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Has anyone seen the vid on the fun diy activity, called "Wal-Mart Intecom: 9/11 Truth"?
www.youtube.com/watch
I can foresee this as a good forum for local activists to convey frustration with high gas prices and gas co. profits.
www.youtube.com/watch
I can foresee this as a good forum for local activists to convey frustration with high gas prices and gas co. profits.
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Re: Fun at Wal-Mart
Fri, June 13, 2008 - 8:31 AMi've discovered that walmart has a 90day return policy on just about everything. i've bought tents, pillows, sleeping bags, tarps and whatever the fuck else, used them all summer travelling across the country, then returned them full of mud and leaves and gotten my money back. you just gotta make sure you keep that receipt. it's like free stuff, and it's fucking the company through their own policy. totally legal. -
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Re: Fun at Wal-Mart
Fri, June 13, 2008 - 11:48 AMDon't take my words too harshly, I'm not trying to judge you (as I don't even know you), but there's a fine line between culture jamming here and being a cheap a-hole... I hope you can see how others would perceive your actions as shady and self-serving, and not as culture jamming. If you have a better justification than "screwing the man" and getting one over for yourself I'd love to hear it. Does it enlighten or teach? Fill us in. -
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Re: Fun at Wal-Mart
Fri, June 13, 2008 - 1:31 PM"Buying" everything and then pitching your wilderness camp in front of the Wal-Mart, then returning it all after they make you move on?
THAT has potential.
Just going on vacation with it's just being... you know... cheap. Unless the vacation's camping out in another Wal Mart's sporting good section with food and supplies bought from the first.
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Re: Fun at Wal-Mart
Sat, June 14, 2008 - 10:48 AMsounds pretty judgmental to me, dude.
why not use all that creativity to build on my sparse post and enlighten us all as to how the technique could be improved? -
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Re: Fun at Wal-Mart
Mon, June 16, 2008 - 4:43 PMok, fine, I'm judging you for being cheap, dude. Is your response telling us that I'm right? I don't care to improve your technique, your technique was self serving and shady. Congrats on screwing the man. -
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Re: Fun at Wal-Mart
Thu, June 19, 2008 - 5:06 PMthanks for breaking down and telling the truth instead of half-hiding it behind a lie. i think we can probably all agree that life is better when we speak the truth.
and i'm not telling you you're right - you can decide that for yourself, which you already have! why pretend to care what i think when your judgment of me as a cheap, self-serving asshole is so much easier?
and my invitation still stands, for you or anyone else - improve on it! art can be made even from shit you find repugnant.
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Re: Fun at Wal-Mart
Thu, August 14, 2008 - 9:18 AMSorry, I'm late on the uptake here. I'm with j3r2my -- I don't see any way to make this into a constructive message.
One really sick part of retail these days is that many things returned to the store end up in a dumpster and thus in a landfill. Even if the package has just been opened and the part isn't quite right. They don't send it back to the manufacturer.
I don't see how buying cheap stuff at Wal-mart, intending not to pay in the first place (which is theft, by the way), using the shit out of it, and asking Wal-mart to throw it in the landfill for you creates any kind of positive message. It means that every year Walmart gets to bring more cheap junk made in a Chinese sweatshop across thousands of miles of ocean just for our consumption.
When I chose to buy stuff, I want to make sure it lasts. And I want, as much as possible, to know that it came from a place that isn't engaged in sweatshop labour. For that, I pay a premium, and I tell people I'm doing it. I refuse to step foot in Wal-mart.
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Re: Fun at Wal-Mart
Sat, June 14, 2008 - 3:38 PMSee you on the playa? Fuck the American Dream: This year's theme. Mom, Baseball, and Apple Pie? Burn 6%&*^%&% burn! :) Who is THE Man, anyways?!?! :)
htttp://burningman.com
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Re: Fun at Wal-Mart
Fri, June 27, 2008 - 12:13 AMWell that was fun.
Anyways,
Maybe if you took the camping gear to a protest of Wal-Mart...then returned it?
I dunno...seems like either way you'd be using one of the few positives policies of Wal-Mart against them and not really exposing people to anything new.
plus you actually have to walk inside WalMart which exposes you to that dreadful magnetic feild of consumption frenzied republicans.
A long time ago I jauntily opened a bag of chips in a supermarket, ate some and then left them on the shelf as me and my hardcore, rebelious punk rock (HS) girlfriend walked out the door...ony to be pushed to the ground, totally 'fronted on', roared at and pretty much completely humiliated by this 'roided out asshole security guy.
Pick yr battles...is all I'm saying.
Once...when I was at HEB (a local grocery store) someone got on the intercom and did the spooky Friday the 13th "Ch-Ch-Ch-Ka-Ka-Ka-ka....(silence)....Ch-Ch-Ch-Ka-ka-ka-ka...." over and over just quiet enough that it took you a while to figure out it wasn't just noises from your head. It was kinda loud in there anyways and so people would stop...cock their heads like dogs...then continue pushing their carts until it happened again. Repeat. then suddenly smile and look around.
Not culture jamming (unless you're really create with the term) but still funny(if you have a sense of humor) Which is what any political scene needs most of all, in my humble opinion. -
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Re: Fun at Wal-Mart
Sun, June 29, 2008 - 4:35 PMWal-Mart? To Catch A Thief is a much better thing to watch...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_C...ief_(film)
O...Mark? O? :) -
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Re: Fun at Wal-Mart
Mon, June 30, 2008 - 6:36 AMUm...Polo?
What are we doing again?
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Re: Fun at Wal-Mart
Sun, December 14, 2008 - 10:57 AMmaybe it's about going camping?
on the other hand, if you have a nifty sewing machine that embroiders (we do) then you can make alternative labels to add to the items before returning them. The content of such labels I leave to your own imagination(s). A simpler version is to include your own literature with the manual as an insert.
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