I remember seeing this t-shirt a couple of years ago when it was the full-blooded, swearing like a sailor version, but I didn’t post it since back then I didn’t want to swear on the blog (and I still don’t), so happily Reason clothing have released a version that is totally inoffensive because no one will possibly be able to work out what letters #%^ are meant to represent.
Costiness=$35 Tee link
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dam 35 bucks for that tshirt. i can print my own for alot cheaper than that
You know, it’s one of my personal bug bears that people are so into censorship. No offense to you, Andy, but what is the difference between writing f*ck and fuck? Every single person that reads f*ck knows what it means, they read “fuck” in their head, so why not just write “fuck”? It’s a valid word in the English language. Same with f#%^ing – is there really anyone that doesn’t just read that as “fucking”?
It looks like the original tee was by 5andadime.com – I wonder if reasonclothing.com have bought any kind of copyright over the design, or whether they have just ripped the idea?
For me, its not necessarily the actual words, I always feel like when I’m writing that if I were to start swearing that it would just be lazy writing, and since this is a clothes blog there are rarely issues that I deal with that frustrate or annoy me enough to use swear words as a means to express just how much a certain issue annoys me.
I know what you mean though, no one sees an asterisk, they just read it normally. I did think that I covered that issue in my post though.
I think the copyright worries might be mislaid, 5andadime sell lots of different brands (although they do have an in house brand) and I think that they probably sold the original uncensored version, which is why the pictures in the link I provided were watermarked by 5andadime, but I’ve found the uncensored tee on sale here and it says that Reason are the brand that sell it. I do think it would be quite funny if someone ripped the idea of this tee though, considering the message it represents.
This is a really basic t-shirt and it seems to strive for originality by employing unoriginality.
…I like it
I agree that 35 is a bit much for such a basic print though.