Pretty little 1st year uni student came to class with a "Lucky 69" shirt. What do you say?
really ! ?
Your wish is my command!
On second thoughts maybe that should be:
Your command ... is my wish
QuoteYour wish is my command!
On second thoughts maybe that should be:
Your command ... is my wish
There may be a reason you can't see their faces.
Does this quote come from:
a. an Adidas advertisement
b. a play by Shakespeare
c. a Chinese student's essay
Latest IT Crowd episode had one of the actors sporting a t-shirt with OMFG on it.
New US passports do RFID, radio frequency ID, so anyone with
the hardware can talk to your passport at 10 meters or so.
US gov't is pressuring other nations to follow suit. This
wallet prevents anyone reading the passport, except when
you take it out.
Makes me wonder what a "let's get it on" look from her would be like. ahahahahah
Took a photo of it and it's hidden somewhere in my files, but imagine this dudes:
Young Muslim kid in the heart of old town Kashgar sporting a lively green T-Shirt that reads "I love Jesus" (he was wearing an Islamic faith hat too).
Just spotted a young girl outside with a T-Shirt reading, in big bold letters:
I like to be on top.
Oh mama！
BLOW
ME
BABY
How do you think I explained that to her?
I wonder what would happen if a girl wore this Tshirt?
... another spelling mistake ? mmmmmmmmmm
... another spelling mistake ? mmmmmmmmmm
ahahahahah I love how the small print says "hard stroke target"
The other day I saw one on a rather largish girl that read
"Lov Chink"
Looking at her girth I was thinking more along the line of "Lov Chunk"
I love how the small print says "hard stroke target"
Or the even smaller print below that that says: "Swing the Legend"
I am not sure what followed the word 'Naughty'. Any guesses??Reckless???
It is a bit like wildlife shooting - in the urban jungle. The other day a guy loomed into my viewfinder shouting at me to not take his photo. Me!? I do not take photos of guys!! ... and I missed another good shot of a Tshirt.
The things I have to do in the interests of academic research. Girls in the street think I am perving on their chests ... and all I am doing is trying to read their Tshirts.
It is a bit like wildlife shooting...
I think having a laugh at the expense of poorly written English is something that someone should grow out of several months after one's arrival.
taking photographs of people without their permission is not a cool thing to do - particularly when the focus is on their chest and the aim is to poke fun at their lack of understanding of the English on their clothing.
...subconsciously says a lot about the gaze of the photographer towards his Chinese subject.
particularly those that have been taught about the rules and regulations that were posted outside Huangpu Park
I can see this post being deletedI do not want this post to be deleted. It serves to remind me of all the reasons why I stay in China.
...closely followed by PsudoFreud...
Actually, I think it's Pseudo Freud,
Ooh what I'd give for an "i"
I wonder if Kipling wandered around the streets of London looking at Tshirts for inspiration?
I wonder if Kipling wandered around the streets of London looking at Tshirts for inspiration?
I wonder if Kipling wandered around the streets of London looking at Tshirts for inspiration?
Not Kipling.
Jack the Ripper mabybe.
I saw a young boy in a polo shirt with the collar turned up. On the collar it said "WEENIE" which made me giggle for awhile.
you're having too much fun with this
oooh, I going to get in trouble for that
Is this the name of a famous pub in England?Somehow, the image of a traditional English village pub with a big wooden sign showing two Dr. Suess-esque roosters wearing socks wasn't the first thing that crossed my mind.
Yes!! haha I going to tell on you.
* In the 19th century Karl Marx appropriated the term to describe commodity fetishism as an important component of capitalism. Nowadays, (commodity and capital) fetishism is a central concept of Marxism.
* Later Sigmund Freud appropriated the concept to describe a form of paraphilia where the object of affection is an inanimate object or a specific part of a person; see sexual fetish.
I thought of holding a "Guess The Words On This Tshirt" competition, but it is too easy. Everyone knows Aunt Snake.
Still, it might be useful as a vocabulary exercise in your next class.
I thought it was for nudist gamblers - punt naked! th_ah
You know xwarrior, I am beginning to enjoy the looks you catch on people's faces better than the shirts!
Large letters across a lovely bosom: "LOW CARBON".
