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Plant a tree so that I can cut it down and make bumper stickers out of it.
Well it’s obvious they love bumper stickers. As a matter of fact they have a bumper sticker that says they love bumper stickers. I think they need a new hobby.
It’s not a Prius
There’s no room left for the bumper sticker that says “nothing’s been the same since a house fell on my sister”
Oh I know what else. The Subaru dealer was all sold out so they had to get a Toyota.
The Apple Inc. sticker and Jetta in the background make it nearly perfect, but maybe there should be an old Saab or Volvo in the shot too.
A jetta TDI gets better mileage, or is this the change that was just inaugurated.
I don’t see a “Free Tibet” bumper sticker. All these granola head types have them on their cars.
Easier to identify people I don’t identify with.
I’m trying the think of a question that OBAMA! would be the answer to.
License plate not yet blurred.
There’s a Republican version of this at my gym – a white Mazda 3 driven by a woman. It’s plastered with the usual conservative drivel; Rush would like it.
1. Shouldn’t it be an electric car with all those tree-hugging bumper stickers.
2. Shouldn’t it have about 5 kids inside; there’s a strange irony among environmentalists that says they want to both save & simultaneously overpopulate the planet.
3. Having a PEACE symbol which is larger than the “WTF” bumper sticker just don’t work.
DRM.
@ Cicero :
“I’m trying the think of a question that OBAMA! would be the answer to.”
Who helped screwed things up so badly that I am forced to drive a crappy Yaris.
Same answer to a BUSH sticker.
It’s got the wrong license plate. That should be a Wyoming or Alaska license plate.
Actually, that license plate should be UK, or Australia.
It’s missing a rainbow sticker and it’s not some rusty wagon/minivan thing.
What’s this guy even driving a car for? Is there no public transportation? Are there no bicycles?
I know what’s wrong with this picture! It’s an ’09 Toyota! I didn’t know anyone was buying cars anymore.
I was going to say the WTF sticker.
But SirRoxo got it right. Where’s the rainbow sticker? Not that there is anything wrong with that.
@David Holzman:
Your being sarcastic, right? The wrong plate? C’mon the background looks like Cambridge, MA.
Never mind
how come there’s never a bumper sticker that says “i’m productively employed by a for-profit company that doesn’t rely on government grant money for anything.”
@David: UK or Oz because he looks like he’s driving on the left side of the road?
Usually you see that many bumper stickers on either a Prius or a Subaru wagon, and almost every time you see a car with a million bumper stickers, they are usually a Democrat. I wonder why that is?
No, it’s not driving on the left side of the road. The car’s in a parking spot in front of a Petco store.
And I think it’s a she not a he. I may be wrong, but the eyes in the rear-view mirror look female to me.
What’s wrong with this car is that it’s missing stickers for some of the most important issues of our time. It needs at least two more bumper stickers:
“Stop funding terrorists: Buy ethanol.”
“My carbon footprint is smaller than yours.”
It’s missing the “keep tailgating, I’m reloading” bumper sticker.
There was an article cited on TTAC awhile back indicating those with bumper stickers were more likely to engage in road rage. I cannot find it, but here’s another link: http://www.rustylime.com/show_article.php?id=1916
It’s not a Prius, Subaru or Volvo.
I’m trying to figure out what’s right with it.
As Cartman would say: Hippies. They’re everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.
IOtheworldaliving :
@David: UK or Oz because he looks like he’s driving on the left side of the road?
Yup.
@Dr. REmulac: I was being sarcastic, but I don’t recognize that photo as being in Cambridge. Maybe Somerville. I haven’t seen that car, either, and I get into Cambridge just about every day.
I think RF slapped the “I love Providence” sticker on that car. No self-respecting Bostonian would admit such a thing.
@ RF
See Richard Chen comment.
Otherwise, Massachusetts? it’s Barney Frank’s daughter’s car!
(Irony/humour at MULTIPLE levels!)
Where is the “Amerika Uber Alles” sticker?
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/05/21/100-bumper-stickers/
There’s no Ralph Nader sticker in that photo, right?
You’re only allowed to put stickers like that on a Volvo 240DL.
It’s neat that someone has the guts to plaster his or her views so openly on the car and not worry about being criticized. There’s a car out here in the land of aloha that’s similarly festooned and I smile every time I see it.
Unlike a car with a Bush bumper sticker, this car does not appeared to have been keyed.
I think the next time I see some moron getting into or out of this type of car, I’ll just stop, point and laugh at their idiocy.
The only person I knew that put an Apple sticker on their car was a complete dipshit. Maybe that’s part of the requirement for providing free ad space on your car.
Look at the factory-issued badge and the sticker underneath it: TOYOTA WTF?
Lots of light-hearted bigotry here. I guess TTAC doesn’t mind writing off green-leaning auto enthusiasts.
