Imagine how horrible it would be if Americans celebrated St. Patrick's Day, Oktoberfest and Cinco de Mayo. Wait a second...
Black Friday
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Imagine how horrible it would be if Americans celebrated St. Patrick's Day, Oktoberfest and Cinco de Mayo. Wait a second...
Timsup2nothin
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It should be noted that the common thread in those three is "celebrate"="consume massive dose of alcohol". In that regard a large portion of Americans celebrate Friday.
Zack
99% hot gas
Every bald eagle in the world sheds a single tear on those days, so I'm not sure what point you're making. Next you'll tell me you eat foreign food, ha!
That doesn't change the fact that they are "foreign" holidays.
Mise
isle of lucy
So, school dance & retail sales = communist China?
Owned
Manfred Belheim
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So, school dance & retail sales = communist China?
I think you're missing the point. I'll be generous and assume you're doing it deliberately.
Manfred Belheim
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What you get up to in your country is no concern of mine.
Owned
How low the standards of ownage have fallen
Zack
99% hot gas
The point being that Mao could bust a move and save money on his electronics?
Mise
isle of lucy
How low the standards of ownage have fallen
I suppose it was low hanging fruit.
Manfred Belheim
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Well I suppose it could have been considered ownage if someone had provided an example of something I'd done myself that ran contrary to something I'd stated, but... you know... pointing out the number of cultural events that are celebrated in American kind of has no bearing whatsoever on anything I said, so I'll have to politely disagree with you on that one. It was kind of like:
Person A: I don't like it when X happens.
Person B: Oh yeah? Well here's a load of other examples of X happening.
Peanut Gallery: Hahahahahaaaaaa. OWNED.
Person A: ... ?
Zack
99% hot gas
Person A: Prom and black friday are just another example of the US scourge destroying culture everywhere.
Person B: Wait, what?
Person A: Imagine Mao Zedong was worshipped and the Chinese national anthem was sung every day in US public schools. It's exactly like that.
Person B: Wait, what?
Person A: Wow, way to miss the point loser.
Person B: The point being that a school dance and a discount on electronics are equivalent to Chinese propaganda?
Person A:
Person B: Wait, what?
Person A: Imagine Mao Zedong was worshipped and the Chinese national anthem was sung every day in US public schools. It's exactly like that.
Person B: Wait, what?
Person A: Wow, way to miss the point loser.
Person B: The point being that a school dance and a discount on electronics are equivalent to Chinese propaganda?
Person A:
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
"People eating American-style processed meat sandwiches instead of local-style processed meat sandwiches is exactly the same thing as Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovakia."
- Manfred Belheim, probbaly.
- Manfred Belheim, probbaly.
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
I could never imagine most Americans going shopping in gigantic insane crowds the day after shopping. Such exotic and strange cultures outside of America...
Hey man, didn't you know Hitler was a vegetarian*?
*Yes I know Hitler wasn't exactly a vegetarian
Chukchi Husky
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"Our people are buying your blue jeans and listening to your pop music."
Borachio
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Oh. I thought he was. Especially after 1937.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler_and_vegetarianism
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
Oh, so he was. I thought he occasionally ate meat on the side but guess not.
I don't understand your post.
1. I'm not American. I'm talking about a Canadian custom.
2. Boxing Day is the day after Christmas Day, when most places are closed. So it's shopping the day after a statutory holiday, not shopping the day after an ordinary day.
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
What I mean is I can't see Americans doing that, at least to the scale you're describing.
You can't see a very large crowd of Americans converging on a store, intent on grabbing bargains? The news services have lots of stories about this every year.
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
Not to the extent of Black Friday, no. At least in the places I've lived. Usually in the day or so after Christmas the stores can be busy, yes, but not unusually and overwhelmingly so.
