# Would you wear this type of t-shirt in public? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 12, 2015, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-wear-this-type-of-t-shirt-in-public/722377 "2015-06-12T18:49:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-wear-this-type-of-t-shirt-in-public/722377/21 "2015-06-12T21:28:01Z")
If it was last year, I would say maybe it was Fred Phelps. > [@Asimovian](#): > > I am reminded of the gentleman I encountered in a Target (with a woman who appeared to be a significant other, and two under-10 children in tow) wearing the following t-shirt: > > FRONT: “Wanna spend the night?” > > BACK: “The couch pulls out, but I don’t.” > > I was then, and still am, shocked that anyone would want to be seen wearing that in public. But, different folks, and all that… If your were at a WalMart he would have blended right in. ---
**Author:** ![mrldii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@mrldii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrldii)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-wear-this-type-of-t-shirt-in-public/722377/22 "2015-06-12T21:34:51Z")
My thoughts? Any man who wears it in public must be mistaken for a homosexual a lot and so he feels compelled to set the record _straight_, right away. Any woman who wears it in public must be mistaken for a heterosexual, so she feels similarly compelled. No, I wouldn’t wear it…_anywhere_, as I wouldn’t own it. Any man I was with wouldn’t wear it in public, either, as he wouldn’t own it for long, _if_ he even had one to begin with. It’s about ‘respect’ (for one’s self and for others), yanno? ---
**Author:** ![jharvey963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jharvey963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharvey963)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-wear-this-type-of-t-shirt-in-public/722377/23 "2015-06-12T21:50:43Z")
This reminds of the “Free Mustache Rides” T-shirt. Anyone I saw wearing either of these I’d just classify as D-bag and walk away. J. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-wear-this-type-of-t-shirt-in-public/722377/24 "2015-06-12T22:10:24Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Our company policy is we’d refuse to transport him until he changed his shirt. Whether or not the specific gate agent or flight attendants involved would choose to enforce the policy depends on how he, they, and any other customers reacted. Interesting. How do you draw the line, since it’s not using any actual curse words or obscenities? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-wear-this-type-of-t-shirt-in-public/722377/25 "2015-06-12T22:26:00Z")
This t-shirt is better known than anything the band itself put out. (Borderline NSFW). It was a staple on college campuses in the early 1990s. An MTV VJ even wore one on the air, with a denim vest of course. 😛 > **[Inspiral Carpets Official Online Store : Merch, Music, Downloads & Clothing](https://inspiralcarpets.tmstor.es)** I had a classmate who regularly wore one, and my brother had one too but he too wore a vest or jacket if he wore it outside the home. Just a few days ago, I saw a rather scruffy-looking guy at the grocery store who wore a shirt with a slogan in huge letters that did include the F word. Not something I want to see in public, MMMMkay? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-wear-this-type-of-t-shirt-in-public/722377/26 "2015-06-12T22:29:05Z")
I think he meant Vulvas. ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2015, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-wear-this-type-of-t-shirt-in-public/722377/27 "2015-06-12T22:33:55Z")
My “thoughts” upon reading that are that _some_ people have absolutely no taste or class. I can “top” yours, by the way (and I’ve posted this elsewhere on the SDMB before): walking around during a fair a few years ago I saw a guy - I SWEAR I’m not making this up - walking around with his wife/girlfriend/sex partner (and maybe even a stroller with a kid in it though I don’t remember that particular detail for sure) while wearing a t-shirt on which it was stated: “I may not be Mr. Right, but I’ll f_ck you until he comes along." Best to get that sort of thing up front and out in the open, apparently. (on the t-shirt there was no "_”, by the way) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-wear-this-type-of-t-shirt-in-public/722377/28 "2015-06-13T02:36:20Z")
Even worse is when people put shirts with inappropriate, or even age-inappropriate, slogans on their young children. A while back, I saw a picture online of a baby girl with IIRC neuroblastoma, a cancer that usually strikes preschoolers :(, wearing a t-shirt with the words “FUCK CANCER” is glittery letters. 😕 At first glance, I thought it was kind of funny, but then I didn’t because she didn’t consent to wear that. My brother, who has two now-teenage daughters, says he’s seen shirts in the kids’ departments of mainstream clothing stores that say things like “I’M SEXY”. He wouldn’t want them wearing shirts like that now, let alone 10 years ago. And after I graduated from high school, over 30 years ago, I worked in an office for a while before I went to college, and one of my co-workers was a woman who was a bit, shall we say, off-kilter, although she didn’t look or act that way on the surface. I do remember that her husband managed an adult bookstore, back in the days when those were not exactly mainstream enterprises, and then she quit her job. She came in later to pick up her check, and brought her toddler son with her. He wore a t-shirt with an iron-on depicting a bird that had just hatched, and it said “I JUST GOT LAID”. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-wear-this-type-of-t-shirt-in-public/722377/29 "2015-06-13T02:43:51Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > If it was last year, I would say maybe it was Fred Phelps. > If your were at a WalMart he would have blended right in. Why do you think [People of Walmart](http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/) exists? They even have a [subcategory](http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/category/profane-shirts/) for shirts like that. My mother and I went shopping last week, and then we went out to eat. There was this guy sitting across from us wearing a tshirt from some seafood place that said, “I Got My Crabs from Dirty Dicks”. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-wear-this-type-of-t-shirt-in-public/722377/30 "2015-06-13T02:46:32Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > No, no. It’s “_Virginia_ is for Lovers!” But what about the rest of us ladies? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Tzigone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-wear-this-type-of-t-shirt-in-public/722377/31 "2015-06-13T02:52:00Z")
