11-10-2002, 11:25 PM | #11 | |
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*shrugs* Makes sence to me.
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11-10-2002, 11:29 PM | #12 | |
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*shrugs* Makes sence to me.[/QUOTE]I'm sorry you see it that way, because I don't. It's one bloody day, not eternity, you could easily find that you'll make it! And if somehow not wanting to be thrown about in a shopping mob is unpatriotic, then guess what you can file me under? |
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11-10-2002, 11:36 PM | #13 |
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I would file you under that anyway [img]tongue.gif[/img]
I hate to tell you, but the average american (Or anyone for that matter) doesnt go on a shopping spree every day of the year. In all hoenty I havent boguht anything in a long time. The last thing I bought for my self was a pair of pants about two weeks ago. So whats the point? It really wont maek a diffrence unless the entire country does it, and that wont happen, ever.
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11-10-2002, 11:42 PM | #14 | |
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"Corporate Frenzy Day" Counting the day after Thanksgiving, in my business we have 17 days (total) to make holiday sales. Are these sales important? The answer is yes. It determines whether the entire quarter shows a profit or not. Beginning the week before Thanksgiving and for the aforementioned 17 days our workforce quadruples in size. This evil corporate gimmick provides much needed part-time jobs for many people and makes a difference whether I and the people in 23 other stores, 1 warehouse, a corporate headquarters, and 2 growing concerns have jobs at all. If you have a problem with the corruption of the meaning of our holidays or oppose the secularization of a religious holiday then be honest and address the problem openly. If you have a problem with the capitalist system be open about that as well and offer a viable alternative. Don't insinuate that I am evil or underhanded and tell others that they need to help me to the unemployment line. |
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11-10-2002, 11:42 PM | #15 |
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Sounds good too me, Give up one day of shopping to demonstrate how non-materialistic we are, unless of course one is unabashingly materialistic. Besides it makes better sense to shop early if you want to avoid a crowd.
[ 11-11-2002, 12:05 AM: Message edited by: Chewbacca ]
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11-10-2002, 11:45 PM | #16 | |
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Everyone protest Buy Nothing Day! [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] Sell the car! Put a second mortgage on the house! Take out all the credit cards you can and run them up to the maximum! Buy! Buy! Spend! Spend! Live the capitalist dream!
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11-10-2002, 11:51 PM | #17 |
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My family thanks you Azred.
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11-11-2002, 12:02 AM | #18 | ||
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Azred, I sure didn't see that one coming. Nope. Not when I posted this thread, nor when you posted that. |
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11-11-2002, 12:12 AM | #19 | |
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[quote]Originally posted by SSJ4Sephiroth:
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I did read it correctly. But that post has nothing to do (valid anyway) with mine. What would that prove anyway? To prove we are not materialistic? To whom? Our selfs? Some of us are, unfortantley. Overly materialistic. To the rest of the world? I am pretty sure the rest of the world, for the most part, has a pretty strong mind set that we are, and this wont change their minds. To do prove something to big corprate people? Like I said eariler, it wont make a diffrence unless the entire coutnry participates, whitch, also like I said, will never happen. So, I guess to put it in a nut shell, this is pretty pointless.
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11-11-2002, 12:28 AM | #20 |
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So, you just felt like posting something that has nothing to do with the topic in reply to it, although it was in regard to the day when the most items in the country are sold? It sure looked like you were saying it in reply to the topic, even if you won't openly admit it.
And as for 'proving' anything, I didn't say anything about 'proving' we're unmaterialistic. I said that it was, in case you weren't paying attention, to protest being taken advantage of. And saying it won't do anything is why nothing ever gets done in this country; they don't think they can make a difference. Well I know it won't exactly make a colossal dent in their quarterly profits, but it would sting them a small bit if enough people participate. |
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