@Kawa I don’t wear shirts with stuff on them either … But I have kids and a wife that does, so that will be my main cause of purchasing here. Especially cat shirts.
@dave That’s actually where the username comes from, but my stylistic tastes and needs have changed a lot in the last 15+ years. Can’t wear graphic t-shirts in my office except on Fridays, and even on Fridays and the weekends I prefer simplicity now.
@Kawa It’s not I don’t wear shirts without words, but I pretty much always have something to say. I’d rather it be in text, manifest on the one hand, but obfuscated (even genuinely brainsplodingly confusing) at the same time is fine.
Wait. Shirts.meh.com?!? Am I going to wake up and realize that this whole thing is a dream, and the Woot! is still a deal a day site, and amazon never bought anyone…?
@fibrs86@thatrobert I have a topography shirt! (Only downside is it’s for an evil tech company that works with the NSA, but the logo’s on the back, so I still wear it)
@Cerridwyn I find that it’s generally pretty easy for me to get a coffee design on my shirt–not necessarily an attractive one, but a coffee design nonetheless. Or is that exactly what you meant?
I want variety. I like words, direct and obtuse. Sweetly sincere and snarky. I want art, but I also want goofy-ass cartoons, designs, doodles and odd lines. I’d like the full range of sentiment: funny, somber, disturbing, joyful, murderous, thoughtful, batshit crazy, et al. I like the recent designs with the Rube Goldberg feel. And, yeah, I don’t mind y’all tweaking and even repeating your trademark designs: it’s still unique, in that I can’t find it elsewhere and it says that I’m a very mediocre person.
So do everything. I want it all. Experiment. Play. Go crazy, you mad motherfuckers (go even more crazy, I guess).
Besides, I say that I want it all, but I really don’t want to spend all of my money here anyway, so if you swing and miss, that’s cool. I’ll save up for the next round.
Google refuses to read my mind fully on these matters, for which I am somewhat grateful.
And I was once a good speller (spelling bee and everything, was it 3rd grade?) but I have mercifully forgotten all that.
And I’m allergic to proofreading, unfortunately.
Sad.
But I still believe you might produce some truly elegant and syntactically or linguistically thought-provoking t-shirt designs if you had the interest and time.
If you have never done anything similar - i still think you might be surprisingly good.
I’d like to see a bunch of anti-Trump shirts. (Or if that’s somehow too controversial, how about anti-politics in general?)
Or just anti-bullying shirts.
Or anti-insults shirts.
Or anti-admitting sexual assault shirts.
Or anti-locking children and infants in cages shirts.
Or anti-tax fraud shirts.
Or anti-owned by Russia shirts. (No offense to any actual Russians here.)
Or just anti-pathological lying shirts.
We could start with anti-bullying. That seems non-controversial enough.
@haydesigner If that happens, there will be a TON of cat pics posted to drown out the discussion mudslinging that’s bound to happen.
I can’t imagine how much bigger of a mess I would have had to clean up at shirt.woot if I didn’t delete that comment about ‘the orange yam tweet junkie’.
I am hoping that neither the site, nor the forums or the t-shirts, become pits of festering political trolling, and havens of understandable but ineffective self-righteousness.
Not to mention I hope there is no going the direction of “failure to listen”.
(and in those partisan topics: guess what? No mind are changed.)
I understand you have strong political feelings, as do many of us.
But the various mediocre sites have so far managed to hang on to a sort of “welcoming civility toward all who behave well”, and mostly avoid political partisanship, except in special and obviously political topics.
The correct answer is “Other: All of the above.” Cause all have their places and times.
I’ll tell you what I’m ready to see less of: “weak pun shirts.” Don’t get me wrong, a good pun can be a very valid form of humor. There’s the shirt that says “There can only be pun”; that’s great because it’s recursive humor. It’s a pun about puns. I mean the shirt where you take a pop culture reference, change one letter to form a new word, and put the resulting image on a shirt. Especially when the resultant image isn’t inherently funny, or doesn’t cause sufficient cognitive dissonance to be hilarious. “Tyrannosaurus Rex” -> “Tyrannosaurus Sex” -> pixelated picture of Kambrian Kama Sutra = hilarious. “Tyrannosaurus Rex” -> “Tyrannosaurus Lex” -> dinosaur with a round bald head, “No, see it’s Lex, like Lex Luther…” or with a dictionary, “See, ‘lex,’ like he likes words…” = …well, let’s just say that if you have to explain the pun loudly, or if the shirt depends on you telling people its title for there to be a joke, then it’s just a cruel form of antisocial behavior. The latter is even worse, when the pun is on a phrase that you would never guess unless told. At its best, this makes the viewer feel terrible about themself (“Ohhhh I see I should have guessed that.”) At its worst, it makes them feel terrible about you. “Why is Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz wearing a pointed red hat?” “It’s ‘There’s no place like gnome.’ I said ‘like gnome,’ you see, hey why are you hitting me help help!”
