7 Posters You Should Buy If You Want Me To Think You’re An Idiot
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Done right, adorning your room with posters can be a display of your individuality and let people quickly relate to you. Done wrong, you’re going to be permanently branded as a tool before you even open your mouth. Here are 7 posters that will put you square in the latter category if you happen to display them.
Che Guevara
Surely if you know enough about Che Guevara to justify plastering his monochromatic image on your walls you’ve gotta know that he’d be turning over in his grave knowing that his face is on one of the best selling posters of all-time.
Lesbians Making Out
Considering you can find hundreds of thousands of high resolution porn videos on the internet for free, I don’t understand how this can be as popular as it is. Maybe it’s just for some kind of dude-recognition system that I don’t understand. “Wait…you like lesbians too?!”
Any Beer Poster
As much as I can relate to loving beer this much, putting any kind of beer or alcohol poster on your walls makes you a huge tool. Look, you’re in college, I already assume you love beer and I could really care less about your undying love for Molson Canadian or Coors Light. Considering most of the beer college students buy is under a dollar a bottle, it’s probably not worth putting up a false idol in your house for.
Pink Floyd
Generally speaking I like band posters because unlike most of these other ones it gives you something to talk about with the person. However, having a poster of one of the most revered bands of all-time is kind of useless, don’t you think? This is like having a poster of The Beatles up in your room — if it wasn’t there everyone is still going to assume that you like them because pretty much everyone does. There’s something misguided about making your space unique by putting up a poster of a band that millions of people are in love with.
Pulp Fiction
As much as I love Pulp Fiction, I’d probably love it even a little bit more if I didn’t have to see that iconic picture of Jules and Vincent with guns ready to cap some fools inside probably 1/3 of the rooms I’ve seen.
Kurt Cobain
I think that slapping down $12 for a Kurt Cobain poster means, in some way, you’ve contributed to his death even if you were born after it happened. “Oh Kurt, I completely relate to your disillusionment with popularity. I relate to it so hard that I’m gonna buy your face.”
Scarface
Out of all of these posters, this one is by far the most likely to make me not want to hang out with you ever again. Apparently, having a Scarface poster on your wall doesn’t mean you like the movie — it means you think you’re Tony Montana. Everybody I’ve ever met who had it turned out to be some kind of faux alpha male gangster who couldn’t carry a normal conversation unless it was about ‘baggin’ hos’, drugs, or nice suits. Buyer beware.
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giraffe said:
i think that making a list about tool bag items makes one much more of a tool bag than someone displaying anything on said list
September 17th, 2008 at 5:38 pm -
Liz said:
You forgot Fight Club. I’ve seen that poster of Tyler Durden all bloody and shirtless EVERYWHERE.
September 17th, 2008 at 6:12 pm -
bob the mob said:
Modify that item about beer posters to “Any macro brew”, and you’d be right. Finding out somebody likes the same obscure, tasty microbrew you do is always a cool thing.
September 17th, 2008 at 9:40 pm -
Ron said:
And don’t call me Shirley.
September 18th, 2008 at 12:33 am -
colin said:
This is the blog you should write if you want everyone to KNOW your a douche bag.
September 18th, 2008 at 6:17 pm -
balls said:
You’re kind of a retard…
September 18th, 2008 at 7:20 pm -
Steve said:
I concur with said list.
September 19th, 2008 at 3:47 am -
Chris said:
I think this opinion is bias and based on estrogen and lack of beer.
September 19th, 2008 at 7:53 am -
God said:
ghey
September 19th, 2008 at 9:42 am -
Bilkinson said:
I think you make some good points about the mindset of people who hang these types of posters on their walls. But it does say something about you if 1/3 of the people you hang out with hang that pulp fiction poster. Additionally, everyone’s a critic, why don’t you tell everyone what would be cool to hang in their room.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:00 pm -
Ben said:
I’ve got a Guinness poster up on my wall - oh well, I’m sure I’ll live.
September 21st, 2008 at 11:27 am -
Armand_Hammer said:
I, for one welcome our new Russian poster-ban!
