# People of Wal Mart web site **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 4, 2009, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606 "2009-10-04T23:43:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/61 "2009-10-06T20:33:59Z")
I spend about a weekend a month selling at the local flea market. People of WalMart’s got nothing on that. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/62 "2009-10-06T20:43:29Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I agree with the people who think it’s mean…and with the people who think it’s funny. I’ve been to the site a few times. Some of the pictures don’t seem that bad to me, like the girl with the flowered overalls. So? She’s going to Walmart. Maybe she thinks she looks really really cute in that. Maybe she just never got her head out of the eighties. I think…that’s mean. What happens if she sees herself on there? > > Then I look at the guy with the shorts so short you can see underbutt and I just cringe. I’m with you 'Mika. Some of the people on that site are just normal peeps and laughing at them is mean. Others are freaks and cringing is entirely normal. And I laughed out loud at the old woman with the hat that said “go fuck yourself.” If I saw her wearing that in person I’d tell her to never stop being awesome. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/63 "2009-10-06T21:16:30Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > ETA - The flowered overall lady probably isn’t in the “chose it on purpose with care” class. I hate to beat a dead horse, but I think she kind of did. The shirt coordinates with the overalls, and white sneaks are a classic with any casual outfit. Her clothes are clean and fit normally. It just happens to be out of style. Like my co-worker who still wears her blue and black buffalo check dress from the early 90s. She’s clean, presentable and modest, just dated. Searching in vain for a pic (you’d know the dress I mean if you saw it), I stumbled on this for you crafty Dopers: [http://blog.craftzine.com/lores\_HamburgerDress(front).jpg](http://blog.craftzine.com/lores_HamburgerDress(front).jpg) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/64 "2009-10-06T21:18:35Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > And I laughed out loud at the old woman with the hat that said “go fuck yourself.” If I saw her wearing that in person I’d tell her to never stop being awesome. Cool. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/65 "2009-10-06T22:45:38Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > I just got a pic of some naked guy sticking a mike up his ass – seriously. At Walmart? 😕 Isn’t that behavior more typical of Kmart shoppers? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2009, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/66 "2009-10-06T23:56:17Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > At Walmart? 😕 Isn’t that behavior more typical of Kmart shoppers? I think that was the hipster link. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/67 "2009-10-07T00:10:13Z")
Wow there’s some uptight people on this thread. “Ooh no we can’t mock people who go to the supermarket wearing totally inappropriate clothes, that’s howwibly nasty.” Lighten up. For any given type of person, there’s plenty of people who find them funny. Join in and laugh, or go away and let people laugh in peace. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/68 "2009-10-07T00:15:35Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > At Walmart? 😕 Isn’t that behavior more typical of Kmart shoppers? Why, did you just buy a microphone at Wal-Mart? ETA - that hamburger dress is adorable! ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/69 "2009-10-07T00:32:03Z")
I agree, the hamburger dress is all kinds of awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/70 "2009-10-07T05:21:02Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > [Italian Sausage](http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=2251) > I feel… conflicted. I’d shine her knob. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/71 "2009-10-07T06:01:39Z")
There’s one pic on that site that I won’t link to because it’s somewhat NSFW due to the fact that you can sort-of almost see a woman’s…yeah. Not only does she have a seriously too short skirt, her ladyparts are hanging out of her “underwear.” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Iridescent\_Orb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@Iridescent\_Orb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iridescent_Orb)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/72 "2009-10-07T06:23:08Z")
I am constantly amazed by all the different Americas out there. In some groups, the limited edition commemorative silver anniversary Harley Davidson t-shirt is a rare status symbol. In others, it is just a tattered and dirty rag that should never be worn in public. Similarly, I doubt the t-shirt owner would know (or even care to know) the difference between Brooks Brothers and Hugo Boss suits. Personally, as long as you are not showing undesirable body parts or displaying profanities, I figure you can wear whatever you want. The right to look silly in the eyes of others is one of the great things about America. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/73 "2009-10-07T07:19:57Z")
