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Irrelevant wrote:Everyone, please allow me to introduce you to the wooter who will officially, after tonight, have the least forum support and the fewest friends around here. Adder, I have nothing but love for you, but it's time to give up your throne.

Dude, you'd be surprised to know I've never had that throne.

But yeah, I may hate everything, including this shirt that LITERALLY anyone could create making $1000 (think of how much money that is for literally typing 14 letters), but even I think that specifically HATING organ donation makes you a *BLEEP* to levels never seen before.

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dschwartz224 wrote:I really like this shirt. Unfortunately, I haven't donated any organs (willingly at least). I feel like people would judge me for not donating organs and still wearing this shirt. =/

uhh. unless you're brain dead, i dont think there's a huge expectation to donate your organs O_o

mkidtrigun wrote:Three words:

I

THIS

SHIRT!

brilliant!

I love this. In for one with the $5 coupon from the Woot lights.

At first, I thought the shirt was just weird placement, and a balderah kid saying "I organ donation!" with his little helmet and whatnot. It was stupid. Then I thought about it, and subsequently got the joke.

Pretty clever. I would have loved for this to have been executed more creatively, but that would take away from the entire point of the shirt.

And uh.. Tigerlion, or Beardog, whatever, I understand that you're one of those B's that disagrees with something for no reason. I mean, the world needs those people to make the rest of us look like non-dbags. But, don't say he has an agenda. As if his reason for making the damned shirt was to tell the world, "I DONATED MY HEART AND LOVE IT WITH ALL MY HEART EVERYONE SHOULD DONATE THEIR HEART!

He is just doing a play on words. Or.. a lack thereof, as it is in this case.

If you actually think that he has an agenda, then I venture to guess that, just maybe, the reason you're taking this stand on organ donation, is because science hasn't quite figured out how to successfully give one a brain, and this makes you bitter towards people who have had other organs donated to them.

Might I suggest a walk down the yellow brick road?

What with all the trolling and flaming I wondered "where is the love?", then I remembered what today's design looks like.

Oh, someone beat me to my question. I just don't see how someone can disapprove of organ donation altogether when they aren't being forced into giving away their organs.

mrxcrawford wrote:I feel as though complaining about this shirt could be likened to farmers pushing their agenda with the "Incredible, edible egg"

Indeed. Or that, with yesterday's shirt, woot was condoning the idea of Satanism. Satanism AND fiddles.

I guess some people can't take a joke.

since this is quite the eccletic group ...
I just saw 'The Island' w/ scarlett johansen (sp) last night, making this shirt a little funnier. recommended especially if you remember the 1970's movie 'Logan's Run'

good night, and tigerwolf...may your happy life be half as long as your drawn-out and agonizing departure from this world.

Holy cow!! A Woot shirt that is white!! I thought I'd never see the day.

i feel like this shirt might fit in better over at tshirthell.com

What would stink was if your heart was on the right side of your chest. That happens sometimes, you know. And then the whole placement would be wrong.

I'm thinking about making this my new rock climbing shirt.

xxchange wrote:What would stink was if your heart was on the right side of your chest. That happens sometimes, you know. And then the whole placement would be wrong.

i've actually seen a shirt like that, the I is just pushed over to the right side a bit more.

To those complaining about the font being boring, do you not realize that David is mimicking the font used in the I♥NY logo?



If you don't like it, complain to Milton Glaser.

professore wrote:To those complaining about the font being boring, do you not realize that David is mimicking the font used in the I♥NY logo?



If you don't like it, complain toMilton Glaser.

I am sure no one has ever seen that tshirt before.

The popularity of that shirt, and the numbers of uninspired riffs off it, makes the text all the more boring. And it still doesn't change that this is something that can be (and probably was) recreated in the time it takes to find the font, download it, and make less than 20 keystrokes.

garfep wrote:I love this. In for one with the $5 coupon from the Woot lights.

Haha, same here. I thought it was funny and still had my coupon.

AdderXYU wrote:I am sure no one has ever seen that tshirt before.

The popularity of that shirt, and the numbers of uninspired riffs off it, makes the text all the more boring. And it still doesn't change that this is something that can be (and probably was) recreated in the time it takes to find the font, download it, and make less than 20 keystrokes.

Sarcasm noted.

My point is this - complain about the lack of effort, complain about the lack of inspiration, but don't comlain about the font. In order to parody something, it must be recognizable what is being parodied.

