TheaterFire

I’m in Spencers and I know I was a sheltered kid at times, but either these shirts have gotten naughtier or I didn’t get the jokes about 30 years ago. That said…it’s kinda difficult not to understand what they’re saying lol

Posted by bgva@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 647 comments

I’m in Spencers and I know I was a sheltered kid at times, but either these shirts have gotten naughtier or I didn’t get the jokes about 30 years ago. That said…it’s kinda difficult not to understand what they’re saying lol
That said…it’s kinda difficult to not understand what they’re saying lol

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GemmaGibbon@reddit

THAT IS SO FUNNY!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Spiritual-Speed-2526@reddit

This is Danny Duncan merch💀💀you get it or you don’t
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pntball420@reddit

I owned, or knew someone who owned at least 6 of those back in high school, we thought it was funny to try and get away with them. So it's us that are changing.
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IceTguy664@reddit

I think the master baiter one is pretty good lol 😂
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darkgothamite@reddit

Oh wow no lead ups/jokes and just the damn punchline?? Lazy ass shirts. And that's a lot of writing for a selection of printed tees. I guess the tees with images from animated shows, anime, early memes, bands, etc are long gone.
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bgva@reddit (OP)

I neglected to mention the "normal" shirts were on the other side. I was too busy clutching my pearls for this wall haha
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Immediate-Yogurt-558@reddit

I remember the FBI Female Body Inspector shirts being standard in boardwalk teeshirt shops of the 90s
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darkgothamite@reddit

Why do I remember it is Female Boobie Inspector 🙁 I think I had a sticker I stole from Sam Goody (I'm sorry!)
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waxmuseums@reddit

In high school i remember a guy talking about how he was gonna get one of those in like Atlantic City or whatever. Then a few weeks later he had it
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SnooKiwis2161@reddit

Their HQ is basically 15 minutes from Atlantic City.
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bgva@reddit (OP)

When I looked over the picture a few minutes ago, I did recall seeing that one a lot back in the day. Crazy how that was prolly the worst shirt of the bunch back then.
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Kaceybeth@reddit

You know in a way I find that FBI one more offensive than any of the others on this wall. "I heart boobies?" Great! Me too! But when you start to insinuate that you have a right to inspect my body? Fuck right off that's not funny. Sigh Maybe I'm just old.
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human-ish_@reddit

I think it's us getting older and our awareness is getting sharper. Even 10 years ago, I would have shrugged it off as just a distasteful shirt. Now, my rights are getting taken away and shirts like this are perpetuating those thoughts.
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Kaceybeth@reddit

You're totallly right. It's like, after all the shit from me too, Hobby Lobby, fucking up Roe, and having a president and 2/9ths of the Supreme Court being sexual predators and another 3 being crazy religious nuts that hate women, and with the better understanding of consent and bodily autonomy these days -- ugh I just feel beaten, exhausted, and I kind of fail to see how *anyone* remotely decent could wear a shirt like that.
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dcgregoryaphone@reddit

I get that vibe from that as well, like it goes beyond just being immature. But where the other ones aren't necessarily super offensive they're definitely vulgar and trashy.
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human-ish_@reddit

I remember when the FBI shirts first became a thing. It was a big deal because we never had anything that overtly sexual.
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allworkandnoYahtzee@reddit

Same with the I'm Not A Gynecologist shirt. I saw that shirt growing up.
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SodiumKickker@reddit

Still one of the funniest things ever
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Greedyfox7@reddit

Once upon a time it was subtle, now… not so much. Personally I like the subtle ones better
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Voluntary_Perry@reddit

The innuendo has been replaced with vulgarity
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ExoticStatistician81@reddit

I feel like this is a good example of how everything has gone. Not that I ever wore shirts from Spencer’s, but it feels like people have gotten more dumb and incapable of operating at any level other than the most obvious one. It’s gross.
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surfacing_husky@reddit

Absolutely, Spencer's now has an entire sex shop section, never had that when i was a kid, most they had were vague innuendo shirts. I went in one last month ( i have to travel for a decent mall) and one of the shirts my toddler read was "i like big dicks" at the entrance. Im not prudish by ANY means but come on. I love a good innuendo shirt but it's so in your face it's not worth it. Ill stick to hot topic. Maybe im just old but still lol.
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B0Nnaaayy@reddit

Im 50 and I totally remember my mom not letting me go in Spenser’s til I was in high school.
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KnotiaPickles@reddit

And it’s not even behind a curtain or anything, it’s just right there in the back of the store. I worked in a big smoke shop when I was 19, and they had a section like that, but it was totally hidden and you had to show Id to even go in. Maybe the internet has made it too normal for kids to lose their innocence, and these kind of things definitely aren’t helping.
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ArtisanalMoonlight@reddit

I definitely remember sex toys at Spencer's. It may be a larger section now, but it did exist in the 90s.
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pentagon@reddit

Ow my balls
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rootoo@reddit

Ass
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pentagon@reddit

I like money
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DeezKn0ts_@reddit

No way, you like money too? We should hang out
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rootoo@reddit

‘Ass’ won 14 Oscars that year.
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pentagon@reddit

go way batin
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Bongus-Lordus@reddit

You broke my house
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pentagon@reddit

don't worry scrote! plenty of tards out there livin really kick ass lives
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drdidg@reddit

Including best screenplay
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starwestsky@reddit

Hur hur haha hur!
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ikeif@reddit

Go ‘way. Batin’.
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starwestsky@reddit

Welcome to Costco. I love you.
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SavingsInformation10@reddit

Your children will be placed in the custody of Carl’s Jr.’s, Carl’s Jr. fck you I’m eating.
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be_more_gooder@reddit

That's the guy at the front desk of my gym every morning. "Good morning." [I scan my phone] "have a good workout. I love you."
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Fukyourchickenstrip@reddit

This was also my first thought. Everyone under 40 is incapable of understanding a double entendre or literary reference so they’ve had to make it crass and blatantly obvious.
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PaulAspie@reddit

Yeah, I remember one with a cartoon woman shaving an actual beaver as a joke. It was innuendo I did not get at 10 but got at 15.
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kCanIGoNow@reddit

Everything has to scream and be in your face nowadays. It used to be a meme, now it is OF
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frougle_mcdugal@reddit

![gif](giphy|3o6Zt7dGWFhIfyaGwE)
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olivegardengambler@reddit

Yeah. Like these are so in your face it comes off as obnoxious. And the only time I've seen someone wear one of these shirts was some alt-girl on a Russian subway, where 98% of people aren't going to understand it.
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dcgregoryaphone@reddit

And idk who these are even for. It's not like at my age I'm going to college keg parties or anything but never in my life have I seen anyone wear these kinds of things in public and I've been all over the US.
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PlasticPomPoms@reddit

They’re gag gifts that no one wears.
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thejunkmanadv@reddit

New shirt slogan "I ♥️ gag gifts"
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darwinsidiotcousin@reddit

My cousin had the FBI: Female Body Inspector shirt as a high schooler in like 2004. He grew out of it and gave it to me when I was in 7th grade. I did wear it. I'll take the criticism for wearing it, just wanted to give an idea of who finds these shirts funny
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AlBundysbathrobe@reddit

Sadly, I disagree . I can easily see my teenager l trying to sneak out wearing the “eating pussy kills depression.” Requesting it printed onto a hoodie. Thinking he is just hilarious with his friends. (Yes, we are on the vice principal’s speed dial)
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dcgregoryaphone@reddit

Ha. If one of mine did that, I'd ask them, "Do you want to wind up on a list? Because that's how you wind up on a list."
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AlBundysbathrobe@reddit

It would be school expulsion here but he is a sneaky one I envision wearing the of multiple layers and would be the worst kept secret. Ugh. Anyhooo he is the target Spencer’s market lol
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dupes_on_reddit@reddit

Seen a 7th grader wearing shirt that says "I ❤️ hot moms"
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AlBundysbathrobe@reddit

Better than a 7th grader wearing the eating pussy cures depression. My kid would try to sneak out in that shirt though tbh
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Silversolverteal@reddit

Yeah. That's the only one I've seen in the wild. Also on a middle schooler.
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Background_Pool_7457@reddit

The current generation isn't smart enough to get innuendo. You have to smack them in the face with what you mean.
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ejs6c6@reddit

Innuendo has been replaced with reality Yes. People have gotten more literal with their perversions but Spencer’s has also changed their business model to cater to the lowest commen denominator. When I roamed the shallow halls of Spencer’s in ‘02 it was Coheed tees, black light posters, and furry handcuffs. The times they are a changin
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Voluntary_Perry@reddit

Well, maybe you didn't go back far enough into the store. Lol. Because in the 90s, the really sexual stuff was in the back. But there is definitely a big difference between Big Johnson's Boat Co. shirts and "I ❤️ Sluts"
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SekhmetScion@reddit

Agreed. I've never really been a funny shirt kinda guy either. That being said, back in my 20s, I had a "bar shirt" which I wore sometimes. White shirt, black letters: "I'm with stupid ⬇️". Quit drinking about 14yrs ago (I'm 42). Not quite sure where that shirt's at now lol
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provisionings@reddit

This is what happens when you mimic identity or subcultures on TikTok. My 14 year old son is afraid of wearing black because he doesn’t want to get called “emo” at school. His style is stale white bread because of this. All that is left is misogyny. This is sad.
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Historical_Animal_17@reddit

Right. No subtlety. The shirts weren't like this in the 80s, with I was going to Spencer's. Sure, there were "boob inspector" shirts or whatever, but "dick" and "pussy" shirts... I think they would not have let minors into such a store back then. But maybe I'm just an old fart misremembering.
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PreoccupiedNotHiding@reddit

Buttfuckers
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r007r@reddit

1000% this and I hate it. I do not need my kids reading that shit in public and actually knowing what they’re implying.
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rpmsm@reddit

Exactly, just dumbed down like everything else
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EyeAmKnotABot@reddit

Innuendo is Italian for anal sex.
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TrashBoatTrashBoat@reddit

In YOUR end. OH!
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stykface@reddit

I agree with this.
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jp85213@reddit

That's a perfect way of saying it!
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TheBitchIsWack@reddit

Spencer's has had novelty sex toys and stuff for at least 20 years. Idk why you'd be shocked by profane t-shirts
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bgva@reddit (OP)

In all fairness I did say I might not have gotten the jokes back then. My point was that it didn't seem this blatant when we were younger, which other people mentioned as well.
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TheBitchIsWack@reddit

I mean the profanity hasn't changed. The sex-positive-ness of it all might be the difference
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Maan036@reddit

The fbi shirt was available in my youth tbh. And i remember a Harry Porno shirt.
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clo4k4ndd4gger@reddit

I'm no prude but I just had to go buy a set of pearls just to have something to clutch.
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Deep-Interest9947@reddit

Spencer’s probably sells some anal beads you can clutch near these t-shirts
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MarvelNerdess@reddit

Beat me to it
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sunkskunkstunk@reddit

That line on a shirt would fit well in this picture.
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ClickF0rDick@reddit

I would wear the second one from bottom right
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clo4k4ndd4gger@reddit

As you should
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WhysAVariable@reddit

