Oh no, we have that huge sale day too. Actually, it's more like a sale week. But the day after Thanksgiving is a huge sale so people will go out and do their Christmas shopping.

Really? I didn't know they had boxing day sales in the US.

Yeah, Black Friday does help alot with christmas shopping...
Except when it gets too out of control. I heard on the news that a wal-mart employee was trampled to death or something this morning. 0_0

I don't think that one's true, but you never know. Sometimes it happens.

No, they aren't Boxing Day, we don't celebrate that holiday. They're 'After Christmas Blowout Sales' where they sell everything in sight. Basically they're just huge, nation-wide clearance sales.

Basically the same as "Boxing Day Blowout Sale Week" then.

Yeah, but most of it is Christmas stuff on 75% off. Like, I can get something that was already cheap for way cheaper. Ah, I love clearance sales. <3

Beats me why there are different dates for the same festival...:/???

You mean Thanksgiving? Well, Thanksgiving isn't a festival, it's a holiday. And America and Canada celebrate it on different days. There really wasn't an 'official' date to celebrate it in America until the 1940s, I believe. Or was that the 1840s? I can't remember. I read it somewhere but I'm tired and distracted.

Then, is the origin the same?

I'm not sure, actually.

XD
Pretty amusing to find people celebrating the festival and not knowing the origins.

I am pretty much blur on what actually is CHristmas.

It's not a festival. =S

It's a holiday, which is different.

No, I know the origins of the American Thanksgiving. I don't know if it's the same as Canadian Thanksgiving or not.

Christmas? Well, that's a long story... I'm not even going to get into that huge mess of religion and shit.

heh... holiday and festival is not the same?

No. They aren't.

...O__O
well, them being something to celebrate... I don't differentiate them...

Celebrations and 'festivities' are often considered the same things. But a festival and a holiday are different. Some holidays have festivals in order to celebrate them, but that usually varies from city-to-city and state-to-state.

but thanksgiving is something to celebrate?

Yeah. It's a long story. You can always google/wikipedia it.

I am lazy...
*slumps down*

...Really? Too lazy to type a couple words on the computer?

yes~
as mention in sig... I am a scholar experting in procrastination and lazyness.

Yeah, but on the internet? It's one thing in the real world, but you're already at the computer, it really doesn't take any effort...

Which makes me an expert? XD
to do the best wherever I am...

No, that doesn't make you an expert, it's just really sad. =S

That is sad?
I am pretty happy with it... O__O

Meh.

At least I got my scanner working. -Snuggles scanner-