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Let us know what you studs got. I will go out and buy something somewhere I think. Will update later today.
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wtf is "Black friday"? you guys have a "white friday" also Im assuming?
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wtf is "Black friday"? you guys have a "white friday" also Im assuming?
day after thanksgiving sale. accross the country, stores are cutting prices. usually causes hysteria at stores and few deaths every year.
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Why it is called “Black Friday”
Black Friday as a term has been used in multiple contexts, going back to the nineteenth century, where it was associated with a financial crisis in 1869. The earliest uses of "Black Friday" to mean the day close to Thanksgiving come from or reference Philadelphia and refer to the heavy traffic on that day. The earliest known reference to "Black Friday" (in this sense), found by Bonnie Taylor-Blake of the American Dialect Society, refers to Black Friday 1965 and makes the Philadelphia origin explicit:
JANUARY 1966 -- "Black Friday" is the name which the Philadelphia Police Department has given to the Friday following Thanksgiving Day. It is not a term of endearment to them. "Black Friday" officially opens the Christmas shopping season in center city, and it usually brings massive traffic jams and over-crowded sidewalks as the downtown stores are mobbed from opening to closing.[11]
The term Black Friday began to get wider exposure around 1975, as shown by two newspaper articles from November 29, 1975, both datelined Philadelphia. The first reference is in an article entitled "Army vs. Navy: A Dimming Splendor," in The New York Times:
Philadelphia police and bus drivers call it "Black Friday" - that day each year between Thanksgiving Day and the Army–Navy Game. It is the busiest shopping and traffic day of the year in the Bicentennial City as the Christmas list is checked off and the Eastern college football season nears conclusion.
The derivation is also clear in an Associated Press article entitled "Folks on Buying Spree Despite Down Economy," which ran in the Titusville Herald on the same day:
Store aisles were jammed. Escalators were nonstop people. It was the first day of the Christmas shopping season and despite the economy, folks here went on a buying spree. ... "That's why the bus drivers and cab drivers call today 'Black Friday,'" a sales manager at Gimbels said as she watched a traffic cop trying to control a crowd of jaywalkers. "They think in terms of headaches it gives them."
Usage of the term has become more popular in the Midwest since 2000.
Another articles
Why Is It Called "Black Friday"?
Interestingly enough, there are two ways that this shoppers holiday got it's name. At the very beginning of the tradition, people we so eager for deals that they swarmed the shopping centers. This resulted in traffic accidents and other unfortunate altercations amongst the crowds. Back in 1966, the Philadelphia Police Department coined the term "Black Friday" to describe this phenomenon.
The other meaning of the term came later and gets its origins from an accounting term to mean profit for the retailers. Where as being "in the red" indicates a loss, being "in the black" means profits. As the popularity of these sales caught on, retailers could expect a very profitable day on the Friday after Thanksgiving.
Black Friday has marked the beginning of the Holiday shopping season since the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1924,. Before it was known by what we call it now, it was simply "After Thanksgiving Sales". Then as now it was one of the single busiest days of the year. During the Great Depression, President Roosevelt changed the date of Thanksgiving to a week earlier so that merchants could have more shopping days in the season in which to sell their wares.
These days, Black Friday has become so popular with shoppers that many larger retailers open their doors as early as Midnight on Thanksgiving in order to get the most hours out of the day.
Interesting...
The Friday after Thanksgiving has become known in the last few decades as one of the busiest of the year for retailers, the traditional start of the holiday shopping season. One of the names used for this day is Black Friday, which some say comes from the fact that it is the biggest shopping day of the year, putting stores firmly in the black. This is false, as the days closer to Christmas generate more in sales. For the true origins of the term, we have to dig back a few decades.
Laurence H. Black was one of the best floor men in town, working in the men’s department of the old Osberger’s Department Store for over thirty years. He had been with the store since its humble beginnings as a menswear store on Richmond Avenue in the late 1920s. Except for a very brief stint in the service during World War II, he remained with the store as it grew, eventually settling into its later eight-floor retail palace on North Geary Street. Black was a fixture in the store, presiding over the suits, shirts, ties and millinery in his ever-present black suit (”That’s how they remember me. Black suit, Mr. Black, see?”) with a red carnation in the lapel. In a very cutthroat industry, his was one of those rare cases in which he was respected by everyone in the city’s retail trade, regardless of store affiliation. His reputation was even cemented throughout the region, as Osberger’s expanded in the 1950s and Mr. Black would often be called upon to train sellers at the various stores.
