In the office to my left is Nick Gill, huge music fan, often wears cool band T-shirts.
Opposite me is Scowling A.D., another muso, wears almost nothing but cool band T-shirts.
Yeah well guess what, I'm fighting back. 
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I like it. I like it. I like it. I like it. I li-li-li-like it.
I really hate 'trendy' retro bollocks like that. Especially when it comes from old gits like you.
@ Paul
You are a twat.
@ Scamp
Great shirt!
I have a Beach Boys one you can borrow. Only borrow though, I like it too much. You'll also have to wash it before you give it back.
Come on, Paul. I hardly think Quo is retro. They're still going, you know.
If you're genuinely a Quo fan, great, good on you. But I'm guessing you're not. Why? Because they're shite - despite a small handful of cracking singles.
The Thick Of It
Hugh - I don't want to think this because I know they think we think this but why do they always wear clothing with writing on them and why are they so fucking fat?
Glen - …and stupid!
geek!
Paul, you've got me worried now. I already knew that irony doesn't come across on the internet. Do I now have to asssume it doesn't come across on T-shirts either? If that is the case, it means a major wardrobe re-assessment for me.
Band T-shirt i really like them... Scamp you should upload some more pic's...
Status Quo. you know they hadn't a clue what it meant when they came up with the the name. but at least your shirt features the classic lineup; rossi/parfitt/lancaster/coughlin
still, not as cool as my Alex Higgins tee. or my Sid James. now there's a classic!
Wearing a Quo T Shirt is easy...if you really want to be ironic you should wear a leather waist coat and marble wash jeans with it.
Then, for maxed-out irony, hook your thumbs in your waistcoat's arm-holes, bend forward at the waist and swing your shoulders from left to right shouting to everyone that you're doing the "Quo Boogie".
At what point does a band/cultural icon go from being crap, to ironically crap and therefore suitably cool to adorn an ironic T-shirt?...name some bands/cultural icons at the very point of transition...
@anon 11:22pm - that's not irony, just one of the coolest freakin dances ever created. Rock'n'Roll!!
(that's two exclamation marks, any more than rwo is ironic)
I once walked straight into Rick Parfitt while heading for the gents at the crappy Thameside Inn in London Bridge. It was an awkward moment - he had obviously been "refreshing" himself and seemed a little tense...
rick parfitt on coke. Lovely. Just those four words would make a great T-shirt actually.
Hey Scamp, Check out www.rumplo.com
It's the ultimate resource for the coolest T-shirts.
Two of my brothers are actually old enough to remember The Quo from when they were popular, not merely ironically revered for crapness. When does the switch happen? And how does it get switched? Some kind of collective consciousness: the "Zeitgeist"? I sense another book by Malcolm Gladwell: "The Ironic See-Saw: from mass popularity to retro kitsch in 15 years"
Not cool. not cool. Plain white is fine. that is definitely not!
What's an ironic see-saw?
I think it would have to stay still or move from side to side but through an unintended action that led from its intended action.
Quite an ask.
Yeah, irony is pretty 90s Scamp.
Has anyone watched the intro to The Word recently? It'll make you feel weird:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGnt5uIyqB0
This sites a good-un
http://www.wornfree.com/
bored now, can we talk about advertising, or those twatty juniors at fallon or something?
Remember this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsajAFFxReA
OK. Advertising. I found the answer to forging a successful career in advertising in one of the Sunday newspapers. Some author who's name I forget said,
"Sincerity is the key to success. If you can fake sincerity you'll go far."
I've just found out that the statement:
"There's no right or wrong in advertising"
Is completely untrue.
The creatives are right, the planners are wrong.
this is what you must call a slow news day
I own a T-shirt that says: I LISTEN TO BANDS THAT DON'T EVEN EXIST.
I never wear it.
...everyone must of left for the weekend
it's very quiet in here.
Wearing T-shirts with a 'witty' print is the most soul bearing practise you can enter into.
In doing so you are saying ' this is what i think is funny', 'look how funny and witty I am'.
In short, unless you have the world's most muthatfuckingly hysterical t-shirts that leave people blown away by your sharp and original wit.....steer clear of them. Especially if you're over the age of 19.
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