jimjack on 30/1/2008 at 01:52

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I generally don't worry too much about what I'm going to wear to school. Basically tshirt/jeans combo. Maybe a pullover. I don't follow labels or brands, it just doesn't matter to me. I have so many t-shirts, it's crazy. I just grab whatever is clean and being first thing in the morning I don't really check exactly what statement I'll be wearing that day. Not always.


I didn't know this, but there seems to have been a change in the t-shirt rule at school. I seemed to have helped that along today. First it was flip-flops and bare midriffs and short skirts with long socks. A while back we couldn't even touch each other.

There are all sorts who wear their slogans on their t-shirts. Some are ironic, some are funny, some are loaded with a double meaning. Some are pretty blatant..you get a guy walking by with a cannabis leaf emblazoned on his shirt, another walks by with "got crabs?" (it was for a seafood restaurant) others have got the fock word along with a band title, then you got your beer brands as well.. and noone on the staff seems to find the time to admonish these. I like the freedome to wear what you want, after having spent years wearing a uniform.

Look at what I can't wear to school.
http://files.myopera.com/medlar/albums/453612/jimshirt.jpg
"Beer, proud sponsors of hooking up since 1858"

Honest, I didn't actually know I put it on. I just grabbed it out my drawer and threw it on and put on a pullover. It's winter mornings and they are dark and cold and you just want to dress fast...I've had this shirt for years, it was given to me by my mum's boyfriend, the only one I could tolerate. I've hardly ever worn it. It came with a curse.

A half hour into my first class, I take off my pullover and the teacher who generally ignores me, had a wobbly over my shirt and told me to go change it or turn it inside out. I knew she wasn't going to buy into my claiming that I had no idea what was on my shirt even though I tried that. So I got sullen about having to go change, since I had nothing to change into except some minging gym gear, and then I got cheeky and I showed off my ripped form :rolleyes: and turned it inside out. *cue snickering classmates, fainting girls ftw. The teacher then had me stroll to the office "now that we have your sense of appropriate fashion sorted out Jim" ..and not being impressed in the least. There I had to again plead my case without convincing anyone and actually got sent home and told to write a two hundred word essay on Underage Drinking and to then read it to the class in two days. Oh man. Was it not enough to just say I won't wear it again??

Right, before I get steamrolled. I did push the envelope. I am underage, in highschool, and of course I shouldn't be wearing it. It makes a pretty cool statement like "look at me, I'm 17 and I need to advertise I drink statements. Am I trying to hard?"

It seems my english teacher is the fashion police and she nabbed me. I've been taken out of school for day for worse things than this! I just had to get this rant off my chest, and now to write something contrite and meaningful about the perils of underage drinking. The unjustice of it all.

Anyone else gone through this form of inquistion at school? Or am i just that badass :mad:


I should add: at my cousin's daycare, the boys (and girls) are prohibted from wearing any shirts with spiderman/batman logos on them.

Scots Taffer on 30/1/2008 at 02:21

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I had to write 200 lines about a shirt I wore once that read simply "Yer Mum". It was the most fun I ever had.

jimjack on 30/1/2008 at 02:46

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The words for my topic just don't come that easily for me.

fett on 30/1/2008 at 03:34

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I showed up at my 1st graders school wearing an old 'Fuck Tha Police' T-shirt a few months ago. I wear it when I'm bathing the dog or whatever (I'd been moving some boxes around in the attic). Luckily I realized it on my way across the parking lot and went back to the car for my pullover. :eww:

jimjack on 30/1/2008 at 05:11

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They might think they have won the battle but there is still a war to be had. But yeah, I'll placate them for now. I have no choice in the matter. I have written 97 words thus far: Though I am hopelessly distracted with other activities at hand. The jist of it:

"If you are under the age of 21, or if you drink too much at any age..alcohol is especially risky:

It is possible to drink legally http://files.myopera.com/jim91/albums/245379/beer.gifand responsibly but drinking too much too soon..

-can effect your mood and thinking:confused:
-can hurt others, damage relationships http://files.myopera.com/jim91/albums/245379/friday.gif and lead to legal problems.
-alcohol can harm your body now http://files.myopera.com/jim91/albums/245379/barf.gifand when you grow up http://files.myopera.com/jim91/albums/245379/drool.gif It could kill you!
What can you do? Well, Parents, you can talk to your delinquint spawn early and often http://files.myopera.com/jim91/albums/245379/soapbox.gif about the dangers of underage drinking and the consequences of providing liqour to minors..yadayyada.

I think it's coming along nicely:thumb:





Oh yes. That will definitely be in the works.