# Most bothersome bumper stickers/auto accessorizing you've seen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2019, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bothersome-bumper-stickers-auto-accessorizing-youve-seen/836946 "2019-07-12T02:18:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bothersome-bumper-stickers-auto-accessorizing-youve-seen/836946/21 "2019-07-12T13:28:40Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Yeah, spoil the plot twists for everybody. 😃 > > Of course, everybody should know by now that when it comes to killing off major characters, God’s even worse than Joss Whedon. 😉 Wanna know what happens three pages later? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bothersome-bumper-stickers-auto-accessorizing-youve-seen/836946/22 "2019-07-12T13:37:49Z")
[Moderating] This thread has been reported as being in the wrong forum, but I’m going to rule that car decorations are art, and so it’s fine here. Kitschy, low-class art, maybe, but then, calling it that is art criticism, which still belongs here. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bothersome-bumper-stickers-auto-accessorizing-youve-seen/836946/23 "2019-07-12T13:45:01Z")
^Where’s your contribution, **C**? Modding don’t feed the baby. 😕 In my brother’s neighborhood, there’s a guy who has/had an old VW Beetle that is solid bumper stickers; there _might_ be some paint visible. I remember seeing a Beetle with beautifully mown grass (front-to-back, top-to-bottom, left-to-right) instead of a paint-job. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bothersome-bumper-stickers-auto-accessorizing-youve-seen/836946/24 "2019-07-12T14:14:40Z")
It only bothered me because I didn’t know if it was intentionally done or not, but I had an English teacher in high school who had two bumper stickers on her Scirocco: Left side: Teachers do more than teach Right side: Ask me about Mary Kay cosmetics FWIW, I finally got around to asking her, and her answer was “Absolutely that was intentional.” ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bothersome-bumper-stickers-auto-accessorizing-youve-seen/836946/25 "2019-07-12T14:35:28Z")
The Greek warrior head with "ÎŒÎżÎ»áœŒÎœ λαÎČέ, (or, because we speak American here, moláč‘n labĂ©). My first response, is, how’d that work out for Leonidas? My second is, “I find your terms acceptable”. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bothersome-bumper-stickers-auto-accessorizing-youve-seen/836946/26 "2019-07-12T14:44:30Z")
The ones that really irk me are the nimrods around here who fly full sized flags from the back of their pickup trucks. “Yea, 'Murika!” They are so proud of the accident of their birthplace that they violate the Flag Code (4 U.S. Code § 8. Respect for flag) about 25 ways a day. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bothersome-bumper-stickers-auto-accessorizing-youve-seen/836946/27 "2019-07-12T14:45:56Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > The ones that really irk me are the nimrods around here who fly full sized flags from the back of their pickup trucks. “Yea, 'Murika!” > > They are so proud of the accident of their birthplace that they violate the Flag Code (4 U.S. Code § 8. Respect for flag) about 25 ways a day. They wouldn’t know since there’s no picture book version of the Flag Code. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bothersome-bumper-stickers-auto-accessorizing-youve-seen/836946/28 "2019-07-12T14:54:19Z")
All well covered. I’ll just add a pet peeve of mine: Dealership stickers and badges. Doesn’t rise to the level of the ones already mentioned
 but why? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bothersome-bumper-stickers-auto-accessorizing-youve-seen/836946/29 "2019-07-12T15:03:17Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > The ‘baby on board’ signs were big in the 1980s I think, then disappeared for a couple of decades before making their current comeback. > > What I’ve always wondered is, suppose you see a “baby on board” sign on a car in a parking lot on a hot day, with the tinted windows rolled up so you can’t see inside at all well, and you know it’s got to be 150° inside the car, so if there really IS a baby on board, it’s either dead or needs to be rescued _immediately_. Are you justified in smashing a window to get in? 😃 We now have variations, like ‘Baby Up In This Bitch’ and ‘Huge Financial Burden on Board’. ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bothersome-bumper-stickers-auto-accessorizing-youve-seen/836946/30 "2019-07-12T15:04:24Z")
