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someone is a noonan here.... DOLO LOVE GENERAL PANTS LONG TIME

Hmmm...someone is a little stubborn here.... If you know the history of General Pants, you know that they think parody is some kind of bird, irony is something that makes your clothes nice and flat and black humour has something to do with Eddie Murphy... Is it really sooo hard to admit that maybe you don't know as much as you think about everything in the entire UNIVERSE.... How did you come to see the issue anyway...?

Hmmm how can you make a judgement on a spread you haven't seen? How can you assume it is a parody? I guess it is interesting to push another view - but does it therefore follow that you can copy anything, by anyone and it is OK, because it might be a parody? That is just depressing. Recognising the roots of a shopfront, and going with them, is not biting. Doing a tribute to someone you admire, is not biting. Pretending to have an original idea (when it is not) before a captive audience who don't know any better - is biting. Is integrity important to you guys? What is the point of being so interested in global design and fashion, if you don't give a shit where it came from? Maybe all ideas are derivative of someone else's stuff - but this is a far cry from being a total biter. Are you just mindless consumers jumping from one link to the next to add to your very long web-intinerary, or do you actually care about the stuff you are pushing? Or does it just make you feel good to drop the names and talk the talk? And why make points about retail in Australia, if you claim you don't know about it - why not find out more...? Or is it just the supertalk philosophy to read everyone elses forums and say 'whatever' 'get over it' 'who cares'.... if you don't care why contribute?

Hmmm sounds like someone has a vested interest, Dolo.... what does DQM think about this - considering most General Pants customers have NEVER heard of DQM - where is the relevance of a parody? It is really not an obvious parody - GPs has a long history of biting small guys - here is another example - but feel free to lick the hand that feeds... GP is a crap chain doing boring stuff and using artists and designers to get their cool - feel free to support that. It is like pretending that Gap is original. Just because they might let you put some of your artwork in their crap magazine and call it giving you a profile, doesn't mean it is right. What is your connection to General Pants, Sneaker Freaker et al... anyway...?

Australian Streetwear Store General Pants recently launched their new Footwear campaign with their cool new ORIGINAL title Dave's Quality Feet. Those interested in lobbying General Pants against their BLATANT Dave's Quality Meats BITE can go to [email protected] to vent their disgust. They are plagiaristic (is that a word?!) bastards.

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