Rapmaster2000: Known for being edgy, previous designs have mocked environmentalists and hippies.

Nobody mocks those guys. Damn, this shiat is edgy. Maybe in ten years they can make fun of hipsters. That'll blow people's minds!

I made fun of hipsters before it was cool, you've probably never heard about it

bravian: FTFA "The shirt in no way, shape or form was intended to be racist, or bigotry and anything along those lines," said Don Bell, the festival T-Shirt creator.

If that's the case then why did you make a shirt that makes you look like a racist and a bigot?

Why do you make statements that make you look like an idiot?

cowgirl toffee: BigEd: I dunno... guy on the shirt kinda looks more like Ray Stevens.

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Ray Stevens is not that well muscled.

Never heard of Ray Stevens so all I got was an image of Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder morphed together.

Ahhh... Politically Correct Libtards. Can't live with them, can't load them all into rockets and launch them into the sun...

Has anyone pointed out the similarity of this muscular right-wing American to the gay porn of Tom of Finland?

I mean, I'm offended, but not by the subject matter. I'm offended that the target audience of this kind of shirt are severely closeted gay men that feel forced to live a life as a rampaging, macho heterosexual, with their bulging muscles taut and glistening, pumping with patriotic... fervor ... thrusting their manliness the direction of Osama's yielding ... mouth ... lips slightly parted ... fighting back, resisting but not too hard ... too hard ... uhm ... uh ...

Nick Nostril: I'm finding it difficult to be upset about this. That's just me though.

I'll join you on that. It's a shirt.

If they are offended they can make their own t-shirt

If this offends you, you're probably a sociology professor or something equally useless.

get a life.

Not funny, but not offensive. And since I can't come up with any coherent argument or excuse as to why you should have such a thing, I'm gonna go ahead and scream RACISM so that instead of debating me on merits I don't have, you're forced on the defensive.

/I win!

Am I doing it right, Libs?

Gyrfalcon: Airfoilsguy: I hate stupid people, unfortunately my hate grows daily

See, I just hate everyone from the outset, and then I take individual people off my hate list when they earn it. It's much simpler that way.

FTA: A Facebook page for the festival is lighting up with comments for and against the shirts, with accusations of racism, hatred and poor taste.

get this. lots of people say things on the internet without actually having any facts to back them up.

/t-shirt is kinda silly, but who cares? it sure isn't racist.

I don't know about you a**holes, but I'm not offended.

I checked the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ ) and "freedom from being offended" was not listed for some reason.

It must have been a typo.

Sooooo...... the whiners claiming racism don't recognize the image of Bin Laden?
Must be some of those "haven't had a TV in 10 years" types.

Quantum Apostrophe: I mean, I'm offended, but not by the subject matter.

Settle down, football starts soon enough.


You're the biggest StudMan69 in Fark history, this post and your past point more to closeted homo than anything football players do.

Shirt depicts Osama bin Laden tied to a log held by a muscular American.

I initially read that as "Shirt depicts Osama bin Laden tied to a hog held by a muscular American."

Which would work just as well.

You can say Liberals, subby.

bravian: FTFA "The shirt in no way, shape or form was intended to be racist, or bigotry and anything along those lines," said Don Bell, the festival T-Shirt creator.

If that's the case then why did you make a shirt that makes you look like a racist and a bigot?

How is this racist? It's not like OBL is tied to a fat hog with ropes of bacon. Also, it's obviously not attacking muslims or arabs in general, just the one douche bag. If you think that OBL is representative of all muslims or arabs, then maybe you're the racist.

Hmm. I wouldn't care about a shirt that makes fun of John Wayne Gacy or John Allen Muhammad either. I guess that makes me a bigot.

And yet, I'm OK with this.

I just want to point out that this incident happened closer to Seattle than Hayden. Seems more and more common lately. Hey left coast, what gives?

Free speech and all that, but that wouldn't change my impression that anybody wearing that shirt is rather brainless.

lame shirt is lame

So, I decided I was gonna find out if this shirt was actually offensive to people of Middle Eastern descent.
I ask this guy, "Does this shirt offend you?"
And he was all like "I would be more offended if you didn't pay for that Slurpee after you've already drunk half of it."
So, there you go.

