GN's camping out remote may be missing out on the latest Americanisation of the way we live. Apparently there are 2 types of Black Fridays - the traditional one when Friday happens on the 13th of the month and the latest Yankee import which is Friday after Thanksgiving. I thought "Thanksgiving" was every 2nd Thursday when the pension was deposited into your bank account but that ain't so no more.
This is being pushed by retailers as in YankeeLand it signifies the starrt of the Christmas shopping frenzy, so the bottom line is that there's a dollar to be made.
We sure have lost our way.
Good Luck.
aussie_paul said
01:43 PM Nov 25, 2016
hako wrote:
We sure have lost our way.
Good Luck.
We sure have Hako have to take the good with the bad though.
Aussie Paul.
Footprints said
11:20 PM Nov 25, 2016
You can't say "Black Friday" anymore as it is not politically correct. It must be a "Coloured Friday" I reckon if we are to copy the Yanks!
Don't want to offend.
Cheers.
Ge said
12:56 AM Nov 26, 2016
Beat em to it done me Christmas shopping on Wednesday at Aldi one present for me, one for her indoors.
I'm using mine now a computer tablet.
Who says Christmas don't come early.
PS: Stuff the yanks black Friday, so what happens next year is it black Saturday.
rgren2 said
01:08 AM Nov 26, 2016
Ge wrote:
Beat em to it done me Christmas shopping on Wednesday at Aldi one present for me, one for her indoors. I'm using mine now a computer tablet. Who says Christmas don't come early.
PS: Stuff the yanks black Friday, so what happens next year is it black Saturday.
Grow your hair. Play some loud music. Remember when you were younger. Call it Black Sabbath.
Brenda and Alan said
09:16 AM Nov 26, 2016
Stuff the yanks. Black Friday at least in Victoria commemorates the 13th Jan 1939 when devastating bush fires destroyed huge areas in the state with high loss of life. This should be remembered by those retailers who think it is a good marketing move, it may just backfire.
Alan
Possum3 said
12:07 PM Nov 26, 2016
Still some good buys on line - I just saved nearly $30 on map compass.
GN's camping out remote may be missing out on the latest Americanisation of the way we live. Apparently there are 2 types of Black Fridays - the traditional one when Friday happens on the 13th of the month and the latest Yankee import which is Friday after Thanksgiving. I thought "Thanksgiving" was every 2nd Thursday when the pension was deposited into your bank account but that ain't so no more.
This is being pushed by retailers as in YankeeLand it signifies the starrt of the Christmas shopping frenzy, so the bottom line is that there's a dollar to be made.
We sure have lost our way.
Good Luck.
We sure have Hako
have to take the good with the bad though.
Aussie Paul.
You can't say "Black Friday" anymore as it is not politically correct. It must be a "Coloured Friday" I reckon if we are to copy the Yanks!
Don't want to offend.
Cheers.
I'm using mine now a computer tablet.
Who says Christmas don't come early.
PS: Stuff the yanks black Friday, so what happens next year is it black Saturday.
Grow your hair. Play some loud music. Remember when you were younger. Call it Black Sabbath.
Stuff the yanks. Black Friday at least in Victoria commemorates the 13th Jan 1939 when devastating bush fires destroyed huge areas in the state with high loss of life. This should be remembered by those retailers who think it is a good marketing move, it may just backfire.
Alan