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Re: Statue to the Curious Tale of Rabbits Tea and Hats

i want one right now

jimbobka wrote:I agree with this - replace "Appalachia" with any ethnicity you want and it would be rejected. I do not find this funny (or accurate).

Do you think the movie "Fargo" is offensive? I grew up near Fargo and can verify that there aren't many people who actually talk like that (my Grandma does, but she's in her 90s), so it's also propagating derogatory stereotypes about a region of the country.

Re: The Library of Appalachia

I just saw this! Sorry I missed the voting. I'll be checking all weekend and WILL buy this if it comes up. (Hope, hope, fingers crossed).

I'm appalach'n - albeit the very northern part. I still live on the same acres on which I grew up. (I did leave for a while to get a degree.) I think this is hilarious. Where I work, I'm referred to as one of those "from up the mountain". Its fine. Everybody calm down. We're good with it.

Even way back when - this shirt is sort of true. Every family had a bible and that is what all the children used to learned to read.

Re: 7 Rejected Wonders of the World

I'm a little disappointed that this design isn't doing better. It's really clever, and I enjoy it a lot! Not really the kind of shirt I would wear, but I would wear it over most of the designs in the fog for sure.

bluetuba wrote:The thing that's really chapping my hide about this I think (aside from the fact that it's just a funny joke that a specific subset of people are overreacting about) is that you Appalachian folks do NOT have a monopoly on the "dumb local" stereotype in this country.

As I said before these jokes are about as common as you can get from American comedians and before you all start crying about how oppressed you are and how offensive this shirt is I'd suggest you take a look at redneck jokes from Mississippi, or inbred hicks from Arkansas, or hillbillies from the Missouri Ozarks, or hayseeds from Nebraska, or yokels from Minnesota, I could go on and on, the stereotype is EVERYWHERE.

Don't have such a thin skin, you are not alone. If you learned to laugh about yourself a little more you'd be alot happier. A brutally absurd library joke tailored to your home region is not offensive.


-*posted by a guy born on a farm in the middle of nowhere central Missouri

For real. I live in Alabama. We are THE butts of every redneck, look how dumb the South is, etc. joke out there. -_-' While it does get old, I can still laugh at most of it. :P

ginbak wrote:I just saw this! Sorry I missed the voting. I'll be checking all weekend and WILL buy this if it comes up. (Hope, hope, fingers crossed).

I'm appalach'n - albeit the very northern part. I still live on the same acres on which I grew up. (I did leave for a while to get a degree.) I think this is hilarious. Where I work, I'm referred to as one of those "from up the mountain". Its fine. Everybody calm down. We're good with it.

Even way back when - this shirt is sort of true. Every family had a bible and that is what all the children used to learned to read.

You haven't missed it yet! There are still 2 hours left to vote. You should see a "I'd Want One" link above the design. Click that to vote for it.

Re: A Monument to Silly Walks

All it needs is a giant hand coming out from the side, trying to grab the leaf.

withremote wrote:Off topic? Please explain this to me, this is the third time I've submitted something to a derby with it being rejected for one reason or another.

You might want to explain how you think this meets the criteria for the derby.

Re: Stay Classy

Oh man... I'd love to wear this

paigeg wrote:I had to chime back in because I keep clicking on this just to look at it. Aside from the fact that I appreciate Maneki Neko, Daruma and Seven Lucky Gods (and have a number of them at home), I also am just nuts over the look and feel. I could walk into my local Asian market and see similar art on a box of candy or noodles. It's vibrant and awesome!

Godzilla-sized thanks to everyone for all of the great comments (and double thanks to Paige for two of them). Here's hoping for a print this weekend...

Re: 7 Rejected Wonders of the World

I was flipping through channels the other day, and came across a nickelodeon show called "victorious". It's about the lives of angsty teens going to an art school.

Why am I talking about some random show? Because there is one character named Andre Harris, who can occasionally been seen wearing woot shirts. I don't watch the show, but the few times I happen across it, the dude was wearing Ramby's designs.

Just an interesting fact I wanted to share.

SailorButterfly wrote:You haven't missed it yet! There are still 2 hours left to vote. You should see a "I'd Want One" link above the design. Click that to vote for it.

Cool! I voted! I must have brainlessly interpreted the submissions being closed to voting closed.

Never too late to learn from my mistakes.

SailorButterfly wrote:For real. I live in Alabama. We are THE butts of every redneck, look how dumb the South is, etc. joke out there. -_-' While it does get old, I can still laugh at most of it. :P

You may be the butts, but we're the "Armpit of America"! OK - that's West Virginia.

Re: The Library of Appalachia

Wow ... if this were Regretsy and not Woot, we'd have a whole +litter+ of butt-hurt flounce-kittens to contend with. O_o

Re: The Other Lincoln Memorial

Great design. But I think the real Lincoln would have emancipated the vampires and we would have one for president now

dax29 wrote:Great design. But I think the real Lincoln would have emancipated the vampires and we would have one for president now

I guess you didn't read the book.

Re: Visit the Shadow. Maybe.

I need this shirt!

