Question of the Day, Nov 25

Admin’s favorite holiday is here – Black Friday. How many of you out there still know some nitwits who battle the other nitwits to save $20 on an I-gadget? Or are you one of those nitwits?? My apologies to LL & Stucky for asking 2 questions.


Author: Back in PA Mike

Crotchety middle aged man with a hot younger wife dead set on saving this Country.

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Rise Up

Two years ago Dick’s sporting goods had a nice sale on Ruger 10/22 rifles with a scope when they opened at midnight/12 a.m. on Black Friday. I went but the line to fill out the paperwork was all the way around the store, so I left. Ended up getting one a few months later but not at that price.

Never again…

TC
TC

I have slick deal alerts to let me know when something I’m looking for goes on sale somewhere… but standing in line for days to get a fucking piece of crap TV on sale? Not me.

kokoda
kokoda

Most big box stores continue with the same price – they want to clear the inventory of older models, with newer models starting to arrive. The on-line option for these stores is better without having to travel to a nearby store and find out they don’t have your item.

harry p.

Fuck Black Friday, me and my pops are going to his local range so he can pop off rounds with my 45 and AR.

Dutchman
Dutchman

I am fortunate to be a ‘high income earner’ We buy things when we need them. We don’t buy each other presents – maybe rarely if one of us sees something that is out of the ordinary.

I can’t believe these people really want this junk.

susanna

no and no
there are no malls or electronic stores,
or boutiques within an hour, or 3 actually.
The feed store will be closed for hunting.

Also there is no TV for me to have to see the
mauling crowds fight over a box of something.

Why do people do this? Brawlers, I think they
love it.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

My sister in law still does that Black Friday crap. I can’t understand what people could possibly want/need. If I can’t eat it or drink it, I don’t need it. I guess if they had a great deal on an aluminum canoe or a four-hole portable pop up ice-fishing shack… But I’m talking about a GREAT deal – cheaper than a decent used one on Craigslist. And that won’t happen. Maybe if they had ribeye for $2.99 a pound.

Hope@ZeroKelvin
Hope@ZeroKelvin

Let’s see, if I was a crazed Islamic jihadist, where would be a great place to kill or maim the maximum number of Americans at one fell swoop?

bb

Friday will not be a bad day for shopping if you go to the right place. Some gun stores in my area have 5.56 ammo on sale for 300.00 dollars per 1000 box .Most people will be interested in others things. I believe I go get a couple boxes.

KaD
KaD

Retailers couldn’t pay ME to go out and put up with that shit.

Administrator

Why go to a mall or a store when you can just click the Amazon button on the top right side of TBP? Buying that way will reduce Jeff Bezos’ take by 6% and sustain this crazy anarchist website. It doesn’t get any better than that. 🙂

Rise Up

Admin, can I use my wife’s Amazon Prime account off your link?

Administrator

Rise Up

Absolutely. Everything is the same as if you just went to the normal Amazon site, but they have a tracking code if you go through my button.

Rise Up

Great, we’ll use it.

Lysander
Lysander

I know some nitwits who shop black friday…my sister in law and her sister, sometimes accompanied by my niece. Every year they go and buy some stupid crap at four in the morning and every year I have to listen to the stories about their great deals at Christmas time.

God forbid you miss out on the opportunity of saving $7 on a Star Wars themed kitchen garbage can. That R2D2 replica will certainly fill the void in your soul.

suzanna

Admin,

Thanks for the update re: using Amazon through your site.
I will try it.

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Foreign crap bought on credit at 20% interest. Then add sale taxes that supports a hostile state government. After a few months, the gifts break or become obsolete and end up in the landfill. Jesus received only 3 gifts on His birthday.

Look at Christmas now, compared to Laura and Mary Ingalls in the book Little House on the Prairie:

“They had never thought of such a thing as having a penny. Think of having a whole penny for your very own. Think of having a cup and a cake and a stick of candy and a penny. There never had been such a Christmas.

‘Oh, thank you, Mr. Edwards! Thank you!’ they said, and they meant it with all their hearts. Pa shook Mr. Edwards’ hand too, and shook it again. Pa and Ma and Mr. Edwards acted as if they were almost crying, Laura didnt know why.

…Ma gasped. And Mr. Edwards was taking sweet potatoes out of his pockets. He said they had helped balance the package on his head when he swam across the creek. He thought Pa and Ma might like them, with the Christmas turkey.

