Obscene T-Shirts: yay or nay?

[Amaris]

Kommander, I've said it before and I'll say it again: You have excellent taste in hats.

J.

You wouldn't say that if you'd seen my Fishin' Hat

I have hats for all occasions, and if I don't have a hat that fits, I buy a new one. So far I have the Fishin' Hat, one of those plastic helmets that holds beer, and the All-purpose Awesome Fedora, which has suited most of my needs.

I like the fishing hat.
I once wore a rainbow beanie with a propeller.

J.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Rainbow? One of us! One of us!

 

[Amaris]

Rainbow? One of us! One of us!

In my case, I just like rainbows.

J.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows?

 

[Amaris]

Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows?

Yep. Everything that's wonderful and what I feel when we're together.


J.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows?

Yep. Everything that's wonderful and what I feel when we're together.


J.

Oh Mr. J!

 

[Capn Flukie]

*backs quickly out of thread*

 

[General_Phoenix]

I've bought some from T-Shirt Hell. One says National Age of Consent Tour, and a Mother Mary one, won't write what that one says. I bought a couple from Dragonfly, which are very well made shirts - a Bettie Page with her nurse outfit, and another of a blonde pouring milk on herself (soft porn almost I suppose). They do get reactions sometimes, mainly because I live in a southern and very conservative town. I like to push buttons, that's just how I am, and around where I live it's just extremely easy to do - which is exactly why I do it.

 

[TheLonelySquire]

What are your thoughts on dirty T-shirts? You know, things like this? Do you regularly, or at any time, wear shirts like this in public? If you do wear them, do people give you grief?

I mean, I would never wear that particular shirt in Boston - I have this thing about not wanting to get my ass kicked. But I bought it specifically for my upcoming trip - to New York.

My opinion? People that wear stuff like you're describing are not going far in life. But that's just my opinion.

 

[TorontoTrekker]

My opinion? People that wear stuff like you're describing are not going far in life. But that's just my opinion.

And I believe that people who get hung up on what other people are wearing need a hobby. So long as it's clean and in relatively decent shape, what it says doesn't necessarily indicate that the person wearing it is some kind of anti-social nutcase. They may just have a quirky sense of humour.

The only "obscene" t-shirt I have - where "obscene", being in the eye of the beholder, may be defined differently for me than it is for others - depicts a "Wheel Of Fortune"-type board reading "G* F*CK Y**RS*LF" with the caption "Would you like to buy a vowel?" I don't actually wear it very often - pretty much only if I'm not going out - because it crosses the line for me.

OTOH, my mother freaked out at me when I wore a shirt one day that says "CENSOR THIS!" with an arrow pointing down. I bought it in support of a bookstore whose shipments of LGBT literature were being impounded by Canada Customs many years ago on bogus "obscenity" charges. It says "CCACC Anti-Censorship Activist" on the back, "CCACC" standing for "Canadian Coalition Against Customs Censorship". But to my mother, it was obscene.

I also have one that says "If you are what you eat, then I must be fast, cheap and easy". But that's mostly because of an inside joke among some Polaris committee members.

Oh, and there's the one that shows a 12-inch length of ruler with the caption "You must be at least this long to get on this ride."

My favourite one that would fall into this category, though, is one that's rarely recognized. At last year's Worldcon, though, about a dozen people got it:

 

[Amaris]

I'm trying to make a shirt that will instigate trouble at the new Star Trek movie on May 8th. So far, I've designed a shirt that says "Star Track Fan" on the front, '"May the Force Be With You" - Dr. Spock' on the back, and my mom's going to put a sign on the back of her wheelchair that says "My other chair is the Millenium Falcon". We're wondering if this will work, and if not, if anyone has any ideas.

Now, we want to see the movie and think it will be great. We just want to cause trouble.

J.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I'm trying to make a shirt that will instigate trouble at the new Star Trek movie on May 8th. So far, I've designed a shirt that says "Star Track Fan" on the front, '"May the Force Be With You" - Dr. Spock' on the back, and my mom's going to put a sign on the back of her wheelchair that says "My other chair is the Millenium Falcon". We're wondering if this will work, and if not, if anyone has any ideas.

How about:

"Ich Bin Ein Vulcanian."

"Cn hz Nu Trk?"

"Bring Back Star Trek."

 

[Kommander]

I'm trying to make a shirt that will instigate trouble at the new Star Trek movie on May 8th. So far, I've designed a shirt that says "Star Track Fan" on the front, '"May the Force Be With You" - Dr. Spock' on the back, and my mom's going to put a sign on the back of her wheelchair that says "My other chair is the Millenium Falcon". We're wondering if this will work, and if not, if anyone has any ideas.

Now, we want to see the movie and think it will be great. We just want to cause trouble.

J.

You could get a tattoo like this. (NSFW)

Spoiler: Image description

It's a tattoo of a Storm Trooper "being intimate" (i.e.: buttsecks) with a Starfleet Officer. No nudity other than Starfleet Side-ass and it's very cartoonish-looking. If that kind of image would offend you don't click the link.

 

[Rincewiend]

Hm, my most obscene t-shirts?!?
Probably these 2:




I also have one with a sucubus and one with a manga style print showing a halfnaked woman from the back wearing a thong and high heels...

 

[Amaris]

I'm trying to make a shirt that will instigate trouble at the new Star Trek movie on May 8th. So far, I've designed a shirt that says "Star Track Fan" on the front, '"May the Force Be With You" - Dr. Spock' on the back, and my mom's going to put a sign on the back of her wheelchair that says "My other chair is the Millenium Falcon". We're wondering if this will work, and if not, if anyone has any ideas.

How about:

"Ich Bin Ein Vulcanian."

"Cn hz Nu Trk?"

"Bring Back Star Trek."

I'm trying to make a shirt that will instigate trouble at the new Star Trek movie on May 8th. So far, I've designed a shirt that says "Star Track Fan" on the front, '"May the Force Be With You" - Dr. Spock' on the back, and my mom's going to put a sign on the back of her wheelchair that says "My other chair is the Millenium Falcon". We're wondering if this will work, and if not, if anyone has any ideas.

Now, we want to see the movie and think it will be great. We just want to cause trouble.

J.

You could get a tattoo like this. (NSFW)

Spoiler: Image description

It's a tattoo of a Storm Trooper "being intimate" (i.e.: buttsecks) with a Starfleet Officer. No nudity other than Starfleet Side-ass and it's very cartoonish-looking. If that kind of image would offend you don't click the link.

These are all excellent ideas.

J.

 

[Kommander]

These are all excellent ideas.

J.

This topic really deserves it's own thread... get to it, J.

 

[Gepard]

My favourite one that would fall into this category, though, is one that's rarely recognized. At last year's Worldcon, though, about a dozen people got it:

What's obscene about 534?

 

[TorontoTrekker]

My favourite one that would fall into this category, though, is one that's rarely recognized. At last year's Worldcon, though, about a dozen people got it:

What's obscene about 534?

How did you get that answer?

Spoiler: The answer is...

69

 

[Gepard]

How did you get that answer?

Spoiler: The answer is...

69

I clearly don't remember how to do integrals.

ETA: Duh, I mixed it up the upper and lower limits with summing a series. (It's been a long time since I did any of this.)

 

[TorontoTrekker]

ETA: Duh, I mixed it up the upper and lower limits with summing a series. (It's been a long time since I did any of this.)

Yeah, that would be:

and that would just be silly.

(It's been a long time for me, too... my degree is in math, but I haven't done any real math since I got it.)