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Taking Back Thanksgiving
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Posted: 11/21/2012 1:46 PM
Taking Back Thanksgiving
So what's the deal with stores opening on Thanksgiving? I'm cool with stores like Wawa or 7/11 or gas stations or whatever being open because they're traveling necessity, same thing with food joints, but WHY are retail locations opening on Thanksgiving? Why do these stores need to be open? The whole concept of Black Friday JMO needs to die. If they want to have holiday week/weekend sales fine, but the idea of one day being dedicated to shopping is sad.
I ask everyone who posts here to please avoid going to retail stores that are open on Thanksgiving. I won't ask the same for Black Friday, but I'll be spending all black friday drinking scotch in the comfort of my home.
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Posted: 11/21/2012 2:46 PM
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We are a secular-progressive country. There's no reason for this holiday anyway.
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Posted: 11/21/2012 2:48 PM
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There's a perfectly good reason to for this holiday, it's called a day off.
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Posted: 11/21/2012 2:53 PM
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You need to get your butt in gear and get to work. Frickin freeloader.  |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 3:01 PM
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One of the reasons I'm happy to be out of retail is that I don't have to work the holidays. You'd think that cellphones wouldn't be a huge christmas thing, but guess what, they are. Working 50 hour weeks isn't fun.
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Posted: 11/21/2012 3:27 PM
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Posted: 11/21/2012 3:39 PM
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ZitotheBrave wrote: but I'll be spending all black friday drinking scotch in the comfort of my home. That's my plan...drink/leftovers/tv/drink/troll these boards...not leaving the house.
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Posted: 11/21/2012 3:42 PM
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acesfull86 wrote:
ZitotheBrave wrote: but I'll be spending all black friday drinking scotch in the comfort of my home. That's my plan...drink/leftovers/tv/drink/troll these boards...not leaving the house. Yup. I don't know about leftovers since we're not doing normal thanksgiving but I'm hoping for it so I can make my Gobbler.
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Posted: 11/21/2012 4:12 PM
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BedellBrave wrote: We are a secular-progressive country. There's no reason for this holiday anyway. how else would we celebrate destroying a culture and people? |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 5:21 PM
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ZitotheBrave wrote: So what's the deal with stores opening on Thanksgiving? I'm cool with stores like Wawa or 7/11 or gas stations or whatever being open because they're traveling necessity, same thing with food joints, but WHY are retail locations opening on Thanksgiving? Why do these stores need to be open? The whole concept of Black Friday JMO needs to die. If they want to have holiday week/weekend sales fine, but the idea of one day being dedicated to shopping is sad.
I ask everyone who posts here to please avoid going to retail stores that are open on Thanksgiving. I won't ask the same for Black Friday, but I'll be spending all black friday drinking scotch in the comfort of my home. oh to answer the question cause most americans are pathetic |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 5:25 PM
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I like this holiday. You get a chnce to see family and it reminds you how fortunate uou are to live here. If all it reminds you of is death thats your problem.
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Posted: 11/21/2012 6:49 PM
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I didn't mind stores opening at 6 am on Friday, but it's not even Friday anymore.
The fact that they're opening 8pm now is ridiculous.
I saw a McDonalds with their signage saying "Open All Day Thanksgiving!!!!". I was really upset with that. It's one thing to open up late, its another to open for breakfast and close mid-day, but to be OPEN ALL DAY is terrible.
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Posted: 11/21/2012 6:55 PM
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elmonthc wrote: I like this holiday. You get a chnce to see family and it reminds you how fortunate uou are to live here. If all it reminds you of is death thats your problem. thanksgiving is my favorite holiday |
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Posted: 11/21/2012 8:23 PM
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crump7 wrote:
elmonthc wrote: I like this holiday. You get a chnce to see family and it reminds you how fortunate uou are to live here. If all it reminds you of is death thats your problem. thanksgiving is my favorite holiday Mine too.
"just wanted everyone to glare at those amazing codpieces" - Zito
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Posted: 11/22/2012 12:23 PM
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crump7 wrote:
BedellBrave wrote: We are a secular-progressive country. There's no reason for this holiday anyway. how else would we celebrate destroying a culture and people? You do have a point there crump. Maybe this is a great opportunity each year for our secular-progressive country to confess all of our crimes against humanity (though the"standard" for determining that we've done bad things, is just a bunch of hocus-pocus, religiously-tainted mumbo-jumbo -- but never mind, as they say, confession is cathartic) and thank the peoples that we've nearly wiped-out in our arrogant attempts at genocide, for not rising up en mass to wipe us off the face of the map. Maybe rename it National Contrition Day!....Oops, too religious sounding. Happy Thanksgiving to you! Slainte. |
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Posted: 11/22/2012 12:44 PM
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I prefer Christmas Eve/Christmas Day (better menu; NBA > NFL *ducks for cover*), but Thanksgiving is a fine holiday in my book.
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Posted: 11/22/2012 12:47 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving to All!! I hope everyone has the best Thanksgiving EVER!!! Enjoy your time with family, friends, etc. and remember these things are fleeting so don't waste a minute of it!!!
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Posted: 11/22/2012 1:28 PM
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING ALL!
-Posted from my iPad outside of Best Buy
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Posted: 11/22/2012 1:46 PM
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OklahomaHawk wrote: Happy Thanksgiving to All!! I hope everyone has the best Thanksgiving EVER!!! Enjoy your time with family, friends, etc. and remember these things are fleeting so don't waste a minute of it!!! Amen! Life in the Shadowlands passes quickly. But what a blessing these Shadowlands those we share them with are! |
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Posted: 11/22/2012 3:03 PM
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BedellBrave wrote:
crump7 wrote:
BedellBrave wrote: We are a secular-progressive country. There's no reason for this holiday anyway. how else would we celebrate destroying a culture and people?
You do have a point there crump. Maybe this is a great opportunity each year for our secular-progressive country to confess all of our crimes against humanity (though the"standard" for determining that we've done bad things, is just a bunch of hocus-pocus, religiously-tainted mumbo-jumbo -- but never mind, as they say, confession is cathartic) and thank the peoples that we've nearly wiped-out in our arrogant attempts at genocide, for not rising up en mass to wipe us off the face of the map. Maybe rename it National Contrition Day!....Oops, too religious sounding.
Happy Thanksgiving to you! Slainte.  |
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