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Shanghaiist recently read this Shanghai Daily report which tells us that "Parents see red over blue shirts", a cryptic headline if there ever was one. It turns out that parents are discovering, with the help of a Chinese-English dictionaries, that the words on their kids' shirts are dirty words in English. However, the article failed to mention specifically what the offensive language was.
From this report (in Chinese) we discovered that there are shirts that say "vamp," "bitch," and worse yet, "sexy." Another report (also in Chinese) says that on Qipu Lu, there was a vendor that sold children's clothes that referred to "schoolchildren" enjoying adult pleasures and being "sexy." The vendor said in his/her defense that the wearers of these T-shirts probably don't know what the words mean, and neither do the vast majority of people they contact with. What you don't know can't make you look stupid.
The article says that many such T-shirts and articles of clothing can be bought online at sites such as Taobao. However, after it came to Taobao's attention that this was becoming something frowned upon by parents the popular e-commerce website began taking down such items as soon as they were discovered.
These include items such as:
- "What the hell" T-shirts
- Pink "Bitch" T-shirts
- A 595 RMB! "Skinny Bitch" T-shirt
- Neighborhood's "Too Drunk to Fuck" T-shirts
And that's all we could find from a cursory search on Taobao.
More to our tastes is a website that includes plenty of "Fuck" shirts that we like, including such classics as "Fuckin' Pimp," "How the fuck are you," "Fuck you, you fucking fuck," "Fuck the system" and "I fucked a midget."
We have not seen anyone around town wearing anything that was, in our estimation, especially dirty. Please leave comments if you've seen anything that you might want to share, like this.
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"too drunk to fuck" takes the prize. But for a more sublte yet effective T, I'd suggest "why don't we get drunk and scew?".
I saw a young man cutting hair in a salon and wearing a t-shirt that said 'suck my dick' on the back. I thought that perhaps I had misread it, so I went back to check and found that I had not misread it.
howbout on some 10 year old's jeans "This Cherry's ready to be eaten!"
yeahhh.... And right on the crotch area too.
There is plenty of weirdness written on t-shirts around Shanghai.
We contributed recently, by getting the staff at Jade On 36 to dress up in these rather lovely items. I felt a bit guilty realizing that they didn't have a clue what the pun was about. I think someone explained at some point, and in our defence, at least they weren't minors....
Full Disclosure: I run a company that is handling marketing for 42 Below in China.
I once saw a man on Nanjing Road in his early 20s wearing a T-shirt that asked "Do you love pussy?" It was on the back of the T-shirt. Presumably he didn't know what it meant, but you never know.
More than once I see women wearing short pants with the huge word "juicy" at the butt.
For lots and lots of related spottings, see the shocking Taiwanese T-shirts thread on Forumosa.
There are many websites out there on the internet all selling offensive and funny t-shirts, although this website does not curse in most of it's t-shirts they are still quite offensive. the website is www.tshirtcrib.com
I've seen a few of these at some salons, I think they're a bit funny, a sort of pun intended kind of way. (like BLOW ME with a picture of a blow dryer) http://www.salonshirts.com