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post #1 of 199
8/27/09 at 2:35pm
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welp,

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

Sorta NSFW, I guess, for shirtless white trash dudes.
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post #2 of 199
8/27/09 at 2:49pm
Wow, I could almost sense the meth even over the internet.
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post #3 of 199
8/27/09 at 2:59pm
Jesus Christ.
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post #4 of 199
8/27/09 at 3:08pm
Bookmarked. I'll be watching this websites growth for many years to come.
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post #5 of 199
8/27/09 at 3:08pm
Good people, I give you the voting public!
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post #6 of 199
8/27/09 at 3:14pm
Nothing will ever top this. NY is #1 again.

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post #7 of 199
8/27/09 at 3:30pm
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GOD damn. Let's all blame Rob for this link now.

The anthropologist in me is always AMAZED when I go to the Wal-Mart Supercenter back home (my mom's a manager there, occasionally I'll hitch a ride there to borrow her car if I don't rent one while visiting). The weirdest shit I've ever seen there was a guy proposing to his fiancee - he was all decked out in black and turquoise western wear (save for a belt) and when he knelt down to offer her the ring, half of his greasy, hairy buttcrack (which was already making a pilgrimage to the center of his back) was revealed to everyone who turned to look at the spectacle. I'd give anything to travel back in time with my fucking camera on that day.
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post #8 of 199
8/27/09 at 3:32pm
I, for one, feel it's in all our best interests to keep you away from the time machine.
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post #9 of 199
8/27/09 at 3:33pm
I look forward to the unwed teenage mother section of the site.
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post #10 of 199
8/27/09 at 3:33pm
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Originally Posted by Jake View Post
I'd give anything to travel back in time and tell myself NOT TO FREAKIN' LOOK!
And fixed. You're welcome.
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post #11 of 199
8/27/09 at 3:39pm
My spider-sense tingles and warns of classism!!!
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post #12 of 199
8/27/09 at 3:40pm
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No, it's okay if they're white people.
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post #13 of 199
8/27/09 at 4:50pm
One of the guys was Mexican(?).
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post #14 of 199
8/27/09 at 4:56pm
I refer to them as "Wal-MARTIANS". I'm hoping for a War of the Worlds type ending real soon.
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post #15 of 199
8/27/09 at 4:59pm
Holy shit.
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post #16 of 199
8/27/09 at 5:00pm
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Originally Posted by DARKMITE8 View Post
I refer to them as "Wal-MARTIANS". I'm hoping for a War of the Worlds type ending real soon.
Creepy tall methheads with hands full of Sudafed boxes = Striders.
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post #17 of 199
8/27/09 at 5:02pm
Ladies and Gentlemen welcome to what my friends and I call 'Merica.
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post #18 of 199
8/27/09 at 5:02pm
I just noticed the locations...

I didn't know. I didn't know it had spread so far!
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post #19 of 199
8/27/09 at 5:20pm
I'm pretty stoked none of the pictures posted thus far are from NC.
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post #20 of 199
8/27/09 at 5:24pm
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Also I don't really get how people can happily defend the place - I'd normally say that people were at least being somewhat hyperbolic in their disdain for a store but this place really is like a Bosch painting but with more rampant obesity and despair. Like, I even get embarrassed saying that my mom works for them but she's been steadily pissing me off more and more over the past two months so now it's almost like an insult.
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post #21 of 199
8/27/09 at 5:34pm
What do you mean by "defend the place"?

Like justify why they shop there, or is there a group of people trying to study and preserve the cultural richness that it embodies?
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post #22 of 199
8/27/09 at 5:43pm
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Every time I see one of these discussions on the internet someone pops up to say that the haters are just being overly sensitive or that they're being uppity.
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post #23 of 199
8/27/09 at 5:45pm
But you are being uppity.

That's OK, I'm just trying to understand. :-)
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post #24 of 199
8/27/09 at 5:46pm
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Originally Posted by Jake View Post
Every time I see one of these discussions on the internet someone pops up to say that the haters are just being overly sensitive or that they're being uppity.
It's been several months since I've been to a wal-mart. But the times I do go, I'm reminded why I don't like the place. The customers are somewhat annoying. However, the cashiers mostly suck at every wal-mart I've been to.
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post #25 of 199
8/27/09 at 5:49pm
I went to Wal-Mart once. Never again.

Target FTW.
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post #26 of 199
8/27/09 at 5:51pm
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Originally Posted by The Closer View Post
I went to Wal-Mart once. Never again.

