Is It Just Me Or Is This A Disgrace??
Ok so I go to this site all the time and all the time I buy t-shirts, I have loads, like at least 20, I even bought one yesterday for my roomdawg's birthday, and then....I saw it, this disgrace of a t-shirt, now I am all for the old un P.C jokes and the taking the piss, but I actually was disgusted, and so were all of my team in work when I showed them, apart from one stupid person who didn't get it, and was like "what's the story with that?"
Anyway, I emailed threadless yesterday to give out shite basically, they still haven't gotten back to me, hmmmm!!
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Thanks for the heads up, I've just ordered two.
I think you might be overreacting a bit though. It's all fairly armless.
*boom*
*tish*
Posted by: Twenty Major | September 19, 2006 12:44 PM
IT IS YOU
Posted by: Mr T | September 19, 2006 12:55 PM
yeah I don't think that I am overeacting really, I think it's kind of sick to mock someone who has lost an arm, maybe you guys are sick too...
Posted by: Babs | September 19, 2006 1:02 PM
I don't think you're overreacting at all either. I don't think the t-shirt slogan is meant in a harmful way or anything, but I do think it's in very bad taste. Threadless should know better.
There are worse shirts out there though. Like this one.
Posted by: Matt | September 19, 2006 1:47 PM
Hmm, taste. It's relative.
I hate aniseed for example. Other (weird) people like it.
But yes, it is a little tasteless... the t-shirt, not aniseed.
Posted by: Gordon | September 19, 2006 2:38 PM
I hate all things aniseed, apart from Sambuca. It really is all relative.
As in if you put relatively little alchohol in something, it may taste nice...
Posted by: Matt | September 19, 2006 2:56 PM
ooh I love aniseed, mmm!!
Yeah the tshirt is for people with bad taste, and not in an un PC way just in a "I have no taste" way
Posted by: Babs | September 19, 2006 2:57 PM
So not really a bad taste way more of a no taste way then? As in like, tasteless?
Unlike aniseed.
Posted by: Matt | September 19, 2006 3:19 PM
yeah it's tasteless and also terrible, as in, the dude gets his arm ripped off in an accident, then spends a lot of time in rehab getting used to having only one arm, then teaches himself to play drums with only one arm, and then some shitebag thinks its cool / funny to make a joke out of it, the guy inspires people who have lost limbs to not give up you know, its not funny, it's horrible.
Unlike aniseed! (yum)
Posted by: Babs | September 19, 2006 3:38 PM
I wonder if the guy who designed the shirt would have been able to design a shirt if his arms were ripped off in a car accident? I'll wager a 'no'.
Aniseed is yokky. Unless it's in Sambuca.
Posted by: Matt | September 19, 2006 4:33 PM
Yeah that's what I meant by saying "I love aniseed". (sheesh!)
I would wager a no he wouldn't be laughing, I would also go so far as saying I hope that if for some strange reason (maybe Karma) his arms / legs get ripped off, that people point and laugh, all the time!! So there!
Posted by: Babs | September 19, 2006 4:48 PM
Well, to be fair, if said 'drummer' has learned to.. ohh I dunno, become a train driver, would we be bothered?
Aniseed is evil. End of. YEUCK.
Posted by: Gordon | September 19, 2006 9:20 PM
If you were open minded enought to purchase t-shirts from threadless previously, then you must have come across some similiar designs, I know I have while shopping there.
But to get all hot and bothered when a design not to your liking is printed seems a tad hypocritical to me.
I didnt like the Unicorns humping infront of the rainbow t-shirt...
but I do find the above mentioned design amusing.
Now is this funny?
Q. Have u ever saw Stevie Wonders wife?
A. No
PUNCHLINE: Neither has he.
Posted by: Mr T | September 19, 2006 10:21 PM
Well he was hardly going to learn how to be a bus driver now was he Gordon?
I think the Unicorn humping shirt was quite good, but I didn't like the yellow colour of the original print.
What was it that made you not like it? Was it offensive to you in some way? What's so offensive about two Unicorns having a shag?
