The Revolution Will Be Barbecued
Holy shit, you are some kind of badass wearing a T-shirt to a party! Your friends are going to be like, “Dude!” and hand you a PBR for being so hardcore. Seriously, this is almost as awesome as that time you wore that BUCK FUSH shirt to Christmas.
July 5, 2011 at 9:28 am
I don’t get it. Is it conehead Jesus in a poncho?
July 5, 2011 at 9:31 am
It’s a klansman jumping rope.
July 5, 2011 at 9:31 am
It’s this: http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/abughraibhood.gif
done badly.
July 5, 2011 at 9:34 am
And I was having *such* a nice day until I saw that. =\
July 5, 2011 at 9:34 am
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July 5, 2011 at 9:35 am
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July 5, 2011 at 9:39 am
It’s alright either way, Fraeulein. I really should keep abreast of US torture dealings more.
July 5, 2011 at 11:56 am
Not necessarily obvious to all. I appreciated the link to the pic. See, I get most of my news from radio…
July 5, 2011 at 9:42 am
Thanks gnommy, I had no frickin’ clue what it was supposed to be.
July 5, 2011 at 9:53 am
Shit. I was happier when I thought it was a fuckhead with the KKK on his shirt. On the other hand, I had no idea. No fucking idea about that particular abu ghraib shot.
July 5, 2011 at 11:11 am
You know, I never seem to learn my lesson about not clicking links on Regretsy. I’m like a damn bird banging my head against a window. I clicked. And I was happier before I knew it wasn’t a klansman, too.
July 5, 2011 at 12:34 pm
Me three… or four
July 5, 2011 at 2:08 pm
Fuck. I should listen to other people bitching about clicking/notclicking and learn to stop clicking. *Lemming*
July 6, 2011 at 1:11 am
Haha, I didn’t click!! And I’m not going to!
Yay for reading all the comments before clicking, and here’s to a really happy day for me!
July 5, 2011 at 10:42 am
Ohhh yeah, I see it now.
July 5, 2011 at 12:19 pm
I recognized it, but only because the description had TORTURE in all caps. It really needs a caption or something. I think the only person to whom the concept is obvious (and badass) is the “artist” himself.
July 5, 2011 at 2:47 pm
No, I knew what it was instantly… maybe because I’m in Canada. Y’know? US papers may have been shy to show the Abu Ghraib photos. I’ve even seen a documentary about the perpetrators & how they got to the point where this was a cool thing to do.
July 5, 2011 at 4:57 pm
I still got Klan from the TORTURE in all caps because they are known for some not so savory dealings as well. And I haven’t watched tv or read a newspaper in awhile. Apparently, I rely on Regretsy for my news.
July 5, 2011 at 5:48 pm
I am American, and I knew what it was as soon as I saw it the first time.
July 5, 2011 at 10:07 pm
FWIW, American here too, and knew what that was instantly.
July 5, 2011 at 9:29 am
I don’t own a pair of ball so thankfully I’m exempt from his fuckery challenge.
July 5, 2011 at 2:30 pm
I’d loan you mine but they have better things to do than show up to a barbecue wearing a stupid political wank tee shirt.
July 5, 2011 at 2:48 pm
It might have been more cutting edge five years ago or whenever the scandal broke.
July 5, 2011 at 6:51 pm
Definitely. I knew what it was, but I’m one of those people who pays close attention to politics. Not everyone does. Also, from what’s been said, a lot of people never saw the photos (not that unlikely, since they weren’t widely disseminated).
July 5, 2011 at 9:29 am
The saddest thing is the number of people I know that would think this shirt is so fucking hardcore awesome. Gene pool = needs more bleach. Stupid should be allowed to kill itself off.
July 5, 2011 at 9:35 am
You put straight bleach in your gene pool? This explains why my skin falls off every time you invite me over.
I thought it was something you put in my drink.
July 5, 2011 at 9:49 am
“Hey! You! You with the poorly executed tee shirt! GTFO of the Gene Pool!”
July 5, 2011 at 11:16 am
I once knew a guy (whom I hated) who said that all the racists, assholes, punks, gangbangers, rapists, child molesters and (I’m quite sure he would have included) people who thought this shirt was awesome should be herded into a giant desert in the southwest and used for atom bomb experimentation.
I actually kinda liked that idea.
July 5, 2011 at 5:50 pm
Okay, maybe I need to new contacts, because I read gangbangers as ‘gardeners’ the first time through and couldn’t figure out why you wanted to kill off people who take care of plants.
