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"FacebookPinterest\n\nTime once more for Make It Stop, in which we count down the three things this week that must stop.\u00A0\n\n1. Fear of missing a good deal.\n\n Black Friday and Cyber Monday just passed us by, and I did not buy anything on either of these days because I'm lazy and hate putting on pants (Black Friday) or making two extra clicks to place an order at Amazon (Cyber Monday).\u00A0 And even though we collectively piss and moan about the existence of Black Friday and the misery it inflicts both upon shoppers and store workers, I think US retailers have successfully instilled--at least in me--a lingering sense of shame any time that you don't take advantage of SOME deal on either of those days, even though I don't really need anything.\u00A0 They have successfully made it Un-American to not take advantage of a bargain.\n\nYou see it time and again in every sale ad that lies to you--\"Don't miss out on this deal!\"\u00A0 And the reason you see this copy over and over again is because it works.\u00A0 How many times have you bought something, then seen it at a lower price later on and kicked yourself for missing out?\u00A0 It happens all the time.\u00A0 We are conditioned to believe that great savings are some kind of grand national aspiration, and that's it's a sin to miss out on them... that you have FAILED if you fucked up and paid an extra $100 on that Samsung 57\" TV.\u00A0\n\nBut I'm here to tell you: It's okay.\u00A0 It's okay to pay a premium to buy something when you want it... when a store is less hellaciously crowded, or when you don't feel like researching every fucking deal possible before finding the lowest price.\u00A0 There's a value to your time and your sanity that is never accounted for in these deals, and it should be.\u00A0 If Best Buy isn't going to note it, YOU should.\u00A0 Even though you can't put a true dollar value on avoiding the mall parking lot at peak hours, you should comfort yourself in knowing that such a value exists.\u00A0 Shop when you wanna shop.\u00A0 Buy what you think is worth buying.\n\n2. People bitching about Ron Burgundy overload.\n\n \"Wahhhhhh he's in too many ads!\"\u00A0 Have you people ever watched other ads?\u00A0 I'd pay five dollars for Will Ferrell to do every fucking ad on television for the rest of time.\u00A0 It's fine with me.\u00A0 If the character is being played out to the brink of Austin Powers-ness, I'm okay with that if it means one less fucking car ad that shows running footage for thirty seconds.\u00A0 Will Ferrell didn't kill Ron Burgundy.\u00A0 For that, I blame America's resort town t-shirt sellers.\n\n3. Four hundred villains appearing in one superhero movie.\n\n \u00E2&#128;&#139;The new Spiderman trailer features Green Goblin, Rhino, Electro, and the entire roster of the 2011 Miami Heat.\u00A0 Time and time again, studios shoot their load on villains in a single movie for no good reason at all.\u00A0 Even The Dark Knight, the standard by which most superhero films are judged, whipped out two big Batman villains when Heath Ledger's Joker was PLENTY.\u00A0 The more villains you use up, the more you diminish their impact.\u00A0 This has been happening forever now, ever since \"Batman Returns,\" and it's a waste.\u00A0 Use one villain for one movie, and then another villain for the next movie.\u00A0 Focus that shit."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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