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Wal-Mart defenders. Every comment is worse than the last. By all means, do not stop reading before the end.


I have this whole post scheduled to go up later about hinging your identity on recognition of your religion by your local city council and how fucking scary and needy and worrisome that is, but putting all your self-esteem eggs in the basket of Wal-Mart? IS SO MUCH SCARIER.


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7 thoughts on “Department of Are These People Allowed Sharp Objects?”

  1. “hinging your identity on recognition of your religion by your local city council and how fucking scary and needy and worrisome that is”
    I give you: The Flying Spaghetti Monster [en.wikipedia.org]
    “but putting all your self-esteem eggs in the basket of Wal-Mart? IS SO MUCH SCARIER.”
    All the communities that should be proud of having a Wal-Mart, already had one in 1996. I’m feeling you on this one.
    Bit i’m (slightly) more afraid of the rural counties who compete for prisons, so that they get a bigger share after the census, and some jobs, but don’t have to put up with all those pesky voters.

  2. Is it possible that this is a hoax–creative fiction in action? Otherwise, how is it possible that so many marginally literate people have gravitated to one blog post? Amazing, hilarious, and horrifying. Hard to pick a favorite.

  4. I don’t think most of these people could spell A O L.
    It really depresses me when people can’t spell.

  5. It reminds me, even though some of the particulars are opposite, of the famous Park Slope “found red hat” post thread that was making the rounds earlier this year.

  6. it’s my post (thanks for the link); the original post (where I simply alluded to the discovery of a gram of cocaine in the toy department as “one more reason not to shop at wal-mart) was part of weblogs, inc., which is affiliated with AOL. For about five hours on Friday, that post was on AOL’s front page. Over 50,000 people read it, and 400 people commented. It was also sent to some Wal-Mart employee mailing lists and posted on some message boards.
    I wish I had the talent to make up what those people said, but it truly came from their own brand of genius.

  7. The comprehension of most of your readers was matched only by their general eloquence.

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