As a man who has enjoyed the intimate company of those belonging to his own gender, I am very I interested in this shirt for reasons that are not what was intended by it's creators.

Lighten up, Francis.

ITS******

farking iPad autocorrect!!

Just trying to digest this. If your tshirt has a picture of a dead coward that killed 1000's of innocent American people, you're a racist. If you disagree with the Presidents policies you're a racist. If you say the word monkey, chimp or ape, you're a racist. Ofcourse, being a conservative, you're a racist. Is there a list somewhere? I don't want to miss anything.

The Spoony Bard: Who are we worried about offending exactly?

Gay loggers I imagine. Maybe bearded ladies with their hair up in towels.

I read that as Obama for some reason. I thought this would turn into a civil discussion regarding Obama's financial stimulus for the logging industry.

why doesn't it have seal team six on it?

cowgirl toffee: That shirt is so ghey.

The only way it could be gayer is if it were printed on a pink sleeveless tee :/

Yes, I too am upset I do not have one of these shirts....

Bon Rennington: These same mouthbreathers shiat bricks when they see an American Flag burned. We need to be more bootstrappy.

Some people shiat bricks when they see their flag burned and. Sme people shiat bricks when they see an image of bin laden tied to a log. It's a vicious cycle of brick shiatting.

bravian: If that's the case then why did you make a shirt that makes you look like a racist and a bigot?

To sell shirts, and this is only helping. Do you also take issue with these shirts?

--flash mob in the streets chanting USA; Fark.com response: lol Obama 2012 lol Obama 2012

--someone makes a shirt; Fark.com response: boo hoo, my liberal sensibilities have been offended

ProfessorOhki: This type of anti-American imagery should offend all of us.

Nope. I'm OK with it. fark bin Laden, and anyone who feels sympathetic toward him.

/Not really a Rah! Rah! nationalist, but he wanted to play tough guy...

Bon Rennington: acidsurfer: Bon Rennington: These same mouthbreathers shiat bricks when they see an American Flag burned. We need to be more bootstrappy.

Let's get bootstrappy!

Link (new window)

1.Teabag
2. Bootstrap
3. ?

Good Lord... The t-shirt itself is bootstrappy enough

Dear Offended People,

While I fully support the flying of US military helicopters (including a stealth helicopter, surprise!) deep into Pakistan so as to literally land them in Osama bin Laden's backyard, chase him into his own bedroom, shoot him right in the farkin' head followed by ransacking the place for sweet, sweet intel and really sick porn and then bundling his corpse off to dump it in the middle of the ocean, as a man of the cloth I must agree that the T-Shirts in question made you sad, and that's a bad thing.

Love,

The Right Reverend Mykeru, Anti-Pope of Washington, DC.

P.S.

Q. What does Osama bin Laden have at the bottom of the ocean that he also had in life?

A. Crabs

The Spoony Bard: Who are we worried about offending exactly?

The glass hearts. They have to impose every ounce of their daily butthurt upon us, or else they just might realize they are meaningless and live only to judge others because of their own insecurities.

That's the root of it. At the end of the day you're hearing about this because they were told to tell you how offensive it was, even though it's u unexplainable.

I guess my outrage meter is on the fritz.
Just because something is unnecessary doesn't mean it's offensive.
Have fun with the T-shirt sale, folks.

I really don't get what the big deal is. In fact, I might try to buy one.

freedom of speech anyone?

How is this shirt racist?

Now, if people were offended because it looks like a still from shiatty flash movie that someone would have thrown together in 2001, I'd be okay with that.

Or people could be offended because "Osama bin Loggin'" doesn't actually mean ANYTHING in this context. It's not as if he is actually doing any logging in the picture, and even if he was, it's a stupid joke that has been made over and over for a decade now. I would be in agreement with them.

If people were offended because this is nothing but an incredibly lame attempt to be edgy and relevant when it is, in fact, the complete opposite of both of those things, I could get where they were coming from.

Racist? No. Stupid? Yes.