What You Think Would Be The Best Texts To Print On A T-shirt To Wear On The Thai Streets ?

[SeanMoran]

DANGEROUS GOODS

HIGHLY FLAMMABLE

HANDLE WITH CARE

[Lammbock]

Long Live our beloved Prime Thaksin!

[sandgroper2]

There is a site which has many different thai sayings which are commonly seen on bumper stickers affixed to cars.

Here is the site link; http://crcl.th.net/sticker/

Although I can't get the thai fonts to display properly, most can be read from the bumper sticker pictures.

I also believe that there was a T/V Language Forum thread which wrote them out in a more of a standardized thai font so they could be read easier; as well as provided more insight into their meanings.

Two shirts I've had good luck from are; 'Crazy but not stupid" (บ้า! แต่ว่าไม่โง่) and I've got laughs from it, as well as the thai proverb; "A handful of shit is better than a handful of fart" (กำขี้ดีกว่ากำตด).

Due to the difficulty of translating directly from engrish into thai and retaining the meaning, most american engrish shirts with tongue in cheek inscriptions translate into jibberish here, and one needs only look at the meaningless engrish japanese and koreans will adorn their t-shirts with just to have something printed with engrish on it.

A person would do well to use colloquial thai with proverbs, idioms, etc that are known to everyone rather than make up a shirt that no one understands other than the wearer. A shirt loses a lot of shock value if you must take 5 minutes to explain the meaning.

As an example, I have a shirt that says, "This Ain't Kansas, Toto.."; which is what Dorothy says to her dog, Toto, in the old movie The Wizard of Oz after her house lands in Oz. The number of times I've had people ask me what "two-two" meant, made me stop wearing the shirt. Obviously it's an American specific idiom and doesn't play well to the rest of the engrish speaking countries populace.

MINE'S DIFFERENT

[WeeGB]

How about "No, I don't want a facking suit", special edition for pattaya beach road.

[ableguy]

Is this a match for the 'how to get a stall/space' for the market?

Anything you print that gets seen around town (is liked by locals) will be copied before your ink dries.

Not really, I have more interesting products

(unless it's a real moneymaker)

bomb squad

if you see me running please try and keep up

[Thongkorn]

She is not my girlfriend.

Its just my turn next.

[jonclark]

No shit Somchai!!

[NearestTheTee]

When in doubt try another hole

A golfers t-shirt of course

[LivinLOS]

"Ask me about our drinks for blowjobs policy"

"I support single moms"

The classic T shirt hel_l ones