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AIBU to ask what you think of this t-shirt slogan?

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SardineQueen · 05/08/2011 15:56

Walking through the high street at 3pm today, I saw a young man with this written on his T-shirt:

Tell your tits to stop staring at me

AIBU to ask you whether you find this:

  1. funny
  1. grim

or something else?

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Columbia999 · 05/08/2011 16:27

I had to explain to one of our agency workers once why it wasn't a good idea to go to work in a care home wearing an Ol' Dirty Bastard tee shirt, featuring a pair of hands grabbing a large pair of boobs!

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SardineQueen · 05/08/2011 16:28

Thinking about it I might have reacted slightly differently if the bloke wearing it was a friendly harmless looking chap out with his mates in the pub. I would have rolled my eyes a bit, and thought it was sad.

This bloke was out by himself in the shopping centre in the middle of the afternoon and didn't look friendly or jokey IYSWIM.

I still don't get the blow job one. Is there even a joke there?

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LolaRennt · 05/08/2011 16:28

You can't imagine a woman walking around with a shirt that says tell your cock to stop staring at me can you?

You know whats weird. Just had a thought but I think i if I saw a girl wearing the tshirt mentioned in the OP, I woudl find it funny. Guess I'm a bit sexist. hmm

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 05/08/2011 16:30

I once spent an entire hour discussing with my friend why the (hideous) man who'd passed us earlier would want to wear a t-shirt that said "How long does it take a woman to come? I don't care"

B52s · 05/08/2011 16:30

sad, but, it may have been the only clean thing he had.

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SardineQueen · 05/08/2011 16:30

Women don't generally go around staring at men's cocks, to the point that the men feel uncomfortable and have to ask them to stop, is the difference.

And in this case the man is pre-empting women asking him to stop staring at their tits, with his t-shirt. It says I'm going to stare at your tits and don't bother telling me you don't like it.

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ElephantsAndMiasmas · 05/08/2011 16:31

The blow job one sounds like someone advocating giving blowjobs for money, but surely no-one would want to advertise their 12 year old as a gay sex worker would they?

Or would they? I'm out of touch with these modern parents :o

rubyrubyruby · 05/08/2011 16:31

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Ormirian · 05/08/2011 16:32

I don't understand it. Sorry. It makes no sense

HedleyLamarr · 05/08/2011 16:39

I saw one that read

Heart of gold
Nerves of steel
Knob of butter

I must admit that I chuckled.

RoundOrangeHead · 05/08/2011 16:42

I saw a woman wearing one that said 'yes, they are real'

elmofan · 05/08/2011 16:50

Grin ruby

squeakytoy · 05/08/2011 16:52

I once had an FCUK top which said in small print Fit Chick Unbelievable Knockers.. Grin

It was very tight, and I was a size 10 with 36DD boobs, so it amused me ...

giyadas · 05/08/2011 16:57

grim, and adding to the sexist wallpaper that surrounds us on a daily basis.

BertieBotts · 05/08/2011 16:57

Hedley does the wearer of that one possess an unfortunate inability to become hard unless he is standing in a fridge?

jellihejj · 05/08/2011 17:00

Personally I find it amusing, I don't have a problem with that sort of thing. My partner is one of many men that wear tshirts like that. He actually has 'the man the legend' shirt too. I don't generally get bothered since I've got more important issues to worry about.

HedleyLamarr · 05/08/2011 17:05

I have no idea BertieBotts, he was walking the opposite way to me. Hmm, maybe I should've asked. Smile

HappySeven · 05/08/2011 17:08

Years ago I saw a student wearing "Vidi, Vici, Veni". It tickled me at the time (GCSE Latin finally useful) but I'm guessing most people under 60 wouldn't understand what it meant and it might offend those who did.

I like the knob of butter one.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 05/08/2011 17:16

Is it a joke? I dont get it... is it funny? Confused

bestmate · 05/08/2011 17:19

Not a problem if he had it on at 9pm in a bar, but in the afternoon in a shopping area, it's shameful, he obviously doesn't have a very respectable mother!

MorticiaAddams · 05/08/2011 17:22

It made me smile.

giyadas · 05/08/2011 17:26

or I would think he obviously has a father with a disrespectful attitude to women, bestmate.
Actually I wouldn't think that, I would think the sexism he is displaying is his own attitude which he should take responsibility for, without automatically looking around for a woman to blame.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 05/08/2011 17:47

I don't understand it. I understand the Latin one, think it's crass but each to their own. I just don't get the one in the OP. Will some kind person tell me what it means, please?

limitedperiodonly · 05/08/2011 17:51

I just saw a bloke in a T shirt that said 'It's been a hard day's night and I've been shagging like dog.'

He was with a girl who I took to be his girlfriend. What was she doing with him? I'd have refused to walk with him unless he turned it inside out and then burned it when he got home.

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SardineQueen · 05/08/2011 18:41

Lying it's to do with the famous complaint by women that men talk to their breasts rather than to them, or stare at their chests rudely in general.

The idea is that if a woman said to this man "stop staring at my tits", he would say in reply "tell your tits to stop staring at me".

By putting it on the tshirt, he is pre-empting any complaints from women whose tits he stares at, by getting his "clever" response in first. So what he's saying is, he's going to stare at women's tits, and by displaying on his t-shirt what his response will be if they challenge him, he's saying don't bother challenging me as I won't react how you want me to, I won't stop doing it.

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