Ironic tshirts? good or bad (or what ever you guys call it)

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You know the tshirts - the ones with Che Guevara and these made up American Colleges.

― Lee, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Random American Place Followed By Random Year From 1970 - 1985 shirts - a great fat dud. I think it would be quite good to have a top that had "Angkor Watt 1642" on it, though.

And those bloody "Princess" / "Angel" things! I hate them!

― Lady Space Pilot, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

worst: Lee Denim's 'Fuck Fashion' shirts [with faux-spraypaint slogans/anarchy symbols/safety pins that don't actually hold anything together]. they were about $80, 90 in the high street fashion stores. though somehow i don't know if their Target Market realised the irony...

― petra jane, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my new thing is ironic nudity

― mark s, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hahaha, word up mark.......my uncle is the executive master of that shit.....after his nuts dropped he stapled the excess scrote into Gucci loops!

― Ramosi, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

but i thought irony was dead?

― geeta, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

er, that's what the ad/mediaZor people proclaimed after sept 11. so they're not following their own fickle rules anymore? shock! or they were being ironic when they made that statement? clever! is irony the new black again? fuck i am so not ready to move to new york

when a 14 yr old kid buys a sweatshop-made 'revolution' shirt, i am somehow convinced this is a sincere/well-meant act on his part. from his youthful perspective, at least. ie, i am somehow not convinced he is thinking of the multiple layers of irony that he is invoking by wearing said shirt.

― geeta, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i just got the special paper so I can make my own iron on t shirts printed from computer. I will probably make a "rainy" shirt.

― mike hanle y, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Worst - Ratt/Warrant/Iron Maiden (et al) t-shirts. Culture-jamming too.

― Damian, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd like to buy a Rainy shirt, please. Will it have stats (baseball/top trumps style, not vital stats)?

― Mark C, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"these made up American Colleges" i think this is the british equivalent of that www.engrish.com stuff. well, not just liek that, to all dodgy bootleg stuff (eg in russia) with random english phrases that make no sense on a jacket or something. but they seem to be fair game to laugh at, whilst its top-shop style trendy to wear 'columbia state university' or something on your zip up hoody....

― ambrose, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm 16!
give me the keys,
give me the credit cards,
and get out of my way

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wouldn't mind having a Poison T-Shirt, but I wouldn't be wearing ironically.

― jel --, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm wearing a t-shirt I made right now. It was for a Spanish project. It has Mexico and has one of their ziggarat looking things on it. It' cool for something I made. Here's a tip to the kid going to make his own t-shirts: Don't iron the image on the t-shirt on a tile surface. You'll get funky lines. Of course, it could be a nice touch if you want funky lines.

― Lindsey B, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i want a poison t-shirt too. i would wear it with ripped jeans a la joe elliott.

― di, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I will also make a one of a kind KRAFTWERK shirt

― mike hanle y, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

actually i'm gonna make myself a t-shirt that reads "i am a tool of the patriarchy".

― di, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Only t-shirt slogan I ever liked -- "I'm so fucking alternative."

― Sterling Clover, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the only ironic tshirt i have says 'i'm country and proud' with a picture of a banjo, but i find myself constantly reassuring indie friends 'no, i'm not really...no i'm not country..no..o.k i liked that dolly parton song 9 - 5 but thats it'. and seeing grown men wearing Alf and goonie tshirts in the name of irony makes me sad inside.

― cherrysqueak, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

but country music rules! no irony!

― di, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

She's right you know.

― Ronan, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://www.auraldecimation.com/hosted/relapseubb/upload/robert.jp g

― Brave Ulysses, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

but country music rules! no irony!

Well, yes. But imagine living in a country where country is defined by Tim McGraw.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

bad bad bad bad BAD!

― ducklingmonster, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

this is not a fugazi t-shirt

― ducklingmonster, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hello boys

― ducklingmonster, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i live in a nation where country is defined by shania twain and faith hill. thanks, cultural imperialism.

― di, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://www.auraldecimation.com/hosted/relapseubb/upload/arguing.j pg

― Brave Ulysses, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

re: rainy shirts, does that mean me?

― rainy, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Of course! Rainy the Good. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

would a 'rainy' shirt be ironic?

― rainy, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Of course. You don't wear a t-shirt when it's raining.

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A rainy shirt would be ironic because one expects to see a ducklingmonster shirt ...a rainy slicker perchance, but not a rainy shirt

― mike hanle y, Monday, 15 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"i'm gonna make myself a t-shirt that reads "i am a tool of the patriarchy" - yeah what you oughta do is steal a Tool (the band) t- shirt & write the other stuff around it, that would be choice!

― , Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ned do you have a tool t-shirt?

― di, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the one with the wrench logo but it's not a wrench it's a dick w/ balls!

― , Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A FRIEND OF MINE USED TO WEAR A "CHEERLEADERS FUCK" T-SHIRT. I THOUGHT IT WAS PRETTY COOL.

― Poops McGee, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ned do you have a tool t-shirt?

I most certainly do, but not the one Duane lusts for. Regardless, he shall not have it.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i have a personal problem with the women's playboy t-shirts. i also have a slight problem with the "bitch" "whore" "slut" slogan t-shirts worn by girls who don't even know who kathleen hanna is. but you know, co-optation, ain't such a big deal, feminists inevitably find new and more exciting ways to challenge society anyway.

― di, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"the one Duane lusts for", yeah tool tshirts give me such a boner. except it's not a boner its a socket wrench thing!

― , Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i live in a nation where country is defined by shania twain and faith hill
I lust for Shania Twain, I usually turnt he mute on her video but stillshe is one fine looking thing in a leather mini.
Um anyways, my favorite two tshirts have no deeper meaning, one states "DONT HATE KATE" and the other "Johnny Cat Premieme Cat Litter" The dont hate kate one has gotten me with good stead with more Kate's then I care to mention but the other is my favorite due to my undieing love of my amazing and wonderful cat at home.

― Mr Noodles, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

Is it even possible to get a GOOD t-shirt that isn't ironic but has something printed on it which isn't dorky either? Or has the way we look at t-shirts changed for good?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Are t-shirts even acceptable anymore?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Depends on what you mean by acceptable.
T-shirts and blue jeans will never die out.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Or else we'd all be lost.

― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

New t-shirts with stuff on them are sort of a poor bet these days. I'll never be able to come to terms with the NYC super limited-edition sixty-dollar boutique shirts. Shirts-with-stuff-wise, that leaves tourist shirts (no thanks) and vintage "ironic" shirts, the latter of which are starting to read more and more to me as actively blank; they're too common and basic to even register the "don't rush me I'm retired" or "camp fribbington 1988" or whatever. I just buy plain solid-colored t-shirts and the occasional very-simple vintage thing (most recently one that just says "Nativity" on the front and a number in back -- I'm guessing it's a private school?).

I did see a shirt the other day that said "new york is for haters," which I sort of dug.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Any t-shirt with text on it is a dud. Attractive or interesting images on a t-shirt, or a plain solid-color t-shirt, are fine.

― n.a. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i still like my jack daniels field tester tshirt, but it was bought new at the distillery with absolutely no ironic intent.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, even the genuinely-new chain-store t-shirts have converted to being like 75% fake-vintage, either in a full-on distressed "pretending to be vintage" way or that weird wink-wink ironic faux-vintage way (where it's like a fake summer-camp shirt but it says "Old Navy Summer Camp 87" or something).

I can't think of a single new t-shirt that says stuff on it that I would buy. Apart from selected band t-shirts. That's pretty much it.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I have this t-shirt (well, actually I have two of them) for my friends' band. The band was called How the West Was Lost, but since they are indie, the band name on the front has no vowels. So it reads H W TH W ST W S L ST. And pretty much every time I wear it, someone asks me what it means. So despite it being an awesome shirt, it's kind of a dud.

― n.a. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Sort've off topic here, but I saw a girl a couple of weeks ago wearing a one of theose "toy boy" belts (like the kind Madonna used to wear circa "Lucky Star"), only instead of "Star" or "Babe" or "Bling" or anything like that, it simply read BIBLE, which scared me.

Urban Outfitters is a fucking scourge.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

A belt that says "BIBLE" is kind of awesome.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Ally is your friend Usher?

― n.a. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i used to have a shirt that said 'blount...james blount' on it! and in my bike/breakdancing gang in third grade we used to cut the sleeves off our t-shirts and then write 'beat it' on them! grrr!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

A belt that says "BIBLE" is kind of awesome.

I find it unspeakably creepy.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a BIBLE BELT people! Can I get one with "RUST" on it?

― n.a. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i see all kinds of hipster accoutrements modified to read "WWJD"

well, not that often, but it happens

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't believe everyone but n.a. was sleeping on the "bible belt" pun

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a pair of underpants that say "WWJD" on the back. My mom bought them for me. She was being ironic :\

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The Old Navy ironic shirts are great for work or any activity where they're going to get torn up or painted on. Soft, light and cheap.

http://www.moonlightgraham.com/ - where the line between ironic and throwback gets blurred.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

some of those moonlight graham tees are nice (too pricy for me though).

