What you really need is a decal of Gulpo, the fish who eats concepts!
This one. “No one cares about your stupid stick figure family!”, complete with a guy blowing his parents’ brains out.
That meme is a lot bigger than that
I don’t really see that as offensive, much less the most offensive. It’s just a bit jerkish and hostile.
The bumper decals are about ideology not correct biology. The one I am referring to features the Darwin fish positioned over the Christian sex in a manner to imply some sort of rear-entry sex. And while I actually like the message I don’t think it needs to be communicated so graphically in non-adults only environment.
I’ve seen pictures of one (do-it-yourself?) where the daddy stick figure is behind bars.
I don’t know, but I have often noticed those trucks seem to be driven in a rather “un-pro-life” manner.
I’ve been an EMT for about 8 years. At least once a day, I have to bite my tongue to prevent myself from espousing a personal opinion that I can’t professionally say.
“Piss off a liberal” isn’t insulting? That’s total bullshit.
Like the “who cares about your stick family” thing, I’d say “piss off a liberal” is jerkish and hostile, but not insulting.
There was a truck in my neighborhood with a sticker that said “there are liberals and there are Americans.” That’s insulting.
Please tell me this is some of the driest humor this side of Steven Wright.
If I said anything, it would lose some dryness. In any case, it’s pretty wet where the fish are having sex.
Fair enough, thank you for restoring… eh, somewhat… my faith in humanity.
Doesn’t really fit in this thread, because I wasn’t offended, but I saw one with the Mom and kids on the left side and the Dad on the right with a kind of homemade sticker labeled “Dad’s Whore” that made me laugh but would probably offend some folks.
Hard to see why that would not be obvious. All those “My kid was an honor student . . .” are pretentious and bragful, and it’s not surprising that others would make fun of them. All those “My chihuahua is smarter than your honor student” stickers do that.
The honor student stickers were a response to the “My son plays football for Eastside High School” stickers. If we celebrate athletic achievement like that, why shouldn’t we celebrate academic achievement?
Well, at least you were gentle and genteel about it, and that makes your rebuke an actual pleasure to read. Thank you – I’m very serious here – thank you for disagreeing politely.
I have always worked strenuously to avoid giving offense in the workplace. I’ve chanced my arm a few times, taken risks in saying things that might be taken the wrong way, but, so far, I’ve never put my foot in my mouth.
And, in fact, I did kick back – I wrote a polite letter of disagreement – when my workplace went too far, in my opinion, in making people take down personal decor that had a religious content. One guy, for instance, had a “praying hands” icon – maybe seven inches across – and they made him take that down. I just don’t see how anyone could be offended by “praying hands” symbology.
So, for what it’s worth, I have been on both sides of this debate, arguing against some corporate intervention in personal expression…and in favor of it at other times. I hope I may have in some way reconstructed myself as a moderate here.
A little…a very little…peace of mind. I didn’t have to look at something that was rude, in one of the few places where there is legal sanctuary, on the basis of workplace rules.
It’s sort of like going to my brother-in-law’s house, where he doesn’t permit cussing. It’s a place of sanctuary from that kind of thing. It can’t apply in all places, most especially public places.
But, say, just for grins, that the SDMB put in a new rule, that no one here could use the conventional cuss-words. No more f-bombs and s-smears. What would be gained? Just a trivial increase in the level of civility. (Or…a challenge for people to sneak around behind it! An ex-increment in THIS sort of bottom-scraping stinksmanship.)
I reported a guy wearing an “I’m With Stupid —>” TShirt, but by the time HR came he had moved away and the arrow was pointing at this other guy who was, I guess, arguably stupid. I withdrew the complaint.
Well, snowflake, maybe if you could convince your company to a work at home everyday situation, you wouldn’t be subject to the slings and arrows of bumper stickers. You could be in the sanctity and safety of your worldview 24/7.