Frehar: Why don't we just pass on the stress of gift giving and over-cooking this Christmas and simply gather and enjoy each others company and celebrate our good fortune to have family and friends.

(Ducks.)

It took my boyfriend fully a year to realize that I wasn't kidding when I said I don't need presents, especially roses on Valentine's Day (talk about a ripoff). He was nervous about the first birthday and Christmas to roll around after we had the discussion about how I really don't like the forced nature of gifts on holidays. I like to buy gifts for kids on their birthdays and Christmas and I like to buy things for loved ones randomly throughout the year if I see something I think they would really enjoy.

Actually, for two consecutive Christmases, he made sure to ask if I was really serious that we didn't need to exchange presents. Honestly, if I want/need something, I'll just get it myself.

cubic_spleen 2011-11-25 05:59:37 PM

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in
Reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving
how express and admirable! In action how like an Angel!
in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the
world! the paragon of animals!



Isnt that from a KFC commercial?

If any of you participated in any of this black friday nonsense, fark you. Seriously, fark you. Black friday represents everything about this country that needs to be flushed down the toilet.

I'd kill a man for a two-dollar waffle maker. And I prefer pancakes.

El Brujo: I will never ever understand these rubes and their psychotic need for cheap items. This day is a national embarassment.

Seriously. all for cheap crap that will either get returned or thrown in a garage or attic within a year.

Me? I went for a morning run, had a good breakfast, hiked a mountain with the brother and sis, had an awesome leftover dinner with the fam, watched a really goo hockey game (damnnit Bruins!), then we all put up the Christmas tree at the parents house. Now drinking hot chocolate and enjoying their company in the living room while surfing the web and watching movies.

Meanwhile the neanderthals are fighting over STUFF. Cheap, not at all that useful stuff.

I could maybe understand if these were homes, property, schooling, or even cars. But $2 waffle makers?

It's time to take a time out and take a deep look at yourself and life if this is what you live for. You're not going to be able to take your five waffle makers with you past the grave. No matter what your batshiat pastor says.

A month ago I bought a waffle maker for $20 off of Amazon while lying in bed. I think I made the right choice.

srewolf: Frehar: Why don't we just pass on the stress of gift giving and over-cooking this Christmas and simply gather and enjoy each others company and celebrate our good fortune to have family and friends.

(Ducks.)

It took my boyfriend fully a year to realize that I wasn't kidding when I said I don't need presents, especially roses on Valentine's Day (talk about a ripoff). He was nervous about the first birthday and Christmas to roll around after we had the discussion about how I really don't like the forced nature of gifts on holidays. I like to buy gifts for kids on their birthdays and Christmas and I like to buy things for loved ones randomly throughout the year if I see something I think they would really enjoy.

Actually, for two consecutive Christmases, he made sure to ask if I was really serious that we didn't need to exchange presents. Honestly, if I want/need something, I'll just get it myself.

Got a sister?

When you want to know where the 1 percent spent Black Friday.

They spent it posting to this thread.

Bunch of pompous self rightous asses, everyone of y'all

Marcus Aurelius: [www.politicvic.com image 480x360]

That doesn't even make sense.

runwiz: while in Cairo tens of thousands take to the streets to demonstrate and risk their lives for democracy, here in the US 2,000 line up outside a Best Buy and people fight over $2 waffle makers at WalMart. What a country.

Well thank god I live here and not in Cairo then.

runwiz: while in Cairo tens of thousands take to the streets to demonstrate and risk their lives for democracy, here in the US 2,000 line up outside a Best Buy and people fight over $2 waffle makers at WalMart. What a country.

Then go home and mock their fellow citizens who are actually protesting the corrupt and failing once-was that is America.

blondski: Does the fat white chick with her butt crack hanging out really need 6 waffle makers? I use my waffle maker about 4x a year and I'm not going to throw any elbows for it.

/Although it IS a hello kitty waffle maker.
//HELLO KITTY THE SIZE OF YOUR FACE

look at her!!! do you really need to ask?

skinink: I love you People of Wal-Mart.
[img405.imageshack.us image 640x512]

Came here for this.

/Pancakes are still better. Light and fluffy > crisp and sharp.

Why Yes I Am A Wizard: runwiz: while in Cairo tens of thousands take to the streets to demonstrate and risk their lives for democracy, here in the US 2,000 line up outside a Best Buy and people fight over $2 waffle makers at WalMart. What a country.

