Custom Licence Plates — Seen in the Wild

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I don’t know how much I’d label it as insensitive as much as ill-advised.

If Areyan is indeed the fellow’s family name, that fact is certainly neutral.

But if he puts that on his plate we/he can assume, statistically speaking, that some folks will mistakenly read it as Aryan. Or jump to the conclusion that it’s meant as code for Aryan. And some fraction of those will assume that’s meant as a white supremacist / Nazi taunt. And some fraction of those will choose to retaliate or intimidate.

The good Mr. Areyan may find a lot more key scratches in his doors or garbage on his hood than his wife’s car attracts. Which is a shame, but IMO a predictable shame.

I recall a kerfuffle here a number of years ago about a poster whose handle was Dave88. Which he’d apparently chosen decades ago when the internet first started and long before “88” had acquired unsavory connotations. It wasn’t his fault, but he still got tarred by a gathering mob here before cooler heads prevailed.

Somebody can get offended about anything. But some anythings attract a lot more somebodies. The wise person is aware of those anythings.

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I have an email address that includes the digits 87. It’s a reference to a year when I did something specific.

I didn’t know at the time that it mattered in that fashion; but I eventually became glad that I hadn’t done that thing a year later.

I haven’t changed the address, though. I would if it did include 88; but not for including 87, which is not the same number.

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Yes okay, but if I wanted a plate that said (extreme example here) ASSHOLE, I could get A55HOOL3.

Plates often use alternate or creative spellings for words.

I get what you’re saying though.

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RFL XPRT

Not the actual plate because I couldn’t snap a photo. For rifle expert, it’s the highest of 3 shooting accuracy qualifications. Next lowest is Sharpshooter, and lowest is Marksman.

To belabor the point, for those not military:

Rifle Expert
Rifle Sharpshooter
Rifle Marksman

Pistol Expert
Pistol Sharpshooter
Pistol Marksman

When I saw the plate I thought it’s a decent chance the owner is military.

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Before I read your explanation, my brain interpreted the last four letters as “export” rather than “expert”.

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“Reflex Part”? :wink:

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I actually initially read it as “Reflexpert.” :stuck_out_tongue:

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I should also include that the truck that was on also had a Marine Corps sticker on it.

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ZSA ZSAS

Maybe a fan of hers? I had to look her up. Zsa Zsa Gabor. That’s what I think it’s for, anyway.

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Zsa Zsa drove a Rolls.

431

Maybe she was named after Zsa Zsa

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or it belonged to her, as in ZSAZSA’s (former car)

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Saw a VW Beetle yesterday with a plate that read BEETIT. Could’ve been a play on the fact it was an Beetle (beat it/beet it). Could’ve been a beet farmer’s car. But then I saw the bee sticker between the E and the T…

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But but but …

Bees aren’t mammals and therefore don’t have tits.

I’m sooo confused. :crazy_face:

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Well, as I learned on the playground in the fifth grade, bees of the boo species do, in fact, give milk.

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Where did you think the honey came from? :wink:

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I think you’re taking the old line about “The land of milk and honey” just a bit too literally there Good Sir Jedi. :wink:

438

The part of my sense of humor that I gained as a 13-year-old boy never really left. :smiley:

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Ref this and the next ~15 posts …

It’s 8yo boys all the way down. Always has been and always will be.

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