The End is Near(er)

[Argabarga]

Car pulled ahead of me at a stoplight yesterday, plastered with all kinds of dire religious warnings written in poster paint all over everything but the windows.

"REPENT SINNERS!"

"JESUS LOVES YOU!"

"YOUR END IS NEAR!"

After the initial surprise wore off, I didn't pay that much attention to him, actually.

There's plenty of people I've seen turn their cars into rolling political/social screeds, and it's never the same message twice, proving it's something fundamentally psychological with these oddballs.

I've seen cars become mobile billboards for everything from White Supremacy to banning dollar bills.

Anyway, I was ready to forget all about Mr Doom and Gloom, until, at the next traffic light, he made a right hand turn

With no turn signal

The wrong way up a one way street

With 4 "ONE WAY" "DO NOT ENTER" signs present

In broad daylight

Yep, the end is near, FOR YOU if you keep driving like that buddy.

[otakuneko]

banning dollar bills.

My only response...

[EvilEmpryss]

Careful, Arga. A psych study has shown that people who use bumperstickers are more aggressive than those who do not. Has something about seeing their car as their "territory" or "turf" and feeling the need to protect it. The more bumperstickers, the more aggression.

Hey! Can you support or refute that with your own experience, Arga? Of anyone, I would think that you would have the most experience with the full spectrum of agression and bumpersticker bearing cars.

[wolfie]

Hey! Can you support or refute that with your own experience, Arga? Of anyone, I would think that you would have the most experience with the full spectrum of agression and bumpersticker bearing cars.

I've got this to say about bumpersticker bearing cars - give me good old roller bearings (or even babbit plain bearings) any day of the week instead of that garbage.

[Canadian In Maine]

On my old car I had a bumper sticker that said: Insurance by Smith & Wesson.

I miss that car.

[dalesys]

On my old car I had a bumper sticker that said: Insurance by Smith & Wesson.

The other sticker of the set is: Legal Services by Kalashnikov.

[Jay 2K Winger]

I've avoided putting bumper stickers (apart from an American flag sticker (now bleached to nothingness) and an ROH Wrestling bumper sticker I now regret) on my car because I just didn't want to be That Guy.

I especially don't put political bumper stickers on my car because I don't trust Anna Murican or her brother-from-another-mother Johnny "Red" Necque to see my political statements and decide to express their disagreement with their keys to the side of my car. Or worse.

Given I sometimes go up to Philadelphia to see wrestling shows, I especially don't put any sports-related stickers on my car, because goddamn Philly sports fans are insane.

[An Haddock]

Given I sometimes go up to Philadelphia to see wrestling shows, I especially don't put any sports-related stickers on my car, because goddamn Philly sports fans are insane.

Yep... and god forbid you're a Dallas Cowboys fan. You won't make it out of the stadium alive.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Yep... and god forbid you're a Dallas Cowboys fan. You won't make it out of the stadium alive.

Or a Redskins fan.

...we still exist!

[wolfie]

On my old car I had a bumper sticker that said: Insurance by Smith & Wesson.

The other sticker of the set is: Legal Services by Kalashnikov.

Was it an Oldsmobile 88? If so, had you removed the "Oldsmobile" name and logo, replacing them with the Krupp name and logo?

I miss that car.

Is your problem with windage or elevation?

[cashierbex]

I have geek related stuff on my car. My most recent, Boba Fett.

[catcul]

Car pulled ahead of me at a stoplight yesterday, plastered with all kinds of dire religious warnings written in poster paint all over everything but the windows.

Anyway, I was ready to forget all about Mr Doom and Gloom, until, at the next traffic light, he made a right hand turn
With no turn signal
The wrong way up a one way street
With 4 "ONE WAY" "DO NOT ENTER" signs present
In broad daylight
Yep, the end is near, FOR YOU if you keep driving like that buddy.

If he turn the wrong way on Muhammad Ali Blvd. in Louisville, KY, he just might have been knocked out.

[Gilhelmi]

My only response...

It is not completely crazy. More replacing the paper currency with coins again (they last longer, have real metal value unlike paper where the value is tied to our trust of the economy).

I do not support this but I understand their views.

I do support eliminating the penny and nickle, they have little to no buying power. It actually costs 3 cents to make a penny. Millions could be saved if we eliminate them.

[vikingchyk]

Careful, Arga. A psych study has shown that people who use bumperstickers are more aggressive than those who do not. Has something about seeing their car as their "territory" or "turf" and feeling the need to protect it. The more bumperstickers, the more aggression.

In my county, there is this attempt to force manners on everyone, so there are a lot of cars bearing "Choose Civility"[1] bumper stickers. Yeah, thanks for alerting me that you are One Of Those People. The vast majority of them probably put the stickers on their cars because of all the big ol' meanies telling them they are Number One[2] because you really only have to keep your eye on them for about a mile before they do something to earn the salute. How about YOU choosing to learn how to drive??

[1] leading to counter-revolutionaries, sporting "Choose Insanity" or similar stickers, in the same color and font
[2] that's the middle finger salute, in case you don't know

[Geek King]

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[2] that's the middle finger salute, in case you don't know

Also known as the sign of the very cross.