So I’m stuck in stop-and-go traffic on an already hot day when I happen to read your stupid bumper sticker which proceeds to convert me from a heat sink to a heat source. You’re bumper sticker reads: “Consider this: Amateurs built the Ark, Professionals built the Titanic.”
Here are a few things wrong with your comparison between apples and orangutans:
The Titanic did not sink due to design or construction failures, it sank because it collided with a fucking iceberg.
The Titanic was built in two years by Harland and Wolff shipyard for the White Star Line. The Ark was built (by some accounts) in 75-80 years by a 500 year old man and his family and was designed and launched under a covenant of salvation by an omnipotent God to endure a disaster of His own making.
The Titanic exists as a wreck at the bottom of the ocean. The Ark exists as a figment of our imagination.
Your bumper sticker is the equivalent of declaring"A jolly fat saint built Santa’s sleigh, Boeing built Pan Am Flight 103," and expecting something profound to congeal from that asinine juxtaposition.
I have a Cthulhu fish on my car. Normally, I don’t drive agressive when I see someone with other sort of fish on their cars, I try to get in front of them so they can see mine. The only one who has ever reacted to it followed me to a coffee place and begged to know where I got it. He bought me coffee and we have been friends ever since.
We’ve also only got a sample size of one for divinely-drafted watercraft, whereas human ships have a proven track record of not sinking most of the time. Plus it’s not like He’s going to put all the arks that sank in the bible.
I’ve seen that bumper sticker before, and my immediate thought was: What would have happened, if the ark had hit that iceberg? All life on earth would have been wiped out, except what lives in water. Very bad planning.
The one that annoys me is the anti-Obama sticker that reads something like “I’ll keep my freedom, my guns, and my money. You can keep the ‘change.’”
I always wish I could say, “OK, if you really mean that, give me all the money you’ve gotten from Obama’s tax cuts.” Of course, the driver probably wouldn’t believe Obama had cut his taxes, even if you provided proof, or rather what would constitute proof to a reasonably intelligent person.
:::Hijack::: this is the most annoying thing about personally discussing politics with people. I can sort of understand being impervious to this in the social arena because I can see how other people just grow up a certain way and won’t change.
But people don’t even know how much taxes they’re paying! One time it even got a bit funny. At another job some people were surfing the tax rolls and complaining how much property taxes they were paying. I glanced over and saw they were paying a millage rate of, let’s say, 31.
Me: Every time I see one of those millage rates I mistake it for a percentage. That would be some high taxes there! Them: Those are percentages. Me: No, I think they’re millage rates. Otherwise, if you owned a house worth $150,000, you’ be paying $45,000 a year in property taxes. Them: Ludovic, do you own a house? Me: No. Them: Then you don’t know what you’re talking about. Those are percentages. Me: :rolleyes::smack::smack::smack::smack: