With hindsight... in fact even at the time it was obvious that the Remain campaign was lacklustre. Of course the Tories including Cameron just sort of lazily blamed the EU so routinely and dishonestly for anything and everything and didn't realise that people were dumb enough to believe them. Thus Cameron had no credibility when he said "Guys, obviously staying in the EU is the better option, all that stuff I've been saying all day every day for the last fifteen years was just made up bullshit, come on you weren't believing that were you?"I think that is true but also brexit voters managed to grab the terrain of "change" whereas remain was a kinda stationary, if it's not broke don't fix it, message? So it was a bit boring?
What's interesting about that t-shirt is that you've got this almost comically deformed looking bulldog, that is very small, pissing on this big euro and because they've been tight on the colour palette, his piss is the same colour as it.
So it's actually got this whole other level to it, seen in the context of what came after.
Also, worth mentioning that it was 2000 or thereabouts that I first saw it, and then maybe 2007 the second time around. Basically I mean it's a deep long running issue.
I don't think you believe that. I think that you know there is something much weirder and darker going on.Well I'll bring it up and see what he says. But I'm not sure there's more of an ulterior motive other than "I bought you a present, now please wear it".
Like when I used to give a mix cd to a mate for his birthday and then ask if we could put it on.
i picked up a European Commission T-shirt at a languages fair in about 2010, because the colour - that EU blue is so pleasant,This is a pretty good example of the difference between the Leave and Remain sides. When it comes to this sort of thing it feels that Remain have been hamstrung by a squeamishness, a reluctance to get their hands dirty. There were fucking loads of groups campaigning for Remain but I bet not one of them even considered making a t-shirt that said "Every single Brexiter is a thick cunt who is probably a bit racist" on it, and even if they did some wanker would have quashed it by saying "Oh we don't want to sink to their level".
Thing is we should have wanted Brexit even less.
A restrainedly poignant tale.i picked up a European Commission T-shirt at a languages fair in about 2010, because the colour - that EU blue is so pleasant,
at that stage the EC/EU etc was just a boring thing but it was a nice plain blue decent quality cotton t-shirt with the circle of yellow stars over the left nip, and the stars again and the eu's web address on the back by the neck, and perhaps on one of the biceps - a freebie and not even that obviously eu-related
as time went by the t-shirt began to assume more significance, and get more ragged, as t-hirts do, a little frayed round the neck, a few blim burns around the tum area, as it was a comfy item to sleep in it stayed near the top of the pile, and occasionally i might wear it out, as upon one occasion - actually the pinnacle of this t-shirt's career, at the peak of brexitsteria a black woman approached me in walthamstow bus station to ask what i thought i was wearing, i was not sure but i think she was anti eu i scurried off anyway
and quite a while after the t-shirt went around the armpits it joined the dishrags in the kitchen where i think it still resides unless somepone chucked it, the stars has almost worn off anyway, and that raggedness of course over the years has always made me wistfully consider the deterioriating political situation, the ragged state of the union and so on.
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a deep and lovely blue, so becoming
it's funny though how you get into these quiet but intense longterm personal relationships with items of clothingA restrainedly poignant tale.
i've got a hyperdub t-shirt that must have been incredibly well made back in 2009 or whenever, kode9 must have been there for ages on his laptop sourcing only the finest cotton, sitting in his studio with sewing machine painstakingly double stitching everything, it's been all over the place and it's still my default on the odd occasion i go clubbing, it fits in with the techno all-black uniform as wellit's funny though how you get into these quiet but intense longterm personal relationships with items of clothing
Fuck shouldn't have done that pic as a stand-up comedian. That last paragraph read like actual material from the world's most mundane comic live from the London Palladium... if you enjoyed that I've been Idle Rich... if you didn't I'm Mr Tea, goodnight everyone, I love you see you next time!!
Same, bro. It's the way to do it.i wear jeans and a nice jacket every single day i have done for years
When I went clubbing in London last month I wore my navy blue velvet number, and people were coming up to me on the dancefloor and literally stroking me. It's just as well for Mrs. Tea that I'm an honest man.