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Thingthatwalks said: I find it strange that people would see this as a comment on the plagues listed rather than the corporations that are actually being poked fun of.

Ramirezoid said: And holy Voyager, stop acting like you're all smart for pointing out what is and isn't a virus

stablercake said:

Thingthatwalks said: I find it strange that people would see this as a comment on the plagues listed rather than the corporations that are actually being poked fun of.

Seeing it on someone, I think it would be more of a comment on the maturity level of the individual wearing it.

stablercake said:

Thingthatwalks said: I find it strange that people would see this as a comment on the plagues listed rather than the corporations that are actually being poked fun of.

Seeing it on someone, I think it would be more of a comment on the maturity level of the individual wearing it.

Makira said: :\ theres just something about having aids on your shirt that doesnt quite do it for me.

banzaaiii said: Yeah way to miss the point people. It's not making fun of the diseases, it's making fun of the companies. I guess it's proof that a lot of their advertising works, as you regard them so highly you think this is trivializing/making fun of/marketing the diseases rather than the companies. On a related note, I hope none of you haters call yourselves 'socialists', cause this is like the exact shirt you want, making fun of the capitalist companies. It would go great with your Che shirt... Ormaybe you should go burn the Che shirt instead.


Interesting shirt,which nicely showed the dumbness of a lot of people, but it's not my cuppa tea

banzaaiii said: Yeah way to miss the point people. It's not making fun of the diseases, it's making fun of the companies. I guess it's proof that a lot of their advertising works, as you regard them so highly you think this is trivializing/making fun of/marketing the diseases rather than the companies. On a related note, I hope none of you haters call yourselves 'socialists', cause this is like the exact shirt you want, making fun of the capitalist companies. It would go great with your Che shirt... Ormaybe you should go burn the Che shirt instead.


Interesting shirt,which nicely showed the dumbness of a lot of people, but it's not my cuppa tea

rconnolly said:

banzaaiii said: Yeah way to miss the point people. It's not making fun of the diseases, it's making fun of the companies. I guess it's proof that a lot of their advertising works, as you regard them so highly you think this is trivializing/making fun of/marketing the diseases rather than the companies. On a related note, I hope none of you haters call yourselves 'socialists', cause this is like the exact shirt you want, making fun of the capitalist companies. It would go great with your Che shirt... Ormaybe you should go burn the Che shirt instead.



Interesting shirt,which nicely showed the dumbness of a lot of people, but it's not my cuppa tea

Hahaha brilliant!

shimmeringfae said: I really want the neon heart on a shirt! I'd buy it in a second!

My bf wanted me to add that mad cow is a prion.

antsinthekitchen said:

shimmeringfae said: I really want the neon heart on a shirt! I'd buy it in a second!


My bf wanted me to add that mad cow is a prion.

And here I thought that all these diseases were Giant Microbes...


http://www.giantmicrobes.com/


-D.

antsinthekitchen said:

shimmeringfae said: I really want the neon heart on a shirt! I'd buy it in a second!


My bf wanted me to add that mad cow is a prion.

And here I thought that all these diseases were Giant Microbes...


http://www.giantmicrobes.com/


-D.

Patrick Woods said: And what do you give to the man who has everything (including all of these)? As much penicillin as you can get your hands on.

josefthegeek said: Yet another shirt that, sadly, only works if you know the title. The design itself at first just looks like a race car with all the sponsors, but the title makes it funny. Of course when you're walking around and somebody notices the shirt, you're not going to stop and tell everyone the title.

Max said: Might have been alright IF you left out the aids, polio and ebola jokes...


Those diseases are not to joke about.


However, put in all the STD's you like, cause those just serve people right.

ada said:


I, however, am not within that market.

sainttomn said: Some of those are very clever and worth a laugh, but the shirt's just not my cup of... "tee."

Sirknifesalot said:

banzaaiii said: Yeah way to miss the point people. It's not making fun of the diseases, it's making fun of the companies. I guess it's proof that a lot of their advertising works, as you regard them so highly you think this is trivializing/making fun of/marketing the diseases rather than the companies. On a related note, I hope none of you haters call yourselves 'socialists', cause this is like the exact shirt you want, making fun of the capitalist companies. It would go great with your Che shirt... Ormaybe you should go burn the Che shirt instead.



