They're making a comeback in my area. Do they have any practical purpose? I interpret them as a mea culpa for bad drivers.
There's a car around here with an "I'm Not Drunk, Just A Shitty Driver" sticker. :facepalm:
Quote from: Laconian on January 02, 2018, 08:47:08 PM
They're making a comeback in my area. Do they have any practical purpose? I interpret them as a mea culpa for bad drivers.
Someone told me they're to inform first responders that there may be a youngin' inside the car so they know to look. I feel like they could figure that out themselves
Quote from: CaminoRacer on January 02, 2018, 09:10:53 PM
Someone told me they're to inform first responders that there may be a youngin' inside the car so they know to look. I feel like they could figure that out themselves
Sure, and the stick figure family was to tell them there's dad, mom, 2 girls, a boy, a baby, a dog, 3 cats, and a goldfish in the burning car.
:lol:
I always saw it as a "Just pass me, I'm not speeding up" sticker.
They're good for letting pedofiles and sex traffickers know what ya got.
Maybe a stretch but there's no reason to advertise personal information to everyone who drives by.
A new mommy, who is an extraordinary good officer, about 26yrs old, asked me about them. Wondering if she should get one, or if people even care. I said people don't pay attention. I don't know if she got one or not.
At least they're not as widespread (yet) as they used to be.
Quote from: Rockraven on January 02, 2018, 09:14:36 PM
Sure, and the stick figure family was to tell them there's dad, mom, 2 girls, a boy, a baby, a dog, 3 cats, and a goldfish in the burning car.
:lol:
I never used one on our cars but I think they are mostly meant to remind others to drive carefully. Kind of like how people are less likely to be an ignorant driver when they suddenly realize that they know the person in the car they were just about to give the bird to.
Quote from: Lebowski on January 03, 2018, 06:11:07 AM
They're good for letting pedofiles and sex traffickers know what ya got.
Maybe a stretch but there's no reason to advertise personal information to everyone who drives by.
Well, that's a super paranoid outlook on something pretty innocuous.
One of my favourite bumper stickers is "Would you drive better if I shoved that cell phone up your ass?"
:lol:
Quote from: Raza on January 03, 2018, 08:38:58 AM
Well, that's a super paranoid outlook on something pretty innocuous.
Says the guy who's afraid of commercial air travel.
I was talking more about the stick figure families, but either way I'm not a fan, but I've never been a fan of bumper stickers of any kind.
They were cute 30 plus years ago. Society is far more cynical now.
Quote from: FoMoJo on January 03, 2018, 09:33:13 AM
They were cute 30 plus years ago. Society is far more cynical now.
Saw a "baby on waterboard" sticker the other day.
The only bumper sticker I've ever had is an ORV sticker.
Oh, and a small ~4"x3" silouhette of the UP on the rear glass.
Quote from: giant_mtb on January 03, 2018, 11:08:48 AM
The only bumper sticker I've ever had is an ORV sticker.
Oh, and a small ~4"x3" silouhette of the UP on the rear glass.
I have surf shop stickers on the back window of the El Camino. I think it's required for ownership.
I have an OSU alumni sticker in my back window, but that's about it
Quote from: RomanChariot on January 03, 2018, 08:28:41 AM
I never used one on our cars but I think they are mostly meant to remind others to drive carefully. Kind of like how people are less likely to be an ignorant driver when they suddenly realize that they know the person in the car they were just about to give the bird to.
Yeah but it's a little insulting.
"What does that say, 'baby on board'? Whew! For a second there I was about to start senselessly ramming every other car around me. I'm glad they had that sticker to remind me not to be heedless of their safety. I don't know what I would have done without it. Now, if no one has any objection, I think I'm just going to launch my car off the side of this cliff, because I like to walk on the wild side."
Quote from: Tave on January 05, 2018, 09:55:59 AM
Yeah but it's a little insulting.
"What does that say, 'baby on board'? Whew! For a second there I was about to start senselessly ramming every other car around me. I'm glad they had that sticker to remind me not to be heedless of their safety. I don't know what I would have done without it. Now, if no one has any objection, I think I'm just going to launch my car off the side of this cliff, because I like to walk on the wild side."