Stevie Wonder learned how to sing and play the piano after he became blind. Rick Allen lost his arm in a car accident while he was the drummer for Def Leppard, just as they were breaking it big, and had to work for two years to learn how to drum with one arm.
I can see a bit of a difference there.
Posted by: Matt | September 19, 2006 11:54 PM
The t-shirt is so offensive as it is a personal slur on ONE person, this person has inspired a lot of people in similar situations to never give up hope. I don't see how laughing at other peoples disabilities is funny that's all.
Posted by: Babs | September 20, 2006 8:34 AM
It depends on the way you are laughing though. You can make jokes about people with disabilities that are funny to the disabled person too, something Bill Hicks and Denis Leary did all the time.
This shirt doesn't fall into that area though.
Posted by: Matt | September 20, 2006 10:25 AM
big swing matt!
u sholdnt let these things bother u.u r wastin space even talkin about it. bad taste gags r out there,nout u can do about it,and i dont think im sick cause i laughed a little
Posted by: chan | September 23, 2006 12:33 PM
I think the shirt is pretty funny actually and entirely harmless.
Posted by: Adrian | September 23, 2006 4:32 PM
Laughing a little is one thing, spending $15 dollars and proudly wearing a sick joke is entirely another.
Posted by: Matt | September 23, 2006 7:18 PM
Ahem....http://www.threadless.com/product/608/I_d_give_my_left_arm_to_play
So I guess they realised their mistake!!
Result!
Posted by: Babs | September 25, 2006 1:12 PM
It's the POWER OF THE BLOGOSPHERE! Or fear of a lawsuit, maybe.
You'd think they would've seen that one coming, wouldn't you?
Posted by: Matt | September 25, 2006 6:40 PM
yes you would have thought....maybe they are all a bit thick though!?
Posted by: Babs | September 26, 2006 8:33 AM
this person has inspired a lot of people in similar situations to never give up hope
Yeah, look at the dozens of one armed drummers there are in the pop world today.
And why would they be afraid of a lawsuit? What did they do that anyone could possibly take legal action over?
Posted by: Twenty Major | September 27, 2006 11:34 AM
Similar doesn't mean the same, I meant as in people who have also lost limbs, and or have a different disability. Not very clever are we Twenty Major?
Posted by: Babs | September 27, 2006 11:42 AM
Seeing as people have sued girl scouts for trying to sell them cookies, and won, I don't think taking the piss out of a world-famous musician losing his arm is necessarily exempt from a class-action suit.
Threadless is an American website. Americans have been known to sue for being fucking sneezed on. Use your imagination.
Posted by: Matt | September 27, 2006 3:43 PM
By 'we' do you mean 'you'?
Posted by: Twenty Major | September 27, 2006 4:16 PM
I think she means you.
Posted by: Matt | September 27, 2006 4:20 PM
By 'we' I mean you, as in YOU!!! Do you understand what I am saying? Having been in the NRH a few times and seeing people in these situations it opens your mind greatly, and then you see people like Rick Allen as inspiration for others, who are in similar (NOT THE SAME) situations, as in they have also lost limbs. It shows them not to give up on life because they have a disability.
Posted by: Babs | September 27, 2006 4:45 PM
Then she should have said 'you' and not 'we'. You can't accuse somebody of not being very clever and use the wrong pronoun.
It makes you look like the one who's not very clever.
Posted by: Twenty Major | September 27, 2006 5:18 PM
Have you never heard anyone using 'we' to mean 'you'? I think it's used in classic literature a fair bit, as in "how are we today, Mr. Darcy?" and such.
It's a sign of extreme cleverness.
Posted by: Matt | September 27, 2006 5:25 PM
Perhaps Mr Darcy is schizophrenic?
Posted by: Twenty Major | September 27, 2006 5:58 PM
I don't think so, but you could be right. He seems like an absolute bastard at first, but then he turns out to be alright.
It's known as 'the patronising we', in case you were wondering.
Posted by: Matt | September 27, 2006 6:04 PM
And I was trying to be patronising in a way! What a coincidence!!
Posted by: Babs | September 28, 2006 8:42 AM