Interesting shirt,which nicely showed the dumbness of a lot of people, but it's not my cuppa tea

Yeah cause like everyone missed the point that it was making fun of the companies. Yeah... that's certainly it. I think it's maybe more of the fact that making fun of aids is something that most people don't want to associate with. I know, lets make a shirt that makes light of cancer too. Surely that's as funny. Maybe if you're 12.

banzaaiii said:

Sirknifesalot said:

banzaaiii said: Yeah way to miss the point people. It's not making fun of the diseases, it's making fun of the companies. I guess it's proof that a lot of their advertising works, as you regard them so highly you think this is trivializing/making fun of/marketing the diseases rather than the companies. On a related note, I hope none of you haters call yourselves 'socialists', cause this is like the exact shirt you want, making fun of the capitalist companies. It would go great with your Che shirt... Ormaybe you should go burn the Che shirt instead.




Interesting shirt,which nicely showed the dumbness of a lot of people, but it's not my cuppa tea

Yeah cause like everyone missed the point that it was making fun of the companies. Yeah... that's certainly it. I think it's maybe more of the fact that making fun of aids is something that most people don't want to associate with. I know, lets make a shirt that makes light of cancer too. Surely that's as funny. Maybe if you're 12.

obviously A LOT of people missed the point, yes, but not all. I do, however, see you still haven't got it. It's not making fun of aids....

zwettstein said: As someone who is studying infectious diseases, this is a must have.

professorbootyxxx said: I work in public health (specifically reproductive and sexual health) and thought this was hilarious.
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People need to lighten up a bit. It's a shirt. If you spend your time trying to prevent/cure a lot of these infections, you have to have a sense of humor. If you can't laugh, you're going to cry.

itsmejessica said: What is the brand that's the Black Plague. It looks familiar, but I can't put my finger on what it is...

banzaaiii said:

Sirknifesalot said:

banzaaiii said: Yeah way to miss the point people. It's not making fun of the diseases, it's making fun of the companies. I guess it's proof that a lot of their advertising works, as you regard them so highly you think this is trivializing/making fun of/marketing the diseases rather than the companies. On a related note, I hope none of you haters call yourselves 'socialists', cause this is like the exact shirt you want, making fun of the capitalist companies. It would go great with your Che shirt... Ormaybe you should go burn the Che shirt instead.




Interesting shirt,which nicely showed the dumbness of a lot of people, but it's not my cuppa tea

Yeah cause like everyone missed the point that it was making fun of the companies. Yeah... that's certainly it. I think it's maybe more of the fact that making fun of aids is something that most people don't want to associate with. I know, lets make a shirt that makes light of cancer too. Surely that's as funny. Maybe if you're 12.

obviously A LOT of people missed the point, yes, but not all. I do, however, see you still haven't got it. It's not making fun of aids....

Sirknifesalot said: I think it's maybe more of the fact that making fun of aids is something that most people don't want to associate with. I know, lets make a shirt that makes light of cancer too. Surely that's as funny. Maybe if you're 12.


HELLO! I do get the point of it. I'm explaining to you why OTHERS might have not gotten the point. Geez.

whacko said:
Chlam-mydia? You mean Sunoco, a word that sounds NOTHING like clamydia (yet happens to have a clam for a logo).


I don't care if your intent was to make fun of diseases, people with diseases or just big companies.


I do care about the poorly executed jokes and like others have mention the poorly done and over-crowded layout.


All in all the idea was not bad, but poor execution kills it.

wotto said: I bet this sells lots

banzaaiii said:

Sirknifesalot said: I think it's maybe more of the fact that making fun of aids is something that most people don't want to associate with. I know, lets make a shirt that makes light of cancer too. Surely that's as funny. Maybe if you're 12.



HELLO! I do get the point of it. I'm explaining to you why OTHERS might have not gotten the point. Geez.

no you're not... you said "I think it's maybe more of the fact that making fun of aids is something that most people don't want to associate with", so youre saying this shirt is making fun of aids, and people dont like that. however, this shirt isnt making fun of aids at all. maybe you meant to say this is what some people think, but you didnt say that, and i cannot read your mind. either way it leads to the following:

the reason for why others might not have gotten the point is that they are dumb as Spock, and did in fact miss the point. they think so highly of the various companies (not that that is necessarily bad or anything) that they see writing diseases in their logo form as a way of glorifying the disease, or promoting the disease as something trivial, ie making fun of it, rather than seeing it as using the diseases as a way of ridiculing the companies.


how anyone can find this offensive i do not get. that people may not like the design itself cause of layout, color etc, or that they just dont think manipulating the logos like this is funny, or that the message of the shirt isnt something they would want to sport, i do get, and this is also why i didnt buy the shirt.

tchristianson said: seems a little depressing to me

krp2nt said: yeah, but who would wear this?

Josephus said: Wow, I can't believe how poorly you understood me. First, the point of the shirt is viral campaigns, no? According to the artist, yes.


Then it shouldn't show bacteria and prion diseases, it should show VIRAL diseases.


