SWPL wants ideas for non-profit t-shirt cash (and Fat American says cars ain’t smart)

The acerbic and entertaining Stuff White People Like blog has linked to a t-shirt being offered by FatAmerican.tv. All profits from sale of the shirt will go to a non-profit org nominated by readers of SWPL.

Send an email to [email protected] with “Non-Profit SUGGESTION” as the subject. Include a link and a short description of the organisation and their work. How about a bike non-profit?

What White People Like has previously taken a loving potshot at bicycles:

“A good place to find white people on a Saturday is at a Bike Shop. Bike shops are almost entirely staffed and patronized by white people!

“They love expensive Road Bikes and the accompanying spandex uniforms. This enables them to ride long distances and wear really tight clothes without any social stigmas. These types of riders will spend upwards of $5,000 on a bicycle and up to $400 on accessories, but will not ride to work. Perhaps because they cannot wear the spandex. It is important that you never question why someone needs a $5000 bicycle since the answer is always ‘performance.’

“But there is a special category of bicycles that appeal far more to white women, the European city bike. White women have a lot of fantasies about idealized lives, and one of them is living in Europe and riding around an old city on one of these bikes. They dream about waking up and riding to a little cafe, then visiting bakeries and cheese shops and finally riding home to prepare a fancy meal for their friends who will all eat under a canopy with white Christmas lights.

And of course, it goes without saying that white people who ride bikes like to talk about how they are saving the earth. If you know a person who rides to work, you should take them aside and say ‘Hey, thanks. Sincerely, The Earth.’ Then give a thumbs up. That white person will ride home on a cloud.”

FatAmerican.tv has another bike-themed t-shirt, Smarter:



The site says:

“The ‘Smart Car’ isn’t smart; it gets the same fuel efficiency as other economy cars but only seats 2 passengers. When compared to bicycles, all cars tend to look down right idiotic. Where’s the logic in working tons of hours to pay for a car to get to work to pay for a car? What’s the sense in driving to the gym to pay a membership to get some exercise?

“Move within biking distance to work, sell your car, cancel your gym membership and start living smarter. Increase your quality of life while not contributing to the political, environmental, social calamity created by the world’s dependency on oil.”