I work a "If Mean People Suck, Nice People Swallow" shirt to high school once when I was a junior or senior. I was tired and just grabbed a shirt, didn't actually look at it until after I got to school. I got stopped by our very nice 40-something year old gym teacher and she was like "Oh let me read your shirt!" because I normally wore funny shirts that were far, far, more PG than this. She read it out loud while I tried to melt into the floor and die, then she paused and went "I don't get that one!" and just kept walking. I thought I was going to at least get sent home if not suspended. I never wore a shirt like that again. Wasn't worth the anxiety.
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awebookingpromotions@reddit

I wore "I'm bringing Sexy Back" on my first day of my senior year...my guidance counselor saw me walking down the hall towards my locker and just gave me a look like, Step into my office now! Needless to say...I didn't have to change but definitely didn't wear it to school again. That was humiliating. I was scared my dad was gonna get called 🤣
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creegro@reddit

always in front of a gym coach. Not a T-shirt but an equally embarrassing thing, an old memory that pops up and makes me think "why did I do that". Elementary school I think, we were playing dodgeball and I got smacked in the face real hard by one of the foam plastic covered balls to the point I went down to the ground. Might have been just the shock of the plastic impact idk, but the guy who threw it was oddly apologetic, and I said, out loud, "that's ok, I spank me monkey harder than that" Which is weird as I never said anything remotely like that. The other kid who threw the ball gave a weird disgusted look but Carried on, while I happened to glance at the coach sitting down on the side, with a furrowed brow and shaking his head. I can only imagine what he was thinking just hearing that from a 10 year old. Never did that kind of thing again.
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WhysAVariable@reddit

I would have been laughing my ass off hearing that.
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dcgregoryaphone@reddit

She knew. She also knew it'd make you never wear that to school again lol.
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WhysAVariable@reddit

She probably did. I was staring at her face when she was reading it waiting for the realization to hit her and it never did. It's *possible* it never crossed her mind that it had a sexual meaning, she was like a middle aged Midwest church lady. But every time I see a shirt with some kind of vulgar message (overt or not) it makes me think of that moment. I basically stopped going to Spencer's after that day and never went back.
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Mackinacsfuriousclaw@reddit

I just like that they are celebrating Dedicated Involved Loving Fathers.
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katie_cat_eyes@reddit

This is the shit that they sell on boardwalks and beaches around here to idiots. I feel like back in the day, it was more stoner/drinker culture. Maybe one or two of these raunchy shirts but not the entire wall.
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ZenSetterMedia@reddit

Big Johnson was the vulgar t shirt craze when I was in school. I guess they just ditched the wordplay and art and just put the gross thing in big block letters because we were too subtle back then 😂
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ARCHA1C@reddit

Farfrompukin
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PrestigiousCat83@reddit

fukkenshroomin 🍄
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pandafish78@reddit

Fukkengruven and a stick figure implying he was dancing
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KnotiaPickles@reddit

My sister got a smash mouth tshirt from there for Christmas when she was in jr high with what looked like Japanese writing on it. She wore it to school at least once a week, until one of the teachers informed my mom the letters subtly said “fush yu mang” like, you know. It was actually hilarious.
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addiepie2@reddit

Yep !
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Own_Wonder_5375@reddit

It’s more discrete! Like you use a brain cell or two to figure this one out.
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Welcome to CostCo I love you.
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darthduder666@reddit

Came here to say this. Mike Judge is a prophet.
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Dunnersstunner@reddit

"The #1 movie in America was called "Ass." And that's all it was for 90 minutes. It won eight Oscars that year, including best screenplay."
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Drilling4Oil@reddit

"I like **ass**!"
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Pattison320@reddit

Couple of the guys and I were thinking we'd go family style on her when you're done.
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MrJollyRogers@reddit

Hot Dickens Cider
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AwkwardFactor84@reddit

I had a tee-shirt with a les paul on it in the 90's that said Fukkengroovin
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SlimPickens77Box@reddit

Fukkingroovin
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dawnhulio@reddit

Farfromjones’n It had a stick figure with a stick figure bong, and it was only worn around my stoner group because no one else ‘got it’ 😆 thought I was pretty effing clever back in the day…
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Last-Management-3457@reddit

Memory unlocked
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Joczef9@reddit

OMG I have had the “far from poopin” one stuck in my head for weeks trying to remember what was the actual word that this was a play off of??
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fangirlsqueee@reddit

If you haven't remembered yet, it's from a Volkswagen advertising campaign. "Fahrvergnügen" is a German term that means "driving enjoyment" in English (from fahren, "to drive", and Vergnügen, enjoyment). One of the commercials. https://youtu.be/qJy9HdUC7nU
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Joczef9@reddit

Thank you!!
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Proof_Elk_4126@reddit

Big johnson. Nine inch males hats
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jem20776@reddit

* First picture ever taken of my husband and I 25+ years ago. Good times. Thanks for reminding me
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SenorNeiltz@reddit

Classic
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Kaceybeth@reddit

I remember "farfrompoopin" with the guy on the toilet 🤣
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eLishus@reddit

But I also feel like the messages we had on shirts were _alluding_ to these things in a (sometimes) clever way. The Big Johnson double innuendo slogans were pretty obvious but they didn’t say “I have a big cock” on the front. I guess the art of subtlety (even when not so subtle) is lost.
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pnwinec@reddit

I had a shirt that said “Big Johnson Crane Service” We get it up for you. Big ole crane and half built skyscraper. That’s funny and little kids aren’t running around asking what a slut or dick or pussy is because they saw it on a shirt. I’m also fairly sure that old people were saying the same thing about my shirt tho and complaining about why we can’t wear plain tshirts.
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Drilling4Oil@reddit

I still 'member this kid in like 9th grade wearing one that said, "Big Johnson motorcycles. Reach between your legs and feel the power!" And the teacher made him stand up in front of class and say what his shirt said and then sent him to the office.
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addiepie2@reddit

I remember a my teacher getting pissed off at the trouble maker in class ( grade school) and throwing his whole ass desk out the classroom door …. Kids today would be far too soft for this !
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ThriftianaStoned@reddit

I'm ashamed I was one of those people who had there desk thrown out the door. And off the third level of the building. I apologize to my economics class NC1995.
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addiepie2@reddit

Oh no !! Was that traumatizing for you or what?
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ThriftianaStoned@reddit

Eh I deserved it I was a horrible student.
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addiepie2@reddit

Well you guys certainly made class interesting!
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Drilling4Oil@reddit

At the time we just accepted it, but holy shit, boomie teachers were just notoriously tyrannical in a classroom environment. I 'member a teacher throwing a tantrum and kicking a desk across the class like 5 feet from kids heads. Another one would take a metal yard stick and if someone was dozing off he would slap on the desk as hard as he could right in front of their faces. One time he missed broke a kid's skin when it hit their arm. Big part of why I'm in the anti-boomer club.
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addiepie2@reddit

Yikes !!! Yeah that was pretty much our normal .. I guess it’s a step up from getting beaten by the principal though . Times were wild for sure .
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MungoJennie@reddit

Hell, now I really feel old. I just remembered a time in elementary school when an older kid wore one of those Heineken “Grab a Heinie” shirts, and my best friend and I giggled at it the whole way through the lunch line.
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Drilling4Oil@reddit

That's precious. Hell I 'member this time when City Slickers was a big movie and the ad came on tv where Billy Crystal goes, "Rollin' rollin' rollin, man my ass is swollen, raw hide" and my boomie parents were like, "Hold the phone! That is crossing the line!" 😆
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Mtndrums@reddit

That was my mom. I was 16 and we were watching "Trainspotting", and my dad walked in right at the part when Begbie was feeling up a girl, then realized "she" was in drag. Dad was a bit confused, then I quipped, "I guess he didn't have the 'Lola' experience then, did he?" He spit out his beer on the kitchen floor from cracking up so hard. (For those who aren't up on what was classic rock when we were younger, "Lola" was a song by The Kinks, where the narrator falls for a drag queen.)
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StaceyPfan@reddit

Weirdly, my school didn't have a problem with them.
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werdnurd@reddit

That would have embarrassed us, but not kids today. They do not give a fuck.
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QuesoHusker@reddit

I liked the Big Johnson Saloon and Casino: Liquor up front, poker in the rear. And as an RC-135 crew dog…Big Johnson Recce. You can’t go deep in the box without Big Johnson Recce.
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StupendousMalice@reddit

The difference is that it was KIDS wearing the Big Johnson shits, the only people I see wearing shirts like this now are old people, like upper gen X and boomer old.
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Bandando@reddit

They had their innuendos, too. And in-jokes about sex and drinking. 
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Imnothere1980@reddit

Yeah. I mean if you’re going to make a gross joke, at least make an attempt to be funny. These aren’t funny…
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eLishus@reddit

I certainly had my fair share of shirts I found funny in high school but would not find funny now. But at least they weren’t straight up gross. The only one of these I could see myself potentially wearing back then is the “Caution this vehicle makes frequent stops at your mom’s house”. That one kinda sounds like our generation’s humor. Pretty sure we invented the “your mom” jokes.
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MardelMare@reddit

The coed naked shirts and slogans cracked me up when I was a kid! Funny innuendos you had to figure out are lots more fun than “sit on my face”
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jacksonmills@reddit

Oh man coed naked, I haven't thought about that in decades
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patsfan1061@reddit

Coed Naked Pool…Get Felt On The Table 🤣😂
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StaceyPfan@reddit

I had Coed Naked Graduation: The caps go up, the gowns go down!
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Whore-a-bullTroll@reddit

I had the Coed Naked Cheerleading shirt "Yell Loud to Excite the Crowd" 🤣🤣
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BlueCX17@reddit

Yes!!! I actually find the innuendo ones so much funnier.
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MercyCriesHavoc@reddit

They're wearing these to make fun of ours. It's an ironic meta thing. "Look at my shirt. It's making fun of shirts with sexual innuendo by saying something sexual." It's a parody. I don't get it, but they think it's funny.
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ImaginaryMastadon@reddit

There were Coed Naked shirts, Big Johnson shirts, references to weed and drinking…but I guess they were more naughty and punny than just straight talking about cum on a shirt. I dunno…I guess I’m just in my ‘get off my lawn’ stage of life.
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svu_fan@reddit

The Spencer’s I’ve been in have never had these on the walls, they’ve always been on the floor spinner units. Music/pop culture shirts have been wall shirts in the ones I’ve been to.
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Happy_Confection90@reddit

These are the type of shirts that'd get you kicked out of Hampton beach (NH) when I was a teenager, and I doubt cops have mellowed since the news stories back in the 90s.
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52nd_and_Broadway@reddit

Spencer’s used to have “I’m with stupid” with an arrow type shirts. The “racey” tshirts said shit like “FBI: Female Body Investigator” but that was the lowest of the low.
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Nayzo@reddit

I bought many a keychain from spencers.
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ChaosRainbow23@reddit

In 1999 I got a shirt in New Orleans that simply said, 'Drunk Chicks Love Me'. Lol. That was about as risque as they got, for the most part. They had the FBI shirt, but nothing nearly as raunchy as these. I'm super laid back and I'm wildly against uptight assholes and prudes, but these shirts are pretty awful.
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LieutenantStar2@reddit

In like 2001 I bought an Abercrombie & Fitch shirt that said something like “Farmer Ted’s”. It was blue with a yellow barn and little yellow chicks. In the upper right corner of the front in small yellow font it said “chicks laid daily”. People would notice it halfway through a conversation and crack up. It was awesome.
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____cire4____@reddit

*Tell me you're also from NJ without telling me.*
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gpo321@reddit

