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RE: Fucking Assholes....
August 15, 2012 at 11:25 am
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(August 15, 2012 at 10:32 am)Napoléon Wrote: (August 15, 2012 at 1:23 am)Cinjin Wrote: I think I'm going to make a bumper sticker that says, Christards Suck!
What is it with Americans and bumper stickers? Personally I think anyone that puts their views on the bumper of their car probably doesn't have the mental capacity to hold a complicated enough view in the first place. Leave them to their childish ways I say.
First of all, bumper stickers are used worldwide. Secondly, putting your opinion anywhere, car or otherwise, has nothing to do with your ability to hold a "complicated enough view." Non sequitur. Some people are not good at expressing themselves verbally, and a sign of some sort may be their only way. Thirdly, it's a well known fact that Americans have a love affair with their automobiles and the great majority of us would never desecrate one by putting a sticker on it. It is very common in this country to buy bumper stickers and put them on personal belongings. I like to put them on my guitar cases. Am I stupid and incapable of holding a complicated enough view? How bout if I attach a bumper sticker to a backpack or a textbook? Am I too childish for you to sit and have a beer with?
Don't worry Napo, I won't send you a bumper sticker.
...But I gladly would have.
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RE: Fucking Assholes....
August 15, 2012 at 12:22 pm
*raises a hand
I'm childish enough to want a bumper sticker!
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
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RE: Fucking Assholes....
August 15, 2012 at 1:35 pm
(August 15, 2012 at 12:22 pm)Kayenneh Wrote: *raises a hand
I'm childish enough to want a bumper sticker!
Me too.
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RE: Fucking Assholes....
August 15, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Bumper stickers are decidedly American; however, I don't share Napo's view on them. Sometimes a few words can spread a huge message. Advertisers use this exact tactic to position products - on race cars, footballer and runner's tops, charity events, bus stops etc etc etc.
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RE: Fucking Assholes....
August 15, 2012 at 2:48 pm
Yeah knew I wouldn't be making any friends with that comment.
Maybe it's just me, around here the only things we see on people's bumpers are 'mums taxi' and 'baby on board'.
Never seen the fascination with bumper stickers about evolution/religion. Just seems a typical American thing to do to me. "Oh look at me! Look over here! I believe in creationism!!! I want to tell the world!" Basically what I get from bumper stickers.
Really don't see the point.
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RE: Fucking Assholes....
August 15, 2012 at 2:50 pm
(August 15, 2012 at 1:23 am)Cinjin Wrote: I think I'm going to make a bumper sticker that says, Christards Suck!
Seriously, I'm actually going to do it and I'll send them to anyone anywhere in the world if you simply ask for one.
That would be the absolute fastest possible way to get my new Subaru keyed.
I might take one to put on my laptop however.
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal
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RE: Fucking Assholes....
August 15, 2012 at 3:16 pm
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(August 15, 2012 at 2:48 pm)Napoléon Wrote: Yeah knew I wouldn't be making any friends with that comment.
Maybe it's just me, around here the only things we see on people's bumpers are 'mums taxi' and 'baby on board'.
Never seen the fascination with bumper stickers about evolution/religion. Just seems a typical American thing to do to me. "Oh look at me! Look over here! I believe in creationism!!! I want to tell the world!" Basically what I get from bumper stickers.
Really don't see the point.
Another unpopular comment is landing in 3, 2, 1... I think it comes down to how most American's views are completely polarized by their media. My liberal American friends are way too liberal; similarly, my right wing friends are so far to the right they've done a 180 and are in danger of becoming lefties. In that respect, bumper stickers are the perfect way to communicate an idea in 'merica.
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RE: Fucking Assholes....
August 16, 2012 at 1:14 am
Quote:What is it with Americans and bumper stickers? Personally I think anyone that puts their views on the bumper of their car probably doesn't have the mental capacity to hold a complicated enough view in the first place. Leave them to their childish ways I say.
A lot of people use bumper stickers here too,because a lot of people here are also fucking stoopid. I am not sufficiently stoopid to volunteer to have my car keyed .
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RE: Fucking Assholes....
August 16, 2012 at 1:20 am
Easy, dumbass. Brad has been making huge strides lately. I don't fit in either, so I guess I'm just too cool.
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RE: Fucking Assholes....
August 16, 2012 at 1:36 am
I have never affixed a bumper sticker to any of my vehicles in that last twenty years, but I must share something that instantly increases my body temperature by ten degrees: the inane suction cup affixed yellow warning diamond in the back window informing that there's a "Baby On Board".
Holy Fuck! As if I am looking for another vehicle to collide with, but the fact that I know the cunt (man or woman) driving the vehicle in front of me has recently spawned will suddenly alter my choice of vehicular carnage. When I see these signs I only wish for 1000 more horsepower and a cow plow.
Whew, I feel better now.
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