathetic.
[IMG]http://puu.sh/5xtsK.jpg[/IMG]
Jesus fuck it's like $5 off and people are beating the crap out of each other.
[editline]30th November 2013[/editline]
South Park was right, I thought they were joking.
[QUOTE=Whomobile;43023928][IMG]http://puu.sh/5xtsK.jpg[/IMG]
Jesus fuck it's like $5 off and people are beating the crap out of each other.
[editline]30th November 2013[/editline]
South Park was right, I thought they were joking.[/QUOTE]
sadly there's a lot of truth to South Park they just make fun of it.
Glad i can experience this without experiencing it
[QUOTE=Lachz0r;43015810]like, it's really easy to just say 'haha pack of fuckwits going so spastic over some sales' when you've never had to really worry about getting this kinda shit either due to being able to get a decent job or being a minor and having your parents pay for it[/QUOTE]
That would be a great excuse if there wasn't this thing called the internet, which often times has better deals than the retail stores on black friday...and if you aren't able to sustain a residence long enough to order from the internet, or can't be bothered to goto a public library, you probably shouldn't be participating in black friday sales to begin with.
We can try to be contrarian and come up with excuses for people that participate in flash mobs, but I can only feel sympathy for the people that have to work that day. Nobody ever films the stores where things go right though, we just see the worst of it.
[QUOTE=LordApocca;43016348]The US is pretty messed up when it comes to consumerism. Never experienced anything like this in Denmark.[/QUOTE]
Of course, these videos are a little cherry-picked. Most places are pretty orderly. Hell, things went very smooth in my home town. There weren't even verbal fights or anything.
Still, you are right, this is a kind of an "only in America" thing. Consumerism has grown to the point of obserdity and living conditions for most people are in the sweet spot of being low enough to incite this behavior but high enough to avoid either apathy or full on rioting.
I got a 3 tb hard drive for 60% off at oficemax, they place was practically empty.
[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;43017474]Curious, do you have examples of this?[/QUOTE]
We had a few electronic stores do that last year right before christmas. Was a few reports on the news about it.
You can try and google translate this article about it and see if it makes any sense -> [url]http://www.aftonbladet.se/minekonomi/article15987323.ab[/url]
Black Friday here is nothing compared to other states but still, went to Walmart in Lebanon, Oregon. 7PM. Parking lot packed, go inside.. REDNECKS going nuts "WHERE'S THE LINE FOR THE 32 INCH ON SALE FOR 98 BUCKS HYUCK HYUCK" (mind you it's a shitty off brand 720p 32 inch TV) Literally, 90% of the people in there were there for a shitty TV that's 100 bucks off. They had to shelve the TV's in the grocery area to be able to have a big line and it went through the fucking store. Black friday is retarded, most the shit on sale for a good price is garbage and if it's a good brand/item on sale it's usually not bumped down much on the price anyway.
[QUOTE=Episode;43024725]Black Friday here is nothing compared to other states but still, went to Walmart in Lebanon, Oregon. 7PM. Parking lot packed, go inside.. REDNECKS going nuts "WHERE'S THE LINE FOR THE 32 INCH ON SALE FOR 98 BUCKS HYUCK HYUCK" (mind you it's a shitty off brand 720p 32 inch TV) Literally, 90% of the people in there were there for a shitty TV that's 100 bucks off. They had to shelve the TV's in the grocery area to be able to have a big line and it went through the fucking store. Black friday is retarded, most the shit on sale for a good price is garbage and if it's a good brand/item on sale it's usually not bumped down much on the price anyway.[/QUOTE]
Rednecks in Oregon? nice try.
[QUOTE=Looter;43024899]Rednecks in Oregon? nice try.[/QUOTE]
aka hill billys
stumpers
hill folk
call them what you will
Thank fuck we don't have this shit in Australia
That's reserved for Boxing Day :v:
[editline]30th November 2013[/editline]
But tbh i never heard of Black Friday until South Park made an episode about it
Glad I've never done black friday shopping
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5FaOXvJUNI[/media]
This thanksgiving day shopping shit is stupid as hell.
[url]http://www.theonion.com/articles/42-...weekend,30517/[/url]
[Quote]“At some point in time we all stopped caring about the deals and the holiday shopping and were pretty much just out for blood,” said Dana Marshall, 37, a Target shopper who suffered seven broken ribs and a cracked sternum while fighting two other customers for a discounted Nikon digital camera. “I remember just sitting on top of a woman and smacking her head with a DVD player until her face was completely unrecognizable. I felt nothing. Absolutely nothing.”[/Quote]
and theres people on my FB who believe this
[img]http://i.imgur.com/iFmcWXR.png[/img]
There are plenty of stores that have black Friday sales with no violence. Heck, I stood in line for 9 hours to enter the raffle and score some ammunition at Cabela's, a store that mainly sell hunting and outdoors gear. The line wrapped around the building, and when the doors open there was no pushing, just stubborn walking. I think this is one of those cases where people say it's a violent event because they only hear a very small part of it.
[QUOTE=Lachz0r;43015793]one thing you have to consider is how many people would have no chance to ever get some of this stuff if it wasn't for black friday. like, if you're living paycheck to paycheck still got a shitty crt tv and now you have the chance to get a big ass flatscreen tv, you'll probably go a little crazy[/QUOTE]
But you don't have "the chance", you have a chance. And a small one at that.
And a bigger chance to get trampled, getting knocked over and having your teeth knee'd in.
Or the pricey thing you went there for gets destroyed by the same flock of rabid monkeys that you're competing with.
Explain to me. WTF is so cool about this? Your country is showing every bad aspect on Black Friday. Look at the shit happening. All for a godamn discounted TV....