It’s called pork roll.
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katie_cat_eyes@reddit

Someone kind of beat me to it. But how many dying malls are in a fifteen mile radius of you? I only have three.
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____cire4____@reddit

I live in "the city" now, so I just have dying mom and pop stores turned into TD Banks.
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katie_cat_eyes@reddit

Ahhh, so they’re not turning them into “luxury apartments”?
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____cire4____@reddit

Coworking Arboretums.
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AssclownJericho@reddit

LETS GO NJ! north or south?
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katie_cat_eyes@reddit

Better! Central!
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AssclownJericho@reddit

central is not real.
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____cire4____@reddit

automatic downvote
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AssclownJericho@reddit

what, that i tell the truth? central jersey is not real, and it's called pork roll, not taylor ham.
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____cire4____@reddit

![gif](giphy|4H1xauOflBDHY4sUah|downsized)
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katie_cat_eyes@reddit

lol!
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wekilledbambi03@reddit

They didn’t say “shore” they said beach. -10 NJ points.
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katie_cat_eyes@reddit

I specifically didn’t say “down the shore”! That would’ve been the dead giveaway!
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shoepolishsmellngmf@reddit

Long live Monmouth Mall
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JacobMAN1011@reddit

It was more tongue in cheek too. Your brain had to work a little to get the joke and it made it funnier.
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SlightlyVerbose@reddit

To be fair, it’s not the *whole* wall. There is *one* shirt that’s not overtly sexual: >I pee in pools Unless that has become a kink now too?
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katie_cat_eyes@reddit

I think it may already be a kink…?
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MaintenanceTraining4@reddit

Wildwood, NJ?
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katie_cat_eyes@reddit

I’ve never been but I’ve seen it at Seaside!
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keep_everything_good@reddit

I was going to say Seaside 😂
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MaintenanceTraining4@reddit

Never been but my husband says they are very similar, but WW is arguably even less classy.
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MungoJennie@reddit

Went to Wildwood a bunch of times as a kid (slumming from Cape May). He’s not wrong.
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katie_cat_eyes@reddit

I think that Seaside gets the NY population and Wildwood gets the Philly. So… equal amounts of class!
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MooseMan12992@reddit

My aunt lives about 20 minutes inland from Wildwood. A couple months ago my girlfriend and I visited her and we decided to make a quick stop at the Wildwood boardwalk on the way home to play some arcade games and have a ridiculously greasy snack. We were on the boardwalk for no more than an hour and saw 3 separate fights spontaneously break out. All of them were right outside those shitty merch stores with all the naughty shirts
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katie_cat_eyes@reddit

Aww man, sorry you had to witness the trash! We aren’t all Jersey Shore losers in this state!
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MaintenanceTraining4@reddit

When I had to go visit my in-laws I’d get stoned and just watch people outside one of those stores. It changed me.
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Sure-Return-3969@reddit

It's always been a mix of both now it's even more stoner shit in Atlantic city
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MardelMare@reddit

Female Body Inspector is a classic!! A lot of the others are a lot more vulgar than I remember… kids these days smh 🤪
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HarvardCricket@reddit

FBI: Female Body Inspector is still a super popular t-shirt choice for tourists in Washington, DC, purchased from the kiosks on the National Mall. I remember seeing this for the first time on a trip in 1996 and thinking it was so scandalous!
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schizboi@reddit

WARN A BROTHA
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Bandando@reddit

I remember one (not Spencer’s) with a creepy 70s looking cartoon doctor that read “I’m not a gynecologist but I’ll take a look!” 😜  
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eight13atnight@reddit

This is Wildwood, innit. You’re talking about Wildwood NJ.
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katie_cat_eyes@reddit

I’ve never been! But I’ve seen them in Seaside!
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MooseMan12992@reddit

I feel like those boardealk stores have even more raunchy and crass shirts than Hot Topics do
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Adroctatron@reddit

The art of subtlety is lost. Weep for gone are the days of Big Johnson shirts and the nuance those tapestries brought.
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AlgoStar@reddit

The plus is that people thought Big Johnson shirts were clever and wear them everywhere, but these are so direct and vulgar that I’ve never seen a person wearing one of these in public.
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Hilsam_Adent@reddit

I bought one back in the late 90s that was the Snapple logo altered to read: "Snatch The Best Stuff On Earth" simply because it was the most offensive thing in the store. Tame compared to some fairly commonplace items in a Spencer's these days.
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gingersnap0309@reddit

NJ?
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TillyFukUpFairy@reddit

🐋 🛢 🐄 🪝ed
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SilentIndication3095@reddit

Coed Naked Whatever, which at least put up a front of plausible deniability.
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Jadziyah@reddit

Accurate
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mensaman42@reddit

It still is at my local Spencer's. 60 percent bands shirts, 20 percent anime, 20 percent stoner. There's a few naughty shirts in the back with the lingerie and such.
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PawsbeforePeople1313@reddit

This is what I came to say, that's just shore shops stuff on the boardwalk in Jersey.
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shoepolishsmellngmf@reddit

Especially Seaside and Wildwood.
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CarrieCaretaker@reddit

Agreed. All the sex related stuff was delegated to the very back of the store. Maybe a few shirts on the wall referenced it and not as graphically.
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ASingleThreadofGold@reddit

My husband told me these are the shirts he loved when he was like 9 and would attempt to buy some random cartoon shirt talking about getting more head the older he is with less hair (of course catchier sounding) with his allowance and his mom would be all "fuck no, you are not." So I just imagine that's the demographic they're going for😂 (imagine being a grown adult and your tastes in alignment with a 9 year old kid).
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GM_Nate@reddit

yeah i remember it being a section in the back of the story. then that section just kept getting bigger and bigger
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katie_cat_eyes@reddit

Yeah ours definitely was in a back room of some sort. I haven’t been in there in years though so my memory may be shot. Hot Topic still seems the same as it was twenty years ago!
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Key-Performer-9364@reddit

Just racking my brain trying to think of a person who would actually wear these shirts. Nearly laughed out loud in a work meeting imagining someone wearing the “Gets No Pussy” shirt to a job interview.
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gottarespondtothis@reddit

My teenage neighbor has the “I heart MILFS” shirt. It’s…awkward.
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Wolfwoods_Sister@reddit

Does “Stacy’s Mom” start playing when he appears?
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gottarespondtothis@reddit

Worst part is that I do have a teen daughter LOL
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Wolfwoods_Sister@reddit

![gif](giphy|Rn26lWjqA0uUU) Teen boys do be a menace
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creegro@reddit

I like the "professional virgin" shirt, seems like a great gag gift for a friend, a silly item to wear around the house. And that's what Spencer's used to be, just gag stuff. Fun posters that would react to black light, drug themed stickers and mugs, strobe lights and those little Tesla balls you connect your hands to. But I would never think to go to the mall to pick up some butt plugs.
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UltraconservativeBap@reddit

Just think, someone is buying 4 to take advantage of the buy 4 get 1 free offer!
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Iowa_and_Friends@reddit

Now now - if I was at a gay bar and saw a gay guy wearing that, I would laugh… Otherwise - yeah I dunno lol
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Key-Performer-9364@reddit

Even better if he had a job interview at the gay bar.
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Iowa_and_Friends@reddit

Hahaha and he’ll say the lesbians can have it all for themselves
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whoreforchalupas@reddit

I’ll be honest, I’m a childless, 27-year-old woman and roughly a year ago I purchased the World’s Sluttiest Dad shirt. It was just… so beautifully inapplicable to my life.
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nhink@reddit

When I was 25 I rocked a worlds best grandpa shirt, it was the best
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Key-Performer-9364@reddit

You are a slutty dad now. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
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Beck316@reddit

Saw a dad wearing "I love Tacos and Tits" to his daughter's JV softball game this spring. Classy guy.
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Key-Performer-9364@reddit

Oh crap, he reproduced?
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bat_in_the_stacks@reddit

Think of the designer that made them and the business people that approved them too.
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Key-Performer-9364@reddit

Yeah I can’t tell if the designers are idiots themselves, or if they just think customers are idiots.
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bat_in_the_stacks@reddit

I think they're manifesting meeting a woman wearing the I ♥️ DILFS shirt. It can't happen if the shirt doesn't exist. 😄
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nointerestsbutsleep@reddit

Porque no los dos?
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Victoria_Strangelove@reddit

I saw a guy in the shirt on the bottom right at a local grocery store. He was smirking at me too, when I noticed. I burst out laughing before turning and walking away. Rude of me, maybe, but I couldn't help it; it was all too ridiculous. It felt like I was in a bad adult comedy movie momentarily.
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bat_in_the_stacks@reddit

"To Do List: --Your Mom--" is the one for job interviews to establish dominance.
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jp85213@reddit

Ive seen the "i ♥️ small titties" shirt in the wild recently, at a baseball game.
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gauchoguerro@reddit

I miss fuddruckers
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AfternoonPast3324@reddit

I don’t think they were this straightforward. A pun that was kinda racy if you got it, sure. But I can’t recall there being anything close to “this was the only shirt I had with no cum on it”.
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bgva@reddit (OP)

From what I recall the worst you might’ve seen was a “Big Johnson” shirt. Or like you said a pun that was PG-13 at most.
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kittensbabette@reddit

We also had that brand called Porn⭐...I remember bc my friend and I bought a shirt together but it lived at her house lol
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lbeaty1981@reddit

Oh god, I'd forgotten about those. I played french horn in college, and my freshman year we all had "Horn ⭐" shirts printed. We were so cool.
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kittensbabette@reddit

Haha that's pretty good!
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ikeif@reddit

I had so many of their shirts! I think I still have my “Bob Parker, Pimp” shirt somewhere.
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bgva@reddit (OP)

I was about to bring up the Bob Barker shirt. I also vaguely recall one that was a parody of the "Dick and Jane" books. Something like "Tommy is a pimp. Pimp, Tommy. Pimp."
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LilMeemz@reddit

I spent ages in Microsoft paint altering a Porn⭐️ graphic to say KoRn⭐️ for my avatar/doll on the KoRn chatroom. I felt really cool at the time.
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tjdux@reddit

>brand called Porn⭐ Ahead of its time. Honestly shocked this brand didn't make a come back in this age of only fans
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ItaDapiza@reddit

Ha I did a few photo shoots for them and I'm in a calendar of theirs. Hadn't thought of that in a minute.
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ModernDayMusetta@reddit

Omg. I had completely forgotten that a friend and I used to do that. She'd bring whatever the shared clothing item was to school, and I'd change into it on the bus lol.
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No_Supermarket_1831@reddit

A lobster on your piano is better then crabs on your organ
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No-Needleworker-2415@reddit

Ok see that is actually funny - got a good laugh out of it!  These shirts are just gross!  
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MaddyKet@reddit

No way were they this obvious. I think we would all have stories about school suspensions and epic groundings if they had been back then.
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Kaceybeth@reddit

I distinctly remember a shirt with a caricature of the Trix rabbit that said, "Silly [f-slur], dicks are for chicks!" 🤮
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Zeqhanis@reddit

I remember seeing that shirt featured in an ad for mail-order T-shirts and belt buckles in Circus Magazine (a rock music publication) in the mid-'90s. It may have been in SPIN as well. Even then, it seemed pretty inappropriate.
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avlisadj@reddit

