Comments on: Badget

By: Adam

Fri, 02 May 2008 09:45:20 +0000

And also very much flowerist… I mean, why should they have to die becuase we can’t control our temper?

By: Stacey

Fri, 02 May 2008 09:25:22 +0000

i found one in a chain store the other day..
“pick flowers not fights”
weak?
yes.

By: Ben

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:23:15 +0000

I am really sorry to tell you Adam, but there is a shop here that sells those kind of shirts:
Supre
Best defined by,
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=supre

By: prozacville

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:38:27 +0000

Haven’t been on here for a while.

You’re SO F****G good. But I guess you know that already.

Thank you for being black and white and grey.

Now going to read all the stuff I’ve missed.

By: Adam

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:54:13 +0000

From the site:

”This sign has been used by Yasser Arafat, Richard Nixon, Winston Churchill, and Stewart Meacham, Co-Chairman of Reds’ New Mobilisation Committee.”

Spot the odd one out?

By: Roo

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:21:41 +0000

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*whispers* Baphomet!

By: Seraphine

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:44:00 +0000

Please don’t talk to me about Yetis.
Don’t say Baphomet to me ever again.
Just don’t talk to me.
Go away.

By: Seraphine

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:40:54 +0000

I hate those little plastic badges.
Also nametags. They’re like
Bumperstickers for the stupid.
Do you really want someone
That you don’t know
Walking up to you and knowing
Your name and asking
End War? Is that a chess move?

By: Adam

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:23:41 +0000

That’s what Satan wants you to think…

By: Roo

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:20:31 +0000

Oh, Christians are silly. Well, really just that really vocal subset of silly Christians, but they’re silly enough to make up for all the rest. They believe that anything they don’t like is rooted in ancient Satan worship. Even Satanism! For example, they’ve made it so that everyone things that the Sigil of Baphomet is this ancient symbol, used for time out of mind by the dark legions of Lucifer (and the Church of Satan doesn’t do anything to counter that, I’m sure they like it), when it was really designed by Anton LaVey, in the 1960’s!

(Well to be fair, re re-designed it into what we see these days, there were earlier variants, back to the late 1800’s, but that’s still hardly ancient.) LaVey was a crafty bastard.

By: Joseph Hewitt

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:43:23 +0000

Everybody knows that the CND symbol is actually the Atlantean sign for crucifixion. Those of us with yeti ancestry consider wearing one to be in shockingly poor taste.

By: Mike

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:09:01 +0000

It’s also supposedly satanic: http://www.crcbermuda.com/reference/signs-and-symbols/87-signs-and-symbols/1254-peace-sign

Things like that always amuse me. We give symbols far too much meaning.

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:50:49 +0000

That’s because I’m unemployed and always at my computer.

Badges feel a little too much like jewelry to me. And I never liked the way clothing with writing or pictures on it looks on my globular frame.

By: Adam

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:50:35 +0000

I’d argue that Giger is a protest of sorts… just not sure what against… perhaps the non-scary.

I was thinking, in particular, about the white, baggy t-shirts… slogans on t-shirts are still going strong.

I’ve noticed loads recently with CMYK on them… yeah, everyone’s a designer these days.

According to my timing, you commented just 2 minutes after I posted this, the quickest time yet, beating TGJB by a whole minute.

By: Philippa

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:29:05 +0000

Everyone loves badges.

I have a good many on my bag. At the moment, I’m going with selected parts from the works of Giger, there not being all that many protest badges around at the moment.

“That said, the 80s came and went and you’d be hard pressed to find anyone willing to wear them now… Unlike another attempt to mix politics, design and fashion…”

You sure? There was an abundance of t-shirt with annoyingly large slogans a couple of months ago, and they’re probably still around now.

But they’re not remotely political, which makes me a little sad.