From the OP’s list, the ones that irk me the most are low riders and spoilers. Some kid lowers their car so it’s an inch of the ground, and this is supposed to be cool, I guess. Then they put a spoiler on the back, like they think their little Honda is a race car. :rolleyes: I saw one of these a few years ago that made me downright angry. I was behind one of these idiots while he was spending 30 seconds going over a speed bump, and I noticed the stencil on his back window: “Please have patience, I’m lowered!” Well, this had the opposite effect. For a few seconds, I seriously considered confronting this guy after he parked his car to explain that I am NOT going to have patience. Because he deliberately turned his car into a traffic problem, and asking me to have patience about it is as obnoxious as it gets. I didn’t, of course, but it was a nice little fantasy. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bothersome-bumper-stickers-auto-accessorizing-youve-seen/836946/31 "2019-07-12T15:05:29Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > The Greek warrior head with "ÎŒÎżÎ»áœŒÎœ λαÎČέ, (or, because we speak American here, moláč‘n labĂ©). My first response, is, how’d that work out for Leonidas? My second is, “I find your terms acceptable”. > [@silenus](#): > > The ones that really irk me are the nimrods around here who fly full sized flags from the back of their pickup trucks. “Yea, 'Murika!” > > They are so proud of the accident of their birthplace that they violate the Flag Code (4 U.S. Code § 8. Respect for flag) about 25 ways a day. What a lot of folks have said: Molon Labe stickers Full size US, confederate and Gadsden flags Coal-rollers with semi exhaust stacks (not just a southern thing) Bumper nuts Redoubt stickers Just the huge, lifted full-sized trucks in general MAGA accessories I guess there is a benefit to those items: They quickly identify individuals I don’t want to talk to. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bothersome-bumper-stickers-auto-accessorizing-youve-seen/836946/32 "2019-07-12T15:13:20Z")
I love some good nekkid lady mudflaps. My husband and I saw some on a beater TransCamero years ago and I wondered "who??? Does this guy think when he picks up his date she sees those and thinks “oh, goody, I’m going to get laid tonight!”? My daughter wants truck nuts for her Fiat 500. But they’d drag on the pavement. ---
**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 12, 2019, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bothersome-bumper-stickers-auto-accessorizing-youve-seen/836946/33 "2019-07-12T16:53:55Z")
Ooooh, just remembered one. Big round sticker on the back window of an old guy’s truck, looked like an EMT logo but if you looked closely the writing said “Orgasm Donor.” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bothersome-bumper-stickers-auto-accessorizing-youve-seen/836946/34 "2019-07-12T16:58:14Z")
I’m not a fan of the sticker showing Calvin (of the Calvin & Hobbes comic strip) pissing. For one thing, it’s vulgar while the strip itself never was. For another thing, it’s obviously not authorized by the artist. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bothersome-bumper-stickers-auto-accessorizing-youve-seen/836946/35 "2019-07-12T17:00:45Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > My daughter wants truck nuts for her Fiat 500. But they’d drag on the pavement. I have totally been thinking about how to make a fortune by selling “truck ovaries”. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bothersome-bumper-stickers-auto-accessorizing-youve-seen/836946/36 "2019-07-12T17:08:00Z")
Spoilers
 on pickup trucks. I actually saw one of these recently and thought “WTF is the point of _that?_” ---
**Author:** ![puddleglum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puddleglum/32/137_2.png) [@puddleglum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puddleglum)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bothersome-bumper-stickers-auto-accessorizing-youve-seen/836946/37 "2019-07-12T17:14:11Z")
The stupidity and cowardice of the co-exist bumpersticker. The uselessness of the Free Tibet bumpersticker. And any bumpersticker with small type. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bothersome-bumper-stickers-auto-accessorizing-youve-seen/836946/38 "2019-07-12T17:16:25Z")
> [@puddleglum](#): > > The stupidity and cowardice of the co-exist bumpersticker. Why “cowardice”? (not that I agree with the “stupidity” part, but I think I at least understand where you’re coming from.) ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bothersome-bumper-stickers-auto-accessorizing-youve-seen/836946/39 "2019-07-12T17:18:15Z")
“Trump 2020” ---
**Author:** ![utopiarun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/2bfe46/32.png) [@utopiarun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/utopiarun)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bothersome-bumper-stickers-auto-accessorizing-youve-seen/836946/40 "2019-07-12T17:22:04Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Car window memorials. I get it, you miss the person, but do you really want to look at that every time you get in a car? This 1000%, see them all the time and I just ask myself “why” and can’t people mourn with dignity and not have a poster on your car (usually truck or SUV) “advertising” you lost someone close to you? Who hasn’t? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bothersome-bumper-stickers-auto-accessorizing-youve-seen/836946.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bothersome-bumper-stickers-auto-accessorizing-youve-seen/836946.md?page=3)