Now if it had been "low silicone" ...
I guess she is in into one of the more unusual fetishes. Personally, I would prefer to roll in hay with her but I suppose I should keep an openbowelmind.
This was one of my students
F***k in Hell! so do I xwarrior. ahahahahah Don't think my Daughter In Law would let my Grandson wear it though. kkkkkkkkkk
I should post more pics
I know it's all about T-shirts
Definition of DISSOLUTE
: lacking restraint; especially : marked by indulgence in things (as drink or promiscuous sex) deemed vices <the dissolute and degrading aspects of human nature — Wallace Fowlie>
What's more important is that she's a B-cup
oops, wrong thread, my bad
What do you think, nice cups
I want to live in a fair and civilized world
Maybe the males don't wear interesting T-shirts?
QuoteMaybe the males don't wear interesting T-shirts?
I was thinking about that the other day. Not sure of the reason.
The majority of students who study English are female - there are only 2 males in my classes this year - but there is no doubt that the English statements on their T-shirts are far and away more likely to be problematic.
I sometimes think it is a case of fashion sense overcoming common sense.
It does, however, highlight a problem found in the classroom; students may master the meaning of many words, but when those words are combined in a sentence there is often a lack of comprehension. That situation is compounded by idiomatic usage and further exacerbated by statements capable of bearing more than one meaning.
Males anywhere are more conservative on the rare occasions they bother buying clothes. They tend to buy a label T-shirt that identifies with a sport and the name of a team or player is well known to them. Just about the only memorable T-shirt worn by a male that I have seen this year is in the movie 'Notting Hill.'
Males might be thick as two bricks, and English- challenged, but not too many would make the mistake of wearing this T-shirt:
(http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/ae15/xwarrior6/Outstanding%20English%20T-shirts/IMG_5256.jpg)
My new keyboard
QuoteMy new keyboard
I want one of those - always wanted to learn how to Touch Type
QuoteMy new keyboard
I want one of those - always wanted to learn how to Touch Type
Yes, but where is the mouse?
Maybe I'd better ask his girlfriend aoaoaoaoao
I love that song EL! and no it is Dorin, not Dorian
She walked up to me and she asked me to dance
I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice
She said Dori D.O.R.I. Dori!
(My only 100 score at KTV so far was singing Lola. Got a 98 on American Pie a couple times.)
Little?
just a little false advertising there on that one DD
Sorry about the quality of the pick, we were both moving.
Case anyone hadn't seen this shirt, here's a pic from an ad
Miss Malaprop of China - Q1 of 2011
out of interest Xwarrior what camera do you use for these pics?
how much it was
Shot !!! bfbfbfbfbf I wonder if she will develop into a Ski Jumper agagagagag
Oh, I'm sorry, I appear to have wandered into a high school boys locker room by mistake bibibibibi . I understand. Only ill disguised boob humor welcome here... Right, I get it. I'll be on my way then.
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Have I missed something? Was this started by the "slope"joke about the tshirt?
I saw one of my students earlier today wearing a tee-shirt that said, in large capital letters 'STOIC'.
How cool is that?
It's no more objectifying than pornography?! One could also say that racist jokes are harmless, but it really comes down to how people are perceived in society and what the consequences of those perceptions are. Imagine for a second if you were judged primarily on your looks and sexual marketability aoaoaoaoao
I mentioned this before – but this is a sort of boys club even if there are women present – it's one thing to focus on the shirts, and it's another to focus on the racks and make them the real issue, in which case we end up having foreign male teachers out on the street photographing Chinese girls chests and posting the pictures online for other foreigners to judge. Maybe that could be kicked upstairs where it's not so public? You can use my "Boobies or Bust" title without crediting me.
Not to get too heavy about patriarchy and how it has impacted the female population of China, but, er, just consider for a second that there are going to be about 30-40 million more men than women in China by 2020.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=there-are-more-boys-than-girls (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=there-are-more-boys-than-girls)
Lastly, like I said before, the shirts are a riot, the comments on the girls (including sexual comments about students) are a bit pathetic.
Oh, I'm sorry, I appear to have wandered into a high school boys locker room by mistake bibibibibi . I understand. Only ill disguised boob humor welcome here... Right, I get it. I'll be on my way then.