July 5, 2011 at 6:53 pm
Extremely militant vegetarians?
July 5, 2011 at 7:01 pm
Down with the passionate weeders! Bah to the Green Thumbs!!
July 5, 2011 at 9:30 am
Half the time I look at the accompanying pics of the items being offered and just think that Etsy is just a place for hipsters to showcase their white frame sunglasses.
July 5, 2011 at 1:05 pm
I was wondering why he borrowed his mom’s sunglasses. So it’s another dumb hipster thing?
July 5, 2011 at 9:31 am
At first glance, I thought it was commentary on the KKK… Then I recognized the outline. Either way – this is Douche FUBU (for us, by us).
Douchecanoe’s ROW OUT!
July 5, 2011 at 10:18 am
“Douchecanoes ROW OUT!” has tickled both my nerd center and my clever profanity center. I’d feel violated if it didn’t seem so right.
July 5, 2011 at 11:44 am
“Douchecanoe’s ROW OUT!”
Oh my gosh, that’s hilarious. I want THAT on a t-shirt. Complete with some awesome graphic of a fleet of canoes being paddled by hipsters. Then I’ll stand next to the guy wearing that awful featured shirt at the 4th of July BBQ next year.
July 5, 2011 at 2:01 pm
Put me down for one!
July 5, 2011 at 9:33 am
I didn’t know Deatheaters were so patriotic!
July 5, 2011 at 9:33 am
My immediate reaction to this shirt was not “how hardcore!”, but rather “Are they saying that it’s unamerican to not be in the KKK? Jeebus, what a racist shirt!”
July 5, 2011 at 10:20 am
Seconded. “Dang it, and I only know one Klan town where I could wear this and I didn’t really intend to drive that far.”
July 8, 2011 at 8:25 pm
Exactly what I thought!
July 5, 2011 at 9:34 am
I’m not sure that shirt would even get the point across. It’s really the same as the person on my fb page that complained about not feeling celebratory about what “we as a country did to the natives” and then later posted pictures of her 4th of July fireworks.
July 5, 2011 at 9:34 am
This shirt is also for the kind of badass who wears a Women’s (fitted) Medium.
July 5, 2011 at 1:09 pm
So for those with Little Man Syndrome. I guess it isn’t hipster to drive a big-ass truck.
July 5, 2011 at 9:34 am
I’m a geek and very unhip so please tell me, is this shit ironic or just moronic?
July 5, 2011 at 9:38 am
it’s both, it’s neither, it’s a conundrum wrapped inside an enigma inside a quandry, yet it’s printed on a tshirt so you can be the Badass with the lousy shirt and the big balls.
July 5, 2011 at 2:59 pm
I’d say its message is “The USA is a despised and disgusting country”
July 5, 2011 at 9:35 am
Yes, imagine all the flak you’ll catch from wearing a shirt all your friends agree with.
July 5, 2011 at 10:10 am
There might be flak if my cousins were at the picnic I wore that too (not that I’d wear that anywhere)….
Then again I think they might want to buy those in bulk and possibly in bumpersticker format too, provided the words “God Bless America” and “Proud to be an American” could be printed around the picture. Whether it was seen as KKK or Abu Ghraib wouldn’t make no never mind.
July 5, 2011 at 11:59 am
Exactly. That’s what makes the description so hilarious.
July 5, 2011 at 8:07 pm
Exactly. This reminds me of when I was a freshman in highschool…trying out a “rebellious” phase – as rebellious as a nerdy Christian white girl from the suburbs who loves her mom can be – and i BOUGHT A BEASTIE BOYS ALBUM. My mom didn’t care for the nature of the lyrics and we got into a fight. Being a research nerd I produced a magazine article showing that the Beastie Boys were, in fact, AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING. My mom looked at it, looked at me and said:
“Jessica, who’s FOR it?”
dang it.
July 5, 2011 at 9:37 am
Yep, I’m
badassdumbass enough to wear this to my barbecue. Representin’ yo!July 5, 2011 at 9:37 am
I guess we should considser ourselves lucky that he didn’t add “My country went to Abu Ghraib and all I got was this lousy tee shirt.”
July 5, 2011 at 9:52 am
“GIT-MO-ER DONE!”
You know, for the Southerners…
July 5, 2011 at 9:52 am
I’d buy that.
