In case you haven’t checked out Mediocritee today, the site is apparently unlaunching and there are special-tees for the occasion. As sad as it is, I’m so happy the last shirt has a balloon dog.
@narfcake@pmarin@sammydog01 Cattee dot com is in the clutches of one of the rapaciously-greedy domain squatters, but cattee dot net is available. Have at it.
@narfcake@stinks Me too, not a fan of mashups. Also not a fan of anything super trendy. How many Wednesday themed shirts have Woot sold in the last couple of months?
@narfcake@stinks I, lisagd, a copy editor, give you permission to put prepositions at the ends of your sentences. The style manual I use, the Chicago Manual of Style, has never had that rule, but they made it official policy in 2003. So run, little narfcake, run free! End your sentences with prepositions with wild abandon!
I honesty thought this was a April Fools prank and was disappointed and surprised when I tried going to mediocritee today and discovered that it redirected to SideDeal
@werehatrack That’s actually what I was assuming, but didn’t want to blow anybody’s cover.
While also simultaneously hedging my bets enough that I could pretend like I knew all along, no matter how it turns out.
(Dave’s update sure makes it sound a lot more legit. April 1st sure seems like a bad time to make that announcement, though. Maybe they’re playing for an even bigger joke?)
Sounds like they’ll be still launching shirts on Meh and Sidedeal so it’s not farewell but also not goodbye nor is it a done deal or the end of an era or something.
@duodec “Tall sizes” - another phrase that may cause a t-shirt vendor to finally lose his cool and go on a murderous rampage. No, we don’t stock them in “tall sizes” because 1) Lots of shorter people not only don’t need them, but actively don’t want them. 2) The blanks cost twice as much, on average, and yet account for less than 1% of our sales when we make them available, which is much worse than the situation with women’s sizes. and 3) The blanks often have to come from out of state at added cost because not all warehouses for any given distributor will typically have them on hand, and sometimes they have to be drop-shipped, in full-case quantities of a single size that we absolutely do not need and can’t justify. (And they don’t even make a tall version of medium.)
@werehatrack And so I couldn’t buy a shirt from Meh with expectation of actually wearing it because it would ride up, wouldn’t stay below my beltline if I had to bend over (or would pull out if tucked in).
I actually bought a couple early on but in order to get close to a usable length I had to order 1-2 sizes too large, which presented its own problems. So they (both larger and ‘my’ size sans tall) became “actively don’t want them”. My wife didn’t even want mine for sleepshirts because they were many sizes too big and still not long enough on her for that purpose.
Happy for the short people. Bummer for a lot of the rest of us.
@duodec Sounds to me like the ones you got were cut like either Hanes Beefy-T (whose cut is about six inches shorter than regular in a 2X, proportional on the others) or Heritage Cotton (maybe an inch longer than a Beefy-T). Either that, or your proportions are way outside the average. Most of the non-el-cheapo men’s/unisex shirts used in the screen printing trade follow the sizes of Gildan 2000/5000 or the non-beefy Hanes, which fits most guys up to 6’2" pretty well, and constitutes a tunic on a lot of women. (That’s one of the complaints that I get a lot; that the shirts are too long for women.)
@werehatrack
Just over 6’ 5", a bit longer in the torso than average. All my shirts need to be tall sized or they ride up. It used to be I’d need to buy a lot of my clothes at uniform supply shops like LAPG; even big and tall places usually didn’t have good fits.
But t-shirts; tall sizes worked. I don’t remember the brands.
I’m wearing my X Wing shirt right now. Between this and the millennium falcon shirt I get the most compliments on what I wear and as a dude that’s a huge deal for me.
@medz When I was a kid my father told me something I said wasn’t right - I countered, “But I read it in a book!” He told me “Not everything you read is true” and completely blew my 8-year-old mind.
@haydesigner Ask Woot. According to one source, Warner finally resorted to having a local lawyer on retainer to serve the C&D on the day that the designs went live. (Warner and Disney will both throw C&D notices quickly when they notice infringements, and they follow up with service of a court filing if you ignore them.)
I feel guilty that I didn’t buy enough shirts. Even though I bought a ton of shirts.
@sammydog01 Over 60 here for certain; maybe even over 80 – and they weren’t all catshirts either!
@narfcake I’m not counting. Then I would feel guilty because of all the money I’ve spent on shirts.
@narfcake @sammydog01 Launching soon… cattee.com?
@narfcake @pmarin @sammydog01 Cattee dot com is in the clutches of one of the rapaciously-greedy domain squatters, but cattee dot net is available. Have at it.
Ah this will go well with my launch shirt!
First design I’ve purchased in a while I’m afraid. They started kinda strong, but kinda wandered into woot shirt land and lost me.
Thanks for the heads up.
Nice! UPGRADE!!!
Edit: From Dave:
Still, nice shirt.
@stinks If that happened, there’d be dozens of different designs every week.
I much prefer original designs instead of mashups, but the customers gravitate more towards the latter.
@narfcake @stinks Me too, not a fan of mashups. Also not a fan of anything super trendy. How many Wednesday themed shirts have Woot sold in the last couple of months?
@narfcake Yeah the mashups were that which unto I was referring. To. Or something.