I saw one of my students earlier today wearing a tee-shirt that said, in large capital letters 'STOIC'.
How cool is that?
So, again, it's not the shirts, but the comments and contextualization of the girls wearing them, which happen to play into the worse stereotypes not just of Asian girls as sexual playthings and provender for aging expats with some loose change , but also of expats ourselves as middle-aged guys with nothing better to do than perv over young Asian girls.
PC response to this T-shirt:
1. it is white so by definition it is proclaiming that white is the only acceptable colour in society - it should be printed in colours representing all the oppressed minority peoples of the world…
^^ Witty, but it's not about the shirts in and of themselves, but rather about taking pictures of Chinese women, including students, and then because of the shirts (or even irrespective of them) making suggestive or explicit comments about their bodies and what one would like to do with them.
For example, take the photo of students and one in the middle with a shirt that says, "I'm Tight" on it. Then there's a follow up comment: "hahaha if thats not an invitation then i dont know what is. Shame that she probably doesnt know what it means." Obviously it's not an invitation…
Since I teach university students it's not hard at all to imagine a picture of one of my students ending up on a forum like this, with say a "Lucky 69" or "I'm Tight" or whatever shirt, and then for the guys on the forum to make predictable responses about how the Chinglish applies to the girl in question. As Mr Benn suggested, one wouldn't want to explain to that student why one put her picture online and what the comments about her meant, probably because she'd be horrified.
On the other hand, just posting the picture without fully objectifying, sexualizing, and demeaning the woman or girl wearing it isn't really such a problem, though there are still issues of taking people's pictures with or without their permission and posting them online in a context with which they are NOT notified, don't give consent to, and more importantly wouldn't consent to.
So, again, it's not the shirts, but the comments and contextualization of the girls wearing them, which happen to play into the worse stereotypes not just of Asian girls as sexual playthings and provender for aging expats with some loose change , but also of expats ourselves as middle-aged guys with nothing better to do than perv over young Asian girls.
I know this post ain't gonna' be popular in a thread dominated by good ole boys, but, F it, it's the truth, and we're allowed to bullshit and disagree in this area of the forum.
I understand the arguments that everyone is having....... but they are kind off pointless. This is a friendly place and people here get along, we laugh and we talk and we/ do stupid stuff. I agree that sometimes a PM to someone to say maybe turn it down a bit is acceptable but this is turning into the type of flamewar this site tries to avoid.
th_bi
Can we not agree to disagree and let the thread get back to awesome photos? th_ab
QuoteI understand the arguments that everyone is having....... but they are kind off pointless. This is a friendly place and people here get along, we laugh and we talk and we/ do stupid stuff. I agree that sometimes a PM to someone to say maybe turn it down a bit is acceptable but this is turning into the type of flamewar this site tries to avoid.
th_bi
Can we not agree to disagree and let the thread get back to awesome photos? th_ab
There are people on both sides of this issue, and if we could agree to have a civilized and intelligent discussion, this could actually be beneficial as well as reflect well on the quality of discourse on this forum. A few people have tried to silence socially conscious commentary on the thread, but it's probably more useful to explore the relevant issues with an open mind. There's no flame war going on that I can see, and I know a lot of people who are able to have friendly discussions about meaningful topics.
Just a thought: Slapping the word "Juicy" across one's chest (whether one is male or female) is likely to inspire some very politically incorrect thoughts. Think I'll get that printed on one of my t-shirts and go visit Granny Mae. ahahahahah
At this point it depends for me on how xwarrior feels about the way this thread is going.
The day I start to worry about about what I do or say here is when Granny Mae tells me I have been a bad boy. agagagagag
can we get more photos
Finally, I think it doesn't matter what's right or who's right, but rather who says what and who is in the majority. It ain't me, so let the sexist, racist comments fly boys! Let 'em roll. Let 'em roll. Logic and reason be damned! agagagagag
I'm skipping all that pesky reading and going back to the show.re. I can't stop
I'm skipping all that pesky reading and going back to the show.re. I can't stop
Gee Stil - I didn't know Canadians had blue semen aoaoaoaoao
agagagagag
Just a thought: Slapping the word "Juicy" across one's chest (whether one is male or female) is likely to inspire some very politically incorrect thoughts. Think I'll get that printed on one of my t-shirts and go visit Granny Mae. ahahahahah
Step aside son, this is how you do it:
I'll go visit Granny Mae. I'll get the word "Juicy" printed on a t-shirt and give it to her. Take a pic, blow it to poster size and hang it in my room
That's okay with you Granny Mae? Maybe we can post the pics here :lickass:
Thanks - to everyone!! agagagagag
I am fascinated by the logo on this T-shirt. It is though they have taken 2 concepts and melded them while leaving me room to add 3 more that they had not thought of.
