Originally posted by Hefficide

All of this TV talk is invoking my envy. I have a non HD 27" TV ( analog - the kind that are a foot and a half thick ) - and the irony here...

Bought it at Wal Mart on Black Friday about 8 years ago.

I have a 36" LCD that was my aunts before she died, that's the only reason I have it. So don't feel so bad.

And no ATS, she does not "talk to me" through her old TV (however cool that would be)

Now that I think about this... I've spent a solid YEAR arguing with people over "Obamaphones" and totally forgot to mention that George W gave me a digital TV converter box....

D'oh.

~Heff

I refuse to lower myself to wild-animal status just to save a few bucks on something I probably don't really need.

What it is for me, and why I despise Black Friday, is how my fellow human beings lower their morals and ethics to "save money".

How much is your time worth? I know that for me, it's worth more than the money I'd save on a new TV. I'd rather be creating valuable memories or enriching my mind than sitting in the cold.

People litterally act like rabid vultures -- and it's getting worse every year. As the homogenization of our society continues, pushing us all to accept a "Walmart quality of life", people are more and more desperate to hold onto their false sense of their station in life.

People today have a vastly inflated sense of what they should be able to afford.

I should get a bulhorn and drive by the people in line and yell,

"You cannot take any of this crap with you when you die. Go read a book, create some artwork. Raise your damned kids. Get the most out life!"

Life isn't or shouldn't be about how big of a TV you can fit through your trailer door. The fact that society has let retailers convince them of that is depressing as hell.

The reality of Black Friday?

Every single sales associate, clerk, technician, manager, and cashier that you speak to today, while shopping. In their minds they are poking needles into little imaginary voodoo dolls of you the entire time.

It is my professional estimation that four hours of Black Friday shopping brings enough negative karmic cause for being reincarnated as a small dog or a leper no less than 93 times.

It's true I say. True....

~Heff

Originally posted by Hefficide

The reality of Black Friday?

Every single sales associate, clerk, technician, manager, and cashier that you speak to today, while shopping. In their minds they are poking needles into little imaginary voodoo dolls of you the entire time.

It is my professional estimation that four hours of Black Friday shopping brings enough negative karmic cause for being reincarnated as a small dog or a leper no less than 93 times.

It's true I say. True....

~Heff

The most bizarre analogy imaginable!

You're probably right though!

It seems the way to get the masses moving towards higher ideals is to offer cell phones at discount prices.

By the way, while we're on the topic of selling and buying things, what's with the urge to "brand" your threads with your name?

Obey,

Consume,

Watch TV,

Buy,

This is your God.

Do not question,

Freedom is slavery,

Ignorance is strength.

Originally posted by Hefficide

You all went shopping.... didn't you???

Not me, I took a "nap"!

still haven't gotten dressed from the first time I got up this morning

.....although I do keep clothing nearby in case my sister comes over. I have time to throw something on as she's trying to make the door handle work

there's nothing wrong with a good deal. there is something wrong when the people turn into a pack of deranged rapid hyena's.

were's the order, the civility and the dignity.