I noticed SquareWear.biz was getting a few hundred more hits than normal today. It turns out someone posted a link on the Something Awful forums. It was fun to read non-bitcoiners discussing us and our humor. For the most part, they make fun of bitcoin and SquareWear's shirts (Gasp!), but we have some defenders too.
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3413928&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=352I was going to jump in the conversation, but I never knew you had to pay money to register on SomethingAwful.
T-shirts like squarewear's aren't really humorous if you have to go into a 6 minute, Asperger's-fueled diatribe to explain the joke to someone you meet in meatspace, and then still have less than a 1% chance of getting it.
The T-shirt would only be useful if you ran into another Bitcoin fan, and even then you are not so much likely to get a compliment on how funny your shirt is as your odds of getting a slight grin from the fellow Bitcoin fan before you both go back to staring at your feet and shuffle past each other.
By the way, this doesn't just go for Bitcoins, it goes for all niche and subjective geek/techie/meme-based T-shirts that are more likely to get you teased than laid.
Bitcoin T-shirts are just especially egregrious, since it's like multiple layers of awful nerdiness, its the kind of stuff that even your friend whose every discussion is basically from an engadget RSS feed would be embarrassed to be overheard talking about.
If someone really wanted to start doing this community huge favors, they should start a store that sells nice polo shirts and khaki pants without Bitcoin logos, and maybe some cologne or something.
