# A field guide to Walmartians **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 13, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-field-guide-to-walmartians/666096 "2013-08-13T01:46:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![want2befree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3e96dc/32.png) [@want2befree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2befree)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-field-guide-to-walmartians/666096/21 "2013-08-13T17:38:01Z")
Visual aid: [peopleofwalmart.com](http://peopleofwalmart.com) ---
**Author:** ![trupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@trupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trupa)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-field-guide-to-walmartians/666096/22 "2013-08-14T00:00:58Z")
I’ve come to realise that most of these memes, making fun of Walmart shoppers, or of families on reality TV, are ways of making ourselves feel better by feeling superior to folk with less money, or education, or different tastes. It’s like members of the French aristocracy going out in their carriages to amuse themselves by looking at the poor, or English gemtlemen going to Bedlam for a lark. If you stop to consider that all these folk are people, human beings, then it becomes kind of sad. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-field-guide-to-walmartians/666096/23 "2013-08-14T02:23:36Z")
> [@want2befree](#): > > Visual aid: [peopleofwalmart.com](http://peopleofwalmart.com) [Here too](http://beartales.me/2013/01/14/the-latest-crop-of-walmartians/). What’s even scarier than these photos is that these people actually thought they looked okay before they walked out their front door at home. ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-field-guide-to-walmartians/666096/24 "2013-08-14T02:59:30Z")
The Roman Catholic Church might consider laminated posters collaging around 60 of these images at a time for installation in monasteries and convents so as to strengthen the inmates’ moral will to reject desire. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-field-guide-to-walmartians/666096/25 "2013-08-14T03:09:43Z")
The One Notch Abover - This guy hangs out at Walmart to because it’s one of the few places he can go to look down on other people so he can feel better about himself. Sometimes volunteers at homeless shelters and soup kitchens, ostensibly for altruistic reasons but really for the same reasons he goes to Walmart. If encountered, do not broach the topic of Apple products. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-field-guide-to-walmartians/666096/26 "2013-08-14T03:21:15Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > The One Notch Abover - This guy hangs out at Walmart to because it’s one of the few places he can go to look down on other people so he can feel better about himself. Sometimes volunteers at homeless shelters and soup kitchens, ostensibly for altruistic reasons but really for the same reasons he goes to Walmart. If encountered, do not broach the topic of Apple products. And how is he dressed? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-field-guide-to-walmartians/666096.md?page=1)