Offensive 'T' shirt slogan?

[TEAK36]

Do you find this offensive, or is it polotical correctness overkill?

Personally, I found it quite amusing, but I can imagine it causing offence to someone who has had a loved one murdered.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgesh ire/6943734.stm

[lankeela]

What b*ll*x. I thought it was good. I have a badge that says 'the voices told me to stay home and clean the guns'
perhaps I'd better be careful wearing it in case someone is offended. Or am I being paranoid?

My other badge says 'just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me'.

[saxy_jag]

Oh, for goodness' sake - whatever next!!! I have a t-shirt that I got from a Vagina Monologues show. It declares that I'm a "sexy cnut". What's going to be more offensive - what it actually says, or the fact that it's now too small and shows of an obscene ring of midriff blubber whenever I wear it?

[Whickerman]

Can i just ask - what the hell is a Street Warden?

[Lonnie]

That particular one doesn't bother me at all, but one that did shock me, was a young girl of approx ten years of age, with her parents, and she had on a Tshirt that proclaimed, 'Apprentice Prostitute'

[johnlambert]

No, I find it amusing

[Shadow Man]

Personally I think the man should be fined for sporting a truly atrocious mullett hair cut, but the T'shirt is neither here nor there really.

[Petal~flower]

I recently spotted a boy of about 12 wearing a t-shirt proclaiming "plastic tits or real ones. Who cares they both taste the same"

How charming!

[China Doll]

Where can I buy one of those?! It'd at least give people a warning....

[webbo3]

personaly I think the slogan FCUK is more offensive.
The t-shirt is funny.

[horsestache1]

Bl**dy imigrents coming over here and wearing T Shirts, whatever next. I bet he's on benifits, has been given a house, will insite terrorisum.

Oh no sorry he's white!!!!!!

[Wispy68]

I've just been listening to a woman on the radio saying that she was working in a shop when a mother came in with her six year old daughter, who was wearing a T-shirt with the slogan, "This T-shirt would look better on your bedroom floor than on me".
Who designs these T-shirts for children and what sort of "mother" buys them?
I wonder whether these irresponsible idiots ever get pulled up? Probably not!
Unbelievable.

[jake-the-peg]

Problem is that offensiveness is very subjective.

This is probably the most famous offensive T-shirt (you've been warned):
http://www.anorakyintheuk.co.uk/images/Page_2/ IMAG0015.JPG

Alan Jones was famously arrested for wearing it and fined for indecency - thing is it's probably worth thousands now, but you'd probably still get arrested for wearing it in an inappropriate place.

And that's the point - wearing something like that in a nightclub is very different to walking through Hyde park wearing it on a Sunday afternoon.

It's a matter of context

[cardi88]

This tshirt doesn't refer to any particular crime or event - you'd need to be very sensitive to be offended by that, but then i suppose the 'street wardens' need to do something to justify their job!

I saw a t-shirt in town in the kids section saying 'when i grow up i wanna be a WAG' that offended me, to think we're encouraging our young girls to aspire to be financially and socialy dependant men!

[Shadow Man]

Is that "on" men are just men???

No daughter of mine will turn out to be a man!!!!

[tigerlily11]

LOL I have one like it.
It says "don't pi** me off. My garden is full."
I can't see why its offensive really. I find some of the things printed on t-shirts for 3 year old girls more worrying than that.