It might be a little insulting but the truth is that there are a lot of people who drive like jerks. Some of this stems from the fact that there is a certain anonymity when driving on public roads just like the anonymity of the internet gives some the freedom to post like jerks. When these people see someone else on the road that they know they often behave much better. I think that the point of the signs is to remind people that other cars are carrying precious cargo not just a bunch of anonymous automatons. Whether it is effective is another issues.
I remember that all the annoying yuppies had these things on their cars back in the 1980s. Maybe those kids now have them for their own kids.
Almost as annoying as the Jesus fish that we still see on so many cars.
Quote from: FoMoJo on January 06, 2018, 02:14:40 PM
Almost as annoying as the Jesus fish that we still see on so many cars.
I don't find those annoying. They don't really say/mean anything besides "I guess I believe in God." BoB stickers carry a lot more pretense.
Quote from: giant_mtb on January 06, 2018, 02:17:07 PM
I don't find those annoying. They don't really say/mean anything besides "I guess I believe in God." BoB stickers carry a lot more pretense.
Maybe it's just me :huh:.
Quote from: FoMoJo on January 06, 2018, 02:34:07 PM
Maybe it's just me :huh:.
I don't think I've ever noticed a Jesus fish. I don't even know what they look like. I don't think they'd annoy me anyway. Bumper stickers with slogans usually annoy me. I find most slogans to be, at best, partly true and a gross oversimplification. The fact that our policies are dictated by slogans is why things are a mess.
A niggling point, but if someone must have bumpers stickers they should, at least, be funny.
Quote from: dazzleman on January 06, 2018, 03:43:59 PM
I don't think I've ever noticed a Jesus fish. I don't even know what they look like. I don't think they'd annoy me anyway. Bumper stickers with slogans usually annoy me. I find most slogans to be, at best, partly true and a gross oversimplification. The fact that our policies are dictated by slogans is why things are a mess.
You've never seen a Jesus fish?
Anything political definitely falls into the category of shit you shouldn't put on your car imo. Too many Sporties on the road who are easily #triggered.
Quote from: Lebowski on January 06, 2018, 06:30:50 PM
You've never seen a Jesus fish?
Anything political definitely falls into the category of shit you shouldn't put on your car imo. Too many Sporties on the road who are easily #triggered.
I may have seen a Jesus fish, but maybe I didn't notice or recognize it as such.
Quote from: dazzleman on January 06, 2018, 06:33:49 PM
I may have seen a Jesus fish, but maybe I didn't notice or recognize it as such.
Depends on where you live or travel. When we lived in a rural/small town outside of the GTA, there were a couple of 'Reform' type churches and several people had Jesus fish stickers on their cars. Where we are now, in the middle of a major municipal area, haven't seen a single one.
I don't really mind them that much, but I sometimes question the mentality of someone who would do that. It's like putting a label on your life style and wanting everyone to know.
It's a fish that sometimes has "IXOYE" written in it. Really, you've never noticed that before? They were everywhere in the 90's.
Quote from: dazzleman on January 06, 2018, 06:33:49 PM
I may have seen a Jesus fish, but maybe I didn't notice or recognize it as such.
Exactly why I don't find them offensive. They're nondescript and if you don't know what it is, it's not noteworthy. Google "Jesus fish" if you're not sure.
https://goo.gl/images/fHrxuw
Quote from: FoMoJo on January 06, 2018, 06:42:46 PM
Depends on where you live or travel. When we lived in a rural/small town outside of the GTA, there were a couple of 'Reform' type churches and several people had Jesus fish stickers on their cars. Where we are now, in the middle of a major municipal area, haven't seen a single one.
I don't really mind them that much, but I sometimes question the mentality of someone who would do that. It's like putting a label on your life style and wanting everyone to know.
I have seen bumper stickers that say "WWJD" or "What would Jesus do?" I can't say they bother me, though I become a little skeptical of people who are too "loud" about their religion. Though it's less annoying to me than people who are "loud" about their political views, especially in a smug and presumptuous way.
They don't seem to be common anymore. They were all over the place like 15 years ago.
