local news showing MORANS waiting 2 hours in check-out lines

[matcom]

at a local mall. :eyes:

here i sit in my comfy sweats wondering what time i should start to polish off the open bottles of wine left over from last night :D

"black Friday" indeed

idiots

[Cooley Hurd]

1. My local news showed people camped out in front of Target...

...last night (BTW - it went down to 20 degrees). But that $29 DVD player was so worth it...:eyes:

[VivaKerry]

21. Did you see what they were selling at Target???

Might be worth the trip. LOL

http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/602-1949135-3087865?asin=0823916839

[Don Claybrook]

2. 11:15 Eastern

That's a reccomended start time for polishing off last night's wine. :)

Isn't the Day After Thanksgiving a great day? Tons of leftover food, drink, and a schedule that includes, well, nothing.

Have a great day.

[Crankie Avalon]

3. Sipping your wine as you watch the hoi polloi groveling away...

...at their little lives looking for their little "bargains"...

YOU ELITIST, YOU!!! :mad: ;-)

[Mari333]

4. let them shop, its their funeral

credit card debt and bankruptcies are at an all time high. My sons and I have decided not to buy anything this year for xmas. Its amazing how little you need to get by on. Just food, utilities and shelter, the rest you can leave to your imagination. Counter every moran you see on TV standing in line like sheep waiting to buy crap by not buying anything at all. People who think for themselves dont buy things they dont need.

[ronnykmarshall]

5. Here in LA too.

I don't get the shopping the after T-Day thang.

[CatWoman]

6. AND YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE ONE OF THEM, DAMMIT!!!!!

where's my present???!!!!?????

[matcom]

8. in my sweats

:*

[CatWoman]

10. LOLOLOLOL

Leave it to you!!!!!!

Always with the snappy comeback!!!!

:D

[matcom]

11. its the gift that keeps on giving

:D

[demnan]

7. Better them than me

I'm sure the legions of the brain dead will fill the stores plenty.

[Ellen Forradalom]

9. Dude, you're harsh

We're planning a little expedition into Green Bay to visit the Fleet Farm, which IMHO is the only place to shop! Everything for your house, family, dog, horse, cow and car, all under one roof and at reasonable prices.

[Crankie Avalon]

12. Hey, is that username a phonetic spelling for...

...the Hungarian phrase for "counter revolution"??? :wow:

[Ellen Forradalom]

25. It's the exact spelling of that

Magyar vagy? Van ketto magyar beszél? emberek itt a DUban.

[Crankie Avalon]

26. Igen, beszelek Magyarul...

...but I only speak it. I can read it a little if I sound it out slowly, but I can't write much in it. And I don't have the veszo or the double dots over the "o" key on my keyboard, but...

"Van ketto emberek akik magyarul beszelnek itt a DUban? Ugy latszik.

...so, forgive me for the misspellings.

My folks come from Erdely (part of the Hungarian minority still there, not Rumanians) and we emigrated to this country in 1967. My mom was pregnant with me when they snuck out (there was still an Iron Curtain, back then) so I ended up being born in a refugee camp in Italy, where we remained for a few months until our patriation into the US. We always spoke Hungarian in the home. In fact, I actually learned how to speak it before I learned how to speak English, so it's my "first language" in a way.

[Ellen Forradalom]

33. Cool! Now you can join the notorious Hungarian threadjackers!

Mikimouse and me!

My story is just the opposite, I'm not Hungarian at all, but I learned it as an adult. It's quite rusty now, though.

Hungarian is written quite phonetically, so if you wanted to read it it should be relatively easy to pick up.

[Mari333]

13. the household debt of the United States....a graph

this is mind boggling...and they continue to dig themselves an even deeper hole..but their president is setting an example isnt he?

[tk2kewl]

14. I heard that on the radio in the car on my way to WORK morans!

Jerks... should take a look at the economic analysis of our current state and how consumer debt plays into it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x88227

[bikebloke]

15. A nudge

And corporate pravda is broadcasting the sheeple queued up to encourage the sheeple at home to hit the malls and shopple.

[Deja Q]

16. Are these purported savings worth the time involved?

I say nay.

They are tempting, but why the games and increased risk of danger? Just have good prices year round and stop this insanity.

[tk2kewl]

17. Savings! Bah!

You're not saving money buy buying shit you don't need because it's on sale! Stupid suckers.

[laheina]

22. That's the truth

Why put yourself in debt for (maybe) half a days enjoyment? Especially when it's going to take most of the year to pay it off again.

There's a lemming mentality going on here.

[KG]

18. in a country that just re-elected a simian for prez

this shouldn't be surprising.

[ET Awful]

19. The only retail outfit I plan to visit today is the grocery store

down the street. I'm out of Vanilla Pepsi :). I also want some of their fresh baked sourdough bread to go with dinner tonight :)

[laheina]

23. You're making dinner today?

I just had Thanksgiving for breakfast. yum.

Ok, but the vanilla pepsi--that requires a trip to the store.:D

[Nevernose]

20. CONSUME! CONSUME! Since when did SHOPPING get it's own holiday?

People setting up tents outside Best Buy and Target in Las Vegas. WTF is wrong with these people? Since when did SHOPPING get it's own holiday?

[laheina]

24. I wonder the same thing about Valentine's Day.

On which I no longer get out of bed. :P

[CatWoman]

28. consume and OBEY

[Nevernose]

29. What a great movie...

[THUNDER HANDS]

27. shopping was the front page story of newsday today

its insane. Utterly insane. I don't do my shopping until a week before Christmas usually.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

30. I bought a $20 gift certificate for my sister off the QVC

website today. We've been setting spending limits for Hanukkah and Christmas (my family's Jewish and my husband's is Catholic) so no one goes into debt. It's totally out-of-hand. Show me how much you love/like me by upping your credit card debt. Give me a break.

After buying the gift certificate, I proceeded to go to my bank's website and transferred some money from my checking to my savings account. Fuck going into debt.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

31. My new mantra:

"How will you resist the message?"

Message being "Good Americans spend their hard-earned money on cheap crap to prop up the failing bush economy!"

I resist the message by cutting most advertising out of my life, not watching TV (especially not commercials) and thinking about how nice it is to KEEP my money and have less crap in my house.

They ARE idiots. I have NEVER shopped on Black Friday.

[Lady Effingbroke]

32. "The more you buy, the more you save!!!!"

Sadly, many people actually believe that!

[Rabrrrrrr]

34. Fuckin' assholes

And they, I bet, are the ones who keep asking "Why do they hate us?" as though there couldn't possibly be any legitimate reason whatsoever for anyone else to hate us. I mean, we invented the Pound Puppies and My Little Pony, for chrissakes.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

35. A picture is worth a thousand words. This sums it all up well.

(AP image)The pre-dawn lineup at a Best Buy in Plano, Texas.

[gmoney]

36. Did they cover urban VOTERS waiting two hours in line?

Oh, that's right... the urban voters didn't buy any ad time.