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a pair of underpants that say "WWJD" on the back. My mom bought them for me. She was being ironic :\

So, when used unironically, are these supposed to function as anal sex chastity belts?

― n.a. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

that's why it was ironic!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought a used mechanic's shirt once with a patch that said "Bruce" and it freaked out all these people who even knew my name and they'd be like -- wait, is your name really bruce and not even ironic about it. And then the ppl that were "ironic" about it were even worse!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you suggesting that that young lady's "bible" belt was being worn ironically? (i.e. "get it? It's a Bible Belt! har har!") I took it as a more literal endorsement, personally.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if she was wearing it ironically, but the manufacturers almost certainly intended the pun. The word "Bible" by itself seems like an odd choice for something intended to be pro-religion or whatever. I guess it's possible though.

― n.a. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"yayyyyyyyyy BIBLE! go team go!"

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"leviticus 11:44" wouldn't really fit on a belt

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

but the manufacturers...

Err...you do know that these are custom made, right? You walk in to the store and tell them whatever word (I believe there's a five letter limit) and they...er...weld it together for you. It's not like there's some factory in Indonesia manufacturing Bible belts.

My friend has one that says "SCHMUCK".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh I didn't realize that's what you were talking about. In that case, the pun was probably just a case of beautiful synchronicities in the world colliding or something. It kind of makes me appreciate it more.

― n.a. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost - that's seven letters.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.yukka.co.uk/images/customgear.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

there's always the possibility that you misread it, too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Never worn an ironic T-shirt in my life. I do honestly like the bands!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

there's always the possibility that you misread it, too.

No, it very definetely said "bible".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe it was "BIBBIE" and it was in honor of her grandmother.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

...or maybe she's a big Tolkienophile, and it read "BILBO", but no....it very definetely said "Bible".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

what are you doing looking at young girls' "swimsuit areas" anyway? You're married!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost - that's seven letters.
-- hstencil (hstenc!...), August 25th, 2004.

that would explain the rash of "SCHMU" belts

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

"leviticus 11:44" wouldn't really fit on a belt

I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy. Do not make yourselves unclean by any creature that moves about on the ground.

"Unclean by any creature that moves about on the ground" would make for a fun t-shirt.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.schmoo.org/schmoo6.gif

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

campo fribbington 1988

― 160 posts after the fact.... (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

what are you doing looking at young girls' "swimsuit areas" anyway? You're married!

Hey man, I can still look.....besides, it's hard to miss an oversized, shiny, bejeweled belt bearing block capital letters.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

dude I was setting you up for a "that's below the belt" joke, oh well.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Does "No pricks" in small lettering underneath a cartoon of a porcupine cut the mustard?

― Krusty, Thursday, 26 August 2004 06:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think it was ironic, but I saw a girl wearing a shirt last week with a picture of a pirate (hat, eye-patch, big mustache, in need of a shave, hoop earing, etc.) and beneath it read:

"PIRATES ARRRRRRRRRRRRRE COOL!"

....which made me laugh.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 26 August 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

is that ironic or just, y'know, fun?

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Thursday, 26 August 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the latter.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

the only t-shirt with any sort of message on it i have is a red t with white iron on letters that says "I'M EXCELLENT". because i am.

really, ask h. excellent.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I've become a really big fan of white hanes t-shirts with weird shit written on them in sharpie. I bought a 3-pack yesterday, and I'm trying to think up ideas. So far, all I've got is:

"Yeah, I'm pervving on you." for the back of one. That allows 5 other spaces. Ideas?

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, otto is excellent, it's true.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

(thanks h, check's in the mail)

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I want that pirate t-shirt!

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I want ideas! Would writing the pirate one be acceptable, or would it dilute the coolness of the idea?

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Friday, 27 August 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I made a pretty cool shirt once with a crude duct tape stencil and red spray paint. It had a stick drawing of a shark and said SHARK REVOLUTION on it. It ended up being too small for me though.

― n.a. (Nick A.), Friday, 27 August 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

jeremy, dude, people have been doing that for years , so just write anything. maybe "nobody walks in La" and wearit while you walk everywhere, or did you get your car yet?

― kephm, Friday, 27 August 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i once wrote "check out my filas" on my white t shirt (and i was always wearing combat boots) but that was more of an inside joke than anything

― kephm, Friday, 27 August 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Finally got the car, but I'm too poor to afford gas. So I'm back to square zero, or one. Oh, I know what I can write on one:

Tragicomic shit.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Friday, 27 August 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

http://www.collegegear.com/sf/stores/product_images/164967.jpg

― Filey Camp, Friday, 7 September 2007 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

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