FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25TH, 2011
Well it certainly is a Black Friday in Canada, as we join our crass, commercial, Capitalist neighbours south of the border in celebrating a day of conspicuous consumption.
Do we really need a day set aside to honour the act of shopping? Are we truly that vacuous and shallow? Of course we are!
Hell, the next thing you know we'll sit back and smile as Americans run around claiming that they won the War of 1812! Oh wait. They've already been doing that*! Then again, with the birth of an American consumer day having it's inaugural launch in Canada, maybe they did win...they just didn't actually do so until 200 years later than they claim...as they sit teetering on the brink of societal and economic collapse.
Talk about hitching our Canadian cart to a seriously dead horse! Only Canadians could have such atrocious timing!
Oh well, let's all go shopping!
Do we really need a day set aside to honour the act of shopping? Are we truly that vacuous and shallow? Of course we are!
Hell, the next thing you know we'll sit back and smile as Americans run around claiming that they won the War of 1812! Oh wait. They've already been doing that*! Then again, with the birth of an American consumer day having it's inaugural launch in Canada, maybe they did win...they just didn't actually do so until 200 years later than they claim...as they sit teetering on the brink of societal and economic collapse.
Talk about hitching our Canadian cart to a seriously dead horse! Only Canadians could have such atrocious timing!
Oh well, let's all go shopping!
* To be fair, they did win the naval battle against Britain, but when it comes to the ground battle, they simply refuse to admit that a rag-tag band of Canadian settlers, British soldiers and Aboriginals whooped they're proverbial butts. Of course, being polite Canadians, we let them keep Maine and Vermont. (dumb move - great Skiing!!)
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