Are you all ready for another Americanism known as

[Heathblue]

Black Friday

[Llanedeyrnblue]

Black Friday

It's already started on Amazon

[Heathblue]

It's already started on Amazon

I'm just about to lash out on a USB hub £8.99 bargain to fight for

[ian gibson]

another Steely Dan song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92zMMZWPyGE

[BLUETIT]

When we going to have "WHITE MONDAY"

Lazy friggers.

[PerryJason]

Black Friday

Very common for common people who believe they are getting a bargain

[Vimana.]

I really, really wish 'we' would stop trying so hard to indoctrinate 'ourselves' with so many of the less attractive aspects of Americana.

[NYCBlue]

It's already started on Amazon

That's Cyber Monday.

[goslow]

Black Friday

Is that the one where people of colour go rioting to get free stuff or is it when people of colour try to get cheap tat and cause a riot when they can't?

[Vimana.]

That's Cyber Monday.

Not sure if that was a joke (sorry if I have been slow!) , but Llanedeyrnblue is quite right - Amazon have been sending out 'today's "Black Friday" deals' via email since earlier this week.

[NYCBlue]

The whole point of Black Friday is that it's the Friday after Thanksgiving and most people have the day off. So traditionally, people would use that day to begin their Christmas shopping and department stores began to compete by having big sales. Having a version of Black Friday when everyone is at work seems kind of pointless.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Black Friday

We've already got Happy Holidays creeping in. Some nonsensically think it's festering its way into society so as not to offend other religions etc, but Coca-Cola have been advertising it for years and years.

[NYCBlue]

No. Cyber Monday is really a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Monday

[Vimana.]

The whole point of Black Friday is that it's the Friday after Thanksgiving and most people have the day off. So traditionally, people would use that day to begin their Christmas shopping and department stores began to compete by having big sales. Having a version of Black Friday when everyone is at work seems kind of pointless.

Indeed.
But we shop differently these days. Hence the 'virtual', online Black Friday that now seems to last a week.

Could you send over some of the countless thousands of good, decent, worthwhile, palatable American things/habits that we can set about emulating ?! Please!

edit: just seen you post above re Cyber Monday.
That will also be a 'British tradition' soon, no doubt whatsoever...!

[NYCBlue]

We've already got Happy Holidays creeping in. Some nonsensically think it's festering its way into society so as not to offend other religions etc, but Coca-Cola have been advertising it for years and years.

People use it here because Chanukah falls between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Now you have Kwanza too. And maybe something else.

[NYCBlue]

another Steely Dan song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92zMMZWPyGE

Conincidentally I'm listening to it now.

I started listening to Steely Dan after the Deacon Blue thread and it just came on.

[NYCBlue]

Conincidentally I'm listening to it now.

I started listening to Steely Dan after the Deacon Blue thread and it just came on.

Bad Sneakers is next. And I'm wearing a pair of Stan Smith's for the first time that are little snug.

[City123]

Is that the one where people of colour go rioting to get free stuff or is it when people of colour try to get cheap tat and cause a riot when they can't?

[NYCBlue]

[Heathblue]

We've already got Happy Holidays creeping in. Some nonsensically think it's festering its way into society so as not to offend other religions etc, but Coca-Cola have been advertising it for years and years.

T.B.H, i see many saying about the Happy Holiday greeting, but i've never heard it said.

[ian gibson]

Bad Sneakers is next. And I'm wearing a pair of Stan Smith's for the first time that are little snug.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

T.B.H, i see many saying about the Happy Holiday greeting, but i've never heard it said.

Same here. Just as the nonsense about people not being allowed to wear or display poppies etc, all designed with an ulterior motive.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

People use it here because Chanukah falls between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Now you have Kwanza too. And maybe something else.

Better than falling for mass commercialism then.

[bobh]

Black Friday

Racist.
Reported.

[TH63]

Indeed.
But we shop differently these days. Hence the 'virtual', online Black Friday that now seems to last a week.

Could you send over some of the countless thousands of good, decent, worthwhile, palatable American things/habits that we can set about emulating ?! Please!

edit: just seen you post above re Cyber Monday.
That will also be a 'British tradition' soon, no doubt whatsoever...!

Genuinely can't think of any