First I'd like to look at text/type tees. These can usually be purchased off-line or at your local Anchor Blue. These are usually a plain colored shirt with sayings such as "That's what she said" or "I Love Lamp". Yes these sayings are funny when coming from the mouth of Steve Carell, but not when I read it from your shirt. Your chest does not exude comical inflection nor does it usually pertain to anything that's going on at the moment it's read.
Like I said earlier, these shirts are usually cliches sayings or quotes from movies and such. A lot of times there are shirts out there that try to make fun of the text/type shirt with some "ironic" saying like "Keep staring I might do a trick" or "Stop reading my shirt". If you think these are as stupid as I do, why do you purchase them? There are also shirt that have sayings that make absolutely no sense, for example my dad has a shirt that says "It's all fun and games until the flying monkeys attack". Now granted this may pose a threat to Fiero but I think I'm pretty much in the clear.
The Second problem I have with this fashion faux pas is that when ever I have called someone out on their shirts instructions they get upset! I'm sorry but if you ask me if I have a problem because I'm staring at your shirt, when it says you'll do a trick, I better see some David Blaine kind of magic. If not I should have the right to scream out "Bait and Switch" or sue for false advertising because you wasted my valuable time with an illusion that you would entertain me. I know I'm being to literal with these shirts, but what if I was to actually walk up and kiss (not that I would) this non-Irish female who is advertising free kisses? Well, if she thought I was cute enough to over-look the creepiness factor of what I just did, I would probably get away without a problem. More realistically she would scream rape, blow her whistle and I would be sued and kicked out of school for sexual harassment. Honestly, what am I to do?
Text/Type tees will more than likely never go away. I will just have to wait it out and fight all urges to call these passersby. However I still blame Wham!

Until next time, good luck exploring the Infinite Abyss.
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