Black Friday - God Bless The USA

[votesparks]

Run time: 01:08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co6Vfwh4hbs   Posted on YouTube: November 28, 2010 By YouTube Member: heartlandhegemony Views on YouTube: 1   Posted on DU: November 28, 2010 By DU Member: votesparks Views on DU: 794

 
succinct.

[2Design]

1. Not willing to endanger myself

I avoid the early morning pushers and go later and if it is still there great
Got one pack of photo paper and missed out on the poinsettias this year

[votesparks]

2. isn't it

the lack of dignity that keeps you away too?

Has the concept of dignity completely disappeared?

[Swampguana]

3. I intentionally didn't buy anything that day and if I did

it would have been at a local business, not a big chain.

[JJW]

4. China

China thanks you for buying their goods during Thanksgiving.

[sasquuatch55]

5. Assinine! What a crap festival.

[AlbertCat]

6. When did it get called "Black Friday"?

This is the 1st I've heard of anything called "Black Friday"..... except of course for this list from Wikipedia. (notice how almost all are disasters)

Black Friday is a term used to refer to certain events which occur on a Friday. It has been used in the following cases:
Black Friday (1688), imprisonment of the Seven Bishops (8 June), on the eve of the Glorious Revolution.<1>
Black Friday (1869), the Fisk-Gould Scandal (24 September), a financial crisis in the United States.
Black Friday (1881), the Eyemouth disaster: 189 fishermen died.
Haymarket affair (11 November 1887), four Chicago anarchists hanged, without evidence, for the deaths of seven police officers during a labor meeting.
Black Friday (1910), a campaign outside the British House of Commons (18 November) of the Women's Social and Political Union the Conciliation Bill which failed.
Black Friday (1919), the Battle of George Square (31 January), a riot stemming from industrial unrest in Glasgow, Scotland.
Black Friday (1921), the announcement of British transport union leaders (15 April) not to call for strike action against wage reductions for miners.
Black Friday (1939), a day of devastating bushfires (13 January) in Victoria, Australia, which killed 71 people.
Black Friday (1942), air attack on Dartmouth, Devon, 18 September 1942.
Black Friday (1944), a disastrous attack by The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada (13 October) near Woensdrecht during the Battle of the Scheldt.
Black Friday (1945), an air battle over Sunnfjord (9 February), the largest over Norway.
Hollywood Black Friday (5 October 1945), a riot at the Warner Bros. studios stemming from a Confederation of Studio Unions (CSU) strike leading to the eventual breakup of the CSU.
The 1950 Red River Flood, which burst several dikes flooding much of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The cancellation of Avro Arrow (1959), which resulted in massive layoffs in the Canadian Aerospace industry.
Black Friday (1960), San Francisco City protest against the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Black Friday (1963), the assassination of US President John F Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on 22 November 1963.
Black Friday (1977), Game Three of the 1977 National League Championship Series in Major League Baseball, in which the Philadelphia Phillies lost a two-run lead to the Los Angeles Dodgers with two outs in the ninth inning and no runners on base.
Black Friday (1978), a massacre of protesters in Iran (8 September).
1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak/The Barrie Tornado, (31 May 1985).
Edmonton Tornado (31 July 1987), a tornado touching down in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Black Friday (Maldives) (2004), a crackdown in Malé, Maldives (13 August) on peaceful protesters.
Black Friday (2005), Tribal students killed in Meghalaya, India.

[Still Blue in PDX]

7. For at least the last four years or so I've heard it.

My daughter tells me it is because it is the day that the stores count on to get them "in the black." :shrug: Maybe so. I haven't really been interested enough to go to snopes.com and check out her explanation.

It makes shopping that day even less appealing, doesn't it?

[WhoIsNumberNone]

9. They called it Black Friday when I was working retail in 1995

According to Wikipedia it was first used in reference to the day after Thanksgiving in 1966 by police in Philadelphia for all the shopping mobs causing traffic jams and overcrowding the sidewalks.

The "getting into the black" explanation dates from the early 1980s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)

[AsahinaKimi]

8. Black Friday?

What ever happened to the White Elephant Sale? (Always wanted a little critter, like that ;) )

[pam4water]

10. I still think of it as the stock market crash that started the great depression in October 1929.