# I don't get this bumper sticker. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 12, 2005, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-this-bumper-sticker/298899 "2005-04-12T02:01:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-this-bumper-sticker/298899/1 "2005-04-12T02:01:31Z")
I was behind a car today that had the following bumper sticker: I love my country But we need to see other people. Pondering this sticker, I came up with a few possibilities: [ul] [li]pro-immigration[/li][li]anti-Bush/current Administration[/li][li]anti-politicians in general[/li][li]for the war in Iraq and other US actions in countries around the world[/li][li]pro-tourism[/li][li]pro-optometrists[/li][li]for the import of nudie mags from Asia, South America, and Africa[/li][/ul] Frankly, that’s all I could come up with, and I don’t like any of them. Is it obvious to everyone else but me? What’s with having an ambiguous bumper sticker, particularly an ambiguous political one? ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-this-bumper-sticker/298899/2 "2005-04-12T02:15:53Z")
I’m leaning towards #2. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-this-bumper-sticker/298899/3 "2005-04-12T02:36:56Z")
> [@Stuffy](#): > > I’m leaning towards #2. Ditto. Seems fairly clear to me–“taking a break” so to speak (but I’m also in Oakland, so maybe that’s just us). ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-this-bumper-sticker/298899/4 "2005-04-12T02:44:48Z")
It strikes me as being pro-global, anti-isolationist. ---
**Author:** ![Bugnorton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bugnorton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bugnorton)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-this-bumper-sticker/298899/5 "2005-04-12T03:01:40Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > It strikes me as being pro-global, anti-isolationist. Exactly what came to the bug brain…but then it is a bug brain so maybe it only counts as half an opinion ---
**Author:** ![wonderwench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/35a633/32.png) [@wonderwench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderwench)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-this-bumper-sticker/298899/6 "2005-04-12T03:10:53Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > It strikes me as being pro-global, anti-isolationist. I interpret it a pro-U.N./Old Europe hegemony. I too am in Oakland - and there is a tendency among the liberal elite in the Bay Area to associate Europe with advanced culture and the U.N. with the solution to all global problems. ---
**Author:** ![monkeyfist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@monkeyfist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monkeyfist)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-this-bumper-sticker/298899/7 "2005-04-12T03:54:38Z")
I love my country, but we’re breaking up, but I don’t want to say breaking up, so let’s just see other people. If things don’t work out, or you change your ways, we can get back together and forget that we were ever apart, and still keep our original anniversary. But that doesn’t fit on a bumper sticker too well. ---
**Author:** ![MisterThyristor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@MisterThyristor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MisterThyristor)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-this-bumper-sticker/298899/8 "2005-04-12T09:36:24Z")
I take it as an anti-bumper-sticker bumper sticker. As in anti- the “I (heart) America” bumper stickers in particular. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-this-bumper-sticker/298899/9 "2005-04-12T10:30:40Z")
Yeah, it’s obviously a gag bumper sticker. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-this-bumper-sticker/298899/10 "2005-04-12T10:31:11Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > It strikes me as being pro-global, anti-isolationist. That is how I would take it. ---
**Author:** ![Sample\_the\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-this-bumper-sticker/298899/11 "2005-04-12T10:49:56Z")
I take it as a gag anti-sticker (a la Visualize Whirled Peas) reacting to all the jingoism of late. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-this-bumper-sticker/298899/12 "2005-04-12T16:35:07Z")
Huh. It didn’t even occur to me that it might be a parody of other stickers, but that seems reasonable. I guess I’m used to parodies on the subtlety level of “How’s my driving? Call 1-800-EAT-SHIT”. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-this-bumper-sticker/298899/13 "2005-04-12T16:43:07Z")
As others said, I think it just means, “I love America, but right now I’m displeased with the way she’s acting.” I could see that ‘isolationist’ angle if I thought that there was one single person in America who actually thought we were too isolationist. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-get-this-bumper-sticker/298899/14 "2005-04-12T17:02:23Z")
> [@monkeyfist](#): > > I love my country, but we’re breaking up, but I don’t want to say breaking up, so let’s just see other people. If things don’t work out, or you change your ways, we can get back together and forget that we were ever apart, and still keep our original anniversary. It’s not you, it’s me. I hope we can still be friends.