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Black Friday Experiment
So, I have a few ideas for some Black Friday fun for those who do not necessarily wish to partake in the shopping frenzy. If anything, we could branch off from these and get similar ideas.
Options:
1.) Gothic Black Friday: Maybe mid-Friday afternoon, when the lines to get into Best Buy or wherever are not long, we can have gothic-dressed folks start lining up and entering the store. Then, when there is a quite a mess of us inside the store, we can do something like walk and act depressingly slow for five minutes. …I guess similar to what was done at the Home Depot in New York
2.) Black Friday Celebration – Don’t consider this racist, but I think it would be amusing to have a celebration day just for Black (e.g. African-American, Jamaican, etc.) Americans. We can throw a party in the park, middle of a shopping mall, hold a fake protest, or walk by lines outside Best Buy. If you think this is prejudice, please see the Improv Everywhere Youtube video of “Meet a Black Guy” in Aspen, Co
3.) Black Friday Heist – Around 2 or 3AM, when the lines around Best Buy or whatever store are starting to fill up, what if we had a whole mob of people looking like thieves (dressed in black, with black mask, black gloves, etc.) just randomly start running from one side of the building all the way around to the other side, carrying random electronics (e.g. laptops, small TVs) and plastic bags of fake loot. We can probably hit up several different places. Or, we can just all randomly stare through store windows or stand in line, looking all mischievous.
4.) Tent City – My idea for this is to find those few in those electronics store line with tents or lawn chairs, and to randomly setup a huge campsite right next to them. We can have a portable fire pit, roast marshmallows, pitch some tents, sleeping bags, guitar and sing camping songs. Or, we can even start a weekend early and do like 15-minute tent cities at random Best Buy stores across the cities, confusing people about how early people are lining up.
5.) White Friday Protest – What if we just do a fake protest that it is unfair that there is no White Friday, or we pretend to sponsor a White Saturday. We can grab signatures from people standing in line. 10 minutes later, there can be a Brown Sunday crowd protesting as well.
6.) Mess with people standing in line, especially if there is a like a ton of us:
a. Start a fake line leading to nowhere or have a second line right next to the original one, facing the other way.
b. Throw a party for the people in line
c. Have somebody stand in line, and then give the mob a cut in line
d. Make an obstacle course for the people in line.
e. Play Red Rover, by having our line stand 15 feet away from the real line, and call someone over.
Just some random ideas. Haven't seen any new ones on the blog for awhile and haven't been able to make the planning sessions, but would love to participate in the fun.
Options:
1.) Gothic Black Friday: Maybe mid-Friday afternoon, when the lines to get into Best Buy or wherever are not long, we can have gothic-dressed folks start lining up and entering the store. Then, when there is a quite a mess of us inside the store, we can do something like walk and act depressingly slow for five minutes. …I guess similar to what was done at the Home Depot in New York
2.) Black Friday Celebration – Don’t consider this racist, but I think it would be amusing to have a celebration day just for Black (e.g. African-American, Jamaican, etc.) Americans. We can throw a party in the park, middle of a shopping mall, hold a fake protest, or walk by lines outside Best Buy. If you think this is prejudice, please see the Improv Everywhere Youtube video of “Meet a Black Guy” in Aspen, Co
3.) Black Friday Heist – Around 2 or 3AM, when the lines around Best Buy or whatever store are starting to fill up, what if we had a whole mob of people looking like thieves (dressed in black, with black mask, black gloves, etc.) just randomly start running from one side of the building all the way around to the other side, carrying random electronics (e.g. laptops, small TVs) and plastic bags of fake loot. We can probably hit up several different places. Or, we can just all randomly stare through store windows or stand in line, looking all mischievous.
4.) Tent City – My idea for this is to find those few in those electronics store line with tents or lawn chairs, and to randomly setup a huge campsite right next to them. We can have a portable fire pit, roast marshmallows, pitch some tents, sleeping bags, guitar and sing camping songs. Or, we can even start a weekend early and do like 15-minute tent cities at random Best Buy stores across the cities, confusing people about how early people are lining up.
5.) White Friday Protest – What if we just do a fake protest that it is unfair that there is no White Friday, or we pretend to sponsor a White Saturday. We can grab signatures from people standing in line. 10 minutes later, there can be a Brown Sunday crowd protesting as well.
6.) Mess with people standing in line, especially if there is a like a ton of us:
a. Start a fake line leading to nowhere or have a second line right next to the original one, facing the other way.
b. Throw a party for the people in line
c. Have somebody stand in line, and then give the mob a cut in line
d. Make an obstacle course for the people in line.
e. Play Red Rover, by having our line stand 15 feet away from the real line, and call someone over.
Just some random ideas. Haven't seen any new ones on the blog for awhile and haven't been able to make the planning sessions, but would love to participate in the fun.
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Enfim. Entretanto tenho andado a receber tantos notificações de novas mensagens que percebi que se estava a preparar ...
faz mais sentido cada grupinho apontar para um carro qualquer e começar a acenar, tipo ao calhas, até que a pessoa repare.
Lo más seguro es que llegue.
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I'm down as well, might want to think of something to do after one team wins.
IE on the West Coast... let's do this!
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