I love this shirt! I wish it would be made. It for some crazy reason it doesn't make it this time, please resubmit!!!

I need this shirt! Do you ever have deja vu?

This shirt is really cool. I hope to see it at #1 tonight. Great work!

berona wrote:well thank you anyway good sir

It really is a shame, I would have happily bought this shirt.

Johndis5 wrote:Well, it's either that, or it's just a stupid joke.

This whole "controversy" is pretty amusing. If I may inject some logic here, The Appalachian Mountains cover a huge portion of the eastern side of the US. I think if the shirt was actually offensive to everybody in that region, there is no way it could garner the votes that it has.

For the most part, the people that seem to be offended by this are people that are offended on behalf of those poor downtrodden Appalachian folks.

As somebody who grew up in those mountains, and continues to live amongst them, I would like to ask that anybody who feels the need to defend us, or be offended for us, to save it. We aren't feeble or dumb and we actually have a great sense of humor as well as pride and we don't need all of you overly PC nitwits getting your feathers ruffled over a stupid shirt. You want to take up a cause, go feed some homeless people in your home town or adopt a highway. Put that energy into anything that isn't self righteous BS and self indulgent indignation.

uh,ok,so the mountains you grew up in are some sort of pristine, bucolic Shangri la.Good for you.I guess you don't have to check out the skulls and crossbones on Google Earth before you traipse on down to the ol' swimmin' hole (you lucky SOB you)but down here on the Texas Gulf Coast anyone with even half a brain can see that energy interests are poisoning and outright killing people because they are not held to any safety standards.The relatives of the workers blown up at BP's Texas City plant (due to an existing faulty valve that was well known to BP and whatever oil company that sold the plant to them)were paid off with the rider that they are not allowed to talk about it.There are dozens of examples,yes,right here in my own "backyard",but I would think mountain top mining,cave-ins,and earth quakes might be of some interest to people in the affected areas because, like all of what's happened here, we didn't sign up for it.So,John Boy,you can just kiss my pink Irish ass.

mldgibberish wrote:uh,ok,so the mountains you grew up in are some sort of pristine, bucolic Shangri la.Good for you.I guess you don't have to check out the skulls and crossbones on Google Earth before you traipse on down to the ol' swimmin' hole (you lucky SOB you)but down here on the Texas Gulf Coast anyone with even half a brain can see that energy interests are poisoning and outright killing people because they are not held to any safety standards.The relatives of the workers blown up at BP's Texas City plant (due to an existing faulty valve that was well known to BP and whatever oil company that sold the plant to them)were paid off with the rider that they are not allowed to talk about it.There are dozens of examples,yes,right here in my own "backyard",but I would think mountain top mining,cave-ins,and earth quakes might be of some interest to people in the affected areas because, like all of what's happened here, we didn't sign up for it.So,John Boy,you can just kiss my pink Irish ass.

I guess gibberish is the key part of your screen name. When did we start talking about gas companies? Yes, they are toxic to our area, and I've been involved in several organizations that are trying to get them out, or at least under strict regulation.

I do have to ask, what the hell does that have to do with anything in this thread or on this shirt? Sounds like you have some major problems down there in the gulf. Maybe you should start worrying about them instead of trolling around here with completely off topic issues.

Or, you can continue to fight the good fight and change the world, one shirt.woot thread at a time.

ginbak wrote:You may be the butts, but we're the "Armpit of America"! OK - that's West Virginia.

So, who's the ankles? :D

endangeredomega wrote:Wow ... if this were Regretsy and not Woot, we'd have a whole +litter+ of butt-hurt flounce-kittens to contend with. O_o

Ha! I was just thinking about how much Helen Killer would love all the butthurt in here! ^-^

mldgibberish wrote:uh,ok,so the mountains you grew up in are some sort of pristine, bucolic Shangri la.Good for you.I guess you don't have to check out the skulls and crossbones on Google Earth before you traipse on down to the ol' swimmin' hole (you lucky SOB you)but down here on the Texas Gulf Coast anyone with even half a brain can see that energy interests are poisoning and outright killing people because they are not held to any safety standards.The relatives of the workers blown up at BP's Texas City plant (due to an existing faulty valve that was well known to BP and whatever oil company that sold the plant to them)were paid off with the rider that they are not allowed to talk about it.There are dozens of examples,yes,right here in my own "backyard",but I would think mountain top mining,cave-ins,and earth quakes might be of some interest to people in the affected areas because, like all of what's happened here, we didn't sign up for it.So,John Boy,you can just kiss my pink Irish ass.

So, at first I was assuming you accidentally replied to the wrong post, since nothing in what you quoted has anything to do with your post. But then, I don't see anything in ANY of the posts in this thread that have anything to do with oil companies in the Gulf.

So now I'm wondering... Did someone from one of those oil companies recently convince you to drink or eat something they gave you? You might want to get to a hospital ASAP, because I think they might have slipped you a mind-altering substance!

Re: Lucky Park

I love it. :D
Would vote for it if I could.

