I'm thinking about buying a go shirt. I found one I like, but I'd want it to be a shirt I can both wear casually and to club meetings/tournaments. I like the image and I find the text to be funny. However, I have a feeling some might take it the wrong way and see me as being arrogant or disrespectful.

The shirt reads: "Resign. Your continued play is embarrassing."

So, if you were seated across someone at a tournament and they were wearing a shirt with this on it would you feel insulted or would you find it funny?

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I would not only find it insulting, I would find it egotistical and demeaning to the game of go. Go humbles all. I would have no respect for a player who does not respect his opponents or the game.

Edit: I would not buy any other T-shirts from the makers of that one, either.

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Definitely disrespectful to both your opponent and the game in general.

Okay. Thanks for letting me know. I don't always have a good sense of humor for these types of things which is why I was asking. I'd been debating on and off about this shirt for about a month so I'm glad I didn't just decide to buy it. I wouldn't want people taking it the wrong way.

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"You have to walk before you can run. Black 1 was a walking move.
I blushed inwardly to recall the ignorant thoughts that had gone through
my mind before, when I had not realized the true worth of Black 1."
-Kageyama Toshiro on proper moves

<coming out> I think it’s funny </coming out>

It might be somewhat more digestible, though, if you’d use one of those “KEEP CALM” templates http://www.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/

And yes, I’d definitely leave away the explicit insult. Goes too far, and ain’t necessary.





Greetz, Tom


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Un-hid the “keep calm” image because some of you seem to like it. And I like it, too

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You left off 'would you find it pathetic'.

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It wouldn't bother me.

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Who cares what anyone else thinks? There's a lot of thin skinned people out there and trying to cater to all of them will leave you with no freedom of choice at all. If you find it funny, then buy the shirt and wear it.

I certainly wouldn't be offended. I think that if a simple T-shirt like that offends someone, they might be taking things a bit to seriously.

I don't think it is very funny, but it might get a smile from me, and I would appreciate that you took the effort to try and wear a funny shirt.

If it was a smart-t-shirt changing the text depending on the board position, it could be offensive Like that, it is not, I think.

But to be honest, I must say I didn't like the joke so much because I prefer to see the game as an "intellectual activity commonly enjoyed by two persons" (pardon my french ) rather than "I will destroy you" kind of competitive thing. But this is just personal.

Conclusion: I would never wear it, but neither would I be offended if my opponent did

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Slightly off optic, but I have a Go tee-shirt with this problem on:

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[go]$$ My tee shirt - B to play
$$ | . . . . . . . . .
$$ | X X X X . . . . .
$$ | X O O X X . . . .
$$ | O O . O X . . . .
$$ | . . . O X . . . .
$$ | . . . . O X X . .
$$ | . . . . . . . . .
$$ ---------------------[/go]

It's quite a nice problem, composed by Cho U - black to play.

Flawed poll, so I couldn't vote. There should be a third option - "It is neither funny, nor insulting."

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Doesn't everybody play in traditional clothing anyway?

I am surprised you would even need to ask. I see no humor in it at all.

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Still officially AGA 5d but I play so irregularly these days that I am probably only 3d or 4d over the board (but hopefully still 5d in terms of knowledge, theory and the ability to contribute).

My thought process would be something to the effect. I can't believe this guy paid X dollars for ill fitting T-shirt, what a moron, I bet he/she would abuse my nice glass stones just to distract me. Better to avoid playing in the future.

This as a t-shirt please: http://xkcd.com/1287/

Just for visits to the chess club.

Personally I'd feel insulted by anyone who felt insulted by me wearing that shirt because it's insulting of them to think that I'm the kind of person that would give that kind of insult so if someone were to be so inconsiderate as to feel insulted by the insult on my shirt I would consider that insult an insult well deserved.

Please elaborate, there have been quite a few opposing thought processes described here

Whom are you talking about?

May I ask again: whom are you talking about? I find this more insulting that that T-shirt could ever be.

You’re not paranoid, right? I bet they are after you

Greetz, Tom

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The person who paid X dollars for ill fitting T-shirt.



Can a moron wearing an annoying T-shirt also be thin skinned? Sure why not, in fact it almost makes sense that I wouldn't want to play go with a person wearing said T-shirt, because they obviously are superficial preferring that their clothes make a statement rather than their clothes, feel comfortable to wear, or otherwise be functional.



C'mon, did you look at the T-shirt, it is obviously advocating dropping or throwing stones, I never hold my stones a foot above my dish and try to drop them into the bowl, and even if it doesn't damage the stones or cause the stones to get scattered and lost, its really loud and annoying.

How about

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Visualize whirled peas.

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