People of Walmart
 

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

:hmm:

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Yes! This website needed to made. It's like hotchickswithdouchebags.com, it's just a required look at our culture. A look that can drive you to drink...

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LOL I love that site. They busted out "choad" as an insult. I haven't heard choad used in that context since I was in middle school. Nowadays "douche bag" and my personal favorite "douche nozzle" have replaced the void that choad once filled.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=choad

Also, I was way down in Southern Central Illinois for camping and I stopped at a Walmart...it's the rural America that shops at Walmart, and a lot of rural Americans DO look like that. Even in my grossly white-dominant, rich, suburb of Chicago, you see lots of blacks and Hispanics shopping at Walmart. I don't mind Walmart though, good prices, they employ people...the only thing to hate is they drive people out of business and have somewhat unethical management practices.

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What part of downstate Illinois were you in? I'm from Peoria...

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I was in Marshall, IL. So way southeast of you. Even Urbana is southeast of you. :p

I realize I said "southern central Illinois" in my above post but I meant I was in the southern section of central Illinois. Had I gone any farther I would have been in just plain old southern Illinois.

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A similar website, with a different twist

http://whythefuckdoyouhaveakid.com/

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This is all very depressing, I must say.

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I'll tell ya, this used to be a hell of a country. We really blew it.

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...........I'm speechless......I am without speech.....seriously wtf.

I liked this country a hell of a lot more before I discovered the internet and realized what sort of people are out there.

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Well we used to be a country with such things as values, morals, shame and expectations of personal responsibility, until we decided to teach everyone that such things are nonsense.

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Or everyone just hid it better.

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Oh yeah... that's more likely... :unsure:

Because back in the day everyone waited until they got home before they shoved their kid in a wire basket and taught children to dry hump each other...

But hey! There are no universal values! There are no societal expectations! Everyone is just different and there is no real right and wrong! I spent 4 years in college and two in grad school being force-fed that nonsense, especially in my education courses.

I realize these are targeted examples, but they have gotten worse over the years. We reap what we sow, and as a society we've sowed seeds of failure for years.

For the record, this ethical and social failure is also in the upper class too, but that shows itself in greed, dishonesty and hedonism.

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I kind of agree...I kind of don't. We have always had our dirty little secrets in America. Well...in society in general. I agree the MTV generation and Youtube generation has ushered in a new wave of stupidity...but part of that is that the Internet is a gateway to expose idiots.

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Agreed. My main issue is that there appears to be no shame anymore. Even if everyone (not just America) had their dirty little secrets, they knew enough to keep them a secret. The very act of protecting them is a tacit admission that they are not the correct form of behavior.

Now it seems like everyone feels they can do whatever they like, and when impressionable people see this, they look at it as proof that such behavior is acceptable, and we see our societal concept of right and wrong slowly degrading as a result. This is one of the reasons why I'm generally against government entitlements, because we literally train people that the fact they exist grants them the right to comfort, and when they view it as a right there is no reason to work for it.

Good manners used to be the norm, now it's something I feel compelled to include in my resume as a selling point. I suppose I shouldn't complain, because for every person who simple doesn't give a shit or has a counter-productive system of values, there is going to be a growing void for competent people that I'll be happy to fill.

Part of the dumbing down of America is the opportunity to profit and advance myself through their stupidity.

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Oh yeah, I forgot... everything was great back in the day...

Back in the day, when beating your wife was considered socially acceptable.

Back in the day, when child labor was considered socially acceptable.

Back in the day, when we had slavery.

Yes, those glorious days, when people had morals and values.

They were so great... as long as you were a white, American male.