Comments on T-Shirt Triple Take

LOL! I automatically love that guy.

so risque it had to be sold.

revisionist history? or trendy.

hmm

Vomit.

Sure all the victims from Saddam's rape rooms are LAUGHING their heads off right now.

i'll bet one of saddam's homies had this tattooed on his back, or possibly airbrushed on the hood of his el camino. it was only a matter of time before someone made it into a t-shirt.

it was sold by that one store on the corner of summit and pine. it's trying to one up the crapulence and conspicious consumerism of urban outfitters.

I particularly like the majestic elk in the foreground.

Not much worse than the ubiquitous Che Guevara Ts.

This is what gives antiwar types a bad name.

Why is he pictured at Yosemite?

LOL. This is a real work of art that needs to be dispalyed in the SAM.
Saddam ran Iraq with less carnage then the Anglo Saxon Alliance. @10: how can the American Anti-war movement look any worse, any weaker then it does now? It has as much credibility as the Democratic Party.

You guys have no sense of humor. Its not the shirt itself that is funny. It is the reaction of uptight people TO the shirt that is funny. Oh, and FYI I'm pretty damn sure that whole "rape room" thing was thoroughly debunked.

I laughed.

Anyone else have a soft spot for Saddam since they found him in the hole and he looked a bit like Santa Claus?

Or that might just be me.

@13: Rape thing debunked.

Hmmm, that and the mass graves of found was just a stage set. Yeah, right...

agreed with 13, with the possible exception of the rape room commentary. this is what irony looks like, people. pull the popsicle out of your ass and laugh.

so irony is still a step below puns in terms of quality and thoughtfulness of humor?

I never thought of myself as uptight about Saddam's mass killing and maiming, imprisoned parents watching guards rape their children, the evilness of his sons that even upstaged their father. I was horrified. Do I have to provide links to accounts of Saddam’s horrors to make my point valid? Just because we hate Bush does that mean we have to love Saddam?

As far as the adolescent notion of no sense of humor, I don’t buy it. If I’m wrong, then Jay Leno should have no problem wearing it to the next taping of the Tonight Show.

When irony is a dead-ringer for sympathy (the unruly line notwithstanding), and the object of the sympathy is a guy like Saddam (he gassed/cleansed how many scores of thousands of Kurds; I think we can safely detest him with or without the raperooms being "debunked"), I don't think it requires a popsicle up one's ass to be shocked or, if one is a relative of a raped/gassed/tortured Iraqi, legitimately offended.

the terrorists have won

I laughed; then I thought it was bad taste (not a huge fan of hipster irony); Then I realized that it was actually not much different from wearing a GWB t-shirt, considering how much Bush has harmed Iraq.

In 10 years I wonder if wearing a t-shirt like this but of George W. on it will equally "ironic" in the streets of Baghdad. (not suggesting he will or should be dead in 10 years, of course, although I would not mind him ending up in a foxhole for all the shit he is responsible for.)

#17-20 your collective reaction is both spot on and the very reason why this shirt is so fucking funny. what's that you say? how can that be? i-r-o-n-y!

it's funny because it is absurdly insensitive/offensive/inappropriate. haven't you ever seen a john waters movie? i mean besides 'hairspray'?

and since when does jay leno have anything to do with humor? i think we may have identified the problem here.

America is a pirate. I long for the days when we contained Saddam's Iraq. Now we have an infestation which will be our undoing.

So that shirt is funny.

"Saddam's rape rooms"

you mean abu graib... oh wait.

simply being inappropriate or insensitive for the sake of itself isn't ironic.

1 : a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning -- called also Socratic irony
2 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning b : a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony c : an ironic expression or utterance
3 a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2) : an event or result marked by such incongruity b : incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play -- called also dramatic irony, tragic irony

so how does saddam's mug fit into this

Oh I'm sure. Just because I don't regurgitate the "rape room" propaganda put forth by Bush Sr's regime I'm obviously a Saddam Lover. I know the guy killed his own people, I know he was a motherfucker. Just because I don't buy everything our government says doesn't mean I'm "with the terrorists". Jesus Christ you realize who you assholes sound like?

Well, it is a statement all right.

It seems to say, "I'm a fucking idiot who support incarnations of evil."

Funny in a sense, say, the same way I laugh at death (ahahahaah!!!!), but it is what it is.

Ah well, the stoopidity of the masses will never cease to amaze.

Ah, what the fuck? He's probably ruling in Hell now anyways so wtf, indeed....

It's a funny shirt. 'Nuff said.

Huzzah!

Anybody catch the dig at all those dead rapper memorial shirts, you know the ones featuring people of dubious social worth and talent.
I'm thinking it's art because it got the different levels thing going for it, but also because it leaves just the littlest suspicion of sincerety, plus it takes some chutzpah to rock that shirt.