Life In 19x19

I'm thinking about buying a go shirt. I found one I like, but I'd want it to be a shirt I can both wear casually and to club meetings/tournaments. I like the image and I find the text to be funny. However, I have a feeling some might take it the wrong way and see me as being arrogant or disrespectful.

The shirt reads: "Resign. Your continued play is embarrassing."

So, if you were seated across someone at a tournament and they were wearing a shirt with this on it would you feel insulted or would you find it funny?

I would not only find it insulting, I would find it egotistical and demeaning to the game of go. Go humbles all. I would have no respect for a player who does not respect his opponents or the game.

Edit: I would not buy any other T-shirts from the makers of that one, either.

Definitely disrespectful to both your opponent and the game in general.

Okay. Thanks for letting me know. I don't always have a good sense of humor for these types of things which is why I was asking. I'd been debating on and off about this shirt for about a month so I'm glad I didn't just decide to buy it. I wouldn't want people taking it the wrong way.

<coming out> I think it’s funny </coming out>

It might be somewhat more digestible, though, if you’d use one of those “KEEP CALM” templates http://www.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/

And yes, I’d definitely leave away the explicit insult. Goes too far, and ain’t necessary.





Greetz, Tom


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Un-hid the “keep calm” image because some of you seem to like it. And I like it, too

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moyoaji wrote:I'm thinking about buying a go shirt. I found one I like, but I'd want it to be a shirt I can both wear casually and to club meetings/tournaments. I like the image and I find the text to be funny. However, I have a feeling some might take it the wrong way and see me as being arrogant or disrespectful.

The shirt reads: "Resign. Your continued play is embarrassing."

So, if you were seated across someone at a tournament and they were wearing a shirt with this on it would you feel insulted or would you find it funny?

You left off 'would you find it pathetic'.

It wouldn't bother me.

Who cares what anyone else thinks? There's a lot of thin skinned people out there and trying to cater to all of them will leave you with no freedom of choice at all. If you find it funny, then buy the shirt and wear it.

I certainly wouldn't be offended. I think that if a simple T-shirt like that offends someone, they might be taking things a bit to seriously.

I don't think it is very funny, but it might get a smile from me, and I would appreciate that you took the effort to try and wear a funny shirt.

If it was a smart-t-shirt changing the text depending on the board position, it could be offensive Like that, it is not, I think.

But to be honest, I must say I didn't like the joke so much because I prefer to see the game as an "intellectual activity commonly enjoyed by two persons" (pardon my french ) rather than "I will destroy you" kind of competitive thing. But this is just personal.

Conclusion: I would never wear it, but neither would I be offended if my opponent did

Slightly off optic, but I have a Go tee-shirt with this problem on:

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[go]$$ My tee shirt - B to play
$$ | . . . . . . . . .
$$ | X X X X . . . . .
$$ | X O O X X . . . .
$$ | O O . O X . . . .
$$ | . . . O X . . . .
$$ | . . . . O X X . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .
$$ ---------------------[/go]

It's quite a nice problem, composed by Cho U - black to play.

Flawed poll, so I couldn't vote. There should be a third option - "It is neither funny, nor insulting."

Doesn't everybody play in traditional clothing anyway?

I am surprised you would even need to ask. I see no humor in it at all.

My thought process would be something to the effect. I can't believe this guy paid X dollars for ill fitting T-shirt, what a moron, I bet he/she would abuse my nice glass stones just to distract me. Better to avoid playing in the future.