But it was the downtown store he loved the most. He was typically one of the first there in the morning (just behind Wharton Osberger) and one of the last to leave, which is exactly as it was on November 27, 1964. Toward the end of his twelve-hour shift, as the massive brass clock overlooking the restaurant in the store’s Grande Center Court read 7:48 pm, Laurence H. Black collapsed, felled by a heart attack. Old man Osberger closed the store the next day and clerks at the city’s other retail palaces wore black in tribute.
The following year, on the Friday after Thanksgiving, all of the employees wore black suits and dresses, highlighted by a single red carnation, with a moment of silence at 7:48 pm, a tradition that carried on year after year and was picked up by many other stores in the city. But, through many consolidations and sales and employee turnover and whatnot, the reason for the tribute and the tradition itself has been lost, save for a few old-timers who still remember. The small Osberger chain was dissolved in the early 1990s and the old parent company is now the owner of a chain of movie theaters in Australia. If you trace back through approximately fifteen mergers and acquisitions you’ll find that the old Osberger stores themselves are all now Macy’s. The central Osberger’s store on North Geary was converted to office space in 2001, after sitting vacant for a number of years. They’ve kept the central court and clock, however.
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i never have and never EVER will venture out on black friday....
wasn't it last yr some dood that worked for walmart got trampled to death when he opened the doors at 12 am >:(
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day after thanksgiving sale. accross the country, stores are cutting prices. usually causes hysteria at stores and few deaths every year.
Walmart cattle stampede?
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i never have and never EVER will venture out on black friday....
wasn't it last yr some dood that worked for walmart got trampled to death when he opened the doors at 12 am >:(
Yes, Wal-mart people are their own breed, thankfully.
That sort of thing never happens at Cartier. Just sayin'...
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Wii rockband
nintendo ds Style savvy
Wii world of zoo
Casio electronic keyboard
MP3 player
new backpack for school
I didn't actually go....I gave the ex-wife some loot and a list yesterday and told her have fun shopping for my daughter.
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Just ordered 2 days ago and got a great discount. Should get it next week sometime
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Just ordered 2 days ago and got a great discount. Should get it next week sometime
do you ever get mad while watching "the biggest looser" when they loose 100 pounds in 3-4 months and you havent lost 100 pounds in 3 years? :)
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do you ever get mad while watching "the biggest looser" when they loose 100 pounds in 3-4 months and you havent lost 100 pounds in 3 years? :)
No why would I get mad. I am fine. Unlike you who can only get pissed off at me since I am old and fat and still have more (way more!) going for me than you do. It must really piss you off knowing that where you are at physically and financially currently is the best you will have in your whole life. I gotta tell you I would be pissed off at everything too if I knew I would have to live the rest of my life knowing that it ain't going to get any better. That's why I can't get upset with you. I feel sad for you. I enjoy your jabs at me. Cause I know it makes you feel better about yourself. Hang in there kid.
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No why would I get mad. I am fine. Unlike you who can only get pissed off at me since I am old and fat and still have more (way more!) going for me than you do. It must really piss you off knowing that where you are at physically and financially currently is the best you will have in your whole life. I gotta tell you I would be pissed off at everything too if I knew I would have to live the rest of my life knowing that it ain't going to get any better. That's why I can't get upset with you. I feel sad for you. I enjoy your jabs at me. Cause I know it makes you feel better about yourself. Hang in there kid.
Did you break a sweat typing that bro? :)
I'm not pissed of at you. I honestly feel sorry for you...
Life must suck reaching a weight that you KNOW even though you lost all the weight, you would still end up with a shitload of loose skin. So you pretty much have nothing left to look forward to in life.. I mean money wise you probably alot alot more things going on then me.
But does it really matter when you're not healthy?
I mean not having the freedom to go out running, or playing some sports etc etc, have to be horrible feeling, thats why I feel sorry for you.
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Frozen turkey (various wt.) - $3 each
14 in. Pumpkin Pie - $0.50 each
Wristwatch (various makes) - 80% off.
DVD's - 80% off
Flat-screen TV (various makes and models) - 80% off
etc, etc - Everything vastly discounted
Private Invite Only from 6 AM tiil all was sold.
Two purchase limit (unless you return the following hour)
Last two items sold at 7:22 AM (a 14 pound turkey and a pie)
Best buy of the day was probably the huge flat screen Sony for less than $300.
