Do you shop black Friday? - Page 7

Bilbo1967 · 12-02-2009, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Spartacus2112

I just wonder if any of the people shopping would make the same effort to find a job if faced with unemployment?

Woo hoo, we have a winner in the "Most Asinine, Pointlessly Insulting Comment of the Week" Competition.

Congratulations

Spartacus2112 · 12-02-2009, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Woo hoo, we have a winner in the "Most Asinine, Pointlessly Insulting Comment of the Week" Competition.

Congratulations

I've seen others that could have easily defeated mine within the threads.

Sweetpea · 12-03-2009, 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by GraceKrispy

Donʻt some places (Canada perhaps?) celebrate some Boxing Day thatʻs kind of like the same thing, but after Christmas? Or not?

Over here, we just call it second Christmasday. We also have a second easterday and a second pentecost day. And that's about all the public holidays we have (oh wait, there's two more... Ascension Thursday and new years day).

All shops are closed on Christmas day and easter, Ascension Thursday and pentecost. But the day after (except ascenion thursday as the day after is just an ordinary friday), large showrooms are generally open (even though it's a public holiday). So, kitchens, furniture, cars and such. The day after easter and pentecost, garden centers are usually open as well (hey, it's in spring!)

I've gone to IKEA on second easter day once and never again. I just can't understand people who go out on those days. It's only busy beyond busy, parking space is non-existent hours before the stores open, if you're even able to get to the store itself. Traffic jams on the highway because of people searching for a parking spot aren't rare...

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Originally Posted by HarryT

I see - thanks! In this country, events that are called "black <something>" are generally bad things

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yep, same here. Black Friday generally occurs in summer, and signifies the holiday traffic on the French highways... (when several countries start their summer holiday season it can get very (and that's an understatement!) busy there...)

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Originally Posted by kindlekitten

and in honour of our Dutch Friends SINTERKLAAS TAG!!!

I probably didn't spell that correctly

Nope, you didn't... But I corrected you

kindlekitten · 12-03-2009, 10:07 AM

don't you have Queen's Day as well?

Sweetpea · 12-03-2009, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by kindlekitten

don't you have Queen's Day as well?

Ah, forgot about that! And every 5 years we've got something called freedom day, but somehow that is only when it's on a saturday or sunday that it is an official day off...

Problem is, all those days are at the start of the year... January, somewhere after March 21nd for easter, 40 days later ascension day and 10 days later pentecoste... (and somewhere between easter and ascencion Queen's Day) and the long haul to christmas... Which will fall on a saturday if you've a really unlucky year!

kindlekitten · 12-03-2009, 10:50 AM

wow! I didn't realize there were so few! it seemed like if a saint had sneezed it was a holiday in Germany

montsnmags · 12-03-2009, 11:21 PM

Australian public holidays are, in order:

New Years Day
Australia Day
Good Friday
Easter Monday
ANZAC Day
Queen's Birthday
Christmas Day
Boxing Day

Some states have Labour Day in October, and I think the others (like us) get a holiday somewhere else (I don't know about Queensland, even though I live here, because I don't work).

Also, if some of these holidays fall on a weekend, you generally still get a public holiday, on the Monday or the Friday.

Cheers,
Marc

View Poll Results: Do you shop "black Friday"?
I"m out there.....full steam ahead and don't get in my way!	4	7.84%
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You couldn't drag me out of the house that weekend.	43	84.31%
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kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	don't you have Queen's Day as well?

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kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	wow! I didn't realize there were so few! it seemed like if a saint had sneezed it was a holiday in Germany

12-03-2009, 11:21 PM	#97
montsnmags Grand Sorcerer Posts: 10,155 Karma: 4632658 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: none	Australian public holidays are, in order: New Years Day Australia Day Good Friday Easter Monday ANZAC Day Queen's Birthday Christmas Day Boxing Day Some states have Labour Day in October, and I think the others (like us) get a holiday somewhere else (I don't know about Queensland, even though I live here, because I don't work). Also, if some of these holidays fall on a weekend, you generally still get a public holiday, on the Monday or the Friday. Cheers, Marc

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