And honestly, a dinosaur with a dictionary? You could at least have done something with “Thesaurus…”. Same goes for TyrannoSOREus Rex, TyrannoSOARus Rex, Tyrannosaurus Pecs—no, wait, actually that one has potential.
I can haz catshirts?
@narfcake that is the only type of shirt anyone should wear.
@OnionSoup I only wear catshirts on days that end in ‘y’.
Yay shirts!
Textures? I mean, like crinkles and slubs and all sort of fabric-y goodness? Sign me up!
@madamehardy is stretchy neck a texture, or other quality?
@naropa I can’t find examples of what I’m looking for. Maybe it only existed in my imagination.
It’s pretty rare for me to buy shirts with words on them, or too-cutesy shirts. But I’m probably in the minority.
@Kawa I don’t wear shirts with stuff on them either … But I have kids and a wife that does, so that will be my main cause of purchasing here. Especially cat shirts.
@Kawa I tend to prefer fewer words also and let the design speak for itself.
@Kawa At first glance I thought your username was Kawaii and I was then very confused at your opinion.
@dave That’s actually where the username comes from, but my stylistic tastes and needs have changed a lot in the last 15+ years. Can’t wear graphic t-shirts in my office except on Fridays, and even on Fridays and the weekends I prefer simplicity now.
@Kawa It’s not I don’t wear shirts without words, but I pretty much always have something to say. I’d rather it be in text, manifest on the one hand, but obfuscated (even genuinely brainsplodingly confusing) at the same time is fine.
@joelmw @Kawa
!!!
/giphy precisely!
I can get funny pictures on cafepress. Would be loving this week’s shirt if it wasn’t a billboard.
Wait. Shirts.meh.com?!? Am I going to wake up and realize that this whole thing is a dream, and the Woot! is still a deal a day site, and amazon never bought anyone…?
Dog shirts!
I’d say fuck catshirts but don’t want to piss off narkface (I mean @narfcake).
Just kidding. Except for the dog shirts…
@llangley My last order of shirts from TeeTurtle included this:
https://www.teeturtle.com/products/i-love-dogs
And this:
https://www.teeturtle.com/products/i-love-cute-animals
But not this:
https://www.teeturtle.com/products/i-love-cats
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@narfcake because you already haz?
I do like but not LOVE those…too cutesy for me.
This one, however, isn’t on fucking sale…but I LOVE it. For some reason it speaks to me…
@llangley New design, so nope.
(FWIW, over 80% of my collection are NOT catshirts and I don’t buy up every catshirt that catshirtswoot offers.)
I wonder how long until someone requests pop socket shirts.
Popped there, socket’d that.
@OnionSoup
3 … 2 … 1 …
All Systems Go!
/giphy Now!
@OnionSoup
Official:
Req Meh Popsocket T-shirts!
Don’t blame me, I voted for funny illustrations. (but I’m also interested in artistic designs, fwiw)
Can we get shirts printed front and back? They are the coolest
TBH, I’ve been off printed shirts for a while now. Plain tees only, these days.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’d like designerly shirts: typography, minimalist designs, and visual puns.
@thatrobert I misread that as ‘topography’ and thought “I want that”.
@fibrs86 @thatrobert
I want typography, topography and cartography.
@fibrs86 @joelmw @thatrobert
J’adore
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Serriffe
@f00l @fibrs86 @joelmw I’ve never seen that. That’s fantastic! How is that not on a t-shirt yet? I’ll have to remedy that…
@fibrs86 @joelmw @thatrobert
The design belongs either to the artist, or to The Guardian newspaper, which commissioned the design for publication on April 1, 1977.