Quote from: Lebowski on January 06, 2018, 06:56:55 PM
https://goo.gl/images/fHrxuw
I think I have seen that. I had no idea it was religious. I paid no attention because I had no idea what it was.
Quote from: Lebowski on January 06, 2018, 06:58:32 PM
They don't seem to be common anymore. They were all over the place like 15 years ago.
Seems to be the case with bumper stickers in general.
Though most of the ones I see now are either craft brewery stickers, "I ran this far" stickers, or "my penis is tiny, here's my huge truck" stickers.
Quote from: giant_mtb on January 06, 2018, 02:17:07 PM
I don't find those annoying. They don't really say/mean anything besides "I guess I believe in God." BoB stickers carry a lot more pretense.
A Jesus fish says "I believe in god so much that I need you to know about it, even though I've never met you and will never meet you; I need you know that if you don't believe, when the rapture comes, I will be embraced in paradise and you will not, and therefore I am better than you."
Baby on board says "Hey guys, I'm driving slowly because there's a tiny human slowly ruining my life in the back seat and I don't want to kill it yet."
Quote from: dazzleman on January 06, 2018, 06:57:10 PM
I have seen bumper stickers that say "WWJD" or "What would Jesus do?" I can't say they bother me, though I become a little skeptical of people who are too "loud" about their religion. Though it's less annoying to me than people who are "loud" about their political views, especially in a smug and presumptuous way.
Religion is a political view. :huh:
Quote from: giant_mtb on January 06, 2018, 07:09:09 PM
Seems to be the case with bumper stickers in general.
Though most of the ones I see now are either craft brewery stickers, "I ran this far" stickers, or "my penis is tiny, here's my huge truck" stickers.
Yeah, the 13.1 and 26.2 stickers....why the 13.1, especially? I don't celebrate doing half of something.
Quote from: dazzleman on January 06, 2018, 06:57:10 PM
I have seen bumper stickers that say "WWJD" or "What would Jesus do?" I can't say they bother me, though I become a little skeptical of people who are too "loud" about their religion. Though it's less annoying to me than people who are "loud" about their political views, especially in a smug and presumptuous way.
For the longest time, I thought WWJD was a radio station.
Quote from: Raza on January 07, 2018, 06:31:49 AM
Yeah, the 13.1 and 26.2 stickers....why the 13.1, especially? I don't celebrate doing half of something.
All I want to say about that is that you should only display the biggest one. The full marathon sticker goes Over the half marathon. You know, like registration stickers (people screw that up too)
Quote from: Soup DeVille on January 07, 2018, 06:44:19 AM
All I want to say about that is that you should only display the biggest one. The full marathon sticker goes Over the half marathon. You know, like registration stickers (people screw that up too)
Yeah; otherwise I have to force them off the road to ask them whether built up to the full marathon or they did the full marathon first and then got lazy and let themselves slide.
Quote from: Raza on January 07, 2018, 06:30:40 AM
Religion is a political view. :huh:
It can be, but not always. The same is true with politics. For some people, it can be a religion, but for others not.
Quote from: Soup DeVille on January 07, 2018, 06:42:21 AM
For the longest time, I thought WWJD was a radio station.
:lol:
Quote from: dazzleman on January 07, 2018, 07:27:15 AM
:lol:
And then some stickers wrote it "WWJD?" And I thought it was some semi-underground pirate radio station; so I had to find it.
I was really disappointed.
Quote from: Raza on January 07, 2018, 06:31:49 AM
Yeah, the 13.1 and 26.2 stickers....why the 13.1, especially? I don't celebrate doing half of something.
Yes. Very much this.
The 0.0 ones are the wierdest. I get the joke, and it's funny. But it's something you should see at the souvenir shop and laugh, then move on. You shouldn't actually spend money on it and proceed to put it on your car.
Quote from: dazzleman on January 07, 2018, 07:26:36 AM
It can be, but not always. The same is true with politics. For some people, it can be a religion, but for others not.
In America, it is.
Quote from: CaminoRacer on January 07, 2018, 09:10:18 AM
The 0.0 ones are the wierdest. I get the joke, and it's funny. But it's something you should see at the souvenir shop and laugh, then move on. You shouldn't actually spend money on it and proceed to put it on your car.
