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Rofl some people are just sad, and really should be put down.
They misquoted her… I’m almost positive she must have called it “The Wallmart”
No. What she actually said was “my daddy says I am the best french kisser”.
I think, actually, she meant “Wall Marx”.
Yes!!!!Yes!!!You know dat’s right!!!…I’s packins ma credick card!!!!
Wal Marx? Thats from that stupid t-shirt. Karl Marx crafted communism, and has nothing
to do with Walmart. Nobody truly knows what that t-shirt means, especially when you use
it completely out of context. You Sir FAIL!
Really? I was positive Karl Marx was one of the founders of Wal-Mart… Hm.
I thought he was one of the marx brothers
you just said the secret “woyid”!
That would be Sam Walton.
REALLY URT ARGUING ABOUT FAIL COMMENTS… THIS WHOLE THING IS FAIL
Holy crap what reality do you live in.
Don’s right, communist philosopher that co-authoured the oh what as it called again… ah yes the communist Manifesto.
WHOOSH
Huh. I have never seen it on a t-shirt, but I LOLd when I read it, because I have a friend who drives me NUTS by always, always pronouncing the store name as “Wall Marx” (or “Marks” if you prefer). Her entire family does it, and they’re originally from one of the Carolinas, so I think it’s a regional thing.
Nope, not a Carolina thing, thanks for playing.
Most of the people I know here call it wally world, if not the correctly pronounced version
Wow. What a behemoth dipshit. It’s a common mispronunciation among some who frequent Wal-Mart.
Don, go play in traffic.
na man she meant “Wall Hack”
correction WIN
Bahahahahaha! This sounds like a statement 75% of the people in my town would make. Except they would refer to it as “The Walmart”. Halcyon, have you ever visited the Shenandoah Valley (VA)? If anyone has, you know what I speak of.
yes…
yes they should..
Who honestly gets dressed up to go to Wal-Mart???
If it weren’t for indecent exposure laws, i’d be there in my underwear IF people were lucky that day…
I know. I put on my bright orange “Operation” game pajama bottoms and then got to Wally World. I fit right in.
Display these trousers please.
First!
not quite.
reply fail
unnoticed win?
FIRST!!!!
I repeat this again
Your girlfriend wishes she could say that more..or is that why she
dumped you?
FAIL
That there wally-mart is one heck of a classy joint! yeeeeeeehaw!!
all morons can now shut up
I say that every time I walk in to a room and no one listens.
What does that tell you.
That you are an insignificant moron and should kill yourself.
Too harsh, man. You have to have limits, or else everyone will think you’re a dick.
Or does the anonymity make you feel immune to retribution?
Probably that. Maybe the fact that we can’t just reach across and slap him inn the head for being stupid is a factor as well…
The downfall of the internet… it really would make the internet a better
place
You forgot the ? mark in your question.
FIIIIIIIIIRST YAAAAAAAAAAYYYY !!!! WOOOT !!! I’M AWESOME !
If you hadn’t taken so much time writing it, it may have been true. Efficiency Fail.
Analysis of typing ability WIN.
I lol’d.
Good for you, however you fail to realise that no-one cares. If I am wrong, post below this comment to prove it
Fail.
Yeah thats fail..
Debra?
all morons can now shut up
Attempt to remain anonymous with comment FAIL.
Or, conversely, originality FAIL.
Maybe a plagiarism win?
Rednech Fail
Spelling FAIL.
first Ha!
First FAIL. Humorous attempt FAIL.
Ironically, this would be the second first fail
That would be true, if he were attempting to be the first fail at firsting.
To fail to try is to truely fail. To truely try and to fail is not failing at all. It’s an EPIC fail, mwahahah!
Redneck Fail
No, you won that one hands-down.
Hands down your dad’s pants amirite
Was that not a redneck WIN?
I didn’t get it (i’m french and I never heard of that Debra).
Can someone explain me please?
If you consider it necessary to dress up when going to WalMart, then you have a sad life.
This Debra isn’t famous or anything, just a rando.
Debra is a name, asshole. Go back to your gayass French websites. PISS!
Dr. Mooseballs
What exactly did you have to do to achieve a doctorate in moose testicles? Having to display intelligence of any sort appears to not be a part of that process.
A willingness to suck on moose balls. They start them off on men’s balls and move them up to bigger and better ones till they reach the moose. It is not a gay thing it is a job which is why he is able to make homophobic remarks in good conscious.
Actually I am an expert on moose genitalia with a degree from Stanford in the subject. It is alot more complex than you “mortals” would understand.
Dr. Mooseballs
Just like us “mortals” dont know the pure joys of a
good old moose sack sucking
<3
Yup! I heard there were modules in moose tea-bagging, moose docking and the final exam was a moose bu.kk.ake! All credit to you Dr!
Wow, that must give you all the qualifications you need to flip hamburgers.
Huh……. I gave a sugarlump to a moose the other day, it reminded me so much of my ex.
Mooseballs is a name, asshole. Do you call your dentist Dr. Teeth?
