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But the same argument can be made about people saying they think it's all hype - they're not "bothered" about it, they're just expressing a view, which is what a forum is all about, which you immediately characterise as "moaning". In reality, all they did is what you did - express a view. So if you want to know why they did it, ask why you posted moaning about them moaning, because it's the same reason ... posting on a forum.Originally Posted by Unique
As for trick or treat, of course they force you to participate, by total strangers knocking on your door, for no good reason, at night. If you're young, healthy, maybe several people in the house, you take that in your stride. Not everyone is either young, or healthy, or in a group. Some trick or treat visitors respect 'do not bother' signs, others see it as an opportunity to 'trick'.
My mother-in-law is badly upset by this. She's pushing 80, widowed, nervous as hell, and not long out of hospital after major surgery. She's pretty weak, just about coping and, when we can't be there, on her own. She lives by routine, and struggles to cope with anything out of the ordinary, let alone rowdy groups bsnging on her door, at night. It petrifies her. So much so, we've taken to trying to ensure we're visiting to calm her.
Yes, trick or treat forces people to participate, because by no means all groups take declining to do so well. Some do, some don't. And those that don't can make that night thoroughly miserable for some of the most vulnerable in society, and for what? A 'laugh' for kids? It's sick, selfish, thoughtless and irresponsible because unless those doing it know whose door they are knocking on (and again, good ones do and don't knock if they don't, but not all are like that) they have no idea what effect it may have on vulnerable occupants.
Nothing at all...so happy
I didn't buy anything for Black Friday, but I was annoyed at the fact that a computer a bought earlier in the week had £30 off.
looking at the comments that came before mine, they looked like moaning as opposed to simply expressing a view as the thread is asking "what did you buy on black friday", not do you like or dislike it or anything else. in regards to trick and treat you don't need to participate at all if you don't want to. i don't. just don't answer the door, it's as simple as that. if you get bothered about people banging on your door, don't answer the door unless someone has made an appointment to visit you, or calls you beforehand on the phone. the postman will usually deliver at roughly the same time, but would usually put mail through the door unless you have a big delivery. if you order something for delivery you will expect it at some point, and it will usually be delivered during daytime as opposed to evening when trick or treating takes place. i don't answer my door normally unless i'm expecting someone, i just ignore the door bell. if they knock on the door i'll ask from behind who it is if it's during the day and tell them i'm not interested without opening the door if i bother spending the energy to go to the door. it's not laziness, it's simply that i don't want people to bother me when i don't want to be bothered. if i want to see someone i'll arrange it at my convenience. i have no interest in trick or treating or guising or whatever they call it, or carol singers, church visitors, people doing polls, folk putting leaflets through the door. they get the same responce as they would if no-one had been in, and without making an appointment in advance they can't expect anyone to be in so can't be let down by someone not answering the door. if you have someone in a situation where cold callers bother them, you can suggest the consider some of those options if they will make a difference. if someone knocks on your door and you don't answer they aren't going to spend a huge amount of time hanging outside if it's not something important. trick or treaters or whatever will just move to the next door to find someone they can participate with
it's the same with most everything else. if you don't like xmas don't participate. there's plenty of other religious and other celebrations and events people don't bother with so why bother with xmas or any other ones you have no interest in. there's many hobbies and interests in the world that people are interested in and participate in, and at the same time there are many more people who don't participate in those things without any problems. not everyone celebrates xmas so if you don't like it, don't participate. many people celebrate thanksgiving, and many more don't. if you don't want to participate, don't. if you do want to participate, then go ahead. if you don't like boxing day sales, don't participate. if you do, go ahead. it's the same with black friday. spend and buy what you want, and don't if you don't want to. these aren't things that are forced on people if they don't want them, like a referrendum on independance for example
I see it as still fitting with the question as the replies are essentially "I didn't, because..."
Didn't Amazon bring this Black Friday nonsense to the UK?? I seem to to remember when they started some of the stuff was actually a brilliant discount and more importantly not meaningless junk they simply want to shift - having viewed the endless crap they tried to shift this year I think it is safe to say that they take us all for mugs.
I was going to have a wander through the Currys website but when I was greeted with a waiting list to get on the site I almost choked on my cornflakes ...
bought titanfall deluxe on xbox one for £10 and a new phone contract for £18 (galaxy S5 on vodaphone)
You're missing my point on trick or treat, Unique.
I do the same as you do, re:getting pestered at the door, by whomever is doing it, which is either to ignore it, or tell them politely I'm not interested. If they persist after that, the second time will be less polite and more firm, and after that, well, it depends on my mood but the last lot of Jehovah's Witnesses were treated to a lengthy and inventive demonstration on the art of the well-crafted expletive. Including a few in Arabic an old flatmate taught me, and they REALLY sound vile.
It doesn't bother me. I'm young, fit and nasty enough to deal with it.
It does bother the mother-in-law.
She doesn't answer such bangs on the door. If she's not expecting it in advance, she never, EVER opens the door. That's not the point. The point is that it gets her in a fluster, nervous, terribly upset, because, well, because she feels so vulnerable she's extremely easy to upset.
