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BUY NOTHING DAY!

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Line1260
Posts: 1946 - Karma: 14
This friday, please refrain from making any purchases of any kind. The day after thanksgiving kicks off the holliday buying frenzy, and for the past 11 years there has been a growing contingency protesting the spending habits of americans, as well as others. do yourself a favor, and protest this corporate holliday


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'He jumped off of the roof again'
Nov 25 2002 10:56PM
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Ds91260
Posts: 9984 - Karma: 19
i would, but i like to eat
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Nov 25 2002 10:58PM
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SkierX
Posts: 16253 - Karma: 538
Normally, i'd say, YES, I'M IN!' But I plan on going skiing, and I like to ski. AQnd it's first day, and it's not at my home hill, so I will need to buy a pass.
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Nov 25 2002 11:53PM
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caylorswift
Posts: 10695 - Karma: 312
sorry i want a new siver cartel beanie.. you know the one with the earflaps and shit. those are the shit.
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Nov 25 2002 11:57PM
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Ds91260
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in honor of dont buy ne thing day, im gonna go spend all my money on usless shit ill never need
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Hey, after you take a crap and wipe your butt and then go to wash your hands, do you guys turn on the faucet with your wipe hand or the other one?
-Shane McConkey

*Proud Member of the HoBum Posse
Nov 26 2002 12:00AM
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rwkobs
Posts: 286 - Karma: 10
no problem...my ass is going to be stuf to the sofa eating leftovers. yummmmm.....
Nov 26 2002 12:20AM
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huckster989
Posts: 2147 - Karma: 12
didn't they have an offical buy shit you don't need on the internet day last year or the year before or something? it amazing our little capitalistic society
the magazine is called 'POWDER' cool! - my stupid non-skiing friend
Nov 26 2002 1:29AM
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westcoaststyle
Posts: 4057 - Karma: 31
uhhhhh call me an idiot if you want, but how is thanksgiving a corporate holiday?
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Nov 26 2002 6:43AM
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Line1260
Posts: 1946 - Karma: 14
not thanksgiving, the day after thanksgiving, it is supposed to be the first day of holliday shopping


'He got fired? What did he do?'
'He jumped off of the roof again'
Nov 26 2002 8:06AM
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coz
Posts: 1754 - Karma: 11
i'm down with buy nothing day - i'm also down with culture jamming. we should start a little jamming posse here on NS.
Nov 26 2002 10:23AM
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SCHROEDER
Posts: 93 - Karma: 10
sign me up for the jamming posse, I'm gonna be in on the buy nothing day for sure.
Nov 26 2002 12:55PM
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Line1260
Posts: 1946 - Karma: 14
i am part of a small and unorganized culture jamming club, also known as a bunch of leftist crazies who do something about it, and we are handing out flyers for buy nothing day at local malls and other points of large scale holliday purchase. wheee!


'He got fired? What did he do?'
'He jumped off of the roof again'
Nov 26 2002 11:23PM
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$1080PLP$
Posts: 4382 - Karma: 12
i'm driving all day fri... i think gas stations should have christmas deals

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Nov 26 2002 11:26PM
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coz
Posts: 1754 - Karma: 11
that is sweet. where u doing this?
Nov 26 2002 11:54PM
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Skier711
Posts: 375 - Karma: 11
No problem i don't have any money anyways
Nov 27 2002 1:00AM
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newschooljibber
Posts: 274 - Karma: 11
Dude, I have always wanted to be in a posse here on NS! Finally!!!! aaaahahahahahahahahahaha
Can I pleeeeeaaaase skip school for the X-Games?
Nov 27 2002 1:04AM
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i_am_retarded
Posts: 581 - Karma: 10
i've got no job. no money. i'm a bum. but not a crazy hobum

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Nov 27 2002 4:32PM
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Line1260
Posts: 1946 - Karma: 14
all around the greater nyc area


'He got fired? What did he do?'
'He jumped off of the roof again'
Nov 27 2002 7:10PM
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coz
Posts: 1754 - Karma: 11
well, here we are on buy nothing day - i hope that all goes well for people that have plans.
Nov 29 2002 9:39AM
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newschooler14
Posts: 2843 - Karma: 25
thats a sweet idea and I wish i had followed it but I just bought a new jacket and gloves, maybe next year.

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Nov 29 2002 4:24PM
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ElChapoTrapHaus
Posts: 1250 - Karma: 38
I just bough a new Cellie, and i hear walmart is having a good sale, i am going to have to check it out.



