Peopleofwalmart.com

[NY Disney fan]

As for the site: are these people giving their permission to have their images on it, or is this accepted etiquette now? Guess I'm confused. Some of the pics are funny, like the super hero (Obviously looking for attention) and the goat. Others are just sad and not the least bit funny.

I agree. Just another example of cyber bullying.

 

[kydisneyfans]

The website is great-if you don't like that type of thing, then don't go to the site. I haven't laughed so hard in my life. During our last trip to Wal mart a few years ago, we saw a 20 something girl dressed like a cat, and it wasn't halloween. I saw it first and went back 2 rows to tell my wife that I was hallucinating, then she just broke down laughing as she saw it too.

The bingo card has a few mean spirited spots, the "missing limb" could be replaced by "bird poop splattered on the peaches".

 

[h20jag]

My thoughts exactly. It can't be justified by saying "they asked for it." Mocking someone's appearance is just mean-spirited and immature. My children know better - sad that adults think it's okay.

Lighten up Francis, NOT my site. I merely enjoy the fruits of others' labor there.
Attention seekers want whatelse? Attention.

Look & enjoy... it's free for crying out loud!

 

[kwelch10377]

I will admit that I laughed at most of the pictures, but there were some that I was more in shock that someone would go out like that in public.

There are some that most people with a sense of humor would laugh at if they saw that person out in public........you can't tell me that if you saw someone dressed like "Captain Walmart" you wouldn't find at least a little humor in it.

Finding some of them funny may make me a little immature, but I don't really care. If I was mature every moment of my life it woud be pretty boring.

 

[SpecialK]

Lighten up Francis, NOT my site. I merely enjoy the fruits of others' labor there.
Attention seekers want whatelse? Attention.

Look & enjoy... it's free for crying out loud!

Don't need to lighten up. There's a lot out there that is truly funny and not at someone else's expense.

 

[h20jag]

Don't need to lighten up. There's a lot out there that is truly funny and not at someone else's expense.

Since some went to that "expense", then they did ask for it.

 

[ChrizJen]

Guilty as charged...I've seen that website before, and I find it hilarious.

 

[The Mayor]

Laughed by rear end off...funny site...years ago before everyone became so sensitive and "politically correct" that was called satire.

 

[sbell111]

Laughed by rear end off...funny site...years ago before everyone became so sensitive and "politically correct" that was called satire.

Satire - a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.

I guess the definition still fits, not that that is a good thing.

 

[disykat]

Yikes. I read this post last night and didn't respond after looking at the website. My first thought was, that while some of the people probably were "asking for it," there were many people there who were just living their normal lives and got posted on there because someone didn't like their style. It saddened me, but I wasn't until the Bingo card. I'm thinking maybe the people who thought it was funny didn't read very carefully?

 

[xoprincessmomxo]

It's one thing to chuckle a little when you see someone go past dressed a little funky or with a funky hairdo. It's another to take their picture without their knowledge, and post it on a website for millions of others to laugh at as well. I mean, is this in any way ethical?

 

[teamlouise]

Haha... Oh, it reminds me of so many good people watching memories.
AND of another hilarious website... awkwardfamilyphotos.com

 

[NikitaZee]

It's one thing to chuckle a little when you see someone go past dressed a little funky or with a funky hairdo. It's another to take their picture without their knowledge, and post it on a website for millions of others to laugh at as well. I mean, is this in any way ethical?

I think it's legal because they are in a public place. Not positive, though - I'm sure someone will come along who knows that answer for sure.

 

[xoprincessmomxo]

I think it's legal because they are in a public place. Not positive, though - I'm sure someone will come along who knows that answer for sure.

Thanks, that might be true. Still, you'd think Wal-mart would be on top of getting it off the net if it was illegal. All I know is I would be completely humiliated if it were me and very angry to have my photo posted without my consent.

