Charity? T-Shirt

yeah its a bit like putting on those big expensive parties to get people to fork over cash! DER! Just give the freaking money that goes on the cost of feeding a bunch of twats directly to the cause!!

no doubt. thats why movember is so cool. gets the message displayed publicly without need for merch. and i get to have a dirty moustache for a month. bbeeeeaaaauuutiful.

... all proceeds from this tee go to the R.A.A.E Foundation.

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Such a valid point, eloquently made!

Fuckenay raae. I totally agree. Sadly it is a fact that many people will not part with their hard- earned unless they recieve at least something for it. The charities would argue that getting at least part of the money is better than nothing and that displaying a ribbon or something is raising awareness of the cause. I really like the shirt though. How about selling it and donating the profits to charity for a delicious double-irony?

Girl: I just went to my drawers and threw away all the T shirts I got running all those half marathons on behalf of cancer, heart disease,and women’s causes.
WHAT? You weren’t talking to me!?

It’s about spreading the message you muppets. If everyone sees everyone else in breast cancer shirts, they’ll all go and get one. If one person gives a tenner to a charity they get no publicity or awareness and no else does. It’s way better to get shed loads of tiny, than one large.

It’s no different to the way coke advertise. Works for them, and you get to feel good.

Actually another fucking point is if you don’t give people anything except a ‘good felling’ they’ll give you spare change, if you give them a shirt they’ll give you a tenner and you’ll get about 7 bucks of it. And everyone will see what you did, and the message spreads memetically.

For fucks sake.

Despite ‘good felling’ being an amusing typo that I’m now going to use as a sexual term, I meant ‘good feeling’.

Natch.

Oh jesus…

You’re missing the point.

I do agree that it raises awareness but that is only a fortunate by product of the only way you can entice the ‘me’ generation to donate a shit. There are better and more economical ways for charities to receive donations AND circulate merchandise but who is interested in doing that these days?

Felling sounds like feltching… which i know is a rude word but can’t quite remember what it means… and don’t think i should google it from my work computer. But what i WILL do is check from someone else’s machine when they run off to the bathroom… and then make it their desktop image.

Do not look up felching.

It’s not a ‘fortunate by product’ it’s the main aim. You have to get people talking. Look at the charity ads in adbusters, they’re intense these days. In-fucking-tense. They need people wearing the shirts because no one will donate otherwise, they’ve adjusted to their climate. It’s shit, but if you get the people who donate these days to give more money and take less then all the ‘almosts’ won’t donate at all.

Celebrity endorsement. That’s where it’s at.

It’s all about the long tail these days.

All I’m saying is lots of people might be wearing a breast cancer shirt to spread the message, having spent a huge proportion of time and effort supporting the cause, or because their mother is dead, and wanting people to know about the disease. And this is pretty offensive to that.

It’s like bulemia rates in Fiji, do you know when TV came to Fiji? 1995, do you know what the bulemia rates were then? 0. Do you know what they were in 1997? 11% of all teenagers had bulemia. Did you know that? probably not, would you if the charity raising money had convinced all the kids to wear tees about it? Yup.

There’s an awful lot of crap happening everywhere. Even the charities have to fight for attention.

“Again I want to highlight the fact that this is questioning the motives behind people who wear that stuff.”

They do it because charities want them to, goddamn it, because it helps their cause in the long run. It’s advertising. There’s too much going on. And my reference to a charity you know nothing about is totally justified, I can send the Stop Bulemic Fijians $10, or, I can send them $20 and get a shirt, which I will wear to my gentlemen’s club, then my good friend The Rt. Hon. Reginald Felcher Ramsbotham will say ‘Golly gosh, I had no idea what was going on in Fiji with that there vomiting thing, I think I’ll send them my Bentley’. And this is what the charity needs, I mean, probably not a big car, but you get the point. You hadn’t heard about them because they didn’t do the t-shirt thing. They’re adapting, evolving, this is positive.

And you point about cancer rates validates this, IT’S HAPPENING EVERYWHERE, FUCKING STAND UP AND START TALKING, tees are great billboards for this. You use them to spread messages about child abuse in this very portfolio.

If we don’t publicly support things in these times of 3 second attention spans, THEY’LL DIE.

So I think you are unjustified in questioning the motives of those who wear this stuff, and I think you are hypocritical in making a shirt to spread your message.

The real root of the problem is lack of education in general, lack of morals, principles, too much media, TV, computer games, too many PC laws, bad parenting, greed, affluenza, and a whole host of sociological issues that this isn’t targeting, the foundations are fucked, so the top floor is wobbly. The charities can’t broach this, they have AIDS stricken bulemic cancer patients to worry about. So they get on the bandwagon.

Yeah, I offend people, but in different circumstances I feel, but it’s beside the point, which is a tactic you just accused me of.

I sincerely believe the motives of the majority of people who do wear the stuff are pretty pure, and according to your stats it’s likely they’ve not only supported a charity but they have personally suffered, and I reckon they’d find that offensive to imply what they were doing was in fact band wagon jumping.

Where is your retort?

I agree.

Oh.

ace shirt, ace comment debate… you’re both totally right.
1) maybe people will get offended, but it’s good to offend people.
2) some people donate money and don’t wear a t-shirt, and some people buy a shirt just to look ‘responsible’. i think both are true.
3) felching is either the slurping out of semen from someone’s anus, or the insertion of a rodent (depending on whose definition you believe).
4) there are millions of t-shirts we’ll never see – ‘spreading the word’ can only ever go so far. we can never know EVERTHING.
5) there are lots and lots of shallow fucks who DO just wear their ‘end world hunger’ rubber bracelets to look cool.
6) there are lots of people dying all the time in all sorts of horrible situations. must we make shirts for them all?
7) everyone is fucked, in their own small way. i certainly am.
8) at the same time, everyone is really really nice, in other small ways.
9) i think we should question ALL motives for EVERYTHING.
10) charity bandwagons are jumped ALL THE TIME!
11) and if, statistically, we’re all gunna die from cancer, maybe we should shut up about it and concentrate on LIVING instead. (my mum died from sudden unexpected cancer 4 years ago, before you all go off at me for not knowing what i’m talking about. i know EXACTLY what i’m talking about.)
12) okay, rant over. nice shirts!

when I buy instead of donate i buy things that i will enjoy liek a brest cancer shirt i love the design of i know the mony goes to a good cause but i also enjoy the object i buy.

sing it.