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    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.

  • #2
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    I've seen that place.

    Why are they there anyway? (what's unique about their merchandise?)
    How'd I get so white and nerdy?

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    • #3
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      Originally posted by 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.
      Oh, Stupid Factory=a store...

      I thought this was about the State Legislature...

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      • #4
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        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.

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        • #5
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          Originally posted by kukui_nut
          Oh, Stupid Factory=a store...

          I thought this was about the State Legislature...
          Hahahaaha!
          now THATS funny!

          -vic


          Enjoy this moment. This moment is your life.

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          • #6
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            Originally posted by Albert
            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.

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            • #7
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              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.

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              • #8
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                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.

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                • #9
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                  Originally posted by 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.
                  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"...

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                  • #10
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                    Originally posted by kukui_nut
                    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 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.

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                    • #11
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                      Originally posted by pzarquon
                      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 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.

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                      • #12
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                        Originally posted by Donna
                        (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!?")

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                        • #13
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                          Originally posted by Donna
                          "Chicks rule."
                          "Guys Yardstick"

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                          • #14
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                            Originally posted by kukui_nut
                            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...

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                            • #15
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                              Originally posted by j3rr3y
                              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!

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