American traveler international apology shirt
| June 29th, 2003Via Magpie, a neat t-shirt available online, with its message repeated in every official U.N. language.
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June 29th, 2003 at 1:41 pm
Gotta get me one of those. That’s great.
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June 29th, 2003 at 2:33 pm
LOL!
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June 29th, 2003 at 3:17 pm
Not bad. I would be more convinced by “I had voted against him”, though, given that the problem is many people did not vote at all…
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June 29th, 2003 at 4:46 pm
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June 29th, 2003 at 5:50 pm
I love it.
Perhaps we could find one for “f*** you, amp” and “you suck, amp” that has pretty little pictures on them. Satire, witt, and fine writing are obviously lost on it/them.
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June 29th, 2003 at 5:53 pm
Wow, typos abound. My apologies. Fine writing, indeed!
(slinks off with the extra ‘t’ in “wit”.
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June 29th, 2003 at 8:18 pm
T-Shirts Everyone Can Enjoy
LGF points out these sniveling T-shirts for sale for Americans traveling aboad that read, in several languages, “I’m sorry my president’s an idiot. I didn’t vote for him.” They have a better suggestion, “‘Please don’t say anything mean to me, or hit me.’ And it should have a broad yellow stripe running down the back.”
Frank J. found yet another good idea, these t-shirts that read, “I accept your apology for being wrong so often.”
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June 29th, 2003 at 8:26 pm
Why would I delete that, oh nameless one? It actually had some content to it.
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June 29th, 2003 at 8:51 pm
If content’s the key, why do you leave your posts up?
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June 29th, 2003 at 9:17 pm
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Hell, why should this apply to the US only? Since it doesn’t explicitly name Bush II and is in the UN languages, it could be used by a citizen of any country.
In fact, in a dictatorship — like, say, Cuba — everyone could wear it.
And then get executed.
But let’s not let that distract us from our Republican-bashing. Unelected idiots are OK, as long as they’re progressives.
This comment was written by Anonymous.</rant>
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June 29th, 2003 at 9:36 pm
I have a question for the LGFers:
How many of you are currently serving in Iraq?
Uh-huh, that’s what I thought.
When you put on the uniform and get shot at, you can talk about “yellow stripes” on other people. Until then, keep your chickenhawk mouths shut.
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June 29th, 2003 at 10:01 pm
Oooh! Oooh! Do you mean chickenhawks like Bush? Or Cheney? Or Rumsfeld?
Of course Rumsfeld did serve 2 years as a flight instructor in the Navy. So that gives his opinions a lot more weight than mine. Of course my father served for 4 years in the Army and he’s against the current US military policy. Seeing as he served twice as long as Rumsfeld, his opinion must carry twice the weight.
Let’s here it for specious arguments.
Hurrah!
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June 29th, 2003 at 10:05 pm
I can’t help it. I love chickenhawk-like arguments. As if getting shot at makes your opinion any more or less valid. Of course, sending others off is always a risky thing - particularly if you’ve never served yourself.
But all that aside
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June 29th, 2003 at 10:37 pm
Following Thugly’s “principles”, I think that in the future, the only people who should get to work on Welfare issues are those who’ve been on Welfare. And only those who have wombs should be allowed to work on issues of abortion and birth control. And only those who’ve created works of art should be allowed to determine whether a certain painter’s work is “obscene,” and so on, and so on…
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June 30th, 2003 at 1:26 am
Why would anyone sympathetic to the views presented on A,aB be comfortable with a shirt referring to W as “my president”? I’m not: I’d prefer “Don’t blame America –we didn’t elect him!”
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June 30th, 2003 at 8:58 am
Just what I expected - changing the subject.
Jake: yes, getting shot at makes your opinion of who should have a “yellow stripe running down [their] back” more valid. If you haven’t, then why shouldn’t YOU have the same yellow stripe on YOUR back?
Amy: since you started with third-grade namecalling, I will confine my answer to you appropriately.
*thpbbt*
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June 30th, 2003 at 10:27 am
Whoa, like that’s… so deep…
Really, Thugly, all I’m doing is carrying your nonsensical point to its logical confusion. No more, no less. Your buddies up there do things like invoking the Cuba bogeyman, and yet, the ideal you propose, using militaristic ideals as the sole prism through which foreign policy should be viewed, isn’t all that different from what’s espoused by Castro. He has total authority over his people, including the military. And the military acts as his enforcement arm against his own citizenry. Therefore they are the most powerful citizens in their own country besides Castro himself. Sounds like something you’d get behind joyfully. Me, I don’t think any society where militaristic goals and views get top priority over all others is much of a democracy. There are other names for that, though.
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June 30th, 2003 at 12:16 pm
As a foreigner, it strikes me how something that is, no more no less, a partisan tee shirt, can be considered such an capital issue by anonymous people of the opposite political orientation. A post Kevin Moore wrote about Natalie Maines’FUTK shirt back in May is still getting comments of the like (www.incontemptcomics.com/archives/000346…).
This comment was written by Jimmy Ho.For a slightly funnier version of that shirt, Dorothy Gambrell, of “Cat and Girl” fame, just put up the “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Zombie Joseph Beuys” tee:
http://www.catandgirl.com/store.html#shirt_beuys
(sorry, I still can’t figure out how to post “clickable” links).
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June 30th, 2003 at 1:03 pm
“As a foreigner, it strikes me how something that is, no more no less, a partisan tee shirt, can be considered such an capital issue by anonymous people of the opposite political orientation”
It is the cult of personality. All political stripes are subject to it, but it does seem a bit more prevelant on the right side than the left (but only a bit. Wanna have some fun? Start a Green/Dem debate or a Dean/Kerry one :) ). Anyway, from my expirience with foreigners, it seems that US politics has much more of the hero worship in it than is common in other democracies.
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July 3rd, 2003 at 1:01 am
I laughed out loud when I saw this article. I laughed as much with the idea of renaming french fries to “freedom fries”.
Well, I’m European….
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July 3rd, 2003 at 6:18 pm
There was an MA bumper sticker in 1974 saying “Don’t blame us”, as the only state that went for McGovern.
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July 3rd, 2003 at 8:05 pm
“Jake: yes, getting shot at makes your opinion of who should have a “yellow stripe running down [their] back” more valid. If you haven’t, then why shouldn’t YOU have the same yellow stripe on YOUR back?”
Ummmmm. Because I’m not sending other people to get shot at while I sit home in safety?
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