Gb2/hugbox/
French are gay with style. You are dumb and garnished with venison glands.
geography fail
win ! win ! win !
no more comments needed as this one is the cheese!!!!
Insult Fail… For a start the dude just said he’s never heard of Debra, not, what is Debra, is it a kind of fungus, or, what is Debra, is it a moose testicle covered in honey waiting for a good licking. I think he knows Debra is a name. And as for the Gayass, well done, I award you the honour of moving onto licking MY bawls.
Wal-Mart is the world’s largest discount store and is generally considered a redneck place. Look up “Cletus” from the simpsons, that is wal-marts target customer, or a store full of dr. Mooseball types
En gros ca donne
Debra Jackson avoue aimer faire ses course à Leader Price parce que c’est plus convivial : “Pas besoin de se faire belle comme si j’allais a Intermarché”
This is America. Speak American.
FAIL. This is the Internet.
And the language you attempted to refer to would be English!
scold fail.
its American. not English.
Care to make it a triFAILcta?
agreed. i can barly understand english people, and they me. there is a point at which ‘dialect’ becomes ‘new language.’
Very true, there aren’t many Americans that speak, or type, true English. How else would “ya’ll” be considered a word?
It’s not. It’s not even a contraction of two words, as “ya” (in this context) is not a word.
“Y’all” is more of a Southern US thing. If you said it in the North, you’d sound stupid.
Personally, I believe that “y’all” should be accepted into everyday speech.
So many other languages have a second person plural form, and English does not. It really clears things up when addressing people.
And it’s a contraction )albeit not a proper one) of “you” and “all”
Hence, “y’all”
Y’all ain’t got nary nuff sense ta fill a half a jug o’ corn squeezins’….Y’all
How depressing that the American education system does not even provide you the knowledge of the correct description of the language you speak. In North Africa they speak French, they don’t have the arrogance to attempt to change its name to African.
Because the north africans don’t have nukes.
We do.
World Power FAIL for you.
Do you shop at Wal-Mart?
Ross = win
I shall take my bow and leave.
Thank you.
China also have nukes. India too. Dont’be excessively self confidente in your nation power… Of course the same nation (alongside with CCCP tyrannical regime) that stocked up an amount of bombs worth thousand times the entire planet incineration. This is the real FAIL.
Have a nice day and remember, american english is only a subversion of a major language. Calling it “american” is the last ditch effort to justify the abysmal ignorance of a people who isn’t capable even to reproduce correctly (or learn maybe) a codified language.
Europe might be old and senile, but still have a lot to teach to you crazed madman…
“American” English is just as much of its own language as the dialect tehy speak in Yorkshire. It’s all English, even if it sounds slightly different.
Ok, but then call it a dialect…
And of course i speak in my own local dialect, but when i write down something i take care of not use strange verbal constructs. Who should understand a word like “soccmel” except those in an area of about 40km radius?
Ignorance is not an excuse.
Well there’s certainly some colossally “strange verbal constructs” that you took care to use in the above post. Are you retarded?
Agreed
Y’all is a useful part of the language.
weren’t = were not
you’re = you are
y’all = you all…. except that ‘you all’ sounds awkward… the nearest equivalent would be ‘all of you’ which is a lot longer.
Just remember:
Y’all is singular.
All y’all is plural.
All y’all’s is plural possessive.
Oh, god, I want to slap people when they say “y’all’s”! Is it really easier than saying “your” or “yours”?
go kiss another cousin
i live in nyc and people say “yall” all the time up here.
That’s New York. Not a place known for the inhabitant’s intelligence.
No, we say “you guys” up here. Which is SO less stupid.
I do too, and I live in the South. Maybe that’s why the unedumacated hicks in my little town throw beer cans at me whenever I go for a walk. Maybe I make them feel inferior.
Quick, is my ego showing?
It IS a contraction of two words – “you” and “all.” Spelled correctly, the apostrophe goes after the “y” – making “y’all.”
But it’s the stupidest sound ever. “y’all”… I feel less intelligent just looking at that text.
fail for all ya`ll for taking so long to discuss this ya`ll topic , i was having a right aul laugh up until this point , the sharpest of wits combined to create a megaton of humor , now i`m not going to bother to read on because my teeth have curdled and so has my brain . boo feckin hoo .
Fail.
Y’all is a contraction of the words “You All”
When did the Internet specifically become America? -_- Fail on so many levels.
Yeah, exactly! Everyone KNOWS the internet is in England.
We speak and type English here in the English Empire.
Hail to H.R.M. Queen Victoria
:-p
Bit behind on the royal family ain’t ya?
Ghghghg…no, i’m actually attempting to usurp the throne and seize the power founding a new empire! In wich all should speak with perfect pronounce and write as The Bard even in blogs, the trespassers obviously will be fined by supplice on the rack
I know they speak english in What.
Not much point in answering this late to a comment lost in the flood, but if you look closely at the numbers, I believe that if a language was to be one day called “American”, it would be spanish.
Moreover, if you took one or two french lessons during your shoolyears, wich I am sure even the US education system offers, you would have understood that I was only offering a quick translation of the joke to my fellow frenchman and thus that it was really nothing that english readers should feel offended of (also I’m quite sure I completely messed up this sentence).
second scolding fail. l2 grammar/spelling
Actually, the sentence made complete sense, except for “offended of” – in English we say “offended by”.
