rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

$$ shave club = so effing cute, so funny, my dating woes are over! Now who is that guy again?

urdu script is recognizably related to arabic script but also recognizably not identical. the internet is telling me there is more than one form for farsi script? but at least one of those looks identical to arabic script to me. so the meaning of the word on the hoodie could be breakfast?

Wd wear

but v4hid identifed it as an arabic word and he reads farsi, so maybe it's def not farsi.

i don't think the shirt is racist but i am confused. does the company market shirts in the west?

what happened, etc.

Not that i speak Arabic, but it's definitely 'subhan' as in 'subhan allah'.

Is it meant to convey the idea that, like the word, other things are meaningless without god? Is it a comment on censorship? Is it suggestive of a void at the heart of the human experience? Is it just something that someone saw written down somewhere and thought it looked cool?

xps, it's Supreme - a NY streetwear brand.

i know, right? i need to know!

xp

arabic is a beautiful language, so maybe it is just that someone thought it looked cool, but that kind of thing drives me insane. meaning! meaning is important!

Okay but I would still wear a shirt that said "breakfast."

afaik, Supreme works with quite a few visual artists so there's a good chance there was some kind of meaning behind it.

i need like museum curator notes on that shirt

ty ShariVari, btw

walking around all yeah that's right breakfast when in fact it says "asshole"

is that arabic word "subhan" meaning "glory"?

― horseshoe, Thursday, March 8, 2012 5:51 PM

and the camel shorts were supreme, just wondering if this may be an attempt to translate the brand name? their logo is also white text on red too, so

i love how this is the 2nd great thread derail based on a Supreme clothing design this month: thread for pics of Drake looking ridiculous

just wondering if this may be an attempt to translate the brand name?

gotta be

lorne michaels could do a lot worse than to hire the dollar shave club guy

he likely couldn't afford him!

i am now searching obsessively for a shirt that just says "breakfast" (in english)

it would immediately become my favorite shirt + i would buy two

breakfast, in english
http://englishbreakfast.bigcartel.com/product/english-breakfast-t-shirt

I like this, but prob wouldn't wear it
http://room909.com/breakfast-t-shirt-2

http://maryerobbins.typepad.com/.a/6a00e5538f6f69883401156fa05e4d970c-pi

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

incredible

I think I have been to craft fairs where the vendors of the breakfast in arabic shirt have had a booth.

this shirt has an

egg

on it as a picture

fabulous shirt but the graphic is terribly placed
don't want to put the breakfast out on my front porch

and 99 other euphemisms rarely used

may as well just go the whole hog and make it two sunnyside up eggs

imagining all the multisex people bummed by the strict "unisex only" policy governing shirt sales

eggs goin ham

lol

arabic breakfast probably not goin ham

lolportland. of course this booth exists at saturday market

xp or to the dogs

err maybe that says "rockland", nm

may as well just go the whole hog and make it two sunnyside up eggs

http://www.the-rudy.com/images/pavement_sunny-side-up.jpg

My local sports team has innoculated me to the hilarity of this phenomenon. ;_;

yeah tbh by front porch I meant my gut
hate shirts with designs on the tum-tum, I'm not Arabic Breakfast Bear in the Care Bears

hahaha

http://www.dumpt.com/img/files/cqh7ioxf3jm0a8p87als_thumb.jpg

omg

A++ work, phild

new arrivals will wonder why phild thinks breakfast bear is racist

the scimitar is a lovely touch that nudges it right up to the borderline where racist meets ridiculous

^ yup

the farsi word for breakfast is actually probably more closely transliterated as sobooneh rather than subhaneh, the second is like a very posh pronunciation of the word and i didn't mean to imply there's any connection between the two words (aside from being false cognates)

the shorts being supreme is part of what made me think they might be "camel jockey" pants since supreme likes to court controversy and wind people up (one of their popular logo they've used for a few seasons now just says "Fuck You!")

is that bear on his away to decapitate infidel bear?