T-shirt controversy
1.12.07 by Buffalo Bill
The image that House of Pistard used for the Ryan benefit shirt has caused not a little controversy. Various members of the London FGSS forum have accused the world’s worst messenger shirt manufacturer of glorifying violence against cars. Most of us thought it was a funny image, which encapsulated the incident, and the fantasy that most of us have had at one moment or more, in a witty way.
I don’t think it’s glorifying violence. If you think about it, what it is, is a convoluted method for a bunch of messengers to give money to Mercedes-Benz. Which is a bizarre idea, however you look at it. And if we are going to give money to Mercedes-Benz, then we might as well have a laugh doing it.
Updated
House of Pistard have all the mail-order details here.
House of Pistard sticker competition - Moving Target version
LCEF makes the London Review of Books blog and Road.cc
Is this funny or not?
Tour de France Events this week-end
Going to Dublin!
We’d love to comment here at H.O.P. but we’re all flying out to attend Evel Knievels’s funeral so… “UP YOURS!”
— obergruppenpistard 1 December 2007, 10:50 #
Liar. I happen to know that you’re off to the Millionaire Fair, to pick a Swarovski NJS Deluxe Buckfast tumbler set. The wages of SIN!
— Bill 1 December 2007, 11:23 #
fakengers g…s and saddle sniffers… pah
— sleepy 1 December 2007, 11:24 #
Oi.. Im in Copenhagen and I need 3 of those tshirts for our xmas bash on the 15th. Someone with a paypal acc that can help me out? Bill? Thx..
— martin 1 December 2007, 16:03 #
I think it’s a rad image personally. Keep it up!
— crankedmag 1 December 2007, 16:10 #
Cm’on, keep in mind FGSS forum is a discussion board and doesn’t give one opinion that all people share
— sol 1 December 2007, 17:22 #
I said ‘various’ not ‘all members’…
— Bill 1 December 2007, 17:28 #
lord, and i thought i was uptight. some of those posters are yet another reason to covet this tee too.
— lurkette 2 December 2007, 19:34 #
Firstly i must state i don’t condone violence in any form. In fact i am trying to live according to the code of ahimsa amongst other things. Saying that this is a once off. Aidan is cycling home after a busy day at the office. He is flying along having just passed an 83 year old on a motorised wheel chair. He adjusts his ‘fly’ cycling cap a little to the left and tightens his oversized, colourful timbuk to fit snuggly on his back. Wheeeee he cries as he takes a corner at 5 miles an hour on his bright fixed wheelie cyclebike. As he looks up he see’s a silver merc with a z slashed across the bonet swerving from one side of the road into his path. Kaboom
— Zack Speedfast 2 December 2007, 21:22 #
Sol, I got a small MT shirt for you. (DFL in Alleynhatt, right?)
— Bill 2 December 2007, 21:34 #
brilliant, cheers
— sol 2 December 2007, 22:57 #
I have been reading this thread. Is it only me that thinks if the t-shirt represent something which you are not happy to be associated with don’t buy it? Or is that too simple?
— Tommy 3 December 2007, 17:20 #
Is that tommy the brick fag esquire? Go back to your own shight forum
— ? 3 December 2007, 20:55 #
fookin ay to tommy you stole what I was going to post.
so have this instead, dead moths make great hangliders for pet spiders! wahey!
— juan samwell 5 December 2007, 11:51 #
i condone violence and a hate freedom. I declare a holy messenger war on the fag geared shit speed forum.
— safa brian 6 December 2007, 07:38 #