Then go home and mock their fellow citizens who are actually protesting the corrupt and failing once-was that is America.

THIS

Ed Finnerty: WARFLE EYERONS IS MY CONSPLISHTUSHOMAL constipational RIGHTS1!!1

Sorry, pet peeve.

Therion 2011-11-25 07:54:14 PM

SuddenlySamhain: 2wolves 2011-11-25 04:17:54 PM

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!

[...]

what the hell is that?

A filk song to the tune of "God Save the King"


I thought it was "God save the queens hairy back" By Mariah Carey

Person: Mad_Radhu: My Black Friday plan actually worked out quite well. Since I only needed to grab the 32" Samsung that Target had on sale for a bedroom TV, I showed up around 1 AM, figuring most everyone was going to be going after the bigger TVs. Since the first wave of shoppers were finishing up and leaving, I found a parking space immediately, then I made a quick circuit of the store to see what was left. I found an abandoned cart with the exact TV I was looking for just sitting in the clothing section with no one nearby. I waited a few minutes to see if anyone was going to claim it, then grabbed the cart, tossed a couple of $3 pillows in, and headed for the quickly shrinking checkout lines.

No fuss, no muss. In and out in less than an hour. The rest of the stuff I got online.

You "stole" someone's TV. No better than Fatty McFatass in TFA. In fact, your post sounds fat.

You're,what...three feet tall??? Because that went right over your head!!

Ego edo infantia cattus: [wwv.maynardjameskeenan.us:2010 image 320x448]

LEARN TO SWIM.

Came, wide-eyed and hopeful, for the Maynard James Keenan reference. Leaving smugly self-satisfied.

P.S. I motherfarking love you.

That was the best laugh I've had today.

jayphat 2011-11-25 06:25:50 PM

jpo2269: Some how I am not amazed by this fiasco. Sad enough a poor security guard lost his life b/c arseholes like this entire crowd could not contain themselves and act in a manner more fitting of a human being as opposed to a lab rat who was pre conditioned to act in a certain manner.

Let me tell you whatelse really chaps my arse... Last night, I head to Target around 12:45 am to pick up a 32" flat screen for my bedroom. Thankfully the first wave of shoppers had already come and gone and luckily Target had one 32" F.S. left. I put it in the buggy, and head off to another part of the store to do some shopping and wouldn't you know it, I leave the cart for like 2 minutes and some jackarse steals my cart... So there I am standing in the middle of Target holding two different boxes of tampons (for my wife) not knowing which to get and no buggy with the 32" F.S. I do not like this Black Friday event...

Your telling me there were SOOOO many people in the tampon aisle you couldn't take your cart with you? On the largest discount day of the year? With the last TV?

Are you telling me there weren't SOOOO many people in the tampon isle? Have you ever had to go on a late night tampoon run???? It happens more often then you would think...

Mad_Radhu 2011-11-25 07:02:43 PM

Person:

You "stole" someone's TV. No better than Fatty McFatass in TFA. In fact, your post sounds fat.

Like I said, I waited a good 5-10 minutes and saw plenty of shoppers come and go without giving any indication that it was theirs. Unless the original shopper was on the other side of the store buying tampons for the wife, the cart was abandoned, as were various other items like Blu0Ray players on the floor nearby nearby that obviously didn't belong in the clothing aisle. By the laws of Black Friday, I had to declare that a salvage and be on my way. Like I said, there were a ton of people that came in, grabbed a bunch of crap just in case, and then tossed it aside because they either didn't want it or didn't want to wait in a line that stretched around the store.

HEY!!! That is hitting a little too close to home...... I am going to do you a favor, and it is just for you, I will gain nothing from this offer... but just so karma doesn't come back to visit you, I will meet you in the parking lot of Target tonight at 12:45 and will trade you the two boxes of tampons for "my" 32" flat screen... :)

OWS: Occupy WaffleMaker Sales

This incident adds yet another brick in the wall of my determination to never set foot in a retail store on Black Friday.

Chester the Snake 2011-11-25 06:44:46 PM

jpo2269: ... and wouldn't you know it, I leave the cart for like 2 minutes and some jackarse steals my cart... So there I am standing in the middle of Target holding two different boxes of tampons (for my wife) not knowing which to get and no buggy with the 32" F.S. I do not like this Black Friday event...

This is a teachable moment. You left a shopping cart unattended? Well, you were just asking for it then. I think your wife needs to lose wife points, because she hasn't taught you that yet.