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Nov 29 2002 4:36PM
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c_lo
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Peace to line1260 and eveyone else whos about more than talk.
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Peace
Nov 29 2002 5:05PM
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Reed.
Posts: 4489 - Karma: 272
shit, i bought a pop today, damnit!


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Nov 29 2002 8:37PM
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newschooljibber
Posts: 274 - Karma: 11
I'm right with you. It won't be hard. I don't have any money anyway.
Can I pleeeeeaaaase skip school for the X-Games?
Nov 29 2002 8:43PM
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Pipe_Munky
Posts: 10888 - Karma: 2,184
i see it this way, if i don't buy anything today, im just gonna buy more tomorrow. protests like this never work anyway




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My buddy: Beer!
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My Buddy: Can I just chug it real quick? It'll be gone just as fast!
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Nov 29 2002 11:04PM
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witchbaby666
Posts: 642 - Karma: 10
But why not, eh? It's not like it's hurting any. And protests like this must kindof work if the word is spreading as much as it has since the whole BND started.






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Nov 30 2002 12:57AM
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freeskierman
Posts: 273 - Karma: 10
yess please nobody buy anything!
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MOUNTANS DON'T
Nov 30 2002 10:03AM
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Markman
Posts: 1582 - Karma: 47
Fuck I was gonna by a acre of land from greenpeace to save the baby seals but its buy nothing day so i can't.
Nov 30 2002 10:45AM
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FreshCoast
Posts: 5602 - Karma: 34
I bought nothing yesterday. I am now a better person...i think.
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Nov 30 2002 12:15PM
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c_gp
Posts: 262 - Karma: 10
baahahaha that's the day I ordered mym new Smith Triad regulators ahahahahahaha

and I went out and bought dinner that night

I rock!
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Nov 30 2002 4:27PM
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c_lo
Posts: 1281 - Karma: 10
Yeah its not cool to brag about how you bought shit. This isn't about a bunch of leftists trying to be cool. This is about the fact that Regan fucked up and knocked alot of Anti Trust laws allowing corperations to merge and control markets at an obscene level. The same people who are making disney toys in haitian sweatshops are controling not only the media but the doctrinal system. I am very scared for my freedom. We are just trying to free your minds. Life is not about possesions and until you understand that your purpose in life will be to fuel the machine. Hip Hop punk and skating have all been tainted by corperations and the same shit is happening in skiing. So if you want to be able to blow without rocking baggy pants and doo rags I would suggest you take a serious look at whats up.
Peace
Nov 30 2002 7:17PM
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bibskis
Posts: 671 - Karma: 11
this is dumb, by not spending money u send the economy into the toliet which fucks over everyone, including u and ur family, also, the ski industry will have to cut costs and since freestyle skiing is one of their less profitable ventures, they will cut back on it leavin us fucked cause we will have nothing to ski on...

so before u say something stupid like that, realize what u are suggesting we do, KILL SKIING!!
to that i say NEVER!!!!!!!




Team Sofa King Amazing

Being Irish, I guess I should resent the Notre Dame nickname 'The Fighting Irish.' After all, how long do you think nicknames like 'The Bargaining Jews' or 'The Murdering Italians' would last? Only the Ironic Irish could be so naively honset. I get the feeling that Notre Dame came real close to naming itself 'The Fuckin Drunken, Thick-Skulled, Brawling, Short-Dicked Irish'
Dec 1 2002 8:24PM
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c_lo
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I'm sorry but I'm about to flame. Yeah it will hurt your family? Faggot think about all the people capitalism hurts. Your fucking ignorant. Look at africa you fucking moron, look at south america look at the american black population. You honestly should never talk because you don't know shit about shit. North america (save mexico) is wealthy, europe is wealthy australia is wealthy new zeland is wealthy, thats it bitch. The rest of the world, the majority of the people are getting fucked over by our consumption habits. What about the earth? We are consuming at a rate over 300 time sustainability. Read a book bitch
Dec 1 2002 10:23PM
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bibskis
Posts: 671 - Karma: 11
i dont live in africa so what the fuck do i care...

and unless u have been there doing community service or u send money every month or something like that then neither do u, actions are what counts not words, so quit bullshitting urself, and dont attack capitalism because right now that seems to be the best way to do things, why do u think all of the places u just named got wealthy??