sorry EL, I don't see a button on her shirt marked "any"
i'm sure if you send some videos of yourself he can be turned.
Damn straight!
Couldn't find the one I wanted.... maybe I'll find it later, but I found this in Shanghai....It isn't a t shirt, but still funny.
(http://premium1.uploadit.org/Caseyorourke/NAUGHTYPICS/pocket-of-rubbers.JPG)
Nice to know that some student is prepared to correct his/her mistakes with the proper tool - erasers
Then there's this one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gemstone/3741018481/
That bloke looks as if he is about to start crowing.
you should have cropped that just at his knuckles
Now that he has my attention....! afafafafaf I'll just pop out and see if a few of the other girls could use a smile or a laugh. Thanks stil. agagagagag
I'm shocked and dismayed that you could view some innocent Chinese lad in such a way and would make fun of him. How can you treat an innocent human as an object of your perverse desires?
And why don't you write more about your perverse desires for me? afafafafaf)
Had you taken that shot 1 second earlier, note where the entrance sign would have been
It's sad when one step stands between a good photo and a GREAT photo.
Oh yea, take a look at the girl in the grey shirt. If that's not her own hand then someone is already treasure chest hunting
bhbhbhbhbh
I think it is the woman's hand. It is performing a reflex action - she saw you coming! agagagagag
Perhaps there could be a thread about the interestinglegsshoes in China on both the men and the women?
Metaphysical nihilism is the philosophical theory that there might be no objects at all, i.e. that there is a possible world in which there are no objects at all; or at least that there might be no concrete objects at all, so even if every possible world contains some objects, there is at least one that contains only abstract objects.Wikipedia
An extreme form of metaphysical nihilism is commonly defined as the belief that existence itself does not exist.
I cracked up the other day looking at a young lass with the word "SMALL" written across her chest.
I had a 16 year wearing a shirt that said "I like it on top"
She thought it meant being at the top of the class.
yes, they'll quite happily wear slogans here that people back in our countries wouldn't. At least with regard to English double entendres, they're refreshingly innocent. About other things maybe less so, but that's another basket of fish.
Or maybe not. Maybe that's part of why English is so cool to them. It doesn't yet contain the baggage of second meaning, so they can express themselves in innocence and honesty. Freedom from cynicism?
I think western sophistication has perverted natural behaviour.
not on a t-shirt but its still an article of clothing - just!
Don't you just hate it though when the knickers get caught in your false teeth just as you were getting her warmed up, and you have to stop to get them out and start over?
I guess it saves on tissues
(http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/ae15/xwarrior6/Outstanding%20English%20T-shirts/IMG_2080-1.jpg)
What is the second word xwarrior?
Beauty, of course.
Was that supposed to say Keystone State (aka Pennsyltukey)?
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Do they also make Venilla Malk? mmmmmmmmmm
xwarrior, this topic has gone quiet. You're not out looking for the type of t-shirt I spoke about are you? aoaoaoaoao
Give me a "Y" !
The font is so small on the second pic that I think I need to examine that shirt in person very very closely. afafafafaf
Xwarrior, I was just wondering if the males in China wear interesting T shirts? uuuuuuuuuu
(http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/ae15/xwarrior6/Outstanding%20English%20T-shirts/IMG_7730.jpg)
Note - I have never been to Europe so I have to rely on overseas magazines, like Playboy, for my knowledge of fashion.
I believe you're right on all fronts about Hangzhou XWarrior, are you staying next semester?
Baoji to Hangzhou, eh? Those are two different worlds
QuoteI believe you're right on all fronts about Hangzhou XWarrior, are you staying next semester?
