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I'm very chuffed to tell you all that we got T-shirts and Hoodies for your enjoyment! GOLEM T-SHIRT STORE!
The brain flump of a long car journey realised





Happy Christmas!

I had a laugh...
But seriously. I would be very careful wairing a few of those in public.

Red Period Red... What a bad name for a paint!

moving to N & R.

Not sure that I get it. Are they supposed to be referring to something or are they just silly colored citadel paint pots?

They refer to alot of different things (all geek related)

any guesses before i just explain them all?

Wow. I must be getting really old, because I don't think I got any of them.

If there's an underlying reference with any of these, I don't get it, but as stand-alone things these are quite amusing. I'm almost tempted to get a "Rimming Brown" just for the grossed-out faces it would provoke.

mike wrote:They refer to alot of different things (all geek related)

any guesses before i just explain them all?

Organized Black = Organized Chaos(joke on Chaos Black)

Vayellow = Vallejo

Red Period Red = 2nd Ed 40K Studio paint jobs(also known as GW's "Red Period")

Stuff Green = Green Stuff

Not-Blue Grey = Space Wolves Grey and its baby blue color

I'm stuck on Agent Orange and Rimming Brown, though. Could also be wrong on a couple.

Aha.

Agent Orange= Vietnam Era defoliant sprayed over the jungle. Responsible for a lot of birth defects in my generation.

Rimming Brown= ummm, if you don't know, you probably don't want to.

Todosi wrote:Agent Orange= Vietnam Era defoliant sprayed over the jungle. Responsible for a lot of birth defects in my generation.

I think most everyone got that, but at least I'm missing how that is geeky.

haha im laughing myself to pieces over this! GREAT FIND!

pretre wrote:

Todosi wrote:Agent Orange= Vietnam Era defoliant sprayed over the jungle. Responsible for a lot of birth defects in my generation.

I think most everyone got that, but at least I'm missing how that is geeky.

Maybe with a DC Lantern tie in vibe?

The in-jokes are a bit giggle-worthy, but they're a bit questionable to wear in public.

Organized Black could be taken as a racist thing.
Red Period Red could be taken to mean mensuration.
Rimming Brown could be taken to mean fecal matter obtained from... "rimming".
Agent Orange is funny until you walk up to a Vietnamese family or a war vet.

'Red period red' has some other connotations, that would definitely get you some strange looks and maybe a pinch of verbal assault... Lol.

Not sure exactly what the slang is in the UK, but some of these could be seriously insulting here in the USA depending on who is wearing them. I'll spell them out possible connotations for the uninnitiated.

Red Period Red- Menstruation
Rimming Brown- Oral to Anal sexual act
Organized Black- Possible refference to the Black Power movement. Not recommended attire for caucasians.

Either the shirt designers were clueless or very crass.

Those are closer to P3 paint pots then to GW paint pots. Since a few of those are jibes at GW.

Platuan4th wrote:
I'm stuck on Agent Orange and Rimming Brown, though. Could also be wrong on a couple.

Think the Rimming Brown is a pun on the color used on the GW Studio Armys base trim (or "rim" if you will). No clue about Agent Orange though...

Eilif wrote:Not sure exactly what the slang is in the UK, but some of these could be seriously insulting here in the USA depending on who is wearing them. I'll spell them out possible connotations for the uninnitiated.

Red Period Red- Menstruation
Rimming Brown- Oral to Anal sexual act
Organized Black- Possible refference to the Black Power movement. Not recommended attire for caucasians.

Either the shirt designers were clueless or very crass.

I suspect crass in the case of "Rimming Brown" and to a degree in "Red Period Red". "Organised Black" I think is more likely intended only as a take on "Chaos Black".

While the first two mean the same thing in UK terminology, I know that I would never have considered the Black Power movement connotation: I know the repercussions of the movement were felt in the metropolitan areas of England, but on the west coast of Scotland (where I grew up) there simply isn't a large enough black population for it to be taken into consideration.

Oh cmon, those are jokes with a subculture... Dont go so serious on it...

automatonsleuth wrote:I suspect crass in the case of "Rimming Brown" and to a degree in "Red Period Red".

I think it's far more likely that, as pointed out, 'Rimming Brown' is a reference to base rims, and 'Red Period Red' is referring to GW's 'Red Period'.

"Organised Black" I think is more likely intended only as a take on "Chaos Black".

That seems spot on, though.

I don't doubt that the explainations that are being given for the shirts intended-in-crowd-meanings are correct, but surely it's worth consdering how the rest of the world outside the doors of your FLGS or gaming basement is going to interpret them.

I hope the wearer of some of these shirts is going for shock value, because when you walk down the street with a shirt that says "rimming" or "Period Red", no one gives a flying flip what your gamer friends thing the meaning is.

Eilif wrote:I hope the wearer of some of these shirts is going for shock value, because when you walk down the street with a shirt that says "rimming" or "Period Red", no one gives a flying flip what your gamer friends thing the meaning is.

It doesn't say 'Period Red'... although I'll concede that Rimming Brown could certainly be misconstrued. Not that it's any worse than some of the shirts I have seen getting about.

The Dwarf Wolf wrote:Oh cmon, those are jokes with a subculture... Dont go so serious on it...

Its all well and good until you wear the shirt in mainstream culture... you know the 99.9% of the global population that has no idea why you are wearing a shirt referring to a chemical defoliant that is responsible for destroying lives, or a shirt referring to menstrual cycles, or the black power movement, or acts of sodomy, etc.

Yikes. I would not wear any of these shirts in public, and would never even consider wearing some of them. Agent orange? Rimming Brown?

chaos0xomega wrote:

The Dwarf Wolf wrote:Oh cmon, those are jokes with a subculture... Dont go so serious on it...

Its all well and good until you wear the shirt in mainstream culture... you know the 99.9% of the global population that has no idea why you are wearing a shirt referring to a chemical defoliant that is responsible for destroying lives, or a shirt referring to menstrual cycles, or the black power movement, or acts of sodomy, etc.

To be fair, Agent Orange is also the name of a band. No, I didn't say they were a good band.

This does not necessarily marginalize any of your points however, only to point out that reference to it exists elsewhere in modern culture.

it dosnt realy bother me what they say ..there just crap designs ..if you want gameing related t shirts just make your own on cafe press.

Not-blue grey is a good one And safe....

Why didn't you do these ones? http://www.ninjabread.co.uk/2010/08/09/ninjabread-25/