SL Sex, Lies, and Mind Games

sex has no bottom.

Some sex has bottom.

You're talking about very large cities. I really don't grasp how it can affect a large city like that, suburbs or not....any more than any other large chain would affect.

I'm talking about communities with less than 100k people. Or even less than 50K. It's make or break on food and clothing. Particularly now. It always has been to some degree.

Whenever I saw someone on some news clip or commentary, complaining about Wal-Mart....it's generally someone in trendy yuppie garb, holding a latte in their hand, in front of their swanky little boutique....that their parents probably passed down to them, and their Lexus parked in front on an expired meter, while their downtown customer has to park in the parking garage and walk three blocks.

If it weren't for Wal-Mart.....the people in my area would not be able to feed and clothe their children.

you listen here, little lady. you turned me into a Lee & Perrins snob. i can't even MAKE myself go to the dollar store for the cheap knock off now.

This is undoubtedly true, so they are fortunate in this regard. I am also fortunate to live in an area and be in a position to not have to patronize WM, having a multitude of choices and some financial leeway to be able to choose where I spend my money. I don't disparage those who may not have the same choices available. We all have to do what we have to do.

I've read in the UK press that people who work at Wal-Mart can only feed and clothe their children if they hold down two jobs, so badly do Wal-Mart pay.

Lindal . . . don't you LIKE sex?????

...An additional factor that is not, of course, an issue in the US: Wal-Mart is American, while most of the businesses that it targets, be they small local businesses or larger chains, are Canadian-owned. This applies in particular to Zellers.)

Tesco in the UK does exactly the same, and they have a deservedly bad reputation.

I can sympathize with that. So many businesses here in the USA are now foreign owned. Of course, most of the *workers* are US (or in your case, Canadian) citizens. But it's still galling to have significant portions of your economy controlled by someone else.

The malls killed downtown around here, well before Wal Mart ever came to town. When Penny's and Sears moved to the mall, Broadway (our main street) died. Funny, you don't see people protesting Sears and Penny's.

Or chains like Barnes & Noble that put the private owed bookstores out of business.....Walmart is not the only culprit. I shop wherever the cheapest prices are, doesn't make a bit of difference the underlying politics of how they got that way.

I see exactly the opposite effect. The Wal-Marts in this region tend to attract other businesses. Far from being a "kill zone", the Wal-Marts attract other businesses because of the large amount of traffic they generate. I'm sure the additional disposable income people have because of the Wal-Marts helps, too. Here, at least, businesses flourish around the Wal-Marts.

They may have helped contribute to businesses moving out of the old downtown area here, but that's moving, not going out of business. Wal-Marts certainly weren't the only factors in businesses moving though. They moved to newer buildings with better parking and other infrastructure.

Sorry if that offended - it wasn't meant to be mean.

If it weren't for Wal-Mart.....the people in my area would not be able to feed and clothe their children.

I would like to see every country offering a monthly stipend to couples that get sterilised after having two children.

The people in your area probably need to stop breeding.

I would like to see every country offering a monthly stipend to couples that get sterilised after having two children.

It looks like the West is learning their lessons from the East oh so well.


No offence was taken, I saw it in the joking way it was probably meant.



The people in your area probably need to stop breeding.

I would like to see every country offering a monthly stipend to couples that get sterilised after having two children.

I'm thinking that if had a dollar for every time I have voluntarily pulled out myself, I would probably have enough money for at least a one-way airfare to Toronto...

It looks like the West is learning their lessons from the East oh so well.


No offence was taken, I saw it in the joking way it was probably meant.



The people in your area probably need to stop breeding.

I would like to see every country offering a monthly stipend to couples that get sterilised after having two children.

wow ....reading over the exchange on the last two pages....and don't know what to say, except thanks for the enlightenment. Sorry it can't work both ways. Sorry for ruining your pretend sex thread by trying to give you an inkling of a perception beyond your world. But hey....that's now what SL is for.