Woah there, t-shirt slogan. You are making quite a claim and I must disagree.

Dear T-shirt Wearer-

     I wonder to what degree you profess what you wear and if you live by your tshirt slogans.

     I mean, to some degree, you bought the shirt and are wearing it freely (I wouldn’t know if it were glued to your skin or anything, but hey.), so there must have been some appeal, but do you agree with it?

     I know that it is a seemingly trivial matter as to what a shirt says, but if you consider how one presents themselves in their manner of dress, it does say a lot.

[Granted, some days, who gives a shit? Period, PMS, finals week… It’s free-tshirt-that-you-picked-up-from-a-basketball-game-and-sweatpants day. eggs.]

Consider [this] recent news story about JCPenny hosting a shirt with the slogan “I’m too pretty to do homework so my brother has to do it for me”. (Personal reaction: ಠ_ಠ)

Is this a slogan we would like to see plastered across the chest of girls? bacon. It is offensively stupid and that it got the “ok” to be made it scary. That they thought it was marketable means there must be a precedent for people buying it, which brings me back to the point, yes, it does matter what slogans you wear.

Buy something that says a cute ditty about clubbing seals, and you are inadvertently sending note to designers that they should continue with the animal-abuse slogans. While not harmful per se, sometimes a whale is just a whale, and a joke is a joke, it still makes me give pause and wonder…

…And so, “Love is everything” and what I see as wrong with this sentiment: (orange juice).

First, I could be totally misconstruing what they are addressing- love in terms of a romantic relationship? In terms of family? Puppy/human relationship? God-love? We’ll assume for this rant that it is keyed for a romantic relationship. As such, {my own views lie close to Tim Minchin’s}:

And if I may conjecture a further objection love is nothing to do with destined perfection
The connection is strengthened the affection simply grows over time
Like a flower
Or a mushroom
Or a guinea pig
Or a vine
Or a sponge
Or bigotry

… or a banana (banana)

And love is made more powerful by the ongoing drama of shared experience and synergy
And symbiotic empathy or something like that…

Having said that, “love” is fantastic but a relationship needs more than ‘love’ to survive. It is *not* everything. It is just icing on a cake- it’s sweet and delicious and can make you fat if you don’t exercise. People change from day to day, hour to hour, hell, minute to minute. As such, there needs to be a basis of respect, interest, compassion, sympathy, shared interest and what not to sustain a relationship, much less flourish. Love- that bubbly feeling of awesome- fades and can come back, ya’know all those cliches about bringing back that ‘spark’,but it needs all those other jazzy things for it to happen. [LESSON LEARNED- over past relationship, check]

Herm… that’s all for now. Homework times. Congratulations if you actually got through all that shit. Brownies points for you +1

tl;dr: eggs, bacon, orange juice.