Thanks, I knew this “of” sounded bad, but I could only come up with “for” wich wasn’t any better. I’ll try to remember this “by”.
Hmmm. Looks like a redneck WIN! actually.
Fail may be subjective, but I don’t know that it’s THAT subjective.
238th!
Maths fail.
Pluralization fail.
Cultural fail. That’s the British spelling, xenophobe.
Or rather, the British abbreviation.
hmmmm…rather, a back-formation (that’s for spelling nazi’s benefit, in case he/she feels like branching out into morphology).
Go give the Queen and her family more money.
Patriotism bordering on xenophobia fail.
Yeah, ’specially since I grew up in the Midwest, where I learned about morphology at a Big 10 university. Education is not anti-American.
Yes, it’s America against education…
Ghghgh…
Godwin’s Law Fail?
Rules of the Internet FAIL.
HEIL WEBSTER
Maths is a fail, since Math is an abbreviation of Mathmatics, so to say Maths is to say Mathmaticss (or however you would double pluralize a word, which i dont think they do even in england)
How many pots have you smoken?
Many many pots have I smok’ed thru my pipe of happiness….Great joy has it brought to me….The great buffalo is pleased and will grant me a bountiful harvest.
*falls off chair laughing*
spoken like the only true americans (although trasnlated to something the present day americans can understand)
first!!!!!!!!
The fact that this is a reply to a post makes this an immediate fail.
atleast it’s spelled correctly
Humor fail!
outstanding
Wal-Mart must have bouncers that turn you away if you don’t meet the dress code.
I believe the term is ‘greeters’.
Ha!
They only turn you away if they have coke-bottle bottm glasses on and their hearing aids turned up. That’s the only way they can hear the door open & see you!
They chase you out on their scooters.
If they did that, Wal Mart would lose over half of its customers.
What is a wall-mart? A specific opera or a theatre?
A wall-mart is a high class porno theater
Ihope you’re joking… that’s digusting. Now i know why it’s a sophistication fail.
Wow. You have internet but you haven’t heard of Wal-Mart. I know for the most part Americans suck, but really? You believed him?
It’s a big Store! It’s a Mart! A big Mart! What part of that made you beleive it was a porn factory! Ahghh! God Dammit!
Why do you think i’m an american. From where i come from the word mart is not in use. I actually the first time i have heard of it.
Italy’s gross domestic product was estimated at US$1.786 trillion in 2007. I think that means that all the money made by Italy in 2007 was US$1.786 trillion.
Walmart is the richest company in the US. It made US$12.731 trillion last year, or roughly six times as much as your whole country.
Oops, sorry. Misplaced a comma. Fortune 500, which tracks these kinds of numbers, said Walmart’s 2007 profits were $12,731 million, which is 12 billion, not 12 trillion. Sorry for the misinfo.
Comma fail.
fact fail
nevertheless, that is one company encroaching upon an entire country.
Good for you. I hope you really feel the benefit of a huge, faceless company having a lot of money. Truly, they are a credit to your country and the world.
i’m sorry, i missed the part where i was supporting them. that must have happened earlier? i guess i wasn’t paying attention.
Italy? Why blame a country already plagued by corruption, mafia, despotism, 50 years of military occupation…i feel sad to live here, dont’shake the finger in the sore… :-/
I don’t think James was calling you american. Wal-Mart is yet another reason why america fails. It is just that bad.
Here is a link for you.
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/youare
LOL, you’re the perfect example of why Americans suck, assuming everyone you talk to on the Internet is also American.
Yeah, collectively, we’re pretty pathetic. COUNTRY FAIL!
Sorry, the internet was only created and nurtured in the US, as well as the operating systems on all your computers, and probably your browser. Please remind me again where France or Germany contributed anything to the internet. Anything at all, I’ll wait while you think of something.
Making friends with foreigners FAIL!
Easy: HTML was inveneted by Tim Berner-Lee, a Brit working at the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN). So Europeans are the reason why every idiot can use the internet now…
And Linus was started by the Fin Linus Torvalds.
Basically, America didn’t invent anything.(apart from blind, unthinking patriotism)
Au contraire. I’m probably the least patriotic of my countrymen. I believe our government is out to just beat us all into submission and we keep electing them to do so. We are hipocritical, sado-masochistic and prudish and we, as citizens are only happy to continue this way.
Dont worry, we here in Italy have the same problem with much less power in the world…and in many other countries. It’s MANKIND FAIL.
Wall of words that have nothing to do with the subject of the thread. Fail.
Meh.
Americans seem to be better at making money with the internet….
Tatjana is a dumb ass anyway, she thinks girls over a size 2 are fat.
Cos they sell porn in Chinese Wal-Mart? ‘S’true!
http://www.walmart.com
It’s a very large chain discount store.
