Threadless T-Shirts - Profile for gloom - Slogan-submissions

gloom aka Bent Stamnes is a 30.5 year old boy, has been a member since November 29, 2005, has scored 4495 submissions, giving an average score of 2.35.

URL: http://bent.lorien.no/

Jul 07 '06 by gloom

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Slogan-submissions - oh jesus, how crappy they are

Recently I've started to notice the slogans being posted are utterly horrible. At least most of them. Now, I won't say that mine are strokes of brilliance, but atleast they're not complete crap - atleast I don't think they are. :)

Here are some suggestions for people submitting slogan-suggestions:

- "This shirt"-type text is not funny
- "If you can read this"-type text is not funny
- Playing on the person wearing the shirt is not funny ("I am hot!" etc.)
- Playing on the person seeing the shirt is not funny ("When you're finished reading, kiss me!" etc.)
- Using gender-specific stuff isn't really a good idea - you'd probably want to print something unisex
- Excessive swearing just doesn't work, so don't go there
- "Funny" racial comments are just voted down anyway, so why not try to be creative instead?

The slogans I find most attractive are those that are just simple, yet clever text. Just look at what has already gotten printed - those shirts should give you a good idea about what becomes popular.

Rant rant rant etc. :)

spacesick on Jul 07 '06 at 11:16am

if you can read this, then I just wasted a minute of my time.

WallsReallyWork on Jul 07 '06 at 11:19am

i like your stuff

skyash1588 on Jul 07 '06 at 11:23am

dude, i read ur slogans, u break like half of your own rules.

TimRogers on Jul 07 '06 at 11:47am

Part of the fun of slogan rating is delving through the crap :P

Squaw on Jul 07 '06 at 11:51am

I'm the first to admit my slogans are shit.
If they happen to win I'm 200 dollars richer, if they don't oh well.

jimjimdesign on Jul 07 '06 at 11:53am

I like elves and ponies!

parabolic on Jul 07 '06 at 11:56am

I don't much care if the slogans are bad, but it annoys me when people don't delete the obvious losers. If a slogan is really sucking, the writer shouldn't wait for it to get thrown out, they ought to just kill it and spare the rest of us the suffering.

That said, I was amused to find someone else with a photosynthesis slogan.

ginger_ on Jul 07 '06 at 12:28pm

I'm totally disappointed with the slogans, it just seems like everyone is submitting anything just on the off chance people might like it. The majority of them are total crap, for sure.
Not that I'd necessarily be much better, but most of the slogans sound like they were written by 12 year olds.

Ste7en on Jul 07 '06 at 12:35pm

Who cares what they sound like? Thats why youre allowed to say you dont like them. Do you think huge corporations only throw out one slogan and its perfect? They all get together, say a bunch of terrible shit and one slogan sticks out. They only print one slogan a week at threadless for the same reason. We need the crap to appreciate the perfect one.

Ste7en on Jul 07 '06 at 12:38pm

Personally what I dont like is when a person takes their slogans from popular litterature.

gloom on Jul 07 '06 at 1:00pm

dude, i read ur slogans, u break like half of your own rules.

Actually I did have one left over that said "you" which I ment to delete - it's gone now, thanks for the tip. :)

..and again; I do not believe I'm Gods gift to slogans or that the ones I have are really really awesome (they are not :), but I DO think that submitting "My other shirt is on your girl/boyfriends floor!" for the Nth time is mindbogglingly inept. :)

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ysy101 on Oct 17 '06 at 7:43am

yours are much better than mine! and thanks for the comment!

squirelgrrl on Oct 17 '06 at 7:46am

mine ure good

squirelgrrl on Oct 17 '06 at 7:46am

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a norwegian guy who enjoys cool t-shirts and fighting polar bears in our infamous snow-ridden norwegian streets.

been buying stuff from threadless for two years or so before bothering to register - yep, that's pretty darn lazy.

works as a cto at a small mobile technology company and makes newschool electro rythms, big beat and drum'n'bass in his spare time (free downloads from my homepage).