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Lifestyle => Tha G-Spot => Topic started by: _That_Cracka_J on January 27, 2009, 12:04:27 PM
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Damn :'(
http://www.tshirthell.com/goodbye.php
I'm done. I'm finished. I can't take the stupidity anymore, so I'm leaving and I'm taking my website with me. As of Tuesday, Feb 10, 2009, T-Shirt Hell will be no more.
No, I'm not selling out to some douchebag corporate entity. No, we're not being sued by any of the over 40 companies that have sent us cease and desists over the years. No, I'm not going to jail (yet) and no, it's not because of the economy. Although, the recent dip in sales certainly does make the idea easier to accept, even though we still sell over 3000 shirts a week.
I started this company in June of 2001, nearly 8 years ago, with the intention of producing the best satirical, the most controversial, the funniest t-shirts on the internet. Generally speaking, I feel I've accomplished that and am satisfied with what we've put out. I made a shitload of dough along the way. I've done cocaine off the better body parts of supermodels. I've even raped and killed a mountain panda in the hills of Shaanxi. But these perks are besides the point.
I just don't feel like dealing with idiots anymore. I'll give you an example of the kind of misguided morons we deal with on a regular basis at T-Shirt Hell. We released a new shirt a couple weeks ago that says "It's not gay if you beat them up afterwards". I will not explain the irony or the social commentary of the slogan because anyone with half a brain should be able to handle that on their own. Problem is, we've been besieged with emails from angry people complaining about the "fact" that the shirt is hate speech or that we're promoting gay bashing and should take it down immediately.
Comments like:
"I can't even believe people buy this shit. Do you realize your supporting a hate crime? That makes you feel better about yourself? Wow you need a life. We're all human beings and you can't except it."
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"It's Not Gay:If You Beat Them Up After"?? That is highly inappropriate and very very morally wrong. I will be advising everyone I know to avoid buying anything from your site until shirts like this are removed. In this world people are fighting for equality and a chance to be themselves without fear of being beat up because of who they are, yet here is an established website promoting hate and violence. You all should be ashamed of yourselves."
Now, I can't say I'm surprised we're getting hate mail from people who have nothing better to do than to start half-assed campaigns because of their lazy, just enough passion for an email, ideals towards a misguided cause. It happened when we did our first really controversial shirt, "The School Shootings Tour", it happened when we did our "What About All The Good Things Hitler Did" shirt, it happened when we did our "Arrest Black Babies Before They Become Criminals" shirt (boy did it happen then). It used to happen all the time when we did more social commentary and didn't give a fuck about what anyone thought and did shirts that did not leave anyone out. Unfortunately, as a concern for the safety of my employees, we don't push the envelope as much anymore...and I can't say I feel good about having caved in.
Anyway, rather than cater to the masses, I'm just going to stop making shirts. It's not enjoyable anymore and I have enough money to move on to something more rewarding. Maybe I'll start my own hooker farm or maybe I'll practice sleeping. Whatever I decide to do, it will be better than this.
Attention any venture capitalists or independent investors/business assholes who are about to inquire about purchasing T-Shirt Hell. Don't. You won't do the company justice and I won't take that chance. I'm putting it to sleep. It's over.
That's right, I'm crazy. I'm pulling the plug on a company I could have sold for millions. Why in the fucking world would I do something so stupid? Because I can. I don't care about money. This is the way I've always done things...my way.
So, to all the kickass motherfuckers who supported us and REALLY got what we were trying to do, thank you (no, not you, you racist idiots who thought we actually had racist intentions and no, not you, you dumb as a stump fucks who just think any shirt with the word "fuck" on it is as right as rain). Thanks to all the people who contributed to my vice fund and at the same time helped make a funny statement about the world today.
As a final farewell, I'm going to bring back some of the top selling Worse Than Hell shirts as a fuck you to those who forced me to remove them. To those who are offended by them and to those who think I'm racist, promoting rape, a nazi, homophobic or just the world's biggest asshole...well, at least you think I'm something, which means I've achieved what I wanted.
Thanks to Gary, Mika, Jacob, Greg, Bob, the black lady who writes our newsletter, and to everyone else who was part of T-Shirt Hell. Time to move on to even greater things. I'll miss you (by miss, I mean, it's going to suck not being able to give you my excellent reach arounds when you least expect them).
Fuck you,
-Sunshine Megatron
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So the critics won...
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Damn, that sucks. I thought some their shirts was funny as fuck.
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That's too bad. He had some clever shirts. I hate people who have strong morals and let others know it.
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8)
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didnt he say some shit similar to this a few years back?
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those shirts were for dweebs.
good riddance to bad rubbish.
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lol those shirts are awesome. i just bought a bunny hug with the "i support single moms" bunny hug with pic of a stripper and the one that says "if you write on my face with a marker ill stab you"
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lol those shirts are awesome. i just bought a bunny hug with the "i support single moms" bunny hug with pic of a stripper and the one that says "if you write on my face with a marker ill stab you"
you have bad taste.
novelty shirts are the fashion devil.
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lol those shirts are awesome. i just bought a bunny hug with the "i support single moms" bunny hug with pic of a stripper and the one that says "if you write on my face with a marker ill stab you"
you have bad taste.
novelty shirts are the fashion devil.
man half my wardrobe is all plain tshirts. im getin sick of it, that single moms one is tight hah
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some of those are hillarious, i love non politically correct humor, but i would never wear one, i dont really wear t shirts.
