Tax March Socks
Description: This t-shirt has a picture of a guillotine and the caption “it’s dangerous to go alone. take this.” and it’s one of those designs where you either instantly get the joke or you do a full double take. This funny guillotine t-shirt is riffing on the classic line from an old video game, which makes the whole thing feel like it wandered out of an 8-bit dungeon and straight into a very different kind of revolution. The mashup of wholesome retro gaming nostalgia with, you know, a literal execution device (guillotine) is such a wild tonal clash that it kind of works. What makes it funny is how casual the phrase is (“it’s dangerous to go alone. Take this.”) In the game, it’s about handing someone a wooden sword so they don’t get wrecked by pixelate