Target FTW.
That's nice. However Super Wal-Marts are almost everywhere. Super Targets are not as abundant. So, when you're on vacation and need items, one finds S Wal-Marts rather easily.
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post #27 of 199
8/27/09 at 5:52pm
There's nothing to defend. Except crap is dirt cheap there. That's it.
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post #28 of 199
8/27/09 at 5:52pm
Different store, same idiot workers.
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post #29 of 199
8/27/09 at 6:03pm
For my work I had to put together a forum on Wal-Mart. Got Al Norman, THE anti-Wal-Mart activist and the VP of Ethics of Wal-Mart, Inc. to come talk. I also had to research and put together a 350 page reader on pros and cons.

I won't shop there unless I absolutely have to, though the nearest Wal-Mart is far and hard to get to from my place. Seeing these pics always leaves me conflicted -- on the one hand, being poor must be hell / poor people have to buy stuff too....on the other hand, people need to freakin' clean up and learn some couth because UGH.
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post #30 of 199
8/27/09 at 6:37pm
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Originally Posted by CDI F. Kelly View Post

I won't shop there unless I absolutely have to, though the nearest Wal-Mart is far and hard to get to from my place. Seeing these pics always leaves me conflicted -- on the one hand, being poor must be hell / poor people have to buy stuff too....on the other hand, people need to freakin' clean up and learn some couth because UGH.
If you can afford to drive to Wal Mart to purchase goods, you can afford a whole t-shirt.

Thats the motto I live by.
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post #31 of 199
8/27/09 at 6:43pm
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I grew up broke as fuck and still feel kind of ashamed for going to one of these places. I was probably that stereotypical towheaded chubby kid with the dirty t-shirt and the Kool-Aid mustache, but that's how we rolled.
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post #32 of 199
8/27/09 at 7:08pm
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post #33 of 199
8/27/09 at 7:11pm
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I grew up broke as fuck and still feel kind of ashamed for going to one of these places. I was probably that stereotypical towheaded chubby kid with the dirty t-shirt and the Kool-Aid mustache, but that's how we rolled.
Basically, you are a traitor to your people, I see. :-)
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post #34 of 199
8/27/09 at 7:15pm
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That I am. Self-loathing, at the very least.
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post #35 of 199
8/27/09 at 7:16pm
Jake is the white-trash equivalent of whatever an Uncle Tom is.....I got nothing.
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post #36 of 199
8/27/09 at 7:26pm
Uncle Sam?
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post #37 of 199
8/27/09 at 7:44pm
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I have only one question--HOW?

Surely what I'm looking at is impossible, and yet there it is.
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post #38 of 199
8/27/09 at 7:51pm
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S/he's like a human Weeble.
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post #39 of 199
8/27/09 at 7:53pm
Van Damme, eat your heart out.
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post #40 of 199
8/27/09 at 7:55pm
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There has to be a point where the pelvis is just like "Fuck it, I give up."
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post #41 of 199
8/27/09 at 8:01pm
She should be in some sort of traveling troupe of obese gymnasts. Tricks include: the backwards 180 remote reach, double down doritos duster, and left arm squeeze and squeal heart attack special.
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post #42 of 199
8/27/09 at 8:03pm
She better have a fucking kangaroo in that pouch.
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post #43 of 199
8/27/09 at 10:42pm
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Probably old, but holy shit.
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post #44 of 199
8/27/09 at 10:55pm
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It follows the same pattern as a zombie invasion.
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post #45 of 199
8/27/09 at 10:57pm
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Jesus Christ is Florida just one giant Wal-Mart Supercenter???

And ya know - I see these pictures and such and it just makes me wonder what sort of Twilight-Zoney town I live in where my local Wal-Mart NEVER (well, RARELY ever) has that sort of awfulness on display. There's only one other grocery store in town and it's purely a grocery store - Wal-mart is basically the only place locally to get everything else Wal-Mart sells, so it may help that the ENTIRE TOWN (from the high class to the low) shops there. But it's a fairly pleasant place and if I didn't know about the abhorrent ethical practices I wouldn't have a single problem at all shopping there.
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post #46 of 199
8/27/09 at 11:27pm
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Originally Posted by JGButler View Post
There's only one other grocery store in town and it's purely a grocery store
Brookshire's?
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post #47 of 199
8/27/09 at 11:29pm
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Brookshire's?
Yep! We used to have a Winn-Dixie but that was a long time ago and it's gone now.
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post #48 of 199
8/27/09 at 11:44pm
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Jesus Christ is Florida just one giant Wal-Mart Supercenter???
It's just hanging there like some diseased cock.
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post #49 of 199
8/28/09 at 12:01am
At first I thought "Huh, guess Wal-Mart didn't really catch on in Nevada", then I remembered that it's 90% desert.
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post #50 of 199
8/28/09 at 4:30am
I'd guess that this map is also a pretty accurate representation of the areas with the most suburban sprawl.
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