Wikipedia fail
there is no walmart in australia to be honest looks the same as kmart or target and or big w =\ to be honest these shops are junk do people actualy buy clothes from them i sure wouldnt i also wouldnt buy tv/game consols there only stuff id buy is some car stuff for cleaning it =\
Why wouldn’t you buy a boxed and sealed game console from a discount store? It’s not like microsoft and sony release special “walmart edition” xboxes and playstations.
Reminds me of Jim Gaffigan talking about how ashamed he feels buying generic food. “Oh these aren’t for me, they’re for a cheap neighbor. I buy all my groceries from SkyMall”
Microsoft does, in fact, have the Wal-Mart editions of the XBox. The console is cardboard because we all know that people who shop at Wal-Mart can’t afford electricity, let alone game consoles.
I thought the Wal-Mart edition of the Xbox was the PS3!
Burrrrrrrned…
Sony fanboys flame this post in three…two…one
Wow, no flames. I guess nobody likes the PS3 after all.
Or probably you just failed
Fact fail. My family shops at Wal-Mart sometimes, we can afford electricity [quite obviously].
Ha.
Also, it’s not like everything Wal-Mart sells is crap … except for most of the clothes and shoes, but other than that they have some pretty [kind of] decent things. You just have to watch what you get.
Anyone who spends over three hundred dollars on something as simple as a game console is retarded.
Just so you know, there are special wal-mart versions of some movies. Movies with a lot of gore and blood are not sold at wal-mart so they have to be “edited”, and since wal-mart calls the shots a lot of the general production line is wal-mart versions.
One more reason why wal-mart sucks.
Just like the Wal-Mart versions of CDs – they suck!
oh uim sorry i didnt make it clear about why i wouldnt buy from walmart or any store like wal mart a game consol im a loyal customer to eb and i get alot of free trials demos sent to me in the mail from eb and also my uncle owns an eb and i prefer a staff that knows about games in great detail to some fool who goes ive never played it but the kids seem to buy it
Punctuation fail.
Punctuation FAIL.
Remember, the period (.) is your friend. Don’t be afraid of it.
The period is especially your friend about three weeks after that condom breaks!
Wrong. Hysterical, but wrong.
Tangent fail.
Just wait, Wal-Mart will be here soon enough! Australia is ripe for Wal-Mart and then the bogans will be in 7th Heaven..
no it wont they want to get here but they keep getting owned i think one store will be opening in newcastle tho but they will be shut down by the efforts of kmart/target/bigw
Nooo you fool, dont give them ideas!
All bogans need is that grundgy little lane in the back of the servo or corner store
that sells car mags and metho
I bought clothes, shoes and homewares and Kmart when I was living below the poverty line and couldn’t afford any better. Economy fail.
You bought Kmart while living below the poverty line? I knew they were going bankrupt but I didn’t know it was that bad!
For those who live in a non-WalMart-having country: WalMart is Target’s dirty step-sister. It is grubby and cheap, and the people-watching is always entertaining. There are only two reasons to visit WalMart: 1.) your budget went totally flat, and you needed a food-type substance to survive on until pay-day, or 2.) mullet hunting (which isn’t even fun anymore).
As much as I am loath to espouse Walmart, here’s a few facts:
Pricewise, they compare to, if not outrightly beat, the prices of K-mart and Target. Shopping someplace to save money isn’t just something those who are in the lower income bracket do. It’s economically sound to shop at the place that gives you the best return for your money. While I agree that some of their business practices are ruthless, they’re no more ruthless than most other Fortune 500 companies. Their business model has been innovative and few department store chains in the U.S. beat them for employee loyalty, store atmosphere and overall price.
That being said, I shop for food at Kroger. I get my video games at EB. I buy my electronics from wherever I happen to feel like buying. I do not, nor have I ever worked for Wal-mart. No one forces people to shop at Wal-mart. It’s because they are an economically viable retail store that benifits a wide range of classes that they succeed and are as big as they are. Capitalism win.
That being said, yeah… dressing up for Wal-mart… wow. That whole fail has white-trailer-trash written ALL over it.
Actually, Wal Mart’s business practices have virtually guaranteed the death of any smaller, “mom & pop” type stores, due to an unfair pricing advantage. In order to save $0.12 cents on a box of Cheerios, Americans have permitted the death of competition.
Also, something like 2% of their executives are women. Lovely business practices, indeed.
… oh, and then there’s the well-documented cases of forcedf unpaid overtime, systematic refusal to provide health care for employees …
For those unfamiliar with wal*mart: Wal-mart’s economic model will probably bring about the complete collapse of the United States economy. It’s also providing a huge fraction of China’s foreign trade, enabling them to grown both economically and militarily.
I really hope so. Thanks for making my day ever so slightly better with that thought.
No, Wal-Mart has taken advantage of the free enterprise system. Just as you would if you’d thought of it first. Jealousy fail.
Got it…..Very clear….You are soooo right…..Twat.
the only good thing about wallmart and kmart, is nothing!
Go to Target, better quality and better service. I used to work there so I know. Especially their electronics dept.
Australian Target is different than USA Target. It’s a different company. They seem similar enough, but this should be noted.
woaah, what? but they’re the same sort of store, with the same name.. did australian target start as part of the same company, or some such?