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lol those shirts are awesome. i just bought a bunny hug with the "i support single moms" bunny hug with pic of a stripper and the one that says "if you write on my face with a marker ill stab you"
lol @ bunny hug, from the plains of canada eh?
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lol those shirts are awesome. i just bought a bunny hug with the "i support single moms" bunny hug with pic of a stripper and the one that says "if you write on my face with a marker ill stab you"
lol @ bunny hug, from the plains of canada eh?
How u know where i live
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lol those shirts are awesome. i just bought a bunny hug with the "i support single moms" bunny hug with pic of a stripper and the one that says "if you write on my face with a marker ill stab you"
lol @ bunny hug, from the plains of canada eh?
How u know where i live
because no one else in the world calls a hoody a bunny hug.
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lol those shirts are awesome. i just bought a bunny hug with the "i support single moms" bunny hug with pic of a stripper and the one that says "if you write on my face with a marker ill stab you"
lol @ bunny hug, from the plains of canada eh?
How u know where i live
because no one else in the world calls a hoody a bunny hug.
ahah trippy
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good for America
when you voice your opinions strong enough, you win.
GO CELTICS
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LMAO@bunny hug.
"I'm wearing a bunny hug" would make a good novelty hoody.
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thats some gay shit
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fuck u guys. i unno why ppl around here call it a bunny hug, its just wat ive always herd
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LMFAO @ bunny hug, i had no fuckin idea what you were on about
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LMFAO @ bunny hug, i had no fuckin idea what you were on about
same.
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lol I thought Bunny Hug was like some Hello Kitty type shit when I first read that.
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I got my bunny hug on and my gun in my pants
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I bought a couple back in the day.
LMAO @ bunny hug
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bunny hug is still some gay shit
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yea fuck all u haha, it does sound pretty gay now that i think about it but i mean that doesnt cross my mind really cus i always heard it called that.
Bunny hugs fit province perfectly
Unique moniker for hooded sweatshirt may be Sask.-only term
Janet French, The StarPhoenix
Published: Monday, April 16, 2007
It shares its name with a dance move from 1912, and was once also called a "cotton popover" and a "kangaroo sweatshirt."
What the majority of the English-speaking world refers to as the hooded sweatshirt, or hoodie, is known in Saskatchewan as the bunny hug. Now, a University of Saskatchewan student has decided to find out where this puzzling term comes from.
Tyler Cottenie, a 21-year-old linguistics major originally from Yorkton, only recently learned his beloved bunny hug was a Saskatchewan-only phenomenon.
Font:****He can still remember the first time he heard the term -- at age six, when his mother asked if he'd like to order a bunny hug from a catalogue of apparel his school was selling.
"I remember thinking, 'What is that?' Then she told me, and I thought, 'Bunny hug, man, that really doesn't make any sense at all,' " Cottenie said.
When an opportunity arose this year to research the origin of a word for his History of English Language class, he hopped right on bunny hug.
What he found is that, along with a sprinkling of western Manitobans, bunny hug is recognized and used in lieu of hoodie across much of Saskatchewan, especially by people in their 40s.
But watch out -- the term bunny hug could one day be an endangered species, especially in Moose Jaw and southwestern Saskatchewan.
"With younger people, like high school age, it seems to be losing ground all over the place," Cottenie said.
He surveyed about 50 people across Saskatchewan and outside its borders in Alberta, North Dakota and Manitoba, asking if they knew the word, if they used the word and where their parents came from.
From Estevan to Pierceland, the bunny hug was common currency.
Bunny hug wasn't able to burrow under borders to the west or south, though. One survey respondent from Lloydminster reported people on the Alberta side of the border city say hoodie, while their Saskatchewan neighbours stick with bunny hug. A couple of North Dakota students had never heard the term before.
Then Cottenie turned to the repositories of Canadian fashion history -- dog-eared Eaton's and Sears catalogues from decades ago.
The hooded sweatshirt first surfaced in the 1959-60 fall and winter Eaton's catalogue as a children's fleece-lined hooded sweater, but without a distinctive front pouch, according to Cottenie. The pouch appeared in the following year's catalogue and, by 1964, the sweatshirts were sold for men, girls and boys. A similar garment didn't appear in the Sears catalogue until 1976.
Scanning old U of S and Saskatoon high school yearbooks, Cottenie found no one was wearing bunny hugs to school until the early 1970s.
Where the term bunny hug came from is still open to interpretation, Cottenie said.
The Bunny Hug is also a sultry dance move that originated in the early 1900s.
"It was basically the two dancers grinding together," Cottenie said. "I don't know how that could have a link with this sweatshirt."
It's more likely the shirt's name has a link to the Bunny Hop dance -- a 1950s craze in which people formed a chain by wrapping their arms around the waist of the person in front of them.
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http://www.usask.ca/consumer_services/bookstore/clothing/bunnyhugs.php
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http://www.tshirthell.com/hello.php
i knew he done this before...just like 50 cent creates beef to get attention, this guy says hes gonna shut down.
it probably worked tho...a lot of dumb fucks probably ordered a grip of shit thinking they were actually shutting down...he claims to sell thousands of tshirts a week..prolly makes close or more than a million a year. why the fuck would he shut down??!! lol
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http://www.tshirthell.com/hello.php
i knew he done this before...just like 50 cent creates beef to get attention, this guy says hes gonna shut down.
it probably worked tho...a lot of dumb fucks probably ordered a grip of shit thinking they were actually shutting down...he claims to sell thousands of tshirts a week..prolly makes close or more than a million a year. why the fuck would he shut down??!! lol
Haha, yeah. I thought the same. Almost falled for it, lol