# I pit your stupid bumper sticker! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 7, 2012, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-your-stupid-bumper-sticker/627499 "2012-07-07T04:46:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-your-stupid-bumper-sticker/627499/81 "2012-07-09T13:09:17Z")
> [@Lochdale](#): > > Nice link. He’ll wipe all of this out and more if the Bush tax cuts expire. Well, yeah, but so what? You can’t blame Obama for a tax cut that was written to sunset after 10 years in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-your-stupid-bumper-sticker/627499/82 "2012-07-09T13:29:35Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > The ones I absolutely don’t get aren’t on bumpers, but across back windows: \* “In Loving Memory Of \”\* Seriously, that’s how you choose to honor and remember your loved ones?? How touching… :rolleyes: Oh, I hate those! Bonus hate points if it’s in some horrid Gothic font dripping blood or an ultra curly-whirly script font. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-your-stupid-bumper-sticker/627499/83 "2012-07-09T13:39:11Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > The ones I absolutely don’t get aren’t on bumpers, but across back windows: \* “In Loving Memory Of \”\* Seriously, that’s how you choose to honor and remember your loved ones?? How touching… :rolleyes: I just find it really weird that you’d put a memorial on something you’re going to own for five years, tops. “I am now trading in this car in loving memory of Steve…” ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-your-stupid-bumper-sticker/627499/84 "2012-07-09T13:45:26Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I just find it really weird that you’d put a memorial on something you’re going to own for five years, tops. > > “I am now trading in this car in loving memory of Steve…” But some people own a car for much longer. I’ve known several American families where a car passed from parents to children in succesion, or between siblings. It could be one of those. Also, some of those window stickers are designed to stay in place pretty much forever if you don’t try to scrape them off but come off easily and cleanly once you do (for example, every single one I’ve ever gotten from a government body); bumper stickers, not so much. If the window decal is one of those, it doesn’t stay with the car when you trade it in. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-your-stupid-bumper-sticker/627499/85 "2012-07-09T13:47:02Z")
The cars with these stickers on them are never that old. They’re almost invariably ten years old at most. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-your-stupid-bumper-sticker/627499/86 "2012-07-09T13:50:32Z")
What weirds me out is not pictograms of pets nor “in memory” stickers of departed humans, but the stickers of an entire family – including a pet with a halo. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-your-stupid-bumper-sticker/627499/87 "2012-07-09T13:50:39Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > The cars with these stickers on them are never that old. They’re almost invariably ten years old at most. And? 😕 A car that’s been in a family for 43 years didn’t start off 43 years old, but when my father sold his red Mini to his sister in law, she intended to keep it “until it falls apart”: it still hasn’t. It was 7yo at the time, but the intent was “to keep it until it falls apart”, not “to keep it until I can upgrade”. The people owning those cars with the decals know whether they intend to keep the cars until they fall apart, until the cost of repairs is too high, or until they can upgrade. The rest of us do not. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-your-stupid-bumper-sticker/627499/88 "2012-07-09T13:54:54Z")
If that were true, you’d think I would have seen one on an older car by now, right? ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-your-stupid-bumper-sticker/627499/89 "2012-07-09T14:00:29Z")
> [@Bumper Sticker](#): > > VOTE DEMOCRATIC. Small letters: It’s easier than working. Jokes on them when Obama secures his second term and initiates the Stakhanovite movement Part 2 in order to bail out all of Africa. ---
**Author:** ![Celidin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Celidin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celidin)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-your-stupid-bumper-sticker/627499/90 "2012-07-09T14:06:58Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > those decals in the rear window (usually in the lower left corner) with the little pictograms of the family members, sometimes including the pets. There’s a large SUV in my neighborhood with a father, a mother, 2 boys, a girl and a dog … and a large red X through the mother. Divorced? Widower? In any case, that’s got to be giving those kids some psychological damage… On a lighter note, this is my favorite variation of the jesus fish: [Fish Fingers N Custard](http://www.etsy.com/listing/81198328/new-mouth-new-rules-car-decal) ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-your-stupid-bumper-sticker/627499/91 "2012-07-09T14:41:38Z")
> [@Celidin](#): > > There’s a large SUV in my neighborhood with a father, a mother, 2 boys, a girl and a dog … and a large red X through the mother. > > Divorced? Widower? In any case, that’s got to be giving those kids some psychological damage… This is TMI upon TMI. I’d love for someone to go up to this douche and say, “What happened to your wife?” Because obviously he wants to share this with the rest of the world. Maybe I’m overthinking this, but this kind of thing is narcissistic beyond