Not being well traveled, I’d like to know if cars in countries outside the U.S. have bumper stickers; and if so, what kinds of things are on them? Favorite radio stations, sports teams, and funny/naughty sayings like our stickers?
Or something else?
I believe that Canada has the same kind as the US. I know that DJ’s spend their summers roaming the city to give prizes to people who display their stations bumper sticker. Funny sayings, yup. Sports teams. Yup.
You may want an answer from someone outside of North America.
Australia and NZ - yup. We do. We even have those STUPID porn star stickers
UK checking in - The stickers I see are usually window stickers for radio stations or sports teams. I don’t see the funny or political stickers that I saw when I lived in the US.
I’ve seen those in movies. From what I’ve “learned” from the press about soccer (football, right?) fans, that’d be a quick way to lose a window. 
Well, I guess that goes for some of our football (US type) cities too.
They have them in Mexico, too.
Peace,
mangeorge
Just yesterday I saw a car with bumper stickers that said:
“Constipated people don’t give a shit”
and
“If you’re not a hemorrhoid, stay off my ass!”
which just shows you that bad taste in bumper stickers is not an exclusively American phenomenon.
A few radio stations, one or two jokes (from advertisers-beer companies mainly), and the slightest bit of subtle humour (some cars have to have a speed limit sticker posted onto their cars like ‘80’ {kmph}, others make their own stating ‘300’)…
But other than that they’re not as rampant as in North America.
They are also not that big on quirky sayings on the licence plate frames either, but they have gotten the idea of putting messages and logos on their back windows (to give their cars a rally-racer look)
Another blessing is the utter lack of “my child was a student-of-the-month at Haileyville kindergarden” stickers.
I wonder if you can judge an area by its stickers ? I remember the old days of small town southern England when window stickers were the sole preserve of youthful wits: ‘Toot if you think I’m horny’ and the like. Then, in the big city, football affiliations took over (I still don’t understand this. I presume having a football window sticker is the definition of a ‘supporter’ who doesn’t drive to away matches’ ?? – or likes a lot of fresh air).
Now, on the fringes of radical surberbia, I’m confronted with endless streams of shiny traffic all with the same bloody hanging signs (a sticker, one assumes, being too down market) saying ‘Baby on Board’ and ‘If you can read this you’re too close’.
Some post, on side windows, small pictures their off-spring painted at school which I rather like - kind of like a moving fridge door.
Generally I prefer the fluffy dice - at least those bring back memories of youthful rear seat indiscretions.
While not as common as in North America, I’ve seen bumperstickers in Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, England and even a couple in China.
— G. Raven
Korea checking in:
Yup, got 'em here too! Oddly enough, most are pictorial not textual… they tend to be all over the car, and if they DO have texr, it’s usually BAD English!
Seems to me that the most popular one is Calvin (from C & H) snering over his shoulder as he pees on something…
I think the “Baby on Board” sign is to tell the emergency services about a small child being in the car in case of a crash and it not being readily visible.These signs first appeared in Sweden I think.
Yep, got them here as well. Most are window stickers of radio stations or designs, but there are a few funny ones. The first one I saw was a word-play between Moravian Czech and Bohemian: “I’m not from Prague.” written in Moravian Czech (Prague being the center of Bohemia). I’ve even seen a few that make fun of the cars speed, like those “0 to 60 in 15 minutes.”
Bumper stickers are wildly popular in Israel. Probably 90% of them are political. I was in Israel during the elections in 1999 and it wasn’t too uncommon to see cars completely covered in bumper stickers proclaiming their favorite candidate or party. (I even took a picture of one car so decorated that the owner had attached a box to the top so that he could have more room for Netanyahu stickers.) My favorite was one I spotted shortly after Netanyahu lost the election - “bye bye Bibi”. (It’s a Hebrew pun.)
The other 10% were Shalom Haver stickers or Na Nach Nachma Nachman m’Uman stickers. (The former means “Goodbye Friend” a reference to Yitzhak Rabin, the latter is religious. Although you could say those are political too.)
Poor Calvin and Hobbes, why has such a great cartoon been reduced to this? I wonder what Bill Watterson thinks of those stickers?
I would assume that unlike in the US those C&H stickers in Korea don’t involve a Chevy bowtie or Ford oval? Maybe a Japanese flag?
The last time I went to Mexico, someone slapped a “Amigos de Fox” bumper sticker on our truck.
Ya want bumper stickers? I got your bumper stickers right here;
Saw, and rode in, these when I was in the Philipines, with the USN during the 1960’s.
Coolest vehicles I’d ever seen. Pretty wild ride, too. 
Peace,
mangeorge
American in Germany reporting:
Actually, I think they started in the U.S. in the 80’s. I remember seeing them before I joined the Air Force and got sent to Germany in 1987. At first, I only saw them on America service member cars over here, and then later on German cars. The thing is, the Americans had removable signs that you only hung in the car when you really had your kid along. The Germans all had permanent stickers in the windows. I always thought that sort of defeated the purpose. You want the things in the car when the kid is along so that the rescue workers know to be on the look out for the poor little wiggler. If you’ve got gazzilions of people driving around with the sticker in the car all of the time then it seems to me that the rescue workers would stop taking the things seriously.
In general, there are lots of bumper stickers here. Some for vacation spots, some radio station stuff, some of the “I heart Podunk” type, the “I break for (dogs, cats, animals, idiots)” type, and an awful lot of imported American bumper stickers used by show offs who want to let you know that they have really been to the U.S.
This is good stuff, everyone–thanks!
The most notorious bumper sticker I ever had on my car said: “He’s Dead, Jim” (an old Star Trek line from Dr. McCoy). I got a lot of inquiries–and laughs–from total strangers about it.
My current favorite is: “I’m going nuckin’ futs.”
So…what particularly funny ones have you seen outside the U.S. ?
P.S. ruadh, what does your user name mean? I’m assuming it’s Irish…?
Irish for redhead.