your ban will really kill the market for my "romney loves chachi" t-shirt.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 26 July 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
i guess i don't really get what your point is other than contrarianism?
guess i don't see why this is a whole thread and not just a single post on the IA thread
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 26 July 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
actually I wish I had a shirt that just said "I Miss the Holy Vag of Rue MAclanahan"
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 26 July 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
it's not about 'ccol points' it's about constructing your social identity using cultural references
Ding ding ding!
We're on a message board where a significant portion of the users have band tshirts on right now. Me wearing a Dinosaur Jr shirt works the same for me as wearing a Black Mesa or New California Republic shirt.
Or even this :
http://rlv.zcache.com/hojo_clan_mon_blue_tshirt-p235625217682413192en7po_210.jpg
which works for fans of either Zelda or Sengoku-era clans
― Steam Sale Jonesin' (kingfish), Thursday, 26 July 2012 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
I've seen some cool Firefly/Serenity shirts that work as designs and not just nerd signifiers.
Woot or Teefury had an Indiana Jones shirt I almost ordered - all the chalices and the one sad cup from the Holy Grail scene of the Last Crusade
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 26 July 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
I order way too many teefury shirts. And I do their get a random shirt deals.
― Jeff, Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
who has the best shirts for the price would you guys say?
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
I like seeing people wearing these shirts! Like I saw someone wearing a 'Mr Manager' shirt and it made me smile. What was the first show to do this? I remember seeing the Sunnydale High ones a million years ago and thinking that was sweet. It's less annoying than this kind of thing:
http://www.shotdeadinthehead.com/product_view.aspx?pid=4526
― kinder, Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
I bought my brother a Nostromo tshirt or something from Alien. Looked kind of cool. He likes the film. It's a great film.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
It's not really advertising though; you'd have to know the "meta product" pretty well already to recognise it. It's a total geek thing.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 26 July 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
I'm wearing an in-jokey t-shirt right now. It's not this one, but I'd wear this one:
http://rlv.zcache.com/miskatonic_university_t_shirt_tshirt-p235954220874632309b7hwh_400.jpg
Why? Because I like the idea of someone seeing the shirt and thinking, "That is a thing I like, too!" and I like kinder, I like seeing other people wearing these shirts. So it's connecting with people with similar interests even if we don't actually talk to each other? Also I guess it's a slightly more subtle way of expressing what I like than walking around saying "I LIKE HP LOVECRAFT" or putting that on a button.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Friday, 27 July 2012 13:33 (eleven years ago) link
This is the shirt I'm wearing today, on casual Friday. I stand strong before your judgment:
http://stacieponder.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/casualT.jpg
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Friday, 27 July 2012 13:34 (eleven years ago) link
and I like kinder
That should say "and like kinder," although I do like kinder.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Friday, 27 July 2012 13:35 (eleven years ago) link
Oh also I think that t-shirts that reference things in movies/tv tend to be more attractive than t-shirts that just have the name of the movie or show on them. Like, I'd rather wear this shirt that references Quark's Bar located on Deep Space 9:
http://i2.cpcache.com/product/473383949/star_trek_deep_space_9_quarks_bar_tshirt.jpg
Thank this one:
http://store.startrek.com/images/products/4/62951-20.jpg
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Friday, 27 July 2012 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
somebody should make tshirts that just say "I LIKE HP LOVECRAFT" or "I like Star Trek", without any logos or images, just black text on a white shirt.
― aspiring barkitect (silverfish), Friday, 27 July 2012 13:50 (eleven years ago) link
or maybe just "I like ___________" and anybody can just write whatever they want directly on the shirt
― aspiring barkitect (silverfish), Friday, 27 July 2012 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
I have a more-than-healthy number of Star Wars t-shirts, but I try to look for original-looking stuff. Like this is one of my favorite shirts:
http://fashionablygeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/feeding-the-chicken-walkers.jpg?cb5e28
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Friday, 27 July 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
I am pretty sure I'd wear a shirt that says I LIKE STAR TREK.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Friday, 27 July 2012 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
I'd wear this shirt:
http://www.entertainmentearth.com/images/AUTOIMAGES/TRCBS154lg.jpg
― Jeff, Friday, 27 July 2012 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
haha i kind of love the 'straight' deep space 9 shirt
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Friday, 27 July 2012 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
and also just to refer to something n/a said upthread, i would assume the % of ppl who wear a given t-shirt because of where the proceeds from its purchase are likely to go is extremely low, regardless of whether it's a 'corporate' shirt or an indie rock one
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Friday, 27 July 2012 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
Me too! I was just thinking "I would wear that"....