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Did you break a sweat typing that bro? :)
I'm not pissed of at you. I honestly feel sorry for you...
Life must suck reaching a weight that you KNOW even though you lost all the weight, you would still end up with a shitload of loose skin. So you pretty much have nothing left to look forward to in life.. I mean money wise you probably alot alot more things going on then me.
But does it really matter when you're not healthy?
I mean not having the freedom to go out running, or playing some sports etc etc, have to be horrible feeling, thats why I feel sorry for you.
hahahahaha you are funny. Odd but I go to gym, go to the casinos and do whatever I want when I want. A little painful at times but I get by very good. But, in reality instead of feeling sorry for me, you really should feel sorry about yourself. Don't worry about me. I am fine. Instead of making yourself feel better about being such a loser as yourself by making me look bad (which you fail horribly) concentrate on yourself. You are just a little kid who has found his niche playing on the internet. If that is your "highlight" of your life then embrace it and be the best at it. Trying to make me look bad is just dumb on your part. If my life is so bad in your eyes and yet it is 1000000 times better than yours, then where does that leave your life. See what I mean? Right now you don't even rank in the top 5 posters on this internet site. Come-on step up and make something out of your life.. I gotta give it to you though. If I had to go through life like you have had too and know that I have NO future at all except to tell people you are a second string star on Getbig I would have killed myself or start ragging on people to make me feel like I am better than I really am. You took the pussy way out but then again that is your M.O.
Keep the insults coming, I love them (especially from you) cause in the real world you really don't matter much to anyone. Not that is shitty
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Just picked up a 46 inch Sony Bravia...I wasn't spending 2gs on an LED even though they are nice.
Samsung Blue Ray
It was a fucking mad house here at Best Buy. Never again...
Later this evening after I rest I'm going to get a home theater system. Don't know what kind yet.
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hahahahaha you are funny. Odd but I go to gym, go to the casinos and do whatever I want when I want. A little painful at times but I get by very good. But, in reality instead of feeling sorry for me, you really should feel sorry about yourself. Don't worry about me. I am fine. Instead of making yourself feel better about being such a loser as yourself by making me look bad (which you fail horribly) concentrate on yourself. You are just a little kid who has found his niche playing on the internet. If that is your "highlight" of your life then embrace it and be the best at it. Trying to make me look bad is just dumb on your part. If my life is so bad in your eyes and yet it is 1000000 times better than yours, then where does that leave your life. See what I mean? Right now you don't even rank in the top 5 posters on this internet site. Come-on step up and make something out of your life.. I gotta give it to you though. If I had to go through life like you have had too and know that I have NO future at all except to tell people you are a second string star on Getbig I would have killed myself or start ragging on people to make me feel like I am better than I really am. You took the pussy way out but then again that is your M.O.
Keep the insults coming, I love them (especially from you) cause in the real world you really don't matter much to anyone. Not that is shitty
Im not trying to insult you, Im trying to figure out how you're thinking and how you're making it ok for yourself to be so overweight without doing anything about it..
I know I got depressed as hell when I got fat, but thats 1/100th of how fat you got. So I cant imagine what you're going thru, and how you could manage just loosing 100 pounds after all these years..
Im trying to understand, thats all..
I mean if the tards at biggest loser can loose 100 pounds in a few months, you with your knowledge should also be able to do what, Without a problem =)
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Just picked up a 46 inch Sony Bravia...I wasn't spending 2gs on an LED even though they are nice.
Samsung Blue Ray
It was a fucking mad house here at Best Buy. Never again...
Later this evening after I rest I'm going to get a home theater system. Don't know what kind yet.
I myself just ordered a 46" Samsung for my new place, just need to get a hd cable and a optical cable for my sound system =)
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I myself just ordered a 46" Samsung for my new place, just need to get a hd cable and a optical cable for my sound system =)
I got my 40" Samsung LED TV last week - it fuckin rocks and that's only through the scart lead - I'm buying a blu-ray player next week so I can break out the HDMI cables and watch movies in high-def.
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I got my 40" Samsung LED TV last week - it fuckin rocks and that's only through the scart lead - I'm buying a blu-ray player next week so I can break out the HDMI cables and watch movies in high-def.
led is a bit out of my league though ;D
tv's are alot cheaper in usa also =)
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WIGGS - Best home theater system by far is the BOSE setup.
