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My condolences to the Burke family :(

How to lose customers and alienate women

What the hell!?

This is a women's t-shirt that says "Girls Rule" with various Marvel comics superheroines on it. It's pretty awesome.

But the product description:

Made from 50% Cotton, 50% Polyester, this cream colored, woman's T-Shirt features purposely faded images of your favorite female Marvel comic book characters! Well, they're your favorite, but your girlfriend (or sister) will actually be wearing the tshirt! HUZZAH! Hmmm...Can't decide which Marvel Super-heroine I wish to add to my fantasy harem first. Spiderwoman is DEFINITELY in there. Black Widow...maybe; she's just a little too...used for me. HUZZAH! Hellcat? Absolutely. Scarlet Witch? Maybe not. She could unmake me if I forget to dry the dishes or something. Invisible Woman? YES! It's the hot mom thing! And....Marvel Girl. NOPE! Too damn whiney, not enough character and she tends to die when things get rough! Now, this Marvel tee is EXTREMELY limited, so buy the shirt, tell your girlfriend which female Marvel character you wish them to emulate, get dumped, go back to the imaginary harem.

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!?

Not only does it assume no woman would be looking at their site, or thinking of buying that shirt for ourselves (or even READING this descrip), it doesn't even assume that even if it's guys looking at the site, they might want to buy it for their g/f or a female friend cuz they might like the chars or nething... nope nope nope.. THE ONLY REASON TO BUY IT IS CUZ SOME MALE COMIC FAN WANTS TO SLEEP WITH THE SUPERHEROINES (but apparently is so insecure that they have to nitpick every one too) AND THAT THEY WANT THEIR G/F TO ROLEPLAY THEM... and hten get dumped..

like wtf

it's even insulting to the ppl they assume would want to buy it (and i find it HILARIOUS that they assume that the target audience of a shirt that says "GIRLS RULE" with female heroines on it MUST BE MEN)!

i can't even BEGIN to fathom the reasoning behind anybody thinking that THAT product descrip was a good idea! Like I'm sure somebody thought they were trying to be funny, which just adds to the amount of fail in this thing... but just *headdesk*

and like not only are they assuming their customers MUST be straight men, they're condescending them and then they add this weird little thing that basically getting the shirt will lead to them being dumped... (i wonder how that meshes with "satisfaction guaranteed" xD)

isn't the purpose of a product description to inform and encourage ppl to BUY the product? you want to MAKE money right?

This better be from a disgruntled employee on their last day or something...

Caption contest of DOOOOM!!!!!!!!!

Okay ppls, caption this time! :D Winner gets a hug from teh Ami :D

D&D and the Dictionary banned by a school and a prison... but which one banned what? xD

School bans the dictionary

And calculators can be used to write 80085, so we better ban those too xD

Prison bans D&D

Wouldn't D&D playing inmates be easier to control tho? If they tried to escape, you could just play the DM over the PA and tell them there's like a beholder or something guarding the exit... or a giant pit.. or w/e DMs say in D&D (I dun play D&D xD)

By coincidence, I ran into both of these stories around the same time today which is why they're both in this post b/c as Trish astutely noted after I showed her both stories: "I am struck by the similarity between prisons and schools." I didn't even think of that with this (tho I've noticed the similarities in the past) but there is sad truth in it :\

But how would you tell the teams apart if they're all wearing white? xD

They should just call this the KKKBA e_e

The idea is headdeskingly awful but I'm not getting rly upset about this because I don't think it's real. Like supposed league ideas pop up all the time and most of the time they're either pie-in-the-sky trial balloons or a scam. I think this one is a scam, if it's real at all. Cuz if this is real (as in it's not some hoax or the news picking up an Onion article or something) it sounds like it's a guy who's trying to get racists with money to pay the "licensee" fee he's asking for, and then oops, we can't get the players or nething, things fall thru, sorry no league.

And the timing is perfect too, cuz it's in the wake of the Gilbert Arenas gun story and the "NBA players are just thugs!" thing with the usual "I'm not racist but..." racist undertones going on in the comments of news articles and such -_-;; But I dun think it's a guy trying to capitalize on that to actually start a league, but to see if he can get some racist businessmen to give him some money... >_>;;

That or he rly is that stupid.. and racist -_-;; I guess you can never rly underestimate the limits of human awfulness and stupidity.

If it's not just a hoax neways >_>

The sad part is, I can see some ppl actually mentally nodding that this might not be a bad idea, and not just the obvious KKK types :\ And maybe he can too and dollar signs with it... xD

What's funny also, is that the supposed idea would ban pretty much all the non-black NBA players too, since most of them are from South America, Europe, Canada and China xD

Accept no substitutes! >:|

Lousy Canadian knock-offs >_>;;

Ami plug™(s) for amazingly mentally hot guyz

Norm Wilner is awesome and I love him so very very much (but not as much as Bob McCown, Stephen Brunt or Bruce Arthur.. whom I want his babies >_>;; but he alrdy has babies now.. so... nevermind xD)

That is all.

Whut?

Staring is rude....

...

These aren't the droids you're looking for.

Move along. >_>;;;

Ami's "of the decade" meme!!!

This is Ami starting a meme for the end of 2009! :D

It's the "of the decade" meme! Basically come up with 3 categories and who you think wins that category! Be creative!

Like what I mean isn't just "best comic book of the decade"... like "best moustache of an comic creator of the decade" or whatever.. it can be serious (best Asian male film character of the decade) or not or whatever.. it doesn't have to be about comics, or games or whatever.. it can be about nething (worst hair of a world leader, weirdest food trend... etc etc)

and tag 3-5 other ppl! And then they come up with 3 categories.. etc :] The main part is to be creative!

I'll start it off!

Greatest weasel words in sports of the decade: "It's not a lie if we know the truth." - J.P. Ricciardi, (now, thankfully) ex-GM of the Toronto Blue Jays

Best Comics Blogger.. hell... Blogger period.. forget that.. WRITER.. named Rob Staeger this decade: Rob Staeger of Laughing at the Pieces.. I apologize to all the other Rob Staeger's I've slighted... it was a close vote...

Greatest Ami-centric event of the decade: AMI TRANSITIONED AND IS FREE AND AWESOME AND EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :DDDDDDDDDD W000000TTTTTTTTTTTTT XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

I rock >_>

Neways, okay that was a little MORE trivial than I meant it for.. but you get the idea... GO NUTS!!!

I tag:

Filby!

Willow!

Trish!

Rob!

Saranga!

And a holiday bonus tag to:

David Wynne :)

YAY! :]