Manfred Belheim
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China =/= Communism
Just replace the anthem and the public figure with other examples from any other country of your choice.
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China =/= Communism
Just replace the anthem and the public figure with other examples from any other country of your choice.
China =/= Communism
Just replace the anthem and the public figure with other examples from any other country of your choice.
I love how he is comparing a capitalist holiday to Communist China. Mao must be rolling in his grave.
Manfred Belheim
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Is this a joke? I mean... after I just post a "banging my head against the wall" emote at someone else saying the same thing, and categorically stating that this isn't remotely what I'm doing, you STILL immediately reply with that? It's got to be a joke surely.
Oh and thanks for also not even deigning to address me directly, much obliged
For the hard of thinking - the point was national anthem/national figure of some other nation. That was all. The actual nation chosen was of no relevance whatsoever, other than I thought I'd pick one that Americans seem to generally find quite annoying.
Timsup2nothin
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I thought maybe he was agreeing with you.Is this a joke? I mean... after I just post a "banging my head against the wall" emote at someone else saying the same thing, and categorically stating that this isn't remotely what I'm doing, you STILL immediately reply with that? It's got to be a joke surely.
Oh and thanks for also not even deigning to address me directly, much obliged
For the hard of thinking - the point was national anthem/national figure of some other nation. That was all. The actual nation chosen was of no relevance whatsoever, other than I thought I'd pick one that Americans seem to generally find quite annoying.
Zack
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How is prom/black Friday equivalent to singing the US national anthem in school and celebrating Obama's birthday, then? It's still ridiculous.
warpus
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I have no idea what everyone's arguing about.. but.. any good deals out there?
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Cyber Monday is best Black Friday.
talking about this a certain online retailer that in ancient times started out as a bookseller is promoting "Cyber Monday Week" around these parts - its gross frankly...
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Apparently Black Friday has made its way across the Atlantic to the UK. I've really no idea why. It makes zero sense, since no one, outside a few cranky Americans, celebrates Thanksgiving here.
Yet the stores were full of people looking to punch each other in the face over big screen TVs.
Bonkers! Completely bonkers.
I didn't set foot in any shop at all, today. It doesn't take much to discourage me from shopping, but this will do it for sure.
And, what is more, I've saved more money today by not spending any, than anyone who has spent some.
Still, I'm not your typical consumer, by any means. So... there it is. Call me a miserable curmudgeon if you will. Because I am one.
Yet the stores were full of people looking to punch each other in the face over big screen TVs.
Bonkers! Completely bonkers.
I didn't set foot in any shop at all, today. It doesn't take much to discourage me from shopping, but this will do it for sure.
And, what is more, I've saved more money today by not spending any, than anyone who has spent some.
Still, I'm not your typical consumer, by any means. So... there it is. Call me a miserable curmudgeon if you will. Because I am one.
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I don't need a good deal, I just need a store to carry what I want to buy. Unfortunately on-line shopping followed by digital distribution has put paid to that.
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"Black Friday" technically has nothing to do with Thanksgiving. When a retail store works out their annual budget they have a bunch of fairly predictable costs...rent, labor, utilities, etc. They have fairly predictable rates of profit, sales revenues less the costs of goods sold.
At the beginning of the year they can predict to some degree when their accumulated profits will match their projected expenses for the year, after which the accumulating profits will go toward genuinely increasing their profit for the year because they will be 'in the black'. That occurs, generally, somewhere in November. Specifically attaching it to the Friday after Thanksgiving is an American thing, but the basic idea is universal to retailers everywhere.
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Sales reduce the rate of profit (sales revenues less cost of goods sold) but not necessarily the overall volume of profit. They are intended to increase that.
warpus
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I'm looking for a good bbq cover for my bbq, for the winter.
The last one I had was ruined by my friend who put it on the bbq when it was still hot. He didn't know you're not supposed to do that. I am probably going to order it online, because I really hate to shop.
There are people not here today, because they are spending THE WHOLE DAY shopping. They are crazy.
The last one I had was ruined by my friend who put it on the bbq when it was still hot. He didn't know you're not supposed to do that. I am probably going to order it online, because I really hate to shop.
There are people not here today, because they are spending THE WHOLE DAY shopping. They are crazy.
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Indeed. It's all a scam, though. They set the price high to begin with, with the express intention of lowering it to make you think you're getting a bargain. I don't fall for it. (At least, I like to fool myself that I don't. I probably do.)
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This is known in the trade as "is was advertising". You don't even have to change the marked pricing, just put a sign on your bin of hundred dollar items that says "is $100, was $150" and they will sell much better.
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It's probably outlawed everywhere, but there are ways around it. List the item on page four of your mailer in the half a column inch per item section for $150...once. It's a wasted half column inch in your ad one week, and entitles you to put up the is/was sign forever. You just have to be able to show that you did ask $150 at some point, and a half column inch is usually cheaper than the labor cost of remarking things.
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I went to Best Buy around lunch time, crowd wasn't that bad. Got a 3DS game and mouse for half off.
Manfred Belheim
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I did wonder myself, but then Mise wasn't making that comparison either, he was just the one saying that I was. I've got no idea basically.
Anyway, all I was doing was saying that I find it to be something that annoys me personally, I wasn't trying to educate anyone about a universal truth. My China analogy was only meant to maybe give an example that might help someone else see why I find it annoying, but the specifics of it in and of themselves are entirely irrelevant so it just seems a waste of time to argue the minute details of how a national anthem is not PRECISELY analogous to a school dance or whatever. And again, it's only my personal feelings about such things so it's of no matter to me what lots of other people do in another country. So enjoy your Black Friday. Peace, out.