I was coming here to mention this exact shirt! They definitely sold it at the mall near me, but were too provincial to have a Spencer’s, so who knows what store it was. Probably some horrible Spencer’s knockoff.
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Bandando@reddit

At Spencers?!
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Kaceybeth@reddit

Oh no, sorry, not at Spencer's that I know more. More like at T-shirt shops on Boardwalks.
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i_take_shits@reddit

And 30 years before that they didn’t have big Johnson shirts at all. Times change. Yea these are way raunchier and totally stupid. But it happens.
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ikeif@reddit

I feel like the shirts from my youth were at least clever. These are just abrupt and creatively bankrupt. Then again, I’ve seen three cars with “I eat ass” on the back, so that’s where we are…
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tjdux@reddit

I remember the naughtiest one back in high-school was an image of the stick figure from a bathroom with no head and the caption was "i need head" and I thought that was too on the nose. These are just lazy.
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UltraconservativeBap@reddit

You didn’t look at the post closely enough. That one’s here!
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tjdux@reddit

Wow it is lol.
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UltraconservativeBap@reddit

I’ve actually seen a girl wear that shirt right here on Reddit.
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CovidClaus@reddit

Back in the day, the FBI shirt said "female booby inspector" and was worn almost exclusively by pervy uncles over 69 so those shirts definitely had no cum on them.
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djblackprince@reddit

More subtle like Dicks Halfway Inn or Dickson Cider
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mershed_perderders@reddit

Dirty Dick's Crab House *I got my crabs from Dirty Dick's!*
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Tack-One@reddit

Do we think these are selling and being worn? They’re weapons grade cringy so I’d like to believe they’re made to generate fake outage or the occasional gag gift that becomes an oil rag but struggle to imagine somebody walking around in any of these.
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ErrorAggravating9026@reddit

Yeah, these jokes seem like proof that Idiocracy is actually happening :(
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andiinAms@reddit

The FBI shirt has been around forever. It’s pretty tame in comparison to the rest of this embarrassing crap.
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Acceptable_Result488@reddit

Older than time, always in the Johnson Smith Co catalog, next to the handbuzzer and xray glasses.
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ItaDapiza@reddit

😭😭😭😭😭💀💀💀💀
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kati8303@reddit

I live in New Orleans and this is the kind of stuff seen in the quarter in the most touristy of the tourist trap shops
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ackey83@reddit

Lmao I didn’t even notice that shirt until I saw your comment. Who the hell would buy that??
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_TheWolfOfWalmart_@reddit

I bought that shirt but now it has cum on it too and I'm not sure what to do.
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Impossible-Wear5482@reddit

I remember seeing shirts that were like "Fuck your tits, show me your cunt" and shirts with very small text on the bottom that said "Suck my dick while you're down there." They have always been this way.
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freeisreal1@reddit

Should I wear “world sluttiest dad” to pick up the kids from daycare? Lmfao, I have no balls since the marriage but that’s something I would’ve done in my single days.
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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

This cannot be real
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Lebowski304@reddit

Holy shit some of them have bad words!
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bgva@reddit (OP)

Saw it with my own four eyes lol
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e0nblue@reddit

![gif](giphy|Cz6TlrRVVyv9S)
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zurichisstained13@reddit

Did you get a load of the nerd?
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e0nblue@reddit

Pardon me?
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throwawayfromPA1701@reddit

Oh it's real lol.
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Erike16666@reddit

Ohh it is….
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RedPillNavigator@reddit

These shirts all say the same thing! "I'm alone"
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blewdleflewdle@reddit

Do you think the market is people buying for themselves? I figure these are "joke" shirts that people buy for others like bachelors/bachelorettes, new parents, significant others, etc? Like... I see them on the wall here, but I don't see them out on the streets?
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Lebowski304@reddit

They are meant to be a gag. Something people in here do not seem to grasp. I thought this sub had more backbone…I was wrong
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RedPillNavigator@reddit

I agree I do not see these out on the streets but I can also tell you these shirts have been in their stores since the early 2000's so there must be a market for them as they take up a lot of real estate in the store.
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drainbead78@reddit

Something something male loneliness epidemic.
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Sugadip@reddit

Back in my day we won roach clips and coke mirrors at the fair, and I had no idea what they were for haha
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EqualLong143@reddit

its probably still for the same men, they just happen to be in their 30s and 40s now.
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Dusted_Dreams@reddit

They definitely were more subtle and less obviously profane back in my day
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nicholashimself@reddit

Idiocracy…
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Yogabeauty31@reddit

wow what happened to a good ol Edward Scissorhands next to a strawberry shortcake graphic T
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RaphaelSolo@reddit

It was dirty but it wasn't devoid of tact. I remember a few years ago people were complaining about the same thing with music. There is music older than we are with strong sexual themes, but it was at least poetically hidden. Fast forward to about a decade ago and you have a song that is literally just "pussy, tits, ass". 🤦
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thejunkmanadv@reddit

In music we went from Meri Wilson - Telephone Man to WAP
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soulouk@reddit

The menu at Diddy's party
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Mondub_15@reddit

These aren’t even clever. Cheap ass clothes. Sad thing is I see these in middle schoolers, literally 11-13 year olds.
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Ok_Garbage_1128@reddit

"I NEED ATTENTION"
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Shirowoh@reddit

Who the hell wears these in public?
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spinereader81@reddit

Exactly the type of guys you'd expect.
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Ok_Garbage_1128@reddit

People under the overpass
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Zestyclose_Goal2347@reddit

I was a swimmer and my parents bought me a shirt that said "Slippery when wet" there were a ton for different sports. I would never buy this for my child now. What the heck were they thinking! Maybe I worry too much about others sexualizing a child. As far as Spencer's, I had a ton of key chains with racy sayings that I may or may not have bought with the five finger discount. I wonder if they are in my memory box or if I chucked them...
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BenTubeHead@reddit

I dunno, these shirts dunno’bout logos, it looks like So naked, No StarF#cks, where’s Carl Jrs? And COSTCO? Mt brain hurts from thinking- Ah ha finally thanks Cheetos, “ow my balls! “ is coming on channel 74,069
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sallyshooter222@reddit

Glad I’m not the only one shaking my head at the vulgarity that is now being shoved in our faces.
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metajames@reddit

Also half the store at Spencer's is a overt sex shop now.
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kalamity_katie@reddit

I remember way more band shirts and some dirty jokes. These are just gross. The kind of shirts you end up standing behind in the grocery store line, where you start realizing that at some point you made the decision to grow up and others clearly did not. (I mean, who wears that out in public at 3 p.m. on a Tuesday?)
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TacosAreJustice@reddit

My daughter wanted fun stickers… I took her to the mall to check out hot topic… I saw a Spencer’s and was like, oh, fun! They sell butt plugs. I was not prepared.
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throw20190820202020@reddit

A few years back I walked in with my teen SON AND DAUGHTER, looking for Studio Ghibli merch for a birthday gift. Walked out very quickly and that was the last time I went into Spencers Fast forward to last weekend when I was at WALMART with my ten year old. And hit the wall of dildos by the pads. Pack it up folks, we’re toast.
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ArtisanalMoonlight@reddit

They should replace the wall of guns with the wall of dildos
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TacosAreJustice@reddit

Haha, my daughter was like 8… not sure that’s better or worse
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throw20190820202020@reddit

I have to say there’s a new level when you see your child also become embarrassed around YOU lol. There are some moments we never speak of.
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ArchaicBrainWorms@reddit

*customer service needed at the* RABBIT VIBRATORS
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Ill_Tour_7294@reddit

Same thing happened to me. I saw a Spencer’s and remembered some of the fun things they used to have. I took my then four year old in there and that stuff was front and center. We got out of there quick. I felt like an idiot afterward lol. I completely forgot they sold that kind of stuff somehow.
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UltraconservativeBap@reddit

CVS sells butt plugs now. I kid you not.
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giveusalol@reddit

I remember the FBI one and the Need Head one from a whiiiiile back. I am assuming (and hoping) that the newer, more pathetic and/or vulgar ones serve one purpose: immature gag gifts. I doubt anyone seriously buys these to wear themselves, and probably the gift receiver is forced into it for one specific event.
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howgayofme@reddit

Yoooo smells like slut in here fucking RULES im going to spencers
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TheRoadWarrior28@reddit

But FOUR get ONE free 😂😂😂
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psylli_rabbit@reddit

I love tits and beer, but I don’t know if I want to wear it on a shirt.
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Wtygrrr@reddit

You didn’t get the jokes.
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Alexandratta@reddit

As someone who would shift between the old "T-Shirt Hell" and Spencers, it's funny to see Spencers just take the full on "T-Shirt Hell" approach and just sell offensive T-Shirts. It's funny to see tbh
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Cautious_Artichoke_3@reddit

👆 Gets No Pussy
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RosalindaPosalinda@reddit

I walked into the one in the mall a couple weeks ago with my tween. From my memory, the raunchy stuff was always in the back so I figured we could look at the vaguely offensive things at the front and it wouldn’t be too bad. Within three steps I saw a plastic dong hanging from the wall. We promptly walked out. Lesson learned.
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Natural-Honeydew5950@reddit

That’s terrible.
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Sally_twodicks@reddit

Damn, dude. Just straight up laying it out there now..
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syg-123@reddit

Looks more like Laura Loomers walking closet.
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realoctopod@reddit

Where "What are you looking at dicknose?"
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Allenies@reddit

I have that shirt. Bought it so I could be Stylz for Halloween last year.
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theb1gdr1zzle@reddit

Ffs how are we supposed to let our children in that store? Publicans need to stop banning books and look at Spencer’s
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profaniKel@reddit

the CUM one I would wear .... fo sho
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SexyStudlyManlyMan@reddit

No, that's not like before. I haven't been in Spencers in over 30 years and no, they didn't have anything like that. These are just straight up vulgar things that trash would wear.
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BorZorKorz@reddit

I saw a shirt the other day on an old chap that said 'I'm a great fokker' and it had the world war 1 fighter plane the fokker on it.. I liked that one.
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Numerous_Control_702@reddit

Just looking at this is probably a hate crime
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oh_wait_nevermind@reddit

fake dog doodoo > cringe ass rapey sex shirts
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Elle-nee@reddit

I miss the subtlety of old school innuendo. Something that would make you giggle and think it’s clever. These are just crass.
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One-Earth9294@reddit

I'm glad I'm not the only one to notice that lol. It's kind of reflective of the loneliness epidemic isn't it? "Hey boys do you have a very small chance of getting laid? Let this shirt remove all doubt!"
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Kreugs@reddit

It's like a new take on the old saying... "It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to wear a crass shirt from Spencer's and remove all doubt."
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One-Earth9294@reddit

I'm honestly trying to figure out who would wear the 'this was the only shirt without cum on it' one ever. Imagine dying in that shirt?
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Mtndrums@reddit

Hell, this is also divorced Xer Dad gear. I'd see guys a few years older than me wearing this shit, then hear them complain why they can't get dates or laid. Gee, I fucking wonder...
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fellowhomosapien@reddit

Low birthrates must be hitting hard
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Opening_Success@reddit

There is a shirt that says "Gets no pussy" with an arrow pointing up. So at least there is self-awareness. 
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rosievee@reddit

I dunno, as a lesbian, some of these might actually help my game... looking at you, World's Sluttiest Dad.
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One-Earth9294@reddit

