# Black Friday Can Fuck Off **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 25, 2006, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-can-fuck-off/381709 "2006-11-25T02:20:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-can-fuck-off/381709/41 "2006-11-25T05:14:16Z")
[QUOTE=Pixiesnix] Damn, beaten to the punch! Curse you, **What Exit?** , and your superior typing skills! :shakes fist: [/QUOTE] That has never been said to me before in my life\*. It must be the fact I drank too much coffee today. 😉 Jim - The superior typing skills part that is, plenty of people, well a few at least, have Damned me. ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-can-fuck-off/381709/42 "2006-11-25T05:18:59Z")
I’ve figured it out. The “Stream” in **Carol Stream** refers to the stream of piss he/she sprays liberally into threads. > [@](#): > > Rants which are genuine but simply too tepid or mundane for the Pit will be moved or closed, as we see fit. The operative words: **as we see fit**. The mods and admins, not you. Now quit yer bitchin’ and crawl back into your hole. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-can-fuck-off/381709/43 "2006-11-25T05:19:23Z")
Every retail worker has my profoundest sympathy for having survived yet another mindless consumer feeding frenzy… I was supposed to go back to the tire store and have my new wheels torqued down after driving 50-100 miles on 'em–I duly went out and flogged those new tires (fabulous, by the way, thanks for asking!) then I really did try to get over to have the lugs torqued, but I totally spaced on the fact that the tire store is right next to the Clackamas Town Center Mall and the Clackamas Promenade, and as soon as I saw the backed up traffic on 82nd I diverted to 72nd and went the hell home! I did my level best to observe National Buy Nothing Day, but I figure it doesn’t count that I bought a mocha on my way out this morning because I get one every Friday, and I **had** to get some Snapple after walking the dog all over the park so I didn’t dry up into a corn chip… Am I a bad person? Oh, and **Carol Stream** –kindly do the world a favor and stuff your hydrocephalic nugget up your twat and do a little yodellin’, since it’ll keep you busy and off the keyboard for a while and might even improve your mood some… :rolleyes: :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-can-fuck-off/381709/44 "2006-11-25T05:19:08Z")
[QUOTE=Carol Stream] Rants should be suitable for the Pit [/QUOTE] Swell, you can read. But, since an administrator posted to the the thread without editorializing on the suitability of the placement, you should probably go have a nice hot cup of STFU. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-can-fuck-off/381709/45 "2006-11-25T05:21:21Z")
[QUOTE=Carol Stream] From the rules: Rants should be suitable for the Pit Rants which are genuine but simply too tepid or mundane for the Pit will be moved or closed, as we see fit. Lastly, rants about **personal trauma** that are expected to generate mostly supportive, sympathetic responses will likely be moved to MPSIMS. This is not a commentary on the seriousness of said life events, merely the best forum for that type of thread. [/QUOTE] I repeat, take it up with **Lynn Bodoni**. She does not appear to share your point of view, as does no one else in this thread. In my opinion the rant was solid, well thought out and far from tepid. Did it ever occur to you that a rant could also generate additional venom against an act? Plenty of posters in this thread are condemning the craziness that Black Friday has become. When you first posted, you were the only one that had nothing to actually contribute to the thread. Congrats. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_Stream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Carol\_Stream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_Stream)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-can-fuck-off/381709/46 "2006-11-25T05:24:14Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] Swell, you can read. But, since an administrator posted to the the thread without editorializing on the suitability of the placement, you should probably go have a nice hot cup of STFU. [/QUOTE] Why? Because the adminitrators enforce their own rules haphazardly? ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-can-fuck-off/381709/47 "2006-11-25T05:26:30Z")
[QUOTE=Carol Stream] Why? Because the adminitrators enforce their own rules haphazardly? [/QUOTE] No, because we **told** you to, dumbass… ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-can-fuck-off/381709/48 "2006-11-25T05:28:11Z")
Do you not know what the phrases “as we see fit” and “most likely” mean? ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_Stream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Carol\_Stream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_Stream)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-can-fuck-off/381709/49 "2006-11-25T05:28:16Z")
[QUOTE=SmartAleq] No, because we **told** you to, dumbass… [/QUOTE] We told me to? You’ve got to be kidding. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_Stream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Carol\_Stream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_Stream)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-can-fuck-off/381709/50 "2006-11-25T05:30:34Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] Do you not know what the phrases “as we see fit” and “most likely” mean? [/QUOTE] Once again, I will ask. Do you support threads about teenage retail angst? WHY? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-can-fuck-off/381709/51 "2006-11-25T05:32:17Z")