Also, are you going to the T'less meetup? I'd like to meet you in person. We should play Scrabble.

professore wrote:Sarcasm noted.

My point is this - complain about the lack of effort, complain about the lack of inspiration, but don't comlain about the font. In order to parody something, it must be recognizable what is being parodied.

Also, are you going to the T'less meetup? I'd like to meet you in person. We should play Scrabble.

I don't feel like I'm really a "Threadless member" enough to feel right at a Threadless meet-up. I enjoy the atmosphere, but I'm not really more than an occasional commentator, so I'd feel my presence would be out-of-place.

That said, if I ever do make it to a Threadgathering (and believe me, they do sound like fun), I'll even bring the Scrabble board.

professore wrote:I'd like to meet you in person. We should play Scrabble.

I'm sure he was dead serious. But.. this was effing hilarious to me.

I don't agree with Adder much, but seriously... I cant grasp the fact that Woot paid someone $1000 to use this "design".

Not worth staying up for disappointing for Mondays shirt :[.

It took me awhiel to understand this shirt...
But I guess it's funny, the design could'vebeen better though :X
Not worth 10 bucks for a shirt with text though..

Chickan wrote:The kind of people that realize hospitals and pharmaceutical companies make a Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) ton of money off of organ donors while the donor receives nothing. That being said, I am an organ donor, but the whole system stinks. Reminds me of The Island.

The donor doesn't care. The donor is dead. What use does the dead donor have for decaying matter? None.

I'd say Tigerwolf's selfishness shocks me, but it really doesn't. I'd be interested in how her ethos changes if she or someone she loves is ever in need of an organ. One of my mom's best friends, who is also a very good friend of my own, is only alive today due to a donor heart after a normal infection mutated and weakened hers. She's in perfect health otherwise: never smoked, didn't drink much, average weight, mid-forties. Five years and counting with the donor heart, which otherwise would simply be wasted decaying matter taking up future landfill space.

As for the shirt itself, it's a cute idea but definitely not original enough.

This comment section is awesome. Came for the whiners, stayed for the troll!

Good troll, prompt stupidity, pleasure to read. Hope to laugh at again soon AAA++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

I was tempted to buy this shirt b/c the joke made me laugh, but I prob shouldn't since my brother's heart was donated when he died.

I shouldn't feed the troll, but I will say this: Knowing that my 27 year old brother's organs were able to save at least 2 lives (and possibly more) has helped me deal with his untimely death.

On a lighter note... do you realize this shirt creator got ~$71.43 per letter. I don't think lawyers even get that much.

I wonder if he could have pulled off making it look like there were stitches where the heart should be.

flibbityjibbet wrote:I'm sure he was dead serious. But.. this was effing hilarious to me.

I totally was serious, but it makes me happy that I could be amusing as well.

*grins*

I think Adder would be a great competitor. He is quite eloquent, and I'd bet he has a wonderful vocabulary.

5of0 wrote:Bravo, good sir. I applaud your fortitude. I, too, am disappointed to see this departure from the normally wondrous works of art that are featured here. I am disappointed at the site's straying from its purpose as a wearable gallery of talent, and instead catering to the masses who have no more than a silly grin on their face and a portrait of Lincoln in their hand. I am disappointed in society in general, really.

Unfortunately, I am a man of lesser integrity and character than yourself, and despite my principles to the contrary, somehow find myself tempted by the cleverness of this shirt. As one of the few shirts on this site that quite literally elicited an audible indication of glee, it has a strange power over me.

Additionally it's white, a color which I am in need of.

Hmm, decisions, decisions.

Two things... art without an agenda is happenstance, and Lincoln's on the 5. Hamilton or two of the ol' sixteenth prez would work..doh.

Duddles86 wrote:

On a lighter note... do you realize this shirt creator got ~$71.43 per letter. I don't think lawyers even get that much.

I believe you're right, considering I know a letter from my friend's ex-wife's lawyer to him as to splitting their stuff cost her $100. Many more letters in that than this. XP

Buy the shirt whether you like it or not, telling people not to put it up there because of their agenda.... IS pushing an agenda.

I will however, push my agenda with out thinking twice.....

I have renal kidney failure ... this means neither of my kidneys function 100%... which mean I need, eventually, somebody to donate a kidney to me.... But the reality of it is, 99% of the people who will buy this shirt, never would. Please take things like this seriously. Be in my position and see how much you argue about it......


