Brilliant!!!

the predictably sad number of people who would not know who it was/what it represented.

Call me a cynic, but I'd bet money on it being the exception, not the rule, the numbers who "got it."

IMO, it makes light of Vincent's suffering.

Very few of us would make such an awesome button placket.

or to subsequently commit suicide by shooting themselves in the chest...as van Gogh did.

That's more than "some" suffering. I've had a conversation with a woman who had an inch deep gash in her forearm from cutting herself, and she talked about it like it was a walk in the park.

That shirt is nothing short of mocking mental illness, and that is contemptible. It goes far beyond dark humor.

Talk to some "cutters" and you'll know what I mean.

Some things are just too heavy to mock on the internet.

We forget that van Gogh lived not all that long ago, and his tragic life mirrors what perhaps millions of people are experiencing in the world today...with no understanding and no compassion.

This is my strong opinion. I don't expect others to feel like I do about this, and that's fine. But by the same token, I won't stay quiet when human suffering is mocked by people with a keyboard, thinking it is some kind of joke to be tossed around...especially when there are probably people on this site who are cutters, or are suicidal.

It's callous, and it's not right.

But humans are a cruel species. Vincent ear jokes have been around since before the ear was cold.

No.

I never wear white. It's too hard to keep clean.

with contents that could verify your statement. Tomato stains, blueberry stains, soil and grass stains. I cannot keep clothes looking new for long.

it was quite likely, quite bloody!

I'd smile at someone who wore one, though.

if the encounter took place on a starry night?

he'd savor the taste of a nice, cold Michelob?

Good one, Harker!

It's too valuable!

We'll keep you in the Nough!

🙉

that's a very well-formed and detailed ear for a shirt button? Would be interested to know if it also comes in cufflinks?

And socks, got to have matching socks!

than that.

I’d probably be prone to random laughing fits whenever I saw my reflection or got a good reaction, though.

I portrayed him once in a children's TV show.

I begged to do some prosthetics for my ear, but they refused.

If they made one with Trump's open mouth and a pacifier button I'd be tempted.

Vincent looks like an ape, especially with the ear.

Vincent van Gogh suffered greatly. Wearing that shirt would minimize and mock the suffering of a fellow human being who was a tortured creative genius.

Ears to you!!!

I am not getting you that shirt for your birthday!

Maybe this one though...

So, no, I would not wear that shirt.