# What are the most offensive bumper stickers you've seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 19, 2015, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-offensive-bumper-stickers-youve-seen/725588 "2015-07-19T06:42:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-offensive-bumper-stickers-youve-seen/725588/81 "2015-07-21T03:11:37Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > I don’t know. I’ve known some very smart dogs, and some not so sharp honor students. when a dog can read and knows his multiplication tables, get back with me. No doubt your dog is quite smart for his kind. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-offensive-bumper-stickers-youve-seen/725588/82 "2015-07-21T04:38:38Z")
> [@Cub\_Mistress](#): > > when a dog can read and knows his multiplication tables, get back with me. No doubt your dog is quite smart for his kind. There is intelligent and there is smart. Memorizing the multiplication tables is intelligent. A dog turned out by his owners into the wild and learning how to survive on his own takes smarts. I have known some very intelligent honor students that frankly didn’t have the smarts to come in out of the rain. I’ve also had dogs that followed instructions better than some honor students. ---
**Author:** ![Cara\_mel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@Cara\_mel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cara_mel)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-offensive-bumper-stickers-youve-seen/725588/83 "2015-07-21T04:54:36Z")
> [@Cub\_Mistress](#): > > “My (dog breed name) is smarter than your honor student” Just obnoxious and patently false. The quote is a dig at the parents, and true a lot of the time, judging from some of the exploits of honour students I have known. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-offensive-bumper-stickers-youve-seen/725588/84 "2015-07-21T06:38:07Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > “Take Back America!” > > Note that it never specifies from Whom we should take it back. Nor why we should be all alarmed at Whoever has done the original “taking” (vs. not being alarmed at some _other_ group who threatens to do the same thing), and why we should (indeed) feel the need to split the country into two disparate warring halves like this (or presume that it is already a _fait accompli_). Hillary Clinton [expressed a similar sentiment in 2007](http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/29045-clinton-we-have-to-take-our-country-back) and [2008](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=5265045&page=1&singlePage=true), as well as the many times Kerry said something similar in his 2004 campaign, and even John Dean and Al Gore also said something similar. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-offensive-bumper-stickers-youve-seen/725588/85 "2015-07-21T06:40:41Z")
> [@Cara\_mel](#): > > The quote is a dig at the parents Unfortunately the bumper sticker doesn’t actually say that. I saw that bumper sticker for the first time a few weeks ago. The genius had parked extra close to me in the supermarket parking lot for no reason, forcing me to enter from the passenger side and climb over the central console. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-offensive-bumper-stickers-youve-seen/725588/86 "2015-07-21T15:03:33Z")
> [@Cub\_Mistress](#): > > “My (dog breed name) is smarter than your honor student” Just obnoxious and patently false. My mom has one that says “My dog can lick your honor student” Which, actually, is true ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-offensive-bumper-stickers-youve-seen/725588/87 "2015-07-21T15:46:39Z")
> [@Kropotkin](#): > > “Earth First! We’ll log the other planets later.” > > Okay, it made me laugh… The show _King of the Hill_ had Dale Gribble once exclaim “Earth first! Make Mars our bitch!” The “Re-Nig” bumper stickers were the absolute worst. In terms of stupidity, though, there are few worse than the “abortion stops a beating heart” stickers. I mean, isn’t that the point of an abortion? ---
**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 21, 2015, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-offensive-bumper-stickers-youve-seen/725588/88 "2015-07-21T16:10:09Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > The bumper sticker violated the rules of the workplace, for being contentious, aggressive, offensive, divisive, insulting, and for using a vulgar word. I was right to report it, and they were right to ask it not appear in their parking lot, given that it is their own private property. > > The Nazis have the right to dress up in uniform and parade publicly down the sidewalk. But they don’t have the right to walk into the Starbucks or McDonalds. The bumper sticker was not agressive, offensive, or insulting. It expressed a sentiment you disagree with. A tolerant person would have ignored it. Thank you for confirming the stereotype that you don’t have to scratch a liberal very hard to find a totalitarian. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-offensive-bumper-stickers-youve-seen/725588/89 "2015-07-21T17:28:55Z")
Can someone explain the offensiveness of the “re-nig” sticker? My first thought is that it’s a play off the N-word? ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-offensive-bumper-stickers-youve-seen/725588/90 "2015-07-21T17:39:07Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Can someone explain the offensiveness of the “re-nig” sticker? > > My first thought is that it’s a play off the N-word? N\*gger again (vote him in for a second term). Re-nig. ---
**Author:** ![FuriousGeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@FuriousGeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuriousGeorge)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-offensive-bumper-stickers-youve-seen/725588/91 "2015-07-21T17:39:49Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > A cow-orker of mine parked his car in the company lot with a sticker “Piss of a Liberal - Buy a Gun.” I reported him to HR and they told him he couldn’t park in the company lot unless he removed it. (Hostile workplace laws.) Total dick move. ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-offensive-bumper-stickers-youve-seen/725588/92 "2015-07-21T17:54:42Z")
> [@tullsterx](#): > > My wife has one like that, but it reads “God said it so that settles it whether we believe it or not.” I think it’s pretty stupid but not really offensive. > > I find the fish eating the Darwin fish to be pretty ridiculous, maybe offensive. Some of the fish spin-offs I find rather funny, especially the Gefilte fish and the Flying Spaghetti Monster one. However there’s one with the Darwin fish having sex with the Christian fish which I really don’t like trying to talk around if a little kid notices it. ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-offensive-bumper-stickers-youve-seen/725588/93 "2015-07-21T17:55:49Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > The show _King of the Hill_ had Dale Gribble once exclaim “Earth first! Make Mars our bitch!” > > The “Re-Nig” bumper stickers were the absolute worst. > > In terms of stupidity, though, there are few worse than the “abortion stops a beating heart” stickers. I mean, isn’t that the point of an abortion? How about “It is not a choice, it is a child” There’s one trucking company that seems to have that on all their trucks. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-offensive-bumper-stickers-youve-seen/725588/94 "2015-07-21T18:26:18Z")
