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Long ago... Think Geek T-shirt: "Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script" https://web.archive.org/web/20081204045017/http://www.thinkgeek.

by shagie 1y ago

Long ago... Think Geek T-shirt: "Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script" https://web.archive.org/web/20081204045017/http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/frustrations/374d/ https://web.archive.org/web/20081204045017/http://www.thinkg...

palmotea 1y ago
> Long ago... Think Geek T-shirt: "Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script" Whoever bought that shirt could probably use some social skills coaching. It's not a good idea to wear a shirt that indiscriminately broadcasts contempt in all directions. I get the purchasers probably confused it for humor, but there's an important difference between humor that works on a viewer TV show and and humor embedded in the interaction of you with another real person. I had this though recently at Walmart, after seeing the third such shirt (a visual pun meaning "fuck you"). Geeks often have the same attitude problems.
- saagarjha 1y ago
  Ideally you pair the shirt with a personality that never leaves any doubt that it is a joke.
  - palmotea 1y ago
    > Ideally you pair the shirt with a personality that never leaves any doubt that it is a joke. Ideally, but that still doesn't really solve the problem. It's not really practical to counter an indiscriminate broadcast of contempt with point to point interactions. People who don't know you or don't know you well will always see your shirt, if you wear it out. You want to do the opposite: indiscriminately broadcast a kind personality, then deploy the sarcasm in point to point contexts "that never [leave] any doubt that it is a joke".
    - saagarjha 1y ago
      I think this is pretty unreasonable, though. Are you against the husband/wife “I’m with stupid/I’m stupid” shirts? Generally it’s pretty obvious this is meant as a joke and not that one spouse genuinely degrades the other in public.
      - AppleBananaPie 1y ago
        I see way too many couples that are passive aggressive with each other that I would wonder. This made me realize just now the functional* couples I know would never wear somethings so blunt. This is all purely anecdotal but just sharing my personal observations :) *I need a better word that just describes the objective truth with no baggage please help lol
- mindslight 1y ago
  Geeks were just awkwardly ahead of the curve, as usual. The shirt you saw was being marketed to a wider audience, right? Also the prescience of "Fuck you, I'm eating"

by shagie 1y ago

palmotea 1y ago

> Long ago... Think Geek T-shirt: "Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script" Whoever bought that shirt could probably use some social skills coaching. It's not a good idea to wear a shirt that indiscriminately broadcasts contempt in all directions. I get the purchasers probably confused it for humor, but there's an important difference between humor that works on a viewer TV show and and humor embedded in the interaction of you with another real person. I had this though recently at Walmart, after seeing the third such shirt (a visual pun meaning "fuck you"). Geeks often have the same attitude problems.

saagarjha 1y ago
Ideally you pair the shirt with a personality that never leaves any doubt that it is a joke.
- palmotea 1y ago
  > Ideally you pair the shirt with a personality that never leaves any doubt that it is a joke. Ideally, but that still doesn't really solve the problem. It's not really practical to counter an indiscriminate broadcast of contempt with point to point interactions. People who don't know you or don't know you well will always see your shirt, if you wear it out. You want to do the opposite: indiscriminately broadcast a kind personality, then deploy the sarcasm in point to point contexts "that never [leave] any doubt that it is a joke".
  - saagarjha 1y ago
    I think this is pretty unreasonable, though. Are you against the husband/wife “I’m with stupid/I’m stupid” shirts? Generally it’s pretty obvious this is meant as a joke and not that one spouse genuinely degrades the other in public.
    - AppleBananaPie 1y ago
      I see way too many couples that are passive aggressive with each other that I would wonder. This made me realize just now the functional* couples I know would never wear somethings so blunt. This is all purely anecdotal but just sharing my personal observations :) *I need a better word that just describes the objective truth with no baggage please help lol
mindslight 1y ago
Geeks were just awkwardly ahead of the curve, as usual. The shirt you saw was being marketed to a wider audience, right? Also the prescience of "Fuck you, I'm eating"