BUT _ Next big thing for home movie fans will be the "rokaby" - a chair that is somehow 'coordinated" with the video with sensors throughout making you feel like you are part of the on-screen action. The more expensive units will have built in surround sound speakers,,, but even beter ,,,,,,,
Advanced units will somehow envelop a liquid type "stuffing" which will 'deliver' sound and motion through every part (muscle, fat, bone and marrow) of your body.
Those who have been testing these advanced units claim that it is somewhat like entering a trance-like state and entering the world that the video displays which you see via 'goggles' that are worn throughout the experience.
More info to follow if interested. It getsway more advanced than home theater units
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WIGGS - Best home theater system by far is the BOSE setup.
BUT _ Next big thing for home movie fans will be the "rokaby" - a chair that is somehow 'coordinated" with the video with sensors throughout making you feel like you are part of the on-screen action. The more expensive units will have built in surround sound speakers,,, but even beter ,,,,,,,
Advanced units will somehow envelop a liquid type "stuffing" which will 'deliver' sound and motion through every part (muscle, fat, bone and marrow) of your body.
Those who have been testing these advanced units claim that it is somewhat like entering a trance-like state and entering the world that the video displays which you see via 'goggles' that are worn throughout the experience.
More info to follow if interested. It getsway more advanced than home theater units
sounds affordable :D
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WIGGS - Best home theater system by far is the BOSE setup.
BUT _ Next big thing for home movie fans will be the "rokaby" - a chair that is somehow 'coordinated" with the video with sensors throughout making you feel like you are part of the on-screen action. The more expensive units will have built in surround sound speakers,,, but even beter ,,,,,,,
Advanced units will somehow envelop a liquid type "stuffing" which will 'deliver' sound and motion through every part (muscle, fat, bone and marrow) of your body.
Those who have been testing these advanced units claim that it is somewhat like entering a trance-like state and entering the world that the video displays which you see via 'goggles' that are worn throughout the experience.
More info to follow if interested. It getsway more advanced than home theater units
You're posts are interesting mr stuntman. We have had sight and sound for a long time, would be nice to add feel and smell for a complete experience. Feel the g-forces of an airplane, the smell from an explosion etc...
Do tell more and tell us about what you do.
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Royal Oak Offshore.
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Royal Oak Offshore.
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PFFFT wake up whoever you are your dream is getting carried away here. Worst fake I have seen in a while. Nothing cheesier than a wannabe baller with a fake AP. Go jump off a bridge.
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Just ordered 2 days ago and got a great discount. Should get it next week sometime
What kind of computer is that and how much did it run you?
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this is where i spent my black friday.
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and this is what i was doing.
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there ya go that's my christmas present to all of ya on here. print em out hang em on ya wall. yor welcopme ya ungrateful bastards. happy festivus to all.
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Let us know what you studs got. I will go out and buy something somewhere I think. Will update later today.
you mean " African-American" Friday ???
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this is where i spent my black friday.
A true hardcore iron warrior who takes no prisoners. I bet you wear the prototypical Champion or Everlast full 100% heavy duty cotton warm up suit HOOD ON during workouts as well? LMAO!
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A true hardcore iron warrior who takes no prisoners. I bet you wear the prototypical Champion or Everlast full 100% heavy duty cotton warm up suit HOOD ON during workouts as well? LMAO!
are ya kidding me nothing but spandex and my branch warren beanie when i work out.
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i got several new tattoo's and some other shit.
bench
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Swede!, Bobby,
Have no idea what the price-tag will be but at first they won't be cheap, but like every other new electronic wonder, the price will drop a lot within the first couple of years.
The untimate (as of now( home movie experience will be as follows:
I don't know if any of you are aware of how movies are made now-a-days, but what you see on the screen is not what you see on the sound stage when/where the movie is being filmed.
A lot of today's movie sets are merely a studio filled with a lot of 'boxes and ramps' of various sizes. Each of these boxes and ramps are painted a bright green color and the actors act on or around these green objects. And the entire background is nothing more than a gigantic green screen/curtain.
The actors go through their scenes as per the director's instructions.
"That green box there will be a stationary vehicle! So in this scene you will jump over it! Rigger!!? Rig him up"
And then they spend the next few hours filming this actor jumping over that green box with the green curtain in the background.
And right there on the set off in some little dark cornor sits a computer geek who watches the action on his computer screen, but instead of seeing that actor jump over a green box with the green screen in the background, he is seeing that actor jump over a Mercedes Benz on 5th Avenue in New York City or jumping over a locomotive with King Kong chasing him in the background.
