The main thing missing from the other comments is that the Brawling didn’t become mainstream until the 2005 telecom bubble and the 2008 financial crisis. People are more willing to fistfight over hearing aid batteries when they have gone from prosperity to moderate financial discomfort within a year or two. Now things just suck in general. No point in punching aomeone over a flat-screen TV when you could be using that money for rent. I haven’t seen anything crazy happen on black Friday in years
It’s about the Friday after thanksgiving (which was yesterday) traditionally being a day where stores put some attractive wares on special and then people turn into absolute stampeding cattle and brawling gorillas getting said wares before the unnecessarily limited supply runs out.
Afaik, it’s not unusual for at least a couple people to be trampled or otherwise killed by this absolutely unhinged consumerism frenzy.
Here’s to hoping that it wasn’t that bad this year though, as the specials were apparently crappy and thus not worth committing involuntary manslaughter over 🤞🤞
I meant to specify that it’s specifically some Americans (and maybe others I haven’t heard about 🤷) that become animals on Black Friday without implying that the “tradition” hasn’t infested Europe too, my bad.
I know. I pretended to not know to let my smug Yuropeanness shine.
Real talk though, I know we have more than enough problems of our own and love to import the most stupid ones from you guys. Although we thankfully passed on this particular madness.
Still, thanks for the explanation. Might be helpfull for those who don’t know and are too afraid to ask.
I actually bought some miniatures from an English company they only sell during events with some friends. Nothing amazing though and we weren’t in any rush, just placing our order over the internet.
My daughter never closes tabs. It’s infuriating. I’m doing online school with her and I have to constantly tell her to close tabs. “You don’t need to keep that O. Henry story tab open anymore. You didn’t even like it.”
I have that issue myself but I just use an add on or extension that unloads the tab when I’m not using it, or something like one tab where I can store tabs indefinitely “just in case” and ease my tab hoarding mind. Cause I don’t wanna bookmark the tabs, I prefer to use bookmarks for important links or ones I revisit regularly, I just often don’t know if I might need a tab one more time again in the future, or might plan to go back to it eventually, so I need a different method to manage it.
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