I admit it, I go to the store in my flannel jammies. When it’s just a few things, I don’t care what people think. They can point and laugh for all I care, I just didn’t want to put pants on! > [@tumbleddown](#): > > This is all about pointing and laughing at vulnerable people; we _could_ point and laugh at a moron who pulls into the lot in a $60k SUV that gets 11 mpg in the city and pays $5 a pound for organic cherries, but those people potentially have the power to smack back at us. Someone at WalMart who is scraping together their pennies to pay for their toilet paper (since food stamps don’t cover that) or oil for their 12 year old car, the only transportation their family has, has no power to advocate for themselves when they’re mocked. You wanna make fun of rich people and how ridiculous they look instead? [Behold! Hot chicks with Douchebags!](http://hotchickswithdouchebags.com) These are people with lots and LOTS of disposable income, yet manage to look simply hideous. ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/74 "2009-10-07T13:00:05Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Like my co-worker who still wears her blue and black buffalo check dress from the early 90s. She’s clean, presentable and modest, just dated. Well, her plan worked, then! She’s had it long enough to come back into fashion. Buffalo check is EVERYWHERE this season. Shirts, skirts, dresses, headbands, purses, bracelets, yadda yadda. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/75 "2009-10-07T13:35:17Z")
> [@Iridescent\_Orb](#): > > I am constantly amazed by all the different Americas out there. In some groups, the limited edition commemorative silver anniversary Harley Davidson t-shirt is a rare status symbol. In others, it is just a tattered and dirty rag that should never be worn in public. Similarly, I doubt the t-shirt owner would know (or even care to know) the difference between Brooks Brothers and Hugo Boss suits. > > Personally, as long as you are not showing undesirable body parts or displaying profanities, I figure you can wear whatever you want. The right to look silly in the eyes of others is one of the great things about America. And we, as Americans, have a god given right to point and snicker. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/76 "2009-10-07T13:40:47Z")
More for the crafters … > **[You Knit What??](http://youknitwhat.blogspot.com/)** > > You Knit What?? Seriously. What the hell were you thinking? It’s no longer being added to, but there’s plenty of weirdness stored up in the archives. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/77 "2009-10-07T15:43:06Z")
This thread really needs [this](http://www.regretsy.com/) link. Equally funny in a different way. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/78 "2009-10-07T16:21:39Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I think that was the hipster link. 🙂 Hipsters…oh, so the picture is from Target! I get it now. 😉 > [@Zsofia](#): > > Why, did you just buy a microphone at Wal-Mart? Nah. I prefer unmolested electronics, thanks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/79 "2009-10-07T17:54:37Z")
> [@zweisamkeit](#): > > From their FAQ: > > They also won’t post pictures of Amish people in Walmart or employees just doing their jobs. And yet when a picture of someone who meets their requirements as “otherwise mockable” happens to be using a mobility cart, like the guy in the “I hate queers” t-shirt, you get a ton of “stupid fucking cripple” comments. And if you can’t understand why that’s a problem, I can’t really help you. > [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Is your appraisal that it’s “African garb” based solely on the fact that the man wearing it is black? Or do you have some evidence that that particular color/design pattern is associated with a particular tradition, and something that we’d easily recognize if we were more “culturally aware”? The design of the outfit and the design of the pattern are both typical of African garb, particularly the length of the tunic and the design of the pants. I could go to the African store five minutes from my house and photograph 10 outfits that are functionally the same. The color scheme is unusual for day to day wear, from what I’ve seen, but not unheard of, and seems to be what’s tripping people up because when they think of African garb they think of yellow and particular shades of green and red like in [typical representations of kente cloth](http://gse.berkeley.edu/faculty/WNGrubb/photos/kente_cloth.jpg) and that’s not all there is to be considered, by any stretch of the imagination. The issue of cultural awareness comes here: this is a man who is black who is wearing something that is pretty clearly divorced from any sort of western clothing style, in cut, design and color scheme. That it was immediately judged from a western perspective and mocked, rather than two minutes thought being applied and someone saying “oh, hey, wait, maybe this guy who is obviously part of a different culture is wearing clothes representing that culture” is the problem. It’s as functionally stupid as going haha over a brown-skinned woman with long black hair wearing [something like this](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Sari_DSC08460.JPG). The proponents of this site want people to take a minute and stop and think about what they’re wearing when they go to the store, but can’t take a minute to stop and think about anything for themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/80 "2009-10-07T17:58:04Z")
It is an interesting question. How far does “It’s another culture” go? Can you ever say anyone in different cultural garb is looking stupid? What if mullets, muffin tops, and “I’m with Stupid” t-shirts were considered part of someone’s culture, like a sari or kente cloth? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606.md?page=5)