July 5, 2011 at 10:08 am
Yeah….”My Mullah went to Club G’itmo and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt” is actually a Rush Limbaugh thing…
And wtf … there is/was a gift shop at gitmo that sells t-shirts?
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/06/my_husband_went_to_gitmo_and_a.html/w
July 5, 2011 at 10:15 am
Well, it is also a military base, so, yeah.
July 5, 2011 at 3:57 pm
Your link doesn’t work. Please repost?
July 5, 2011 at 10:19 am
alice, I triple dog dare you to convo him and ask if he would add that…
July 5, 2011 at 12:23 pm
But what if he says “yes?” I don’t even like wearing regular tees, much less that thing?
July 5, 2011 at 12:47 pm
Oh, you’d just be asking “if” he had ever considered it… a marketing suggestion….not ordering it….
July 5, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Went to his page but wussed out; sigh. Apparently this lovely garment sold in 2009 and there are none in his store. Even for me, it seems too mean to get his hopes up asking about a custom order.
July 5, 2011 at 1:09 pm
You went to his page and considered it.. points for you …err..though I don’t know what that means except I’m impressed…
July 5, 2011 at 9:50 am
I think any subversiveness got lost when the designer decided to throw perspective and detail out the window.
July 5, 2011 at 9:50 am
I can’t AFFORD to be any more badass. This Klansman with an S&M fetish will totally push me over the edge and then I will become Gary Busey. =/
This is the limit to my badassery:
July 5, 2011 at 9:52 am
Oh my god! I want this so much!!!
July 5, 2011 at 4:45 pm
Oh God yes, me too!
July 5, 2011 at 9:50 am
Does this mean everyone (except me) is on vacation today?
July 5, 2011 at 10:15 am
I’m retired… every day is vacation day…
(except Mon, Tues and Thursday when I’m watchin’ the grandkids).
July 5, 2011 at 1:13 pm
I’m chronically ill, so every day is vacation for me, too, sort of. Today is my b-day, though.
July 5, 2011 at 3:58 pm
Happy Birthday!
July 5, 2011 at 6:50 pm
Thanks, WTFWhimsicleGlitter!
July 5, 2011 at 10:16 am
Yes. I worked yesterday, so I took today off.
July 5, 2011 at 11:02 am
Lunchtime! Who needs to eat when there is Regretsy?
July 5, 2011 at 9:57 am
I actually like this one from the same collection.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/65784430/end-war-html?ref=pr_shop
Geek chic.
July 5, 2011 at 10:12 am
HEILVETICA!!!
July 5, 2011 at 10:17 am
That one is cool.
July 5, 2011 at 12:18 pm
I like this one too.
I love and admire my fire chief brother, but he’s a Republican and his head would probably explode if he saw this… nah, he’d just argue with me about the meaning of Socialism… Good Times.
July 5, 2011 at 2:04 pm
Teabaggers are religious nuts, TO THE FACE!
July 5, 2011 at 10:00 am
Am I the only one that’s slightly worried at the appearance of a “One Year Ago” post on a Tuesday? Either they overdid it at the barbecue last night or Something Bad has Happened.
July 5, 2011 at 10:10 am
I vote for Something Bad Has Happened. Not because I know that anything bad happened, but because Milwaukee got fucked up last night and I like to pretend it’s the Beginning of the End (to conclude in October).
July 5, 2011 at 10:13 am
The fifth of July is a holiday as well.
It’s the ‘Declaring independence from consciousness and the signing of the declaration to continue binge drinking till Friday.” The founding fathers would totally be OK with it, well except for John Adams; what with the whole dead alcoholic son and all.
July 5, 2011 at 10:17 am
He’s a stick in the mud anyway.
July 5, 2011 at 12:32 pm
Ah. I understand. in Scotland we have a holiday on the 1st of January, obviously, but we also have one on the 2nd, presumably because the hangover lasts that long if you’re doing it properly.
July 5, 2011 at 10:09 am
I must be hanging out with the wrong crowd because if I were to wear an anti-torture shirt (if) around my friends, I’m pretty sure they’d agree with the ideal. They might laugh at me for spending money on some random persons ploy to make money off of human rights issues, though.
July 5, 2011 at 11:06 am
No, that means you hang out with the RIGHT crowd.
On both counts.
July 5, 2011 at 10:19 am
Needs a Mustache.
July 5, 2011 at 11:21 am
You did ask.