If there were a Target around my area I would go there. After we got in our Wal-Mart our K-mart went under and Wal-mart bought the empty building/lot so that anything that would be considered “competition” for them wouldn’t get in, like a Target or a better place to shop.
Sad thing is Wal-mart is the only place around my area to go for deals on food and shopping since Giant Eagle is way to expensive even with a Giant Eagle Advantage Card and the Get-Go gas station right next to it.
I get most if not all of my games from Wal-mart because I can’t really trust Game Stop anymore and there hasn’t been a game I’ve wanted or needed to reserve so I don’t know how Game Crazy is with things like that. But for where I live Wal-mart is the absolute best place to go for groceries, games, clothing, etc etc.
But yeah this is an uber-fail since who the hell dresses up to go to Wal-Mart? I go in my PJ’s when I don’t feel like getting dressed just to go to Wal-Mart.
if you want to buy cheap, you buy at wal-mart, if you want to buy same product, but for a higher prace, you go to some other store. that’s why people don’t like it… America likes buying things for more money, just because they are stupid and all.
Or because we don’t like companies that are extremely anti-competitive, border-line illegal, and which have been proven to screw the local economy to hell every time they open a new store. Sure, you buy shit for cheaper. it also puts many local businesses out of operation, reduces the number of decent jobs in the area as well as the average income of the area, and all the jobs it opens up are minimum wage jobs. Walmart has an average employee turn around of 2 weeks.
I’d rather pay $0.10 more for something rather than have all the local economy go to hell. $0.10 extra is absolutely nothing when you aren’t working for minimum wage at Walmart.
i belive wal mart pays a man for the same job a woman does for more money so there sexist aswell walmart ruins small shops by cutting prices in the areas were there are small shops with same stock thats there style
in australia our 2 big food shops woolworths and coles underline there prices to cut small shops out but now there makeing it that they have to have the same price at all shops around in australia but they do intake cost of fuel and so on into the delivery so there will be a base price plus fuel costs and if the cost is still ungraded the shop willget in trouble
“i belive wal mart pays a man for the same job a woman does for more money so there sexist aswell”
When I worked for them, my manager hired every male at a payrate of 15 cents more and hour than any female. I know 15 cents doesn’t sound like anything, but it sure adds up! I used to make my friend Ryan pay for my drinks when we went out every now and then to make up for the difference.
Spelling/grammar/punctuation fail.
JESUS CHRIST! How about writing this in English, or American, or Australian, OR SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE JIBBERISH YOU WROTE IT IN, SO THAT WE MAY UNDERSTAND IT! Thank you. Fail.
it’s not the same thing. it was said before, but companies (especially electronics) put out “walmart versions” of their products. I know for a fact Philips does. the reason the other places are more expensive, is because they have the better product.
hey I submitted this picture! But they used someone elses. boo. my caption was funnier!
personal failure! yay!
So what was your caption?
Caption fail.
I hate to think WHAT she’d have to wear to make a trip to Target! ;-D
Stretchy pants, an oversized t-shirt and a fanny pack. It’s a very classy place.
Ahh, ha ha ha ha! 90’s style WIN!
NO, no! I wear my jeans & grocery shopping shirt to Target. I don’t go to WalMart because I don’t have any of the kind of clothes I need to get in there (stretchy apnts, oversized t-shirt & fannypak)>
She’d have to trim her mullet.
Target makes me whisper. I don’t know why, but I feel like I’m in a library when I go to a Target…
Me, too. Creepy, isn’t it?
First!
second!
69th!
there’s nothing wrong with dressing up for a trip to the local walmart, especially iffen there aren’t other places to do so in your area. so, why NOT make it a special occasion by gussying yourself up in a tux or nice dress?
FAIL. The point is that you don’t NEED to do this.
Humour fail, thank you for playing!
I’ve seen this happen. Little remote Wal-Mart, late in the evening, bunch of kids dressed up like they were going clubbing. Good clothes, good shoes, makeup on the girls, but they were buying toilet paper. Weird.
With how I’ve seen people dressed at Wal-Mart, I’d hate to see how she dresses at the Dollar Palace.
Seriously…
Housecoat and slippers?
One piece bathing suit?
Naked?
Agreed.
Wal-Mart is okay. In the middle of the night…it’s easier to navigate all the stockers and their pallets rather than “Debra” with her 6 or so ill-mannered, unkempt children. I don’t dawdle in there. Get it and get OUT.
On a funny (or sad) note…the richy city next to ours (where they think they are so cool even though their city is no longer the “it” place to live) said no to having a Wal-Mart because they didn’t want to look like the city I live in. They think it’s trashy to have Wal-Mart. Yet every time I go to the one that is next to their city, I see all their SUVs and luxury cars parked in our “trashy” city at our “trashy” Wal-Mart. Snobbery fail.
Interesting story. I guess that rich city is full of closet rednecks.
You better believe it. Money and no class. I think the phrase I’m looking for is Noveau Riche, but I’m sure I trashed the spelling. That’s how quite a few of them at. Too fancy for my suburb, but not fancy enough for North Dallas! Ha.
act* Spelling fail. Sorry.
