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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:10 PM
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Walmart "Junior" panties suggest your genitals are better than credit cards
Over at Feministing, a reader noticed these panties in the "juniors" section at the Wal-Mart on Kildare Farms Road in Cary, NC.

While we can't disagree with the strict literal interpretation of the message, perhaps Walmart should consider printing it on a wallet, rather than on panties meant for teenage girls. The whole prostitution angle is clouding the message of fiscal responsibility. Hey, it's just a suggestion.




http://consumerist.com/consumer/gross/walmart-junior-panties-suggest-that-your-genitals-are-better-than-credit-cards-332465.php
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MissB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:12 PM
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1. Reason #5875 why I'm glad I had boys.
:rofl:

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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:16 PM
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10. There isn't enough space in the subject field to have the number of reasons I'm glad I don't raise

children at all. Life is much easier without them.
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MissB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:20 PM
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15. I'm sure it is!
:rofl: Probably cheaper too. To each their own, eh?

My brother has a ball buying gifts for my kids. He travels the world as part of his absolutely perfect job. At times I envy him for his freedom and wealth.

And at other times, I merely gaze at my sleeping kids and am content.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 08:44 PM
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46. how do you know?
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 08:58 PM
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51. know what?
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Blashyrkh Donating Member (816 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 09:03 PM
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52. It's quite simple.
Think of all the time you have to dedicate to doing things for your kids each day. I dedicate all that time to myself. That's why it's easier.

You can argue "better", "more fulfilling" or whatever all you want, but "easier", there's no question.
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:12 PM
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2. When the embroidery was done, in China, the operator had no idea what it said
Edited on Tue Dec-11-07 04:13 PM by ThomWV
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:13 PM
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3. me love you long time
:)
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:14 PM
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5. Yeah, but
at 21 percent interest, who can afford it?
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shain from kane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:14 PM
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4. Shake your moneymaker.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:15 PM
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6. Raising girls to be prostitutes - nice
Of course, there is a segment in this country that holds that if women spent as much time screwing with their vaginas as they do screwing with their hair, this would be a happier world.

But not me. I just hear things. Ya know?
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:21 PM
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16. well, I'm the type who screws with her hair much, much more
than with my vagina, so I have to agree with you :hi:

:loveya:
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:15 PM
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7. What is the point of that? Who's supposed to SEE that sentiment?
The teenaged girl wearing it (who isn't old enough for a credit card anyway)? In my day, they printed days of the week on underwear, which I thought was stupid enough but now ... curiouser and curiouser this world becomes to me.
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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:16 PM
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8. Now all they need below that is something that looks like a credit card reader to swipe your card
on....Give em time.

WTF were they thinking?
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:16 PM
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9. This hoo-hoo takes cash only
Or so it seems. :shrug:
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:17 PM
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11. I'm shocked and appalled.
No, not really, I couldn't care less.
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kitkat65 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:18 PM
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12. I prefer these
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=8259828
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:18 PM
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13. I'll take genitals over credit cards every time. -n/t
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madmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:19 PM
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14. while I understand your anguish over this I'd like to point out that
just because they are sold at wal-mart doesn't mean wal-mart made them and just because they are teen sizes doesn't mean only teens wear them.
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 09:36 PM
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53. Exactly! My wife shops in the junior dept -- she's a size 0-2
Edited on Tue Dec-11-07 09:38 PM by LostinVA
Clothes in the junior dept fit her.

She'd never shop at Wal-mart, although, she does wear underwear with pevy slogans like that.
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Rob H. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:22 PM
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17. What's on the back?
Edited on Tue Dec-11-07 04:43 PM by Rob H.
It looks as if there's an ellipsis after "cards," which leads me to believe that might not be the whole sentence. (Not that that sentence could end all that well even if there were.)


edit: oops. punctuation.

Further edit: I did a quick Google search and apparently the back says, when you've got Santa? Meh. I've always thought writing on underwear was weird, anyway.
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:24 PM
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19. maybe that's where you swipe your card?
:rofl:
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Rob H. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:27 PM
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20. *gasp* That's NAUGHTY!
I should've known GD would be too much for a delicate flower like me. :P ;)
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TheFriendlyAnarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:28 PM
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22. ahem, that would be 'card'
:evilgrin:
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:29 PM
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23. EWWWW, it'll take all week to get that out of my mind!
And it's only Tuesday!

