Re: Slogans for MUni Weekend shirts needed today!
Woah!
More good feedback from Sendhair
> you missed the fact that I am an American, too.
No, I knew it. This makes your words more meaningful to the Americans who have never been anywhere. You understand what the Americans are talking about, plus you have the additional background of your international experiences.
> I sincerely argue that your stance that “this is just a
> T-shirt” is antiquated and insensitive to the rest of the
> world… and the “rest of the world” is not quite as far
> away from you as you may imagine…
Been there. I have T-shirts from everywhere. If someone chooses to look at my T-shirt from the International Circus Festival I went to in Latvia, and feels offended by the content on it, too bad. They’re probably taking it out of context.
More on your subject, if they get offended based on the correct context, also too bad. I have measured the relative “strength” of the message, and find it extremely mild. Though some may disagree, as you have, I consider it mild enough to go with.
Again, it’s a small, relatively local event by world standards, and I would not put the same message on a UNICON or other international shirt.
> I’m offended by the phrase “Let’s roll!”
Fortunately, the slogan works just as well without the connotation. In other words, you can just think of it in the “pre 9/11 sense.”
> within the context of the plane that “went down” just
> 25 kms from my parents’ house…
Ouch! I have experienced a large passenger jet crash even closer to my house, but that definitely puts you and your family must closer to the action than most of us.
> … let alone a Muni event which is so far-removed from
> the hijacking and “crash” as to be absurd and actually
> sick if somehow connected.
We are all pretty far removed, those of us that didn’t lose friends or family members. On the other hand we were all affected. The amount a person was affected is a personal thing, and cannot be measured. The event had a direct affect on the 2001 MUni Weekend and that’s reason enough.
> You felt justified to attack the PR team in China, but you
> are wishy-washy and self-contradictory when it comes
> to this stuff about “patriotism” connected to What
> Happened Last September 11th.
Am I being contradictory? I apply different standards to this event and a UNICON, as I apply different standards to what should be appropriate within and outside of a Freestyle performance. Outside of that I don’t mean to contradict myself.
I don’t feel I’m making an attempt at patriotism. To me, patriotism is actions rather than words. My intention on the shirts is to be commemorative. I hope it’s not too controversial, or we’ll end up with a pile of unwanted shirts. Unfortunately this feedback came in after I had to run to the printers and put in the T-shirt order.
We ended up with this on the back:
singletrack.
single wheel.
let’s roll.
And on the sleeve,
2002 one wheeled cruz
You’ve got me thinking twice about the let’s roll though, and there may be time to change it. What do others think?
Stay on top,
John Foss
