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gothicmorman
Fanatic   Posts: 233 Registered: 11/7/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 5/5/2006 at 04:12 AM |
OH YEAH, those shirts are so stupid. and so pointless.
the schizophrenia ones still bother me the most though I really have to
say.
I volunteered for the British Columbia Schizophrenia Society the other
week, every year Campion donates a boat to them so they can raffle it off
to raise money so I got to sit in the mall 3 different days for eight hours
each day and stare the people in extra foods. Apparantly nobody cares about
Schizophrenia enough to even come look at the FREE READING MATERIAL we had
all over the desk - I think I talked to 2 people that were actually
interested in the subject itself instead of the boat.
On another note I probably spent more time in the mall in those three days
than I have in at least the last 4 years.
In the last year or two though they have erected a small stand in a
crossroads down the way from the ever popular HMV and SportChek and right
next to Purdy's Chocolate. This stand is solely for the purpose of selling
these shirts. It's one of those things like the GAP - keep a good 7-12 foot
radius at all times!
What I did see at Sakura-con in Seattle at the end of March (a Japanese
Anime Convention) were some awesome geek shirts. What makes me less ack
about geek shirts is not really that less people have them, quite a few
people in fact have them though they are much less common. What makes me
like them is the originality and wit that comes on them.
Onigiri Shirts for instance. --> http://www.cafepress.com/sushishirtsxd/883430
I want one. Its original, it's witty, you have to actually know something
about another culture to get it. They sell all kinds of food shirts. But
onigiri's are my favourite.
Buttons and Stickers - lots of buttons/stickers these days are kind of
lame, band ones - most of them just say the name and have a band logo.
Other than that they don't really sell to many stickers/buttons to the
public that are for something other than being userful. Some of the buttons
at this convention were just text - which I found pretty lame. Things like
XD or O.o or I <3 Pantsu. Some of the stickers too - just popular anime
characters or black and white text. (Though I admit I got a fancy green o.O
sticker, it was 50cents!)
Some buttons though were mini versions of peoples intricate and beautiful
drawings or they were small drawings - my favourite Button I got is of a
cat peering out of a boot - it goes along with a keychain of the same cat
diving into the boot on one side and being head first in the boot on the
other.
Gotta admit there wasn't really any BRILLIANT stickers... the best one I
have really is the old take off the "Hello my name is" sticker. It says
"Hello my name is ______ and I'm addicted to pocky." Which I am not really
since they don't sell pocky anywhere near me that I am aware of, but I do
love pocky and they didn't HAVE one for Tea.
All the same the point is that these shirts and buttons and stickers and
keychains and all the lovely stuff you that can get at conventions are
really quite the same as the stuff you can get at the prep-shops like
Ardenes or Hot Topic or wherever, but its so much BETTER because it
actually incorporates some kind of WIT, it takes more knowledge than how to
read to understand the joke.
A shirt my friend got had an arrow pointing up, and arrow pointing down,
and arrow pointing left, and a closed fist. Another friend got an "I roll
20's {pic of d20}" shirt (hopeing it would bring her luck since she
actually tends to roll 2's) and I tell ya if you want a "piercing" shirt -
try 30lbs of chain-mail. That guy was awesome, he said it hurt since he had
been walking around for 45 minutes - I can only imagine the muscles on the
people that wore those all the time. Or the Johnny The Homicidal Maniac
shirt - Z? unless you have read the comic - you won't have a clue. Even the
growing popularity of Pure Pwnage still has originality to their shirts. One
example being the counterstrike headshot symbol, another being a white
block with an open hand under the word Uber beside a black block with a
hand with the thumb and first two fingers up under the word Micro.
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Meranda_Jade
Fanatic  Posts: 511 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 5/5/2006 at 10:58 AM |
Oh, I don't know... I kinda like the t-shirts with the funny sayings. I
have one that I wear frequently and it gets smiles and attention from quite
a few people when I go out. It says, "Normal People Scare Me." I have a
brand new shirt that a friend gave to me for my birthday, it says "Those
who can't do, TEACH and practice light bondage after school." It has a
picture of a clothespin at the bottom. I like it, it's cute.
But then, it takes so little to amuse me.
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Schizo
Extreme Fanatic   Posts: 897 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 5/5/2006 at 01:58 PM |
Funny, schizophrenia shirts really don't bother me at all. I personally
think it's kind of silly to take your own personal issue (or in my case, my
dad's) and decide that it's just so much more worthy of tip-toeing around
than any other issue. You know what, it's just a disease. It's nothing
holy or sacred. Just a disease - both unpleasant, and yes, in some ways
funny. Unless people are trying to be mean about something, I think people
should just lighten up. I crack my own jokes about growing up with a
schizophrenic dad; it doesn't make me insensitive. And I'll call a mental
hospital a looney bin when I feel like it. So what. And I'm not even
going to say "I've gone through the pain, so I have a right to laugh." Who
am I to say that someone has to go through pain to laugh?
But that's just me.
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Psychopixi
Fanatic  Posts: 376 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
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posted on 7/5/2006 at 04:22 AM |
| I have shirt which has pictures of piercing bars and rings around the words
"pierced, bored and screwed' which I liked because of the word play. I also
have one which says "lick me till I scream" which I initially bought in an
I-need-to-be-shocking phase, but ended up keeping it for comedy value after
wearing it while running into one of my nan's friends - she read it out
loud, and looked puzzled for a second before chirping "oh, -ice cream-, I
get it!" ____________________
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
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gothicmorman
Fanatic Posts: 233 Registered: 11/7/2002 Status: Offline
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posted on 8/5/2006 at 08:32 AM |
the part about the schizophrenia shirt that bothers me is the fact that its
not even accurate. you know - aside from the fact that its not
reeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaallly that funny >___>
where did education go?
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