The feminists in particular seem to be seething over a range of T-shirt slogans:
"One warns that police are "targeting fat chicks", another urges people to "get over" the death of Princess Diana. A provocative new range of T-shirts, created by Sydney-based businessmen Peter Legras and Adam Hunt, have been on sale for just a week but already they are being described as "rude and revolting" by critics.
The clothing, available through the "goatboy" website, has met with a different response online though, with the site being featured by a number of international bloggers.
Mr Hunt, a former advertising executive, said the shirts, bearing 14 different designs or logos, retailed for $49 and $59. The controversial nature of the slogans is addressed in a disclaimer on the site, which reads: "If anyone gets offended by our designs, we'd like to humbly point out that you're wasting your righteous indignation on a bloody T-shirt, when you should save it for something that actually matters."
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Note: "Bloody" is an Australian and British expletive with a meaning similar to "goddam".
4 comments:
I am sure the out cry will reach the same level as there was with the "Boys are stupid" T-shirts
$59 Aust for a T-Shirt? How many crazy people would pay that for a T-Shirt?
Mobius
Hello Good Gentles All!
Hello Mobius!
"$59 Aust for a T-Shirt?"
Perhaps their real motto is, "People are suckers."
I looked at the products. Nothing anywhere near worthy of such an ado.
A motley collection of trite and irrelevent political comments along the lines of "you can't hug your children with nuclear arms." Entirely correct and so gratingly stupid as to merit no further comment.
I suspect this site will get a lot less angry press than one might suppose because the majority of the products have a severely leftist bent.
However, I do completely support their right to market t-shirts festooned with empty, moronic platitudes to gullible suckers.
(I really need to open that Hitler themed merchandise web site.)
Pax,
InFides
And an oldy but a goodie.
The Fighting Whities.
An Indian college in northern Colorado, decided to let whitey see what it felt like to have their sport team to be named "The Fighting Whities".
Turned out that that had a hit and strong demand for the T-Shirts.
So either they could refuse it, or accept it, and they accepted it and now the T-Shirt sales are funding a scholarship program and these t-shirts only cost $23.
Mobius
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