Black Friday? Just another con.

What in the name of all creation has Black Friday got to do with Australia????

It is just another Con /Scam/ Load of BS aimed at getting people to part with their hard earned cash.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/business/how-black-friday-got-its-name.html

The Roaring Days
By Henry Lawson.

The night too quickly passes
And we are growing old,
So let us fill our glasses
And toast the Days of Gold;
When finds of wondrous treasure
Set all the South ablaze,
And you and I were faithful mates
All through the roaring days!

Then stately ships came sailing
From every harbour's mouth,
And sought the land of promise
That beaconed in the South;
Then southward streamed their streamers
And swelled their canvas full
To speed the wildest dreamers
E'er borne in vessel's hull.

Their shining Eldorado,
Beneath the southern skies,
Was day and night for ever
Before their eager eyes.
The brooding bush, awakened,
Was stirred in wild unrest,
And all the year a human stream
Went pouring to the West.

The rough bush roads re-echoed
The bar-room's noisy din,
When troops of stalwart horsemen
Dismounted at the inn.
And oft the hearty greetings
And hearty clasp of hands
Would tell of sudden meetings
Of friends from other lands;
When, puzzled long, the new-chum
Would recognise at last,
Behind a bronzed and bearded skin,
A comrade of the past.

And when the cheery camp-fire
Explored the bush with gleams,
The camping-grounds were crowded
With caravans of teams;
Then home the jests were driven,
And good old songs were sung,
And choruses were given
The strength of heart and lung.
Oh, they were lion-hearted
Who gave our country birth!
Oh, they were of the stoutest sons
From all the lands on earth!

Oft when the camps were dreaming,
And fires began to pale,
Through rugged ranges gleaming
Would come the Royal Mail.
Behind six foaming horses,
And lit by flashing lamps,
Old 'Cobb and Co.'s', in royal state,
Went dashing past the camps.

Oh, who would paint a goldfield,
And limn the picture right,
As we have often seen it
In early morning's light;
The yellow mounds of mullock
With spots of red and white,
The scattered quartz that glistened
Like diamonds in light;
The azure line of ridges,
The bush of darkest green,
The little homes of calico
That dotted all the scene.

I hear the fall of timber
From distant flats and fells,
The pealing of the anvils
As clear as little bells,
The rattle of the cradle,
The clack of windlass-boles,
The flutter of the crimson flags
Above the golden holes.

Ah, then our hearts were bolder,
And if Dame Fortune frowned
Our swags we'd lightly shoulder
And tramp to other ground.
But golden days are vanished,
And altered is the scene;
The diggings are deserted,
The camping-grounds are green;
The flaunting flag of progress
Is in the West unfurled,
The mighty bush with iron rails
Is tethered to the world.


The Bulletin, 21 December 1889

Kon61gold wrote:Adrian, people have gone through, as well as continue to go through hell with that of covid-19, war overseas destroying economies & a climate that no one can predict any longer & you want them not spend any money, over the coming Christmas/New year break, because you believe black Friday is a scam for revenue? When & where else do you expect people to spend their hard earned on?
Faired income Adrian, sometimes I wonder If there's any common sense left in you.

Kon

Hokay Joe.
I now know Black Friday is wonderful.
Silly me I shoulda known better.

[quote="AU_Toe"]G'Day Adrian

I always thought black Fri. was Fri. 13th ???

Adrian:
Me to.
How easy we forget .
https://m.facebook.com/GrovedaleCFA/photos/a.288182594667199/1513310122154434/

Exactly.
We were taught about the fires of 1939, Black Friday, Friday the 13th and we have remembered that day every year from when in primary school.
Mum and Dad survived the 1939 fires.

Our History is slowly being changed by ignorant people of low IQ who should not ever be employed in positions with power to do such things.

Kon61gold wrote:And, what exactly are you trying to say Adrian, "Lest We Forget" the great fires of 1938/39? or that of Ash Wednesday fires of 1983. Every generation over time, have experienced some form of devastating climatic event. Lucky are the ones that have managed to live through such devastating events.
 Our history is all well & good, but you'll have to be quick to snap up that heavily discounted bargain, which only happens on a Black Friday.

Kon  

"Black Friday"

The day that retailers books go from the red into the black after suckering people into spending their cash on fake bargains.
You know the ones where retailer inflate their product prices for a couple of months and then drop them back to the old prices and say "Come one Come All and get a bargain". Come In Spinner