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Post by Boothen on Mar 15, 2018 19:35:45 GMT
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Post by RF10 on Mar 15, 2018 19:48:44 GMT
What fuckwits idea was it to design and release that?
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Post by bathstoke on Mar 15, 2018 19:54:12 GMT
What’s the phrase”What goes around comes back round” alluding to...
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Post by PotterLog on Mar 15, 2018 19:57:11 GMT
That's plain fucking weird, and more than a little creepy
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2018 20:01:17 GMT
That’s just wrong on so many fronts.
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Post by werrington on Mar 15, 2018 20:01:19 GMT
I’m more concerned that boothen finds it hilarious
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Post by potterblade on Mar 15, 2018 20:05:33 GMT
Fucking hell. Scouse buddhists queuing up round the block I bet.
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Post by andystokey on Mar 15, 2018 20:16:17 GMT
Possibly as bad. Let's hope its not a reference to the 96 euros.
Such as...
A terrorist attack took place in Manchester on 15 June, one day before the group stage match between Germany and Russia was due to take place in the same city. The detonation of a van bomb in the city centre injured 212 people and caused an estimated £700 million worth of damage.
Or
After England's defeat to Germany in the semi-finals, a large-scale riot took place in Trafalgar Square and the surrounding area. Further outbreaks of trouble occurred in the streets of several other towns. The police, German-made cars were targeted, with damage also caused to various other properties.
A Russian student was stabbed in Brighton after attackers mistook him for being German.
Someone at Topman must have had a Fucking blackout, thinking these would go down well with fans in a WC year.
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Post by Boothen on Mar 15, 2018 20:19:23 GMT
What’s the phrase”What goes around comes back round” alluding to... Could be a reference to the Bob Marley track that was released in 1996.  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2018 21:08:52 GMT
What the flying fuck??
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Post by JurgenVandeurzen on Mar 15, 2018 21:20:09 GMT
Topman in Liverpool will be in flames in the morning.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Mar 15, 2018 21:30:08 GMT
What's it actually meant to be?
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Post by StokieBoy31 on Mar 15, 2018 21:48:22 GMT
It’s a Bob Marley song I think
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2018 21:56:43 GMT
Apparently ‘Karma’ is a clothing manufacturer,
Perhaps the Bob Marley song, but why the red and white, and why the flower - pretty flipping stupid.
I can’t get my head around it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2018 22:02:15 GMT
Is it someone's idea of a joke, I can't tell? I get that it might be Bob Marley-related but even that seems random, and the colour scheme, 'Karma' and '96' rolled in together don't sit comfortably tbh, who the fuck is going to buy that?
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Post by StoKeith on Mar 15, 2018 22:20:56 GMT
Is it someone's idea of a joke, I can't tell? I get that it might be Bob Marley-related but even that seems random, and the colour scheme, 'Karma' and '96' rolled in together don't sit comfortably tbh, who the fuck is going to buy that? Is it referring to the Hillsborough disaster “96”? I have no idea what the whole karma thing is about. It’s certainly odd. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2018 22:52:09 GMT
That’s just wrong on so many fronts. I wasn't sure if it went on the back or the front... |
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Mar 15, 2018 22:57:31 GMT
It could very well be a Shit fan designer's idea of a joke. Not saying it is, but I remember a couple of years ago it made the news that JJB or someone had printed "96- Not enough, YSB" on the back of a Manu shirt at the behest of a United fan.
They only did it because it meant nothing to the girl who took the order. This could have easily passed by a Topman employee to whom it wouldn't bear a second thought if it didn't immediately click.
There's all kinds of random crap combinations of symbols on clothing these days so it mightn't seem anything out of the ordinary to a non-nogger fan.
Or, of course, it could be a bullshit coincidence.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2018 23:02:30 GMT
I have never seen a music T shirt where the year of the song's release had the most emphasis.
Not least the fact that it was released 15 years after his death. It is not Bob Marley's most significant work by any stretch of the imagination.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2018 23:10:41 GMT
According to the 22:00 News it's a tribute to Tupac Shakur who was killed in 1996.
Raps not my thing so no idea of the relevance to what it says on the t-shirt......