There is a lot more involved that is years beyond my comprehension, but you might know a bit about it as "MOTION CAPTURE".
And in the not too distant future, you'll have a motion capture syetem in your own home and you'll more than likely never leave your home again.
Here's how that should work .....
You'll get into something similar to a wet suit with blue tooth type sensors all over it including every extremity of your body. (OH OH)
Your motion caption home theater will have a complete circle of motion capture sensors embedded along the walls and ceiling and floor and record each and every move that you can possibly make while wearing that motion capture suit. (Including facial expressions eventually.)
Then a computer will render/interpret your motions and embed them onto a huge, wall sized computer screen which will actually make you a feature part of the story/movie.
I have friends currently working on detective scripts (CSI similarity) and other action/adventure scripts that will allow you to be the detective and attempt to solve the crime or an adventure character in search of some famous treasure. These films (if and when produced) will feature many other actors, and you can play the part of any principal character in the movie and the story will proceed in accordance with any action you choose to perform.
And you see this all on screen as if you were in that movie.
AND THAT'S JUST THE START OF WHAT IS COMING UP WITHIN THE HOME ENTERTAINMENT BIZ. THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE THE FORTHCOMING HOME SHOW BUSINESS!
MY JOB!? I've had friends and family members in the movie business almost all my life. Mainly stunt people but some major stars too. I've worked on a few films but only because a friend or family member needed help or support. Or because I snuck on set just to show that it could be done or to meet some star that I had a lot of respect for at the time.
Only studio lot I ever had a problem getting on was 20th Century Fox because I wanted to say "Hello" to Marilyn Monroe who used to be a neighbor of ours (a few blocks away). That didn't hold any weight with the front gate guard though and I had to complain when I ran into Joe Dimaggio one afternoon at his brother's bar. That must have carried some weight because I drove in freely on my next visit to watch them film that David Duchovney TV show which name I forgot because I never do watch TV.
But I did meet more top stars back then. Probably a few more than OnlyMe even - Sinatra, Novak, Lewis, Stanwyk, Boone, Garner, Lee, etc.
But never Jonesy! DAMN!!!
Getting off subject and remenising ..... sorry!
BACK ON TRACK....Wait for Black Friday 2020 and get a real MOTION CAPTURE Home Theater!
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What kind of computer is that and how much did it run you?
It's a Lenovo W700ds The way I had it configured it was just shy of $5,000.00 but after the sale and everything else I got it for just under $2,500.
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It's a Lenovo W700ds The way I had it configured it was just shy of $5,000.00 but after the sale and everything else I got it for just under $2,500.
fuck! wtf are you gonna use it for?
you could build an AMAZING stationary computer for 5k lol
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fuck! wtf are you gonna use it for?
you could build an AMAZING stationary computer for 5k lol
Son, I make my money with my computer and when I travel I like to bring everything with me. Now I am designing some new labels and I want an easier way to do it. Plus, I like that little slide out screen so I can watch my internet TV while I work.
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i never have and never EVER will venture out on black friday....
wasn't it last yr some dood that worked for walmart got trampled to death when he opened the doors at 12 am >:(
yep and nobody was punished for it
black friday is the day when humans become animals
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Im suprised there hasnt been a leftist complaining about american consumerism in this thread yet...
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PFFFT wake up whoever you are your dream is getting carried away here. Worst fake I have seen in a while. Nothing cheesier than a wannabe baller with a fake AP. Go jump off a bridge.
Thanks for your help. I will go get my money back. ::)
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i bought one of these badboys today
(http://www.healthygatherings.com/items/lg/20_xvest.jpg)
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Son, I make my money with my computer and when I travel I like to bring everything with me. Now I am designing some new labels and I want an easier way to do it. Plus, I like that little slide out screen so I can watch my internet TV while I work.
Translation = I'm a struggling minimum wage earner doled out to do mindless work and traveling no else wants to do. Plus, I have a work provided lab top I can brag about so it's all good.
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i bought one of these badboys today
(http://www.healthygatherings.com/items/lg/20_xvest.jpg)
Prices Salmon, prices!
If you studs could put regular retail and what you paid for it, it'd be nice!
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I got some of this to go with the leftover turkey from last night.
