27th November, 2020.
It’s a Friday …
It’s quite assertively a Friday … and it’s Black Friday, if you didn’t know it.
In other words, it’s the Friday after the US Thanksgiving holiday: as anyone who read yesterday’s teaser would realise.
If I’ve understood it correctly?
Many Americans will be making a long weekend of it: I’m assuming that would include Old Peculiar regulars Debbi Mac, and her husband, Rick, and Edith will be have having a weekend off.
There’s one thing
The Black Friday sales.
From what I’ve understood, many US businesses will be holding sales: knowing well that their fellow Americans will have plenty of time to browse shops, websites and catalogues.
My issue? Is that, over the past few years, many companies in the UK will be having Black Friday events. Including Apple, this year.
I know KFC was, when I worked there.
To me, it’s stupid, and offensive.
Stupid, because we, in the UK, don’t celebrate Thanksgiving. We the United Kingdom: Thanksgiving’s not our holiday.
Offensive?
Because, to me, it smacks of the USA trying to conquer the world.
I voted Remain in the referendum: because I think the UK’s better off as part of the European Union. Many will have voted Leave, as they felt — and still feel — Britain should be independent of outside influence …
And yet … ?
Will be happily buying something cheaply, on Black Friday … an event imposed, effectively, by a foreign power.
But if anything sounds like cultural imperialism … ?
Or the US equivalent of the East India Company, slowly buying power for its home nation*?
Well …
All I can do is congratulate those companies not joining in with the silliness.
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