General: [Sink] This isn't related to bikes, but..

all depends on what it is. profit margins vary widely.

Fuck that day man. Don't be a goddamn "thingy" zombie. If you really need some "thingy" buy used. :)

yo black friday in nyc sucks

Every time I watch the news on black friday there is always people getting interviewed in other states with all these bags of stuff filled with everything and they are like " I bought all these stuff for 5 dollars " I am like D:
But last year I did pick up a pair of speakers for 15 dollars originally they were 80 so yay

Every time I watch the news on black friday I hear a story about someone who got trampled for a game console.

I love Black Friday.. Love to be part of it and watch all the crazies.. Don't spend much, don't have to. It's cheap entertainment. As for a digital SLR, you might find one at 25% off.

Don't Buy Anything Day
Long ago, when Christian priests were trying convert the Pagans, they converted the Pagan holidays into Christian ones. One such was the celebration of the winter solstice, which was converted into a holiday celebrating the birth of Christ. Now the High Priests of money have successfully done the same thing with this Christian holiday, converting a day celebrating the birth of Christ into a celebration of materialism and greed. Nowhere is that greed more prominently displayed than on the day following Thanksgiving, where thousands of brainwashed consumers hop into their sport utility behemoths (the better to hold more purchases), drive out to the malls where they will while away the day in a spending frenzy, using paper and plastic to dig a hole that they will have to refinance their houses to get out of, all because they just have to get that someone something because they will be getting them something and it's all about giving. So they buy something stupid, but that doesn't matter, it's the thought that counts, for someone that they really don't know all because they feel a sense of obligation.
The stores, aware of this sense of guilt, will offer up some cheap trinket to get the people to line up early in the morning to be one of the first fifty shoppers in the store. "Here's something made by slave labor in China that you can reward yourself with for being so gullible that we got you out of bed early on your one day off before the holidays to open your checkbook up here first!"
To that end, some people are now spending the day after Thanksgiving, not buying anything, in a day they call, appropriately enough, National Don't Buy Anything Day. It's an idea whose time has come. What kind of maniac would want to fight the crowds in a feeding frenzy "because of all the bargains" when the truth of the matter is, if you wait until a few days before the holidays, stores so desparate not to be stuck with excess inventory start marking down items in an effort to get it off the shelves.
The past few Christmases have been dismal for retailers and if you used your head, you'd see why. All the money spent on crap made overseas means that the money that used to go to Americans for these products means that the money is going somewhere else. The price hasn't gone down, so therefore this means a bigger profit in the pockets of the Capitalists who glory in this season because they don't have a mansion in Wisconsin yet and would like to purchase one next year before the deer hunting season starts. And if you want to see their definition of sucker, just look at the news reports (and they do on every year) of the feeding frenzies at the malls and see if you can glimpse any soul in the eyes of the shoppers as they parade up and down the aisles of the local Wal-Mart looking for that one gift for Gladys in accounting who got them that nice candy dish (now safely tucked away in the cupboard above the fridge) last year and they didn't get her anything.

i'm buying myself a nice tv, i don't care what the fuck people say. there is no channukah shopping season. ayhsmb.

Yeah, this is one of those years when people will be saying, "Happy holidays!" and I'll say, "You mean Merry Christmas?" and they'll say, "Well, Channukah, too!" and I'll say, "That ended last week. And it was great, thanks for asking. I got some nice socks." And then they'll be all uncomfortable because they just spent $1000 of their credit on stuff their family didn't need and the "happy holidays" didn't cover their ignorance this year.

I think Christmas is a horrible carbuncle on our country's culture. My guess is that I'll go for a nice, free bike ride on Black Friday to work off all the turkeys I ate.

Okay guys, let me get this straight..
We can't say gyped, or a few other things that may offend you all thin skinned individuals but bashing Christ is in? How did religion bashing come into fad and yet geneology/sex bashing get you banned? Explain please or temper it.

Posted By: upthemaidenF'n Jesus and his obsession with stealing holidays. There's no better way to tell baby jesus to eat it than by getting a good deal on a VCR for his birthday.

