when we go to stores, my son and I go on "magazine duty." We turn over or cover up any and all inappropriate magazines. If everyone would do this, they would never sell or have to be seen by decent people like us."
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"If everyone would do this, they would never sell or have to be seen by decent people like us."
You don't have a right not to be offended. You also don't have a right to go messing with store property.
The antics of this person remind me of a sign that hung behind the counter of a shop I once worked in. The sign read, "The customer is always right. We, however, reserve the right to determine when you are no longer a customer."
Don't be surprised when you get the boot, Anonymous.
Yes, if all the decent people would look at the inappropriate magazines as they turn them over, then none of the decent people would look at the magazines.
Wait, did that makes sense? <checks with fundie guidebook> Yep, it's okay.
I can picture it now.
Shop assistant: Excuse me, can you stop turning all the magazines around
Bitch: NO!
Shop assistant: Then I'm afraid that I'm going to have to ask you and your son to leave the store.
Bitch: WHY! DO YOU HATE GOD! WHY ARE YOU OPPRESSING US BECAUSE OF OUR RELIGION! IF YOU ACCEPTED GOD YOU WOULDN'T SHOW SUCH FILTH!... (Blah, Blah, fucking, Blah. On and on in a continuous rant for the next 15 minutes without taking a breath)
Chances are the staff don't do anything because if would be less painful to wait until they leave and just turn the magazines around.
Yep, your plan is perfect. It can never fail. That is until a kid actualy picks up one of the magazines that you coverd it with and notices the double ds now in his face. That or a parent buys a dozen magazines for their local libary so the children can read, but she only looks at the first one's cover.
I loved the one response talking about how a 'family store' should not display magazines with swimsuit models.
I hate being reminded of how prude the US can be. Same way I hate being reminded how it's full of frivilous lawsuits and what the heck. Such a fine country, such a high number of idiots trying to ruin it.
Stupidity at its finest.
*golf clap*
Actually, all you do is make more work for the store clerks, who have to go and repair the mess you made. Did you know your actions could end up with the store getting a fine from the publishers, for not properly displaying the publications as per contract? I hope you narrowminded fundie ass gets caught doing this, and you get fined, you dip shit.
I worked in a bookshop for a couple of years, and I would have been the reverse of this guy - Dawkins' God Delusion to the religion section, bibles to the fiction section, etc :)
Some customers got offended, but the one time I got caught my manager saw the humour in it ^^
Sadly these kinds of people have far too much power.
I worked at Borders and once a woman complained because the Advocate had a cover with two men kissing. She was afraid it would disturb her 8 month old son.
Yeah, she was a homophobic idiot. But the fact is the magazine got shoved to the very back none the less.
Stores don't like controversy. IF they think it will protect their bottom lines, they have no problem catering to these people.
I would say this person is an asshole, but I actually do the same thing to Rachel Ray books.
I work across from the Playboy building. I just checked, I don't see them all carrying out boxes into a U-Haul yet, but you keep at your crusade on the local Sav-On. Soon...soon...
You. Are. Dumb.
Decent people like you? Decent people who happen to have an unhealthy obsession with dirty magazines, but are holy enough to channel that obsession into preventing anyone else from even seeing them, and having their similarly weak willpower shattered in the process, rather than actually buying them? Censoring magazines and undermining business...for Jesus.
You do realize, fearful anonymous poster, that the back cover of "those" magazines contain full size ads that are just as provocative as the front covers?
Damn, you've failed again.
And the vegetarians should go into the grocery stores and hide the meat.
Petunia Dursley wasn't supposed to be a good example, you know.
And anyway, badly hiding things tickles curiosity more than just leaving it alone. "Hm, where's that damn magazine? Could it be this on- ooh, nice cleavage. :0"
So you and your son get to look at the naughty covers close up, no one else does? Typical fundie, hypocritical pervert! Wait until your son starts dating women like the ones on the cover because you exposed him to them at a young age.
If everyone would do this, they would never sell or have to be seen by decent people like us.
Awww that's so cute... You really belive that don't you? What a fucking moron!
let's get this straight...any time you go to a store, you seek out and look at *every* dirty magazine there.
Yeah, yeah, I know, you're muttering, "Oh, that's horrible..." while you do it. I'm sure you think that makes a difference.
When I was a bit younger, my natural sense of organisation would compel me to turn round any magazine I saw which was stacked backwards on a newsagent shelf, so that the front cover faced forward. Just so that everything was neat.
Seems like this person's scheme would be a little counterintuitive in my case.
Except you obviously see them in order to identify them as "inappropriate," and as such are actually forcing your son to see them.
Brilliant move dunderhead.
I guess the irony of this would be that having a bunch of magazines placed backwards in the magazine rack would pique the curiosity of people who would otherwise have not paid any attention to those filthy, filthy pictures that bother you so much. Poor thing...trying to draw people in so that they can see that blasphemous lack of Puritanical garb up close and personal.
From the original thread"If Wal Mart wants to display porn they should have a restricted area where no miners are allowed"
Just for the poor miners, here's the magazine the OP objected to:
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If you wanna' believe that, go right ahead.
Considering how many magazines are sold from behind the counter with covers on them from the manufacturer, your theory is entirely wrong.
I'm sure the shopkeeper loves seeing you waltz through the door. Not only does he have to put up with your sanctimonious BS while you're in there, he has to go and fix all the magazines. Maybe he, the shopkeep, should consider filing destruction of property charges or something.
I'm sure your son loves flipping over the dirty magazines ;)
BTW I find it very annoying to go to the store and have to flip all the magazines back around to find the one I'm looking for.
So do you steal videos from the store that are inappropriate as well?
Or you could just ignore the magazines. Also, WalMart is NOT the only store selling said sports magazine. Every large grocery store has it. Dollar General might not, but it's hard to grocery shop there.
And what do you think the owner is going to do?, to put them in their original position. Do you tink that people are stupid?. They're there and they can acquire them in any other way. They put them there because they SELL WELL, regardless of what you think.
Please define "stores" for me. If you're going into a children's store that somehow had "inapproprite" magazines, I'd at least understand your intent, if not agreeing with you and say that the STORE has the right to display what THEY want, not the other way around.
But if you go into, say, Target and do that? You're an asshole. More people than just "families" go there, and like being able to get what they need without the hassle. They'd just get it anyway and curse fundamentalists more.
As someone who used to work in a store that sold magazines, I used to HATE people like this. We had someone who'd come in and take photos of anything they deemed inappropriate that was within reach of children and threaten to send them to the local paper in complaint.
Someone also complained that we had the Bible (a) on the bottom shelf; (b) next to the Quran; and (c) in the same spirituality section as books on fairies, astrology, and healing crystals. I only wish that when she'd complained to me I'd been quick-witted enough to move them...to the fantasy section.
Dude, fuck you! You're the motherfuckers who keep messing up my store displays every goddamned time I make them look nice and neat again! I hate people like you. I just get the calendars or the magazines in order, and you fucking mess them up .
Would you like it if I came into your house and started hiding your crosses and shit? LEAVE THE SHELVES ALONE, ASSHOLE.
Thank you so much, oh wise and holy one, for protecting us stupid, childish nonbelievers from our evil selves.
On second thought, go fuck yourself, you holier-than-everyone douchecanoe.
... And are banned from said stores for their unjustifiable behaviour, not consumerate with that of a normal consumer.
'Persecution'? More like a self-fulfilling prophecy eh, fundies...?
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