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Thorlifter
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hahahaha. I like it, Tim!!!!
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"Do you know the hatred that shirt represents?"
"Yeah, I do. I understand that most T-shirts used to be made in the US and are now made all over the world by people making pennies an hour. Or worse yet, being pumped out by machines. Once apon a time, the average t-shirt was made in a plant in the US. But no more and those jobs have left the country.
I feel your pain brother."
Like Zippy the Pinhead said, "If you can't say something nice, say something surreal."
Zippy the Pinhead is NOT surreal. He's just gay.
I do understand where Marshall, Seesul, Wojtek, and all our English friends would have a different view of the shirt. And out of respect for them and their culture, I wouldn't even think of wearing it if I ever got the opportunity to visit their countries.
It seems to me that this guy read a magazine article about WWII and that's all he knows about it. He probably believes the Japanese were just like the Bugs Bunny cartoons.
I don't know.......I was cool explaining it to him until he huffed and walked away. That just shows a closed and ignorant mind, IMO.
I have 2 x T-shirts with a Spitfire, P-40, Hurricane, and Mustang on the back.
Should I worry about offending someone?
I would like to say that I wouldn't be so harsh on the guy. In my country such a t-shirt could be easily offensive to a lot of people. I know it's bad to be intollerant and personally I don't have anything agianst such a t-shirt, though I wouldn't put on this t-shirt, and I can understand why it can be perceived as something bad by a lot of people. The plane which of course is guilty of no bad thing (the people are) but it represents a regime which made a very bad things. Plus in Europe, I'm not sure if in whole Europe, but in Poland and Germany we have problems we neo-nazi movements. So wearing such a t-shirt you can be seen as a member of such movements. Especially by people which are not aviation enthusiast.
Just my two cents.
Nowadays........yes.
You could offend people of German, Italian, or Japanese heritage that had family members shot down by these planes.
Geez, you can't make anyone happy anymore. People will find something to complain about.
I have 2 x T-shirts with a Spitfire, P-40, Hurricane, and Mustang on the back.
Should I worry about offending someone?
Geez, you can't make anyone happy anymore. People will find something to complain about.
I was wearing my t-shirt the other day where on the front it says Messerschmitt Bf-109 and on the back is a full color picture of Adolf Galland's 109.
I guy who was probably 50 stopped me and said, "Do you know the hatred that shirt represents?"
What would your response to him be? I'd like to hear what ya'll would have said before I post what I did say.
Since not many people in their right mind would actually come up to me and say something like that, this turd obviously has thrust his unwarranted opinion on others in the past...
My reply would be simple:
"Do I look like the kind of guy that gives a sh!t what an ******* like urself thinks???"
Then I would stare him down...
Those that don't have an opinion....does that mean that they don't have an *sshole?and the old addage..."opinions are like as*holes..." comes to mind...