Reply to post: Culturally myopic

Oh, I wish it could be Black Friday every day-aayyy, when the wallets start jingling but it's still a week till we're paiii-iid

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Culturally myopic

Singles Day 11/11 in China out-does this by a factor of 10 (closer to 30 this year actually).

Originally routed in a day to celebrate being single as opposed to Valentine's day... (And the 1 is similar to the Chinese character for single)

Alibaba steals the show ;-)

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