Dunno what would be involved in getting permission.
The Guardian might be selling said shirts. Have not checked.
@f00l @fibrs86 @joelmw Well, something similar could be done…
@fibrs86 @thatrobert I have a topography shirt! (Only downside is it’s for an evil tech company that works with the NSA, but the logo’s on the back, so I still wear it)
@fibrs86 @joelmw @thatrobert
Avoiding to somewhere I read (can’t remember where), The Guardian did sell t’s and bumper stickers for San Seriffe back in the day.
/Want. Badly.
Coffee
@Cerridwyn I find that it’s generally pretty easy for me to get a coffee design on my shirt–not necessarily an attractive one, but a coffee design nonetheless.
Or is that exactly what you meant?
@Cerridwyn Seriously though, this is a cool shirt that I feel clever wearing.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/-the-process-shirt-andor--the-dream-shirt
Make me laugh.
I have a carefully curated collection of snarky t-shirts. Please provide me with more.
I want full designs that cover the whole shirt. Not just a picture on the chest.
There is so much room on a shirt that deserves more attention.
Do something different than woot.shirts! Fully use the entire shirt!
I want variety. I like words, direct and obtuse. Sweetly sincere and snarky. I want art, but I also want goofy-ass cartoons, designs, doodles and odd lines. I’d like the full range of sentiment: funny, somber, disturbing, joyful, murderous, thoughtful, batshit crazy, et al. I like the recent designs with the Rube Goldberg feel. And, yeah, I don’t mind y’all tweaking and even repeating your trademark designs: it’s still unique, in that I can’t find it elsewhere and it says that I’m a very mediocre person.
So do everything. I want it all. Experiment. Play. Go crazy, you mad motherfuckers (go even more crazy, I guess).
Besides, I say that I want it all, but I really don’t want to spend all of my money here anyway, so if you swing and miss, that’s cool. I’ll save up for the next round.
Be bold.
Damnit, as Shia says, DO IT!
/giphy do it
I would like to see some typography-oriented shirts designed by the incomparable @glennf
https://meh.com/forum/topics/building-the-plane-on-the-way-up
https://meh.com/forum/topics/you-cant-quote-me-on-it
https://meh.com/forum/topics/etaoin-shdrlu
https://meh.com/forum/topics/well-look-what-i-found-on-kickstarter
https://meh.com/forum/topics/nothing-is-lacking-the-long-history-of-intentionally-blank-pages
https://meh.com/forum/topics/capital-crimes-part-1--shout-shout-let-it-all-out?sort=most-likes
https://meh.com/forum/topics/how-many-of-you-double-space-after-a-period-at-the-end-of-a-sentence-1
https://meh.com/forum/topics/gilding-the-dingbat-part-2-the-devil-you-say?sort=most-likes
Etc
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ameh.com %40glennf&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-m
Perhaps something involving the “Oxford comma”.
@f00l
/giphy “Oxford comma”
@f00l
/wootstalker https://shirt.woot.com/offers/classy-comma
Classy Comma
Price: $19.00
Condition: Probably New
(Hi, @acraigl!)
@ACraigL @narfcake
/giphy All right!
@ACraigL @narfcake
Dammit. I had not noticed that shirt before.
I was forced to purchase one.
And at full price, yet!
@f00l I think you mean keming
@glennf
I mean idiocy
Always.
BTW I know nothing about topography.
And little about punctuation and grammar.
(Except regarding mathematics)
But I love those topics, none-the-less.
I think you might produce some quite elegant designs, if you gave it a whirl.
@f00l @glennf Howzabout a shirt that says:
“Kerning! Descenders! Slab Serifs! … Aw, who am I kidding, I know nothing about topography.”
@glennf @AbdiViklas
This should have been “typography”.
I use a swipe keyboard.
Google “assists” me.
Google refuses to read my mind fully on these matters, for which I am somewhat grateful.
And I was once a good speller (spelling bee and everything, was it 3rd grade?) but I have mercifully forgotten all that.
And I’m allergic to proofreading, unfortunately.
Sad.
But I still believe you might produce some truly elegant and syntactically or linguistically thought-provoking t-shirt designs if you had the interest and time.
If you have never done anything similar - i still think you might be surprisingly good.
/giphy “elegant t-shirt”
@AbdiViklas @f00l Always up to design things if someone asks!
