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Why do people put these stickers on their car?

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feelingmehtoday · 30/07/2021 15:49

I was just following a car that had two stickers on the back - one saying "kiss my arse" and a Betty Boop cartoon with her bum exposed, and the other saying "you've just been overtaken by a girl". (See attached pics if interested).

Is it just me, or is this incredibly tacky? I mean, the "baby on board" stuff doesn't bother me. But why oh why does anyone need to announce that they are female for the benefit of the car they have overtaken? Doesn't this just perpetuate silly gender stereotypes about women drivers? And why tell a random stranger behind you to "kiss your arse"? Is that really necessary?

Do you have such slogans on your car? If so, please could you explain why, so that I can put this issue to bed and move on with my day. Grin

(I've been disproportionately irritated by this today - can you tell...?)Grin

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velvethaze · 30/07/2021 22:19

So tacky. Probably the same people who have 'Live, Laugh, Love' plastered all over their home or worse, tattooed on their body.

Paripale · 30/07/2021 22:20

😂😂😂

grey12 · 30/07/2021 22:23

Seen a worse one, you pay for your journey in that car with gas money or with something that rhymes with "gas" Envy

undermycatsthumb · 30/07/2021 22:26

The stickers you mention are awful OP, but one of the proudest moments of my life was when I went to school in the US for a year and received a ‘my child is a [middle of nowhere] high school honor student’ bumper sticker. I sent it home to my Dad in the UK… he stuck it on the fridge Grin

Tobermory · 30/07/2021 22:27

@Paripale

Tobermory I misread your thread title as ‘Why do people put these stickers on their caT! ‘

If you put draw two eyes on a pair of round stickers and attach them to the back of your cat you get a wonderful woolly mammoth effect 😂!

😂😂😂

If only I had a cat to try it out on!!!

Ihaventgottimeforthis · 30/07/2021 22:27

Sometimes seen on old bangers in Cornwall..
'No hand signals, I'm eating a pasty'.

Boatonthehorizon · 30/07/2021 22:35

Good god. Live and let live. No need to be so mean, snobby and elitist.
Are you the sticker police?

Boatonthehorizon · 30/07/2021 22:39

Because the purpose of feminism isn’t to make a particular type of woman. The idea that there are inherently wrong and inherently right “types” of women is what’s screwed feminism for so long — this belief that “we” wouldn’t accept slaggy birds, dim birds, birds that bitch, birds that hire cleaners, birds that stay at home with their kids, birds that have pink Mini Metros with POWERED BY FAIRY DUST! bumper stickers, birds in burkas or birds that like to pretend, in their heads, that they’re married to Zach Braff from Scrubs and that you sometimes have sex in an ambulance while the rest of the cast watch and, latterly, clap. You know what? Feminism will have all of you.

What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they might be.

Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman

MostlyNormalSometimesOdd · 30/07/2021 22:41

@KupoNutCoffee

Can we add 'powered by fairy dust' / powered by bitch dust' written in pink Disney font, into the cringe fest?

Combined with eyelashes on headlights?

Just no need. I dislike any stickers on cars. Except the one on a thread few months back that had the pope in the backseat.

"Powered by Fairy Dust" shows a woeful lack of knowledge about the workings of the internal combustion engine
Guineapigbridge · 30/07/2021 22:55

I'm pretty sure the You Just Got Passed By A Girl type stickers are to indicate sexual availability to the type of boy-racer tosser that might pull-up alongside a car at the lights. Grim.

Wherearemymarbles · 30/07/2021 23:01

Some years ago there was a story(with photos) about an American woman who had an enlarged photo of her fanny on the bonnet of her original VW beetle

I guess it was a true beetle bonnet!!

Soggyday · 30/07/2021 23:02

@Guineapigbridge

I'm pretty sure the You Just Got Passed By A Girl type stickers are to indicate sexual availability to the type of boy-racer tosser that might pull-up alongside a car at the lights. Grim.
Why are you pretty sure about that?
Soggyday · 30/07/2021 23:06

@Wherearemymarbles

Some years ago there was a story(with photos) about an American woman who had an enlarged photo of her fanny on the bonnet of her original VW beetle

I guess it was a true beetle bonnet!!

In America, it's not just women who have a fanny.
Wherearemymarbles · 30/07/2021 23:12

I know…..

DrSbaitso · 30/07/2021 23:54

@Guineapigbridge

I'm pretty sure the You Just Got Passed By A Girl type stickers are to indicate sexual availability to the type of boy-racer tosser that might pull-up alongside a car at the lights. Grim.
The sticker is very stupid, but this is a stretch.
DrSbaitso · 30/07/2021 23:55

@velvethaze

So tacky. Probably the same people who have 'Live, Laugh, Love' plastered all over their home or worse, tattooed on their body.
What on earth is the connection?
PurpleFadesToGreen · 31/07/2021 00:05

My dad used to have one that said
"I still miss my ex-wife...but my aim is improving "

Think that went with the last car though.

Twofurrycats · 31/07/2021 00:13

My favourite.
In case of fire chip pan in cab.

Why do people put these stickers on their car?
velvethaze · 31/07/2021 01:19

@DrSbaitso utter tackiness? Bad taste? Cringe?

Meraas · 31/07/2021 01:24

[quote FreeSpirits]@lazyarse123 lol no I don't drive Wink[/quote]
Have you got a Live, Laugh, Love decal at home? Dance like no one’s watching?

Meraas · 31/07/2021 01:27

I can almost understand the got passed by a girl one, just because the male drivers who get affronted when I over take them, safely.

k1233 · 31/07/2021 01:51

Don't know if you have it over there, but one of the quaint things to put on your car in Australia is a set of fake testicles, typically hanging from the towbar.

I so want to geld every car I see with them!

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feelingmehtoday · 31/07/2021 06:49

@Boatonthehorizon

Because the purpose of feminism isn’t to make a particular type of woman. The idea that there are inherently wrong and inherently right “types” of women is what’s screwed feminism for so long — this belief that “we” wouldn’t accept slaggy birds, dim birds, birds that bitch, birds that hire cleaners, birds that stay at home with their kids, birds that have pink Mini Metros with POWERED BY FAIRY DUST! bumper stickers, birds in burkas or birds that like to pretend, in their heads, that they’re married to Zach Braff from Scrubs and that you sometimes have sex in an ambulance while the rest of the cast watch and, latterly, clap. You know what? Feminism will have all of you.

What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they might be.

Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman

This is interesting - thank you. I hadn't thought about it in this way.

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feelingmehtoday · 31/07/2021 06:49

@Boatonthehorizon

Good god. Live and let live. No need to be so mean, snobby and elitist. Are you the sticker police?
😂 Always one who misses the light hearted tone and becomes unnecessarily offended.
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feelingmehtoday · 31/07/2021 06:51

I like the idea of the sticker police, though... I might go around peeling them off. Big fines for the most tacky. Grin

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