I admit that I have a soft spot for incredibly rude designs on clothing. Something that wouldn't even be funny in a sentence becomes hilarious to me on a T-shirt worn in public. I like it if it is subtle, like my Big Sausage Pizza swag where someone might have to know the site or know that I got it as a special gift from the company which produces it. (Bonus web pro points to anyone who knows who the corporate parent is there.) I also like it if it is as subtle as the word FUCK printed in almost any combination or permutation. When I lived in DC, I knew a guy named Cliff Judge who wrote on his leather jacket, "Your mother sucks cock good with a gun to her head" and I thought that was hilarious. (He later removed it, I think, because his mom was troubled by it.)
I tend to control my urge for appalling apparel these days, partly because it is hard to fight the oppressor in Los Angeles in that fashion. Ya just don't get treated wrong in LA for walking in some place ritzy wearing black. So it seems like a rude shirt might be actually rude, as opposed to humorously rude.
What do you think? Do you like rude T-shirts?
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