Wednesday·28·June·2006
Reflections about T-Shirt Slogans //at 09:51 //by abe
During the last days, I saw two people with interesting sayings or slogans on their t-shirts:
At FrOSCon, Petra from Kernel Concepts sold also some t-shirts from the Geekladen collection and so there were people running around with the slogan »Copyright is superstition™« (German: »Copyright ist Aberglaube™«, Picture), on their t-shirt.
First I thought “cool t-shirt” and “yeah, it’s superstitious to believe that copyright is the real solution to everything” and bought one, too. Then I noticed that the slogan “copyright is superstition” could be interpreted in many other ways, e.g. that the existence of “copyright is superstitious”, which is not really what I think about that subject. So what were the t-shirt makers’ intention? To make people think about the subject? To provocate? Or did they just not think long enough about that slogan?
Then yesterday, I saw a girl on the ETH campus wearing a shirt with
»I’m smart. That’s why I’m single« written on it. So what do
people want to say with this t-shirt? “Don’t date me, I’m smart enough
to know that it won’t work”? Or “There are no other smart people out
there, I can date”? Or should I read it “Help me, I’m smart, I can’t
date”? (And no, I didn’t ask her. ;-)
Tagged as: ETH Zürich, FrOSCon, Saying, T-Shirt
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