So.... buy the shirt, and get on the donor list. !!

Duddles86 wrote:I was tempted to buy this shirt b/c the joke made me laugh, but I prob shouldn't since my brother's heart was donated when he died.

I'm not going to get into the politics of the trolling/rebuttals, as I spoke my piece in the Organ Rejection shirt's comments.

However, as a double transplant recipient (kidney/pancreas)I would like to personally thank you and your family (including your brother) for the wonderful gift you provided to complete strangers in need. Every day I think about not taking insulin injections after 24 years of it, and not spending 4 hours of every other day on dialysis, and I owe it to my donor and his family.

Again, thank you!

AdderXYU wrote:I
Boring Fonts

Agree, some comic sans would really spice this shirt up! It's the perfect, "I'm kinda wacky but still cool," font.

tigerwolf wrote:Nope. Nothing religious about me. I simply don't agree with it. They're my organs. My husband used to be an organ donor until he met me, and then he had it removed from his license as well.

I don't care enough about other human beings to want a piece of me in them.

So you don't want to come here and have beliefs "shoved" on you, yet you're so stubborn in yours that you've pushed them off onto your husband enough for him to have changed his mind? Haha, I smell a wee bit of hypocrisy. Do what you want, who really cares, but the irony was painfully obvious. ;)

albinoapple wrote:Agree, some comic sans would really spice this shirt up! It's the perfect, "I'm kinda wacky but still cool," font.

Things about this that make me sad:

1- I wouldn't be surprised if a woot user actually believed this, given what people buy.

2- If not, your invocation of Comic Sans was made to defend the font as great, which it really isn't, regardless of accuracy. I <3 NY shirts are pretty cancellation and touristy, and the font has come to represent this

3- regardless, you are implying defense of this shirt, which, while mr. staffell has done some definitely respectable work, this particular piece just isn't enough.

Wow, I am surprised by the wooters here who posted such negative thoughts and wishes towards tigerwolf. Would it have made much difference for you if she said it was due to religious beliefs that she was against organ donation? We also don't know what occurred between her husband and herself that resulted in the change of his donor status. And yes, I have watched families pray for a miracle for their child as they laid in the hospital bed to save them. Not to attack or taking sides, but it's an extremely personal decision, and as we have seen here, there are those who are here today due to some stranger and their different belief.

Either way, I am not a fan of white shirts. Not a fan of large text. And I am also disappointed in woot and the posters.

OmniSilence wrote:Wow, I am surprised by the wooters here who posted such negative thoughts and wishes towards tigerwolf. Would it have made much difference for you if she said it was due to religious beliefs that she was against organ donation? We also don't know what occurred between her husband and herself that resulted in the change of his donor status. And yes, I have watched families pray for a miracle for their child as they laid in the hospital bed to save them. Not to attack or taking sides, but it's an extremely personal decision, and as we have seen here, there are those who are here today due to some stranger and their different belief.

Either way, I am not a fan of white shirts. Not a fan of large text. And I am also disappointed in woot and the posters.

http://www.donatelifenm.org/religiousviews.htm
Well, according to what I read (No, I didn't read the whole thing), most religions either encourage it or say that it should be left up to the individual.
There is no good reason not to donate your organs after your death. Unless you take the Chris Rock view of things and just want to keep them in case science finds a way to bring people back to life. Which is stupid. But it's from a comic, so whatever.
Also, this shirt leaps into the vacuum. I'm buying the MST3K. Nostalgia rules!

Despite being (yes) boring, I still have to appreciate this shirt for the simple fact it made me stop and think for a moment. But that could just be because I'm sleepy.

I think a change in the actual shirt color would have been better, though, over changing the font. It'd still be recognizable yet not as stark.

tigerwolf wrote:Oh I could say things you'd consider a lot more selfish, like how I don't believe I should be taxed to pay for the health care of the low class/illegal immigrants.

I simply don't agree with organ donation, and there's no amount of name-calling that will change that opinion.

Regardless of my social beliefs, woot is not the place to be pushing one's personal agendas on clothing. Stick to the art.

You do realize that it's a joke right? Do you not have a sense of humor? The artist is not pushing an agenda at all, he's just making a joke.

Also, no one cares about you or your beliefs. Go be self-righteous somewhere else. This is today's shirt, no matter how much you cry.