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Loading ...Ok, so I went back to Super! Walmart tonight to pick up a couple of things. Dowdy greeter lady was still working the door, but unfortunately, didn’t recognize me. As […]
Original post: Walmart Hell Part 2
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And I just realized its stuff like this that we have warnings like “Fire: This is hot”
Still funny though, heh.
Omg! I can’t believe how funny that is! Changing the world, one Wal Mart at a time. It must feel gr8 knowing that you have done every man, woman and child such a wonderful service. I mean, think about the possibilities….I mean, no child will ever have to be denied the most beautiful part of going to the bank with his mother. Not just 1 lollipop, but the whole bowl! And, why would trick or treaters ever have to piddle around with going door to door street after street of houses? They are free to expand on the house that has the best quality goodies. “I want the whole bag or your getting egged, big guy” Never again will we have to feel intimidated by greeters at our local commoners watering holes. I could just cry. Thanks V.
I love how a long write up one day can lead to a one photo punchline the next.
I wonder if it’s the same bowl.
Remember the next time you are on a plane, listening to flight attendants tell us that: “tampering with or disabling the lavatory smoke detectors is prohibited by federal law,” that that is 15 seconds of your time that you’ll never get back, all thanks to people like V.
(But I still love her.)
I’m waiting for the freaks to come out. She has left you a clue! It’s a bowl in some Super Walmart! Go find it and you’ll find the city where she lives! Go on! Quickly before I release the Winged Monkeys upon you!
Olb: Oh yeah… I noticed there’s a sticker on my lighter. The most idiotic one. It has instructions how to use a lighter. In pictures. If an adult is too dumb to operate a highly spohisticated device like a lighter, do we really want to give him the ability to make fire?
I don’t really think a sign at an individual Walmart bank branch really compares to airplane safety procedures or the sticker on your lighter…
It’s the same principle somechick, those with at least average commonsense don’t need to be told not to tamper with smoke detectors or drink lighter fluid or that the beverage we’re about to drink is extremely hot or not to take more than one piece of candy from a jar on a bank teller’s counter. But there’s always the anal retentive, the nitpicker, the pedantic, the one who likes to fuck with Walmart employees because he/she can (VA in this case which surprises and sort of disappoints me given the fact she has worked in low paid service industry jobs herself and often complained of asshole customers fucking with HER) and the retarded who have to have everything spelled out with every ‘i’ dotted and every ‘t’ crossed for every possible eventuality in which they might spill the extremely hot beverage on themselves and sue for millions of dollars. Those high legal costs of course the big corporations can afford from their vast profits but in reality they pass them on in higher prices for those of us who don’t go looking for someone to blame every time we so much as chip our nail polish because there wasn’t a sign on the wall saying ‘Don’t scrape your nails against this wall you may chip your nail polish’. Yep, you sure showed Walmart and the bank V.
You killed the lulz, lulz Hitlers!!
Actually, you didn’t. This is still hilarious.
Pretty awesome V… For a DIY job.
Has anybody seen this?
Lady works for Walmart, Lady gets hit by a truck.
Lady gets brain damaged for life, family sues trucking company.
Lady awarded $700,000 and walmart thinks it belongs to them.
I blame V. If she hadn’t have taken the bowl of candy, Walmart could afford to let this lady keep her money!
Oh, please, jobyq!
Even if Wal-Mart passed on those “high legal costs” in the form of higher prices, you’d simply be paying more of a FAIR price for what you’re buying, instead of a DIRT CHEAP, ROCK BOTTOM price which was available to you simply because some ten-year-old Chinese girl was paid eighteen cents a week in a locked factory with no air conditioning to produce your fucking product that you now EXPECT for a dirt cheap rock bottom price!
So quit bitching about how Wal-Mart is going to start charging more because V. had the audacity to do something clever and ballsy… mmmmkay?
Lori V. congratulations you’ve just made one hell of a half-assed argument, I’m not supporting what he said either. You couldn’t come up with anything better than child-labor?
You’d rather pay full-price for goods that were made by children, and don’t even try to tell me that you don’t buy anything that’s made by children.
Tell you what go to the Gap and buy some of their “Red” merchandise, go home and put that U2 album of yours on and shut the hell up; Bono says that it’s for the best.
I’m not convinced that the majority of you even know why you dislike Wal-Mart; it’s just the popular thing to do isn’t it?
well i don’t like it cuz i got busted for shoplifting there without even being guilty of shoplifting.
You know, I Googled my username. And, so far, other than this post, I am pleased to see what I am involved with…What I am taking a stand for….and how I am defining who I am and what I want out of life.
