2014: nobody in the UK has ever said 'Black Friday' 2024: you get emails saying things like 'yes, it's Black Friday season again! So, for the next three weeks...' 2034: from May onwards, Amazon operatives are allowed to break into your house and hold you at gunpoint until you have spent £500 - ThreadSky

watsoncomedian.bsky.social • 92 days ago

2014: nobody in the UK has ever said 'Black Friday'

2024: you get emails saying things like 'yes, it's Black Friday season again! So, for the next three weeks...'

2034: from May onwards, Amazon operatives are allowed to break into your house and hold you at gunpoint until you have spent £500

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thesherbetguy.bsky.social•92 days ago

The planet will be all lovely and dead long before 2034…

murky.org•92 days ago

Halloween is not dissimilar- in my memory that was a sideshow to Nov5 - totally reversed now.

mark1962b.bsky.social•92 days ago

Both American imports.

murky.org•92 days ago

Ah yes, I remember the story…. Guy Fawkes creeping around under the White House when he was caught by the Secret Service.

mark1962b.bsky.social•92 days ago

Modern Halloween and Black Friday.

murky.org•92 days ago

I mentioned not Black Friday

calum.me•92 days ago

Sort of. Halloween was always big in Scotland when I was growing up, and America imported most of it from Ireland in the first place. It’s mainly the “trick or treat” concept that Americans have given us back.
(Edited 19:03 via @skeetsapp.com)

calum.me•92 days ago

(It was called “guising” in Scotland when I were a lad, and you had to actually do a turn of some description to earn your monkey nuts…)

johnheap.bsky.social•92 days ago

Black Friday isn't what it used to be.

dgjones.bsky.social•92 days ago

We used to say Black Friday all the time, well once a year anyway. Only it used to mean seeing in the countdown to Christmas by clocking off at lunchtime to get hammered and watching blokes in short sleeves having fist fights on ice.

hauntedjukebox.bsky.social•92 days ago

We call it Black Eye Friday in Newcastle, and, honestly, it’s always one of the best nights to go out out of the year.

cherryghostbuster.bsky.social•92 days ago

Now it’s your turn to get colonized I guess

kevinscrowe.bsky.social•92 days ago

2054: Fuckforce Friday

hauntedjukebox.bsky.social•92 days ago

I remember working in Tesco, first year we did Black Friday. Absolutely nothing worth buying, but a display of vodka bottles got smashed all over the floor, and some twat used a man’s wheelchair as a ladder to get to a high shelf. What a lovely tradition we’ve embraced from our American cousins.

brendathomson.bsky.social•92 days ago

The realisation my soul black Friday purchase has been door knobs is utterly depressing. I am now at a point in my life where I am autopilot adulting instead of enjoying myself. It's not what life should be about!

qoal.co.uk•92 days ago

Is it a bit weird that regulators, and nations, are OK with being force fed imported cultural events, thanks to multi-nationals.
So much so that retailers then decide to follow suit and reinforce it, because it brings in a bit more money.

Social media is too influential, and easy to manipulate.

adebishop.bsky.social•92 days ago

Or saved £4, which pretty much amounts to the same thing.

mlesh02.bsky.social•92 days ago

Hey, at least you get to watch us from the states physically harm each other in order to get a deal

hornetgx.bsky.social•92 days ago

Looking at what the US is about to have in charge, I'm struggling to decide whether the 2034 line is comedy or political punditry😅

diptych.bsky.social•92 days ago

In Australia, 'Black Friday' refers to a historic day of terrible bushfires that wiped whole towns off the map.

We also have Black Saturday, Black Sunday, Black Monday, Black Tuesday and Black Thursday.

No Black Wednesday, but we make up for that with two different Ash Wednesdays.

diptych.bsky.social•92 days ago

We have a lot of fires.

teddybass.bsky.social•92 days ago

I use it to ‘purge’ my emails. Any company that mentions BF I unsubscribe.

stjude1982.bsky.social•92 days ago

My Dad used to talk of Black Friday as the last working day of the year, where every one would go afterwards and get completely leaving a trail of devastation

sambv.bsky.social•92 days ago

2014: I set up auto-delete rules on any email containing the words “Black Friday.” Best thing I’ve ever done (and that includes getting married and having kids).

emmageddon.bsky.social•92 days ago

See also the whole Elf on Shelf thing, it appeared like 10 years ago.

Now people are acting like it was passed down in ancient tradition, like if you were to actually look close at Stonehenge, the little vunt would be engraved on the side.

marwoodbramwell.bsky.social•92 days ago

Please can someone convince my partner of this before she inflicts it on our child.

In my defence she seemed perfectly normal, and Elf on Shelf never came up in conversation until the third trimester…

emmageddon.bsky.social•92 days ago

Ask her if she really wants to train your child to accept the constant surveillance of a dictatorship.

marwoodbramwell.bsky.social•92 days ago

I didn’t know you knew her…

irradiatedmouse.bsky.social•91 days ago

I have been doing it for nearly ten years and it’s a pain in the arse 😅 but our elves aren’t there to watch the kids to see if they are being good, they just do stupid shit and cause me to wake up at 1am remembering I forgot to move them

farshnuke.bsky.social•92 days ago

I have quietly considered that it's only a matter of time before student debt is bought up by companies that then use it as a way to basically force people into indentured servitude. So far even the most extreme and frothing of the far right hasn't said it thank frick.

nimbusillian.bsky.social•92 days ago

dreichit.bsky.social•92 days ago

I only ever remember hearing it in relation to the last Friday before Christmas working in pubs. It was Black Friday because all the workers’ last day would be a fucking nightmare, not to mention for ambulances etc as well. That was about 2005. Bugger all to do with shopping.

mgaskin.bsky.social•92 days ago

@watsoncomedian.bsky.social A. Dabbs in The Register: "A New Year sale except 6 weeks early, & prices aren't lower. If it's clothing, it's out of fashion. If it's tech, it's >3 years obsolete. If you now think BlackFriday is stupid with no merit whatsoever, you've understood the concept perfectly."

paulsarjeant.bsky.social•92 days ago

Exactly the same timeline in Canada, but shifted forwards by 5 years...

mandolele.bsky.social•92 days ago

It's been 'buy nothing day' to me for about 25 years because that's what happens when you learn about the concept of Black Friday through punk forums. It's unclear if I'm now meant to extend the buying nothing into the entire season.

mythalive.bsky.social•92 days ago

I still remember when Black Friday was a single day in the USA instead of an entire month.

boredstoopid.bsky.social•92 days ago

Ref 2034. The Amazon operative doesn’t want to hold you at gunpoint but their chip implant has control and their family is under threat unless the task is successfully accomplished.

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