June 22, 2009

T-Shirts Seen On People In Hong Kong So Far

"Bed Peace," referencing Lennon and Yoko's anti-war protests
"Deadline is Over" (x2), referencing same
There was also a shirt in a hip-ish boutique that said The Stone Roses, printed above a photograph of The Beatles. Chicken or the egg, I guess.

"Die Yuppie Scum" on an old man in a small coastal town. This is a town with one restaurant with signs in English, and that's where all the dozen or so white people on the island were eating. They looked at me sadly as I passed them. They are desperate to understand and be understood. I wonder if the yuppie-hater had any idea what his shirt meant, or if he knew how appropriate it was. I may be a white person, but at least I don't go to China to eat at a place advertising Bar Snacks and Smoothies. Even though that means occasionally losing the game I call, "Is it Meat or is it Mushroom?"

And a teenager wearing "Trenton - United States - The Brick City". It's nice to know that other people's views of the U.S. are as delightfully skewed as our views of the little squiggly places where they live.

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