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AIBU to LIKE t-shirts with slogans?

25 replies

MitchyInge · 17/06/2010 17:02

Am particularly pleased with new one: sticks and stones may break my bones but whips and spurs EXCITE me

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diamondsandtiaras · 17/06/2010 17:03

I wouldn't wear it but love the slogan. YANBU......you can wear what you bloody well like

5inthebackofthenet · 17/06/2010 17:04

YANBU
As long as they are tasteful, nothing wrong at all.

notso · 17/06/2010 17:09

I had that in my darker days, also one like the Purple Silk Cut logo but it said Fucking Sick Slut. My mum did not approve- I was 15

SloanyPony · 17/06/2010 17:20

I was gifted a "mummy drinks because I cry" t-shirt for DS when he was about 6 months old. Its kinda stating the obvious though.

isitnearlywineoclock · 17/06/2010 17:23

Yes. They are bloody awful. Get your sorry arse down to Laura Ashley PDQ.

LynetteScavo · 17/06/2010 17:26

I hate them.

A dad at school wears one saying "cover me in chocolate and throw me to the lesbians"

Er..I don't think the lesbians want you mate.

Another dad was wearing one saying "Simon says lets get naked"

I nearly vomited.

maduggar · 17/06/2010 17:29

Love them (innocent funny ones) on kids, hate them on adults.

I do love retro cartoon tees though

Firawla · 17/06/2010 17:33

i only like them on kids, and if its a suitable slogan, not keen on them for adults. i would never wear any but others can wear what they like im not too bothered
ewww @ those dads though! i dont think that is appropriate at school at all. they should keep it for the pub or wherever they go, if they want to wear it :\

5DollarShake · 17/06/2010 17:37

YABU. Some of the slogans are, admittedly, hilarious. Put them on a t-shirt though, and they immediately become un-hilarious and incredibly naff to boot. Troof.

MitchyInge · 17/06/2010 17:41

MN is bad influence on me, makes me want to try Greggs sausage rolls (even though I hate sausage rolls) do up all the windows in a car full of children and smoke heavily, feed the children squash (the drink) with artificial sweeteners in. It is opening up whole new fields of

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TheBride · 17/06/2010 17:50

The worst one is the one that (sad) men wear that has an arrow pointing to their crotch that says

"Wish you were here?"

It's always some total skank wearing them- someone you wouldnt touch with someone else's bargepole.

Drivermamsstorytrain · 17/06/2010 17:59

A mam in the doctors this morning was wearing a t shirt stating ' remember my name you'll be screaming it later'. I hate them. Particularly the mysoginistic filth that men seem to get away with promoting.

BessieBoots · 17/06/2010 18:02

I hate them on adults and kids. Except when they're Welsh, of course...

JaxTellersOldLady · 17/06/2010 18:04

I like some slogan t shirts, but not the sexist ones as stated in the posts above!

My friends DH has one that says "I love tea" which is hilarious (to me) as he is a total tea jenny. I even commented that I should get one for DH.

overmydeadbody · 17/06/2010 18:08

Depends on the slogan.

Hate ones with sexual conotations and the mysogenistic ones.

Like geeky ones and culty ones though.

Hate ones on kids like 'He did it' or 'yeah yeah yeah whatever' or ;I'm not listening' etc. It's always the difficult kids who wear them at school too.

prettyfly1 · 17/06/2010 18:19

Mitchy - are we being banned from giving our children squash - dammit! What am I supposed to bribe him with during his two hours a day in front of ben ten now!!!!!

I love these t-shirts if for instance I am going to the pub but NOT in the playground at my ds primary school where other children can read them - we see them as ironic - they read them as troof.

zerominuszero · 17/06/2010 19:48

Don't like them myself but I do quite like the one you found. I suppose if there was a slogan I REALLY liked I might go for it. I've always wanted to wear a "Don't Let The Racists Win" t shirt in front of some of my more obscure in laws who are slightly racist (against white people, as it happens) but can't be bothered. Also, I only see them at Christmas.

zerominuszero · 17/06/2010 19:48

Don't like them myself but I do quite like the one you found. I suppose if there was a slogan I REALLY liked I might go for it. I've always wanted to wear a "Don't Let The Racists Win" t shirt in front of some of my more obscure in laws who are slightly racist (against white people, as it happens) but can't be bothered. Also, I only see them at Christmas.

kimbles1984 · 17/06/2010 19:54

my friends partner has one that says "if i flip a coin, what are my chances of getting head" its horrible

MitchyInge · 18/06/2010 13:21

Ah mine is just for riding in. Think is sending out wrong message though as horse I rode yesterday had a hard on for almost entire lesson!

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Sidge · 18/06/2010 13:44

Oh some slogan T-shirts are quite funny.

My friend's DH has one that says in blurry writing "I'm not as think as you drunk I am".

DH has one that says "Save our planet. It's the only one with beer".

I don't like ones that are overtly sexual or have swearing on them, and I must be the only person in the world that purses her lips at the FCUK ones.

biddysmama · 18/06/2010 14:40

i like some childrens ones.... ds has one that has a monkey in a beret and says "viva le evolution" made me laugh

lazarusb · 18/06/2010 16:35

I have one that says 'hard work never killed anybody...it certainly won't get me'. I used to wear it to a playgroup because there was a couple there who boasted about having lots of money while neither of them worked. I was being ironic...I have 2 part-time jobs, study and run a part-time business, as well as the playgroup at that point. I wasn't being judgey, just irritated because they weren't nice people.

AndreaisSlowlyLosingIt · 18/06/2010 17:12

My husband has 3 of these "I have the body of a god, Shame its a Buddah!" "Good Moaning last night" and "Back to the pub" in Back to the future dvd title style writing.

BingumyAndThob · 19/06/2010 21:36

About 10 years ago my DH had a passerby get down on his knees in front of him in the street because DH was wearing an atari t shirt. The chap was a Japanese tourist, who was mad on video games and he was so impressed with DH... he wanted to take his photo too... he was very effusive.

Wasn't in London or anything, just down a quiet suburban road in the midlands... very quite surreal.

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