Friday, 28 November 2025

Gotta get up, gotta get up, gotta get up

Yet another American excuse for a marketing campaign (like "Blue Monday" [in January, to sell us holidays], Valentine's Day [to sell us flowers and sickly pink-and-red tat], Hallowe'en, and so on) has become "a thing" over here as well in the last few years - Black Friday. Inextricably tied to (the entirely Stateside-based event) Thanksgiving, it's bewildering why, or how, it has emerged here when we don't even celebrate that!

Sigh.

However, at least it is the end of another wearisome week, so I think it's time for a party, don't you?

Here's a man who celebrates Black Friday in his own way - Thank Disco Cazwell It's Friday!

If that's sent you blushing flowers heading off for your smelling salts - try this instead:

Have a great weekend, dear reader!

16 comments:

  1. Speaking as an American, I apologize for Black Friday, a blight I have always ignored.

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    1. As you noted in your blog, you can't escape it, even in Spain! Jx

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  2. As per usual Caswell makes everything better. And you won't find me out in all this Black Friday consumerism. They can all sod off.

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    1. Agreed, dear. The true sales are always after the Festering Season is over, when everything they didn't manage to shift to the gullible now or throughout December is suddenly cut by 50, 60 or 70% in price! Mopping-up time... Jx

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  3. All those glittering outfits gave me a flash-back to when I had a skating outfit with prickly sequins...

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    1. Oh, the chafing...

      You are the Blogosphere's very own Sonja Henie, dear!

      Jx

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  4. Well, I did at least attempt a triple toe Salchow and on rollers that's bloody hard!

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  5. I wonder why I’m suddenly craving biscuits, with butter.

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  6. I liked Halloween when it was just about scary stories, I don't think it was about trick or treating when I was a child.
    Anyhow, I'll take the Black Box, and skip Black Friday!
    Sx

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    1. Trick or treating, although vaguely based upon medieval customs like wassailing, was imported over here, like pumpkins (we used to hollow-out swedes for lanterns) from - yawn - America sometime in the 1970s. It wasn't a "thing" I remember from when I was a small child. As for Black Friday - aaargh!

      As Edina Monsoon would say: "Ride on time, ride on time. Techno, techno, bloody techno, darling!" Jx

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  7. Odd...'biscuit' means 'coochie la smoochie vavalotta' here and is nothing to do with hanging ding donglage. Very catchy tune, though.

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    1. I think it refers to a not-gay-at-all sports team initiation thing - a biscuit in the middle of the circle-jerk, last one to cum eats the biscuit. Or maybe that's just my interpretation..! Jx

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  8. Ok I will get the Ritz crackers ('biscuits')
    You find the Rugby team.

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