I saw a white supremacist in Wal-Mart today!

[Fenris]

:crazy:

Yes, unfortunately I needed a cheap phone cord and a CD tower, and having exhausted all my other options, I buckled down and went to Wally World. Now, I've lived all but two of my years on this planet in the buckle of the bible belt (Texas and Oklahoma), but one thing I will never, ever get used to is going into Wal-Mart. To put it simply, that place is fucking scary. The town I'm from is a Christo-fascist Republican fortress, but a wealthy one, so I was able to live for a long time without ever having to visit a Wal-Mart. However, a couple of years ago, a Wal-Mart Supercenter moved onto the outskirts of town. I was fascinated, but should have known better. All of the trolls from the Piney Woods flocked to that place like camoflauged moths to a trash-fire.

However, even that did not prepare me for what I saw today. Just as I was walking in, I saw a kid, maybe 14 or 15, walking with his mother. He was wearing a t-shirt with a picture of Hitler on it. The heading underneath the picture said "Adolf Hitler - European Tour: 1939-1945". I was a little taken aback, as it isn't everyday you see an Adolf Hitler t-shirt. So when I got home tonight, I typed in "adolf hitler european tour" and the first site on the list was for a "Panzerfaust Records." I didn't have to or want to open that page up. Yuck.

The simple joys of living in a Red State.:grr:

[Placebo]

1. I stumbled onto "Panzerfaust Record" the other day...

I have no idea what i was searching for (damn you google!) but somehow I stumbled ont it.


WHITE POWER!!!!!!! :eyes:

[Endangered Specie]

25. Why would anyone name a record company after a panzerfaust...

Ok, so it could take out a Sherman tank with ease, but thats assuming you could hit it... It was a "one-shot-throw-away" with bad accuracy.

[JVS]

33. Well we have a bubble gum named after the bazooka, which was our version

[Endangered Specie]

43. The German equivalent of a Bazooka was the Panzershrek...

not Panzerfaust.

[AlienGirl]

40. All the nazi idiots should wear their regalia at all times

That way, they will be clearly labelled as dumbasses.

Tucker

[iconoclastic cat]

2. That was a great rant!

I especially liked the clear sense of scene and space that you created. Do you have a blog?

[Fenris]

3. I'm the one person in the world without one!

[iconoclastic cat]

6. So what's stopping you?

They're free on Blogger and Moveable Type, after all!

[flamingyouth]

7. But we soon will have one!

Let's not share the name until we actually get it up on the web - it's too perfect and someone will undoubtedly steal it! :D

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. When I see things like that, I start whistling

a tune from South Pacific. If you don't know it, here's some of the lyrics:

You've got to be taught to hate and fear
You've got to be taught from year to year
It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught
Before it's too late
Before you are six or seven or eight
To hate all the people your relatives hate
You've got to be carefully taught.....

[flamingyouth]

5. God, that sounds awful

I've never actually been inside a Wal-Mart. There don't appear to be any in Seattle (although there is a Sam's Club in feeble competition with locally owned Costco).

However, as I was driving up and down I-5 to and from Portland, I saw plenty of them in our "red" area of Western Washington. Plus, I saw about a dozen Wal-Mart semis on the road.

They're everywhere. They're the devil.:scared:

That experience could really only happen to you, Fen. A kid in a Hitler t-shirt? You should have slipped him a copy of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich! :D

[Bertha Venation]

FY, the kid wouldn't have read "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" . . .

It has too many words, in print too small and dense. Maybe for him the comic book version.

[Deja Q]

8. I looked at the site... do NOT go into the message forum...

Yipes. So much Nazi paraphernalia that I wanted to puke. :scared:

I made sure my cookies were off!

Again, DO NOT GO INTO THE MESSAGE FORUM!!!!!!!!!!! That stuff is beyond shocking! (it redefines vile...)

[ulysses]

9. "My boss is an Austrian painter" bumper stickers!

:freak::freak::freak::freak::freak::freak::freak::freak::freak::freak:

Losers.

[JVS]

34. LOL

[NightTrain]

10. Four years ago, I was doing research for a short story I wanted to...

...write about a pair of rabbis who create a golem to counter a spate of anti-Semitic violence in Manhattan. When I got on-line, my search took me to a label called Resistance Records, which I have to assume was along the lines of that Panzerfaust thing you found today. As such, you have my condolences! :hug:

[Fenris]

12. Ah yes, Resistance Records. Resistance to what, exactly?

Intelligence and/or common sense?

Oh, right, other ethnicities.:eyes:

[Mizmoon]

11. True story about the date from hell

When my mother was newly divorced, a nice man she didn't know well asked her out for a halloween date. She was happy that she was "still dateable" and said yes.

He showed up at our door in a full Nazi uniform with a Hitler mustache glued above his upper lip.

She just laughed in his face and asked if he was crazy. He left in a huff.

Wow.

[flamingyouth]

13. Wow

I don't even know what to say about that.

I suppose it takes a certain type of ballsy guy to arrive on a first date dressed as Hitler, Halloween or not.

