can you buy new designer forehead goggles at walmart?

Heh, he said penchent as it's spelt. Jerk.

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This is similar to my experience when coming to the US.

On the flip side:

I was in a small town in Germany and needed shoes. Found 3 shoe shops next to each other in a row. Each shop had a choice of about 4 different shoes...and all 3 had the same 4 shoes to choose from. How does that work?

Of course the US is completely over the top when it comes to things like Walmart...and it's glorious. Don't pretend you're not jealous.

Wygnz not Wangz. Golf wangz.

Oh BTW. Walmart sucks. If you are proud of shopping at Walmart and crap stores like Target, Costco etc etc, do your neighbors a favor. Walk next door and shoot them, just put them out of their misery. That's basically what you are doing when you shop at gigantic, greedy capitalist/corporatist/right-wing "big box" stores that treat their employees like shit and ruin the local economy (& environment) that YOU are supposed to be supporting and nurturing.

>> ^TheFreak:
On the flip side:
I was in a small town in Germany and needed shoes. Found 3 shoe shops next to each other in a row. Each shop had a choice of about 4 different shoes...and all 3 had the same 4 shoes to choose from. How does that work?
Of course the US is completely over the top when it comes to things like Walmart...and it's glorious. Don't pretend you're not jealous.


You get more time to think about the important things in life when decisions such as "Which one do I buy?" are easily made

>> ^shagen454:

Wygnz not Wangz. Golf wangz.
Oh BTW. Walmart sucks. If you are proud of shopping at Walmart and crap stores like Target, Costco etc etc, do your neighbors a favor. Walk next door and shoot them, just put them out of their misery. That's basically what you are doing when you shop at gigantic, greedy capitalist/corporatist/right-wing "big box" stores that treat their employees like shit and ruin the local economy (& environment) that YOU are supposed to be supporting and nurturing.

we're not the sunshine state...we're "the golden state". Florida is the "sunshine state".

Yeah, yeah (I love Futurama BTW and the only way they are able to make references to what they do is because they are well aware)

But I'd rather support "penniless hippies" than corporate, lifeless twats that ruin local American economies just so they can by a John Deer lawnmower so they can waste shitloads of good water & money on their silly little golf lawns and feel "accomplished".

I really wish "Support Local Business" wasn't synonymous with "hippy" culture. It should be in everyone's interest. But, I guess the other-side of America is apathy, complacency and self-destruction - the whole "I don't care" "fuck it" mentality.

>> ^Sarzy:

>> ^shagen454:

>> Wygnz Wangz

American Wangz are probably bigger also.

I tried putting my Wangz in a box and it wouldn't fit because it's huge. Even if I could fit it why would I want to put it in a freezer; that's too cold!

he calls California "the sunshine state"
FAIL

Florida is the Sunshine State
California is the Golden State.

f'n Brits got their heads up their arses.

I wish this was longer. I always enjoy exploring culture clash.

I think they were trying too hard with the jug of tea, though. There are far better examples of needlessly large containers around here.

This is a genuine demonstration of America's products, and a genuine response: laughter.

If you're so rich, why the dumb looking dollar store sunglasses?

edit - Also, AMAZING TEETH, MATES!

Haha, when my cousin visited he was amazed when I took him to a Wal Mart to buy my groceries and there was a restaurant in the place I buy my groceries

What's the point in this? It only proves US americans in their clichees of the world. As if only the US had superstores. Guess what, the brits have Tesco. Just the same as Wal Mart. Same size stores. Over here in ol' Germany we have Real. Even bigger (typical Wal Mart has 70,000 different products, Real has 100,000). Both these chains a lot better than Wal Mart IMHO because the latter focuses so much on low price most of the stuff is pretty low quality. But anyway, though this clip is funny it gives a wrong impression.

>> ^TheFreak:

On the flip side:
I was in a small town in Germany and needed shoes. Found 3 shoe shops next to each other in a row. Each shop had a choice of about 4 different shoes...and all 3 had the same 4 shoes to choose from. How does that work?
Of course the US is completely over the top when it comes to things like Walmart...and it's glorious. Don't pretend you're not jealous.


Too much of a choice gets your imagination going. You don't want us imagining stuff.

Didn't think these guys were funny at all. Not any funnier then your average person making lame observational jokes.

Because of my fear of gross fat ghetto people, I don't shop at Walmart if I don't have too, and IF I have to it's usually for ping pong balls at like 2 in the morning. So say what you will, Walmart is America in a box, but like most self loathing Americans, I refuse to identify with the box if anyone is looking.

>> ^conan:

What's the point in this? It only proves US americans in their clichees of the world. As if only the US had superstores. Guess what, the brits have Tesco. Just the same as Wal Mart. Same size stores. Over here in ol' Germany we have Real. Even bigger (typical Wal Mart has 70,000 different products, Real has 100,000). Both these chains a lot better than Wal Mart IMHO because the latter focuses so much on low price most of the stuff is pretty low quality. But anyway, though this clip is funny it gives a wrong impression.