(http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/files/2008/11/stovetop.jpg)
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Why it is called “Black Friday”
Black Friday as a term has been used in multiple contexts, going back to the nineteenth century, where it was associated with a financial crisis in 1869. The earliest uses of "Black Friday" to mean the day close to Thanksgiving come from or reference Philadelphia and refer to the heavy traffic on that day. The earliest known reference to "Black Friday" (in this sense), found by Bonnie Taylor-Blake of the American Dialect Society, refers to Black Friday 1965 and makes the Philadelphia origin explicit:
JANUARY 1966 -- "Black Friday" is the name which the Philadelphia Police Department has given to the Friday following Thanksgiving Day. It is not a term of endearment to them. "Black Friday" officially opens the Christmas shopping season in center city, and it usually brings massive traffic jams and over-crowded sidewalks as the downtown stores are mobbed from opening to closing.[11]
The term Black Friday began to get wider exposure around 1975, as shown by two newspaper articles from November 29, 1975, both datelined Philadelphia. The first reference is in an article entitled "Army vs. Navy: A Dimming Splendor," in The New York Times:
Philadelphia police and bus drivers call it "Black Friday" - that day each year between Thanksgiving Day and the Army–Navy Game. It is the busiest shopping and traffic day of the year in the Bicentennial City as the Christmas list is checked off and the Eastern college football season nears conclusion.
The derivation is also clear in an Associated Press article entitled "Folks on Buying Spree Despite Down Economy," which ran in the Titusville Herald on the same day:
Store aisles were jammed. Escalators were nonstop people. It was the first day of the Christmas shopping season and despite the economy, folks here went on a buying spree. ... "That's why the bus drivers and cab drivers call today 'Black Friday,'" a sales manager at Gimbels said as she watched a traffic cop trying to control a crowd of jaywalkers. "They think in terms of headaches it gives them."
Usage of the term has become more popular in the Midwest since 2000.
Another articles
Why Is It Called "Black Friday"?
Interestingly enough, there are two ways that this shoppers holiday got it's name. At the very beginning of the tradition, people we so eager for deals that they swarmed the shopping centers. This resulted in traffic accidents and other unfortunate altercations amongst the crowds. Back in 1966, the Philadelphia Police Department coined the term "Black Friday" to describe this phenomenon.
The other meaning of the term came later and gets its origins from an accounting term to mean profit for the retailers. Where as being "in the red" indicates a loss, being "in the black" means profits. As the popularity of these sales caught on, retailers could expect a very profitable day on the Friday after Thanksgiving.
Black Friday has marked the beginning of the Holiday shopping season since the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1924,. Before it was known by what we call it now, it was simply "After Thanksgiving Sales". Then as now it was one of the single busiest days of the year. During the Great Depression, President Roosevelt changed the date of Thanksgiving to a week earlier so that merchants could have more shopping days in the season in which to sell their wares.
These days, Black Friday has become so popular with shoppers that many larger retailers open their doors as early as Midnight on Thanksgiving in order to get the most hours out of the day.
Interesting...
The Friday after Thanksgiving has become known in the last few decades as one of the busiest of the year for retailers, the traditional start of the holiday shopping season. One of the names used for this day is Black Friday, which some say comes from the fact that it is the biggest shopping day of the year, putting stores firmly in the black. This is false, as the days closer to Christmas generate more in sales. For the true origins of the term, we have to dig back a few decades.
Laurence H. Black was one of the best floor men in town, working in the men’s department of the old Osberger’s Department Store for over thirty years. He had been with the store since its humble beginnings as a menswear store on Richmond Avenue in the late 1920s. Except for a very brief stint in the service during World War II, he remained with the store as it grew, eventually settling into its later eight-floor retail palace on North Geary Street. Black was a fixture in the store, presiding over the suits, shirts, ties and millinery in his ever-present black suit (”That’s how they remember me. Black suit, Mr. Black, see?”) with a red carnation in the lapel. In a very cutthroat industry, his was one of those rare cases in which he was respected by everyone in the city’s retail trade, regardless of store affiliation. His reputation was even cemented throughout the region, as Osberger’s expanded in the 1950s and Mr. Black would often be called upon to train sellers at the various stores.
But it was the downtown store he loved the most. He was typically one of the first there in the morning (just behind Wharton Osberger) and one of the last to leave, which is exactly as it was on November 27, 1964. Toward the end of his twelve-hour shift, as the massive brass clock overlooking the restaurant in the store’s Grande Center Court read 7:48 pm, Laurence H. Black collapsed, felled by a heart attack. Old man Osberger closed the store the next day and clerks at the city’s other retail palaces wore black in tribute.