A few years back – “I’d rather see my sister in a whorehouse than my brother on a Jap bike.” It was helmet sticker, I guess, not really a bumper sticker. Same thing, though. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-offensive-bumper-stickers-youve-seen/725588/95 "2015-07-21T18:59:40Z")
> [@ZPG\_Zealot](#): > > Some of the fish spin-offs I find rather funny, especially the Gefilte fish and the Flying Spaghetti Monster one. However there’s one with the Darwin fish having sex with the Christian fish which I really don’t like trying to talk around if a little kid notices it. `My favorite variation looks like the classic “ICHTHYS” fish sticker, only the lettering inside reads “GHOTI” ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-offensive-bumper-stickers-youve-seen/725588/96 "2015-07-21T19:03:29Z")
> [@ZPG\_Zealot](#): > > Some of the fish spin-offs I find rather funny, especially the Gefilte fish and the Flying Spaghetti Monster one. However there’s one with the Darwin fish having sex with the Christian fish which I really don’t like trying to talk around if a little kid notices it. Fish having sex? Fish don’t really engage in what we would recognize as coital behavior. So far as most people could tell, any image of two fish roughly in proximity with each other could be having fish sex. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-offensive-bumper-stickers-youve-seen/725588/97 "2015-07-21T19:06:11Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > The bumper sticker violated the rules of the workplace, for being contentious, aggressive, offensive, divisive, insulting, and for using a vulgar word. I was right to report it, and they were right to ask it not appear in their parking lot, given that it is their own private property. Sorry, **Trip** , I gotta go with the crowd here - you took offense where none (or very little) was offered. It reminds mw of when one of my kids would run to me crying “So-and-so called me a dummy!” I would respond "“Are you? No? Good, go back out and play”. I would ask you “Do you get pissed when someone buys a gun? No? Good, go back to work.” Vulgar? I work in a highly professional capacity for a large insurance company and I hear worse words than that used in meetings pretty much daily. Aggressive? No threat was made. Workplace harrassment? Only if someone forced you to read it every day. You are correct in that the company has the right to banish any and all bumper stickers from their parking lot, but having the right to doesn’t make it right. I hope you never say or so anything that someone else at your place of employment finds offensive. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-offensive-bumper-stickers-youve-seen/725588/98 "2015-07-21T19:25:41Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > The bumper sticker violated the rules of the workplace, for being contentious, aggressive, offensive, divisive, insulting, and for using a vulgar word. I was right to report it, and they were right to ask it not appear in their parking lot, given that it is their own private property. I’m a liberal who’d like to see the Second Amendment repealed. Really. But I’m not “offended” if someone has a different point of view, and expresses it by way of a silly bumper sticker. Nor am I insulted. And I’m certainly not harassed by the display of such a bumper sticker. It might have been against some company’s harassment policy (although I still fail to see how it’s harassing), but I would have let it go. I mean, what did you gain here? Other than a small, somewhat petty victory? Do you think you made him reconsider his position? Or think that “hey, maybe those liberals aren’t so bad, after all”? ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-offensive-bumper-stickers-youve-seen/725588/99 "2015-07-21T19:33:22Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > One galling one I’ve seen from time to time is the one that says: > God said it. I believe it. That settles it. My grandmother had a refrigerator magnet that said that. The first time I saw it, I confused her by saying that the first three words were functionally unnecessary. Ah, the middle-teen years. > [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > . . . After a day of being visually assaulted by stickers, t-shirts and attitude that fit in this thread, one car gave me pause. I’m agnostic as all get-out, but it really made me smile: **God Bless Everyone. No exceptions.** Ahhh. That’s nice. Thanks for sharing that one. > [@Senegoid](#): > > . . . I took that to mean, the fine, stand in front of them and get shot first. > [@leftfield6](#): > > And I actually have always interpreted it as “stand in front of our troops so they can shoot you”. You don’t have to choose between the two. Crossfire is a thing that happens. The Truth fish eating the Darwin fish always made me think of a Truth fish being eaten by a Belief fish. But that would cause offense even if it could, strictly speaking, refer to anyone’s beliefs. The context would imply target beliefs. ---
**Author:** ![mage-girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mage-girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mage-girl)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-offensive-bumper-stickers-youve-seen/725588/100 "2015-07-21T19:33:35Z")
> [@ZPG\_Zealot](#): > > How about “It is not a choice, it is a child” There’s one trucking company that seems to have that on all their trucks. I saw this one today! I think the semi was labeled Covenant Industries or something. Got me to wondering whether the driver agreed with the sentiment, or was just doing his/her dang job regardless… Seems kind of crappy to have to espouse an idea you don’t even agree with, because it’s connected to your job. :dubious: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-offensive-bumper-stickers-youve-seen/725588.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-offensive-bumper-stickers-youve-seen/725588.md?page=6)