Yer spellin’s right, but maybe the phrase you’re really looking for is “more money than class.”
Though that’s not what Noveau Riche translates to, that is what it more or less implies. But yes, yours works much better.
Welcome to Dallas! North side Texas!!!
I can see how in the middle of the night it can be convenient and I appreciate bargains, but I would guess that there are other reasons for the town rejecting the idea of a Wal-Mart of its own. These type of places kill other local smaller businesses. They simply cannot compete and then everyone is forced to solely shop at Wal-Mart.
It’s a horrible place to be in, for sure. Do you support the local businesses, or do you go to Wal-Mart where you can get it in bulk and/or cheaper?
For instance…my bf and I sometimes go to a place called White Rock Coffee in NE Dallas. The prices aren’t too different from Starbucks, but my bf would rather support them than Starbucks. Unfortunately, small coffee places cannot have the staff/hours that Starbucks has, so most people go to Starbucks because there is usually 5 to choose from in 10 miles or less.
Yeah, big business sucks.
When I was a kid, I loved model trains. There was this one store I loved to go to that was in a mall, and was just paradise for me, because it was nothing but model railroading stuff.
Then it got replaced by a GAP, even though there were about five other clothing stores in the same mall.
I really hate to see small, more specialized businesses fail, because families lose their livelihoods every time, and their customers lose a great place to shop.
This is going to make me sound like a lush, but… There’s this brand new Speck’s (a chain liquor store, for those of you not in the know) opening up right down the street from me soon and I’m in a bit of a dilemma – do I go there because of their selection and the fact that, if I have a special order, not only will they order it for me, they will then proceed to keep it *stocked* so that I never have to ask again – or do I go to my local store on my street because I know the people who own/run the place and I know their (young) kids?
i’d go to the smaller store, you’l just have to order every time you start to run out,
the people are probably nicer, and like their job better. they’ll remember you, and when you order your chosen pison, and enter the store to pick it up, they’ll greet u and know you, and you dont even have to tell them what you want, they’ll know…..
Chain stores are most often run by heartless greedy managers, with no love for their trade or customers….. i’ve seen it often enough in holland, you only need to have experience in selling stuff, no prior knowledge whatsoever of what it is you are going to sell.
Lesson in capitalism, kiddies.
The point of a for-profit business is to make money. A company that makes a profit can afford to expand. This means hiring more workers, investing in better technology, which, in turn, trickles down to the companies making the technology, which hire new workers and invest in better technology, etc.
Small business ventures fail because of three main reasons. First, they may have entered a market this is already oversaturated with their product/service. Second, they may not have accurately calculated the cost and potential revenue of the market they’re in, so fail due to not making a profit. Third, another business enters the market with a more viable business plan and/or history and that has more resources (e.g. Wal-Mart creating a new store and the local mom and pop’s being ran out of business due to slumping sales).
Small businesses do succeed in spite of big chains stores. Specialty and niche stores do well sometimes, providing the environment isn’t oversaturated with that type of store. A good example is a local game and toy store opened recently. It did so well, two other stores (which had been in the area for a decade or so) went under. Some have such great success that large companies actually buy them out or incorporate them into their own businesses to increase revenue; Geek Squad being bought by Best Buy is a good example.
It is a system that some countries in the world decry, and yet, some of those countries benefit from the system of capitalism that dominates life in the United States. From politics to economics, we live, eat, breath capitalism. We may not have the broadest coverage for health care, but we have better medical facilities and doctors because they are paid what a person feels their worth is work.
I digress.
The point that I’m trying to make is that while, yes, it is good to support your local stores; Wal-Mart is no more evil than money is. And money is not evil. Money is simply a way to state the value of something as compared to something else (for when you want to compare apples to oranges). “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, in their eagerness to get rich, have wandered away from the faith and caused themselves a lot of pain.” – Timothy 6:10 (which is the only part of any religion I ever plan to drop here and is only quoted to show the correct context and make certain it is not misquoted as “money is the root of all evil”)
Personally, I’m tired of all the capitalism and United States bashing. And while you may consider this an ethnocentric fail, remember this: while we may be come across as rude, arrogant, ruthless and self-absorbed, our gross domestic product exceeds the next four largest countries COMBINED and is more than half that of the combined 185 remaining countries. We, as a people, are generous, giving, kind, and compassionate. We, as a country, succeed because of capitalism and the rights and liberties that we, as free citizens of a democratically elected republic, enjoy.
It is the making money just for the sake of making money that
drives down quality of the merchandise and service. There is more
money to be made if inferior materials are used or less qualified
people are hired. If cheaper materials are used but the product
quality does not suffer then nothing is lost and everybody gains.
Unfortunately that line is crossed more and more often and we wind
up with junk that is destined for the landfill before what should be
its time.
Stores such as WalMart and Target often place inferior
items on their shelves to save money. Sometimes they are factory
“seconds” or merchandise that had been used and returned. Just
last week I bought a fan/air-cleaner from Target that had obviously been used before, the package had been resealed and the electric cord had been rewound rather sloppily.
