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Bumper stickers revisited

Planit

Planit

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dandy_warhol said:
How is it possible that every kid is "smarter than average" or "intellectually advanced" for their age? *eye roll*


*goes back to feeding Itty Bitty paste*
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As seen locally on a Bumper Sticker:

My Juvenile Delinquent Kid
Just Beat Up Your Honor Roll Student
 
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I've too have seen variants on the 'my kid beat up your honor roll kid' sticker.

Remember how those Calvin wizzing on the Ford logo were a thing back in the 90's? You couldn't look at a pickup truck without seeing one emblazoned on it (usually next to NRA sticker) I'm sure Bill Watterson made a fortune off those. You know with all the merchandising rights and......what do you mean he didn't make a dime, huh?
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And around that same time, what was the deal with the Bad Boy, Nasty Girl, and Rude Dog window decals? What the heck were those supposed to convey?

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Seen during lunch today:

Sometimes I wrestle with my demons
Sometimes we just snuggle​
 
The only sticker that I will put on my vehicles is a smallish American flag on the back window. My truck as one and the wife's SUV-Crossover-ish thing has one. (How does one classify a Traverse/Acadia/Enclave from GM as it feels like it is on a car chassis)
 
On the tailgate to my 240 Wagon, I have:

Above the VOLVO logo:

A HARDLY ART sticker (Seattle based indie label) and Nipton, California tourist sticker my sister gave me.

Above the 240 emblem:

A little Italian flag and TACOCAT (seattle punk band) sticker.

Next to licence plate:

a NYCPBA (NYPD Police union) supporter sticker that my Grandpa gave me (one you can only get if you are related to an officer).

On the passenger side rear window:

an IPD Volvo/Swedish Flag decal, a vinyl logo for my preferred European car specialty shop.

Thats it, I feel no need to add more. Once these stickers become faded however, I will replace them with similar stickers of similar size. We'll see how they hold up.

related: since my 240 is a 1991 model, I wanted to add a NYPD Operation CAT (combat auto theft) decal to one of my back windows. Operation CAT was a program the NYPD launched circa 1990 that gave officers the right to stop any car with the decal, without reason, between Midnight and 5AM, the idea being it was a theft deterrent for owners who dont use their cars at those hours. When I found this fact out I decided against it, because I keep odd hours during the weekends and driving a 1991 Volvo makes me stand out enough :p I had wanted to add one of these stickers because they were on literally every car in New York during my childhood and I thought it would be a nice period appropriate touch.
 
I was going for stickers you've seen on other cars that make you chuckle/wince/facepalm. An American flag would not make me do that.
 
I was once behind a huge camo truck that had the words "Family GOD Guns" in huge letters across the back window. Then they had a picture of a deer that said "Buck It." I thought it was incredibly tacky. They also turned into Wal-Mart while I was on my way to work. I commented about it on Facebook and one of my mom's cousins got really offended since she assumed I was making a statement that Wal-Mart is a place for rednecks. I never said anything about it being redneck-y. I just said I wasn't surprised when that particular vehicle turned into Wal-Mart... she inferred the rest.
 
Planit said:
I was going for stickers you've seen on other cars that make you chuckle/wince/facepalm. An American flag would not make me do that.
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Ok, here are two I've seen rather recently:

Feed the Homeless to the Hungry (on a older model pickup truck, old guy driving)

Vaginas Are Way Cool!!! (on a small red car of some type driven by a young, goth looking girl as far as I could tell)
 
A co-worker had a sticker in the rear window of her pickup showing a pickup plowing into a crowd with "All Lives Splatter" next to it. She didn't get that it was deeply offensive, but enough people told her that she removed the sticker.
 
Otis said:
A co-worker had a sticker in the rear window of her pickup showing a pickup plowing into a crowd with "All Lives Splatter" next to it. She didn't get that it was deeply offensive, but enough people told her that she removed the sticker.
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Wow. I'm all for some dark humor but really? I wouldn't do that just because it has the potential to really stir up some @#4% and lead to a confrontation you may not want.

My former brother-in-law had a bumper sticker that said "If guns cause crime then women cause prostitution". He's in federal law enforcement. :r:
 
A little over a year ago, our sheriff placed "In God We Trust" bumper stickers on all the marked cruisers. The stickers became very popular with the general public and appear on private vehicles.

I few weeks ago on my way home from work, I spotted a sticker on a private vehicle that read "I Trust In No God".
 
With the new vehicle, there are no stickers, nor will there be. The old car had a sticker from my alma mater and the local university.
 
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