[Placebo]

14. What's the big deal?

It was Halloween, maybe it was just a joke lol

Unless he really was a neo-nazi

[NJCher]

15. oh man

this afternoon my girlfriend was telling about a loser boyfriend but her story pales next to yours!!


Cher

[smirkymonkey]

16. Was his name Eric Cartman?

Seriously, what a sick bastard! And on a first date, no less!

[pbg]

36. For my research

Hitler costume on first date...............................no.

[Elginoid]

17. Adolf Hitler European Tour T-shirt does NOT equate to "white supremecist"-

I remember seeing someone in the very same t-shirt about a decade or so back, and i thought it was a hoot...and the person was far from a white supremecist(unless they can be black).

[AlCzervik]

18. That wasnt in Tomball Texas by any chance was it?

I used to live in Spring Texas and one day we stopped at walmart in Tomball, after looking around for about a minute my husband grabs my habd and picks up my daughter and sez...."Lets go...Now!".

[Fenris]

20. No, but I lived in the Woodlands for a long time.

Don't EVER go to Conroe if you can avoid it.

[AlCzervik]

22. I used to go to the outlets up there now and then

no offense to Texans but i was really glad when we moved out of the state.

[Fenris]

24. No offense taken.

Parts of this state are utterly without worth.

[Bertha Venation]

19. I am a white supremacist, Fenris.

I need my whites white, man. Can't stand dingy, graying or yellowish linens on my table. My baby loves to wear white t-shirts (and I love her in white t-shirts) and those t-shirts must be supremely white!

Made you look. ;) Hope you'll forgive me. This is what passes for a sense of humor in my world these days.

:pals:

[Lost147]

39. go to google and type in Walmart Shopper and look at the first image NT

NT

[Bertha Venation]

42. Good christ. That's the last time I take the suggestion of a newbie.

:eyes: How on earth do you get through life? The mentality of someone who finds such a thing interesting is beyond my understanding.

[worksux]

21. my 2 cents-I live in Dallas

I live in the Beltway(inside 635/LBJ freeway) where there are no wal-Marts but if you drive out further there are P-lenty.
I'm female and for a while they had a monopoly on this line of cosmetics (Rimmel for you if you're interested) but lately I have seen it FINALLY stocked at Walgreen's and Ulta. So I can't make myself go to Wal-Mart now. It's like bizarro world, isn't it?
Hang in there Fenris, I've been here for 4 and 1/2 yrs after 13 yrs in Phoenix, land of healing energy and crystal power LOL. I imported my boyfriend here from Kentucky- I didn't want to date any men from Texas, or who at least were yee-haw about being from Texas,
well, that's more than I thought I would write.
BTW how does one create a blog?
Kat

[Fenris]

27. Find a blog site

Like www.livejournal.com - just sign up and go.

I've lived here for MOST of my life and going into Wal-Mart never gets any easier. It's America's collective bad acid trip.

:hi:

Hola from San Marcos, south of Austin.

[Wcross]

23. All you saw was a teeny bopper trying to shock people.

Was his head shaved? Did he have any neo-nazi tattoo's? Anything other than a t-shirt? Was his mother goose stepping? Saying sig-hiel or anything?
Geeze, my nephew wore a Curt Cobain t-shirt for two years after Curt killed himself. No, my nephew wasn't shooting heroin, he was trying to "shock people".

[Bundbuster]

26. This is his other T-shirt

[Bertha Venation]

28. Yeah, I've got a question.

What the hell goes through your mind that you would wear something that proclaims all of those things together?

Say what? Nothing?

That's what I figured.

'night, all.

[Fenris]

29. Dammit, thinkin's for libruls!

That's why we love George Bush - no thinkin', just action!:D

[Bundbuster]

30. If he were of legal age

and I saw him in public wearing that shirt, I'd be sorely tempted to punch his lights out. Problem is, he was no doubt "trained" by his parents - you gotta LEARN hate like that.

[Kat45]

37. I've seen that photo before. Isn't it from the NRA convention?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

31. You should go to one in Florida

:scared:

[Bombero1956]

32. I don't have a blog either

although my Mom is knitting me one for Christmas.

[asthmaticeog]

35. I've seen that shirt.

It has "tour dates" on the back, listing the dates when Germany invaded various European nations. Russia is stamped "cancelled," which completely cracks my ass the fuck up and makes me suspect it's just extremely grim sardonic humor. I doubt that when it was conceived it had any more to do with actual Nazism than the Ramones, Sex Pistols or Joy Division's flirtations with fascist imagery.

OTOH, a 15 year old kid wearing that on a shopping trip in the company of his mom probably isn't wearing it out of any deeply held love of irony.

[arwalden]

38. "...like camoflauged moths to a trash-fire" --- Wow!

You certainly have a way with words. Nicely done.

-- Allen

[GOPisEvil]

41. The Woodlands borders some, uh, interesting areas, doesn't it?

:7

[JohnKleeb]

44. isnt that Congressman Brady's district

also known as the district that went the most for Bush in 2000.

[GOPisEvil]

45. Blech...yes...Kevin Brady

[JohnKleeb]

46. eew

God and I thought Ive had it bad here. Yeah I know this stuff from my book, that district is insane shit. On that shirt, what the fuck is the kid trying to say.