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You may have heard of or about T-Shirt Hell?  Probably for all of the wrong reasons.  Personally I think it has some good shirts, very funny and not too offensive.  But it also has some that go a little too far, even for me.

Well now you can enjoy the slightly twisted humour of T-Shirt Hell without being offended, with the launch of a new and toned down site, TorsoPants.

 The site design certainly stands out from the crowd, it’s wacky, quirky and very visual with lots of hidden surprises (like the moving eye near the bottom of the front page).  But I am sure the cost of the design will be worth it and in the long run, the site may even rival T-Shirt Hell for revenue.

Part of me immediately thought “man, this is selling out to the extreme”.  But then my partner very wisely pointed out that people who don’t ’sell out’ (whatever that really means), tend to be poor.  Good point well made.

So to the important part, the tees.  Well there are a lot to choose from at launch which is good to ensure momentum, and most of them are at least mildly humourous.  But for me, most were just “eh” rather than “hold crap I want that”. 

One that did make me chuckle was this one, given that it’s one of my pet peeves with bowling:

Prices are $18 per tee but you do get the huge choice of styles and colours.  And the site already appears to have a big following - as comments are allowed on the tees (great idea), it’s clear that many people are taking the effort to have their say and get involved.

Oh wait, I almost forgot the important bit!  If you sign up to the site this week, you’ll get 8 TorsoWashingtons (basically dollars that you can only spend on this site) in your account!  Which would make your first purchase just $10.  Click below to go to the special promo page:

So good luck to TorsoPants, may all your non-offensive dreams come true.

Well at the end of the last post I apologised for the lack of updates and said I would be posting more often again.  Well, I guess I lied because work is a bitch at the moment and I don’t have too much in the way of spare time.

That said, I couldn’t resist posting about the Threadless sale going on right now, because it really is too good to miss.

Oh.  My.  God.

I don’t know if any of you have ever written a blog before, but posting something like this takes a little while.  And while I was retreiving the above image from the Threadless site, I noticed a tee I hadn’t spotted yesterday when I was looking at the new shirts.

I looked at it, thought about it and then had a ‘moment’ - “I NEED THAT SHIRT!“.  Now I’ve not had such a moment very often before, but when they come along you don’t really want to be around because I go a bit nuts.

The below tee might just be the BEST tee I have ever seen.  I have already ordered it, despite only recently placing an order with Threadless.  I am only gutted that the XL and XXL hoodies are already sold out otherwise I would have to have one of those too.

Do you agree that it is awesome?  Hmm, maybe you have to think Resevoir Dogs is one of the best movies ever made?  That probably helps.

Deep breath.  Okay.  That’s better.

I was going to post about this tee while complaining about the tee colour, but it’s almost meaningless now.  Ah well I’ll post it anyway because it’s cool.

[EDIT]Wait, it’s a reprint?  The best shirt ever made is a reprint?!  Why hadn’t I noticed it before??  I’m somewhat of a Threadless addict, so how the hell did I miss that?  Man alive, I need to be more of a tee geek in future.  Maybe I’ll as Karl for some tips!

I think I have already mentioned that I am pretty anti-censorship.  Which is why I had to grab this shirt from t-shirt hell:

Now it’s not the type of tee I can wear every day (I don’t think my employer would approve!), but it does communicate well my views on censored words such as these.  I bet if I say “cunt”, someone will be offended.  But please, don’t be - did it really hurt you to read that?

On another note, one of my favourite all time Threadless tees was reprinted recently!  Stabby McKnife.  The first time it was printed I wasn’t a regular enough Threadless visitor to grab it before it sold out.  Then it was reprinted while I was on damn holiday a couple of years ago.  So this time I was quick off the mark (plus Threadless tees don’t sell out anywhere near as quickly as they used to when there were just a few released per week).  However, having shouted with joy, I am now a little, just a tad, gutted.  Why?  Because my damn fiancee pleaded with me to let her order it instead.  I’m a sucker for a cute girl, what can I say?  And somehow the prospect of having matching tshirts didn’t appeal …

I did however have to grab a few others while ordering, picking up Merge, also for the fiancee (though I kinda wanted it too), Birds of a Feather, and Mr Choppy (which I LOVE).

Final note is the lack of updates - not that anyone is reading this blog yet haha.  But even so, I planned on posting a few times a week at least - but work has been really hectic, not to mention spending a week in Budapest (work related conference).  But from now on I’ll try to stick to the regime.  Otherwise this blog will fall into the deadpool along with all of the other failed tshirt blogs.