No. The FEB will not give me an FEC because I am over 65. The college tried 3 different approaches but to no avail. Not sure what or where from here. mmmmmmmmmm
BTW, I somehow ended up on the first page of this thread, and found a number of pics missing, with the following instead..........[attachment removed for space reason by admin]
Any explanations forthcoming??
One of the female Chinese English teachers at my uni in Shanghai wore one with no words: just a lovely picture of a big cannabis plant.
One of the female Chinese English teachers at my uni in Shanghai wore one with no words: just a lovely picture of a big cannabis plant.
Ning of rock
QuoteNing of rock
The word came from the UK and, according to Wiktionary, 'ning' and 'nong' can be found in Mandarin.
agagagagag
Isn't "ning" the very formal and deferential form of "ni"?
I felieve I can bly!
I felieve I can such the tie!
Nink about it every dight and tay,
Wead my springs and weye aflay!
(http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o590/wooo_O/truculent-revelation.jpg)
Beijing ... July, 2012... there's at least one more in the heap somewhere, but I haven't had much time to sift through any of this stuff while checking in on kanuckistan.
The Revelation is ALWAYS Truculent. ayayayayay
Is that the emergency plan when no British girls are available? ahahahahah
Isn't that our job to explain? bibibibibi
(http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/o590/wooo_O/god-head_zpsffaec6e5.jpg)
A little birdy (Yahoo) told me, this is not Chinglish.
It appears to be conscious designer Jinglish (http://www.asos.com/Evisu/Evisu-God-Save-Evisu-T-Shirt/Prod/pgeproduct.aspx?iid=1887580&r=2).
The Chinese knockoff thereof.
(http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff324/aaronjmatteson/Xiamen/IMG_0246.jpg)
"Wild At Heart and Weird on Top"
I'm guessing "On the bottom, also".
(http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff324/aaronjmatteson/Xiamen/IMG_0246.jpg)
"Wild At Heart and Weird on Top"
I'm guessing "On the bottom, also".
I think I'm in love. akakakakak akakakakak akakakakak
:) sure Mae - His t-shirt reads:
We are fucking
UNAPOLOGETIC
We have lived our lives
WITHOUT
[image]
WE WILL NOT
APOLOGIZE
... it is perfectly spelled and grammatically without error ergo may not be technically eligible for this thread :wtf: ... bu-u-u-t ... I had to.
Not a T-shirt, but still .... ;)
Not a T-shirt, but still .... ;)
Not a T-shirt but it does open up all sorts of possibilities on this topic - I will lie down and think about ... something
agagagagag
Thank you, shirt; you are cheap, and tawdry and full of wisdom.
Holy smokes Stil!
Although you are basking in the reflected glory of somebody else's pic, I hereby declare you w1n at everything evar!
saw loads today in a local market, didnt have a camera tho...
a womans stylish top had a print that read 'just be two things, stylish and glassy'
I think we need a thread for:
"Outstanding English T-Shirt Statements I didn't get a photo of"
On the bus today, a rather hot girl had a T-shirt that said 'banana inside', I couldn't help but wonder where.......
The other photo was taken in Shenzhen (http://24.media.tumblr.com/1bd7755fa135863b61612d888e6623d9/tumblr_moryb1yoh31rik5heo1_500.jpg).
Actually, I just got carried away, is all. That there are two copies of this same design isn't as revealing as I imagined. I'm just intrigued by the idea of what if all these designs are knowing copies of knowingly bad English. I'm moderately sure that in some cases they are. And if they are, THEN THEY"RE ALL SENDING SOME META-MESSAGE!!!
aiaiaiaiai
The bastards!!! They are trying to undermine all our efforts to teach correct English in China.
They most probably have a special department for this based on an MI5 department established in WWII. This department gave the Germans heaps of intelligence using double-agents (most prob confreres of EL) but in all cases the information was false.
So, we now have the market flooded with weird English. It is everywhere - advertisements, clothing, textbooks and QQ.
It helps explain why some Chinese students challenge my answers to grammar exercises and pronunciation exercises. Their new gods are their young Chinese English teachers, who, having failed to keep their job in a trading company, are now promoting a brand of English they learned at the Henan Technical College of Foreign Things.