Why we fight

Funny, I didn’t even notice the “Why We Fight” part, until AFTER I’d watched the video while thinking, “‘MERRICA! Fighting them over there so we can fight each other over here.”

This is why my wife and I hibernate on Black Friday.

I would say I can’t believe it but I can. We are fighting and have fought abroad for this kind of freedom in America. First I think if you are at a midnight Black Friday sale you have a screw loose. But I would have liked to have seen them hit her with a taser and really rough her up…just for being a douche bag. But then again, a 27″ TV is nice to have…or get your face planted for. Dumbasses.

They should make it a competition of some sort-like “whoever can drink 32 ounces of leftover turkey gravy the fastest gets the TV”. Or make ’em climb a greased pole to get to the TVs. Or whatever-the entertainment possibilities are endless.

It wasn’t about a TV. What actually happened was that there was a manager’s special announced for 75% off of greeting cards. Unfortunately, there was a language issue and most of the customers heard “green cards.” That’s what happened. I swear.

@9. That’s what rednecks do–they “almost” cause accidents.

People who comport themselves with dignity deserve respect, people who decline to do so, do not. This has nothing to do with station, even very poor people will usually retain their dignity in spite of their financial circumstances, while, as Paris Hilton has amply demonstrated, the very wealthy may not.

It helps if we have a broader culture which places value on human dignity, but ultimately the individual must take responsibility for their own behavior. All manner of lefties may now denounce me for “hatespeak”.

This is a sad indictment of America. It really is.

But as individual and familial financial woes and unemployment continue compounded with the “where’s my, give me, I want, I deserve, I expect” attitude so prevalent in todays society, this type of thing will become more frequent.

I love at the end how the Walmart Employee uses the same tactic I used with my dog to get the person to stop filming. Unfortunately, it worked as well as the tactic works on my cat… but with less laughing.

@ 20 Well said.

Oh, lines. I love lines. Long lines. Long lines consisting of rude children whose mothers yell at them w/o effect. Long lines consisting of old people whose cart contains Gas-X but who needed to use it two minutes ago. Lines consisting of people on cell phones talking about Ruthie’s goiter issue and Mike’s latest arrest. I love long lines of people who curse freely and those who have 43 items at the expresss registers. Long lines of people who are surprised to learn that they have actually to pay for the items and wait until everything is bagged and in the cart before looking for their credit card. I especially love those who pay by personal check and start looking for a pen after the total is announced to them. I love long lines. And then there’s the parking lot. But that’s another love story for another time.

The results of perpetual childhood and I’ll-do-what-I-want. This is something you see in the third world but instead of tv’s it’s food to survive. Good grief America.

I remember while in Germany 30 years ago watching video of a “Black Friday” sale on the AFN news. All of us in the day room just sat there with our mouths hanging open, watching women beat the shit out of each other over Cabbage Patch dolls, and we were all muttering things like “WTF is wrong with these people.” For context, it had been a ‘significantly emotional’ fall, what with the shootdown of KAL 007, and the NATO wide alert that went with it, Grenada, The Beirut Bombing, and then “Able Archer”, not to mention the increasing activities of the Red Army Faction…meanwhile back in the states people were doing that shit. Never, will I ever go to one of those sales. Never, never, never.

Another fine spectacle of the “GIMME, GIMME, GIMME!” crowd, of which vwp, Sippy, and other trolls here are a part of. I avoid that crap with a vengeance, it’s not worth it!

@35 That has nothing to to with riches, and everything to do with priorities.

Totally justifies not coming down off the mountain!

Will the real Christmas holiday please stand up? The good news is that it’s just around the corner. Of course, it probably seems like an eternity away for the little ones. (I still remember how unbearably long 25 days seemed back then) 😀

@43 Hahaha! Being good was definitely the hard part. And did I ever have a learning curve. xD

This is why I have not, and will never, to to a Big Box chain store anytime during the Thanksgiving weekend. I value my life too much to have it taken away by such riff-raff for no cause whatsoever other than a cheap medium-sized flat screen TV.

The Black Friday thing got out of hand years ago.

I won’t shop on Thanksgiving – ever.

My daughter and I met at 7am at Target at our mall. Almost no one was there. We leisurely got the items we wanted, still fully stocked, then proceeded to the rest of the mall. It did get somewhat crowded in the early afternoon.

We stopped for chai tea and a snack, then had a late lunch later. We spent about 10 hours having a nice mother-daughter day.

No fights, no lines, no hassles.

The folks who were working said that the mall was dead at 8pm last night, picked up a little from 9pm until midnight, then nothing until about 9am this morning.

And that was worth denying workers their Thanksgiving celebration with their families? I hope every store that was open on Thanksgiving lost money.

@49

Ironic…your protest sentenced millions of South Vietnamese to the fate of the North Koreans