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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?

horseshoe, Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:07 (fourteen years ago)

Wd wear

drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:07 (fourteen years ago)

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

horseshoe, Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:08 (fourteen years ago)

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

horseshoe, Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:09 (fourteen years ago)

what happened, etc.

horseshoe, Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:09 (fourteen years ago)

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?

Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:12 (fourteen years ago)

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

Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:12 (fourteen years ago)

i know, right? i need to know!

xp

horseshoe, Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:13 (fourteen years ago)

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!

horseshoe, Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:14 (fourteen years ago)

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

drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:14 (fourteen years ago)

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

Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:15 (fourteen years ago)

i need like museum curator notes on that shirt

horseshoe, Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:16 (fourteen years ago)

ty ShariVari, btw

horseshoe, Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:16 (fourteen years ago)

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

(he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:21 (fourteen years ago)

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 think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:26 (fourteen years ago)

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

⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:31 (fourteen years ago)

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

gotta be

Number None, Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:00 (fourteen years ago)

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

contenderizer, Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:18 (fourteen years ago)

he likely couldn't afford him!

Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:19 (fourteen years ago)

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

if you ever leave me peggy, leave some propane at my door (zachlyon), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:27 (fourteen years ago)

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

if you ever leave me peggy, leave some propane at my door (zachlyon), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:28 (fourteen years ago)

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

A BIG JOE JORDAN TYPE OF POSTER (onimo), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:44 (fourteen years ago)

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

contenderizer, Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:01 (fourteen years ago)

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

Aimless, Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:04 (fourteen years ago)

incredible

⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:15 (fourteen years ago)

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

tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 8 March 2012 23:57 (fourteen years ago)

this shirt has an

egg

on it as a picture

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 9 March 2012 00:01 (fourteen years ago)

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

Abarham Lincoln posing (Abbbottt), Friday, 9 March 2012 03:11 (fourteen years ago)

and 99 other euphemisms rarely used

Pup Shalom Dog Costume (forksclovetofu), Friday, 9 March 2012 03:14 (fourteen years ago)

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

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 9 March 2012 03:15 (fourteen years ago)

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

contenderizer, Friday, 9 March 2012 04:36 (fourteen years ago)

eggs goin ham

kony indie fuxx (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 9 March 2012 04:38 (fourteen years ago)

lol

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 9 March 2012 05:05 (fourteen years ago)

arabic breakfast probably not goin ham

joygoat, Friday, 9 March 2012 05:39 (fourteen years ago)

lolportland. of course this booth exists at saturday market

akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Friday, 9 March 2012 05:51 (fourteen years ago)

xp or to the dogs

Pup Shalom Dog Costume (forksclovetofu), Friday, 9 March 2012 05:51 (fourteen years ago)

err maybe that says "rockland", nm

akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Friday, 9 March 2012 05:53 (fourteen years ago)

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

Number None, Friday, 9 March 2012 13:15 (fourteen years ago)

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

(he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 9 March 2012 14:38 (fourteen years ago)

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

Abarham Lincoln posing (Abbbottt), Friday, 9 March 2012 14:38 (fourteen years ago)

hahaha

You're welcome child. It was just another day being your God (crüt), Friday, 9 March 2012 15:02 (fourteen years ago)

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

the Hilary Clinton of Ghostface Killahs (Phil D.), Friday, 9 March 2012 15:04 (fourteen years ago)

omg

catbus otm (gbx), Friday, 9 March 2012 19:23 (fourteen years ago)

A++ work, phild

Aimless, Friday, 9 March 2012 19:33 (fourteen years ago)

new arrivals will wonder why phild thinks breakfast bear is racist

(he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 9 March 2012 19:36 (fourteen years ago)

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

Aimless, Friday, 9 March 2012 19:42 (fourteen years ago)

^ yup

Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Friday, 9 March 2012 19:44 (fourteen years ago)

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!")

the late great, Friday, 9 March 2012 20:13 (fourteen years ago)

is that bear on his away to decapitate infidel bear?

the late great, Friday, 9 March 2012 20:14 (fourteen years ago)

on his way, obviously

there are a lot of good pics of wheelchair jimmy looking like a douche in supreme ... DERAIL!!

http://plussixone.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/fresh-celeb-drake-supreme-zebra-jacket-3.jpg?w=590

the late great, Friday, 9 March 2012 20:15 (fourteen years ago)


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