Ehh, it's their car.
Another one I've seen that produces a chuckle was 26.3 and then if you look close it says "nachos in one sitting."
I want a "2.0. Because the army makes me" sticker. :lol:
Quote from: AutobahnSHO on January 07, 2018, 09:37:10 AM
I want a "2.0. Because the army makes me" sticker. :lol:
"Zonk track club"
Quote from: Raza on January 07, 2018, 06:29:24 AM
A Jesus fish says "I believe in god so much that I need you to know about it, even though I've never met you and will never meet you; I need you know that if you don't believe, when the rapture comes, I will be embraced in paradise and you will not, and therefore I am better than you."
I think that's a bit aggressive. :lol:
Quote from: giant_mtb on January 07, 2018, 11:11:49 AM
I think that's a bit aggressive. :lol:
Consider the purpose of someone slapping a sticker on their vehicle. What message are they trying to send? What is the Jesus fish trying to tell you about those inside the car?
Quote from: FoMoJo on January 07, 2018, 11:21:46 AM
Consider the purpose of someone slapping a sticker on their vehicle. What message are they trying to send? What is the Jesus fish trying to tell you about those inside the car?
"I'm a Lutheran."
Anything beyond that is hyperbole, as is the case for most any bumper sticker.
Quote from: FoMoJo on January 07, 2018, 11:21:46 AM
Consider the purpose of someone slapping a sticker on their vehicle. What message are they trying to send? What is the Jesus fish trying to tell you about those inside the car?
"Please don't give me a ticket"
Quote from: giant_mtb on January 07, 2018, 11:23:51 AM
"I'm a Lutheran."
Anything beyond that is hyperbole, as is the case for most any bumper sticker.
Lutheran? Catholics can't use it?
Quote from: FoMoJo on January 07, 2018, 12:15:05 PM
Lutheran? Catholics can't use it?
Was just throwing a random example. But now we're just going in circles.
Quote from: giant_mtb on January 06, 2018, 02:17:07 PM
They don't really say/mean anything besides "I guess I believe in God."
Quote from: giant_mtb on January 07, 2018, 12:17:58 PM
Was just throwing a random example. But now we're just going in circles.
Sorry, I'm just bored. However, as someone who often wonders about the various ideologies that tend to bind various groups yet put them in opposition to other groups, I find symbols like the Jesus fish rather intriguing. I don't recall seeing vehicle stickers with the Star of David or the Star and Crescent. Maybe elsewhere though.
Only time I see a Davidian Star is on these
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41n5vkcEAlL.jpg)
Quote from: giant_mtb on January 07, 2018, 01:13:40 PM
Only time I see a Davidian Star is on these
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41n5vkcEAlL.jpg)
Never saw that before. Very interesting. Without looking it up, not sure what the S signifies.
Quote from: FoMoJo on January 07, 2018, 01:17:54 PM
Never saw that before. Very interesting. Without looking it up, not sure what the S signifies.
Daoism (or Taoism).
Quote from: giant_mtb on January 07, 2018, 01:13:40 PM
Only time I see a Davidian Star is on these
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41n5vkcEAlL.jpg)
Quote from: MX793 on January 07, 2018, 01:21:59 PM
Daoism (or Taoism).
Great sticker.
Quote from: FoMoJo on January 07, 2018, 01:17:54 PM
Never saw that before. Very interesting. Without looking it up, not sure what the S signifies.
It's a Yin/Yang.
That sticker is obnoxious.
Quote from: Soup DeVille on January 07, 2018, 01:59:37 PM
It's a Yin/Yang.
That sticker is obnoxious.
It's a positive message.
I never noticed the pentagram in the tittle of the 'i' before. :lol:
Quote from: 93JC on January 07, 2018, 03:13:26 PM
I never noticed the pentagram in the tittle of the 'i' before. :lol:
The sticker should be updated to include the FSM for the people that don't care about anything. Or a fedora ;)
Parked next to a Tracker with the rear covered in stickers. My favorite one... "Give Bees a Chance" with a peace sign. hah
Quote from: FoMoJo on January 07, 2018, 01:17:54 PM
Never saw that before. Very interesting. Without looking it up, not sure what the S signifies.
