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Nice of you to visit us. Here we will try to treat you with respect, something you probably have gotten very little of. We will also try to make you laugh. And we will try to take your money! (In exchange for one of our cool t-shirts) continued...

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Idea Continued

This is an idea I have had for a loooong time. I finally got around to doing it today. Nov 1, 2011

The idea is this.. I wanted to create a word or expression that would get banned in American high schools. I want to see how long it will take for the authorities to ban any t-shirt that says "Yuk Foo" Now we all know yuk foo doesn't even mean anything in English. But, after a doing a lot of research I found out that it means something in CHINESE! ha ha

So you can now order a Yuk Foo T Shirt.. Ordering details below.. But first read more about what Yuk Foo means for high school students, especially in America the "Land of the Free"

People/Companies I have said YukFoo to

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BE THE FIRST IN YOUR SCHOOL TO WEAR A YUK-FOO T-SHIRT!!!

Here is the basic idea of the t-shirt

Yuk Foo

A Chinese expression meaning:

I highly resent you.

I have no respect whatsoever for you, or your position of authority.

I have no respect for the rules and laws you force upon me without taking into account my individual needs and circumstances.

I have no respect for the system that you willingly and obediently are a part of.

I resent you trying to run my life, trying to tell me what to do, telling me you know what is best for me, telling me you are only doing what you do because it is good for me, telling me you are hurting me, punishing me, depriving me of my natural needs because it is in my "best interest".

I resent you telling me that you are only "doing your job." Or saying you are hurting me because you "love" me.

I resent you telling me that I am being unpatriotic when I won't support the murderous actions of the people who control the guns, bombs and missiles.

I also highly resent you for judging me, for not listening to me, for not taking me seriously, for telling me what I need -- according to you -- without ever asking me what I think I need or how I feel about anything. I resent you for treating me with absolutely no empathy or compassion; for not helping me in the least, and rather, for hurting me, and then telling me to "Cheer up," "Stop complaining," "Get over it," or "Have a great day." I would like you to leave me alone, stay away, get out of my life. I see right through you. You are a hypocrite. You are unhappy and miserable. You were raised to feel powerless. You either never questioned the system that created you, or you gave up and gave in. That is why you need to try to feel powerful now at my expense. That is why you try to run other people's lives. You mistakenly think that if everyone believes the same propaganda, we will all be happy. But I will never believe it. I have a mind of my own and I will use it.

Note: In the days following the police killings of students at Tiananmen Square in 1989 in China in this expression was banned in schools. At first, students who wore it on their clothing were simply expelled from school. Later the law was changed so that any speaking it, writing it or displaying it was arrested and put into jail without a trial.

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Do you have some stories about when you said something like "yuk foo" to someone in a position of authority, such as your parents, teachers, school principal, etc.? Send them to us at "yukfooshirts" at gmail... well you know the gmail extension don't you?!

Note - this site was created in honor of Adam T. who was treated disrespectfully by authorities employed by the Canadian government. It is also created for NN, who was one of the first people to support the idea of yuk foo tshirts, and Sarah La Duke who said something very similar to "Yuk Foo" to her so-called father the other day. Go Sarah! : ) U rock. It is also dedicated to Jimmy Tobin, an insecure little boy in a disguise as an adult, trying to act powerful as principal of Marshall High School in Marshall, Missouri. Or at least he was, when the originator of the yuk-foo tshirts said "F*** you" to him back in 1998!

A quote:

Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, “Is it reasonable?"

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Here is a quote I found here. I have changed it a little bit, but it is still about 99% as the author wrote it. I changed some things like how he/she used words like unjust or unfair, since those are too subjective to be very helpful. S.H.

The famous experiments on obedience to authority, carried out by Stanley Milgram in the early 1960s, showed that ordinary people will do awful things if told to do so by authority figures. Volunteers in the experiments gave increasingly stronger electric shocks to a subject when he answered a question incorrectly. Many continued to do so even when the subject complained of heart trouble, begged them to stop, and then went unconscious. Why? Simply because someone in a lab coat told them to.

Such is our reflexive "respect" for authority. Of course, we like to think that we would be different. We like to think that we would have just said no to authorities like Hitler or Stalin. But then, if as a daily matter of life, you reflexively respect/obey the law without considering whether it is right or not, you are likely as "normal" as the subjects in Milgram's experiments, or as "normal" as the millions who participated in what the Nazis did in the 30s and 40s.

Now, I am not saying that people who did these horrible things are horrible people. Nor am I saying that those with the potential to do such things (most of humanity) are horrible people. We are all products of our environment. Whether we are put in a position to demonstrate it or not, almost all of us have the capacity to hurt others - especially when we reflexively obey authority.

Just Say No to Obedience to Authority

I am not advocating disobeying authority for its own sake. I'm not saying you should break every law you disagree with. What I am proposing is that we each use the mind we have, and that we respect no authority more than that. We should say no to any automatic obedience to authority.

I have no respect for the law in the sense that most people do. I obey most laws, including many laws that I disagree with. I obey many laws simply because I am not willing to pay the price of breaking them, ie. get punished. But if the cost is low enough or the issue important enough, I will break the law. I would hope that if I were an escaped slave seeking shelter in this country 150 years ago, someone would have felt the same and would have helped me.

Let me be very clear: We have no duty to obey the law. I have none and you have none. No such duty exists. All of us with the slightest bit of imagination can think of a scenario where we would gladly break the law, demonstrating that we value our own moral values above any "duty" to obey laws.

Of course, many who think they know when to follow and when to break the law want others to believe in obedience nonetheless. In fact, I'll bet that those who are offended when reading this aren't really offended by the suggestion that they would break the law. They are more likely just feeling threatened because I am pointing out the nature of the game. They want others to believe in the game.
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There is a whole lot of hypocrisy involved here. For example, how many good citizens out there have used an illegal drug sometime in their lives, and yet are still in favor of laws which imprison drug users? These hypocrites aren't planning to turn themselves in to the police, of course. They almost certainly believe that they were capable of making such a decision for themselves, but that others need to be stopped from pursuing such "dangerous" behavior.

Such feelings of being "above the law" are not what I am advocating. I am above all advocating being practical. Go ahead and break laws, if your reasons are good enough. But then be prepared to either avoid detection or and/or pay the consequences. [ie. Suffer the pain of the punishment. See this link on consequences, natural vs fabricated).

Laws are made for various reasons, many having nothing to do with protecting people's rights. (SH The original author said rights but I'd say needs. See Rights vs Needs). Sometimes we should break them. But when and why should we obey them? Here are some good reasons:

1. Because we want to avoid trouble.

2. Because we agree with them.

3. Because in the case of unimportant laws we feel it's better to maintain order in society with our obedience to authority (perhaps while trying to change the law).

But contrary to what many believe, we never need unthinking obedience to authority. This is a lie perpetuated by those in power and those who are afraid of other people thinking for themselves.

In fact it has often been disrespect for, and disobedience of, the laws that have brought about a better society. For example, consider the civil disobedience that lead to changes in racist laws in the 60s.

Just say no to any unthinking obedience to authority.

See registration cards, traffic lights

YukFoo for Frustrated Adults

This idea started out for high school students. But today I realized that a lot of adults want to say YukFoo! also. It occured to me when I was working on my "Hating Big Companies" page and I thought of how they tell you to do this and do that and buy this and buy that and try this and try that and on and on and on...

Like when Linked In tells you to "Build your professional network" when you are trying to close your account! To that I say, "YukFoo! I don't want to build my account. I want to CLOSE it you so and so's"

So we will make a new t-shirt design for all those adults who have a reason and a strong desire to say "YukFoo!"