One of the little amusements about life in Hong Kong is spotting people wearing t-shirts bearing slogans in English which often skirt perilously close to doggerel - a phenomenon which is a subset of Hong Kong women's wacky fashion sense and which more than a few times has made me wish I had one of those most tacky of accessories, a camera phone.
Today on my way up the escalator I spotted this on someone's back (reproduced in full, complete with superfluous curly brackets and colon):
} too ORANGEY
for porn: {
I glanced at her face on the way by. I don't think I'm wrong in concluding that she clearly didn't have the faintest idea what her t-shirt was saying about her.
I've collected a few of these now: my favourite is still
I AM FULL
STOMACH
but I'm also very fond of
I AM PERFECTLY
FLOWER
and
SUNNY DAY. HE
IS WAIT FOR BUS
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They're little haikus really, aren't they?
they're my absolute favourite things.. i kind of wish the reverse in chinese (i.e. the t-shirts with random chinese words you'd find in somewhere like camden market) are quite as good but they never are.. one guy wore one that said "desk", and that was about as good as it got.
I've got another one:
THE STRANGE FRIEND
WHO WAS NOT THERE
WAS MADE IN THE GROUND
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