I have to agree with this list of bad posters, although I’ve never seen that Pink Floyd poster and think it’s pretty nice…
Also, I agree with Bob the Mob about macrobeer…
September 21st, 2008 at 12:28 pm -
Chech said:
I think to say that putting up Pink Floyd posters makes you a tool is uhh… wrong. Really wrong and you made it look even worse on your self when you showed one of the best posters as an example. That poster of the women with the album covers on their back in just brilliant.
Also, I think that God is just spiteful because he has all of these posters on his wall and can’t think of anything constructive to say.
You do make kind of a good point all in all though but I just can’t agree with the Pink Floyd bit.
September 21st, 2008 at 1:33 pm -
cyish said:
the author of this list must be an asshole
September 21st, 2008 at 1:47 pm -
cunt said:
Me too Ben, and I’m not dead either.
September 30th, 2008 at 5:04 pm -
Bobbyroagher said:
It’s not the fact that you made the list, or that it’s poorly executed. it’s the reasons you gave for most of the posters that really dissapointed me. You come across as a judgemental biggot.
September 30th, 2008 at 5:42 pm -
Little Known said:
I think people who have band posters in their room that show Floyd or the Beatles isn’t a mainstream thing. There are a lot of people in this generation who don’t appreciate the greatness that is the Beatles or Floyd, or led zep. So, I think that people should be able to do whatever they want and not dedicate entire blogs and posts to making other people feel stupid for their own choices when it doesn’t affect them.
September 30th, 2008 at 8:17 pm -
itsalljustaride said:
Unfortunately you just found the one trigger that will set off any college kid: telling them that all the lame posters they hang up, the ones probably a good 60% of college dorms have almost by mandate, is just that, lame.
Hell, half of these posters probably subsist on college dorm money alone.
I even admit that I had a couple of these. I had a Beetles one, and a Scarface one. However, I freely admit that it was a pretty lame thing to have. I hadn’t even watched all of Scarface through when I bought the poster.
The Pink Floyd comment above is true enough, PF is a great band, and the poster is awesome, but unfortunately every d-bag who like smoking pot and downloaded “Another Brick…” off Napster (yes, I know, dated reference, but that’s the world I live in) had this poster too. Why, because it had a two-fer, naked chicks, and a popular band that let people know you were down. It would be an awesome poster if I didn’t see it being carted away by tons of freshmen at every on-campus poster sale.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:59 pm -
real said:
you are an idiot
October 1st, 2008 at 12:06 am -
Hahaha said:
Seriously? You think that what people put up in their rooms shows the level of their intellect?
Huh. Well, apparently your intellect is on the level of most four year olds. Instead of choosing to judge someone on the basis of their posters that they choose to put up in THEIR ROOM, why don’t you get to know them?
Of course, all of these posters are in every dorm room in America, that’s just mainstream culture for you and I guess all of those millions of people should bow down to you because you somehow ended up on the oustide and “can see where everyone else is wrong, how they are all like lemmings, how they fall prey to the downfall of America.”
Yawn, dear, yawn.
You are most likely going to end up wearing Banana Republic outfits while either toting a briefcase or shuttling your child around in a three-wheeled stroller.
Get over yourself and your judgements on what objects people choose to decorate their rooms.
October 1st, 2008 at 1:17 pm -
john said:
iv had a scarface poster,i liked the film,i liked the poster.had a marley poster,surprise surprise i like him too.i see nothin wrong with havin posters you like in a room you pay money for.whether or not some twat likes them is irrelevant ,when you start paying my rent then maybe you can tell me what posters i can or cant put up,till then have a coke an a smile an shut the fuck up
October 5th, 2008 at 12:55 pm -
gmax said:
This is fanfuckingtastic! Not the quality of the list, but the cognitive dissonance of the commenters! Lots of busted college students striking out in shame-become-anger. I love it!
October 5th, 2008 at 9:33 pm -
Blondissimo said:
Ooooooooh!! Haven’t those commenters taken it personally ! Touched a raw nerve with a few of them methinks.
October 6th, 2008 at 11:38 pm -
Bill Canaday said:
Is there some reason I should care what you think of me?
October 31st, 2008 at 7:13 am -
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November 13th, 2008 at 12:24 am
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