Anyone notice the msm has skipped thanksgiving & went right to Christmas? They’ve been playing Christmas music and showing Christmas movies for at least a week
OT: What’s this BS?
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I think that it's pretty funny that they don't celebrate Thanksgiving over here but they have Black Friday sales!!!
Or as I saw last week in Ho Chi Minh City a sign for a "Black Fire Day Sale".
Or as I saw last week in Ho Chi Minh City a sign for a "Black Fire Day Sale".
This may be one of the dumbest threads started in the history of this board and there have been many. Congrats, OP.
Went into Walmart the other day to get fuel stabilizer for my mower and weed whacker. Where I usually get stuff like that it's all Christmas sh!t. Unreal. Waaay too early.
While we're on the topic of off the wall questions, is "sliced veal for scallopini" the same as veal cutlet ? Brother's coming out for Bengals/Titans. I asked him to bring me some veal cutlet since it's impossible to find out here.
Christmas Day is less than 5 weeks away. Basically 4 weeks from today if you want stuff to arrive in time for Christmas Eve...if it is in stock.
Or can you just go to a store and buy it. that way you know you have it and don't need to worry about delivery dates.
Christmas shopping is fun and gets you feeling festive.
They’ll gift wrap for you also
And it's a good way to support community organizations as many will be present in stores and wrap for a donation.
It's like this every year. I'm also curious to hear what Thanksgiving music and movies you are upset about the "msm" skipping.
Doesn't everyone have that classic CD....Top 40 Thanksgiving Day Sing-a-Long Songs??? 🦃
Thanksgiving is an affront to the indigenous people of this continent as they were so brutally conquered and massacred by the imperialist powers.
Have you been to a retail store in the last 30 years??? Nov 1 comes each year, they want Halloween stuff gone and all of the Dec holiday merchandise and decorations up and on shelves, holiday music plays in the first week of November. It's been that way since I started working in retail as teen, early 20s in the 90s or being a shopper in any retail store today. Media is no different. Thanksgiving is not marketable holiday except for supermarkets. That is a capitalist thing, not political.
You've never seen The Grinch That Stole Thanksgiving?
Costco, Target, Kroger (Fred Meyers / Ralphs etc.) have had their Christmas gear up since pre Halloween...par for the course!
MO
My pet peeves is that in American media, the Christmas season ends on December 26. To me, that's when it's just warming up. What happened to the 12 days of Christmas?
I don't know about them being skipped, but there are a couple that I consider traditional to watch ...
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
WKRP in Cincinnati - Turkey Drop episode
Cheers - Thanksgiving Orphans episode
I can remember Christmas shopping at age 17 ,at Bambergers,NWK. Snow coming down outside.Music playing inside,Great atmosphere.Still have good memories.Hard to believe that was 80 Christmases ago.Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas to ALL
It is the same cut but sliced thinner as @MrsScrew indicated. If you are getting it from the butcher tell them what you want it for and you want it slice thin.
So that’s why I have off Thursday and Friday? I hadn’t seen anything in the news to explain it.
Hell, a few stores already had Christmas stuff out back in early October! And here in NYC WLTW more than a week ago went to All Christmas Music, All The Time.
One of our big clients is a retail chain in Canada: we program into our systems special holiday hours for them (i.e., Regatta Day in PEI in August). Their Thanksgiving is in October, but Black Friday is always on their list.
Not really, this is actually an amusing topic to discuss.
Ah, hell, you don't need that. Just put Alice's Restaurant on rotation every 4th song!
What's a Bamberger? Does that come with Coke or Pepsi?
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Some radio plays Xmas music from the day after Halloween to Midnight December 26.
Now who wants to listen to that the first week of November but not the week between Xmas and New Year's?
Streaming, ftw, again.
I should have been more specific: invoking the "MSM" in this discussion is stupid and the rush to Christmas is nothing new as a previous poster stated. It has been that way for almost 30 years. It's about retailers trying to get a jump and make some money. Capitalism at its finest and I have no issue with that.Hell, a few stores already had Christmas stuff out back in early October! And here in NYC WLTW more than a week ago went to All Christmas Music, All The Time.
One of our big clients is a retail chain in Canada: we program into our systems special holiday hours for them (i.e., Regatta Day in PEI in August). Their Thanksgiving is in October, but Black Friday is always on their list.
Not really, this is actually an amusing topic to discuss.
Ah, hell, you don't need that. Just put Alice's Restaurant on rotation every 4th song!
What's a Bamberger? Does that come with Coke or Pepsi?
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So true.
I suggest a reading of "Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America" a book by Pekka Hamalainen.
Wait what? I turn my back for one minute and the war on Christmas is over? 🤨
Who won?
What a stupid ass take. I'm very much upset and offended by what we did out west but you do know that Thanksgiving was actually about two people's coming together to celebrate what was then a mutual living situation and sharing .
While you're at it. You might to educate yourself on how the native American tribes treated each other. There's little history of any humans being so nice to anyone different.
Thanks.
My brother’s driving out for Bengals/Titans so I asked him to bring me some veal cutlets ( I like veal parm). Impossible to find out here. He found what I quoted in Shoprite.
That cut would be fine for that. I prefer it for that and Jaeger Schnitzel. Don’t tell me, let me guess, you are making something better at home than you could get in a restaurant? 😎
Yeah.. they are trying to beat eachother for "Black Friday" revenue. Consumer dollars are being fought over. And with teh whole "ban" on Thanksgiving gatherings in recent years.. and with higher travel costs.. maybe they are just stuck in the ignore Thanksgiving mode.
Was shocked to see FoxNews is having their tree-lighting today in NYC. Love the loyal opposition news media but, come on, this is early and having all the lights be red white and blue... just too much FNC. Trying too hard. Save it for times of war, etc.
I'm guessing Rockafeller Plaza and NBC are still AFTER Thanksgiving and I expect the Thanksgiving Day Parade to still be a thing.. and BAC's annual.. watch Babes in Toyland/March of the Wooden Shoulders.. post should be coming up soon.
Yes that is true. I make my own Italian food. Way better and way cheaper
I get yelled at by my wife for saying cheaper Moose😊
Less expensive👌
"out west" ????
You never heard of "the Trail of Tears" ? Yeah, the Cherokee just upped and moved to Oklahoma...for the climate I guess.
And the absurdity of comparing inter-tribal warfare with the systematic elimination of the native population of North America...you know, "the only good indian is a dead indian" policy...is one of the things that made America "great".
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Actually it’s funny you mention that, was literally just saying yesterday I guess the war on christmas was won and the war on thanksgiving has begun lol.
I don’t care that stores put christmas stuff out early and the radio plays christmas music (streaming only for me). But it is annoying that now a lot of my family has christmas decorations and the tree up on thanksgiving. It was always nice having thanksgiving as its own holiday for food and football, now everyone treats it like christmas lite. This started in 2020 with my extended fam, we keep a strict no christmas until we leave thanksgiving gathering tradition. Then it’s christmas until jan 2nd.