And SOME trick-or-treaters ignore even do-not-knock requests. They upset elderly, vulnerable (or vulnerable without being elderly) simply by knocking, unexpectedly, in the dark.
The m-in-law isn't well enough to come stay with us any more, though we did that several years running. We try to be up there every year, but life being what it is, it's not always possible to arrange.
She has NO choice but to be pestered when people ignore signs asking not to be, and it can leave her in a mess, sometimes for days, before she gets her equilibrium back.
I even put a phone blocker on her line. A thing called TrueCall. Superb little contraption, by the way. It's set to intercept ALL calls, except specific white-listed numbers, because even an unexpected phone call can rattle her. Now, absolutely NOBODY gets directly through to her unless I put them on the whitelist. Everybody else gets picked up by Truecall, and has to leave a message. The TrueCall unit then rings her and plays the message, so she can accept or reject the call.
It sounds like a fine distinction, doesn't it? But it's not. Truth is, with Truecall, she NEVER finds herself talking to a stranger, unexpectedly. She knows, for a certainty, that when the phone rings it's either friend/family (on the whiltelist) or the Truecall unit. It puts her in control, and she can accept or not, as she wishes.
And yeah, I know, before, she could always just hang up. But it's too late by then, she was already flustered.
I can cope with trick or treaters. So, evidently, can you. So can most people, even if lots regard it as a pest. But some can't. And those knocking on doors of people they don't know can't know if they're upsetting someone, someone maybe elderly, fragile, vulnerable and at the best of times, extremely nervous.
I feel those two comments are over simplistic. I am not in the UK, or even in a country where Black Friday exist, so I do not know what kind of deal you can get in the UK, but I do not believe that the above two statements is always true.
First, I would say that in all likelihood, everyone in this forum own at least one or more thing they -want- more than -need-. I am throwing ever hobby related items into the mix. Our life is unlikely to cease or even be worse off without many of the things we own, yet we own them because it offers one form of enjoyment (which is entirely replaceable). Such weak form of needs also needs to be weighted against our personal finance. Most of us probably have some disposable income, some (much) more than others without even being wealthy enough to throw on anything and everything we set our eyes on. A responsible individual would know exactly what is the absolute most s/he can spend for personal treats. So if his or her snowboard is £350, but s/he knows that he only has only £250 to spend, then the responsible choice is to abstain or settle for a cheaper alternative that is under £250. But if today, said board get a 50% price drop, then why go for the alternative (especially if it hasn't got a price cut), when you can go for the first choice?
There are many, many, many thing I wouldn't buy because I feel that it is priced above what I can OR am willing to pay, but drop the price sufficiently (again, I don't know how good the offers were on Black Friday UK) and it suddenly becomes very palatable. To me, a bargain is something that you -wanted- in the first place, but not until it falls until a subjective threshold (* Well, technically it can also be objective - like if you find something really cheap and know you can resell it for above that price.. though I personally hate such practice when stock at limited).
I was hoping to snag a quality PSU, 960GB SanDisk SSD for US$299-319, or a slim SATA slot-load DVD Burner, but there were no good deals.
It seems that most of the sellers are grossly inflating the retail price, and then offering massive discounts on said prices. There are many components (e.g. CPUs) that were going for the same price or less last year then now.
Bought a 256GB SSD. Can't wait for it to arrive!
I got a download code on Amazon for Mirror's Edge for £1.24 on friday itself (had some gift card credit left over rather than buying Origin direct). Today I got Saints Row 4 Game of The Century Edition for £6.24 via Steam. No visiting of any physical stores for me!
I got pair of Sennheiser cans on a lightning deal and a couple of steam games. In general though a lot of the stuff many retailers are peddling at a discount is utter rubbish. Videos of people climbing over one another and even hitting each other to get a discounted no-brand TV that looks like it was made ten years ago. Even at the 'discounted' price most of it still isn't worth the money.
I was looking thru a lot of the deals and a lot of it could be picked up elsewhere, undiscounted, at the same price as PC World, Argos etc were selling them.
I fear it is not gonna go anywhere now though, quite the opposite - too many people are falling for it so we are stuck with it. Won't be long before they are buying turkeys, sweet potato pies and yams before sitting down to watch the 'football'
Corporate greed really doesn't pay attention to borders, real or imagined.
As for me, I purchased nothing for Black Friday, although I did support the far more worthy cause we call Small Business Saturday, where we make purchases from the local mom and pop businesses.
Now that I do go along with.
I found a cracking little owner-managed coffee shop about 100yds from our nearest US corporate monolith version. It gives me huge pleasure to go there because :-
- it's not the huge monolith
- the coffee is better
- it's cheaper
- it sells home-made cakes, and they really are home-made, and local. And superb.
- it's not the corporate monolith.
Also, we get most of our meat from a local butcher, or the farm shop, we get veg from a greengrocer (yup, we've got one again, for the first time in about 25 years) and so on.
Did I mention I avoid the corporate monolith coffee shop, whenever possible?
Oh.
GuidoLS (01-12-2014)
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