Posted By: upthemaidenGeneology/sex bashing is offensive to people because they have no way to control their geneology/sex. Making fun of jesus is fun because he's not real, and mearly a coping mechanism for people who can't deal with reality. That in itself is not enough to make it ok to bash, but it's just unfortunate, and I don't care to make fun of people who can't deal with reality. The reason it is funny, is because they take their imaginary friend so seriously, that they feel the need to shove it down everyone elses throat, and that inflated sense of delusion is practically begging to be bashed.

QFT

...wait just a second.

Ruffinit, do you believe in Creationism?

Rabbi - Simply put, yes.

Up- So... Nevermind.. This is too much fun and you're too easy a target.

wow.

Posted By: wes m.

Fatsos on 15lb bikes while wearing spandex are fair game though.

+1 hahahaha

so, the earth is 5000 years old? dinosaurs walking with man?

Posted By: proudxvxyouth

Posted By: wes m.

Fatsos on 15lb bikes while wearing spandex are fair game though.

+1 hahahaha

Is it OK to be 50 lbs. overweight and be wearing spandex because you are riding 113 miles from Santa Barbara to San Luis Obispo? What if the bike weighed 19lbs. ?

In relation to the OPs question, you will not get a great deal at BBY on a SLR on Black Friday. The only thing they put on sell are going to be cheap, shitty GPS devices; cheap, shitty laptops; cheap, shitty tvs and cheap, shitty digital cameras. Nothing of any substantial quality will be available for a great price on black friday. Save your pennies and make a purchase that counts, dSLRs can typically last you in the neighborhood of 5-10 years if you take care of them, they're great.

Posted By: SkidMark

Posted By: proudxvxyouth

Posted By: wes m.

Fatsos on 15lb bikes while wearing spandex are fair game though.

+1 hahahaha

Is it OK to be 50 lbs. overweight and be wearing spandex because you are riding 113 miles from Santa Barbara to San Luis Obispo? What if the bike weighed 19lbs. ?

If youre riding over 100 miles you can wear whatever you want. You could ride a recumbent in a ballet outfit.

118mi this saturday. 5300' elevation gain. fixed (w/brake, road drops, and hoods of course). idk if i'm ready, but fuck it!

I love that this thread is sinking despite getting back on track. At least sort of.

Yeah, that's too bad.

Since it's sinking, I might as well say this:

Homosexuality is common among animals, including humans. Sex is not a solely reproductive feature of our existence. In fact, among humans and many, many other social animals, reproduction is a secondary function. The primary is closeness between individuals.

You see that in particular with human penis sizes. They don't indicate greater sexual attraction among women, but they do indicate greater sexual attraction between men. Social life is our primary method of getting by.

Evolution is a theory because the scientific process doesn't generate facts — it generates testable ideas and test results. Creationism isn't a theory because it's untestable — that is, there is no way to find out if it's true or not. Since its assertions are largely contrary to well-tested theory, it can be called scientifically implausible. That doesn't mean that it's outside of the realm of science. That means that the smartest people over the course of centuries — many of them religious — have applied every faculty God gave them for discerning the truth, rather than listening to what someone else told them a book said.

As for everyone saying whatever they want about you, that's what you get for the privilege you enjoy. People with less power enjoy the irony you provide them.

This obviously isn't the forum for discussing the nature of privilege, but suffice to say, you're white, and in our society, that makes you lucky. You're less likely to get arrested for the same things as other people, less likely to get charged if you are arrested, less likely to be found guilty if you're charged, and your sentence will be less if you're found guilty. You have inherited benefits from the injustices perpetrated by your ancestors, even when those injustices were just keeping their heads down when others suffered.

But it's OK! Most of us enjoy some sort of privilege or other. I know I do. Justice, justice shall you pursue. It tempers the ongoing suffering of existence.

I've got a lot of honkey ancestors. I've inherited some of their benefits. To a lot of people, I look like a regular white guy. But to a lot of others, I look like the International Jew. The fact that I lack privilege in some circles is not the same as not having privilege in others.

And, back to the gay thing for a moment:

The Bible talks a lot about "tsara'at", usually translated as "leprosy". It's a broad category of diseases, but in most cases, it's a fungus that grows not just on people, but in houses. It talks about that a lot more than homosexuality. Next time you have athlete's foot or crotch rot, be grateful that no one cares enough to banish you from town until you get better or die. I suppose that's not as much fun as thinking about dudes having sex with dudes, but you might have to sacrifice some fun for the sake of your brothers and sisters.