When I posted the previous comments in this forum, I was going through growing pains and felt like lashing out, being angry and opinionated as an outlet of sorts. But, upon reviewing my posts, I was sorely disappointed in myself. I have the potential to empower myself and others with my opinions rather than wasting useless energy on subscribing to negativity.
A successful day is one that closes with self respect.
I made an anti-child labort T-Shirt for meself. Back of it says:
“This T-Shirt was hand made by an 8-year old slave girl who has never seen sunlight.”
(Although the shirt has been made in an Irish factory by a masheeen…)
Not many people get it, but if it makes even one person (oh, how I hate that saying… ‘even one person’… argh!) thinking about the origins of their own clothes, it serves its purpose.
Sami, I need a t-shirt like that; that’s hilarious. Zeitgeist at least you’ve presented an honest reason for disliking Wal-Mart; isn’t zeitgeist a bar?
I don’t like Walmart because it’s dirty and messy and filled with loud teenagers and fat trailer trash.
Also, their clothes are hideous.
I have put a lot of thought into this.
i: You can let it be made in your local t-shirt print shop.
…and I think Zeitgeist is German and means something like “Spirit of the time”. Or something. Zeit is time and Geist is something like spirit. So my guess is Zeit+geist. Spirit-time. Or “Spirit of the time”, since that would sound much cooler than “spirit-time”.
- “What time is it, kids?”
- “It’s spirit-time!”
- “And who you gonna call?”
You’re right, i… but I have at least three other “half-assed” (at least to the Fundies out there) reasons to hate them as well. So, I have two very “full-assed” reasons to avoid them. Three halves does, indeed, make two wholes, right?
If you’d like me to finish my argument, fine, but since my father-in-law retired as a high-ranking domestic sweatshop ballbuster in the Department of Labor, it is an issue that I know just a little bit about. I chose one of my “half-assed” reasons that was supported by a few FACTS, not just my OTHER “half-assed” reasons like swallowing up subsidy monies from local and state governments, racial & sexual discrimination, or encouraging their employees to sign up for public assistance rather than paying a living wage… oh, WAIT, those are all supported by a few FACTS, too.
I know very well why I hate Wal-Mart. And while I can’t say that I know for a FACT I’ve not bought a single piece of clothing made by an underpaid child in a developing nation, I CAN say that I haven’t bought ANYthing in almost a year from a multi-national corporation whose policy is to exploit said children. I CAN say that I TRY to be conscious of what I buy, and where I buy it, and why I buy it.
Well thanks i, you don’t have to agree with me as long as you continue to defend me from the reactionary knee-jerks of the world who totally miss the point and then skew whatever point they thought they got. LOL. Yes you made me smile this chilly morning, thanks again.
Lori V. It is of course deplorable to have 6 year olds working in sweatshops but when we close all those sweatshops down who exactly is going to support all those jobless 6 year olds? Got all the welfare and rescue programmes in place have we to ensure the poor little things don’t starve while we are breaking our arms trying to pat ourselves on the back for shutting down their exploiters? No we haven’t, not even nearly except in a few ’showcase’ instances so we can say how philanthropic we are. We go in there close these places down without having any but the most desultory ferking back up plans in place for the vast majority of the ‘emancipated’ who are then mostly turfed onto the streets and left to rot by their largely uncaring governments. Oh but we’ve done our bit haven’t we, we stopped them being exploited, if they starve afterwards that’s not OUR problem. Don’t preach at me about what your father has done and how YOU know what you are talking about. BS!!
Fricking hilarious how Lori V rips at someone else not to get shit out of proportion about V’s post AFTER throwing child labor into the mix. Way to show someone how to lighten up Lori V, jeez could ya be any more inconsistent? Nice demolition of the sanctimonious beeeotch by i and jobyq btw.
Stash, why exactly is it sanctimonious to be conscious of what, where, and why we purchase our goods, and to try to find Fair Trade alternatives, where the underprivileged are actually paid a decent wage for making it?
Lori V.,
It’s because that wasn’t the point of the article at all. You said “oh child labor!” and someone else said, “your best response had nothing to do with the point of the article.” And your response is “but child labor is *really* bad!”
TV commercials with that smug Verizon guy are *really* bad too, but they are irrelevant in the context of this discussion.
It’s not sanctimonious to try to do the right thing, it is sanctimonious to try and make yourself look like a plaster saint and sneer at someone else’s response so you can show off how *conscious* you are instead of addressing their argument.