I should be SHOT. I went to Walmart

[Dan in Pasadena]

I thought about trying to see DarlyD's projects or visiting John Walker's shop, but in the end I was just too busy. We were visiting a relative who moved to West Seattle last year. Besides I was driving a V-6 Dodge Charger (oooh!) and wouldn't have wanted to be embarassed!

Had a good time though, saw the "Bodies" exhibit; did the touristy thing at Pike Market - hell, I even saw "Rocky Balboa" yesterday afternoon. I'm embarassed to say I liked it! Cold, wet, gray...and STILL fun.

[tabs]

Originally posted by johnco
and Tabs... this is for you

U miserable SOB..Your so stupid that U don't know when someone is agreeing with U. I shop at Wallyworld. It has its place. I don't see anything wrong with Wallyworld if it can save me some money.

[Leland Pate]

You know, Europe isn't all that much better. Go check out a Tesco in the UK sometime, or go to a pub during a football match. Or ask just about anyone in the EU about gypsys.

Do ya like dags????

[Isabo]

Wow this thread is getting heavy
One thing is the same all over the world, society has its dregs. Some of these have low or no income, some actually have very high incomes. They are frequently dirty, rude, obnoxious, unkempt. I prefer not to rub shoulders with them. It is inevitable that I will meet them when I shop at Walmart or it's equivalent, it doesn't mean I have to like it.
I think it's important to make a distinction between these dregs and blue collar workers. I have the highest respect for anyone that works hard to make their living and especially so if they better themselves and their position. I believe that the future for many of our children, if they wish to succeed in life will be within the blue collar trades. I do not have any respect for dregs that sit in squalor and do nothing to take themselves out of it, letting the rest of us support them. I am sure these are the types this thread was laughing at.
It's very true that things can change and we might find ourselves obliged to shop at Walmart. But even broke and penniless we can still afford good manners and an appreciation of style and the better things in life - culture for want of a better word.
A poster mentioned rich ladies visiting his cabin with expensive presents. How is this different to a man visiting some trailer trash girl with a trinket in exchange for a roll in the hay? A "bit of rough" and a "roll in the gutter" may make for variety - Would you want to be seen in public with such? Only to show off one's latest pet I would imagine in most cases. Few would want to make a life with such
Superiority and inferiority complexes can take many forms. I do not like seeing the affluent looking down on the poor but I also dislike the poor or those from humble origins criticising the well to do and cultured as pretentious and inferior to them, sometimes because they don't appreciate the lives they choose to live, sometimes because they have an inferiority complex which makes them aggresive in environments they feel uncomfortable with.

[Isabo]

Originally posted by MichiganMat
You know, Europe isn't all that much better. Go check out a Tesco in the UK sometime, or go to a pub during a football match. Or ask just about anyone in the EU about gypsys.

Tesco's went upmarket the last times I went there with my sister. The one to knock now is probably ASDA (owned by Walmart I think)
European gypsies are something else, often nothing more than thieves and beggers.

[svandamme]

Originally posted by Leland Pate
Do ya like dags????

and a caravan?
perriwinklebluewithmatchingcovers for mie ma

[Dottore]

Great posts johnco!

Time to merge this thread with the one about genteel living?

[vbaron]

I was in Shenyang, China recently - they had a Walmart! Personally, I've never set foot in one, I try to avoid the big box type stores. Seems as if they enter an area with low prices to force out the smaller retailers and then their prices creep up over time. Walmart seems to be the worst of the bunch.

[turbo6bar]

Originally posted by Dan in Pasadena
I first asked what the meaning of the green font was? If it was supposed to be some sort of tongue-in-cheek joke, well...I don't get it as humor in the least, nevertheless I asked and got no response. Since no one else seemed to take excpetion to a line like that I stated I'd just as soon not be associated with haters that would write that OR tolerate it frankly.

See post from 12 hours before your rant. It was sarcasm and not humor. I was not able to convey the message properly. I did not write to offend, but I still stand behind the sarcastic intent.

[artplumber]

Originally posted by vbaron
....Walmart seems to be the worst of the bunch.

Try Starbucks as the worst.

[vbaron]

Don't get me started on the stuff they call coffee at "Mucho-bucks"!

[tabs]

No Starbuckies for me...I bought my own machina and named it BB2.

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally posted by turbo6bar
See post from 12 hours before your rant. It was sarcasm and not humor. I was not able to convey the message properly. I did not write to offend, but I still stand behind the sarcastic intent.

So you meant it sarcastically that you don't like the Mexicans, blacks, or Jews at Walmart? Was that your point?

Where DO you like your Mexicans, blacks and Jews?

[tabs]

Well now that Isabo mentions it everybody is pretentsious and inferior to me...

There was a day when I would only drink Remy XO, McCallum 25 yearold, Johnny Blue Label and smoke only the finest Dominican and Honduran cigars..the Partagas 150, Macanando and R&J Special Reserves while I used to drive my Rolls Royce.

Today after all the Hoopla is over I smoke Bundle Madaro cigars for $1.80 (Turano) and drink Trader Joes Single Malt (by McCallum) while I drive my Ford F150.

[turbo6bar]

Originally posted by Dan in Pasadena
So you meant it sarcastically that you don't like the Mexicans, blacks, or Jews at Walmart? Was that your point?

If it is fine to bash other's for their appearance, why not for their race?

[Chocaholic]

...or religion...

[Paul K]

Originally posted by URY914
I needed two little things so my daughter and I went to Walmart last night. Two days before Christmas! We really should have just turned around and walked out but it was like a train wreck. We just had to stay and watch.

A few observations:

-Why do people have to bring three or four generations of thier family to go shopping?

-Why do people buy cheap junk they don't need nor can afford?

-Why are most people too fat or too skinny?

-Why do women were clothes that are three sizes too small?

-Why don't people go to the dentist?

-How can someone gain 350 pounds in the first 25 years of thier life?

-Does a two year old boy really need to wear a gold braclet?

-Do women really need to spend thier money on that tat on thier foot or those fake nails?

I really think there is a segment of the population that seems to have been brainwashed into buying crap they can't afford and don't need. They must spend every dime they earn and never think about next week.

I told my wife if I ever say I'm going to Walmart again to remind me of this trip. I will NEVER go back.

You missed one...

-When did it become 'okay' to let ones 12-year old daughter dress like a slut?

I too avoid WalMart if at all possible- for all the reasons above!

Cheers,

Paul.

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally posted by turbo6bar
If it is fine to bash other's for their appearance, why not for their race?

Uh....because it is bigoted, hateful and racist...........

[turbo6bar]

That's my point, fellow Pelicanite.

[kach22i]

I'm not reading this thread - too long.




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