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[blacklilypie]

So apparently today is "Black Friday" in the States? Who knew. Well I bet some of you knew.

I had no idea they had a day that officially started off the Christmas shopping frenzy. Why in the heck don't we have that kind of thing. Not because I want to fight some hags for a trampled glitter reindeer at a 6am sale, but because then we wouldn't have

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[the_watchmaker]

'black friday' is a derogatory term, though - it's a play on other usages of black friday, which almost always refers to a crisis, a riot, or some sort of disaster that results in multiple deaths. i was under the impression that it's only used by anti-capitalist types.

[blacklilypie]

Yeah I haven't seen it on television or anything. And I am sure a large part of the Etsy community are anti-capitalist types, but so far its just being used just like we use boxing day in conversation. By stay at home moms.

[tarterus]

Perhaps that's the origin of it, but that certainly isn't the context in which I've heard the term used. Snopes did an update just a few days ago about it:

http://www.snopes.com/holidays/thanksgiving/shopping.asp