Lol certainly use cases. Like if you're in a dudebro frat this is the formalwear section.
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fitzbuhn@reddit

US culture has been getting progressively more casual and less concerned with vulgarity for decades. I’m guessing we’ll get our first presidential reference to ‘eating ass’ within the decade.
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KingSpork@reddit

Probably not until the Logan Paul administration in a few years.
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MungoJennie@reddit

Noah, get the boat!
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Dantez9001@reddit

"Now you'll never get to have sex with the girl wearing leggings so tight and thin that you can tell what color her butthole is, because you lack subtlety. "
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surewhynotokaythen@reddit

Innuendo has gone out the window. The shit has to be spelled out for everyone now.
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dak4f2@reddit

And children who grew up with 24/7 access to porn on their ipad.
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Phoniceau@reddit

Eeeeewww shirts with the words “cum” and “pussy” were never at Spencer’s when we were kids. “I ❤️ Boobs” though, that’s a classic 😂
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rubyfeldwyr@reddit

Kind of love "Professional Virgin"
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notworkingghost@reddit

Have you seen Family Feud lately? It took a turn too. Btw, I’m an old fart.
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bgva@reddit (OP)

I have. Always been a fan of Steve Harvey so why they gotta sexualize the questions to get a good YouTube clip, I dunno.
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notworkingghost@reddit

Right?! And now there’s sometimes like 8 answers. How can anyone get all those? But Steve Harvey is the man. Have you seen this [SNL Clip?](https://youtu.be/P_kA2t2ytA8?si=r2M0153CUujij_wu)
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bgva@reddit (OP)

Okay that was pretty good!
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notworkingghost@reddit

Glad you liked it player.
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Negative-Squirrel81@reddit

~~Sexdaily~~ Dyslexia got a solid chuckle out of me.
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pirate-kong@reddit

They've definitely gotten bolder, but many of these existed back in the 90s. Hell, look up "big johnson" tshirts. The redneck equivalent of these from back in the day.
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Count2Zero@reddit

Remember when kids got in trouble for wearing a "Mr Zog's" T-shirt to school? Pepperidge Farms remembers. Maybe it was a local thing (I grew up in the Los Angeles area), but if you're not familiar with "Mr Zog's Sex Wax" ... it's a surfboard way. When I was in high school, the surfers and cool kids sometimes wore a Mr. Zog's T-shirt to school, with a big 5-pointed star on the front, and the Mr. Zog's logo on the back. And the "square" teachers who saw the word "sex" immediately went ballistic and would force the student to wear the T-shirt inside out or change into another shirt, because they thought that anything with the word "sex" was immediately vulgar, not realizing that it was a surfboard wax, and had nothing to do with "sex" (other than proving that "sex sells").
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HowardTheHomeless@reddit

Holy shit Danny Duncan basically supplies t shirts to them
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ElephantRedCar91@reddit

not even creative
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MinivanPops@reddit

Far cry from the bottlea of Old Fart Pills.  
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MerBeach@reddit

👵🏻💨
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Express-Structure480@reddit

I don’t think I could wear any of these to work.
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LovingComrade@reddit

Spencer’s was mostly weed related shit and band tshirts when I was in high school (graduated 1999) At least what I remember as far as the t-shirts. I remember posters, lots of fart and poop themed gag gifts, and a smattering of sex toys and more beer mugs and shot glasses than you could shake a stick at. Also my brother always thought it was hilarious to get me a birthday card with morbidly obese women in bikinis and that kinda thing. I always knew it was coming like clockwork.
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MerBeach@reddit

I remember cracking up over the “Barnoculors” flask, various fart toys, and “Over the Hill” crap.
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bgva@reddit (OP)

That and a special section for "over the hill" merch, or the gag gifts you mentioned. 40 seemed like an eternity from 1995, and now look at us...
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Abject-Picture@reddit

I expect to see all of these in police arrest videos and Walmart.
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Overall_Falcon_8526@reddit

They should just sell cans of distilled woman repellent. Cut out the middle man.
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Ancient_Ad_9373@reddit

There are still Spencer store…wow
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ChiliFartShower@reddit

How much are they charging for these low effort word shirts?
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Wranglin_Pangolin@reddit

I went to an actual mall last week, remember those places?!? They had a Spencer’s and I had to check it out and it was a nostalgia blast from the past! Also, the shirts are pretty fucking cringy.
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Little-Resolution-82@reddit

It was definitely not like this a decade or two ago. I remember some pre internet meme shirts and all the band shirts. Nothing like this
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str8outtaconklin@reddit

Surprised I don’t see one about eating ass
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bgva@reddit (OP)

Might have to zoom in but third column, second from the top.
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Otherwise-Ad-1051@reddit

These are Danny Duncan designs. Pretty wild since he started with a shirt that said Virginity Rocks. Now look where we are. Lol. These are Big Johnson shirts on steroids
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sortarelatable@reddit

Each store must be personally owned. For what it’s worth, [here](https://youtu.be/Y4Akeoo0bUw?si=RcLTyX3TXvUh0pwY) is a video of Spencer’s in 2022 and there’s nothing like that in there.
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ApatheistHeretic@reddit

Get me the to-do list with your mom crossed out t-shirt. I pay you back when we meet up.
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atomictrout@reddit

Hey, Zappa reference on the far right!
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morbidnerd@reddit

I worked at Spencer's 20 years ago, these types of shirts would've been in the back section of the store, not the front. There may have been some dirty things peppered in but not to that extreme. Holy shit.
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BlueCX17@reddit

I always more remember the huge Lava Lamp selection, black lights, music posters, pop culture, black lights and other kinds of novelty lighting, locker magnets, stickers, the one at our local mall also had a huge wall of Halloween masks behind the counter, stuff like that. We would definitely look or "sneak look" at the more adult stuff and t-shirts and snicker but I definitely don't remember the entire store being like that.
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morbidnerd@reddit

We also had pretty strict diagrams and charts that corporate would send us to organize the shelving units and what was on them. When I was there we had some playboy branded stuff up front and I recall penis lollipops sort of in the middle, but nothing too overt.
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BlueCX17@reddit

For sure, it wasn't really too bad. It always seemed more like party gag gifts, and general kinda joke type stuff more than anything.
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morbidnerd@reddit

In hindsight, it may have also been a legal thing, because the back section was also 18+. We had to enforce it. Or we were supposed to anyway.
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BlueCX17@reddit

Yeah, I don't remember anyone enforcing it at the one in the mall we used to have. Granted, they might have a like one of those curtains with a sign only 18+ beyond here. This was like 1997 to late early/mid 2000's LOL I do remember the main floor back of the store, being where the posters were, past all the lighting and stuff.
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morbidnerd@reddit

We only really checked ID if people looked really young, or to be assholes to obnoxious patrons. Our store manager was probably the best boss I've ever had, and mall security was really cool. Our main issue was parents who would let their kids wander in.
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Thick_Aside_4740@reddit

This is the evolution of Fuddruckers to Buttfuckers.
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High_5_Skin@reddit

Yeah I'm having a difficult time understanding the shirt that says "eating pussy cures depression," too. Anyone care to help OP and I?
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Lixae@reddit

Spencers has always been pretty naughty, maybe not as direct about it as now. But my friends and I definitely were begging our older siblings to buy us sex toys and lingerie from there when we were underage.
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1king80@reddit

Back in the day they were actually clever.
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ImaginationOptimal47@reddit

"smells like slut in here" lol
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IgnazioPolyp@reddit

FBI: female body inspector tee still going strong after 30 years.
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therewererumors@reddit

I was born in 1980, and I vividly remember the F@ck you you f@cking f@ck
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disabledinaz@reddit

My question is not who buys these, but who actually wears it in public?
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jfk_one@reddit

the cringe wall of fame
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tiad123@reddit

The gynecologist shirt is an old one 😆
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MarkMoreland@reddit

They used to be subtle or clever innuendo and double extenders. These are explicit and not funny because the cleverness is gone. The edgelords have won and we're all dumber ad a rwault.
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dillasdonuts@reddit

It's wild this is available in every mall across America.
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PreciousTater311@reddit

The thing with being a Xennial is that we were around when Spencer's was kitschy and fun, and now we get to see it in full cringe mode.
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IsThisLegitTho@reddit

These are perfect t shirts to have someone wear after they lost a bet 🤣
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Nrmlgirl777@reddit

Its so dumb
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Any-Geologist-1837@reddit

That is definitely a change in the target market. Lots of misogyny there, they must specialize in douche bags and ironic lesbians now.
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Hellashakabra@reddit

It hasn't even been that long since I worked there and this is new to me
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Sauciest_Salmon@reddit

I want a shirt that just says the word “Innuendo”
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BlueCX17@reddit

Spencer's is a shadow of its former sneak into in the mall a bit too young former glory.
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Downwardspiralhams@reddit

I’m a pretty crude and crass person, but these are so cringe 😂
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SweatyPalmsSunday@reddit

What’s the demographic for these shirts? I’d say ~.00001 of the populace. I’ll say niche?
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I_am_simply_a_potato@reddit

One of my favorite shirts during my second pregnancy was from Spencer’s. It read, “I’m not fat, I’m knocked up!”
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SmileyPiesUntilIDrop@reddit

It used to be only Edge Lord's bought shirts like this 20 years ago on niche places like t-shirt hell,but now tried hard rudeness is more mainstream. Like the edgiest thing you might see in a mall 15-20 years ago is "Bikini Inspector" or FBI Female Body Inspector.
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CoachAngBlxGrl@reddit

Good lord I’m old.
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NeonRx@reddit

Nah that’s all try hard shit for goobers.
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GrimReadGoddess@reddit

Yuck
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slampdi@reddit

This is fake, right? I'm not a pearl clutching old woman, or whatever. I've said MUCH worse to even my bosses. But these are just lazy.
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kokomo80@reddit

I remember being at Spencer’s with my friend as 14 year olds in ‘94. They had a tshirt with a big dildo with Bill Clinton’s face on it, and it said BILLDO in big letters above it. I remember thinking that was pretty scandalous lol.
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Geechie-Don@reddit

“Lookin for a girl that’s DTF”
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Sanpaku@reddit

You'd have to pay me to wear any of these. Much of the time, I wear the free Ts I get for donating blood. I've bought Ts from online stores and merch stands to support political candidates, musical bands or film restoration labels. Sometimes they've started positive conversations. And heavy weight cotton Ts with no logos cost $9. Is it a coarsening of culture? I've been around a while, and there have always been 'coarse' elements for my entire lifetime. It does say Spencers can't figure out how to sell $9 plain Ts at a profit.
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mildchicanery@reddit

Gross. These aren't even clever. Where are these sold?! So people actually wear this crap in public?
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therealdanfogelberg@reddit

What kind of gross human being would wear ANY of these in public? I mean “this was the only shirt I had with no cum on it”? Really? Some people have zero self awareness. What the actual hell?
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DonDiamante@reddit

One of my classmates in the early 90s got sent to the principal’s office for wearing a shirt with a cartoon of a caterpillar mounting a french fry, and the french fry had a speech balloon that said “get off me asshole, I’m a french fry.” That’s one of the most “scandalous” shirts I remember from back in the day.
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QuesoHusker@reddit

In the 80s we bought skinny piano key ties and “Haulin’Ass” posters and Fart Spray. Not exactly high art, but not quite as vulgar as these seem.
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SuperSafe2019@reddit

