WILL.I.AM's comment on Einstein

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Originally Posted by TehSwegGey

Found this on TeeSpring today:

I think this is going too far.

I heard the remark, and I laughed so loud and so hard it probably could be called a cheer. I was sitting next to two 17 year-olds, and they were more subdued than I was, probably because they weren't sure how I would react. In that moment, from that source and in that context, I thought it made a real statement that people could relate to. But all of the great points that have already been brought up, about the context and the passion, are absent on a t-shirt. It's just a shirt with vulgarity, and I can't believe that FIRST wants their name or their logo associated with it in that context (or lack of).

Funny that nobody has directly quoted it here. There's a reason for that. We could probably walk to Mars if we lined up all of the red dots that have accumulated on CD for using those words.

We're not just trying to bring in teenagers or adults who want to be cool like teenagers, we're trying to bring in sponsors and mentors as well. Would we wear that shirt to a sponsor presentation to ask for mentors or financial support? When we picked up our team t-shirts this year, oddly enough, one of the employees approached us about coming to support us and mentoring in the graphic arts group next year. I doubt that would have been the reaction if we were having these shirts printed.

Now get off my lawn!