rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

can we get a "cool stuff about arabic that I know" thread from the people who know stuff about arabic because that is really interesting and cool to me

― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, March 8, 2012 12:04 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cosign

ex gf was learning Arabic and it was really interesting to hear about; languages in general are fascinating to me, esp since I failed so hard to achieve my dream of being bilingual by the time I graduated college

now I just have a bi roommate

yes to this!

I like the "I'm good at tennis *whiff*" part

I am guessing she actually works there because she does not seem like someone who was cast for some role, she seems like someone who was told 5 minutes before it was happening that she was gonna be on camera

also she is on the verge of cracking up throughout the entire thing

We need to stop the presses on the all-time comedy poll and add this video.

outside of everything else, it's kinda a cool business idea?

The first time I saw the "not working"/"working" scene I thought Alejandra was providing a rickshaw ride, which was odd.

i would wear a hoodie that said "Breakfast" in arabic, farsi, or any language

food shirts

but is a food shirt? i should probably scroll up and find out what the camel thing was about.

i would wear a hoodie that said "Breakfast" in arabic, farsi, or any language

― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, March 8, 2012 12:50 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

YES

i was just riffing on this:

i don't speak arabic, i speak farsi, but from what i know about words from the quran it's probably not exactly the same as our "glory"

in farsi subhaneh means "breakfast"

― the late great, Thursday, March 8, 2012 7:55 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah but v4hid's post made me wonder if it was supposed to be a breakfast shirt! is farsi script identical to arabic script or just similar?

I think it's like Chinese characters in that it's...both of those

$$ 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