When did vulgar UT shirts become a thing?

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Butch s said:
My first girlfriend’s mom heard me cuss one day when I was a teenager. Will never ever forget her response “ it shows a lack of intelligence that you couldn’t think of a better word to use there “. I remember feeling really small, but it has stuck with me my entire life
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I have a few teenage nephews that will cuss around me (not at me). I tell them pretty much the same thing. Or tell them using F too flippantly dilutes the effectiveness for when it is needed.

Thankfully they have the wherewithal to hold back around my kids who are younger than them.

My mom would (still does) curse around me but my dad never did. There were times he really wanted to but bit his tongue. I’m the same way around my kids.
 
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Well Dangit. Just when I get a Buck Fama shirt for Christmas, y’all go and make it uncool.
Probably going to wear it anyway next October, around the 3rd Saturday, in Tuscaloosa.
 
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A guy at work used the word crap and then apologized. He said growing up using that word was not acceptable to his parents.

Times have changed.

Once I recommend a movie to my Momma, so she went to Blockbuster to rent and watch. The next time we spoke she described her experience as horrifying. Apparently the made for tv version wasn’t as rude, crude and socially unacceptable. Although she was great at walking into the room just as something crude was on display and would always ask, “What filth are you watching?”. I say always, “What filth are you watching with my grand baby?”, was her go to question later on.

In a very respectful manner I would say, “Now Mother, when they ask him at Church or school where he learned such filth, you know you will prefer that he says from a movie on tv rather than him to say from his daddy.”. Any time she would correct me for calling her mother rather than momma and then address my reasoning, I knew that I had made a valid point. When she would correct my statement 1st then say, “I’m your momma.”, that’s when I knew she really disagreed with what I said more than me calling her mother and I only called her mother to bug her and throw her off her game.

Using crude language isn’t my thing unless you count while fishing, golfing and mumbling under my breath while dealing with other undesirable circumstances.
 
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Words have become less and less vulgar when society allowed social media on phones and parents using it as babysitters. A shirt isn't the worst thing they saw that day if they have tiktok.
Time to bring back Tipper Gore to censor
 
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When I see someone wearing a t-shirt with obscenities on it I usually assume white trash. The stereotype usually holds up 95% of the time.
 
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Iam4utalways said:
A guy at work used the word crap and then apologized. He said growing up using that word was not acceptable to his parents.
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'Crap' 'bitch' and 'sucks' were inappropriate words when I was a kid. And 'OMG'. And 'fart.' You could tell because kids didn't use those words around adults and adults didn't use them around kids.

Now you hear them on kids programming.
 
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GroverCleveland said:
Vulgarity seems to be taking over society. I'm no prude as I grew up on a farm and can cuss with any sailors, but not proud of it and try hard to keep it out of my vocabulary. It is embarrassing to me when I fail.

Best line I ever heard about it was something my great-grandmother from Tellico Plains said to my dad when he was a kid and used the S-word; "Son, why would you put something you wouldn't hold in your hand, in your mouth?"

Wisdom. And every time I fail, I think about her words.
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My favorite similar line is “Do you kiss your momma with that mouth?”.
 
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joevol33 said:
Random, useless fact, it's going on 28 years since I said a cuss word now. Not saying that like I'm better than anyone. I was just bad before my Christian days, and it was something that bothered me, so when the good Lord changed me, I didn't want to anymore. That said, kiffin, Dooley, Butch, and Pruitt really made me come close 🤣
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This question genuinely comes from a place of curiosity...

Do you honestly believe Jesus cares that people use the word ****, for example, that was created thousands of years after his supposable existence and refers to feces?
 
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I still have some buttons they were selling in New Orleans at the 85 Sugar Bowl that were pretty bad. Folks were wearing them pinned to their shirts...caps etc. They were pretty raunchy towards The U.....I don't remember wearing one but I bought them to have. I came across them in a drawer back last Summer...it brought back 4 days of fun memories......What I can remember. :)
 
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Polite society has never tolerated vulgar. Again, whose rules determine the standard? Maybe a simple answer is to ask what entices violence or anger ? I would think the F word or a finger in my direction ! Yep, that guy is NOT my friend. The “old” folks (at least in my area) always resisted any language or action that pointed to sexuality in a public setting or mixed company. The F word ( and several others) immediately drew attention to that. That’s not necessarily the case these days, but we all know what that word implies. It also amuses me how that word, or a similar form of it, is used in many languages describing the sex act.
 