 

[NikitaZee]

Thanks, that might be true. Still, you'd think Wal-mart would be on top of getting it off the net if it was illegal. All I know is I would be completely humiliated if it were me and very angry to have my photo posted without my consent.

My husband and I were wondering about the Wal-mart reaction as well. It's apparently a big enough news story, I've been waiting to see if they respond to it or hope it all just dies down.

 

[NY Disney fan]

Laughed by rear end off...funny site...years ago before everyone became so sensitive and "politically correct" that was called satire.

Usually satire consists of somone mocking a "target" (politician, celebrity or criminal). When mocking innocent, everyday people becomes a sport, that's just plain sad. But if you find it funny, that's your business. I know that life can turn on you at any moment and you can lose it all in the blink of an eye. Maybe one day you maybe shopping at Wal Mart because that's all that you can afford.

 

[DWGal210]

I think it's legal because they are in a public place. Not positive, though - I'm sure someone will come along who knows that answer for sure.

I was wondering this too - because I think at Disney, for example, when you buy your park tickets there is small print that says they have the right to use your image in marketing materials, etc without your permission and without compensating you. I would think a company the size of Wal Mart MIGHT have the same thing, but I don't know.

And my 2 cents - count me in as another who doesn't find this funny. I've been on the receiving end of humilation in my life; the worst is when people are making fun of you and you don't know it. There's the chance that these folks might find it funny, but you never know.

 

[phorsenuf]

I resonate with what you're saying here. I think that there is even a deeper issue. I think it is legitimate to refer to Wal-Mart as a token of certain characteristics, with regard to its operating principles, its success, its average customer, and the ramifications of their choices, reasonable or otherwise, on all of us. For example, there is a legitimate point to be made about where Wal-Mart sources its products, the comparative quality of its offerings, its compensation and benefits for its employees, etc. Wal-Mart does represent specific things, and I think that the extent to which many find a site like People of Wal-Mart acceptable as humor (and like you, I'm not saying it is or is not acceptable) has got to be, to some extent, attributable to these dichotomies of reality that Wal-Mart represents:

• Successful but to some extent due to strategies and tactics that some people find objectionable;
• Affordable but to some extent due to strategies and tactics that some people believe are a depressive force on innovation and rarefied quality;
• An employer of many but to some extent due to strategies and tactics that some people sacrifice a fewer number of, but arguably better, jobs.

I think Wal-Mart is as much a token of something far bigger than most folks allow themselves to believe, just as McDonald's was in the 1960s (as a force for changing the way Americans eat, arguably not for the better). I could easily rattle off another half dozen such tokens that came in from underneath to have a not-very-much-talked-about-until-later impact on America. Many of them were frequent contexts for ridicule, perhaps a nervous reaction to what people had a feel for what was happening under the surface.

And to be clear, not making a judgment (at least not in this case) with regard to "good" or "bad".

And I don't apologize for being a buzz-kill.

What the heck are you talking about? Seriously? Is it so hard to either say yes, I found it funny or no, I found it insulting? Your posts just leave me shaking my head sometimes.

Anyway, no doubt it's an interesting site and makes me wonder what some people are thinking.
Guess I'm lucky because our Wal-mart is actually pretty nice and I have no issues with it. Now with where I'm moving too there are 2 nearby. One is nice but the other one skeeves me out. So much so that the first time I walked in it I ended up walking out. That's when I finally understood what some of you meant.

 

[bicker]

I think that there is even a deeper issue.

What the heck are you talking about? Seriously?

As I said, it was a deeper issue. If you don't want to think about this more deeply, that's your prerogative.

Is it so hard to either say yes, I found it funny or no, I found it insulting?

I have no interest in getting involved in such a meaningless dispute.

Your posts just leave me shaking my head sometimes.

If you didn't find my message interesting, then precisely why did you reply to it?

 

[Briarmom]

C'mon people. There is an old guy with a white beard with BREAST IMPLANTS on that site. That's not funny?

I hate Wal Mart, so I guess I'm just a meanie.