And with all the doctors and medical facitities that are “better,” we still have the an amazingly god-awful infant mortality rate.
Have we really succeded? We are the top earners, biggest spenders, and the WORST SAVERS in the world. We are in revolving debt from credit and buying things we really cannot afford. I could go on, but I’ll refrain for the moment.
I don’t like the American bashing here, either. The anonimity of the internet makes some people feel safer and more inclined to spout off rudely. I am sorry “y’all” feel we suck, but you’re not much better since I know you have never met me, and I don’t fall into your generalizations. I am aware of how we come across to the rest of the world. But I won’t speak nastily of others’ country and culture, because I feel we have things to gain from each other.
I understand this is failblog, and the rude comments are half the fun, but it can really be accomplished without such attacks.
Come over to Britain we have free health care the NHS.
Yeah, you don’t have to pay to catch MRSA over here!
lol
Oh my god! A thing I can be proud of in Italy!
The best health care in the world, and i’m part of it.
The only place in the world where you pay 87€ (120$) for a surgical intervention. And this only because the “ticket” is necessary fot burocratical purposes.
America america…coca cola…sometimes war…
Are you my clone or something?
I am in complete agreement with everything you say yet again. Honestly, it’s nice to find another poster who can make serious comments and is above saying “FIRST!!!!” every other time. And by the way, I agree with that final statement and submit that the only people who we should be verbally attacking are the people in the fails, like this Debra Jackson person. And even then, there have to be some limits.
Well don’t congratulate me yet, cus I did take pot shot at all of Wal-Mart’s “Debras” earlier for most likely having a ton of rowdy children in tow. Heehee.
To most people, working class America is a joke. Most of them make the best of what they have. “Debra” will probably never shop in fancy botiques, and yet she probably doesn’t even know to miss them. Is that so bad?
I think the bigger problem is a giant flaunting of low class behavior. Because it is just so much easier than putting an effort of respectability. That comment is very vague at best, because if I elaborated, I would start a rant so long about all the things I think is wrong with American society…where it began, WHEN it took over, why we ALL play a part in it, and simple things to turn it around…that I would most likey cause the web itself to implode.
Thanks for your comment.
You’re welcome.
P.S. I like the Web. Please do not make it implode.
Oh for f*ck sake! Yes, I understand what you are saying and I know that in living in a capitalist society it is inevitable that you will support it. The point that I am trying to make is that there are options and that we- as a society- need to put a tich of effort into maintaining these options. I do think that money is evil and I think that Wal-Mart and the like is evil. I will be the first to admit that like everyone else, I am a hypocrite and cannot always adhere to my morals. However, I see the dollar as being the most effective way of voting. If you vote for Wal-Mart and their disposable products, that is what you will be stuck with. I know that a lot of people feel that they cannot afford to shop in other places, but I believe that a lot of those people are victim of circumstance and not actually thinking through their decisions. Say you spend $10 on produce at Wal-Mart and it rots and you either have to use it or toss it after 3 days. Is that really a better decision than going to a farmer’s market or produce market and spending $20 on groceries that will last at least a week, they will most likely be local, more nutritious, and taste better. I know that at the time of purchase it is 2x as much, but I try to look at not only the worth of my dollar but also what it is going to after I hand it to a cashier. This same example can be used for virtually everything. Yes I go to supermarkets, but I try to only buy the absolute basics like tp, detergent, etc. And yes, the price of groceries is affecting me like everyone else, but I try to shop more wisely than frugally. I heard a disgusting statistic that the sale of Spam has raised drastically in the last few months. This is a perfect example of people not looking past the face value of their purchase. Ps. sorry for the friggin novel here.
Oh, we don’t mind shopping there, we just don’t want the store in our city. Snobbery win; we got what we wanted.
That is what I am sayin….
To borrow a phrase from Jeff Foxworthy: – you know you’re a redneck if…you dress up to go to WalMart!
You know you’re a redneck if you know who Jeff Foxworthy is.
so what about quoting him? what does that make you?
Or, you know, you have a television and the channel TBS.
You really know you are a redneck if you watch TBS.
The only good thing to buy at wal mart is babies clothes. Anyways babies grow so fast, and get so dirty sometimes, that 5$ is more than enough for a shirt. Same for lil shoes.
Or its great to buy clothes if you wanna repaint all your house, make a show where you scrap clothes ect..;)
no, that is what thrift stores are for. i can’t believe you would buy sweatshop made clothes just in order to have something disposable to paint in. i’m sure the child in asia who sewed that tshirt is thrilled you supported her employer’s exploitative business model just so you wouldn’t have to wash a shirt or set foot in the local goodwill shop.
Damn straight
Yes, I’m sure that child would rather you not buy her product, so that she would have no job at all. You sir, are a blithering idiot.
Yes, it’s often that I find myself wanting to “make a show where I want to scrap clothes”. Yes? List fail.
yeeeee-haw
western sydney much?
Uni much?
and you.. the friggin uni bs is getting old. so she mentioned it a couple times- it is simple her frame of reference. Chirstine being at uni is no different that someone else saying they are from France, or that they are a father, etc.. That is just where she is coming from in her opinions.
