Most bothersome bumper stickers/auto accessorizing you've seen

[Paul_in_Qatar]

I cannot even imagine why how someone decorates their car concerns, worries, or upsets you.

[snfaulkner]

@Paul_in_Qatar

I cannot even imagine why how someone decorates their car concerns, worries, or upsets you.

Those are all strong words. How about “annoys?” Also, you seemed reasonable bored enough to comment here. Can you imagine that we are all bored enough to bitch about stupid shit on the internet too?

[nearwildheaven]

@BwanaBob

Back in the day there were loads of bumperstickers in the form “I HEART MY Something”. (DOG, CAT, SPOUSE, etc). Someone started selling small stickers showing a picture of a screw, so that one could put it over the heart on an offending bumper sticker. Saw lots of “I SCREW MY DOG” after that.

Or they had a spade (playing card symbol) so it said “I (spayed) MY DOG.”

Yesterday, I saw a van with military plates (and a woman in camouflage got out) and the plate said “GFY.” I’m assuming those were her initials, or maybe those of her husband, but I just can’t imagine this would be anything she would want to say to her commanding officer.

[lawf]

@WildaBeast

As someone who received those honor roll stickers in middle school (my high school didn’t give them out as far as I can remember), I can tell you my parents didn’t put them on their cars, I did. And I probably would have been upset if they didn’t want them on their cars. I would guess this is the case with many if not most of the vehicles displaying these stickers; it’s not about the parents “using your kid as an accessory to desperately build you self-esteem.” It’s about the kids being proud of their accomplishments and wanting to display the sticker that they earned.

My middle school had the “terrific kid” stickers as well, but they weren’t “handed out to kids who couldn’t make any honor roll”. Every month home room teachers would nominate a “terrific kid”, and there were criteria for receiving one, but those criteria weren’t necessarily academic. It was based more on behavior, staying out of trouble, and things like that.

Now I’m going to flip the script and talk about a modification that I thought was stupid at first, but after I thought about it more I realized it was actually an improvement. The landscapers who maintain my neighbor’s lawn use a lowrider pickup truck as their work truck. When I saw it at first I thought it was a silly thing to do, after all they likely reduced the truck’s payload capacity by messing with the suspension. But then I noticed other landscapers driving around in trucks with the beds completely empty, hauling their equipment around on trailers. Now that’s silly, buying a truck and not using the bed for its intended purpose, but rather substituting a trailer. But I understand why they do it – the beds of modern full sized pickups are so high off the ground it’s difficult to actually load things into them. Meanwhile my neighbor’s guys, with their truck’s bed much lower to the ground, can easily lift their equipment in and out of their truck and have no need for a trailer. However they may have affected its payload capacity it’s still more than able to handle a couple of mowers, leaf blowers, and trimmers. I now have to conclude that for their purpose, lowering their truck actually improved it.

Hope you didn’t find my post distasteful

The larger point pertains to the need to advertise one’s achievements. At the same time, the practice also discourages students from trying harder, what with abusive parents saying “Tom’s parents have got the sticker, where’s ours?”

[Guest-starring_Id]

@HMS_Irruncible

The “MOLON LABE” goobers are kind of a sad breed. Nobody wants your little Wal-Mart toy. You might want to look into jelqing.

In so short a post I was edified to learn two new phrases. Ignorance somewhat lessened.

@Paul_in_Qatar

I cannot even imagine why how someone decorates their car concerns, worries, or upsets you.

I cannot even imagine either. Well, I guess except for the resulting PTSD greatly stepping up my Atavin and Adderall intake, oh and the hyperventilations and chalkboard scratching…

But other than that, I’m coping fine, thank-you.

[burpo_the_wonder_mutt]

@ftg

There are 4 levels of humor associated with this meme:

“I <heart> my dog.” This is simple, basic, humor. That kind your grandmother would get.

“I <spade> my dog.” A little more to it. A few brain cells are required. Still tame.

“I <club> my dog.” Okay, now you’re going for the shock humor. Something different.

“I <diamond> my dog.” Either you’re Paris Hilton (meh) or are into surreal humor (cool) but no way to tell (?).

IIRC, the other “bumper sticker” of Gallagher’s act was, “I my wife.” :eek: Did he figure he’d get more shit from the dog lobby than the wife lobby?