@ Rev junkie
“…almost every time you see a car with a million bumper stickers, they are usually a Democrat. I wonder why that is?”
Democrats still believe in Freedom of Speech.
Reminds me of the old bumper sticker I had a few years ago. “Abort Whiney Liberals”.
1. She left her shopping cart next to the Range Rover by which she was parked (they never put them in the appropriate place)
2. She’s missing the sticker that says: I “heart” my trust fund (her parents live in Boston, she needed some “room” so she moved 40 miles)
3. Now that she has purchased the TP made from recycled legal pads at Whole Foods (on N. Main in Providence) she’s driving 100 feet to get cat food chocked full of whale meat – harvested by a nuclear-powered Japanese vessel – that will make the damn feline sing like Barbara Streisand
4. 30 years from now that “Keep on the Grass” sticker will have changed to “Keep off my grass you damn kids” and she still may not be talking about her front lawn
@forraymond,
“Democrats still believe in Freedom of Speech.”
I hope you can still say that with a straight face in two weeks!
210delray :
“There’s a Republican version of this at my gym – a white Mazda 3 driven by a woman. It’s plastered with the usual conservative drivel; Rush would like it.”
We have a lot of that here. Calvin pissing on “TERRORISM,” I heart the NRA, etc. I’m with HawaiiJim on this: it’s cute that people are into their convictions enough to telegraph them on the backs of their vehicles. In this case, pickups with lift kits.
I’m lacking a place to start.
WOW! The Yaris started our plain ugly.Somebody found a way to ratchet it up to hideous.
Simple fun, or
COMMUNIST SUBVERSION?
You Decide.
@Dr Lemming
“I guess TTAC doesn’t mind writing off green-leaning auto enthusiasts.”
I hope that isn’t true.
A few of these comments are hardly light-hearted. In fact, some are so belligerent that clearly the owner of the Yaris frequently succeeds at his or her goal of being provocative.
Although I would never deface MY Volvo (or any other vehicle) with bumper stickers, I might put a few of these on it if I did. (Except for the “I Love Providence” one…LOL)
I’ll stick to my White Sox license plate frame. It stereotypes me enough as it is.
@Sajeev Mehta
“TOYOTA WTF?”
LOL
Looks like a lot of cars I used to see when I worked in the PRC (People’s Republic of Cambridge)
While i wouldn’t do this to my car, seeing cars like this do make me smile.
SirRoxo
It’s missing a rainbow sticker
The HRC sticker below the Toyota emblem is the same thing.
I’m guessing this is a RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) commuter student.
@ Dr Lemming: “Lots of light-hearted bigotry here.”
Wow – so picking on someone for his or her decision to plaster a motor vehicle with twenty or so declarations of one’s political leanings qualifies as “bigotry”? Yikes – that’s really setting the ol’ PC hurdle bar at near-impossible heights. Real bigotry is a lot uglier than picking on someone for the number and content of one’s bumper sticker collection.
My personal favorite was “Driver carries only $20 in ammunition”, but rising commodity costs have rendered that one somewhat obsolete.
@David Holzman – I see this car all the time when I’m in Cambridge, that’s the Whole Foods parking lot off the Alewife Brook Parkway.
I wonder if there have been any sex acts performed in that auto. If there have been, would local authorities deem the acts illegal?
Trouble with this car is too much of the factory paint job is showing.
There was a California Civic a few years ago that was entirely plastered with bumper stickers, there was no room for even one more. Had to be at least 200. A number of them tipped off that the owner was a female, and not of the Sara Palin variety. My favorite sticker? A home made one on the front of the hood. “Nice big truck! Sorry about your penis!”
I think even the horniest of dragons wouldn’t hit this tail.
Democrat or Republican, people who plaster their cars with 2,000 bumperstickers annoy me to no end!
I saw a prius decked out like this once. It had the obligatory “my car sips, your car sucks” sticker along with 100 others. I had an overwhelming urge to smash a window, but somehow controlled myself. I also drove for a few miles behind a white van that had 100 hardcore right wing stickers, including “god hates fags” and my personal favorite, “tolerance is for those who lack conviction”. I really liked that last one.
no “Fry Peltier” sticker?
“I saw a prius decked out like this once. It had the obligatory “my car sips, your car sucks” sticker along with 100 others. ”
The thing is, if you drive a Prius, you should automatically assume everyone will know what your politics are! The entire car is a liberal bumpersticker-on-wheels.
The only bumper sticker I’ve ever put on a vehicle was when Nixon was running for re-election. It said “Four more years? Why not five to twenty?”
I did hand-letter a license plate frame once that said “MY OTHER CAR IS OLDER”. Sold it to a guy to put on his 1930 Model A. He had a ’29 too.