Finally, someone who talks sense.
Can we all just vote Christine out? She’s not funny and her tiny picture makes her look like she has no eyebrows.
You fulfil the same requirements most of the time, except you don’t even have a picture. If her tiny picture means she has no eyebrows because we can’t see them, then we have to conclude that you don’t even exist.
first!
shit, i wish people would dress up to go to walmart out here or atleast whipe the meth off their faces first.
it has been my experience that methheads are ALWAYS wiping meth off their faces, imaginary or not.
well it’s been my experience living in a place known as TWEEKER TOWN that they don’t.
touche?
meth heads always areripping chunks out of there face because there freeking out my favorit thing ive ever seen a meth head do was beat the shit out of them selves hitting them self in the head with full blows i thought to myself one less meth head ive got to deal with now great
lol, the little in-place-shuffle dance combined with constant face scratching makes me laugh in a sad, sad way. I see that with crack as well as meth here in Seattle
LOL, you MIGHT be a Redneck if……. LOL
http://www.Fireme.To/udi
Guys Wal-mart is just a triumph of capitalism.
Economical Ideology FAIL.
COMMIE!!!!
Dasvidania Tovarish.
To address multiple people at once…
Some places, there ISN’T any option BUT to go to Wal-mart.
Locally, there are several grocery stores. They have a full array of items you would expect in a grocery store. However, in most cases, everything is more expensive then it is down at Wal-Mart. There are exceptions, of course… Some stores will have sales that beat Wal-mart’s prices (except Wal-Mart will match any price), and some stores will be better in one particular area or another (say, fresh produce)… but by and large, the cheapest place to do to, with a relatively wide variety of items IS Wal-mart. None of the other stores can afford to try and beat Wal-mart, because their patronage tends to be older people who have done their shopping at the Piggly Wiggly since it opened, etc. People who are comfortable with their Winn-Dixie, know the owners, etc. And those stores are slowly being pressed out of existence, locally.
And that’s why I often have little choice but to shop at Wal-Mart.
The End.
White trash Wall-Mart shopper excuse fail.
Some day I aspire to hitch my house to my pickup and drive to a trailer park with a Super Wal-Mart down the road. I might even bring Uncle Dad with me.
Uncle Dad? That’s hilarious! Where’d you get that?
BTW, I plan on using that one on some of the hicks in my town.
Geez. It’s photoshopped, you idiots.
Wild accusation without visible evidence FAIL and/or humor FAIL.
Intelligence FAIL.
Yes, yours.
Education FAIL!
After a long and detailed study, we have determined that the only way you could be “less dressed up” than what is required at Wal-Mart is to go shoeless. Now, somebody tell me where this Dollar Palace is so we can complete our research!
2500 Third Street, Alexandria, Virginia.
Geography Fail
Alexandria, Louisiana
I think she was being sarcastic.
heehee, my friend Debra Jackson (different one I’m sure) is not going to find this nearly as funny as we do.
OGNI HOMO ME GUARDA COME FOSSE UNA TESTA DE CAZI
(every man looks at me as if I were a head of dicks).
actually marx knew/said that before communism can exist, capitalism must have its day so that everyone can learn its downsides and failings. and THEN the workers shall rise. if they’re smart.
You people fail.
This isn’t a place to argue about how bad Wal-Mart is.
It’s to laugh at Debra Jackson for epically failing.
Thank you.
Why does someone always have to start a huge argument in these things, going on some tangent ranting of nothingness that no one even cares about? Lameness Win!
This was on an episode of “Late Night with Jay Leno” a couple years ago. It was on “Headlines”.
How dressed down is this Dollar “Palace”? I mean I live in the tobacco state. People go into Walmart without shirts and shoes. I mean unless you can go in your boxers or something, it doesn’t get any lower.
sucking at life win
Walmart is one of many banes of the United States economy.
Oh when i lived in a small small town (pop < 1000) walmart was like teh shit to the local yokels. I hated living there, had to drive over an hour to get to a normal town and normal stores.
Ya’ll dress up for goin’ ta that there Wal-Mart? Dang! Hey, Aunt Moe, it’s a-lookin’ like you’re a-gonna haveta put somea yer fancy-type clothes on!
How unfortunate that this clipping came from the newspaper in my city…the Alexandria Daily Town Talk. And The Dollar Palace…is on Lower Third Street…basically..the ghetto. So Debra Jackson is NOT a redneck..actually…quite opposite. The Dollar Palace moved because a Family Dollar store was put in across the street and squeezed it out. That’s what the article was about…the unfairness that a corporate store that would never DREAM of putting a location on lower third…did so only to squash this mom and pop store. And you thought Wal-Mart was vicious. This Family Dollar is the only store in our entire city to have the full pull down metal gates that armor that place up like Fort Knox. Demographics fail.
Epic fashion fail.
I have to dress down conciderably to got to WalMart. Shit, highschool kids are dressed too fancy for Walmart…
Yeah, I know the actual quote is “but daddy says I am the best”, but it required too much to put up the whole quote.