July 5, 2011 at 10:49 am
FEEDBACK
Disappointing, sloppy, poor craftsmanship. Looks like a kindergarten craft project, but at least children make their projects with love and care…. I anxiously waited for this to arrive – it finally came after 3 weeks and a couple of email requests… It is supposed to be a Valentine’s Day gift and I am embarrassed to give this away. I looks like it is PAINTED (with Wite-Out and acrylic) not PRINTED and it is on an JerZees T-Shirt, not Anvil. I’ve been a loyal Etsy shopper and fan for years – this is my first bad experience.
And this one is POSITIVE:
I ordered this shirt for a present and the first one I got was damaged, but they sent a new one at no additional cost. Unfortunately, I did not get the shirt in time to give it to my fiance’ for our anniversary.
I’m thinking all the other positive ones are from his friends or himself.
July 5, 2011 at 12:11 pm
“Every time I think of someone’s genitals being shocked, I think of you. Happy Valentines and/or anniversary, honey!”
July 5, 2011 at 12:17 pm
Oh, that’s his shop feedback. For his binary heart shirt. That makes much more sense.
July 5, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Don’t worry! I had to check too!
July 5, 2011 at 10:55 am
I greatly oppose the use of torture under any circumstances. What should I do? Vow never to vote for anyone who excuses the use of torture? Write to my congressman? Contribute $15 to Amnesty International? Nah, I’ll just wear a shitty t-shirt to a BBQ and possibly irk some of my older relatives.
July 5, 2011 at 3:05 pm
EXACTLY.
July 5, 2011 at 12:31 pm
George Washington off to a party
July 5, 2011 at 5:21 pm
Hipster in the bottom right: Wearing your coat brown side out is so main stream.
Hipster in the left offscreen: I was crossing rivers before it was cool.
Hipster bottom center: So, I joined a revolution. You’ve probably never heard of it.
July 5, 2011 at 12:37 pm
This looks like something I would’ve worn in my black hair, black eye-makeup early teenage days. Not a compliment.
July 5, 2011 at 12:56 pm
My brain neither gets this nor un-gets this. It is a mystery deeper than a dozen dollar-store craft aisles.
July 5, 2011 at 1:02 pm
My head literally jerked back like I had been slapped in the face when I saw this image. I recognized it immediately, while also noting the resemblance to a Klan hood and robe, and felt repelled and shocked by the use of stars and stripes to make this image look “patriotic”. I got that it was ironic, and a statement against torture and US policy. To me, this means it was an effective graphic and the artist was successful. I keep going back and looking at it again to see why some are calling it “crap” or bad design, and I don’t see it. It’s a powerful image and not badly designed at all.
That said, the description is full of serious douchebaggery, and the model is a hipster dick.
July 5, 2011 at 1:22 pm
I understood it right away, but I don’t think it’s a clear illustration that would explain itself to people not familiar with that image, which is much more self-explanatory. And as to the craftsmanship, you can see the t-shirt fabric through parts of the image.
July 5, 2011 at 7:33 pm
I’m familiar with the image, and it took me about 30 seconds of staring to figure out what it was. I’m going with the fact that putting that much color variation in that small, oddly shaped area distracts the eye and is an overall bad design motif. A better idea might have been a US flag juxtaposed with the same outline? Or more accurately actually doing something useful rather than trying to make yourself look hardcore.
July 5, 2011 at 1:31 pm
I don’t think it boils down to the actual graphic. To me, the t-shirt looks like a poor print job. I also just don’t think this is appropriate for a t-shirt. It’s the left-wing equivalent of wearing something like Calvin peeing on Osama Bin Laden.
It also falls under the same “preaching to the choir” umbrella as does all the militant pro-breastfeeding merchandise on Etsy. This shirt will not convince one person torture is wrong, it will only elicit smug approval from like-minded people.
July 5, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Why are we still on reruns on a Tuesday?
July 5, 2011 at 1:39 pm
I agree with others that this evokes images of the Klan more than Abu Ghraib. I think I only got the reference because I’m pretty sure I saw this done somewhere else more clearly. Could this be a tracing job?
July 5, 2011 at 1:57 pm
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July 5, 2011 at 3:07 pm
Abu Snuggie!
July 5, 2011 at 3:17 pm
It’s nice to know I’m not the only person who thought it was the KKK on the shirt too. He really knows how to scream out the obvious.
July 5, 2011 at 5:52 pm
I must not be hardcore.
I totally saw a silhouette of Gandalf with the American flag superimposed over him.
July 5, 2011 at 9:29 pm
I thought it was the Uni-Tamponer.