Stupid Factory

[helen]

Stopped by the Ala Moana Shopping Center today and noticed that in the old Speedo store is a place called "David & Goliath Presents The Stupid Factory".

They are selling T-shirts, greeting cards, caps and some other stuff.

[adrian]

I've seen that place.

Why are they there anyway? (what's unique about their merchandise?)

[kukui_nut]

Stopped by the Ala Moana Shopping Center today and noticed that in the old Speedo store is a place called "David & Goliath Presents The Stupid Factory".

They are selling T-shirts, greeting cards, caps and some other stuff.
Oh, Stupid Factory=a store...

I thought this was about the State Legislature... :p

[Albert]

When this store first opened, up by the forthcoming "spectacular area" where Penney's used to be, I wondered why anyone would want to buy something from a place called "Stupid Factory". After glancing at their merchandise through the windows, I still wondered.

And they certainly did play the "musical chairs" game, a constant at Ala Moana Center, very quickly by moving down to the former Speedo location.

[slickvic]

Oh, Stupid Factory=a store...

I thought this was about the State Legislature... :p

Hahahaaha!
now THATS funny!

-vic


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[pzarquon]

And they certainly did play the "musical chairs" game, a constant at Ala Moana Center, very quickly by moving down to the former Speedo location.It won't be long before they're down in the forgotten bowels of the mall's lower level on the makai Diamond Head side, squished between parking decks, where most of the customers are either lost or on the way to Assagio's. After that, it's kiosk time!

There can't be much of a future in the stupid trinkets market. Those stores are a dime a dozen... Pearlridge has several. There was another one in Ala Moana, too, I recall, up next to where Jackie Chan's restaurant is and where the "new" House of Music used to be (now a glow-in-the-dark mini golf spot).

The only appeal I can see, from the business standpoint, is the profit margin. Stupid trinkets are like that. They probably pay $0.12 for the whoopee cushion that they sell for $12.

[Albert]

And now, a few years down the road, we're going to have a Nordstrom store in that barren area mauka of Ala Moana Center, where people can stop in on their walk from the main center's Stupid Factory to Walmart.

[Donna]

Although I don't know the whole story, apparently this is a trendy new thing for the younguns. It features apparel displaying witty(?) sayings and drawings that looked like someone knocked off a kindergarten art class, stuff like:

"I am shellfish."
"It's all about me."
"Peas on earth." (Pictured with some green peas surrounding the globe.)
"I'm a fox."
"Chicks rule."
"Stupid Factory. Where boys are made."

Admittedly, some of the stuff is cute. Of course, you'd never catch me wearing a "Boys are smelly" t-shirt -- but then again, let's just say that I am not their target market anyway.

[kukui_nut]

Although I don't know the whole story, apparently this is a trendy new thing for the younguns. It features apparel displaying witty(?) sayings and drawings that looked like someone knocked off a kindergarten art class, stuff like:

"I am shellfish."
"It's all about me."
"Peas on earth." (Pictured with some green peas surrounding the globe.)
"I'm a fox."
"Chicks rule."
"Stupid Factory. Where boys are made."

Admittedly, some of the stuff is cute. Of course, you'd never catch me wearing a "Boys are smelly" t-shirt -- but then again, let's just say that I am not their target market anyway.
I get irritated at some of this stuff...
To me it's almost a "cross-section" of the attitudes of our youth and this sort of thing only serves to perpetuate this lack of respect towards others.

That "Ainokea" stuff is all over the place, too. Arghh!

I wanna make one that says: "Ainokea that Eunokea"... :rolleyes:

[pzarquon]

That "Ainokea" stuff is all over the place, too. Arghh! I wanna make one that says: "Ainokea that Eunokea"...Heh. I've seen "Ainokea" bumper and window stickers, too.

Though it's unrelated to the thread, exactly where would "all over the place" be? Someone asked where to find it (http://www.hawaiianswers.com/index.php?page=index_v2&id=66&c=14) at our sister HawaiiAnswers.com site, and I didn't know offhand. The stuff is so widespread, though, I don't think all of it can be coming from "Ainokea, LLC" on Maui.

[kimo55]

Heh. I've seen "Ainokea" bumper and window stickers, too.

Though it's unrelated to the thread, exactly where would "all over the place" be? Someone asked where to find it (http://www.hawaiianswers.com/index.php?page=index_v2&id=66&c=14) at our sister HawaiiAnswers.com site, and I didn't know offhand. The stuff is so widespread, though, I don't think all of it can be coming from "Ainokea, LLC" on Maui.


Ainokea you try go swap meet fo find da kine.

[kimo55]

(Stupid factory features t shirts with) drawings that looked like someone knocked off a kindergarten art class, stuff like:

"I am shellfish."
"It's all about me."
"Peas on earth." (Pictured with some green peas surrounding the globe.)
"I'm a fox."
"Chicks rule."
"Stupid Factory. Where boys are made."


The dumbing down of contemporary culture and the american masses has hit a milestone: Shoppers are too dumb to realize they are buying dumb stuff that is actually called stupid and not intelligent to see the inference; THEY are dumb and stupid for buying stupid stuff and they are BEING called dumb. And stupid. But then, maybe that's what MTV (empty tv) , rap music, king of the hill, rosanne, jerry springer, et. al. are all about; we are PROUD to be a nation of imbeciles. And we wear our flag proudly by buying junk and filling our lives with it all!
(ok; when's the grand opening of walmart again!?")

[kimo55]

"Chicks rule."

"Guys Yardstick"

[j3rr3y]

I get irritated at some of this stuff...
To me it's almost a "cross-section" of the attitudes of our youth and this sort of thing only serves to perpetuate this lack of respect towards others.


I agree... I think these shirts capitalize on people's bad sides and eventually it becomes normal, then perfectly cool to treat people like that all the time...

[kimo55]

I agree... I think these shirts capitalize on people's bad sides and eventually it becomes normal, then perfectly cool to treat people like that all the time...


what burns me fanny is how pornography has become mainstream in such a way...
young girls wearing printed slogan t shirts in public that says:
retail slut

or

pimp

or whore

or any number of increasingly popular vulgarities from the lowest level of gutter vocabulary.
I hate to see this. God damit ta hell, i hate to see bad words in public!

[craigwatanabe]

And to think this is the generation that's supposed to have learned from our mistakes and will make the world a better place? Oh man civilization is doomed!

But then again I think previous generations helped foster these obviously vulgar T-Shirts when we used to stick "Kick me" notes on the back of them.

Now speaking of T-Shirts, the best pair of shirts I've seen was the one the pregnant woman wears with the words "under construction" and an arrow pointing to her abdomen. The guy wears a matching shirt, "construction worker". :D

[kimo55]

Now speaking of T-Shirts, the best pair of shirts I've seen was the one the pregnant woman wears with the words "under construction" and an arrow pointing to her abdomen. The guy wears a matching shirt, "construction worker". :D

now that's cute.
indirectly pokes a little fun at the "one in the oven" slogan shirt for hapai wahine.
Glad I dont see that anymore.

[craigwatanabe]

Me too I got six boys!