I once saw an SUV decked out to look like an official presidential protective service detail vehicle. It had police lights, several antennae, slivered out windows, etc. Closer inspection revealed stickers supporting Trump rather than official government insignia. To top it off the license plate was TRUMP. The plates were from one of the small states in the northeast, Connecticut or New Hampshire IIRC.
Baby on Board bothered me until I learned the idea is to let onlookers know in case your car swerves into a lake or river or something. That’s fine with me and makes some sense.
The yellow ribbon ‘Support our Troops’ is just raw jingoism. I am not sure what bothers me more, that others don’t see it or that this hollow and yet also nonsensical commitment is an easyily removable magnet. A neighbor has a sticker that says, ‘Support our soldiers. Bring them home alive. End the war’. That’s more like it.
The black and white American flag with the one blue line bothers me. No one hates police officers doing a good job, defending criminal behaviour because tribalism is disconcerting.
Especially if you are aware that Bill Watterson has refused to license any Calvin and Hobbes goods of any kind.
They would say that they are not defending the criminal behavior. They are defending the officers doing a good job, who are often painted with a broad brush by tribalism on the other side.
And they’d be wrong. Black Lives Matter is their ‘oppositions’ slogan. Not, Black Lives Matter more than anyone else. Police Lives Matter as a position is ridiculous because no one is saying they aren’t and there is no evidence crimes against police officers aren’t being prosecuted by our judicial system.
Black Americans would like equal protection. You know, like they matter.
I did have a bumper sticker in the early 1980s that said “Nixon/Manson in '84.”
Pfft, I’d get rid of my brand logos on mine if I could. Replace them with something pithy or geeky.
What is it with thinking your car is going to swerve into a body of water? Even Mrs. R, normally a hardheadedly practical woman, has a little hammer thingie on her keychain so that if her car swerves into a lake, she can break the window and escape.
To my way of thinking, swerving into a lake has got to be around the 10E-9 level of probability. Might as well carry around a chainsaw so that you can get out if a tree falls on your car.
Was hoping to find a Hobbes stuffy to go with my Garfield and Kathy stuffies.
any Drivers’ Lives Matter bumperstickers? Charlie Brown (or Rex Morgan) taking a whiz?
I dunno, just what an acquaintance gave me as a reason she has it on her car. Which makes more sense than, ‘I’m special, my car and the lives in it are more important’ or whatever I had assumed before.
Does your wife’s car have detachable head rests with the two metal spikes? I had heard those are for breaking cardoor windows in case of emergency.
Hahahaah! Now I want a sticker of Rex Morgan or Mary Worth taking a whiz on something, anything it would be appropriate for them to disapprove of. I wouldn’t put it on my car, though. It’d probably go on a bass.
He has said he won’t allow his characters to appear in any other form or media other than the original comics. So, it’s possible even his estate will have instructions to prohibit it even after his death.
Just saw a picture of a truck with a bp featuring a silhouette of a soldier in the kneeling firing position with the slogan “If you don’t stand behind our troops, feel free to stand in front of them”. That’s straight up fascist.
The other day I saw a Ford F-series pickup truck with the Ford ovals on the front and rear replaced with ones that said Tonka. Didn’t look home-made so presumably someone is making and selling this stuff.
Years ago I saw a jacked up pickup with what looked like custom lettering in the rear window that read “Jack 'em high. Fat chicks can’t climb.” If I remember correctly the writing was flanked by the naked lady silhouettes typically seen on mud flaps.
There’s an SUV I see on the road occasionally with a personalized plate that reads “GLB WRMR” or something like that. Pretty clearly it’s intended meaning is “Globe warmer”.
There’s another SUV I see on my commute sometimes – a 4-Runner that looks like it’s outfitted for serious off-roading. It has a bumper sticker that says “Don’t follow me, you won’t make it”. Honestly that one’s not so bad compared to the others, but it makes me want to ask the driver “What makes you think people would want to follow you in the first place?”
I always throw away the dealership license plate frame after I get a new car. I don’t understand why anyone would want to be a rolling advertisement for the place they bought their car from. Unfortunately the stickers dealerships sometimes apply are pretty much impossible to remove.
Back in the '80s, when pickups had the brand name covering the entire tailgate, like this:
I once saw a Toyota with the lettering altered to say Tonka, with the same font the Tonka logo used at the time. It looked real, as though the truck had been made that way.
My brother had one on his Ford that said “Fuck” with the same font.
Not too long ago, I saw a license plate frame that said “I Love Vagina”. Well, alrighty then!
But your flag decal won’t get you into heaven anymore.
I’ve seen vehicles with many of those ribbons of different colors.
You’d need to make sure to use waterproof glue, then. And don’t they shed their scales after a while?
The Calvin peeing ones bug me a bit, but the Calvin praying ones bug me much more. Yeah, advertise your religion by stealing someone’s most valuable possession (say, doesn’t your religion say something about that, in the context of “thou shalt not”?).
As for the death memorials… It’s certainly not something I’d do myself. But I can’t bring myself to tell any grieving person that they’re doing it wrong.