[ SECRET POST #3614 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3613 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Project Runway + various reality shows]


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[sex scene from The Wolf of Wall Street]


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[Ace Attorney]


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Comments

Re: Sodding American Bastards

[(Anonymous)]

Forgive me, but I recall reading an LJ post from a London-dwelling friend recounting the horrors she endured accompanying her mother on a... Boxing Day sale? This was in 2002 or something. Seems to me the UK never needed any persuading.

Re: Sodding American Bastards

[(Anonymous)]

Boxing day sales are a traditional UK sale, goes back to the Victorian reinvention of Christmas. Black Friday is unambiguously American, with a trigger even that has no analogue in UK culture, and can bugger right off.

Re: Sodding American Bastards

[(Anonymous)]

Right, so let me get this straight. What you're objecting to isn't excessive commercialism, but this particular instance of excessive commercialism, while all the others are fine.

That's pretty weird, but carry on.

Re: Sodding American Bastards

[(Anonymous)]

From 2013: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529381/Boxing-Day-sales-begin-Thousands-queue-grab-post-Christmas-bargains-stores-slash-prices-50.html

"As the doors opened at 9am at Selfridges in London, security guards urged them to ‘keep calm’, shouting ‘there are old people and children in the queues, please stop pushing’ and ‘take your time, you will all get in, don’t panic’."

Re: Sodding American Bastards

[(Anonymous)]

China. China is the place companies should be pushing for Black Friday, and hell, Boxing Day sales. I bet they're already cooking up the plans.

Re: Sodding American Bastards

[(Anonymous)]

Sssshhh, don't confuse its poor little brain. The mental gymnastics have clearly worn it out already.

Re: Sodding American Bastards

[(Anonymous)]

American commercialism has no right to impinge on other cultures' unique and diverse forms of commercialism.

Re: Sodding American Bastards

[(Anonymous)]

Then stop eating our processed greasy fast food.

Re: Sodding American Bastards

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

With the amount of excessive commercialism western society has, I don't blame anyone for not wanting another day of rush sales imported into their country, since they think they already have enough.

Re: Sodding American Bastards

[dethtoll]

loooool "you american pigdogs with ur filthy 'black friday' i hope your economy fa-- wait, what's that? no, no, boxing day totally isn't the same thing you blasted sots LET ME HAVE THIS GOD DAMN YOU I DON'T NEED A SEDATIVE I OWN THIS DAYROOM YOU CAN'T PUT ME BACK IN THE ISOLaaaaa...*"

Re: Sodding American Bastards

[(Anonymous)]

The lesson here is that humans are the same no matter which country they come from. And boy do they love shopping.

Re: Sodding American Bastards

[(Anonymous)]

In addition to the traditional aspect of Boxing Day sales, it is also practical because shops want to clear out extra inventory that sell before the holidays. Exactly like the after Christmas sales in America.

Black Friday is just to stimulate consumer spending and detract from the higher cost of goods in the run up to the holidays. Black Friday sales means companies can't lower prices near as much before Christmas without hurting their bottom line. So one day of frenzy to whet their appetites and then sell everything at a higher cost and triple profits.

Re: Sodding American Bastards

[(Anonymous)]

I think "steeped in tradition" is a transparent excuse and does nothing to ameliorate the terrible things that these sales create.

With the demand that skyrockets in the lead-up to Christmas, there's little reason for businesses to lower prices in the first place. Still, whoever came up with Black Friday was a real wizard. You'd think companies would have pushed for this in the UK and other places sooner, when you just know the consumer's mentality is already there.