Actually I think my favorite bumper sticker was the one I saw years ago on a Pacer: “My other car is a piece of shit too.”
“…almost every time you see a car with a million bumper stickers, they are usually a Democrat. I wonder why that is?”
Because the definition of a conservative is someone who wants things to remain the same. Why would you paste a bumper sticker that says, “Keep on doin’ what you’re doin\'”.
There is snow. Global warming has taken care of that right?
“There is snow. Global warming has taken care of that right?”
Climate is not equal to the weather.
OH YEAH! ! ! ! no “baby on board” sign in the window
dolo54 . . . .
Just to risk being annoying,
Could I assume you have convictions and therefore are intolerant?
@ ttacgreg: Yeah well, don’t we all? At least to some extent or another. I would retort, “Intolerance is the assumption that all of your convictions are correct and everybody else’s are wrong.”
@Spike_in_Irvine: A favorite rhetorical trick since rhetoric was invented is to change the definition of words. In this way you can twist your opponent’s words against them, make them seem like they are saying something other than they mean to the listener. A political “conservative” a long time ago meant someone who would cautiously make incremental changes to current policy. As a opposed to a “radical” one who would make large changes in a short time, which could be close to revolutionary. Bill Clinton is a classic conservative. GW Bush was quite radical by the old definitions. Pundits and politicians have twisted these terms around for their own gains. What they did to the term “liberal” is amazing.
I’m surprsed there isn’t a rainbow sticker somewhere on it. I see these types of vehicles mostly near Wayne State and in Ann Arbor…Ferndale too.
Right or left, the number of bumper stickers is inversely proportional to the intelligence of the driver.
Why does the driver think I care what they have to say? Do they really think that their bumper sticker will prove so prescient that I’ll slap my forehead and say, “My God, they’re ashsa been wrong all this time!
And I thought Autoblog’s comments were filled with vitriol…
I figured out whats wrong.
The “Happiness is a belt-fed weapon” sticker.
Seriously – I’m a fairly liberal guy and that one makes me smile.
-ted
I see “MY OTHER CAR HAS CANNONS” below the left brake light. There’s another sticker right above the PLANT A TREE one, don’t you wish your girlfriend could what like me? Can’t read it properly.
Damn, that car looks familiar. I’m in and around the PRC on a daily basis. Town sucks for driving and parking. The bumper stickers add whimsy. Prolly a young 20 something female. A lot less scary than the 45 ish Goth I saw the other day in Cambridge
esg wrote:
I wonder if there have been any sex acts performed in that auto. If there have been, would local authorities deem the acts illegal?
In the back of a Yaris? Must be heck on the spine. :)
I think it says “Don’t you wish your girlfriend could knit like me?” But maybe it’s something better than that. I hope so.
I laughed when I saw this. No, it’s not in Cambridge, it’s in Providence on N. Main St. (as a prior commenter has already pointed out!). It’s parked in a shopping center called University Heights, and, yeh, the ditzy owner is probably a student at Brown or RISD (both nearby).
And, yes, there’s a Whole Foods off to the right next to the Petco.
It’s missing an “I love animals; they taste great” sticker.
When I see a vehicle plastered with bumper stickers I read a few, looking for something new and original. Some make me laugh; some make me angry. But as I read I realize that I’m paying much less attention to the traffic around me.
That’s why I have no bumper stickers on my car; I want the driver behind me to be reading my taillights so we don’t have an accident.
shaker :
Simple fun, or
COMMUNIST SUBVERSION?
You Decide.
Fortunately, if it is communist subversion, it isn’t going to do even the most meager harm to our country.
hawver :
February 7th, 2009 at 10:50 am
@David Holzman – I see this car all the time when I’m in Cambridge, that’s the Whole Foods parking lot off the Alewife Brook Parkway.
hawver,
you may be right, but it doesn’t look quite right for the Whole Foods parking lot at Alewife to me. I shop there every week, and I don’t think there’s any petco, let alone on the end. That’s where Staples is.
David Holzman :
“Fortunately, if it is communist subversion, it isn’t going to do even the most meager harm to our country.”
I’m sure that’s true…
I’ve developed the annoying idea of renaming the thread based on the running commentary – pure self-amusement.
Thankfully bumper stickers are illegal where I live.
Barney Frank doesn’t drive.
There needs to be a bumper sticker that says
“At least my bank isn’t the government’s bitch (DIDN’T TAKE THE BAILOUT MONEY)”
This bumper sticker would have an image of my bank flipping the bird to Uncle Sam offering a bag of money…
If I were into bumper stickers, mine would be:
“Happiness is not being liberal or conservative – I prefer to think for myself, thank you…”
Democrats and Republicans are RESPONSIBLE for this mess since they were the ONLY two parties in power for over a century….
Think about it….
