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colmme aka colm is 21.45 years old, has been a member since January 18, 2007, has scored 444 submissions, giving an average score of 1.87.

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Dec 16 '07 by colmme

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Watch this

WHA?

about Sink Yourself

pretty sure this has been asked about a million times before, but can someone explain or point me to an explanation of this shirt? ordered it there yesterday...... it's just too awesome

xiv on Dec 16 '07 at 12:47pm

not all art has a meaning.

Bramish on Dec 16 '07 at 12:48pm

It's a man with a cloud for a head rowing a boat with a lightning bolt and speaking rain.

colmme on Dec 16 '07 at 10:34pm

ah ok cool, no deeper meaning.... just wondering :)

viralVISUAL on Dec 16 '07 at 10:49pm

I always thought it was about the type of person who doesn't know when to shut up and ends up making things worse for themself. Hence the speech bubble with rain and "Sink Yourself".

fat pigeon on Dec 17 '07 at 12:40pm

It's about saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, leaving yourself stranded in a bad situation.

opifan64 on Dec 17 '07 at 5:45pm

My interpretation was always that if you continually verbalize negativity (represented by the the rain) you essentially "sink yourself" even though you might blame others for your predicament.

81 days later

oneitis on Mar 08 '08 at 8:53am

It kind of reminds me of the Brand New lyrics:

"Your tongue is a rudder
It steers the whole ship
Sends your words past your lips
Or keeps them safe behind your teeth
But the wrong words will strand you
Come off course while you sleep
Sweep your boat out to sea
Or dashed to bits on the reef"

And it can also be seen as an optimism / pessimism thing: if you're continually in a bad mood and there's only "rain" in your mind, then you will actually "sink yourself".

Anyways, really cool design, will surely buy this once I got enough money again one day ;)

3 days later

fat pigeon on Mar 11 '08 at 4:24pm

I enjoy that song. Good interpretation.

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