Likey originals. English without prepositions at end sentences difficult.
/image unfrozen caveman lawyer
@narfcake @stinks I, lisagd, a copy editor, give you permission to put prepositions at the ends of your sentences. The style manual I use, the Chicago Manual of Style, has never had that rule, but they made it official policy in 2003. So run, little narfcake, run free! End your sentences with prepositions with wild abandon!
@lisagd @narfcake @stinks …assuming that you want to.
Aw.
@heartny Never trust any sudden or unexpected announcement this close to April 1st.
@TwiNaga I thought about that, but the post from @Dave sounded so sincere. Lol
I rarely bought t-shirts from mediocritee (or anywhere for that matter) because I have so damn many Meh shirts.
@awk So Mehny shirts.
I honesty thought this was a April Fools prank and was disappointed and surprised when I tried going to mediocritee today and discovered that it redirected to SideDeal
Too bad they didn’t at least do one last April Fool’s shirt before closing.
@xobzoo there’s always the possibility that that is an April fools shirt.
@werehatrack That’s actually what I was assuming, but didn’t want to blow anybody’s cover.
While also simultaneously hedging my bets enough that I could pretend like I knew all along, no matter how it turns out.
(Dave’s update sure makes it sound a lot more legit. April 1st sure seems like a bad time to make that announcement, though. Maybe they’re playing for an even bigger joke?)
/showme t-shirt factory on fire, workers fleeing in terror
@mediocrebot Me in said building
@Targaryen flee in terror!
@mediocrebot @Targaryen
Beaker!! My favorite muppet.
/giphy Beaker
/giphy failure-to-launch
@medz When did Nick Swardson get old?
Sounds like they’ll be still launching shirts on Meh and Sidedeal so it’s not farewell but also not goodbye nor is it a done deal or the end of an era or something.
the shirts would often require some explanation to friends (and just people you meet in a store). And actually that’s cool.
But this one would require a start of “Do you have some time? Have a seat and I’ll tell you a story…”
@pmarin Like this one?
http://www.instantattitudes.com/shirts/t042.html
Its because they didn’t have tall sizes.
@duodec “Tall sizes” - another phrase that may cause a t-shirt vendor to finally lose his cool and go on a murderous rampage. No, we don’t stock them in “tall sizes” because 1) Lots of shorter people not only don’t need them, but actively don’t want them. 2) The blanks cost twice as much, on average, and yet account for less than 1% of our sales when we make them available, which is much worse than the situation with women’s sizes. and 3) The blanks often have to come from out of state at added cost because not all warehouses for any given distributor will typically have them on hand, and sometimes they have to be drop-shipped, in full-case quantities of a single size that we absolutely do not need and can’t justify. (And they don’t even make a tall version of medium.)
@werehatrack And so I couldn’t buy a shirt from Meh with expectation of actually wearing it because it would ride up, wouldn’t stay below my beltline if I had to bend over (or would pull out if tucked in).
I actually bought a couple early on but in order to get close to a usable length I had to order 1-2 sizes too large, which presented its own problems. So they (both larger and ‘my’ size sans tall) became “actively don’t want them”. My wife didn’t even want mine for sleepshirts because they were many sizes too big and still not long enough on her for that purpose.
Happy for the short people. Bummer for a lot of the rest of us.
@duodec Sounds to me like the ones you got were cut like either Hanes Beefy-T (whose cut is about six inches shorter than regular in a 2X, proportional on the others) or Heritage Cotton (maybe an inch longer than a Beefy-T). Either that, or your proportions are way outside the average. Most of the non-el-cheapo men’s/unisex shirts used in the screen printing trade follow the sizes of Gildan 2000/5000 or the non-beefy Hanes, which fits most guys up to 6’2" pretty well, and constitutes a tunic on a lot of women. (That’s one of the complaints that I get a lot; that the shirts are too long for women.)
@werehatrack
Just over 6’ 5", a bit longer in the torso than average. All my shirts need to be tall sized or they ride up. It used to be I’d need to buy a lot of my clothes at uniform supply shops like LAPG; even big and tall places usually didn’t have good fits.
But t-shirts; tall sizes worked. I don’t remember the brands.
This is the worst day of my life. These shirts kept me going, now I have nothing left to look forward to. Farewell everyone.
@chiefbigbong While the site is gone, the shirts aren’t. It’s just getting merged in with SideDeal and meh.
https://sidedeal.com/events/mediocritee
I’m wearing my X Wing shirt right now. Between this and the millennium falcon shirt I get the most compliments on what I wear and as a dude that’s a huge deal for me.
/giphy fake-news
@medz When I was a kid my father told me something I said wasn’t right - I countered, “But I read it in a book!” He told me “Not everything you read is true” and completely blew my 8-year-old mind.
Wonder if the lawsuits from the content-owners finally caught up with them.
@pmarin They’d be going after the likes of TeeFury first, what with their much much much larger audience.
@pmarin what lawsuits?
@haydesigner Ask Woot. According to one source, Warner finally resorted to having a local lawyer on retainer to serve the C&D on the day that the designs went live. (Warner and Disney will both throw C&D notices quickly when they notice infringements, and they follow up with service of a court filing if you ignore them.)