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2018 23:27:43 GMT
According to the 22:00 News it's a tribute to Tupac Shakur who was killed in 1996. Raps not my thing so no idea of the relevance to what it says on the t-shirt...... Yes I also heard that on BBC North west news but could not remember the rappers name, Apparently he was shot dead in 1996 On the night of September 7, 1996, Shakur attended the Bruce Seldon vs. Mike Tyson boxing match with Suge Knight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. After leaving the match, one of Knight's associates spotted Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, an alleged Crips gang member from Compton, California, in the MGM Grand lobby. Earlier that year, Anderson and a group of Crips had robbed a member of Death Row's entourage in a Foot Locker store. Knight's associate told Shakur, who attacked Anderson, assisted by his and Knight's entourage. The fight was captured on the hotel's video surveillance. After the brawl, Shakur went with Knight to Death Row–owned Club 662. Shakur rode in Knight's 1996 black BMW 750iL sedan as part of a larger convoy.[141]
At 11:00–11:05 p.m. (PDT), they were halted on Las Vegas Boulevard by Metro bicycle police for playing the car stereo too loudly and not having license plates. These were found in the trunk of Knight's car and the party was released without being ticketed.[142] At 11:15 p.m. (PDT), when they were at a stop light, a white, four-door, late-model Cadillac with unknown occupants pulled up to the right side of Shakur's sedan. Someone inside rapidly fired gunshots at Shakur. He was hit four times, twice in the chest, once in the arm, and once in the thigh.[143] One of the bullets went into Shakur's right lung.[144] Knight was hit in the head by fragmentation. The bodyguard, Frank Alexander, said that Shakur had asked him to drive the car of Shakur's girlfriend, Kidada Jones, rather than accompany him.[145] After arriving at the scene, police and paramedics took Knight and the wounded Shakur to the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada. According to an interview with music video director Gobi, while at the hospital, Shakur received news from a Death Row marketing employee that the shooters had called the record company and threatened Shakur.[146] Gobi informed the Las Vegas police but said that the police claimed to be understaffed.[146] No attackers came. At the hospital, Shakur was heavily sedated, placed on life-support machines, and ultimately was put under a barbiturate-induced coma to keep him in the bed.[13] While in the intensive-care unit, on the afternoon of September 13, 1996, Shakur died from internal bleeding.[13] He was pronounced dead at 4:03 p.m. (PDT).[13] The official causes of death were noted as respiratory failure and cardiopulmonary arrest in connection with multiple gunshot wounds.[13]
Shakur's body was cremated the next day. Some of his ashes were purportedly later mixed with marijuana and smoked by members of the Outlawz.[147] But E.D.I. Mean claimed in an 2014 interview in 2014 that he later learned that the ashes did not belong to Shakur. Some people believed that Shakur never died.[148]
His fifth album, The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, was released two months later, along with numerous other posthumous albums.
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Post by thegift on Mar 15, 2018 23:59:06 GMT
you'd think there would be a football fan within the entire topman decision making team who would spot this, or, someone who fucking works at topman before they get the all clear to bring it into stores.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2018 2:15:00 GMT
Weren't Greenwoods in Hanley going to do a Stenhousemuir T Shirt...
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Post by basingstokie on Mar 16, 2018 5:38:30 GMT
That is absolutely atrocious and I can only assume that no one involved in design, production, marketing or anything else has any connection or knowledge of football.
Surely it will be withdrawn with a full and comprehensive apology before 9am today
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Post by JoeinOz on Mar 16, 2018 7:08:36 GMT
What an utter aberration.
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Post by thevoid on Mar 16, 2018 7:31:54 GMT
Someone at Topman design's clearly on very good coke.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Mar 16, 2018 7:33:24 GMT
What’s the phrase”What goes around comes back round” alluding to... Could be a reference to the Bob Marley track that was released in 1996. What goes around comes around - is a pretty widely known (and understood) phrase. But I've never seen it with the word "back" inserted. I can't see the point of that. As to the broader picture - it is a bloody insensitive shirt and if the designer/manufacturer tries to claim that 96 is not a reference to Hillsborough, I will find that hard to believe. Very poor taste and should be withdrawn from sale - certainly in England. |
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Post by brumstokie on Mar 16, 2018 7:54:34 GMT
Weren't Greenwoods in Hanley going to do a Stenhousemuir T Shirt... Hey for some the grieving hasn’t stopped yet.👿 |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2018 8:11:23 GMT
Weren't Greenwoods in Hanley going to do a Stenhousemuir T Shirt... The bastards... |
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Post by potterblade on Mar 16, 2018 8:15:56 GMT
It's a hopelessly oblique reference and Topman deserve to be called out on the utter wankness of the design. It's not offensive though and anyone getting upset about it needs to give their heads a wobble.
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