Second, and rather the more important point, the major audience of people who would be expected to buy this shirt are going to be the geeks who actually know that these are viral diseases. If you're smart enough to 'get' the shirt, then you're annoyable enough to not want a shirt that carelessly includes 1/4 of the diseases that are not caused by viruses. It's doctors and parents like you that are causing the whole antibacterial resistance thing by prescribing and taking antibiotics for viral diseases.


geez.

professorbootyxxx said:

I agree. I work in public health (specifically reproductive and sexual health) and thought this was hilarious. The hang-up is on a few of the logos. It wasn't until I read Whacko's comment that I got that Rabies was Barbie. I also agree that the Shell logo isn't a good fit for Chlamydia, despite the clam shape. Sy Philis works when you look at it, but not when you say it.


The logos that work the best are the homonyms. Sars Coughy, Ebola, Avian Flu, and HepC made me laugh out loud. Polio took me a sec, but it's still creative.


I'm willing to let it go that a large group of them aren't viruses, but I'm still going to have to think about it. The Barbie and Shell logos might be a deal breaker.


People need to lighten up a bit. It's a shirt. If you spend your time trying to prevent/cure a lot of these infections, you have to have a sense of humor. If you can't laugh, you're going to cry.

professorbootyxxx

Totally agree with you on that, professor. I'm a public health student too and I don't find this offensive at all. I'm not crazy about the design --it's crowded (reminds me of a anothersite tshirt), some of the logos just aren't clever, and the color is boring, but if it were just one logo splashed across the shirt (the ebola one is great), I might have thought about getting it.

stablercake said:

professorbootyxxx said: I work in public health (specifically reproductive and sexual health) and thought this was hilarious.

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People need to lighten up a bit. It's a shirt. If you spend your time trying to prevent/cure a lot of these infections, you have to have a sense of humor. If you can't laugh, you're going to cry.

I see the reasoning there and would actually accept someone who works with such diseases to be wearing it (kind of like how I think crocs are the most abhorrent shoes in the world but if you're a chef or gardener, I completely understand that).


However, most of the population doesn't work in public health or study infectious disease so it just seems in poor taste.


I'd agree with the statement above that says if the companies were compared to all kinds of horrible things instead of just diseases, the message would have read properly.


Last thing: when it comes to what you say and what you do (and in this case what you wear), it doesn't really matter what you intended for it to mean, it's what the audience perceives. Not everyone on the street is going to wait for you to explain your shirt to them.

FuzzyLogic said: ..... and now.


The Larch.

banzaaiii said:

Sirknifesalot said: I think it's maybe more of the fact that making fun of aids is something that most people don't want to associate with. I know, lets make a shirt that makes light of cancer too. Surely that's as funny. Maybe if you're 12.



HELLO! I do get the point of it. I'm explaining to you why OTHERS might have not gotten the point. Geez.

no you're not... you said "I think it's maybe more of the fact that making fun of aids is something that most people don't want to associate with", so youre saying this shirt is making fun of aids, and people dont like that. however, this shirt isnt making fun of aids at all. maybe you meant to say this is what some people think, but you didnt say that, and i cannot read your mind. either way it leads to the following:

the reason for why others might not have gotten the point is that they are dumb as Spock, and did in fact miss the point. they think so highly of the various companies (not that that is necessarily bad or anything) that they see writing diseases in their logo form as a way of glorifying the disease, or promoting the disease as something trivial, ie making fun of it, rather than seeing it as using the diseases as a way of ridiculing the companies.


how anyone can find this offensive i do not get. that people may not like the design itself cause of layout, color etc, or that they just dont think manipulating the logos like this is funny, or that the message of the shirt isnt something they would want to sport, i do get, and this is also why i didnt buy the shirt.

megantron said:
What if I go to school with thousands of pre-med students and work at a medical campus where everyone is a health professional? Almost everybody I encounter on a day-to-day basis will "get" the shirt, I think. I wouldn't buy this shirt because of the poor execution, but I think you're underestimating people's ability to understand the shirt. I think a few people were actually offended this shirt, stated their opinions, and other people read their comments and thought that they should be offended too.

stablercake said:

megantron said:

What if I go to school with thousands of pre-med students and work at a medical campus where everyone is a health professional? Almost everybody I encounter on a day-to-day basis will "get" the shirt, I think. I wouldn't buy this shirt because of the poor execution, but I think you're underestimating people's ability to understand the shirt. I think a few people were actually offended this shirt, stated their opinions, and other people read their comments and thought that they should be offended too.

Once again, I said not everyone is in a health/disease related field. This obviously excludes you.