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JohnWardForever said:
Then someone with authority needs to step up. That stuff should be unacceptable in any public venue. Period.
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Who would that authority be? Inside the stadium, I could definitely see police/security escort someone out or make them cover it up. Seems pretty reasonable to me.

I would argue that anything outside the stadium, specifically those that are selling the shirts, is probably a lost cause. I assume the police and university staff who could potentially enforce some sort of obscenity or copyright laws are completely overwhelmed when a game at Neyland is going on, especially when it lets out. I would also suspect that if the issue was brought to the attention of the police, they would react by saying they have bigger fish to fry or need more manpower/money to handle this issue. Are we prepared to pay more taxes/raise ticket prices, etc to staff the force needed to enforce obscenity/copyright laws?
 
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865er said:
This question genuinely comes from a place of curiosity...

Do you honestly believe Jesus cares that people use the word ****, for example, that was created thousands of years after his supposable existence and refers to feces?
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I honestly don't know. As a Christian, I believe there are things that are absolutely wrong, then there are things that are convictions to us each our own. I don't judge anyone for what words they say, but it was just something that was a conviction to me. I just didn't want to be talking to someone about church one minute, then saying something that may be offensive the next. Like I said though, that's just my personal conviction.
 
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SayUWantAreVOLution said:
It's interesting to see people condemning vulgar language on a UT Athletics board. You DO know how coaches talk, right?
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I know how people talk. Most of us can and should do better.

Meanwhile I bet the coaches talk differently in the locker room or on the practice field than they do in front of momma on an in home visit.
 
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BondJamesBond said:
I know how people talk. Most of us can and should do better.

Meanwhile I bet the coaches talk differently in the locker room or on the practice field than they do in front of momma on an in home visit.
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Sure, but they spend a lot more time coaching than "making nice" for the public.

That's the point. People talk to the level they respect their audience. All of us do it and it's not a measure of our "breeding" or how society has fallen. I can assure you those fishermen following Jesus spoke like fishermen when they weren't preaching.
 
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tomq_123 said:
You should listen to my 14 year old's Spotify playlists. My wife and I are constantly amazed on what is said in some of these "songs" and my daughter routinely lets some of these words slip. Obviously when I was a teen it seemed cool to cuss, but there were words (f-word, c-word, b-word, etc..) that we just didn't say especially in front of adults (our parents or friends parents). This is just another example of how the entertainment industry is trying to subvert societal norms and indoctrinate our children. jmo
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It’s on Apple Music too. I couldn’t believe the lyrics from some female songs. I’m an old guy but I don’t see this culture surviving. That’s all l’m gonna say about that!
 
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SayUWantAreVOLution said:
It's interesting to see people condemning vulgar language on a UT Athletics board. You DO know how coaches talk, right?
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This wasn't really about talk it's about walking around representing the UT fanbase with the words emblazoned on your chest
 
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utvolpj said:
This wasn't really about talk it's about walking around representing the UT fanbase with the words emblazoned on your chest
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No one represents UT more than the coaches and many of them could melt your ears in practice, I'm sure.

There's video of Johnny singing "we don't give damn about the whole state of Alabama...." from long ago.

I just find it funny people here want to say this is "new" or reflects "moral decay" or whatever. It doesn't. People are vile and have been vile since Cain grabbed a rock.
 
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joevol33 said:
I honestly don't know. As a Christian, I believe there are things that are absolutely wrong, then there are things that are convictions to us each our own. I don't judge anyone for what words they say, but it was just something that was a conviction to me. I just didn't want to be talking to someone about church one minute, then saying something that may be offensive the next. Like I said though, that's just my personal conviction.
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I get that and want to reiterate again that was a genuine question. Growing up in the south I always heard people relating vulgar words to sin and it makes absolutely no sense to me.
 
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