Err, Tesco is nothing like Walmart. Asda, which is owned by Walmart is also nothing like American Walmarts. I've never ever been to a supermarket as large as the ones in America, altho I have been in some prty huge ones in continental Europe. The UK just doesn't do things as big, probably because we live on a tiny island and space is at a premium.

Around where I live we do hairdressers rly well. Like, one on every corner.

Wal-mart... crazy rant about how it kills your neighbors...

I've never quite understood this argument. Wal-Mart doesn't kill local businesses. It rearranges them and then creates more jobs. Every Wal-Mart that goes up has about 10 restaurants, 2 car dealerships, 1 Gamestop, a couple book stores, and a bunch of other ancillary businesses sprout up literally overnight right next to it once it opens. These places employ - that's right - your neighbors. It has been demonstrably proven over and over again that Wal-Marts increase employment and revenue in the communities they enter. Do they shake up the environment and force local shops to change it up? Of course. But for every guy that curses Wal-Mart because he had to close his Mom & Pop, there are 20 other guys who are cheering Wal-Mart as they take showers in new business money.

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:

Wal-mart... crazy rant about how it kills your neighbors...
I've never quite understood this argument. Wal-Mart doesn't kill local businesses. It rearranges them and then creates more jobs. Every Wal-Mart that goes up has about 10 restaurants, 2 car dealerships, 1 Gamestop, a couple book stores, and a bunch of other ancillary businesses sprout up literally overnight right next to it once it opens. These places employ - that's right - your neighbors. It has been demonstrably proven over and over again that Wal-Marts increase employment and revenue in the communities they enter. Do they shake up the environment and force local shops to change it up? Of course. But for every guy that curses Wal-Mart because he had to close his Mom & Pop, there are 20 other guys who are cheering Wal-Mart as they take showers in new business money.


I agree that it's a crazy rant, but I'll take it further. Any argument about making or killing jobs is a crazy rant.

Our goal, as a society, is to reduce the number of jobs needed in stupid stuff (like retail), so that we can put more of our collective resources into things that actually improve us as a society (research, education, health care).

If a WalMart meets the retail needs of a community with 40 jobs instead of 80 independent merchants, FANTASTIC. That means we all get to spend less money on equipping and feeding ourselves, and spend more money on schools and space programs. If you went out of business because a WalMart showed up, your job was not adding enough value to the product to be worthwhile. Sorry, the free market has spoken. But don't worry, we haven't reduced the productive output of the human race, this just means that we have more resources to spend on science instead of mom and pop shoe stores.

So stop bragging about your stupid government project "creating hundreds of jobs". Anyone can create make-work jobs. The only job the government should be creating are those that directly serve the public good and that can't be financed on an individual scale. Basic research falls into this category. So does policing and homeland security, although I think we've gone way overboard on security spending.

I'm sure that's a HUGE consolation to the other 40 people that lost their jobs.>> ^rychan:

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:
Wal-mart... crazy rant about how it kills your neighbors...
I've never quite understood this argument. Wal-Mart doesn't kill local businesses. It rearranges them and then creates more jobs. Every Wal-Mart that goes up has about 10 restaurants, 2 car dealerships, 1 Gamestop, a couple book stores, and a bunch of other ancillary businesses sprout up literally overnight right next to it once it opens. These places employ - that's right - your neighbors. It has been demonstrably proven over and over again that Wal-Marts increase employment and revenue in the communities they enter. Do they shake up the environment and force local shops to change it up? Of course. But for every guy that curses Wal-Mart because he had to close his Mom & Pop, there are 20 other guys who are cheering Wal-Mart as they take showers in new business money.

I agree that it's a crazy rant, but I'll take it further. Any argument about making or killing jobs is a crazy rant.
Our goal, as a society, is to reduce the number of jobs needed in stupid stuff (like retail), so that we can put more of our collective resources into things that actually improve us as a society (research, education, health care).
If a WalMart meets the retail needs of a community with 40 jobs instead of 80 independent merchants, FANTASTIC. That means we all get to spend less money on equipping and feeding ourselves, and more money on schools and space programs. If you went out of business because a WalMart showed up, your job was not adding enough value to the product to be worthwhile. Sorry, the free market has spoken. But don't worry, we haven't reduced the productive output of the human race, this just means that we have more resources to spend on science instead of mom and pop shoe stores.
So stop bragging about your stupid government project "creating hundreds of jobs". Anyone can create make-work jobs. The only job the government should be creating are those that directly serve the public good and that can't be financed on an individual scale. Basic research falls into this category. So does policing and homeland security, although I think we've gone way overboard on security spending.