― LISTEN TO THIS BRAD (Nicole), Friday, 27 July 2012 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
I'd only wear the DS9 shirt if it had Jadzia on it.
― Jeff, Friday, 27 July 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
I have a similar fondness of that style of horror t-shirts.
Haha - http://www.tshirtbordello.com/Stephen-King-Rules-T-Shirt
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Friday, 27 July 2012 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
― aspiring barkitect (silverfish), Friday, July 27, 2012 1:50 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you used to see those LISTEN TO BLACK SABBATH shirts in the 90s quite a bit, they fitted this description
― price lo matalan (DJ Mencap), Friday, 27 July 2012 14:18 (eleven years ago) link
I think the logo/inside joke shirts show off a deeper or more knowing kind of fandom. Like if you're wearing a Greendale Human Beings shirt then you're broadcasting your fandom to a smaller set of people than if you just wore a Community shirt. It's a bit like when I wear my shirt that says UYD: Seatbelts I know most people are not going to know what it means, but if someone says, "Seatbelts!" then there's an immediate connection.
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Friday, 27 July 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
I dunno, I had my fair share of band t shirts when I was younger, but I guess at a certain point the very idea of "constructing your social identity through cultural references" began to seem fraught and no longer as desirable.
― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Friday, 27 July 2012 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
I have two - for lack of a less-horrifying terms - 'mash up' kind of shirts, where I construct my social identity using multiple cultural references at once:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/Y2NA1ciNolgoj0yeUm9oOQ3Vo1_500.jpg
http://nerdapproved.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/beach-boys-black-flag-t-shirt.jpg
I suppose, for people who cringe at this kind of thing, the two-for-one shirts must be extra brutal.
― Walter Galt, Friday, 27 July 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
Now I want a shirt with both of those on the same shirt.
no one should wear t-shirts with logos or writing on them, ever
this
― what makes you think its a pun (Lamp), Friday, 27 July 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
i saw someone the other day wearing an otherwise plain white t shirt with this image of tifa lockhart on it:
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/1/10381/527788-tifa_large.jpg
somehow he was making it work, tho, it was odd
― thomp, Friday, 27 July 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
hc nerd shirts are cool:
http://www.1999.co.jp/itbig10/10105983.jpg
but kindof in a different bracket imm
― what makes you think its a pun (Lamp), Friday, 27 July 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://images.stylinonline.com/t-shirt-dungeons-and-dragons-fantasy-game-shr.jpg
― thomp, Friday, 27 July 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
nice idea on a message board, but it just doesn't work in reality.
― how's life, Friday, 27 July 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
i own a shirt i could legit be hated for i think
― thomp, Friday, 27 July 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
http://rlv.zcache.co.uk/isapi/designall.dll?rlvnet=1&realview=113980594307291406&design=9088c8a7-8b2f-4c0a-befd-d76cc8a72121&style=basic_tshirt_light&size=&color=brown&pending=false&pdt=zazzle_shirt&max_dim=512
― thomp, Friday, 27 July 2012 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
do people ask you if you play tennis a lot?
― how's life, Friday, 27 July 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
Is that how you walk?
― ledge, Friday, 27 July 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
only when i wear that shirt
― thomp, Friday, 27 July 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
i actually live in fear of this happening and having to explain 'er no, actually it's from the novel by the deceased american writer david foster wallace', it is one of the reasons i do not wear this shirt much
― thomp, Friday, 27 July 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
Dude is in the middle of doing the Rerun dance.
http://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/35476_o.gifhttp://gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/35476_o.gif
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Friday, 27 July 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.founditemclothing.com/t-shirts/gfx/repo-man-beer-shirt/repo-man-beer-shirt-lg.jpg
― omar little, Friday, 27 July 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
why is that printed on a heather grey shirt, even
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 27 July 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
with a stripe
― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Friday, 27 July 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
man this fan-generated product design is BULLSHIT
heather grey tees are always a dud imo no matter what the design may be
― omar little, Friday, 27 July 2012 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
I had a "WHATSAMATTA U" shirt in high school.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 27 July 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
http://origin.kaboodle.com/hi/img/b/0/0/14e/5/AAAAC4ftpPsAAAAAAU5VHw.png?v=1303426525000
― °™ (Pillbox), Friday, 27 July 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
I received this shirt as a gift because the gifter knew I was a fan of that book; it was an awkward moment. I wore it a couple times around the house. I get more IA re the kind of person who would MAKE AND SELL a shirt like this than the kind of person who would wear it, though.
― cwkiii, Friday, 27 July 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
I received this shirt as a gift because the gifter knew I was a fan of that book; it was an awkward moment
ayup
― thomp, Friday, 27 July 2012 17:44 (eleven years ago) link