belief. Why would anyone give a shit how you’ve bred? It just makes it that much easier for the axe murderer to ensure he’s killed your entire family. “Let’s see… I’ve hacked Mom, Dad, Kaylee, Kayden, and Kaleigh to death… looks like I need to find Kyle, who’s a soccer player and honors student at Brushy Creek Elementary. Let me just punch that into the GPS… I’ll be there in 20 minutes!” I also find the parody stickers are not that funny. Maybe the first time you’ve seen it, but if you’re really cutting edge, the minute you see someone else with your witty comeback, SCRAPE IT OFF. Oh, and anyone who has the truck testicles hanging from their trailer hitch should be pulled over and tea bagged with said sack to death. I actually saw a Monte Carlo with truck balls, metallic trim, and those stupid ass Spy Hunter hubcaps that protrude about 12" from the wheel. This is why the terrorists hate us. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-your-stupid-bumper-sticker/627499/92 "2012-07-09T15:18:40Z")
Do they make a family pictogram sticker set yet with just a man and a woman and a big pile of money? ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-your-stupid-bumper-sticker/627499/93 "2012-07-09T15:25:27Z")
and my daughter insisted upon a bumper sticker that reads: BUCKLE UP! it makes it harder for the aliens to suck you out of your car!! ---
**Author:** ![dngnb8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@dngnb8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dngnb8)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-your-stupid-bumper-sticker/627499/94 "2012-07-09T15:33:01Z")
I got so tired of the I Love My Wife Bumper stickers and signs that I had one made up for my car. It said I Loved your wife Last Night I actually had a guy pull up next to me and schiz on my car screaming at me. I LOLd EDIT: On another note, when I was a medic, we have a single vehicle rollover in a field and in the back of the car, there was a placard that said Baby On Board The driver was doa, ejected from the vehicle, then it rolled over her. We were on hour 3 (after 4 am) when the call came in that the baby was home with dad. I hate those signs. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-your-stupid-bumper-sticker/627499/95 "2012-07-09T15:39:41Z")
I like the zombie family pictograph. At least, the only time I’ve seen it. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-your-stupid-bumper-sticker/627499/96 "2012-07-09T15:45:33Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > I recently bought a bumper sticker that says “There’s too much blood in my caffeine system” but I don’t where I’m going to put it because I don’t like to put them on my car! Right now it’s riding around on my dashboard. In the same vein, one of my favorites said “My drinking team has a bowling problem.” The stickers that annoy me are the ones that plaster the back window with 'In Loving Memory of Joe Smith, 1979-2011" or something similar. First, nobody but you and your family gives a shit about Joe. I certainly don’t. Second, everybody has lost somebody. What makes your person go GD special that you need to display it on your car? Third, that’s all this person is worth, is a decal on the back of your car? Bleh. Tacky. Edit…whoops…already been done. Yeah! Me Too! > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > The ones I absolutely don’t get aren’t on bumpers, but across back windows: \* “In Loving Memory Of \”\* Seriously, that’s how you choose to honor and remember your loved ones?? How touching… :rolleyes: But while I’m here, AND oval stickers. Most are are cryptic that I have no idea what they mean. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-your-stupid-bumper-sticker/627499/97 "2012-07-09T15:47:36Z")
I saw a bumper sticker today that said “_Psychologically incapable of ever showing up on time_”. It was rather odd, considering that the car was weaving in and out of traffic at about 75mph. ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-your-stupid-bumper-sticker/627499/98 "2012-07-09T15:57:06Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > One of my least favorites: > My kid sold drugs to your honors student. > > I’ve actually seen that one. Not funny. But [topical](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100254163). ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-your-stupid-bumper-sticker/627499/99 "2012-07-09T15:58:21Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > I saw a bumper sticker today that said “_Psychologically incapable of ever showing up on time_”. It was rather odd, considering that the car was weaving in and out of traffic at about 75mph. Was it the Volkswagen Rabbit with the “IML8” license plate we have in the Portland area? ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-your-stupid-bumper-sticker/627499/100 "2012-07-09T16:46:46Z")
I used to have plates that said “L8NONMT”. (Late and on empty.) I have to admit for some time now I’ve wanted one of those “COEXIST” bumper stickers, where the letters are made up of various religious symbols. Today I saw a weird one “My kid can nuke your Honor Student.” I mean, OK, I get that if other kids have brag stickers, and it’s really bothering your child, you might put up the old “My kid can beat up your Honor Student” ones. Not that I approve, but I can grok the thought process. But seriously, by the time your child has grown up and entered the military, it’s time to let go of the rivalry. Just sayin’. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-your-stupid-bumper-sticker/627499.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-your-stupid-bumper-sticker/627499.md?page=6)