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Tomorrow is buy nothing day for Europe. Don't go to a shop to buy stuff. Do it for all the American shoppers and employees that get killed or miscarry on the last Friday of November in shops across that great nation, every year.

P.S. contrast this and this. Thanks for feeding the hounds, newsday.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Fri Nov 28th, 2008 at 10:25:51 AM EST
A friend's Facebook update from a mall in the San Francisco Bay Area this morning -- at 7 AM:

This is my first black Friday experience & it is a trip. Kind of sad. Fights, tears, desperation. Ah, the spirit of the season!

I don't know why she decided to do this to herself this year, but I have an inkling it has something to do with her kids getting old enough to want shit they see on TV.

Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.

by marco (cowannar at gmail punkt com) on Fri Nov 28th, 2008 at 10:56:28 AM EST
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I'm pretty sure that most European countries have rules that forbid advertising something at a discount for 6 hours. The German appliance megastores sometimes get slapped on the fingers (not nearly often and hard enough, by the way) for offering this or that at a discount when they have less than two days worth of stock, which is required by law.
by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Fri Nov 28th, 2008 at 11:21:27 AM EST
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No can do. It's my birthday tomorrow. I have to be able to buy beer at the very least.

Nil aon leigheas ar an ngra ach posadh
by redstar on Fri Nov 28th, 2008 at 11:18:08 AM EST
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Ah, just in case I'm not around tomorrow: many happy returns.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Fri Nov 28th, 2008 at 11:54:13 AM EST
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Well, I'm not going to get between a Frenchman and his... beer. I'll have to do some groceries myself this evening if I am to avoid it tomorrow, or on Sunday (in the spirit of Christmas most shops will be open on the first Advent in Berlin)
by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Fri Nov 28th, 2008 at 12:29:01 PM EST
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Tomorrow is a very good day.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Nov 28th, 2008 at 04:16:02 PM EST
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With it also being your birthday! And my Birthday Eve.

Ad astra per aspera
by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Fri Nov 28th, 2008 at 06:23:27 PM EST
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Uhmm -- Happy Birthday to you ! ;o)

Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! (Martin Luther King)
by ValentinD (walentijn arobase free spot frança) on Fri Nov 28th, 2008 at 07:16:21 PM EST
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Your birthday, too, by now.  A very happy one, ceebs. :)

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Fri Nov 28th, 2008 at 09:32:31 PM EST
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Just as Jesus would've wanted it.

My mother used to drag me out to Black Friday sales when I was a little kid, but we dropped it as things got more and more psychotic.  Tickle-Me Elmo was the point at which it got out of hand, I think.  It was all downhill after that.

It's just insane and always winds up being tragic.  I wouldn't go unarmed nowadays.  And there's nothing in the stores you can't get online.  It might cost a few bucks more, but I'll pay five bucks extra to, you know, not die.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Fri Nov 28th, 2008 at 11:52:59 AM EST
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