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In Australia it's just confusing. Black Friday was named after devastating bush fires in 1938-39 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_bushfires https://en
by dragonsky67 5y ago
In Australia it's just confusing. Black Friday was named after devastating bush fires in 1938-39 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_bushfires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_bushfires. Any Friday that has bad bushfires on it tends to pick up the name.
Over the last 5 years or so Black Friday sales have become a thing and I always suffer some degree of dissidence at the naming, as for me at least Black Friday has always had a negative connotation.
- kube-system 5y agoWhat’s stranger is that the US also has several days named similarly with negative connotations, like Black Tuesday and Black Thursday. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929
- yosito 5y ago> dissidence I think you mean dissonance
- dragonsky67 5y agoand you sir would be correct.. bad spelling on my part and even worse spell check on my browsers.