Thanks Chester, your compassion is appreciated greatly. Not only are you mocking me, but I now have no 32" flat screen and to make matters worse, "Red Storm Rising" won't be over for another 5 days....

People are now doing this crap because they feel like they're SUPPOSED to do this crap. Because more and more, the media focuses on this kind of Black Friday action. Shoppers gone wild, and all that. It creates an infite loop of stupidity.

Griswold: Person: Mad_Radhu: My Black Friday plan actually worked out quite well. Since I only needed to grab the 32" Samsung that Target had on sale for a bedroom TV, I showed up around 1 AM, figuring most everyone was going to be going after the bigger TVs. Since the first wave of shoppers were finishing up and leaving, I found a parking space immediately, then I made a quick circuit of the store to see what was left. I found an abandoned cart with the exact TV I was looking for just sitting in the clothing section with no one nearby. I waited a few minutes to see if anyone was going to claim it, then grabbed the cart, tossed a couple of $3 pillows in, and headed for the quickly shrinking checkout lines.

No fuss, no muss. In and out in less than an hour. The rest of the stuff I got online.

You "stole" someone's TV. No better than Fatty McFatass in TFA. In fact, your post sounds fat.

You're,what...three feet tall??? Because that went right over your head!!

You sound even fatter. Just shoving twinkies down your gullet between words. Not even chewing, swallowing them whole like a snake.

god bless america

whsswim 2011-11-25 08:55:37 PM

god bless america



and its merchandise

2wolves: It's your base. Enjoy.

buckler: wee: I just used my waffle iron this morning. I made eggs on it, which is all I ever actually do with it.

How do you get them out of the waffle iron plate?

you just lift hem out

Cerebral Knievel: I got like three waffle irons already, and one of those waffle irons with the different Irony parts for making quesadeas, because, making quesadeas is like... hard

My brother asked my mother for a tortilla press, she came home with an electric quesadea press.

You can spell tortilla but not quesadilla?

/though by your spelling, I can tell you at least know how to say it

:-)

Why would anybody want a waffle iron anyways? The store bought ones that you pop in a toaster are delicious.

Occupy Walmart

/this video shows exactly what's wrong with the US

There are people who don't own a waffle iron already? I mean, that's one of the five things you are guaranteed to get as a wedding gift, and you own it your whole life because they don't wear out and you only make waffles like once every five years anyway.

TyrantII: /Grandma has a waffle iron she got when married that still works to this day.

My husband still regularly uses his grandmother's electric hand mixer, and it's older than his mother. Then again, even more recently made stuff can be decent, the waffle iron we've got is at least 20 years old, was a cheapie bought at Target, and still works great. Oddly enough, i discovered that another friend has the exact same model of waffle iron, also from Target, and also still going strong. It only makes one waffle at a time, but I just can't justify buying a fancy one when the one we've got works perfectly.

Swoop1809: My girlfriend got me a waffle iron for my birthday as a joke because we always talk about the ridiculous number of counter-top appliances in my apartment. I think we have used it once. It makes really good waffles, its just such a pain to prepare the batter, especially since I never have eggs handy.

Does anyone make a squeeze bottle of waffle mix like the bisquick pancake batter? Can I just use pancake batter?

I read that batter blaster stuff is good, though I have yet to see them selling it in Canada. You can also make a whole bunch from scratch and freeze them, then stick them in the toaster just like the store bought ones.

I paid 30$ for a waffle maker and the stupid thing broke after 6 months. I'm saving up to buy a Kitchenaid in the 100$ range, knowing that their brand name depends on their appliances actually having some quality.

I am now CONVINCED all this building hype in the last dozen years over Black Friday sales is nothing more than a greed-driven social experiment to learn to what depths consumers will sell their souls for the chance at procuring merchandise at a discount price, regardless of it's actual worth or usefulness.

I hate consumerism.

At our local Wally World, Black Friday was honored by two women getting in a fist fight over a MOP. A farking mop! They had to call the police.

Ronin_S: I read that batter blaster stuff is good, though I have yet to see them selling it in Canada.

I tried the Batter Blaster stuff once, and it didn't hold a candle to Krust-Eez.

To the OP, really, you can use pancake batter in a waffle maker. Adding a touch of oil usually helps it release out of the iron better, though. And just about any pancake mix out there will have slightly modified directions for waffles.