anyone get chastised for the Reaper tee?

2-feign-reluctance
2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
edited August 2008 in The Porch
recently saw a good friend, who let's just say is a bit opinionated, and he really went on a long diatribe about my black reaper concert t-shirt. said it looked like it was disrespectful to the flag (tattered flag) and that the reaper reminded him of a klu klux klan member.
of course i interpret the shirt completely different and had been wondering if anyone else on the board has had any trouble with others, looks, comments, etc., re: this fucking awesome shirt.
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  • Cree Nations
    Cree Nations Posts: 2,247
    2-feign-reluctance wrote:
    recently saw a good friend, who let's just say is a bit opinionated, and he really went on a long diatribe about my black reaper concert t-shirt. said it looked like it was disrespectful to the flag (tattered flag) and that the reaper reminded him of a klu klux klan member.
    of course i interpret the shirt completely different and had been wondering if anyone else on the board has had any trouble with others, looks, comments, etc., re: this fucking awesome shirt.
    it is a fucking awesome shirt, ordered it a couple weeks back and have yet to get it.
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  • Stone Is God
    Stone Is God Posts: 1,331
    No, but I did accidentally buy it for my 5 year old son at the Hartford show and just stuffed it in my girlfriend bag. I asked what they had in a kids size and the guy showed me the back. Not knowing what was on the front I took it. I got home the next day and actually looked at it. I looked and my girlfriend and said, "there's no chance I can give this to my son, his mother would kill me."

    Luckily I went to the last show in Mansfield and got an age appropriate shirt for him.
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  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    Stone Is God wrote:
    No, but I did accidentally buy it for my 5 year old son at the Hartford show and just stuffed it in my girlfriend bag. I asked what they had in a kids size and the guy showed me the back. Not knowing what was on the front I took it. I got home the next day and actually looked at it. I looked and my girlfriend and said, "there's no chance I can give this to my son, his mother would kill me."

    Luckily I went to the last show in Mansfield and got an age appropriate shirt for him.


    i can see why you'd do that of course. it is quite a statement t-shirt for sure.
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  • Stone Is God
    Stone Is God Posts: 1,331
    2-feign-reluctance wrote:
    i can see why you'd do that of course. it is quite a statement t-shirt for sure.

    I did find the thought of him playing in the sand box at pre-school proudly wearing the reaper t-shirt that his dad bought him at Pearl Jam mildly amusing.

    I think I was the only one though.
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  • Kilgore_Trout
    Kilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    my only problem with it is that its ugly... dont really read too much into its "message"

    my soundgarden "fuck happens" and "louder than fuck" shirts... how thats a message! ha
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,164
    I am not a fan of that design
    I dont care that the flag is used, its a political statement

    but its too dark and morbid for my tastes
  • NotoriousIMP
    NotoriousIMP Posts: 141
    I a bit warped, but I think it speaks volumes. and would be a great Tattoo.
    I get more flack from my "get right" t-shirt. People think its some sort of arabic saying.
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  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    I love that t-shirt design. . . I was going to oder one, but I'm a little hesitant with the sizing. I normally wear large. should I get that size or xtra large? I'm sort of torn and dont want to get the tee and have it be to small, though I don't want it to look like I'm drowning in it either.
  • OlDiamondback
    OlDiamondback Posts: 100
    Being that I live in Arlington VA and work in DC, I get some sideways glances from all the uber-patriot-tourists and gov't workers on the Metro. But no one has said anything to me....yet...

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  • JoWesley
    JoWesley Posts: 109
    So I probably shouldn't let my kids wear theirs when we tour DC next week? :D
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  • PJ-Sin
    PJ-Sin Posts: 348
    I freakin love the design for that shirt. Once I get paid I am going to order one.

    ..coolest design ever!! I might be saying that just because I love metal music and to me that looks pretty metal \m/
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  • Vedderman23
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    Great poster. Bad t-shirt.
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  • TiaMija
    TiaMija Posts: 597
    My boyfriend asked me not to wear it around him. He spent some time in the army and is also sensitive to any type of hooded, robed creature; therefore, he finds it disrespectful on two counts.
    I agree with it's message, but I also don't want to make someone else uncomfortable. I guess it will wait in my closet until the next PJ tour!

    Or, should I wear it in DC next week on purpose?
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    its a flag... who gives a fuck if its tattered :confused:
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • OlDiamondback
    OlDiamondback Posts: 100
    JoWesley wrote:
    So I probably shouldn't let my kids wear theirs when we tour DC next week? :D


    Ahahah! You could get some pretty sweet pics with them at all the monuments or standing in front of the White house. This makes me wonder what they would say (if anything) if I went in to tour the Capitol with this shirt on. You do have to go through some pretty heavy security to get in there and...hmmm...I'm sure they'd say something. At the very least, they'd probably start a some kind of file on you and the next time you try to fly home for thanksgiving you'd find out you're on the no fly list...yeah probably not a good idea.
  • Vedderlution_Baby
    Vedderlution_Baby Posts: 2,535
    dunkman wrote:
    its a flag... who gives a fuck if its tattered :confused:


    There's this thing in america where the flag has to be in pristine condition.



    And since when did KKK members carry around huge scythes?
  • Kilgore_Trout
    Kilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:
    And since when did KKK members carry around huge scythes?
    i dunno... youre from the south... you should know better than anyone :p
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:
    There's this thing in america where the flag has to be in pristine condition.


    yeah unlike your teeth!!!


    oh wait .. thats us :o


    ;)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • callen
    callen Posts: 6,388
    Love the message...its the epitome of how the current government suckered "some" people of faith to kill. Sure this makes some uncomfortable...but that's a good thing.
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  • Jesika537
    Jesika537 Posts: 301
    Vedderlution_Baby! wrote:
    And since when did KKK members carry around huge scythes?

    Exactly what I was thinking... I always thought it was the Grim Reaper(George Bush)... Maybe I'm an idiot.
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