The following year, on the Friday after Thanksgiving, all of the employees wore black suits and dresses, highlighted by a single red carnation, with a moment of silence at 7:48 pm, a tradition that carried on year after year and was picked up by many other stores in the city. But, through many consolidations and sales and employee turnover and whatnot, the reason for the tribute and the tradition itself has been lost, save for a few old-timers who still remember. The small Osberger chain was dissolved in the early 1990s and the old parent company is now the owner of a chain of movie theaters in Australia. If you trace back through approximately fifteen mergers and acquisitions you’ll find that the old Osberger stores themselves are all now Macy’s. The central Osberger’s store on North Geary was converted to office space in 2001, after sitting vacant for a number of years. They’ve kept the central court and clock, however.
Off topic. Reported to moderator. ;D
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i bought one of these badboys today
(http://www.healthygatherings.com/items/lg/20_xvest.jpg)
why?
bench
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Swede!, Bobby,
Have no idea what the price-tag will be but at first they won't be cheap, but like every other new electronic wonder, the price will drop a lot within the first couple of years.
The untimate (as of now( home movie experience will be as follows:
I don't know if any of you are aware of how movies are made now-a-days, but what you see on the screen is not what you see on the sound stage when/where the movie is being filmed.
A lot of today's movie sets are merely a studio filled with a lot of 'boxes and ramps' of various sizes. Each of these boxes and ramps are painted a bright green color and the actors act on or around these green objects. And the entire background is nothing more than a gigantic green screen/curtain.
The actors go through their scenes as per the director's instructions.
"That green box there will be a stationary vehicle! So in this scene you will jump over it! Rigger!!? Rig him up"
And then they spend the next few hours filming this actor jumping over that green box with the green curtain in the background.
And right there on the set off in some little dark cornor sits a computer geek who watches the action on his computer screen, but instead of seeing that actor jump over a green box with the green screen in the background, he is seeing that actor jump over a Mercedes Benz on 5th Avenue in New York City or jumping over a locomotive with King Kong chasing him in the background.
There is a lot more involved that is years beyond my comprehension, but you might know a bit about it as "MOTION CAPTURE".
And in the not too distant future, you'll have a motion capture syetem in your own home and you'll more than likely never leave your home again.
Here's how that should work .....
You'll get into something similar to a wet suit with blue tooth type sensors all over it including every extremity of your body. (OH OH)
Your motion caption home theater will have a complete circle of motion capture sensors embedded along the walls and ceiling and floor and record each and every move that you can possibly make while wearing that motion capture suit. (Including facial expressions eventually.)
Then a computer will render/interpret your motions and embed them onto a huge, wall sized computer screen which will actually make you a feature part of the story/movie.
I have friends currently working on detective scripts (CSI similarity) and other action/adventure scripts that will allow you to be the detective and attempt to solve the crime or an adventure character in search of some famous treasure. These films (if and when produced) will feature many other actors, and you can play the part of any principal character in the movie and the story will proceed in accordance with any action you choose to perform.
And you see this all on screen as if you were in that movie.
AND THAT'S JUST THE START OF WHAT IS COMING UP WITHIN THE HOME ENTERTAINMENT BIZ. THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE THE FORTHCOMING HOME SHOW BUSINESS!
MY JOB!? I've had friends and family members in the movie business almost all my life. Mainly stunt people but some major stars too. I've worked on a few films but only because a friend or family member needed help or support. Or because I snuck on set just to show that it could be done or to meet some star that I had a lot of respect for at the time.
Only studio lot I ever had a problem getting on was 20th Century Fox because I wanted to say "Hello" to Marilyn Monroe who used to be a neighbor of ours (a few blocks away). That didn't hold any weight with the front gate guard though and I had to complain when I ran into Joe Dimaggio one afternoon at his brother's bar. That must have carried some weight because I drove in freely on my next visit to watch them film that David Duchovney TV show which name I forgot because I never do watch TV.
But I did meet more top stars back then. Probably a few more than OnlyMe even - Sinatra, Novak, Lewis, Stanwyk, Boone, Garner, Lee, etc.
But never Jonesy! DAMN!!!
Getting off subject and remenising ..... sorry!
BACK ON TRACK....Wait for Black Friday 2020 and get a real MOTION CAPTURE Home Theater!
Wow i know they have those backround screens and all that stuff, but that they used it that much. So they almost never act for real? outside with real objects, cars etc ??