Asian. Tao?
Quote from: 93JC on January 07, 2018, 03:13:26 PM
I never noticed the pentagram in the tittle of the 'i' before. :lol:
Don't know what the i means either.
Wicca
Wicca wicca wicca whaaaaaat.
I should elaborate for FoMoJo's sake that wicca is the practitioners' preferred nomenclature. It's also known simply as 'witchcraft'. Neo-paganism.
Quote from: 93JC on January 08, 2018, 09:17:11 AM
I should I should elaborate for FoMoJo's sake that wicca is the practitioners' preferred nomenclature. It's also known simply as 'witchcraft'. Neo-paganism.
What's the T at the end for?
Quote from: Raza on January 08, 2018, 09:23:59 AM
What's the T at the end for?
I took it as a cross; Christians, you know.
Quote from: Soup DeVille on January 08, 2018, 09:31:40 AM
It's positively insipid.
It's a powerful message. I wouldn't particularly want to stick it on anything, but it would make a nice discreet tattoo.
Quote from: FoMoJo on January 08, 2018, 09:44:19 AM
It's a powerful message. I wouldn't particularly want to stick it on anything, but it would make a nice discreet tattoo.
No it isn't. It's pie-in-the-sky hippie crap. You want people to coexist? Erase every religious symbol from that sticker and it starts to make sense.
Here's a coexist symbol for you.
(http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Nasrani-N-Twitter.jpg)
Quote from: FoMoJo on January 08, 2018, 09:42:27 AM
I took it as a cross; Christians, you know.
Never heard of them. :lol:
Early Christians were just a sect of Judaism. They were persecuted by others. So, per Wikipedia:
"According to one ancient story, when a Christian met a stranger in the road, the Christian sometimes drew one arc of the simple fish outline in the dirt. If the stranger drew the other arc, both believers knew they were in good company. Current bumper-sticker and business-card uses of the fish hearken back to this practice."
ΙΧΘΥΣ (ichthys), or also ΙΧΘΥϹ with a lunate sigma, is an acronym/acrostic for "Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, Θεοῦ Υἱός, Σωτήρ" (Iēsous Christos, Theou Yios, Sōtēr; contemporary Koine [ie̝ˈsus kʰrisˈtos tʰeˈu (h)yˈjos soˈte̝r]), which translates into English as "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour".
Of course, much has changed since then. To say the least.
Quote from: FoMoJo on January 08, 2018, 09:44:19 AM
It's a powerful message. I wouldn't particularly want to stick it on anything, but it would make a nice discreet tattoo.
Holy shit :lol:!
Quote from: Soup DeVille on January 08, 2018, 10:05:26 AM
No it isn't. It's pie-in-the-sky hippie crap. You want people to coexist? Erase every religious symbol from that sticker and it starts to make sense.
Here's a coexist symbol for you.
(http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Nasrani-N-Twitter.jpg)
I see there's different versions of it. This may appeal to some...
(https://s17.postimg.org/iebuxo85r/coexist-war-u2b-bono.jpg)
I notice they didn't feel they needed to change the "C."
The "T" could be kept as a cross, too: the crusades, Irish terrorism, blahblahblahblahblah
</le_edgy_atheist>
you guys need this one
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0941/8552/products/Coexist_-_Superhero_1024x1024.jpg)
Quote from: AutobahnSHO on January 08, 2018, 06:59:34 PM
you guys need this one
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0941/8552/products/Coexist_-_Superhero_1024x1024.jpg)
Is Batman on there twice?
Quote from: Raza on January 08, 2018, 07:25:30 PM
Is Batman on there twice?
maybe one is batgirl????
Quote from: Raza on January 08, 2018, 07:25:30 PM
Is Batman on there twice?
Damn right he is, he's the goddamn Batman.
I don't think it's a bat. It doesn't have the little ears.
Quote from: Raza on January 08, 2018, 07:25:30 PM
Is Batman on there twice?
One is classic Batman, the other is Dark Knight Batman.
So, you're either getting your butt kapowed under purple lights while dancing, or you're getting your ass ground into the concrete like the miserable scum you are.