Outside of the Twinkies is there anyone more shallow???

[susandennis]

I was outside just now and saw a guy walk by with a No Iraq War button on. My first thought was 'gee, can't they make a more attractive button than that???'



Wouldn't more people wear it if it wasn't so ugly?

The very very first internet purchase I made was a lapel button. I remember it was before IE and before Netscape 2, in other words, before you had colored backgrounds to webpages... Anyway, this guy had a webpage selling big old buttons that were white with the international 'no' circle with a slash and the words "OJ Free Zone". His website said 'send me a buck and I'll send you a button.' I put a dollar in an envelope and within a week I had my button. I've bought a few things more online since then but one does tend to remember one's first.

I have this jacket from the Salvation Army that has all kinds of buttons on it - I am a 60's child - and one of those is the OJ button. I don't wear it often but nowadays, when I do, most people don't get the OJ reference.

Comments

war isn't pretty.

[henare.livejournal.com]

would you really have noticed it if it were prettier? the point is to get the message across, not to be aesthetically pleasant.

Re: war isn't pretty.

[susandennis]

I know you are right. I don't like it but I know it. Sigh. I guess my wish is for the world to be peaceful and pretty.

Re: war isn't pretty.

[pinkfish.livejournal.com]

It also manages to put a "peace" message into the oh-so-popular patriotic medium. I wonder if you would have thought this so ugly a few years ago, before the red, white and blue receptors in your eyes were burned out.

Re: war isn't pretty.

[susandennis]

Boy, you sure nailed that. I used to even kind of like those colors and now they make me nauseous.

[joyofmacs.livejournal.com]

You post about buttons reminds me of FLAIR, flair being the various buttons the employees had to wear in the movie Office Space. Ever see that movie? I think you might like it.

I have some buttons from WWII. They were my grandfathers. One is of a fighter plane. It is my favorite.

You are in the business of communications. I can understand why you notice ugly buttons. At my work they would of torn it apart too but because of the design. In my dept. I don't think they much care one way or another about war. This is very unlike the majority of faculty who are dead set against war. I have mixed feelings but at least I care. But i don't wear flair because (shhhh) I am self conscious of my -- of my chest. It is too big and I hate my breasteseses. I need reduction and I need it now! Sorry, i know this is more info than you want to know.

[susandennis]

I did see Offcie Space. And I do sympathize with your chest situation. I have just the opposite. I spent way too much time in the butt line and none in the boob line. Flat as a pancake. Never had to wear a bra - ever. But, I've always always always thought even when I was young and it so mattered that it was better to be flat chested than to have the burden to too much. But in the ass department?? J Lo will have to eat my dust.

how embarrassing

[judith.livejournal.com]

I'm an escapee from the sixties myself but I don't remember that reference to OJ! I have probably just forgotten...but what does it stand for?

Re: how embarrassing

[susandennis]

The OJ reference isn't the 60's... The button was meant to convey 'do not talk to me about OJ Simpson or his trial, I am sick of all of it.' Don't worry about not getting it now you would have if you had seen it at the time.

Re: how embarrassing

[judith.livejournal.com]

Are you serious, that most people would not get THAT reference? Of course I remember the OJ trial, and remember wanting to be well away from it and the white Bronco. For some reason I thought you were referring to the anti-Vietnam War period and I didn't remember any OJs then. So my memory is not quite as foggy as I thought.