Idiocracy
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BrokenDeity@reddit

I think it depends on the Spencers you go to, when I was growing up in South Jersey it was more Stoner humor. When I visited the one at the mall over in Virginia Beach, it was mostly sexual humor. I've seen a couple with an almost perfect 50/50 blend. I guess it all depends on what sells well in the area and whether or not the tourist traps (looking at you Wildwood boardwalk) have multiple stores that sell these by the dozens each day.
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bgva@reddit (OP)

This is in Chesapeake, about 15 minutes from the one you're describing in VB (Lynnhaven?). And in all fairness, the other wall of shirts was more pop culture-based. Lots of Michael Myers and Jason punny shirts with Halloween coming up.
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houndsoflu@reddit

I think they used to be more subtle. Or less overt.
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Leatherman34@reddit

I PEE IN POOLS is a great shirt
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AlternativeFilm8886@reddit

It's more blatant and less clever than it used to be. Very low effort.
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abernathym@reddit

Nuance is dead in our culture.
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tinglep@reddit

Jesus. I used to go in there to buy horror tshirts. How the mighty have fallen.
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PeeweeSherman12@reddit

They were more subtle back in the day.
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GoBombGo@reddit

Preston Garvey, is that you?
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PeeweeSherman12@reddit

Another settlement needs your help. Ill mark it on your map.
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GoBombGo@reddit

Preston loved that.
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postman925@reddit

They're not subtle at all anymore. I had a t-shirt that said "my Girlfriend can't wrestle, but you should see her box". It was enough to get a laugh without offending my grandparents.
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Assortedpez@reddit

No wonder I’m not depressed!
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OhFuuuuuuuuuuuudge@reddit

People just a few aren’t as creative with their innuendoes nowadays.
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InternationalLack614@reddit

My husband had the gynecologist one 20 years ago. Lol. People loved that shirt.
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Holmes221bBSt@reddit

Ah the ole classic “I pee in pools” and “FBI: Female Body Inspector”.
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photo_voltaic@reddit

I remember thinking I was so clever and edgy 10th grade because I had one of those Ramones shirts that said "Hey Ho Let's Go" on the back. This is just...sad.
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No-Wonder1139@reddit

Stitches used to have those back in the 90s for $5.
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bigDogNJ23@reddit

Hard to believe enough people buy these for them to profit on them
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WhyLie2me18@reddit

Not that I recall. Wow.
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FeelTheWrath79@reddit

T-shirthell.com
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vishy_swaz@reddit

Buy four and get one free. What a deal. Can’t wait to take advantage of that.
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spinereader81@reddit

I can just see Beavis and Butthead staring at the wall and laughing.
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TPlain940@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/cl71ut34supd1.jpeg?width=2340&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a011841d922b00799c5772e1bf2330c912975021 Not Spencer's but it looks like Nike hired someone from their design team 😄
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malYca@reddit

So edgy
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imicmic@reddit

I wanna say the FBI shirt or Big Johnson shirts were most common i remember. It was all about the innuendo that made it fun. These are just straight up vulgar.
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spinereader81@reddit

Hot Topic was so much cooler when the shirts were all bands or pop culture. I know, I'm old and grumpy.
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RemarkableWave8066@reddit

Gen Z isn't big on subtlety.
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ConcreteKeys@reddit

Maybe because of the high rates of autism.
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RemarkableWave8066@reddit

I think it's because so much of their interaction happens online or via text messages. Leaving too much room for interpretation often ends badly in these environments.
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bgva@reddit (OP)

This explains so much. Feels like everything has to be spelled out in great detail nowadays.
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RemarkableWave8066@reddit

Definitely explains the haircuts.
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Username_NullValue@reddit

I envision any of these shirts being proudly worn by a 300lb unwashed man with greasy chicken fingers.
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b00g3rw0Lf@reddit

I'm that dude and I wouldn't touch this shit with the three foot pole/grabber I use for picking things up
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Lovetotravelinmycar@reddit

Used to be mostly cool band tees.
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BenHippynet@reddit

Who the fuck buys a t-shirt like these?
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b00g3rw0Lf@reddit

/r/conservative will if you keep acting so triggered by it /s
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MungoJennie@reddit

Sad, lonely losers is my guess
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apearlmae@reddit

I and no idea it was like this until my partner and I walked in with his 2 teenagers. We made a beeline for the door after about 30 seconds. I don't know when they started carrying sex toys. Big yikes!
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Darksteellady@reddit

Holy hell
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BallDiamondBall@reddit

I bought edible underwear there one, but I don't recall anything that graphic. The edible underwear was just a fruit roll up shaped like a bikini. Pretty awful.
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HikingAvocado@reddit

These are generally gross and vulgar, far more than I remember in my youth. But, my FIL has and wears that “FBI/Female Body Inspector”. He’s a plastic surgeon and it’s too perfect.
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wicked_lion@reddit

Dude, it’s basically a mall sex shop now. I used to love it! It had fun, quirky stuff.
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Odd-Outcome450@reddit

Yea it’s changed some
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knuf22@reddit

I latterly walked past Spencer’s yesterday and laughed out loud in the mall at the Big Dick Is Back in Town shirt .
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FriendlyDish1106@reddit

Naughty shirts were around in the 80's and 90's. I remember getting in trouble for purchasing one from the San Fransico store.
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rigor_mortus_boner@reddit

same as it ever was
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MielikkisChosen@reddit

This is like a cringepocalypse. Which mouth breathers are actually buying these?
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megadethage@reddit

These are shirts you only wear at home.
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Vehlin@reddit

This is all hugely tame compared to what TShirtHell was putting out in the early 2000s
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nhink@reddit

Are the youths more sexually frustrated these days?
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ConcreteKeys@reddit

This looks like the merch sold at a gross porn shop in the sketchiest run down parts of town.
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Candid_Internet6505@reddit

How far we've fallen since the days of Good Bush/Bad Bush shirts.
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Cancel_Electrical@reddit

On a related note they definitely did not have a wall of sex toys back in the day. A couple in a back corner is what I remember. Imagine my awkwardness when I turned a corner and came face to face with two 14 year old girls standing in front of an entire wall of dildos and and each holding a butt plug. What is the socially acceptable reaction to this situation? Welp I'm old!
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No-Theory7902@reddit

They have always been bad I had a need head shirt and a few about eating ass when I was 9 . I’m 35 lol
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LOUCIFER_315@reddit

Did you see the wall full of tentacle dildos?
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Both-Tree@reddit

Dude…
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iamacynic37@reddit

I saw a report, the EXPERTS are saying that the youth are not copulating which could mean the end of civilization or whatever. This the was response
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battery_pack_man@reddit

Pretty stunned there is enough market demand to keep these on shelves.
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catedarnell0397@reddit

Spensers has always pushed the boundaries even in the 70s
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JasonEAltMTG@reddit

It used to be hidden better. "Big Dick's bar established 1969, liquor in the front, poker in the back, aren't we clever." The shit was cheesy then, and the puns were a stretch sometimes, but I'll take "Funkin Gonuts" over "I HAVE A BIG DICK GUISE." I want to make it very clear that I am not offended as a parent, I am offended as a comedian 
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strengr@reddit

My partner and I were in a similar store in Canada couple of weeks ago with our kids and we had to hightail out of there when we saw all the shirts that said fuck this and pussy that. I was like where is the build up or the puns.
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Sdog1981@reddit

Idiocracy was a documentary.
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UnfortunateSnort12@reddit

Hasn’t the FBI one been around for decades?
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I_am_Coyote_Jones@reddit

To each their own. Personally I wouldn’t date or hang out with someone who wore any of these. They just look like the clothing choice of trashy retired rednecks who sit at the bar all day complaining about cancel culture and the women who snub their advances. To be fair those were the same types who wore all the “Big Johnson” shirts in the 90’s as well.
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SnooEpiphanies2576@reddit

I’m by no means a prude - but… It’s a LOT. Those shirts are a CHOICE.
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Dunnersstunner@reddit

Reminds me of *Idiocracy* "The #1 movie in America was called "Ass." And that's all it was for 90 minutes. It won eight Oscars that year, including best screenplay."
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UmpireNo6345@reddit

Last time I went to spencers half the store was essentially a sex shop. Dildos, buttplugs, bondage gear... is it not known that it's not a place for kids?
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okeedokeartichokee@reddit

Straight out of the movie Idiocracy!
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GOLDIEfish43@reddit

They're funny,but really who is wearing these out in public? Maybe ppl in Florida...
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legumex3@reddit

No, it's not you. Back in January we took two of our kids to the mall for a birthday trip. The last place we went to was Spencer's because my husband swore to me that they keep the blatant stuff in the back. Three steps in the store and it was my 14 year old daughter growling at us to reverse course as she dragged her 11 year old brother with her. To the windows, to the walls, just shirts about balls. And other body parts and the things people do with body parts. It was so blatant, no innuendo, no style, no skill in presentation at all. It felt like a bunch of 13 year olds read the dirty words in the dictionary, played some Mad-Libs and decided the results should go on some T-shirts. So again, it's not you. I'm almost 46 and was not a sheltered kid by any stretch and I was not prepared for what greeted me. The fact that they had MILF hunter shirts in the window probably should have been my warning that it was going to be worse in the store.
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Ted_Fleming@reddit

Idiocracy… people no longer understand puns and innuendo
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Twitchmonky@reddit

I've seen some gems, but most of these shirts today suck and they've all got slogans from Temu tweens at best.
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i_nobes_what_i_nobes@reddit

No back in the day it was a lot more puns and so they were funnier. Like the coed naked T-shirts. This is just low hanging fruit and just really kind of sad pathetic dick and fart jokes. Like yes, I love MILFs is funny to a certain crowd. But there’s no nuance. So to me, they’re less comical than the ones that we used to have when I was in high school. If I’m going to buy a shirt like that. I’d buy something that was like “I got my balls wet at Beaver River” with like a golf logo
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MelancholyDaisy@reddit

I remember the FBI shirt from back in the 90’s. But that’s it. The rest are flat out vulgar.
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IllustriousCake974@reddit

I recently took my 13 year old daughter into a Spencer’s, after not having been in one for 20+ years. Do not recommend.
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gottarespondtothis@reddit

We’ve definitely gone from fuddruckers to buttfuckers.
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Nonenotonemaybe2@reddit

Good to see the FBI is still hard at work.
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ladyeclectic79@reddit

I remember the FBI shirt from my childhood but the rest are way more brazen than even I remember.
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tristero200@reddit

I can't believe I have occasion to describe Big Johnson or Co-Ed Naked T-shirts as "subtle," but up against some of these things...
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MisRandomness@reddit

Definitely more raunchy in your face now at Spencer’s than used to be. They even moved the dildos to the very front. I’m still not sure how they get away with this. Maybe because the malls are desperate they allow it.
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Flimsy-Nature1122@reddit

They were mostly weed and beer type shirts back in the day, or were sexual innuendos/puns. Not so explicit. A few of my girlfriends had the one that had the Bounce Dryer Sheets logo across the bust, but said “Ultra Bouncy”
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Lastofthehaters@reddit

They have definitely got worse
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phoenix-corn@reddit

Those are quite a bit worse than what I remember. Like I think the FBI shirt was there before, but the others not so much.
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ayweller@reddit

I don’t think you got the jokes because I feel like these are pretty mild I honestly would expect naughtier these days
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FilmmagicianPart2@reddit