[QUOTE=Carol Stream] Why? Because the adminitrators enforce their own rules haphazardly? [/QUOTE] You are wrong, you have failed to understand both the rule you quoted and the general use of the pit. You are desperately trying to defend your useless and juvenile post. Just stop it. Have you missed the fact that no one thinks you are correct. Why this Op? We have Pit Ops that are two useless sentences long. Attack those you would probably get support. Instead you go after a good rant. I \*suspect \* you just want someone to pit you. Jim ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-can-fuck-off/381709/52 "2006-11-25T05:37:07Z")
why does anyone bother answering such an obvious assholish troll? ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-can-fuck-off/381709/53 "2006-11-25T05:37:36Z")
Carol Stream, um. . . just shut up, miss/mr Überconsumer or whatever your beef is, Herrfrauausgezeichnetkapitalist. Some of us think this is a valid concern-- why don’t you go wax your fucking Navigator or something? I have never figured this compulsion out. “Today is the ‘biggest shopping day of the year’! Guess I’d better got to the mall quickly!” What sort of sheepish group-think is that, anyway? Like, to be packed into a shopping center like sardines is community-building or something? The poor people that don’t have a lot of economic choice but to pander to these self-indulgent twats have my full sympathy. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-can-fuck-off/381709/54 "2006-11-25T05:38:10Z")
[QUOTE=Carol Stream] Once again, I will ask. Do you support threads about teenage retail angst? WHY? [/QUOTE] What does this have to do with what I just asked you? But, since you asked, yes, I think this is a perfectly valid Pit thread. If you disagree, there is a red triangle (!) icon you can use to alert the moderation team. Y’know, instead of pissing in public. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-can-fuck-off/381709/55 "2006-11-25T05:40:13Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] Tell me something-do you EVER contribute anything useful, or just drive-by insults? [/QUOTE] Now there’s some serious irony. If she posted to cat picture threads in addition to the drive bys she’d match you perfectly. That said, I agree that it was a great rant. I have a friend who makes a tradition of going with her mom and her sister at 4am on Black Friday. I don’t think that she’d mind me posting part of her tongue in cheek email about it to me. > [@](#): > > You don’t know what you’re missing. After Thanksgiving shopping day is the most intense and competitive sport on Earth. We go with maps, lists, cellphones, and pepper spray. Last year I had to crawl under someone’s basket to get to the $2 DVD’s and got a TV dropped on my head… but I got the DVD’s! She’s actually a total sweetheart so I doubt that she is abusing the staff but she is one of the crazies. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_Stream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Carol\_Stream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_Stream)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-can-fuck-off/381709/56 "2006-11-25T05:44:50Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] What does this have to do with what I just asked you? But, since you asked, yes, I think this is a perfectly valid Pit thread. If you disagree, there is a red triangle (!) icon you can use to alert the moderation team. Y’know, instead of pissing in public. [/QUOTE] Maybe I misread the board rules, but I doubt it. How is questioning the moderation “pissing in public”? I thought that’s where this belongs. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-can-fuck-off/381709/57 "2006-11-25T05:45:53Z")
[QUOTE=Carol Stream] Maybe I misread the board rules, but I doubt it. How is questioning the moderation “pissing in public”? I thought that’s where this belongs. [/QUOTE] Yes. In a separate thread, not by taking this one off topic. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_Stream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Carol\_Stream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_Stream)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-can-fuck-off/381709/58 "2006-11-25T05:48:25Z")
[QUOTE=hajario] Yes. In a separate thread, not by taking this one off topic. [/QUOTE] OK. Sorry about that, then. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-can-fuck-off/381709/59 "2006-11-25T05:49:15Z")
[QUOTE=Carol Stream] Maybe I misread the board rules, but I doubt it. How is questioning the moderation “pissing in public”? I thought that’s where this belongs. [/QUOTE] Twit, the “Waaa! Waaa!” juvenile, inane crap was the “pissing in public”. You are correct for a change however. The pit is the right place to question a Mod’s or Admin’s moderation. If you have a question about how the pit works, you could even put it in the ATMB forum. Good luck with your inquiries. These, unlike your misplaced venom, are welcomed. Jim ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-can-fuck-off/381709/60 "2006-11-25T05:54:18Z")
Wring-- I am a sucker. Why do I fall for pathetic, insipid, and poorly-thought out trolling posts? Too emotional. I just can’t imagine someone having the free time to entertain this sort of thing so consistently, so I assume they’re serious and stupid rather than just bored. Then I realize it’s Friday night and Survivor’s not on. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-can-fuck-off/381709.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/black-friday-can-fuck-off/381709.md?page=4)