‘It’s too much, Edwards,’ [Pa] said. They never could thank him enough.”

Their Christmas dinner: turkey, sweet potatoes, white bread (a luxury item in pioneer times) dried blackberries and little cakes.

Continuing from the book, “Then Pa and Ma, and Mr. Edwards sat by the fire and talked about Christmas times back in Tennessee and up north in the Big Woods.That was a happy Christmas.”

What a contrast to the modern Americans who are materialistic and the most unhappiest in the world.

llpoh
llpoh

Dammi, Mike – you advertise one question but ask two. But that is a major improvement from zero. You are giving more than promised, which is always a good sales technique.

I have moved many miles away from any type of human gathering. My neighbors are 1000 yards away, and I could safely cross the road without looking both ways for the next century with next to zero odds of ever being hit.

I avoid crowds and gatherings of people, and there is zero chance I would stand in line for anything these days, much less some igizmo. I do not know anyone who would. I think, anyway. If I find out they would, I will strike them from my will/Christmas card list.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

llpoh says: Dammi, Mike – you advertise one question but ask two. But that is a major improvement from zero. You are giving more than promised, which is always a good sales technique.

He’s got competition so he upped the ante. I read before: ever notice that when there is competition, things get better? That was in my yute, today the word competition is a 4 letter word.

I would consider lining up if they held a ghetto Friday event at Food Barn (not a real grocery store).

beebs kitteh
beebs kitteh

Gawrd hepp me iv bb evah gitz dat gun lodded.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

@3:47, I don’t get it, little bb has an ebonics accent?

You really ought to rehearse your joke a few times to see if it makes sense or if it is remotely funny.
Ask yourself, would Iska post something like this?

Stanley
Stanley

The last time I went shopping on the Friday after Thanksgiving was back in the 90’s somewhere, when my mother had come to visit for the holiday.

After shopping we went for some Chinese food. On the way home from she had a heart attack in my truck as we were driving. I didn’t recognize it as a heart attack (because I’m an idiot) but when we got home her husband took one look at her and rushed her to the local hospital. She was in for the next two weeks.

I think that was the last time I ever went shopping on Black Friday.

MuckAbout

@llpoh: So you finally pulled the plug! I been wondering for years when you’d get around to doing what you said you were going to do..

Good luck with it all and let us know how things go!!

MA

IndenturedServant

My wife has spotted something she wants on Black Friday. I told her that her life insurance is paid up, not to forget her handgun and to wake me for a kiss me goodbye before she he heads out.

There is nothing on this Earth I want bad enough to brave the sheople on Black Friday even if it’s free!

SSS

My wife and I went out today to pick up some stuff for Thanksgiving dinner at my son’s house. Today. Fucking zoo.

Last time we ventured out on Black Friday was 25 years ago. If you have only two choices between shopping on Black Friday and waterboarding, I suggest the latter.

javelin
javelin

Never have, never will–and I am quite vocal about not caring to receive any gifts purchased on “black Friday.”

Not only does it disgust me, but the types of stores that have the sales for this useless, cheap crap never see my shadow darken their doorways.

I buy quality because it lasts longer and better made products are always cheaper in the long run.

Also what Dutchman says applies in my household also.

llpoh
llpoh

Muck – I am ensconced in my doomstead as I type this. There is much to do. I am slowly adjusting, and breaking in my body to the new rigours. There are still many lose ends to tie up, and much left to do on the doomstead. Bits are still coming together – getting all the water and solar supplies sorted out, getting equipment in place, etc.

I cannot say I am relaxed as yet, but I am getting there.

Stucky

Hey Lloph, go blow a fuckin kangaroo.

polecat
polecat

Black Friday is to me what the black death was to a middle-age peasant!

polecat
polecat

during the latest press conference, the pres told everyone to go about their business, to not worry, to go shopping! …….Now where have i heard that before?………..”We shopped some folks’

BamBam
BamBam

I try not to do most of my holiday shopping at regular stores. I try to go for either inexpensive antique places or offbeat stores, mainly so I get something different. Last year got my mom a really pretty jewelry box with a mother-of-pearl inlay for $20. You have to really look for deals and check quality sometimes, but its so much more personal than a big box store at a much better price. Plus, those places tend to sell things with a longer “shelf-life” than the fragile, soon to be outdated things chain stores sell.

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