Clothing with "swearing"

Twice in my teens in early 90's Stoke I got a "talking to" from different Police Officers all over one summer due to my t-shirts as I was walking around the main shopping area (The Potteries Centre). One was the now infamous Cradle of Filth one with "Jesus is a ****" on the back and the other by Medulla Noche had no swearing but the image of the aftermath of a persons suicide by shotgun on the back with "All our friends are Dead".

Happily I grew out of that "shocking t-shirt" age quite quickly, mainly due to my dad (also a copper) finding out I'd been stopped as he didn't know about the t-shirts before hand, all of which caused me to rapidly reappraise my own attitude :D
 
Chris Wilson said:
Did you wear it in China though? :) Such things just proclaim the wearer as an attention seeking misfit who has almost certainly never heard of Savile Row and would probably equate it with paedophilia, should it be mentioned.

Your good self and the narrative of your t-shirt excepted, naturally!
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Attention seeking? Most people gave me a wide berth!

Good point- they should rename Savile Row. Disgusting my tax goes to glorify him.
 
ianh said:
Twice in my teens in early 90's Stoke I got a "talking to" from different Police Officers all over one summer due to my t-shirts as I was walking around the main shopping area (The Potteries Centre). One was the now infamous Cradle of Filth one with "Jesus is a ****" on the back and the other by Medulla Noche had no swearing but the image of the aftermath of a persons suicide by shotgun on the back with "All our friends are Dead".

Happily I grew out of that "shocking t-shirt" age quite quickly, mainly due to my dad (also a copper) finding out I'd been stopped as he didn't know about the t-shirts before hand, all of which caused me to rapidly reappraise my own attitude :D
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Heh, that cradle of filth t-shirt was pretty annoying.

Was it them with the back print "take drugs, sniff glue, kill your parents"?
 
No swearing on the shirt, but never meet your girlfriend's aunty when wearing an Impaled Nazarene t-shirt. Especially if the aunty in question happens to be a full-on Catholic nun.
 
I was ejected from a John Menzies store in Dundee a very long time ago for wearing a Wonder Stuff band t-shirt with the "God bless every ******* one of us" logo on the back. I thought I was cool but I was not :(
 
arknor said:
it must have been this one
www.theguardian.com

Police apologise to woman told to cover up anti-Boris Johnson T-shirt

British Transport Police say instruction to Jessie-Lu Flynn at BLM protest was unlawful
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Yeah, I think that's perhaps where you need to be warier, if it's quite prominent/on the front, in big lettering and especially if it's related to politics then you may have issues.

In the OP's case, it's not so prominent, it's among a bunch of other text and one of the swear words is partly obscured.

I doubt he'd have much hassle from the police, one thing to consider with this stuff perhaps is airlines - they might ask for an item of clothing to be removed or covered up if they deem it to be offensive and they're perhaps going to be a bit more conservative about what counts as offensive than a typical police officer.
 
I think people would have to be looking really close for the swear word. I only saw it because OP pointed it out.
 
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