EWWWWW...
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:32 PM
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25. ....
:spray:
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:33 PM
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26. I'm determined to dethrone you as the DUzy Champion
:)
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:35 PM
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28. LOLOL Keep it up with posts like that and you're well under way!
:hi:
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 08:45 PM
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48. WedgieExpress ... don't leave home without it
:dunce:
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:23 PM
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18. Never leave home without it.
:crazy:
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:28 PM
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21. Well, they both have limits...
:(
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gatorboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:32 PM
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24. Yikes! I feel a new Capitol One slogan coming on.
Edited on Tue Dec-11-07 04:33 PM by gatorboy
"What's in your panties?"
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Ecumenist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:33 PM
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27. OMG..What the H@ll is that supposed to mean???!!!!!!
And to think that this is a "company" that is supposed to be a family oriented, Christian based chain. What a disgusting, stomach turning horror. Whose bright idea were these, I wonder and on what planet, in what dimension and how many tonnes of drugs did it take to EVER believe that these are acceptable?

Why didn't they just come right out and say: "Sell a little @ss, Cindy...Mamma needs a new pair of cheap ass walmart shoes!" Maybe sell a line of temporary tattoos to put on your kids to market them to the neighborhood paedophile or a conservative neocon criminal type creep, AKA a republican. Extra points for a self described preacher.
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hayu_lol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:54 PM
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30. Actually, you know, this is a pretty good idea...
this will get girls out of thongs so the wicked witches of the east at all high schools will no longer have to go around lifting girl's skirts to see if they have undies or thongs on.

Remember that little set to a couple of years ago?

People, it seems, will buy anything.
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One_Life_To_Give Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 04:50 PM
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29. Then what does DU on your panties suggest?
Then what does DU on your panties suggest?
:shrug:

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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 05:03 PM
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31. And this is the same store that sells action jesus. nt
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distantearlywarning Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 05:20 PM
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32. Um...wow! Yeah.
I want to believe that they didn't mean it "that way", but, well...I'm having trouble coming up with any other interpretation of that statement on a pair of panties.
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MissB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 05:24 PM
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33. That reminds me of another phrase on panties:
WWJD?

Back when that phrase was first gaining popularity, I was blissfully unaware of what those letters stood for. After lunch one day, a co-worker (who was raised as an atheist) and I (an atheist since my teens) were wandering around the mall looking at useless stuff.

In the window of Claire's, there were these panties with WWJD? printed on them. We finally settled on "Wild Women Just Do".

Who knew?
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 05:53 PM
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34. Who even thinks of this shit?
He needs to be hunted down and pelted with rocks and garbage.

And yes, I'd be willing to bet it was a "he".

I'm glad I just have cats.

:hi:
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 05:59 PM
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36. I wouldn't let my
cats wear these much less a teen age daughter.

Still it's a bit better than the "Porn Star" t-shirts that were so popular 10 years ago.

Mz Pip
:dem:
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 07:07 PM
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45. my cats would bite me if I tried to put that on them
:hi:

and a hearty :hi: to you too, FB :)
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joshcryer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 05:55 PM
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35. I like it.
:)
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 06:03 PM
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37. Damned Chinese
LEARN FUCKING ENGLISH PUNCTUATION!!!11 :grr:
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 06:09 PM
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38. Well ... They ARE Better Than Credit Cards
Edited on Tue Dec-11-07 06:10 PM by Crisco
And the pleasure is all free!

I know what you mean, but couldn't resist :)
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 06:12 PM
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39. Dayum! Your headline made me think of *'s panties - glad I was wrong!
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 06:16 PM
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40. answer
the credit card swipe machine

:think:

:evilgrin:
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Proud2BAmurkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 06:26 PM
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41. Isn't walmart all about morals?
?
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Rob H. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 06:44 PM
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42. The back says "...when you have Santa?"
Edited on Tue Dec-11-07 06:46 PM by Rob H.
If whoever snapped the picture had taken a half-second to flip 'em over, s/he would've seen that. True, two dots on the front do not an ellipsis make and the conclusion of the sentence doesn't make the whole thing any less weird, but still.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 06:45 PM
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43. It's also a little large for children's panties...
using the price label as scale.
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yella_dawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 06:52 PM
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44. It's not like Britney Spears made millions shaking her ass
or anything. Where did a message like this come from?
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ecstatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 08:44 PM
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47. wow!!! nt
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Nikki Stone1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 08:47 PM
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49. As much as I dislike Laura Schlessinger, she would hate this and talk about it on her program
Someone who likes her show should send it.
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 08:57 PM
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50. Forget the prostitution thing. This is worse.
"Snag yourself a nice rich man, screw him every night, and he'll pay all your bills and buy you all the crap your heart desires."

Yup. The old Man As ATM ploy. Prostitution is more honorable. (And I am no fan of prostitution.)
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