The motion picture sounds like it would be an incredible experince especially watching porn action movies. altough i would still go outside, from time to time lol
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Anyone see any killer deals on these? I looked all over but couldn't find a "must have" deal on one.
https://shakeweightformen.com/ver2/index.asp
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I already opened up my purchase after shopping all day! Got a killer deal on these puppies!
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I don't want to even ponder how much a Bose Home Theater System would cost.
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Translation = I'm a struggling minimum wage earner doled out to do mindless work and traveling no else wants to do. Plus, I have a work provided lab top I can brag about so it's all good.
Nice try McPenis but one thing is right work provided it, but the thing is I OWN the work. Now go back and blow your boyfriend he is gettingpissed.
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I don't want to even ponder how much a Bose Home Theater System would cost.
get Harman Kardon , much better.
here's what i just came back with.
(pictures not mine)
(http://www.musicgadgets.net/images/peterson_2Dstrobostomp2.jpg)
2x these:
(http://www.audiogear.com/Resources/Mstr12.jpg)
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why?
bench
it's a "x vest" which is a weighted vest you can use during cardio
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get Harman Kardon , much better.
here's what i just came back with.
(pictures not mine)
(http://www.musicgadgets.net/images/peterson_2Dstrobostomp2.jpg)
2x these:
(http://www.audiogear.com/Resources/Mstr12.jpg)
QFT, if money is an issue, onkyo makes some great surround sound systems.
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get Harman Kardon , much better.
here's what i just came back with.
(pictures not mine)
(http://www.musicgadgets.net/images/peterson_2Dstrobostomp2.jpg)
2x these:
(http://www.audiogear.com/Resources/Mstr12.jpg)
Ok, captain obvious ::)
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I bought my mother-in-law, a new dog collar.
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I bought my mother-in-law, a new dog collar.
Hope you decided to splurge on her and upgrade to the electric one, so you can zap the fuck out of her on X-mas day.
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i got this= http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ad6_1258960021
bench
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i got this= http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ad6_1258960021
bench
Omg I have to get one! ;D
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I already opened up my purchase after shopping all day! Got a killer deal on these puppies!
the dea is on it's way now. ruuuunnnn....
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the dea is on it's way now. ruuuunnnn....
Come and get me bitches! I"ll pump the fuckers full of hot lead yo! :)
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Come and get me bitches! I"ll pump the fuckers full of hot lead yo! :)
pow pow pow pow..... yo you'll never take my roids. adrian....
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I was at Best Buy yesterday picking up a PS3 and a few other things when I overheard a black guy talking to his black girlfriend:
Bro: Why do they call it 'Black Friday' anyway?
Sis: I dunno.
Bro: Is it cuz all the black people come out that day for the deals?
Sis: If it is, that's fucked up.
Bro: Shit, we got a brother in the White House, and they still calling it 'Black Friday'
Sis: I'm sure if it was racism, Jesse Jackson would be all over it.
Bro: True, but it's still racist.
Sis: Yeah, it is.
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I was at Best Buy yesterday picking up a PS3 and a few other things when I overheard a black guy talking to his black girlfriend:
Bro: Why do they call it 'Black Friday' anyway?
Sis: I dunno.
Bro: Is it cuz all the black people come out that day for the deals?
Sis: If it is, that's fucked up.
Bro: Shit, we got a brother in the White House, and they still calling it 'Black Friday'
Sis: I'm sure if it was racism, Jesse Jackson would be all over it.
Bro: True, but it's still racist.
Sis: Yeah, it is.
amazing
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Bose = overhyped, overpriced cheap plastic garbage... get a real system: harman kardon / denon receiver, paradigm or B & W speakers.... now THAT'S a system!
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when the FUCK is the xfx radeon 5850 getting shipped to sweden
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when the FUCK is the xfx radeon 5850 getting shipped to sweden
I just bought one.
I love it like mars loves the cock.
(The picture isn't a real pic of mine) ::)
(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:7Qnp1eea2Cc6YM:http://images.novatech.co.uk/ev-xfx-58501.jpg)
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I just bought one.
I love it like mars loves the cock.
(The picture isn't a real pic of mine) ::)
(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:7Qnp1eea2Cc6YM:http://images.novatech.co.uk/ev-xfx-58501.jpg)
damnit!!
Its the last part before "I" can build my damn computer.
First it was 11 november, then 4 december, now 1 jan which isn't so hard to figure out its bs also
god damnit
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black friday... :-X
its not worth being up so early and dealing with all the bitchy people
looking for the same item :-\