Looking for last-minute Mother’s Day gift ideas? Look no further!
As we all know, there’s nothing that moms love better than t-shirts featuring the disembodied heads of horrendous dudes they’ve probably never heard of, so why not get them this ACTUAL T-SHIRT YOU CAN REALLY BUY NO REALLY featuring the grim visage of ALPHA JUICE GORILLA MAN and famous “journalist” Mike Cernovich!
The shirt is available for purchase — no, for real — at some dude’s online store called Crypto.Fashion.
And if Mr. Cernovich isn’t ALPHA enough for you or your mom, you can kick things up a notch by buying her this shirt featuring a twenty-year old photo of EVERYONE’S FAVORITE RACIST LADY-HATING SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR Theodore “Vox Day” Beale, doing his best “BLUE STEEL” for the camera.
But what about Grandma, you ask? She’s a mother too! Well, Crypto Fashion KICKS IT REALLY REALLY OLD SCHOOL for your Grams with a t-shirt featuring none other than OSWALD FUCKING SPENGLER, author of the racist CLASSIC The Decline of the West (1918)!!!1!!!
No really.
YOUR MOM and GRANDMAS WILL NEVER BE HAPPIER, possibly.
It’s just an old-fashioned word for pancakes. McDonald’s still uses it for their pancakes, for some reason.
err wait – has American Mother’s Day not happened yet?! Is it tomorrow? I thought it was last Sunday. I’m confuuuuuuused.
@rugbyyogi
Nah, it can’t have happened yet, we haven’t had the annual thread about this year’s crop of MRAs shitting their pants about TEH SPERMJACKING MARRIAGE-TRAPPING DIVORCE-RAPING WHITE-GENOCIDING ALPHA FUX BETA BUX CUCKING C**TING WOMZ getting one whole day to themselves.
What a shame!! I already bought my mother a shirt.
Still, I haven’t bought one for my grandma yet.
To those wondering about “selling like hotcakes,” Mental Floss has you covered.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/26034/origins-10-food-phrases
American Mothers Day is tomorrow (Sunday) May 14. My mommy wouldn’t know who Mike Cernovich is. I see there are no t-shirts of the former Fox News host, Bill O’Reilly. That would be more her style.
She’ll have to make do with flowers, and a phone call, from me.
Helix_luco – Chupacabraaaaaa!
Surely someone has a nice picture of Bill O’Reilly, with “O RLY?” in large letters over the bottom part.
@ Andrew
Thanks for that. Some interesting ones in there. I particularly liked the ‘pupil’ derivation. I’m also feeling a bit daft because until now I’d never made the, somewhat obvious, pancake = pan + cake connection.
@Alan
Would you have made the connection sooner if you’d ever heard them called griddle cakes?
@ POM
I think I possibly would. I know it sounds weird but it’s like ‘pancake’ has always been a ‘single’ word to me; I’d never broken it down as it were. Does that make sense?
I’m wracking my brains now because this happened once before with a word. Someone pointed out it was just ‘word + word’ and it was “Oh yeah, how obvious!”
Funny how we don’t necessarily analyse what’s in front of us. It’s like the recent thing where @guest pointed out how our entire language is steeped in metaphor. Now I really notice it.
ETA: if you asked me the syllables of pancake I’d break it into ‘pank + ache’. I wonder if that has anything to do with it.
I think I’ll just buy my mom flowers.
I am confused about the t-shirt with Hitler (?) in pajamas riding on a rainbow?
Well, considering that other synonyms for pancakes are “gut plasters” and “torture discs”, at least griddle cakes and hot cakes sound favorable.
No Oswald Mosley? Now that’s kicking it old school.
@ gijoel
To quote Not the Nine O’clock News:
OT:
[Luna Lovegood] :laugh: I… must… not… riot… like a… were… bonobo! :laugh: [/Luna]
Is that how John Michael Greer (whom I’ve written about at length, if not always in depth, on my Tumblr; see link at my name) got awful racist fans? (Like that one Finn who, until I found out he was a Finn, I would’ve sworn blind was from one of those former Yugoslav republics where they’re still pissed off at Teh Islamz for what the Ottoman Empire did.) They came for the Spengler and stayed to infuse their own primitivism into the Archdruid’s brand of same?
@ alan God, I forgot that song. cheers mate
@ Faerie Bard: My first thought for a response to that would be to say, “I don’t have any kids, and my mother is dead. I’m FREEEEE!!!” (With a huge cheesy grin.)
Which is all true, but not something I normally gloat about like that. But in the face of unjustified assumptions + unwarranted nosy personal questions… I’ll roll with it.
@ Rugbyyogi: Mother’s Day in the US is the second Sunday in May. Which makes it a periodic annoyance every 7 years (on average) when it falls on my birthday. Last weekend was the first Sunday in May, so yes, Mother’s Day is this weekend.
Oh crap, I wished my mother a happy Mother’s day last week. She knows I get confused. Mother’s day in the UK is in March and then I sorta struggle to remember American mother’s day. I’ll wish her a happy Mother’s Day again today. I suppose it’s too late to get Mikey’s t-shirt.
Vox Day’s image seems to have a black slot at the top where the brain should be inserted.
Austin Loomis:
(Like that one Finn who, until I found out he was a Finn, I would’ve sworn blind was from one of those former Yugoslav republics where they’re still pissed off at Teh Islamz for what the Ottoman Empire did.)
Who would that be? Just curious.
Speaking of Vox, it’s really ironic that a lot of right-wing SF people seem to like Warhammer and Warhammer 40K. Both the Empire and Imperium of Man are over-the-top satires of fascism and religion in sci fi and fantasy.
I’ve been meaning for years to make a T-shirt with iron-on bubble letters reading DEVOURING RAPACIOUS FEMALE VOID.