On the topic of bumper stickers… if I drove a Hyundai, I would totally get one that said “Hyundai. Like Sunday.”
For all you guys wondering about the lack of the “rainbow” sticker: The blue & yellow “equal” sign is the space-saving alternative. If you are ever in Seattle, take a spin through Ballard or Fremont to witness these in quantity.
On a side note: Didn’t a legit study come out last year linking bumper sticker abuse with aggression issues? If so, that is one militant lezbo…
I love to cut these guys off in my gas hog pickup truck.
BDB: February 7th, 2009 at 12:21 pm “The thing is, if you drive a Prius, you should automatically assume everyone will know what your politics are! The entire car is a liberal bumpersticker-on-wheels.”
Not quite as accurate as one would assume:
Oil Warrior: Former CIA chief James Woolsey says if you want to beat Bin Laden, buy a Prius
http://www.motortrend.com/features/112_0705_james_woolsey_interview/index.html
“I’m trying the think of a question that OBAMA! would be the answer to”
Dunno but the question ART! would be the answer to is “What do you call a guy with no arms or legs hanging on a wall”
Just cannot resist jumping in one more time,
Hey dolo54, ablsolutely agree with your point about the words “liberal and conservative” I have been making the point to friends for about seven yers now that by the dictionary definition, the Bush administration/Republicans were extremely liberal, if not radically so, and Democrats/more left leaning interests were being conservative.
Buying whole hog into the “liberal vs ocnservative” politics and the foundation has been laid for your brainwashing that the ulta elites have been damn successful in achieving on the general populace in the USA.
daft punk . . . . I saw a Prius plastered with McCain Palin bumper stickers a few months ago, the congitive dissonance was overwhelming. :)
What’s wrong with this picture?
It’s not in Ithaca New York. Wait, maybe it is.
In the spirit of “bi-partisanship” may I (flaming and proud SF liberal) just say that
“dgduris: 3. Now that she has purchased the TP made from recycled legal pads at Whole Foods (on N. Main in Providence) she’s driving 100 feet to get cat food chocked full of whale meat – harvested by a nuclear-powered Japanese vessel – that will make the damn feline sing like Barbara Streisand”
is the funniest thing I have ever read on TTAC. Well done! This liberal howled.
Didn’t see a “Rush is Right” sticker anywhere…
“My other car has cannons.”
I, uhh, I don’t understand at all.
On rainbow and preferences…yellow equals sign on blue field means “equal rights for homersexuals.” In other words, the driver isn’t gay, but hangs out with the kind of crowd where it’d be gauche to not support them.
Or, the driver hasn’t come out to their parents, yet.
Cannons?
Back in my bunper-sticker days I had the following (all home-made):
A Little Courtesy Or I’ll Kill You (a “customized” version of the ubiquitous Mass-issued version which read A Little Courtesy Won’t Kill You)
Shoes for Industry!
Honk if you’ve been subpoenaed by Ken Starr
In never got around to making a bumper sticker for my RX-7 that read Hiroshima’s Revenge in the Japanese phonetic katakana alphabet.
I loathe bumper stickers but did a custom front plate for my Prius which had the Japanese symbol for the area where Toyota HQ is (Sapporro), then put on it 2 GO 4
Nobody got it and explaining that Prius (sort of) means “to go before” in Latin got me blank stares.
Only 60% of Prius drivers are flaming libs (aka Dummycrats), 38% are flipping cons (conservatives/Repugnicans), the rest are mostly probably leftie-greenie-vegans.
I stand out as one of the few Constitutionalist owners of a Prius.
Nothing wrong with that, as far as I can see. But what’s MOBA?
“Michael Ayoub :
February 8th, 2009 at 10:41 am
On the topic of bumper stickers… if I drove a Hyundai, I would totally get one that said “Hyundai. Like Sunday.”
“Hyundai that rhymes with Sunday” was a gimmick of the US marketers who determined (probably correctly) that the average American would have difficulty pronouncing it properly, ie: yun-dye.
Republicans are stupid, Democrats are crazy.
It’s missing three important stickers:
An Apple sticker.
A Gay Rainbow or Rainbow Flag.
PETA sticker.
Cartman was right!
Funny, I’ve seen quite a few Prii around Ohio with McCain/Palin stickers.
And Rush Limbaugh uses a Mac.
There goes a couple stereotypes right out the window eh?
Kurt, to the right of the license place is the Apple sticker. Now where’s Waldo in the picture?
Wow, these ambiguous threads really flush out the bigots!
FYI, for those of you desperately seeking a gay rights sticker to mock, it’s smack in the middle of the picture.
“TreyV: FYI, for those of you desperately seeking a gay rights sticker to mock, it’s smack in the middle of the picture.”
As if the PT label (Provincetown) doesn’t give the game away…