@AbdiViklas @glennf
To @glennf:
I’ll buy anything I can find and afford of your creation.
You had me at intentionally left blank;
Which can, of itself, roll into such an astonishing series or set of multi-layered “communicative and thought metaphors”.
Do you have an Amazon author’s page?
Or similar, elsewhere?
/image “intentionally left blank”
To all designers and would-be be designers:
I am well-known to be a f00l
I am active outside the month of April and the date April first
I am greatly needing and requiring a “fool for all seasons” sort of shirt.
Hopefully something with a rather elegant design.
PS. I really like line drawings.
Any chance of a v neck option?
I’d like to see a bunch of anti-Trump shirts. (Or if that’s somehow too controversial, how about anti-politics in general?)
Or just anti-bullying shirts.
Or anti-insults shirts.
Or anti-admitting sexual assault shirts.
Or anti-locking children and infants in cages shirts.
Or anti-tax fraud shirts.
Or anti-owned by Russia shirts. (No offense to any actual Russians here.)
Or just anti-pathological lying shirts.
We could start with anti-bullying. That seems non-controversial enough.
@haydesigner If that happens, there will be a TON of cat pics posted to drown out the
discussionmudslinging that’s bound to happen.I can’t imagine how much bigger of a mess I would have had to clean up at shirt.woot if I didn’t delete that comment about ‘the orange yam tweet junkie’.
I know @narfcake… I was just feeling irritable when I posted that. Feel free to delete
@haydesigner
I am hoping that neither the site, nor the forums or the t-shirts, become pits of festering political trolling, and havens of understandable but ineffective self-righteousness.
Not to mention I hope there is no going the direction of “failure to listen”.
(and in those partisan topics: guess what? No mind are changed.)
I understand you have strong political feelings, as do many of us.
But the various mediocre sites have so far managed to hang on to a sort of “welcoming civility toward all who behave well”, and mostly avoid political partisanship, except in special and obviously political topics.
I hope this continues.
As much as I like funny, I will likely only buy workout shirts. Meaning gym/physical fitness themes. Funny workout shirts!
Actually I got a lot of shirts. Maybe I should just stay away from Mediocritee.
The correct answer is “Other: All of the above.” Cause all have their places and times.
I’ll tell you what I’m ready to see less of: “weak pun shirts.” Don’t get me wrong, a good pun can be a very valid form of humor. There’s the shirt that says “There can only be pun”; that’s great because it’s recursive humor. It’s a pun about puns. I mean the shirt where you take a pop culture reference, change one letter to form a new word, and put the resulting image on a shirt. Especially when the resultant image isn’t inherently funny, or doesn’t cause sufficient cognitive dissonance to be hilarious. “Tyrannosaurus Rex” -> “Tyrannosaurus Sex” -> pixelated picture of Kambrian Kama Sutra = hilarious. “Tyrannosaurus Rex” -> “Tyrannosaurus Lex” -> dinosaur with a round bald head, “No, see it’s Lex, like Lex Luther…” or with a dictionary, “See, ‘lex,’ like he likes words…” = …well, let’s just say that if you have to explain the pun loudly, or if the shirt depends on you telling people its title for there to be a joke, then it’s just a cruel form of antisocial behavior. The latter is even worse, when the pun is on a phrase that you would never guess unless told. At its best, this makes the viewer feel terrible about themself (“Ohhhh I see I should have guessed that.”) At its worst, it makes them feel terrible about you. “Why is Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz wearing a pointed red hat?” “It’s ‘There’s no place like gnome.’ I said ‘like gnome,’ you see, hey why are you hitting me help help!”
And honestly, a dinosaur with a dictionary? You could at least have done something with “Thesaurus…”. Same goes for TyrannoSOREus Rex, TyrannoSOARus Rex, Tyrannosaurus Pecs—no, wait, actually that one has potential.
@AbdiViklas
Ok, that was fun!
I want all the refs, mashed up into a single design. On a t-shirt.
I want a shirt with a drawing of squishy brain (see username).
Yes, thanks for launching this site! Sci-fi, artistic, words, plain ( your tees are high quality), I’ll wear them all!
my favorite graphic tees have been tattooo-inspired or simply designed by tattoo artists
How about clever, snarky, humorous.