> [@](#): > > My mother and I went shopping last week, and then we went out to eat. There was this guy sitting across from us wearing a tshirt from some seafood place that said, “I Got My Crabs from Dirty Dicks”. Actually, that one and the chick one don’t bother me (on adults) - the wordplay is such that anyone too young to understand it will read it literally and so not ask questions uncomfortable for adults or repeat words they shouldn’t. There are places those are inappropriate, of course, but that’s true of anything. The others I’ve seen listed do mostly sound dreadful and tasteless to me. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-wear-this-type-of-t-shirt-in-public/722377/32 "2015-06-13T03:13:24Z")
> [@Tzigone](#): > > Actually, that one and the chick one don’t bother me (on adults) - the wordplay is such that anyone too young to understand it will read it literally and so not ask questions uncomfortable for adults or repeat words they shouldn’t. There are places those are inappropriate, of course, but that’s true of anything. The others I’ve seen listed do mostly sound dreadful and tasteless to me. In the early 1990s, I had a pen pal who went to a hair band concert with a friend of hers who was, shall we say, a bit naive when it came to current slang. Can’t recall the name of the band, but they had some t-shirts that said something like “Member of U.S. Muff Diving Team”. The friend had no idea what that really was, and thought it was some kind of sport, because it was around the time of the 1992 Olympics. :smack: My pen pal told me that story in response to one I told her, about a co-worker who said that when her older brother was in college, his fraternity had some t-shirts printed up that looked like a street sign, but was actually two stick figures having sex. One day when he was home, her mom came to school to pick her up, and walked into the building WEARING THAT SHIRT! :eek: :o She had been doing laundry, needed to change her shirt, and put on the first one that fit. It gets better. Her parents had married late, and had all 3 of their children after they were both 40 years old, so here was this 60-year-old woman wearing this rather naughty shirt. This was also during the era of t-shirts depicting various animate and inanimate objects having sex in various positions, and a junior high teacher told me about one of his students who came to school wearing one of those shirts. What puzzled them was that she was not someone they would have expected to do something like that, and that trip she had to take to the principal’s office to turn the shirt inside out was her first, and probably last, trip there. This one gets better too. The girl’s MOTHER had bought the shirt for her! :smack: They had been on vacation, and the mom found a shirt she thought her daughter, who was a fan of lizards, would like, not recognizing what the lizards were actually doing. :dubious: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-wear-this-type-of-t-shirt-in-public/722377/33 "2015-06-13T03:18:48Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > No, no. It’s “_Virginia_ is for Lovers!” As long as they’re straight. They don’t like all of that gay lovin’ goin’ on. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-wear-this-type-of-t-shirt-in-public/722377/34 "2015-06-13T03:43:27Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Just a few days ago, I saw a rather scruffy-looking guy at the grocery store who wore a shirt with a slogan in huge letters that did include the F word. Not something I want to see in public, MMMMkay? I wouldn’t wear it, but [this shirt makes me giggle](http://www.tshirthell.com/funny-shirts/there-are-two-people-fucking-on-the-back-of-my-shirt/). ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-wear-this-type-of-t-shirt-in-public/722377/35 "2015-06-13T03:51:52Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I should’ve seen it coming but that still made me snort out loud. yep ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-wear-this-type-of-t-shirt-in-public/722377/36 "2015-06-13T04:54:48Z")
Different tastes, different stages in life, too. In the late 80’s when Jonathon Brandmeier had his Morning Drive DJ heyday, he popularized yelling at people “eat me!” to the point there was merchandise to buy with the slogan. I have a picture of 19-year-old me somewhere, posing in a London Underground stop, wearing an oversized sweatshirt with EAT ME BRANDMEIER Emblazoned from top to bottom. Classy. A couple years past that and I changed my mind about wearing stuff like that. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-wear-this-type-of-t-shirt-in-public/722377/37 "2015-06-13T05:08:05Z")
Is it one of those t-shirts with a pocket? I don’t want to look like a dork. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-wear-this-type-of-t-shirt-in-public/722377/38 "2015-06-13T05:32:33Z")
Some eople crave atrtention. At public family events there was this one hippy lib wearing a shirt that said “Buck Fush”. At another there was a woman whos read “I wouldnt even f\*\*\* you for practice”. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-wear-this-type-of-t-shirt-in-public/722377/39 "2015-06-13T05:55:20Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > Some eople crave atrtention. > > At public family events there was this one hippy lib wearing a shirt that said “Buck Fush”. At another there was a woman whos read “I wouldnt even f\*\*\* you for practice”. Maybe they were just trying to annoy their redneck uncle… ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-wear-this-type-of-t-shirt-in-public/722377/40 "2015-06-13T06:54:52Z")
Honestly, once you are out of college, I think it’s time to put away the stupid d-bag t-shirts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-wear-this-type-of-t-shirt-in-public/722377.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-wear-this-type-of-t-shirt-in-public/722377.md?page=3)