Well, I ❤️ Sluts = I love sluts.
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Jollyhrothgar@reddit

Some of that is just gross "this is the only shirt I have with no cum on it". I cannot imagine the scenario where I would wear this shirt in public (or private). And I have a sophomoric and crass sense of humor. If I saw someone wearing this shirt, i would think they are a fucking idiot.
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0mni0wl@reddit

Is there a BIG market for shirts that say 'Micro Penis Club President'?
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Material-Imagination@reddit

No, they definitely had some dirty words on them 40 ish years ago
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CatBoyTrip@reddit

pretty sure you could be kicked out of walmart for wearing most of these shirts back in the 90s.
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DoctorMario1000@reddit

Shuck me suck me eat me raw was a good one
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WornInShoes@reddit

Yeah it was never this straight up Remember Big Johnson shirts? Tacky, but loaded with puns This is just gross I wouldn’t have worn this as a teen I def would have not been allowed to leave the house lol
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Hollowbody57@reddit

They were definitely more subtle, but Spencers has a whole has pivoted pretty hard towards more sex stuff. The entire back half of the one at the mall near me is all sex toys and bondage gear. It's a little weird seeing kids looking at Spongebob backpacks 20 feet away from a wall full of giant dildos and nipple clamps.
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wannastayhome@reddit

Wow. Don’t remember anything this raunchy EVER! Gross!
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LightningFrankie13@reddit

A lot of this is because of Danny Duncan
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McGrufNStuf@reddit

Apparently, they stopped using double entendres because the marketing group failed English. Now they just get straight to the penis and boob jokes. Welcome to Costco, I love you.
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Nice-Ad6510@reddit

I'm pretty positive they have gotten worse. Back in my day, they didn't sell sex toys either, but they sure do now and have for a couple decades I think.
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irritabletom@reddit

I spent too long trying to figure out what's clever about "BUY FOUR GET ONE FREE" before I realized it wasn't a Tshirt.
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Lebowski304@reddit

These are hilarious. I just wouldn’t be able to wear it…anywhere. I’m a grown ass man with a wife and kids
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BlackZapReply@reddit

Spencers has gone completely over to raunch, porn, weed and booze culture. Of these, booze has become an afterthought. No subtlety whatsoever. It was great when I was 20something but now it's stale and cringeworthy. Actually, it gets even worse the farther back in the store you go. We're talking OnlyFans and PornHub audience participation type stuff.
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thestolenroses@reddit

It used to be that the worst thing in there was a "personal massager" in a phallic shape. It's actually butt plugs and anal beads now. I can't even believe it's in the middle of the mall.
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TheGirlwThePinkHair@reddit

All those are massive red flags
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couchtomatopotato@reddit

so gross. thought we were past this.
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CoconutJasmineBombe@reddit

You think misogyny has gone away?
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couchtomatopotato@reddit

i didnt think it was still acceptable to only have and brag about your personality being "i like sex".
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Catladylove99@reddit

Seriously, wtf
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StupendousMalice@reddit

Well, the customer base went from kids to brain damaged adults who lost the ability to interpret subtlety.
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full_of_ghosts@reddit

I remember a lot of dirty humor on t-shirts back in the day, but I remember it being more *clever* back then. There's not much cleverness going on here.
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theoneandonly6558@reddit

The top left corner has the exact same orgasm donor t-shirt my brother bought at Spencer's in 1994. Are we turning into *those* old people who remember things being different? Because they were not. Our t-shirts were just as dumb, I assure you.
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mrsiesta@reddit

I seem to recall having a NIN shirt that said “I wanna fuck you like an animal” at some point as a teen in the 90s
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full_of_ghosts@reddit

Yeah, I had that thought after I posted my previous comment. Maybe my younger brain saw cleverness where my older, wiser brain just sees dumb. Or maybe I remember them as more clever because I only remember the clever ones. Maybe the dumb ones never stuck in my memory, because they're dumb. In any case, it's not a stretch to think my memory may be playing tricks on me.
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drewcandraw@reddit

Back in my day, Spencer's had stupid innuendos and pop culture parodies that at least tried to be clever. That all went out the window and now they've gone full-on Bourbon Street souvenir shop.
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OutcomeLegitimate618@reddit

It seems weird because I imagine the snowflake generation are whom these are mostly marketed too. Based on comments here, we're not the people buying them. Of course there are outliers everywhere.
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thestolenroses@reddit

This reminds of the "Daddy just wanted a blowjob” onesie I once saw on a literal baby. It's so gross and unbelievably trashy. In 10 or 20 years it'll be something worse as we continue to devolve.
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emmy_award@reddit

most of these could be on shirts that go hard
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Traditional_Ad_1547@reddit

Looking at this reminded me of the Big Johnson shirts.  I think, back in the day, they tried to make it a little less obvious. Yet another sign that Idiocracy was a view into our future as a society
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Lopsided_Regular_649@reddit

Anyone wearing one of these is telling on themselves for being unable to get laid
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Nervous_Ask_9848@reddit

Every teenager has seen more porn than I ever dreamed of in the late 90s. So I suppose subtle humor is lost when nothing is taboo.
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nointerestsbutsleep@reddit

Culture going down the drain. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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terra_technitis@reddit

I remember seeing these shirts down to the letter in the Spencers near where I grew up. Not far from the dildos and pocket pissies. I think it's always been a few videos and magazines short of a fully age restricted adult entertainment shop. Maybe it varried/s based on region?
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LMurch13@reddit

"I <3 sluts". Classic.
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werdnurd@reddit

It used to be a wink, and now it’s just vulgar. Guess I’m officially old now. I saw a young man with a shirt that said “This is my only shirt without cum stains” written on it and I was grossed out. I’m no prude, but that’s just gross.
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drawredraw@reddit

Yeah most of these are pretty on the nose. We had some pretty trashy t-shirts back in the day, but these are the absolute trashiest. Yikes
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superschaap81@reddit

I don't know if it's naughtier, per se, but it's definitely not subtle. I remember some of our shirts being similar, but it was more printed in an "inside-joke". IE: I remember a friend that had "Mike Hunt - Since 1895" on a shirt and NO ONE got it except a couple of us morons. LOL. Or the Co-Ed Naked shirts - on the ice is twice and nice...shit like that. This stuff now is just crass and unclever.
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Neon_1984@reddit

I would love to meet the gentleman who would walk to the Spencer’s checkout counter, hand the “All This And A Nice Dick Too” t-shirt to the 17 year old employee, pay for it and then proudly walk around in public around children wearing it. I bet they have some stories they could tell.
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Dantez9001@reddit

Challenge accepted, I'm going to the mall this weekend...for the 1st time in 20 years.
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Bandando@reddit

I’m thinking the employees have to be 18+, right? Right…?!
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heykidzimacomputer@reddit

Not sure where this is, but I'm pretty sure Spencers could put up a wall of hardcore pornography a sell delta 8 and kratom to teens and mall management wouldn't care as long as they pay their lease. Malls are desperate for tenants at this point.
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Eh-I@reddit

Nothing about a woodie? https://preview.redd.it/cutey6hg1upd1.jpeg?width=5595&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=085d3a3beef1cac5ac6d0c755200361fc316f902
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Fun_Bar5327@reddit

Buy four get one free! Imagine someone having five of these.
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Tony_Tanna78@reddit

Well, subtlety has obviously gone out the window with these shirts.
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XFrankXGrimesX@reddit

It's amazing just how tired I am of vulgarity everywhere. I feel like I'm June Cleaver or something. Shame needs to be brought back.
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North_Support_6200@reddit

Some of them are quite old like the need head one for example. That's been around for over 20 years.
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VampirateV@reddit

My first thought thought was that surely half of these are meant to be given as somewhat prank gifts. Because why on earth would anyone willingly wear the cum shirt? But then reading the comments, I'm starting to realize that no, yall are right: the world really has lost the art of subtlety and raunchy doesn't exist on the same level as in our youth. A lot of people really are just bluntly vulgar nowadays and add in the incels and this wall is what you get. Can't help but feel like this is the natural consequence of a generation growing up without making the distinction between internet life and real life. Was just talking to my teenagers the other day about that, how it seems like a lot of younger people don't grasp that social media's way of seeking engagement (rage bait, extreme takes, shock factor) is meant to appeal to the broadest audience possible. Including those with the least critical thinking ability and the inability to grasp nuance. Real life is meant to be a curated experience, but I suspect that a lot of people have lived in digital spaces for so long that they've either forgotten this (older folks), or never learned the difference to start with (youngins).
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Tinkerfan57912@reddit

I question how they can actually sell that crap. I don’t remember their shirts being so vulgar before.
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CerebralAssassin88@reddit

Klassy!
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mallarme1@reddit

Ah, yes, and here we have the wall of white trash t-shirts before they’ve left for the wild.
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Texas_Crazy_Curls@reddit

I was at a nice resort pool recently and a woman was wearing the “I pee in pools” hat. I’m not trying to act like a snob but why would you want to advertise you are a nasty bitch?
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AnswerGuy301@reddit

I saw a guy wearing that in line at buffet on a cruise ship this year. I almost want to excoriate him on the spot. What the hell is wrong with someone who wears that in public?!
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Bandando@reddit

It’s like a lot of stuff in our culture now. “Fuck you” has just gone mainstream.
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DeeSt11@reddit

Nah, these are not even subtle. Back in the day, you at least had to think about what it was saying.
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plantverdant@reddit

I had a small collection of Happy Bunny shirts from hot topic back in the day! They really pissed off my mom. I remember there being a few raunchy shirts on the but they didn't explicitly name genitals or anything too overt. Most of the ones on the wall were band tees.
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BrewItYourself@reddit

Well, a boner is like a mistake so I guess it means I donate mistakes…
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frightfrightfright@reddit

Who even wears shirts like that?
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GoodStuffOnly62@reddit

The sex shop in the back of Spencers is what makes me feel old and prudish! Adults shopping for Dildos and restraints next to high schoolers or even middles schoolers?? How is that even allowed???
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lqxpl@reddit

They’re not any more *naughty*, but they’re certainly way less nuanced.
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tmc192531@reddit

Reminds me of the I ❤️ D*** shirt I bought from there in 05 for spring break.
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hudsoncress@reddit

The humor is gone. Just going for shock value. Irony is dead.
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Nightstone42@reddit

they were definitely more subtle when we were regulars there
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jaydub1376@reddit

They have definitely gotten dirtier. We would’ve all have been thrown out of middle school if we would’ve been able to buy shit that said that! 😂😂
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ph30nix01@reddit

Thanks all the fucking attention being put on sexuality lately.
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testudoaubreii1@reddit

That Master Baiter one is a golden oldie. I remember seeing that back in the day
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CubeEarthShill@reddit

I got a “Is it hot in here or am I just crazy?” Charles Manson shirt. I remember them selling a shirt with the Wendy’s “Where’s the beef?” Lady reaching down a dude’s pants. They’ve always had stuff like this, but it’s way more overt now.
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WetBandit06@reddit

Smells like slut in here. Lmao. Yea this definitely got more wild over time.
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BagOfLazers@reddit

I'm still stuck on "I'm in Spencer's..." because I had no idea they were still a thing.
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flerchin@reddit

Straight out of Idiocracy
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redflagsmoothie@reddit

Nah they’re definitely dirtier than they used to be lol
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TwilightStranger@reddit

