zenlike koans I have seen emblazoned on t-shirts worn by hong kong people

tung choi street dyao. they're all there!

as well as awesome playing cards... audrey hepburn playing cards! and "red sun" (mao stuff)! and "ancient chinese ladies"!!! ! ! ! !

LEHMAN BROTHERS GIVE A SMILE FACE
PUT THE SNAKE INTO YOUR HOUSE

oh wait, those are radiohead lyrics

SIMLE FACE

tung choi street dyao. they're all there!

Ah, the Ladies Market! Mrs T is always going on about this. I cannot believe she hasn't brought me back one(or seven) of these.

Interesting (kind of) aside - if you 'walk' down Tung Choi street on streetview the market is being put up and then as it crosses Nelson Street it's all up. OK not very interesting but I liked it.

that's because a large portion of tung choi street is not accessible by cars

Yeah, I assumed that that's why they went down it before the market went up. Of course they could have used the google trike.

As another aside - the adverts for schools in HK are quite cool too.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3153/4565370153_33d125d3dd.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3084/4566008166_a56cde3421.jpg

Grade A - Easy way

hahah those are 'tutor kings' - you can get your face plastered on a billboard and the sides of buses just by being a really shitty tutor @ something. hong kong education is insane and sad.

those guys are all "if you want to pass the A-level just follow my five patented foolproof easy steps" and then charge you $5000 and then you fail the A-level anyway

put the snake into your house is an awesomely handy euphemism

e.g. "those tutor kings just want to put the snake into your house"

LIFE GUIDE ON DUTY
LOOKING FOR BEAUTIFUL BODY

I took a few pics for you, let me try to find them

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/P5235162.jpg

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/dfadadstiff.jpg

uh wait the second pic is not lol t-shirts, it is lol british basketball analysts

sorry this is the one I meant to post

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/P5275282.jpg

kudos

i like how the first one apologizes

if you change the 'my' to 'its' in the first one I actually think it is pretty otm

second one is a good quotation I think?

yeah I think about half the shirts I see are just quotations lifted from books. some company did a series of philosophical terms & their definitions, so you see people wearing shirts that say, in big bold arial, "REIFICATION" or "ONTOLOGY" and then underneath is the definition in small type

but that is fucking awesome, would wear

yeah I want to find the source but it's hard because I always feel self conscious when I go into the teeny bopper malls, plus they change the styles so quickly

like I went back and tried to buy the one that said "LOOKING AT LIFE IN A STRANGE ROOM" cause I realised it was a JD lyric, but it was gone by the time I got there. I also see people wearing a shirt with a cool quote from dylan, the one that says "YOU'RE A LIAR I DON'T BELIEVE YOU" and I want to get it but I don't know where to look

dayo i would like to ask your permission to contribute to this thread with my findings from the Waikiki area of Honolulu

PEANUT BUTTER
BANANA
AND WAFFLES

― 囧 (dyao), Sunday, November 29, 2009 3:16 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark

food shirts

DO YOU
KNOW
THIS
MEANING?

This one makes me think of ppl who might have asian character sets as tatts or whatever that actually say "I'm a gaijin and have no idea what this means" or something =)

^^^yes its basically the same thing.

just think how often you can go into a target or a wal-mart and get t-shirts with random kanji on them that translate the same way

dayo i would like to ask your permission to contribute to this thread with my findings from the Waikiki area of Honolulu

― dirk funk (gr8080), Saturday, September 25, 2010 11:25 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yo go ahead!

I haven't been rly keeping up w/ this but lately I saw one that said:

YOU'RE
CHEATING
ART

and I rly want to get it and wear it to art show openings.

Hahaha

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/C043-020.jpg

not very....zenlike?

some of my neighbours have a chinese au-pair who was wearing one of these a while ago, tho i cannae remember what it said [via mcluhan]

they share the same au-pair?

the parents are too cheap to get one for each of their kids

i thought i should say something abt 'zenlike koans...' but rly i don't know enough about this cultural (epi)phenom, after all ppl w/ clothes w/ writing on them is very much a western thing too.....where does 'zenlike koan' begin and 'random semiotic soup' end?

was there ever a difference is the question

anyway I have some pretty good ones I took pics of recently but I dont wanna post them because I want them to be taken seriously, guess I'll just keep them to myself

there def is a difference between the more gnomic / witty 'koans' ones cited here and the usual t-shirt logorrhea

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/idgi.png

idg this one. who's uncle stanley? st. george?

St George = patron saint of England
Uncle Stanley = yr penis

okay:

NEWSPAPER
WOMAN
AND
SHAVED-HEAD
BOY

there it is

buying food
in a
cafeteria

^keeping it real, none of this THE AMAZING POWER OF YOUR DREAMS bs.

bukowskilike koans i have seen

Newspaper Woman and Shaved-Head Boy was actually a failed adult swim pilot

PEACE WALKER

PEACE BED

LONELY TRUCK.
TRANSFORMER!
ROAD TRAIN!

HOW TO
HAVE JOY?

WEIRD
NEWS