# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**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, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/81 "2009-10-07T18:34:11Z")
For all you know, that guy works at Medieval Times. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/82 "2009-10-08T20:49:10Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > For all you know, that guy works at Medieval Times. Jester costumes at MT don’t look like African garb, not now, not ever. Try again. Or, you know, don’t. ---
**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 8, 2009, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/83 "2009-10-08T21:35:03Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > Jester costumes at MT don’t look like African garb, not now, not ever. Try again. Or, you know, don’t. Well, that picture sure looked like a jester outfit to me, and plenty of others. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2009, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/84 "2009-10-08T22:07:09Z")
Like you know him and go out for bagels with him in the morning and feed his cats when he goes on vacation. He might have been going to a costume party. He might be an African prince and James Earl Jones is his dad. He might make balloon animals for children down by the waterfront. He might be a student fashion designer destined to go not very far. His mother might have made it for him and maybe he loves his mama. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/85 "2009-10-09T07:20:17Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > 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. :rolleyes: The guy is on the site because he’s wearing an “I Hate Queers” t-shirt. The comments are the same you’d get at any other anonymous internet site, like YouTube or online newspaper columns. Judging the site because of reader comments is idiotic. I think many of the pictures on that site are quite funny, in an “OMG I can’t believe what I’m looking at” way. The ones posted in this thread, like the Black guy in the “African” garb or the woman in the flower overalls, are really not great examples. Neither of those look particularly out of the ordinary. But yeah, I’m gonna laugh at someone dressed like [this](http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=4665). Or [this](http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=4600). Or this [lovely jacket](http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=4267). And especially [this man](http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=3755). ---
**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606/86 "2009-10-09T07:39:10Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > 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. Bullshit you could. To begin with, your whole premise is flawed. That getup isn’t a pants and tunic outfit, it is a one piece jump suit. Then there is nothing like those boots in African culture. There’s nothing to suggest that the outfit is any sort of ethnic garb except that a black guy is wearing it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-of-wal-mart-web-site/512606.md?page=4)