well, they got me. being on mailing lists means that, from time to time, one is lured into making a purchase, look you see. and so this is an incident or case of this happening.
them people at Zavvi, i think is how you spell it, were determined to secure some coins of money off of me in exchange for more t-shirts than i could possibly use. for several weeks they have been sending variations on a deal, with one, to be sure, finally convincing me that yes, i will buy.
above is the parcel what they got coins of money off of me for, then. it arrived in some 72 hours of ordering, give or take. this is not bad at all. the first time i ordered something off of Zavvi it took, oooh, 240 hours or more to arrive. and in that time i got some 240 mails requesting i buy more, which is why that first order was nearly my last.
just what did they lure me in with? some as they call it "geek" t-shirts. the first offer, 10 (ten!) for £29.99 was enticing, but that's a lot of money to be parting with for 10 t-shirts what you don't need. a counter offer was made, offering 5 for £17.99. again, this seemed excessive so i passed.
the third offer, however, said £17.99 for 5, or £14.99 for 5 and some sort of Captain America comic, or if you will "graphic novel". so that they may feel as though i heard them, i condescended to agree on this one and placed an order. hence, five "random" t-shirts of "geek" provenance are mine.
right there above is the first out of the pack, then. the first thing what i noticed was how thin and of inferior quality the t-shirts are. after that, i of course observed that this t-shirt was some sort of homage or tribute to that Pac Man game, where one pops pills, sees ghosts, pops a super strong pill and can eat ghosts. nice that it has a mention of Tokyo on it, which is a place in Japan, i think you will find, unless i am very much mistaken.
an important part of the lure was the suggestion of what t-shirts you might get if you ordered. the tacit, implied promise was that they were t-shirts off things like Labyrinth, RoboCop (hopefully proper), Deadpool (whatever that is) and "many others". my random pile, evidently, came from "many others".
i actually have no idea whatsoever what the above is off. but for some reason it looks familiar. hang on, let me do one of them google things.
no. when i search for "glasses and cross bones" or "skull and cross bones glasses instead of skull" all i get is a lot of links to sell me glasses that you drink out of with a skull and crossbones logo or emblem on them.
perhaps this is off of Goonies, or that Harry Potter thing, then. or even Hook i guess. anyway, if you have any idea what "geek" related thing the above is off, and you can be bothered to do so, please let me know.
more arcade game related geek stuff then with the third shirt. this is a fairly standard American video arcade game machine sign, you would think. one knows it is American as it has 25c on it, which is a "quarter". much of America's problems, i suspect, come down to their insistence of using a "quarter" coin. just have regular denominations like what we do in the rest of the world and get on with your life.
do i have any intention of wearing these out in public? no. they are too thin and i suspect they will be quite "clingy", so should reveal more of my outrageous physique than i would care to share. i suppose for the most part they shall be worn for sleeping in, or on rare instances when i get to laze around the house for an entire day.
my rationale was that, at the price quoted, if one of them turned out to be decent and four not so much then it would be fair enough. instead, then, i have four "average" ones, really. they are not bad, i suppose, but they are not totes fab. i mean, if i saw them in a shop for £3 a go, like what i paid, i am not sure i would have picked them up and purchased. but maybe i would.
this one above excited me when i saw the bottom. at first all i saw was "Academy", in the familiar font of the Police Academy films. sadly, then, unfolding the entire t-shirt revealed it to be for a "mutant" academy rather than a police one.
i should have known, of course, as Police Academy is not for "geeks". well, the first four are not. ok, maybe the first three.
as far as either i or my (considerably) better half can work out, then, this one is something to do with that X Men business. that is the only thing we can think of what featured both mutants and a school. oh, hang on, maybe Class Of Nuke 'Em High. that would be cool.
finally, then, the mother lode of geek things in the form of Star Wars. except, well, this isn't that interesting. Hoth is kind of OK, because it featured in the same film what Lando and Lobot did. saying "Hoth Ski Gear", however, makes little sense. none of them went skiing in the film, and there was no ski gear in it at all that i am aware of.
so, that's the latest additions to my troublesome wardrobe. also, i guess, this is what happens when you take a punt or other form of gamble on what Zavvi offer as a "surprise" package. what do i think of it all? well, i am not disappointed, but also not left thrilled or feeling like i scored big time.
why it should do so is beyond me, but if this has been of interest or use to you then so much the better.
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