I have no desire to check and see, but an earlier poster implied it was, alas, gone for all the world.


Good. Because I agree with Alex, putting something like that on the internet for all to ridicule crosses a line. But it's a line that's no more absolute than "good taste."

Sure, i make snap judgments about bad taste, but I know in my own head it's merely my own (self-treasured) opinion, and that taste is in the eyes and mind of each beholder and beholdee.


In that vein, I got more of a laugh out of the man with the wild pattern shorts and matching shirt than any of the slovenly folks. There was nothing wrong with his appearance except the brash display of bad taste ... and an extra tickle for me because of my thankfully bygone (for the most part) penchant for wearing loud patterned clothes.


That laugh was also more pleasant for not being connected in any way with mockery of people in dire straights .... just people in dire need of a mother that don't dress them funny.

The site seems to be gone but I was just invited by a non-LoT person to add "People of Walmart" as a friend on Facebook. I'm assuming this page will have all the pics... I denied the request. I don't know who the person who created the page is.
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And others on this board were highly amused by the comments made of said photos. (Did you see your wife is included in a couple photos?) Where's the outrage? I want to see some outrage, damnit. He was a VICTIM of college and the manufacturers of spandex.

Taste is not absolute, which is why some don't find those pictures funny. I didn't find them particularly funny, just icky.

And, no, I would not go up to these people and say "you dress funny". I doubt anyone would. That's why people love the internet. It is somehow "acceptable" to made those kind of comments anonymously. Glamor Do's and Don'ts has been doing this in print for YEARS. I'm not saying it ir right or wrong or amusing or not. It just is a somewhat "normal" part of our culture - as is immense consumerism.

In fairness to the ongoing debate, I never said the comparison was apt. Euro's picture showed up in a context that was probably a tribute and, at worst, was gentle mocking. If it showed up in a "People Too Stupid To Live" context, we would probably all feel differently.

Did you SEE some of those comments?

I think that's my favorite picture of Chris.
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I did not read the comments. Neanderthal comments to anything are inevitable on the internet. However, if the poster was posting the picture to prompt them, I feel differently about the posting.

The entire collection of photos in this person's flickr stream is for the purpose of making fun of oddities.

My dad horrified me a couple years ago by walking into Home Depot barefoot while I was with him. I wish I would have thought to take a picture and post it on the internet.

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