By the way, how did you do that type of shading with the dots? Was it a special brush on a certain program, or something? D:

sninja13 wrote:It really is a shame, I would have happily bought this shirt.

haha me too! thanks though

Re: Emerald Ring - Resub

Love it. I didn't think of the Magician's Nephew at first, only considered Wizard of Oz, but I suppose since the kids had the green and yellow rings this could work for either. Truly a pretty design though either way.

i want this so bad it hurts

Re: You Are Here

Shame this did so poorly. It's definitely one of the best designs. Love the simplicity! Hope it prints elsewhere.

Mavyn wrote:You might want to explain how you think this meets the criteria for the derby.

Regardless of theme or criteria I really like this design. Put an Earth tone behind it and you've got yourself a really neat t-shirt.Yellow even. And as a person who has spent money on your products I feel I have a right to let you know how I feel. Woot has always supplied me quality items and I think this would be a nice addition. Thank you for hearing me out. Peace.

Re: The Basement of the Alamo

Got a chuckle from me on this one.
I know you are but what am i?

Re: The Library of Appalachia

I grew up on the edge of Appalachia and I'm of Scots-Irish descent -- the dominant ethnic group of the region. I was mildly offended by the shirt design when I saw it. Even if the designer grew up in Appalachia and meant it as poking fun at himself, I suspect many people who would buy this shirt would be merely mocking Appalachia.

I do have a lot of relatives still in the hills, and I wouldn't go back there wearing this shirt. I just wouldn't. Even if I'd give the designer a pass for being from there too, I wouldn't want to have to explain all that to someone who sees the shirt and gets the wrong idea.

Hopefully we won't be seeing this shirt this weekend.

audient wrote:I grew up on the edge of Appalachia and I'm of Scots-Irish descent -- the dominant ethnic group of the region. I was mildly offended by the shirt design when I saw it. Even if the designer grew up in Appalachia and meant it as poking fun at himself, I suspect many people who would buy this shirt would be merely mocking Appalachia.

I do have a lot of relatives still in the hills, and I wouldn't go back there wearing this shirt. I just wouldn't. Even if I'd give the designer a pass for being from there too, I wouldn't want to have to explain all that to someone who sees the shirt and gets the wrong idea.

Hopefully we won't be seeing this shirt this weekend.

By the way -- "Race for a Cure" by the same designer -- also mildly offensive -- between "Africa maybe" and the early 80s reference -- remember AIDS? Or when they first called it GRID in 1982? I wanted to believe then that the designer didn't mean offense, but now this is two designs that are troubling.

shirlo wrote:In my experience this is absolutely backwards--it is the people who are NOT familiar with the area that cluelessly perpetuate this offensive notion. I have heard well-educated and generally intelligent people used "Appalachian" as a synonym for illiterate, ignorant, and inbred--and using it in descriptive, not a joking manner! I'm sick of it. If this shirt were about an imaginary place, then it would be funny, but not when it reinforces this disrespectful stereotype of real people. We could also stereotype the lack of gene flow in small isolated rural populations across the US, or stereotype all people in urban centers as illiterate, but that would also be inaccurate and offensive. So what's next--racial or religious jokes?

So, I guess the phrase "Paddle faster I hear banjoes!" would be utterly out of the question? or does that hit "too close to home" for you?

Dolemite wrote:The real ending to every big adventure.

I would have bought this. Excellent sir.

euddha wrote:Regardless of theme or criteria I really like this design. Put an Earth tone behind it and you've got yourself a really neat t-shirt.Yellow even. And as a person who has spent money on your products I feel I have a right to let you know how I feel. Woot has always supplied me quality items and I think this would be a nice addition. Thank you for hearing me out. Peace.

Note that I was not commenting on the design, simply asking the artist to explain how they think this is on topic. It's not a bad design, it's not a style I'm likely to wear but that's irrelevant. The fact is that there isn't anything about this design the looks like a landmark, or a monument, or anything to tie it to the derby. The title doesn't cut it, as that is not part of the design.

Re: The Croquet Colossus of East St Louis

I still would like this shirt!

Re: Lucky Park

By far the best design in the "landmarks" competition. I am amazed you only used 6 colors. Bravo! WOOT!

audient wrote:By the way -- "Race for a Cure" by the same designer -- also mildly offensive -- between "Africa maybe" and the early 80s reference -- remember AIDS? Or when they first called it GRID in 1982? I wanted to believe then that the designer didn't mean offense, but now this is two designs that are troubling.

Your posts have convinced me. This designer is racist against everybody, everywhere. Damn her!

Edit: In all seriousness, it is your mind that is drawing negative conclusions about "Race for a Cure". I just read on another thread that "Race.." was purchased by over 13,000 people and is the 12th highest selling shirt in woot history. It also placed first in the derby it was in.

So, does it make more sense that 13,000 people think the African AIDS epidemic is funny, or that you are overly sensitive and seek out reasons to be offended?

If you think it's the former, then I have to ask, why are you participating in an online community where so many people are that detestable?

Re: The Library of Appalachia

I hope this gets printed. I have a friend who is a librarian in the Appalachian mountains in West Virginia. Christmas present!