I think it's both hilarious and insane that you think Wal-mart simply re-arranges a local economy. A lot of Mom & Pop stores are niche market but make a lot of their profit off your everyday Joe & Jane buying garbage. That is probably the majority of consumer product in America - garbage. I remember I was really good friends with the owner of a record store in a small town but he made most of his money from larger "indie" rock bands on Atlantic records or some shitty metal band. 98% of everything else was underground punk, pop-punk, grindcore, power-violence, thrash, straight-edge hardcore, emotive hardcore, gravity style, D-beat, black metal etc etc. But, he made most of his profits from garbage. Don't think about anything folks, just work your shitty job and hope your wife doesn't cheat on you. Remember to pay your taxes. BLEH!

The other problem in my eyes is that a lot of middle-class & lower-class people inevitably shop at Wal-mart because of cheaper prices. I remember reading an article about how Wal-mart lost revenue last year but luxury stores (Neiman Marcus, etc) finances skyrocketed. The rich are now uber rich and they burned up the middle-class as well as their jobs so we could get them to new heights of wealth. Wal-mart and a lot of shitty huge corporate stores are VERY much apart of this topic & apart of the problem America faces. As long as there are huge big-box stores stamping out local business and selling product cheaper because they are such a gigantic virus-like company - local economies across the entire country will never get "well". Make these stores into Co-ops and maybe we'll get somewhere, we have to snuff out at least some of these greedy fucks.

It's still stunning to me that people are able to stick up for such a piece of shit company.

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:

Wal-mart... crazy rant about how it kills your neighbors...
I've never quite understood this argument. Wal-Mart doesn't kill local businesses. It rearranges them and then creates more jobs. Every Wal-Mart that goes up has about 10 restaurants, 2 car dealerships, 1 Gamestop, a couple book stores, and a bunch of other ancillary businesses sprout up literally overnight right next to it once it opens. These places employ - that's right - your neighbors. It has been demonstrably proven over and over again that Wal-Marts increase employment and revenue in the communities they enter. Do they shake up the environment and force local shops to change it up? Of course. But for every guy that curses Wal-Mart because he had to close his Mom & Pop, there are 20 other guys who are cheering Wal-Mart as they take showers in new business money.

>> ^sme4r:
Because of my fear of gross fat ghetto people, I don't shop at Walmart if I don't have too, and IF I have to it's usually for ping pong balls at like 2 in the morning. So say what you will, Walmart is America in a box, but like most self loathing Americans, I refuse to identify with the box if anyone is looking.


I, too, have gone to Wal-Mart at two in the morning for ping-pong balls.

>> ^shagen454:

Yeah, yeah (I love Futurama BTW and the only way they are able to make references to what they do is because they are well aware)
But I'd rather support "penniless hippies" than corporate, lifeless twats that ruin local American economies just so they can by a John Deer lawnmower so they can waste shitloads of good water & money on their silly little golf lawns and feel "accomplished".
I really wish "Support Local Business" wasn't synonymous with "hippy" culture. It should be in everyone's interest. But, I guess the other-side of America is apathy, complacency and self-destruction - the whole "I don't care" "fuck it" mentality.
>> ^Sarzy:
>> ^shagen454:



The issue isn't "greedy corporations" you realize all corporations were once the local business in town that grew because they provided something better/cheaper. I will agree that giant mega corporations aren't all that great...but you need to understand they wouldn't exist without government subsidization (look at america's corn industry...hence the obesity levels..everything has corn syrup in it because the industry is SO heavily subsidized.)

my point is, if you're unhappy, don't complain about walmart, complain about the shit government that fucks up free markets, allowing and encouraging monopolies and oligopolies. not a single case of a monopoly within a free market exist in the history of any country.*


ps. I bet you shop at walmart.

Do people really think this is funny?

I wonder which Wal*Mart they went to in LA, because they're nearly nonexistent unless you go to the rougher neighborhoods or far from the city. Map.

I agree with that. That is the bigger scenario and unfortunately it seems like people have little power in tearing apart all of the intricacies that are fucked in the American government.

My point is, people should care about their local economies and keep their vibrant downtowns that go extinct when cruddy stores like this go in. Locals should protest Wal-Mart's going in and they should not shop at them, period. I feel the same way about all of these stores and always have - GAP, Blockbuster, corporate grocery stores. These types of stores benefit the few, it's bullshit that they create more jobs than a local community would if they weren't under constant attack by big business.

Funny how a significant portion of the comments here are very defensive and feel the need to rip on Brits in return. Who knew that two brit kids finding Pizza and Wyngz to be funny would hit such a nerve.

As bad as Jedward is at singing, they're even worse at observational humor. It's hard to take anyone seriously with goggles on their forehead.

I like when he points to the globe "so we're about here" and points to San Francisco. Only off by like 500 miles (about the length of your whole country).