Spencer always had the raunchier stuff towards the back, but it was usually just games. Those T Shirts seem a lot more straightforward than the tongue-in-cheek, double entendre stuff I remember back in the late 90s. It was more subtle, like the jokes on Three's Company.
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velouria-wilder@reddit

I recently saw a teenage girl wearing the one that says “I Love Hot Moms” and I have to admit it gave me a good laugh. Kinda wanna buy it for myself (a mom). So maybe it depends on the wearer.
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HyenaBogBlog@reddit

Those were basically the exact same shirts they sold ten to fifteen years ago in Spencers. Nothing changes lol (my favorite shirt was "your boobs look heavy, let me help or something along those lines)
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GreazyPhysique@reddit

I don’t see the muff diver shirt?
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Autumn_Forest_Mist@reddit

Things have gotten way dirtier
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thebananza@reddit

My 20yo niece wears the Micro Penis Club President shirt just for the shock value and I love her for it. The day that some Jehova’s Witnesses came to the door while she was wearing it was awkward, in the best way.
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Few-Acadia-4860@reddit

Degeneracy only goes one way once that train is rolling it can't be stopped
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Ba55of0rte@reddit

Subtlety is out the window these days.
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BoringExperience5345@reddit

That’s crazy.
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DowntownDimension226@reddit

Since the popularity of Jersey Shore, these kinds of shirts are funny and popular with gen z
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DowntownDimension226@reddit

I want to say that ironic shirts are making a comeback
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coolmist23@reddit

I remember it back in the '80s. It had some naughty stuff even then. But not nearly like today.
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sexwiththebabysitter@reddit

Who tf wears this shit?
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Averagestiff@reddit

Who said Americans have no culture?
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loztriforce@reddit

It's so much better when double entendre is used. Like I have a shirt of the Mario question block that says "I'd hit that"
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FollowingNo4648@reddit

I saw they had a Spencer's at the mall a few months ago and decided to go in there with my daughter. I didn't realize they turned that place into a whole porno shop. There was a wall of nothing but dildos and vibrators. We didn't stay for long that's for sure.
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TheJRKoff@reddit

my favorite was always: #FUCK YOU #YOU FUCKING #FUCK
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JeffTheAndroid@reddit

I'm glad these shirts exist so I know who to avoid in public
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reznxrx@reddit

It's gotten very sex oriented. Growing up, there were no dildoes available at the mall. Things really _do_ get better.
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OctoWings13@reddit

"all this and a nice dick too" lmao
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Burt_Selleck@reddit

It's missing the classic ⬆️the man ⬇️the legend
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Background-Moose-701@reddit

These would go really well with a white cocks or beavers hat and a weaved belt pulled long hanging down
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cassandradancer@reddit

I used to be a manager there and would have died if I was told I had to sell this shit. Wtf? We sold band tees and video game tees. There were maybe 10 in the total store that had weed leaf print or like future dilf on it.
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MrsEmilyN@reddit

The FBI shirt has been around forever.
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mylocker15@reddit

I liked it better when you had to do a little work to understand the raunchy shirt. Like who is big Johnson your shirt is talking about? Seems like a fun guy.
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ssee1848@reddit

My favorite was the Keep on Truckin’ dude
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superthrust123@reddit

I had the FBI shirt in hs.
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funatical@reddit

Eating pussy does cure depression. Smart.
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AgitatedKoala3908@reddit

I was strolling around my local mall a couple of months back and noted the same thing. I don't mind the "dirty humor" in and of itself, it's more the dumbing-down of it. Give me a double entendre Big Johnson tee any day. This is just putting it right on front street, and it's lazy.
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naveedkoval@reddit

I definitely saw half of these at malls 20 years ago
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naveedkoval@reddit

The other half tho….
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M1Z1L4@reddit

Anybody remember Big Dick's or Big Johnson's shirts? Had a nerdy kid hanging out stereotypical bimbos who were all over him for SOME reason? You wouldn't believe what they used to paint on buildings and make statues of a few hundred centuries ago! Turns out, man has always been interested in sex and titties.
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RevolutionaryBake362@reddit

It’s not in blurry writing so it’s not 90s cool…
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joeliopro@reddit

Danny Duncan has fueled this trend further and making bank on it. Basically, I feel the world has gotten to the point that if you care.. you are the problem.
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manifest_ecstasy@reddit

Nah. They always like this. One of my faves from high school had a bird, a dog, and then another bird. (Swallow bitch swallow) circa 98 or 99
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Stardustquarks@reddit

I don’t recall anything that overt. Lots of games and stupid naughty nick knacks, but I don’t remember anything that crude
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Mud_Landry@reddit

I remember band shirts and maybe a handful of shirts with quirky weird shit. Nothing was this in your face with the vulgarity. Like you couldn’t wear any of these shirts to high school, except the professional virgin shirt.
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vanillazilla@reddit

Yeah I guess it was more subtle back in the day but then again I remember them selling penis shaped pasta in the 90s lmao
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zestfullybe@reddit

When I see someone wearing shirts like these at least 50% of my respect for them automatically gets deducted right off the top. I can’t help it, it’s reflexive, and over four decades of life experience has proven me correct so far.
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Sorry_Consequence816@reddit

A lot of those are Danny Duncan (you can see his name at the bottom). He’s an influencer who had a “virginity rocks” shirt a while back. He’s got a merch store blah blah blah. I looked it up a while ago because my husband saw some kid wearing one of the “virginity rocks” shirts and was like wtf?
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CallidoraBlack@reddit

20 years ago, there was a lot of pervy stuff in there. 30? I'm not sure, I was definitely not allowed in there then.
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Lastpunkofplattsburg@reddit

I worked in one around 2004 and they were not this bad. Mostly band shirts and a few drinking/stoner shirts. Now it’s just straight to the point.
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lavasca@reddit

I didn’t understand most of what was in Spencer’s back in the day. Even the d*ldos went over my head because they didn’t remotely resemble what I thought a real penis would look like in person. Boogie Nights shocked me because I assumed all of them were going to look like that and was forewarned it was big. I was terminally innocent. I can’t shake it. My husband uses cheesey pick-up lines after all these years on me because they all work. 😔 Oh well, I fall for the dumbest things. Fortunately the answer would always be yes. I think he just likes feeling slick. oh well
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Vaguely_vacant@reddit

I think back in our day there were more stoner type shirts and band shirts. Not as many raunchy shirts for sure.
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JayA_Tee@reddit

I remember Spencer’s was always pretty raunchy but it was certainly more subtle.
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Vanman04@reddit

This looks like incel shopping paradise!
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redditprofile99@reddit

Yeah these are just trashy. Nothing clever about them.
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colin_powers@reddit

That FBI shirt transcends generations.
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q_manning@reddit

Gotta buy those shirts somewhere 😭
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throwawayfromPA1701@reddit

Yeah they were way more subtle back then.
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davidbfromcali@reddit

The little alien saying “Take me to your dealer”
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Plutoniumburrito@reddit

The only ones I remember from back in the day are “FBI” “Master Baiter” and “I’m not a gynecologist”. A) because of the Funny Side Up catalog (who remembers?). B) my cousin’s husband had them.
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Possible-Tangelo9344@reddit

The I ♥️ Boobs, not a gynecologist stuff looks like what I remember. The "eating pussy cures depression" seems way more in your face than what I remember seeing there
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halflife-crisis@reddit

Definitely didn’t see the word pussy printed on shirts back in the day. Lots of Big Johnson and “coed naked” and stuff like that, but they did push it just a step further…
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khatpewp@reddit

![gif](giphy|8coEmqQxL39eMJcey0|downsized)
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Rob_Marc@reddit

My boss has the "I pee in pools" shirt. He was wearing it during our annual managers meeting at the boss's house last week. We were in the pool!
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NickLoner@reddit

Definitely more straightforward these days 😅
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Hot-Winner-6485@reddit

We at least had some slightly clever word play. Not saying it wasn’t as gross, but “pussy” wasn’t on shirts unless you like the band Nashville Pussy.
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MightBeAGoodIdea@reddit

I think they always had a few of those but they were mixed in with the band shirts and quippy dad joke slogans... it seems like all the dad jokes just went full incel or whatever. Thanks for reminding me why i never bother going to spencers, or the mall, anymore.
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Green_Archer_622@reddit

r/trashy
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ZeldaHylia@reddit

Spencer’s was always trash. My mom hates that store.. but she would go in with me. She’s still cool mom.
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TacticoolPeter@reddit

Probably more crude, or at least a bigger market share. I do remember a buddy always walking around in an “Orgasm Donor” shirt all the time twenty plus years ago, so there’s that too.
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Murdocs_Mistress@reddit

They've definitely gotten much more vulgar. I love a great funny shirt, but I draw the line with these. The funny part being 20 yr old me would call me a sell out for not wanting one LOL.
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ApplesBananasRhinoc@reddit

No subtlety any more!
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sabo81@reddit

Those remind me of the "Big Johnson" t-shirts.
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Cai_x2_ne@reddit

Where exactly is this Spencers and what hours are they open? Asking for a friend 😉
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_TheWolfOfWalmart_@reddit

Man that's awful.
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_Can_i_play_@reddit

The shirts back in the day were more wittier and subversive, these are just tacky. I do remember going through the hanging poster rack to see some good skin shots though.
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drainbead78@reddit

Back then it was all Coed Naked and Big Johnson shirts.
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katieclooney@reddit

Back in the day the shirts were clever. Now they are just blunt
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shovel_kat@reddit

I don't but I sure liked to browse the posters in the back.
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Professional_Rip_802@reddit

Did you forget about the [Big Johnson](https://www.bigjohnson.com) shirts?
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needlez67@reddit

Back in the day it was a little more subtle like fbi=female body inspector now it’s like I want to fuck across the shirt.
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Shanklin_The_Painter@reddit

The FBI one was still there back in the 90's. I remember there being lees overt dick jokes though.
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Roscoe_P_Trolltrain@reddit

The one that really caught my eye is Micro Penis Club President! I hope there are still some left when I go in. Must be sellin like hotcakes. 
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Monarc73@reddit

They've gotten WAAAAY WORSE.
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noblewind@reddit

I feel like ours had a bit more nuance but was probably equally naughty. These are the most basic design and text screenprint. Maybe it's time I start an Etsy. 😂
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catsdelicacy@reddit

We are ruder than 30 years ago. People feel free to say things that would have somebody in the Greatest Generation punch them. I'm not saying that's bad, mind you. It's just different.
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GeetarEnthusiast85@reddit

I dunno, I feel like shirts have always been like that. Only the pop culture references have changed. What I miss about the Spencer's of yore is the wall of Halloween masks that would be present every October. When I saw that every year, I instantly knew fall was really here.
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User_Says_What@reddit

Feel like I need to go back to church after reading this wall.
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peritonlogon@reddit

Nothing has changed except they sell stainless steel double wall insulated versions of it.
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SuperCareer5230@reddit

The “Big Johnson” was bit less direct
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FigSpecific6210@reddit

Spencers has always been 18+, but they never enforced it.
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doesntmeanathing@reddit

I appreciate these shirts. It’s always nice to see an obvious red flag and who I should avoid.
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Acceptable-Double-98@reddit

Yeah they have gotten crassier lol
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buffalocentric@reddit

Yikes. Not as bad as t-shirt hell but certainly not any better.
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