KyleMittskus said:
Stabler: get those gifs going! Stat!!! :)

megantron said:
And like I said, not everyone is dumb and probably will not find this shirt offensive for the wrong reasons. Seriously, what fratboys do YOU know who would find this shirt funny?

stablercake said:
True, not everyone is dumb, but not everyone is smart either. I obviously thought this shirt was offensive for the wrong reasons at first and I'm of above average intelligence at least. The offensiveness of the shirt isn't based on the intelligence of the individual, offense is by nature subjective. In this case, I feel the subjectivity of the general populous you come in contact with will be on the disapproving side of this shirt.


And I live in Indiana so I'd say quite a few fratboys I know would find this funny for the same reason I find it offensive.

stablercake said:

not everyone is dumb,

megantron said: Anyway, I didn't mean to insult your intelligence. Please take this .gif as my apology to you

GileadFighter said:

banzaaiii said:

Sirknifesalot said: I think it's maybe more of the fact that making fun of aids is something that most people don't want to associate with. I know, lets make a shirt that makes light of cancer too. Surely that's as funny. Maybe if you're 12.



HELLO! I do get the point of it. I'm explaining to you why OTHERS might have not gotten the point. Geez.

no you're not... you said "I think it's maybe more of the fact that making fun of aids is something that most people don't want to associate with", so youre saying this shirt is making fun of aids, and people dont like that. however, this shirt isnt making fun of aids at all. maybe you meant to say this is what some people think, but you didnt say that, and i cannot read your mind. either way it leads to the following:

the reason for why others might not have gotten the point is that they are dumb as Spock, and did in fact miss the point. they think so highly of the various companies (not that that is necessarily bad or anything) that they see writing diseases in their logo form as a way of glorifying the disease, or promoting the disease as something trivial, ie making fun of it, rather than seeing it as using the diseases as a way of ridiculing the companies.


how anyone can find this offensive i do not get. that people may not like the design itself cause of layout, color etc, or that they just dont think manipulating the logos like this is funny, or that the message of the shirt isnt something they would want to sport, i do get, and this is also why i didnt buy the shirt.

You left out the point that we could have gotten the point, but still found it in bad taste. Yes, satire on the evil megacorporations of America. It doesn't take too many synapses to get that. I found this shirt so offensive that I finally became a member today to comment on it. I guess that's one good thing about it.

Ironically, I wouldn't be surprised to see someone walking into starbucks with this shirt on. It screams "hey look at me! i'm such an "it" guy that has original ideas and political ideals! please comment on my shirt so i can rant for 30min about stuff you don't care about, while at the same time I have no idea what i'm talking about! fun for the both of us!!!!!"

Just because your sense of humor is that twisted, doesn't mean everyone agrees.

"Ok, I'm done now, you can go away. I need to get another venti skinny soy latte while I transfer my musings from my Moleskine notebook to my Macbook Pro."

GileadFighter said:

banzaaiii said:

Sirknifesalot said: I think it's maybe more of the fact that making fun of aids is something that most people don't want to associate with. I know, lets make a shirt that makes light of cancer too. Surely that's as funny. Maybe if you're 12.



HELLO! I do get the point of it. I'm explaining to you why OTHERS might have not gotten the point. Geez.

no you're not... you said "I think it's maybe more of the fact that making fun of aids is something that most people don't want to associate with", so youre saying this shirt is making fun of aids, and people dont like that. however, this shirt isnt making fun of aids at all. maybe you meant to say this is what some people think, but you didnt say that, and i cannot read your mind. either way it leads to the following:

the reason for why others might not have gotten the point is that they are dumb as Spock, and did in fact miss the point. they think so highly of the various companies (not that that is necessarily bad or anything) that they see writing diseases in their logo form as a way of glorifying the disease, or promoting the disease as something trivial, ie making fun of it, rather than seeing it as using the diseases as a way of ridiculing the companies.


how anyone can find this offensive i do not get. that people may not like the design itself cause of layout, color etc, or that they just dont think manipulating the logos like this is funny, or that the message of the shirt isnt something they would want to sport, i do get, and this is also why i didnt buy the shirt.

You left out the point that we could have gotten the point, but still found it in bad taste. Yes, satire on the evil megacorporations of America. It doesn't take too many synapses to get that. I found this shirt so offensive that I finally became a member today to comment on it. I guess that's one good thing about it.

Ironically, I wouldn't be surprised to see someone walking into starbucks with this shirt on. It screams "hey look at me! i'm such an "it" guy that has original ideas and political ideals! please comment on my shirt so i can rant for 30min about stuff you don't care about, while at the same time I have no idea what i'm talking about! fun for the both of us!!!!!"

Just because your sense of humor is that twisted, doesn't mean everyone agrees.

"Ok, I'm done now, you can go away. I need to get another venti skinny soy latte while I transfer my musings from my Moleskine notebook to my Macbook Pro."