Team Sofa King Amazing

Being Irish, I guess I should resent the Notre Dame nickname 'The Fighting Irish.' After all, how long do you think nicknames like 'The Bargaining Jews' or 'The Murdering Italians' would last? Only the Ironic Irish could be so naively honset. I get the feeling that Notre Dame came real close to naming itself 'The Fuckin Drunken, Thick-Skulled, Brawling, Short-Dicked Irish'
Dec 1 2002 10:28PM
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FreshCoast
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Explain to me how Buy Nothing Day hurts capitalism in the first place? If you think it does, your missing the point of the day.
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Dec 1 2002 11:09PM
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coz
Posts: 1754 - Karma: 11
so it has come this this. bibskis thinks that by buying things, he's helping the world. i guess 15-20 odd years of being brought up in a capitalist democracy has finally proven that it can brainwash simple minded people! i for one realize the inequalities of the world, and do things to attempt to stop the spread. anybody else that realizes these things gets the inner satisfaction. i personally don't want bibskis to realize what it is the world has become. just please don't try to spread your regressive ways to us. thank you.
Dec 2 2002 1:11PM
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SUpilot
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fuck that. capitalism is the shit. infact on buy nothing day i am gonna buy more than usual to make up for the tree hugging liberals who dont buy anything.
Dec 2 2002 2:47PM
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coz
Posts: 1754 - Karma: 11
you're an idiot. buy nothing day was last week. go back to being ignorant.. actually, you will always be ignorant because you're narrow minded and selfish. i hope you never have children.
Dec 2 2002 2:56PM
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SUpilot
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ha. oh dont worry my friend. i will definately be contributing to the gene pool.
Dec 2 2002 2:57PM
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bibskis
Posts: 671 - Karma: 11
i never said i was helping the world, i said i was helping myself, im being selfish not ignorant u moron




Team Sofa King Amazing

Being Irish, I guess I should resent the Notre Dame nickname 'The Fighting Irish.' After all, how long do you think nicknames like 'The Bargaining Jews' or 'The Murdering Italians' would last? Only the Ironic Irish could be so naively honset. I get the feeling that Notre Dame came real close to naming itself 'The Fuckin Drunken, Thick-Skulled, Brawling, Short-Dicked Irish'
Dec 2 2002 5:49PM
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FreshCoast
Posts: 5602 - Karma: 34
The point isn't that hard to understand, it is not some sad attempt to overthrow capitalism you idiots.
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Dec 2 2002 6:49PM
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bibskis
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well then what is it??

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Team Sofa King Amazing

Being Irish, I guess I should resent the Notre Dame nickname 'The Fighting Irish.' After all, how long do you think nicknames like 'The Bargaining Jews' or 'The Murdering Italians' would last? Only the Ironic Irish could be so naively honset. I get the feeling that Notre Dame came real close to naming itself 'The Fuckin Drunken, Thick-Skulled, Brawling, Short-Dicked Irish'
Dec 2 2002 6:52PM
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$1080PLP$
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penis

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*Tyler*

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Dec 2 2002 6:58PM
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Phrosty
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holy balls it dosn't matter if you buy stuuf or not. if your parents owned a store you would be pissed about bnd. only poor ppl don't like capitalism.

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Dec 2 2002 7:00PM
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FreshCoast
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The day after Thanksgiving was chosen for BUY NOTHING DAY because the advertising and retail industries have hyped it as THE shopping day for the holiday season for so long that it is difficult to separate the two. Instead of spending money on this day that has for years been associated with little but the start of a month-long spending spree

It a protest about how companies keep attempting to extend the holiday season in attempt to boost profits. Every year it seems companies try to put out their Holiday gifts/deals out earlier and earlier. The point of the day is to keep the holiday season something special. There is nothing wrong with buying gifts for loved ones, just keep the holidays special!
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Dec 2 2002 7:01PM
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SUpilot
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i love phrosty...he actually has some sense unlike alot of liberal NS'ers
Dec 2 2002 8:10PM
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wilkesyachtingco
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c'mon kids... socialism? naw... marx himself said that there were only three places he believed his version of communism could work... and africa wasnt one of em... neither were china, cuba, or russia. socialism has suceeded in nations that were moderatly well off to start with, so dont say that capitolism is to blame... afirca would be jacked economicly regardless of our economic policy... you cant give meaningfull financial aid to nations where the food and money will just be seized by a warlord anyhow. i cant stand people, and americans in particular who bash capitolism, and then use the word ignorant in the same sentance. if not for capitolism you woulnt have a computer to type your nonsensical drivel.










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Dec 2 2002 8:28PM
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SUpilot
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sure you could...you can speculate that absolutely. and capitalism is with an A.
Dec 2 2002 8:32PM
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wilkesyachtingco
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sorie abut tha spling cheif. kee wred SPECULATE, but i have a feeling you know that dont ya...i also speculate that i will crown myself emporer of france, a la napolean of olde










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Dec 2 2002 8:34PM
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Pipe_Munky
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i love being canadian! raegan means absolutely nothing to me!



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