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13strong
13strong aka Graeme McGregor is a 29.91 year old boy, has been a member since March 26, 2007, has scored 1,350 submissions, giving an average score of 2.81, helping 94 designs get printed.
So appropriate right now!
I had kind of stopped buying Threadless T's because I couldn't justify the wasteful transporting of a t-shirt from Pakistan (the factory's in Pakistan, yeah?) to the USA, and then from the USA to the UK.

That said, I'm a minor hypocrite, cos I had to have this one.

It just seems to fit the world, and especially this country, right now.

Economic crisis, oil about to run out, no real political choice, climate change coming, the possibility of a Conservative government...

And Douglas Adams isn't here to tell us "DON'T PANIC".

This just seems to fit.

So thanks Mr Moss, for neatly summing up our modern times. You're welcome to visit me in my self-sustaining mountain-top shack any time.

wflan
wflan on Nov 03 '08 at 12:41pm
unfortunately, in the era of globalization, getting genuinely local goods is near impossible. Not even the vaunted American Apparel gets their cotton locally (Los Angeles). The best you can normally hope in the US/Canada for is a garment sewn in Mexico from US cotton but alas, the VAST majority of all clothes are made in Vietnam, Malaysia, or China. It's just how the global factory system has worked out these days. :/
13strong
13strong on Nov 03 '08 at 6:55pm
I agree the odds are stacked against locally sourced products/produce, but



a) if you REALLY care it would be possible to locally source your clothes and other such things. You would have to work pretty hard at it, though.



b) the market is likely going to go that way anyway, as oil becomes prohibitively expensive/unavailable and importing (particularly to places like the UK where I am) becomes impossible. We'll have to start relying on local produce and industry.



Should be interesting.
KatieNumberTwo
KatieNumberTwo on Nov 03 '08 at 7:26pm
The possibility of liberals taking over our government scares me even more.
Pepperdawg
Pepperdawg on Nov 03 '08 at 8:45pm
Agreed, Katie. Tomorrow we have to hang together or hang alone.
schumacherenator
schumacherenator on Nov 03 '08 at 10:45pm
...hippies
13strong
13strong on Nov 04 '08 at 2:49am
"Liberals"? hahaha



So would you prefer McCain and Palin?
Vindemiatrix
Vindemiatrix on Nov 04 '08 at 6:21am
Hell yeah. I too am tempted by this shirt.



13strong, dude, I have missed you.



Oh, and don't you know, it's like Ann Coulter says: "Liberals always lie". Liberals are the evil folk keeping the rich white man down. And you can always trust Ann Coulter.
13strong
13strong on Nov 04 '08 at 6:24am
Yeah, man, those rich white people have experienced hundreds of years of toil and struggle. I mean, it's hard work oppressing people and domesticating the savages! Some of the rich white people got blisters on their hands from their guns/whips/sticks/piles of money.



This poor non-white non-heterosexual tyranny must come to an end!



And so on...
Florida_Gurley13
Florida_Gurley13 on Nov 04 '08 at 7:28am
so, i don't understand this shirt!?

anyone wanna help me out? :S
13strong
13strong on Nov 04 '08 at 8:09am
In Britain in WW2 there was a government produced poster, designed for times of dire emergency (Nazi invasion, etc) that had the crown at the top and read:



KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON.



It's a very famous, iconic design that has become quite cool and fashionable recently.



I like to think this is a more appropriate message for our times.
Noac
Noac on Nov 04 '08 at 8:15am
Florida Gurley13:



Just keep calm and carry on...
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