This weekend, I spent some time in an establishment where you can take gulps of beer inbetween playing Star Wars: Starfighter and waiting for your karaoke number to be called. In other words, it wasn’t an institution of high culture. And having spent time with this eatery and the people who frequent it, I consider myself up-to-speed on annoying T-shirt trends that are being embraced by today’s youth.
And I’m not pleased. Here’s some of their current travesties:
1. I read the article but still couldn’t believe that Che Guevara T-shirts were really hot items. But now I’ve seen dozens of them for myself. I’m pretty sure that if you asked any of these people why they’re wearing them, they’d answer “I just love his albums.”
2. There’s been lots of complaints about young people wearing tight shirts that expose their midriffs. But what bothers me is that so many of them have no business wearing skimpy clothes. Some of these people look like they’ve swallowed inner tubes; that should be an incentive to suit up, not strip down. To me, this is evidence that young people of today have no sense of responsibility, discipline, or work ethic. In my day we wouldn’t leave the house dressed like that unless we had a sufficiently powerful eating disorder to go along with it.
3. “ANGEL” T-shirts. Honey, I’ll grant you, I’ve never seen an angel--but I’m pretty sure they don’t wear jeans with a hole cut out of each butt cheek.
However, I’m okay with the shirts that say “Dorks are Hot.”
You’re just saying that because you’re late to the Che bandwagon and now you feel left out.
Thank you, Greg. Thank you. My age group scares the hell out of me. I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who thinks they’re all nuts (in terms of clothing style). And thank you for applauding the “dorks are hot” shirts. I need to get me one of those. Along with the “Feminist boys turn me on” one I saw at the protest yesterday....
1. hey, i used to HAVE one of those che guevara t-shirts. i cut the sleeves and neck off and turned it into a tank top, and wore it when i went running. that was around 1996, back when he was good (his new stuff sucks).
2. “my other t-shirt hides an eating disorder” - new slogan?
3. i’m also pretty sure angels don’t hover around fighting over the karaoke machine. but i’ve been wrong before ...
I’m holding out for the midriff-bearing Che Guevara t-shirt that says ANGEL on it. That’s gonna be HOT.
Dude, I am in your day, and I don’t sound that old, even when I tell people to get a haircut and get a job.
Ha. I love Che and the Guevaras. They’re my favorite band.
Also, amen. Someone needs to tell all the girls out there that nobody is going to notice their sexay thongs when the giant love handles created by ill-fitting lowcut pants are so distracting. (I don’t care how skinny you are and how “HOTTT” your shirt claims you are, if your pants ain’t fit right, which 95% of them ain’t, you will have love handles.)
Although, in fairness, Che at Altamont was an AWESOME live show. Coincidentally, it was the Hell’s Angels that ruined it.
Really makes ya think.
Hee. You called us ‘honey’.
I saw a t-shirt yesterday that said ‘Got to Boogie’. The funny part was the girl wearing it. Everyting else about her was conservative and well put together and in the midst of all that, she still wanted to boogie.
I’m confused (not for the first time). Were these Che Guevara the communist revolutionary t-shirts, or Aberaldo Alfonso Lopez and the Che Guevara band t-shirts, in which case we could talk about the album?
I don’t understand the low cut pants. Since when is ass cleavage sexy?
im still sporting my suuuuuuuuuper hot jimmy z sweatshirt in neon yellow. the 80s are back i tell you. i need some neon wayfarers too.
I like to refer to the people who wear the half shirts and low rider jeans that really shouldn’t as “cupcakes”
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I’d hate to hear what you think about my Zapatista SubComandante Marcos half-shirt with Mary-Kate and Ashley on the back. The fringe hangs down to my low-rise painter pants, which are loaded with ethnically inappropriate combs and such. I know the hip-huggers are pushing it for a man of my age...but the ladies seem to respond pretty well to my magenta-tinted ass-stache.
I didn’t understand 99% of what was written and I have a 19yr and 18yr. I am old. And dorks are hot.
(laughing my ass off) Gopi, that was gooood. (Not that I’m condoning bowl-full-of-jelly bellies and low-ride jeans)
I dunno, Greg. I grew up with 95lb. girls who obsessed about being waaaay too fat and hid under baggy “Anarchy” tees. I’m kinda happy for the youth of today and their I-don’t-give-a-crap-about-heart-disease-and-diabetes fat rolls. They are battling the evil empire that is the Diet Industry. Viva la revolución!
And pass the cupcakes.
I never got into that whole “Diva” and “Princess” trend. Instead, I have a t-shirt that says,"I bring nothing to the table”.
I saw one at the beer festival that said…
*Rock is Dead*
(long live paper and scissors)
And had a spastic reaction.
In our final year of high school, our year level is made to produce a t-shirt to instil some sort of comradery. We ripped off the Che Guevara design but put our principal’s head on it.
Obviously, we had to draw on some facial hair as well.
My “Dorks are Hot” shirt is definitely my favorite
Before the divorce another favorite was “I <3 MY GEEK”